Goodwill Computerworks Museum is open

From: Bill Dawson <whdawson_at_mlynk.com>
Date: Tue Aug 22 12:59:07 2000

Sellam wrote in reply to Richard Erlacher:
->
->
-> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:
->
-> > Are you sure that's safe? Not just for the machine, but also for
the
-> > public. It only takes one idiot to break a computer, but an idiot
could
-> > bankrupt you just by doing something unfathomably stupid like
connecting
-> > himself to the mains through your display.
->
-> Well, maybe you've come up with some amazing way to make electricity
bolt
-> out the front of a monitor, Dick. But last I checked, this has never
-> happened, or at least has not happened enough to be a major epidemic.
-> Considering there are millions of monitors out there, you'd think
that
-> this would happen a considerable number of times, but alas, it has
not, so
-> there goes another one of your characteristically stupid theories.

Sellam, I think you have confused what Richard meant by the word
"display". I think he meant "display" as in the collection of computers
on display, not "display" as in video monitor or dumb terminal.

->
-> > Don't you think you've got a responsibility to protect your entire
-> > collection by preventing the idiot from having you closed down just
by
-> > killing himself with his own stupidity, for which the courts will
surely
-> > blame you?
->
-> You're right. When I open my collection to the public, I'll post a
sign:
->
-> No Dicks Allowed

ROFL and can't stop.

Please, though, enough flames for now.

Bill
Received on Tue Aug 22 2000 - 12:59:07 BST