Slow and cumbersome to record on, for a start. Full of Sony proprietary crap. Made by Sony. Includes *very* heavy handed DRM via SCMS. Expensive players. Non-ubiquitous. Expensive media. In general, few to no computer MD recorders for the longest time due to Sony stupidity.
Summing that up, were down to 0 stars out of 5.
I'd rather use my $50 KOSS MP3 CD player before I'd get any kind of MiniDisc crap.
A decent MP3 player (not like the above) can play FAR better quality sound than any MD player can, due to the fact that the MP3 format has _always_ supported high-bitrate encoding, unlike MD, which, until lately, was a one bitrate mechanism. And if that MP3 player play 8 cm CDs, guess what, its only slightly larger than an MD player (if designed properly), and it holds more music at a better quality than standard MD players. And if they integrate a CD-RW recorder into it, there's nothing left that MD has over MP3.
>I dont notice medical doctors getting bored with their patients and for a joke amputating a leg instead of an ingrowing toenail because the patient was too stupid to cut their nails correctly and wear the right footware.
But you do notice that if you constantly harm yourself after being told something is bad for you that you end up in a psychiatric ward.
Let's put it this way: If you owned a car and didn't put oil in it, blew up the engine, and were told you need to put oil in the next car, but didn't and blew that one up too, the entire world would laugh at you. Especially the mechanic. And if it were a company mechanic, and not Midas mufflers, so he isn't getting paid by the job, don't expect the car to get fixed anytime soon. In fact, expect your boss to call you an idiot.
For some reason, in the world of computers, it doesn't work like this. If you consistently break your computer in the same way in an office, the boss isn't likely to call you a moron, and you're still going to get it fixed as fast as the first time. Maybe calling that person an idiot is what needs to happen to get these users to respect their computers. Whatever is happening now sure isn't working.
>Users wank up their software configuration and then blame it on "the server" instead of their own ignorance (notice I didn't say stupidity, I said ignorance.
You only get to use the ignorance excuse once. Not following instructions when you've been explicity given them is stupidity.
We have hundreds of Samsung 753DF monitors at my college, and I rarely, if ever, see one on the RMA shelf, which is normally always crammed full to overloading with Acer monitors.
Those monitors don't have the world's best picture, but they're fine for normal work, and seem to LAST.
Illegally labelling power supply conformance is more common than your local computer store would like to admit.
Sometimes it's predone (as in stuck on the Power Supply in China). Usually these stickers are cheap fakes. I personally recall some "CSB" approved power supplies coming into Canada at some point.
The worst is when its done inside the country. I've seen computer companies send CSA stickers to IT shops because they got tired of hearing "This computer isn't CSA certified" complaints.
It sucks if you have to double check all your power supplies for conformance, but I think its worth the time if you're planning to buy quite a few.
>In a cost/benefit analysis, you would find that a combo unit would be a bad thing.
I don't think so.
Current UPSes are horribly inefficient. Let's take some nice 12V battery juice, voltage multiply it to 120 VAC, convert the square wave into a triangle wave, or, if you're really lucky, a sine wave. Then take all that and do the reverse.
Blech. A regulated 12 V battery based power supply would be the ultimate in performance for the size of the battery and electronics involved. I could probably build the power supply with Radio Shack parts for under $40.
Beware. Most of the UPSes sold to consumers these days are not true UPSes. They're backup power supplies.
The difference is that a true UPS will always supply power from the batteries, while the batteries are constantly charged by a separate charging circuit, and a backup power supply simply switches from line voltage to the batteries in the even of failure. The end result is that a UPS will always guarantee a certain waveform and voltage exiting it, whereas a backups will deliver whatever your AC line provides (some do have some filtering).
You can often tell by listening for a relay to drop out when the UPS is unplugged. True UPSes don't need relays. And if you do unplug to test, watch the grounding!
Okay, I think this is how we're viewing each end of our situations:
You think handguns are A-OK because they have a legitimate use.
I think handguns are bad because they are too easily concealed, and are too easily used in the heat of an argument.
I would suggest you would conter by saying that paying for security in essential liberties is wrong.
I would counter by saying that owning a handgun is not essential. One can get the job done very fine with a rifle.
Then you might suggest that either criminals will have handguns / people need to be secure with handguns / people need to learn how to use them.
I would counter by saying Canada has a lower death rate due to firearms.
