When I bought my computer from Dell Canada they sent me the American licence agreement. I didn't even notice until 2 years later my monitor burnt out and I called for a replacement.
They sent me a refurbished monitor which in terms of the model was a downgrade of what I originally had! After hours of their customer care department trying to convince me that this is what is implied by the licence agreement I became exhausted and asked them to send me a paper copy of the licence agreement as it was when I first purchased my computer. They couldn't. Apparently Dell doesn't even keep hard copies of their own documentation!
They said that I would be best served to check the licence agreement on the Internet. After calmly explaining to them that the licence agreement is probably not the same one I would have gone over when I first got the computer -- had I seen the licence agreement they are holding me to and that refurbished goods are what can be sent out as replacements (never had a dell component replaced with a refurb before BTW) I would have packed-up my computer and sent it back.
They simply said that in the licence agreement (again a document I never had the privilege of reading) Dell has the right to make any changes to the licence agreement as it sees fit.
I gave up. 3 monitors later they finally sent me the correct model, it was refurbished but at least so far its working.
lol. The cookie isn't getting on my system. I use a program called Spybot Search and Destroy. Its kindof like adaware in that it can delete spyware from your computer but it has the added feature of immunizing your system against additional spyware being installed to it. I simply set it to let me know when a site tries to install some spyware.
Didn't know where else to put this, but I hope that one of the admins here will see it. A lot of your adds seem to be trying to install the Avenue A Inc. Cookie on my comp. Is Spyware really something Slashdot should be supporting?
I'd much rather be the product of careful planning than random chaotic events. I'd much rather eat food that was carefully designed than something that came about chaotically.
Not that your argument matters anyway, from the first time one human helped another human to heal we've no longer been subject to evolutionary forces.
Admittedly I'm not an expert on the whole genetic modification/engineering thing. But I do know that much of the promist of these technologies is in the treating of diseases we haven't had the ability to tackle before. It doesn't seem right to me to discriminate against a person, or a persons grandchild because they have undergone genetic therapy to treat themselves for a very observable medical condition.
Does this open a can of worms? Certainly.
Now you have to decide some clear criteria for disease. Who's to say that cancer is a disease but stupidity isn't? Who's to say that we should genetically treat schizophrenia but not ADD?
But whatever decisions are made should we discriminate against those who were modified for whatever reason? I think only if you also concede that nature is more important than nurture...
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When I bought my computer from Dell Canada they sent me the American licence agreement. I didn't even notice until 2 years later my monitor burnt out and I called for a replacement.
They sent me a refurbished monitor which in terms of the model was a downgrade of what I originally had! After hours of their customer care department trying to convince me that this is what is implied by the licence agreement I became exhausted and asked them to send me a paper copy of the licence agreement as it was when I first purchased my computer. They couldn't. Apparently Dell doesn't even keep hard copies of their own documentation!
They said that I would be best served to check the licence agreement on the Internet. After calmly explaining to them that the licence agreement is probably not the same one I would have gone over when I first got the computer -- had I seen the licence agreement they are holding me to and that refurbished goods are what can be sent out as replacements (never had a dell component replaced with a refurb before BTW) I would have packed-up my computer and sent it back.
They simply said that in the licence agreement (again a document I never had the privilege of reading) Dell has the right to make any changes to the licence agreement as it sees fit.
I gave up. 3 monitors later they finally sent me the correct model, it was refurbished but at least so far its working.
lol. The cookie isn't getting on my system. I use a program called Spybot Search and Destroy. Its kindof like adaware in that it can delete spyware from your computer but it has the added feature of immunizing your system against additional spyware being installed to it. I simply set it to let me know when a site tries to install some spyware.
Didn't know where else to put this, but I hope that one of the admins here will see it. A lot of your adds seem to be trying to install the Avenue A Inc. Cookie on my comp. Is Spyware really something Slashdot should be supporting?
I guess the RIAA is going to have to change its plan from the classic: ...
Step 1: Kill filesharing.
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!
To something more along the lines of oh I don't know using the power internet to their advantage.
And I thought I'd have to wait forever to start using these new-fangled p2p tools. Now where is that "piracy" button?
More seriously though anyone who doesn't innovate their own business model shouldn't bitch when someone thinks of something better...
Not on my watch bub....
I'd much rather be the product of careful planning than random chaotic events. I'd much rather eat food that was carefully designed than something that came about chaotically. Not that your argument matters anyway, from the first time one human helped another human to heal we've no longer been subject to evolutionary forces.
Admittedly I'm not an expert on the whole genetic modification/engineering thing. But I do know that much of the promist of these technologies is in the treating of diseases we haven't had the ability to tackle before. It doesn't seem right to me to discriminate against a person, or a persons grandchild because they have undergone genetic therapy to treat themselves for a very observable medical condition. Does this open a can of worms? Certainly. Now you have to decide some clear criteria for disease. Who's to say that cancer is a disease but stupidity isn't? Who's to say that we should genetically treat schizophrenia but not ADD? But whatever decisions are made should we discriminate against those who were modified for whatever reason? I think only if you also concede that nature is more important than nurture...