Re: REVENGE

>BUT... New vector monitor parts could start a pretty good fire and/or
>possibly kill someone (granted, probably as a result of operator error, but
>that doesn't have much meaning in a country where an electric iron carries a
>warning "do not use while sleeping"). Sad to say, but in the
>litigation-happy USA anyone attempting this would be wise to get a couple
>million dollar umbrella insurance policy just in case. (I doubt anyone here
>would go after anyone else due to an accident, but it's the 2nd, 3rd, and
>4th owners that could really make your life hell if something bad happened
>and they decided to extract their pound of flesh in the form of a lawsuit.)

        Well, yes, but... technically, that would _also_ mean that the 2nd,
3rd, or 4th oweners of a game could go after you even if all you did was
_repair_ a monitor, using the exact same parts as the original did, on the
dubious grounds that "you didn't do it right". (And then again, then
nth-generation owner might sue you for _not_ fixing it!) Carried to its
(il)logical extreme, we don't dare do _anything_ except stand perfectly
motionless and inert in the middle of an empty room... and some idiot'll
probably find an excuse to sue you for doing _that_, too.

        *sigh* Shakespeare only had it half-right. "The first thing we do,
let's kill all the lawyers." ... and second, kill all the greedy,
semi-literate, room-temperature-IQ Jerry Springer addicts who _use_ those
laywers to turn life's every little misfortune into a potential lottery
ticket...
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Received on Mon Sep 11 22:12:20 2000