Then you'd likely suggest that in some other country (did you mention Sweeden last time? It isn't all that important) is safe even though they have the next best thing to a nuclear bazooka.
I would country by saying western culture doesn't work like that.
I doubt there is a resolution to this other than to say that if you like handguns, and think liberty is the most important thing in life, live in the US. If you want safety from handguns (like the stats say), live in Canada.
I like living in a country without handguns. It's been so long since I've heard about a crime in my city involving a real handgun I've forgotten what year it was.
But, then again, I don't hunt, and I have no interest to do so. However, as I have mentioned, I do know hunters who are perfectly happy using only a rifle.
>Rosie O'donnell, that is against guns and can't do Kmart commercials because they sell hunting rifles and handguns but then has bodyguards packing?
Not in Canada. Not unless they want to go to jail for a very long time.
>...Texas in particular, violent crimes have, gasp....actually continued to decrease!
Many things have changed in Texas apart from that, though. IIRC, you can no longer drink a beer and drive at the same time, for example.
>In some countrys it's virtually a requirement to own a gun. Why not here?
Because Canada is safe without guns. I DON'T WANT TO USE A GUN. I shouted that because I am serious about that. I WILL NEVER KILL ON PURPOSE. Guns are for killing, wether that is for meat or for people, they Kill. Some (many) of us HATE KILLING. No, I don't hate hunters, I simply detest the act. Yes, I still eat meat. Interesting the conundrums the mind can conjure and yet still ignore.:-)
Fortunately, like I've said, it isn't hard to pick your side of the fence on this. If you want to live in a country where anyone can point a handgun at you at will, live in the US. If you don't, live in Canada.
>If you step in my house and are robbing me at gun point and at some point I get your gun or my gun and shoot you and kill you....you know what? That's a LEGAL use of a hand gun and there's nothing they can do about it unless you don't have a license for it (you should not even have to do THAT to own a gun, but I supposed it's warranted).
Arming the populace with vigilante justice rather than properly policing the people is a poor excuse for safety, and an even worse excuse for liberty. What I _really_ find interesting, though, is that the US itself has more people imprisoned as there are imprisoned in all of Europe! With a stat like that, perhaps in the US vigilante justice is all that's left.
That's where the difference is -- In the US, liberty sometimes comes before life, whereas in Canada, that isn't so.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the difference in shootings between Canada in the US. Perhaps people aren't shooting robbers all the time over their TV sets in Canada. I say I'd rather give someone my shit than have their blood on my hands. But again, that's another difference between the US and Canada: The entire criminal justice system. Canada's is based on reform & respect of criminals and their problems, whereas the US system is based on punishment and repentance. I see in the US someone would simply say to themselves "Another asshole robber dead. Good thing.", but in Canada one would say "When did that criminal go wrong? And why would anyone get worked up so much over their TV that they need to kill to keep it?"
Anyways, just my 2 cents. Don't take life all that seriously. You might end up feeling the urge to buy a gun to protect yourself from it.
>You might not think its worth another $100 to go from 112 to 114 decibles but thats much louder.
Ever tried to find a clerk at a store who can tell you the effeciency rating of speakers?
Why do they always try to keep that hidden? Do they really want people to buy the bargain basement "200 W" 85dB sensitivity heaters?
Just a little fun you can have with store clerks in the Stereo aisle: Tell them that a 50 Watt RMS amp (5000 PMPO Watts) hooked up to 8 Ohm 85 dB sensitivity speakers is no louder than a 6.25 Watt RMS amp (625 PMPO Watts) hooked up to 4 Ohm 91 dB sensitivity speakers.
Buy a mobo with a VIA CPU on it. Take off 486 CPU Fan/HS combo. Replace with a large heatsink. Build/buy P/S with no fan (VIA CPUs take very little power, so building one is not hard for someone with some electronics knowledge). Load up O/S through the network, put in a lot of RAM, no hard drive.
There. Totally silent PC. And it probably only cost you $200 CDN. Wow. Hard to believe, huh?
Even VIA themselves know their CPU rules for this. Stop using Intel/AMD if you want quiet and lower power, with enough horses to power most modern OSes.
>Michael Moore even stated in a interview with Tim Russert that Canada has 7 million guns for 10 million households yet the murder rate remains low.
Bingo. And Canada doesn't allow handguns (in general -- there may be some exceptions, but apart from police I don't know of any).
I have no problems with guns per se, I only have a problem with guns that are for killing people (Semi/Automatic weapons should be banned worldwide -- PERIOD).
