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From: EDM on 6 Oct 2006 01:55
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:4525EC7D.E5E9D25F(a)earthlink.net...
> David Nebenzahl wrote:
> >
> > So let me understand this: you got a piece of equipment in for warranty
> > repair after the buyer had clearly been inside it and fucked things up,
> > correct? It sounds to me as if *you* are the whiner here: why on earth
> > did you (or the company you worked for) accept the equipment in the
> > first place? Didn't it have one of those stickers warning that such
> > actions would void the warranty? Wasn't this a clear violation of the
> > terms of the warranty?
>
>
> Never worked for a defense contractor? You don't refuse a return
> from a government agency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man


From: Michael A. Terrell on 6 Oct 2006 02:03
EDM wrote:
>
> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:4525EC7D.E5E9D25F(a)earthlink.net...
> > David Nebenzahl wrote:
> > >
> > > So let me understand this: you got a piece of equipment in for warranty
> > > repair after the buyer had clearly been inside it and fucked things up,
> > > correct? It sounds to me as if *you* are the whiner here: why on earth
> > > did you (or the company you worked for) accept the equipment in the
> > > first place? Didn't it have one of those stickers warning that such
> > > actions would void the warranty? Wasn't this a clear violation of the
> > > terms of the warranty?
> >
> >
> > Never worked for a defense contractor? You don't refuse a return
> > from a government agency.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man


So you have no answer? Plonk.


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
From: David Nebenzahl on 6 Oct 2006 13:12
Michael A. Terrell spake thus:

> David Nebenzahl wrote:
>
>>So let me understand this: you got a piece of equipment in for warranty
>>repair after the buyer had clearly been inside it and fucked things up,
>>correct? It sounds to me as if *you* are the whiner here: why on earth
>>did you (or the company you worked for) accept the equipment in the
>>first place? Didn't it have one of those stickers warning that such
>>actions would void the warranty? Wasn't this a clear violation of the
>>terms of the warranty?
>
> Never worked for a defense contractor? You don't refuse a return
> from a government agency.

No, I haven't, and am not likely ever to.

But that has nothing to do with Joe Blow Citizen and his consumer gear,
whom we were talking about before, prodding and poking the insides of
his television receiver, or stereo, or whatever: in which case you
surely can invoke the terms of the warranty, no? So your argument here
is irrelevant.


--
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Kill Yourself

- motto of the Church of Euthanasia (http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/)
From: Michael A. Terrell on 6 Oct 2006 13:47
David Nebenzahl wrote:
>
> Michael A. Terrell spake thus:
>
> > David Nebenzahl wrote:
> >
> >>So let me understand this: you got a piece of equipment in for warranty
> >>repair after the buyer had clearly been inside it and fucked things up,
> >>correct? It sounds to me as if *you* are the whiner here: why on earth
> >>did you (or the company you worked for) accept the equipment in the
> >>first place? Didn't it have one of those stickers warning that such
> >>actions would void the warranty? Wasn't this a clear violation of the
> >>terms of the warranty?
> >
> > Never worked for a defense contractor? You don't refuse a return
> > from a government agency.
>
> No, I haven't, and am not likely ever to.
>
> But that has nothing to do with Joe Blow Citizen and his consumer gear,
> whom we were talking about before, prodding and poking the insides of
> his television receiver, or stereo, or whatever: in which case you
> surely can invoke the terms of the warranty, no? So your argument here
> is irrelevant.


plonk


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
From: Jim Land on 8 Oct 2006 20:16
http://www.trapflag.com/

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