if they were smart, they'd pay it and issue a press release stating that they accept full responsibility for their actions and accept the jury's fair decision and are very sorry. they can then sue the pants off of you and me with a clear conscience, haven taken the high road.

right. that'll happen.

nobody likes a show off.

i actually don't have a big problem with this stuff, as long as there's full disclosure. i.e.: "i received the camera but it was poorly packed and got scratched during shipping. i contacted the seller and they offered me $75. that makes me happy."

as for the 'extortion' part of it, i had this happen to me: i was cleaning up my credit. i called one of the creditors i had blown off and told them i wanted to make things right. they said, 'sure, thx!' so i sent them a check and cleared it all up. what did they do? that gave them an opportunity to re-assess my status to the credit bureaus and they gave me another 3 years of bad credit. i would have been better off letting it just fade off my credit report.

so the camera store can do everything they can to make the buyer happy and still get screwed, feedback-wise. why not ask for reciprocation? again, with full disclosure.

and that is why england will never again be as great a superpower as the usa. if that had happened here in the states, that guy would have ended up smelling like tazed meat. maybe a busted kneecap, as well; just to make sure he got the message...

if someone hit me on the back of my neck with a hammer, they'd break more than my rfid chip!

signed,

futureman

dustin: i've tried ubuntu off and on for a few years. but, it was, in fact, one of cory's posts last september/october that convinced me to go ubuntu full time. sadly, as of about 3 weeks ago, i've gone back to wxp. ubuntu is very usable, but, ultimately, still just a red pubic hair away from being a rock-solid, every day o.s. mostly it's little fit and finish things that were bugging me.

anyways, thx for recognizing me as a tech god!

honestly, i thought it was something to do with firefox on ubuntu. thx for the fix!

that guy leon is awesome. he's a hacker in the true sense of the word, as well as quite a character!

me and my brother still reminisce about this game. until now, me and him were the only ones i know of that had even *heard* of this game. we were proud owners. now, just memories. like the dusty cobwebs of mind. misty, water-colored memories...of the way we were...

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(btw, 'v mt cry. lk cry. my rgnl pst ws nly gd-ntrd pk t th pst, nt hm).

lm, lm, spr-lm. cry mst b brd. hy cry, n't yr nw bby ntrstng ngh fr y?

@#4: no shit, huh? first thing i did was look for some pics. zip. zilch. nada. bupkis.

omfg, the vanalden cave! as a teen, me and my friends did SO MANY drugs up there. careful not to fall through that big-ass, dangerous hole in the top!

short wheel-base + high center-of-gravity = whoopsie-daisy!!

that's right by my house! yay silverlake!