Handguns might make good weapons for hunting (although all my hunting friend disagree) but they cause too many murders.
>By your assumption, we should ban all things that can kill people regardless of if they have a lawful use.
No, I just think that anything that shows a noticeable amount of abuse that results in death should be banned. Handguns are abused by most because they are so easily concealed.
IMHO, that's why America's shooting rates are so high. People lose their temper and reach for the loaded handgun sitting in their glove compartment/purse. Take the temptation away, require rifles to be trigger locked, locked in a gun case, and unconcealed and it makes someone with a bad temper take a moment to reconsider.
I suppose my problem is mostly with concealed weapons. It's hard to conceal a rifle, and rifles have a non-murderous purpose, so that's my argument as to why I don't like handguns being legal. Just too easy to conceal.
Education is always good, but forced education for people who don't want to use handguns at an early age is a bad idea. Trust me, as a defiant person, it will work the reverse of what's expected if it's required for everyone.;-)
And no, I don't own a gun. But I feel totally safe. And so does mom. IMHO (again) anyone who has to carry a concealed weapon to feel safe is a coward.
>That's what your little blurb said to me (looked like you said all people with guns kill people).
Well, sorta. It's over the top because it's my favourite anti-NRA quote, and a Simpsons quote at the same time.
Anyways, that list you gave me, stripping off the self-inflicted deaths (choking on gum, eating McDs to death, etc) all but knives take time so hotheads have a chance to re-think things. And, more often than not, I've usually found myself without a knife when I want to do a job, so I doubt I'd have one should someone get me really pissed off. But, then again, I'm (hopefully) emotionally stable enough not to do anything stupid. However, not everyone is.
Hey, I didn't say it was bad or good in that comment.
That said, I will now say I do think handguns are bad. Rifles, there's a reason for them, but the only way to use (I don't just mean hold menacingly, but use) a handgun is to either shoot targets of people, or shoot real people.
>It's people like you that raise kids who don't have RESPECT for a firearm and treat it like a toy or that big bad thing in that store.
Agreed. Here's the cold, hard facts:
USA has more deaths per capita from shootings than Canada. Canada has more deaths from improper use of a firearm than the USA.
I can find you proof if you need it (it is a PITA to find, though).:-)
Question: Which is better? Something you can prevent yourself by _not_ owning a gun, or learning to use one responsibly? Or is it living in a country where more people die by firearms overall than a country that restricts their ownership, but enjoying the freedom of ownership yourself?
We all make our choices. I like my country's choice. I'm sure you like yours.
>Guns are not bad....people are
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
>So lets concentrate on the people and show them how to respect firearms.
Agreed. But I would limit it to respecting how to use a hunting rifle, not an AK-47 or a Luger.
[I'm glad _someone_ gets the point of my sig... Although comments like these do hurt, it's worth it! I mean, where else am I going to safely release my pent up troll energies? Another letter to CmdrTaco?;-) ]
>I think it's time to change your sig again you fag >Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. --Thomas Jefferson
I think it's about time you gave this free speech thing you're touting in your sig a try.
Welcome to my Foes list. No need to see you round here anymore. I see it's been a while since you've posted a coherent thought anyways.
So you feel it's unethical to delete other's mail? I can see where you're coming from.
So, to protect both your ethics and job, do this next time. Open up the guys email. Tell the boss you won't hit the delete key because you don't want to be responsible, and tell the boss that if he wants to hit the delete key, that's his choice.
Conundrum solved, and I doubt this would get you fired, and the only fallout might be a little uneasyness between you and the boss for a couple of weeks. Big deal.
Either way, things like this are the reason why I set my work email to be forwarded instantly to home. Delete away, I still have a copy.
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>why do americans not like/use minidisc players?
Slow and cumbersome to record on, for a start.
Full of Sony proprietary crap.
Made by Sony.
Includes *very* heavy handed DRM via SCMS.
Expensive players.
Non-ubiquitous.
Expensive media.
In general, few to no computer MD recorders for the longest time due to Sony stupidity.
Summing that up, were down to 0 stars out of 5.
I'd rather use my $50 KOSS MP3 CD player before I'd get any kind of MiniDisc crap.
