OT: Welfare state morality

From: jpero_at_cgocable.net <(jpero_at_cgocable.net)>
Date: Thu Apr 15 19:34:19 1999

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From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: OT: Welfare state morality

Snip!

> > >I really don't understand this love of breaking things.
> >
> > I don't have the expertise that you do, nor the time to do learn. I'm
> > fed
>
> Hmmm... OK, so I've been learning about computers for about 23 years now
> (ouch? really that long???), but I had to start somewhere. I guess I just
> wanted to learn. It still doesn't explain why people prefer destroying
> something to creating something.
>
> > up with the piles of crud that surround me, which I store because I
> > might need it someday, but actually never end up using. There's also the
> > issue
>
> Of course if you throw something out, you can bet you'll need it the next
> day?
That is ever-present paradox we have to deal with daily.

I kept all the bolts and screws, doodads in 2 appox 1.5L plastic
wide-mouth screw-on cap. Same here, didn't have right nut to
mount the 701C HD socket properly till found it in that container.

I can vouch for that, happened to me few times before I wised up
and carefully pick what to save.

> realise and go out and recover it from the bin]
>
> -tony
>

Laughs... take that lesson well everyone! I lost a TV remote this
way! It mysteriously walked off and didn't realize it is in that bin
when I took grabage out. Oh, any relining and couch can eat the
tasty remote. *CRUNCH!* Happened to friend who was searching
for bits of parts till I visited there on vacation and helped him to
recover parts by inverting and thumping hard that recliner that and
there till parts drops out. Remote came out fine after replacing all
LEDs and parts in place.

Wizard
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