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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!news.utdallas.edu!news.tamu.edu!root From: root@marsgrp.tamu.edu (balthazaar) 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: 21 Apr 1996 23:51:16 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Lines: 37 Message-ID: <slrn4nlfam.2lm.root@marsgrp.tamu.edu> References: <31785BB6.99F81FD@lambert.org> <stephenkDq62u3.7En@netcom.com> <31796B47.5E7DCA65@lambert.org> <stephenkDq791n.KuA@netcom.com> <317ABAFF.5F0DAAAA@lambert.org> Reply-To: semon@comp.tamu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp09-13.rns.tamu.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.6.1) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14713 comp.os.linux.development.system:21995 comp.os.linux.x:29930 comp.os.linux.hardware:36932 comp.os.linux.setup:51537 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:761 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3405 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3253 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17870 On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:47:27 -0700, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >Stephen Knilans wrote: > >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. > > Get a grip and dump this thread. Nobody's holding a gun to anyone else's head at the video card mall. I certainly do not feel sorry for some one that buys something before realizing what they are buying, especially if you do it a second time expecting different results. -- semon@comp.tamu.edu Microsoft: Official Sponsor of the 1996 Self-Replicating Program Olympics Makers of Windows NeTravesty