A decent MP3 player (not like the above) can play FAR better quality sound than any MD player can, due to the fact that the MP3 format has _always_ supported high-bitrate encoding, unlike MD, which, until lately, was a one bitrate mechanism. And if that MP3 player play 8 cm CDs, guess what, its only slightly larger than an MD player (if designed properly), and it holds more music at a better quality than standard MD players. And if they integrate a CD-RW recorder into it, there's nothing left that MD has over MP3.
>I dont notice medical doctors getting bored with their patients and for a joke amputating a leg instead of an ingrowing toenail because the patient was too stupid to cut their nails correctly and wear the right footware.
But you do notice that if you constantly harm yourself after being told something is bad for you that you end up in a psychiatric ward.
Let's put it this way: If you owned a car and didn't put oil in it, blew up the engine, and were told you need to put oil in the next car, but didn't and blew that one up too, the entire world would laugh at you. Especially the mechanic. And if it were a company mechanic, and not Midas mufflers, so he isn't getting paid by the job, don't expect the car to get fixed anytime soon. In fact, expect your boss to call you an idiot.
For some reason, in the world of computers, it doesn't work like this. If you consistently break your computer in the same way in an office, the boss isn't likely to call you a moron, and you're still going to get it fixed as fast as the first time. Maybe calling that person an idiot is what needs to happen to get these users to respect their computers. Whatever is happening now sure isn't working.
>Users wank up their software configuration and then blame it on "the server" instead of their own ignorance (notice I didn't say stupidity, I said ignorance.
You only get to use the ignorance excuse once. Not following instructions when you've been explicity given them is stupidity.
ROTFL.
I hope you're not on my foes list. If you are you're going in the friends list.
Totally agree.
We have hundreds of Samsung 753DF monitors at my college, and I rarely, if ever, see one on the RMA shelf, which is normally always crammed full to overloading with Acer monitors.
Those monitors don't have the world's best picture, but they're fine for normal work, and seem to LAST.
But neither of those are anywhere near as cheap as a dot matrix or daisywheel printer.
>Excluding all other search engines would clearly be abuse of monopoly power.
Google isn't a monopoly.
Illegally labelling power supply conformance is more common than your local computer store would like to admit.
Sometimes it's predone (as in stuck on the Power Supply in China). Usually these stickers are cheap fakes. I personally recall some "CSB" approved power supplies coming into Canada at some point.
The worst is when its done inside the country. I've seen computer companies send CSA stickers to IT shops because they got tired of hearing "This computer isn't CSA certified" complaints.
It sucks if you have to double check all your power supplies for conformance, but I think its worth the time if you're planning to buy quite a few.
>In a cost/benefit analysis, you would find that a combo unit would be a bad thing.
I don't think so.
Current UPSes are horribly inefficient. Let's take some nice 12V battery juice, voltage multiply it to 120 VAC, convert the square wave into a triangle wave, or, if you're really lucky, a sine wave. Then take all that and do the reverse.
Blech. A regulated 12 V battery based power supply would be the ultimate in performance for the size of the battery and electronics involved. I could probably build the power supply with Radio Shack parts for under $40.
>Tom's hasn't started a review unbiased in easily 2 years.
Heh. Toms Hardware thinks PC Chips is the bees knees, too.
I've tended not to trust anything they say after that.
>Thats the job of a UPS.
Beware. Most of the UPSes sold to consumers these days are not true UPSes. They're backup power supplies.
The difference is that a true UPS will always supply power from the batteries, while the batteries are constantly charged by a separate charging circuit, and a backup power supply simply switches from line voltage to the batteries in the even of failure. The end result is that a UPS will always guarantee a certain waveform and voltage exiting it, whereas a backups will deliver whatever your AC line provides (some do have some filtering).
You can often tell by listening for a relay to drop out when the UPS is unplugged. True UPSes don't need relays. And if you do unplug to test, watch the grounding!
Okay, I think this is how we're viewing each end of our situations:
:-)
You think handguns are A-OK because they have a legitimate use.
I think handguns are bad because they are too easily concealed, and are too easily used in the heat of an argument.
I would suggest you would conter by saying that paying for security in essential liberties is wrong.
I would counter by saying that owning a handgun is not essential. One can get the job done very fine with a rifle.
Then you might suggest that either criminals will have handguns / people need to be secure with handguns / people need to learn how to use them.
I would counter by saying Canada has a lower death rate due to firearms.
Then you'd likely suggest that in some other country (did you mention Sweeden last time? It isn't all that important) is safe even though they have the next best thing to a nuclear bazooka.
I would country by saying western culture doesn't work like that.
