On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:19:12 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-13 16:06, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Nevertheless, in the unlikely event that I fry my monitor by overriding the >> EDID specs, I asked for it, didn't I? > > Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. There's a butt-load more lawyers than > there are engineers, and there's 1500 metric ass loads more stupid > people than there are engineers. > > "I want control!!!" > "OK, you have control." > Bzzt. > "Why didn't you protect me from myself?" > >> I'm an engineer. > > 0.000029% of the population. > >> Give me full control. >> If I fry my monitor, I have no-one to blame but myself. > > > Three words: hot McDonalds coffee.
Yes, I've heard of that stupid case. But McDonalds didn't solve that problem by serving cold coffee. They put a disclaimer on the lids saying, "Caution: coffee is hot". A disclaimer should be able to solve this problem too. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/963033316.18925651268520285376.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
