The rant is well deserved and well delivered. I am sick unto death of people that want to sue their way out of a mistake that they themselves made through ignorance and stupidity. But the problem seems to be that we have too many lawyers that need to make a living so they create work for themselves through advertising for stupid clients on national TV. Our lawyer to population ratio is 10 times the world average!!!
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:26 AM, John Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been shocked, knocked a across the room even, more times than I > care to talk about. Once I thought I was going to die and then afraid I > wouldn't. > Back a few years ago, I don't think people sued as much as they do > now. If some accident happened we didn't try to blame it on some one else > or a neglect of manufacturing. We simply took our licks for our own > stupidity and mistakes. I'm not saying that manufactures shouldn't worry > about the consumer but, I think they should worry more about the longevity > of service to the consumer. Too many Americans, today, seem think that > everything they buy should come with some type of personal protection plan. > My work is servicing personal computers. A lot of our customers are John and > Jane Doe types that use the PC as a home entertainment device. I tell them > that entertainment on the internet often comes with spy ware or some other > type of booger. I've had them say to me, "Well what good is the internet, > if you can't safely play poker, look at porn, steel music, etc. I wish that > our customers were more corporate types like it was about 15 years ago. And > I especially wish that HTML, Java, and active X had never been expanded as > they are now. Of course I guess I wouldn't be nearly so busy but it sure > gets tiresome dealing with these people. > > Why do people think that they must bee entertained? And that somebody owes > it to them. > > I apologize for my ranting off subject. > > John, > WA5BXO > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > -- Jim Isbell "If you are not living on the edge, well then, you are just taking up too much space." ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