I doubt there is a resolution to this other than to say that if you like handguns, and think liberty is the most important thing in life, live in the US. If you want safety from handguns (like the stats say), live in Canada.
I like living in a country without handguns. It's been so long since I've heard about a crime in my city involving a real handgun I've forgotten what year it was.
But, then again, I don't hunt, and I have no interest to do so. However, as I have mentioned, I do know hunters who are perfectly happy using only a rifle.
>Rosie O'donnell, that is against guns and can't do Kmart commercials because they sell hunting rifles and handguns but then has bodyguards packing?
Not in Canada. Not unless they want to go to jail for a very long time.
>...Texas in particular, violent crimes have, gasp....actually continued to decrease!
Many things have changed in Texas apart from that, though. IIRC, you can no longer drink a beer and drive at the same time, for example.
>In some countrys it's virtually a requirement to own a gun. Why not here?
Because Canada is safe without guns. I DON'T WANT TO USE A GUN. I shouted that because I am serious about that. I WILL NEVER KILL ON PURPOSE. Guns are for killing, wether that is for meat or for people, they Kill. Some (many) of us HATE KILLING. No, I don't hate hunters, I simply detest the act. Yes, I still eat meat. Interesting the conundrums the mind can conjure and yet still ignore.
Fortunately, like I've said, it isn't hard to pick your side of the fence on this. If you want to live in a country where anyone can point a handgun at you at will, live in the US. If you don't, live in Canada.
>If you step in my house and are robbing me at gun point and at some point I get your gun or my gun and shoot you and kill you....you know what? That's a LEGAL use of a hand gun and there's nothing they can do about it unless you don't have a license for it (you should not even have to do THAT to own a gun, but I supposed it's warranted).
Arming the populace with vigilante justice rather than properly policing the people is a poor excuse for safety, and an even worse excuse for liberty. What I _really_ find interesting, though, is that the US itself has more people imprisoned as there are imprisoned in all of Europe! With a stat like that, perhaps in the US vigilante justice is all that's left.
That's where the difference is -- In the US, liberty sometimes comes before life, whereas in Canada, that isn't so.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the difference in shootings between Canada in the US. Perhaps people aren't shooting robbers all the time over their TV sets in Canada. I say I'd rather give someone my shit than have their blood on my hands. But again, that's another difference between the US and Canada: The entire criminal justice system. Canada's is based on reform & respect of criminals and their problems, whereas the US system is based on punishment and repentance. I see in the US someone would simply say to themselves "Another asshole robber dead. Good thing.", but in Canada one would say "When did that criminal go wrong? And why would anyone get worked up so much over their TV that they need to kill to keep it?"
Anyways, just my 2 cents. Don't take life all that seriously. You might end up feeling the urge to buy a gun to protect yourself from it.
This site has a link to a 300 W fanless ATX PSU. And a lot of other really good links too.
>You might not think its worth another $100 to go from 112 to 114 decibles but thats much louder.
Ever tried to find a clerk at a store who can tell you the effeciency rating of speakers?
Why do they always try to keep that hidden? Do they really want people to buy the bargain basement "200 W" 85dB sensitivity heaters?
Just a little fun you can have with store clerks in the Stereo aisle: Tell them that a 50 Watt RMS amp (5000 PMPO Watts) hooked up to 8 Ohm 85 dB sensitivity speakers is no louder than a 6.25 Watt RMS amp (625 PMPO Watts) hooked up to 4 Ohm 91 dB sensitivity speakers.
Even more quiet than some Macs.
Buy a mobo with a VIA CPU on it. Take off 486 CPU Fan/HS combo. Replace with a large heatsink. Build/buy P/S with no fan (VIA CPUs take very little power, so building one is not hard for someone with some electronics knowledge). Load up O/S through the network, put in a lot of RAM, no hard drive.
There. Totally silent PC. And it probably only cost you $200 CDN. Wow. Hard to believe, huh?
Even VIA themselves know their CPU rules for this. Stop using Intel/AMD if you want quiet and lower power, with enough horses to power most modern OSes.
>I wouldn't brag about those 1600 posts if they are all of simliar quality to this one.
You might not like them, but know what?
They certainly stimulte a lot more discussion than your comment. And they're usually far more accurate (Show me where I was bragging).
>Michael Moore even stated in a interview with Tim Russert that Canada has 7 million guns for 10 million households yet the murder rate remains low.
