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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:47:27 -0700
Organization: Me
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Stephen Knilans wrote:
] >Clearly, your idea of "bad" and that of the free market at
] >larger differ greatly. You lose; there are more of them than
] >there are of you... you have been outvoted.
]
] NO, some of them are just uninformed! I bought a diamond card,
] which I would NOT have, had I known how they treated their
] customers. I ALMOST bought a matrox(I currently have a LAN
] with three computers, and one other viable system. Only one
] has an SVGA card, and one has a VGA card.
Then I consciously choose to remain "uninformed". Thank you
for your time.
] Spoken like a true jerk! May you consider such a statement
] the next time YOU find yourself in a bad run of luck!
There is no such thing as luck. If you had bothered to obtain
technical documentation rather than the word of a salesman prior
to your purchase, you would never have been in the bad situation.
Caveat Emptor.
] >But I have a feeling it would be lost on you, since you want
] >to impose moral restrictions on the way in which the universe
] >is allowed to operate.
]
] So you WANT things to be immoral! That explains a LOT.
The universe acts only in accordance with physical laws. It
is your ignorance of the laws which causes you to deem them
to be immoral. This is a mistake by you, not a mistake by
the universe.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.