;-)
Bingo. And Canada doesn't allow handguns (in general -- there may be some exceptions, but apart from police I don't know of any).
I have no problems with guns per se, I only have a problem with guns that are for killing people (Semi/Automatic weapons should be banned worldwide -- PERIOD).
Handguns might make good weapons for hunting (although all my hunting friend disagree) but they cause too many murders.
>By your assumption, we should ban all things that can kill people regardless of if they have a lawful use.
No, I just think that anything that shows a noticeable amount of abuse that results in death should be banned. Handguns are abused by most because they are so easily concealed.
IMHO, that's why America's shooting rates are so high. People lose their temper and reach for the loaded handgun sitting in their glove compartment/purse. Take the temptation away, require rifles to be trigger locked, locked in a gun case, and unconcealed and it makes someone with a bad temper take a moment to reconsider.
I suppose my problem is mostly with concealed weapons. It's hard to conceal a rifle, and rifles have a non-murderous purpose, so that's my argument as to why I don't like handguns being legal. Just too easy to conceal.
Education is always good, but forced education for people who don't want to use handguns at an early age is a bad idea. Trust me, as a defiant person, it will work the reverse of what's expected if it's required for everyone.
And no, I don't own a gun. But I feel totally safe. And so does mom. IMHO (again) anyone who has to carry a concealed weapon to feel safe is a coward.
>That's what your little blurb said to me (looked like you said all people with guns kill people).
Well, sorta. It's over the top because it's my favourite anti-NRA quote, and a Simpsons quote at the same time.
Anyways, that list you gave me, stripping off the self-inflicted deaths (choking on gum, eating McDs to death, etc) all but knives take time so hotheads have a chance to re-think things. And, more often than not, I've usually found myself without a knife when I want to do a job, so I doubt I'd have one should someone get me really pissed off. But, then again, I'm (hopefully) emotionally stable enough not to do anything stupid. However, not everyone is.
I hope that all makes sense.
>And MS isn't trying to sell hardware in addition to software.
Sorry, I must have missed that.
Hey, I didn't say it was bad or good in that comment.
:-)
That said, I will now say I do think handguns are bad. Rifles, there's a reason for them, but the only way to use (I don't just mean hold menacingly, but use) a handgun is to either shoot targets of people, or shoot real people.
>It's people like you that raise kids who don't have RESPECT for a firearm and treat it like a toy or that big bad thing in that store.
Agreed. Here's the cold, hard facts:
USA has more deaths per capita from shootings than Canada.
Canada has more deaths from improper use of a firearm than the USA.
I can find you proof if you need it (it is a PITA to find, though).
Question: Which is better? Something you can prevent yourself by _not_ owning a gun, or learning to use one responsibly? Or is it living in a country where more people die by firearms overall than a country that restricts their ownership, but enjoying the freedom of ownership yourself?
We all make our choices. I like my country's choice. I'm sure you like yours.
>Guns are not bad....people are
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.
>So lets concentrate on the people and show them how to respect firearms.
Agreed. But I would limit it to respecting how to use a hunting rifle, not an AK-47 or a Luger.
>People sure seem to hate your sig. And it's not even political! Nice work.
;-) ]
I aim to please!
[I'm glad _someone_ gets the point of my sig... Although comments like these do hurt, it's worth it! I mean, where else am I going to safely release my pent up troll energies? Another letter to CmdrTaco?
>I think it's time to change your sig again you fag
>Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. --Thomas Jefferson
I think it's about time you gave this free speech thing you're touting in your sig a try.
Welcome to my Foes list. No need to see you round here anymore. I see it's been a while since you've posted a coherent thought anyways.
You know the US has gotten pretty bad when the joke gets modded up.
>Grocery stores sell dry ice for about a dollar per pound.
Not in Southern Ontario, Canada or North West England. Either that or its extremely well hidden.
What country / area are you from?
So you feel it's unethical to delete other's mail? I can see where you're coming from.
So, to protect both your ethics and job, do this next time. Open up the guys email. Tell the boss you won't hit the delete key because you don't want to be responsible, and tell the boss that if he wants to hit the delete key, that's his choice.
Conundrum solved, and I doubt this would get you fired, and the only fallout might be a little uneasyness between you and the boss for a couple of weeks. Big deal.
Either way, things like this are the reason why I set my work email to be forwarded instantly to home. Delete away, I still have a copy.
Would that be someone who illegally copies DOS?