killingtime wrote:

Good! I am proud of you!

I still think that I'm harming commerce.

a fifty cent bolt can be replaced - but instead I'm forced to have the merchant scrap a chainsaw to replace it with another chainsaw.

That has to {pardon the pun} cut into the profit line....

killingtime wrote:

Neo, what kind of music do you listen to? (if any)

I've got a pretty eclectic mix...50's and 60's music, mostly doo-wop type of stuff, some classical, prefer Haydn, Bach; some modern country, Toby Keith, Sara Evans, Alan Jackson, some Johnny Cash too; some horrendous modern punk and heavy metal stuff, Celtic, folk, Cuban, a little of everything. Depends on the mood.

dreamaster wrote:

I still think that I'm harming commerce. a fifty cent bolt can be replaced - but instead I'm forced to have the merchant scrap a chainsaw to replace it with another chainsaw. That has to {pardon the pun} cut into the profit line....

Think of it this way...

Well, if the manufacturer hadn't hired cheap foreign labor, it would have helped the commerce greater.

or

If the loose bolt had actually cost you a limb...

dreamaster wrote:

I still think that I'm harming commerce. a fifty cent bolt can be replaced - but instead I'm forced to have the merchant scrap a chainsaw to replace it with another chainsaw. That has to {pardon the pun} cut into the profit line....

They'll just sell it as a refurb...nothing wrong with that around here!

NeoLuddite wrote:

I've got a pretty eclectic mix...50's and 60's music, mostly doo-wop type of stuff, some classical, prefer Haydn, Bach; some modern country, Toby Keith, Sara Evans, Alan Jackson, some Johnny Cash too; some horrendous modern punk and heavy metal stuff, Celtic, folk, Cuban, a little of everything. Depends on the mood.

Yeah, very ecclectic. It is funny, I was listening to Johnny Cash today, but not his traditional stuff...I listened to the NIN cover.

I wish I had broader tastes, but I don't. I can't get into some music...like Big Band.

killingtime wrote:

Think of it this way... Well, if the manufacturer hadn't hired cheap foreign labor, it would have helped the commerce greater. or If the loose bolt had actually cost you a limb...

It might help if you walk in to the shop tomorrow running the chainsaw and wearing a hockey mask.
When they're done pooping their pants they'll be glad to give you a refund.

A refurb chainsaw?

//runs screaming

I still am waffeling and might just repair/modify the chainsaw.

I have a spare mower motor, and can pick up some hydraulic stuff - and I do have three trees I need to slay.

NeoLuddite wrote:

They'll just sell it as a refurb...nothing wrong with that around here!

LMAO! Sad, but true...

Dreamaster, were your parents alive through the depression?

NeoLuddite wrote:

It might help if you walk in to the shop tomorrow running the chainsaw and wearing a hockey mask. When they're done pooping their pants they'll be glad to give you a refund.

LMAOPMP (pee my pants) j/k

I would LOVE to video tape that!!!!!!!!!!!

dreamaster wrote:

A refurb chainsaw? //runs screaming I still am waffeling and might just repair/modify the chainsaw. I have a spare mower motor, and can pick up some hydraulic stuff - and I do have three trees I need to slay.

You are nutz...you have some weird guilt complex somewhere in your distant past.

*me is STILL trying to figure out why you just wont RETURN THE DAMN THING!

Neo, you'd return it, right?

dreamaster wrote:

A refurb chainsaw? //runs screaming I still am waffeling and might just repair/modify the chainsaw. I have a spare mower motor, and can pick up some hydraulic stuff - and I do have three trees I need to slay.

I have one I'd like to slay. But if it falls wrong it hits the house and turns into a Vonage commercial. So I'll pay for someone who'll have to use their own insurance to pay for the damage.

killingtime wrote:

LMAO! Sad, but true... Dreamaster, were your parents alive through the depression?

My parents came over on the boats during ww2.

The grandparents started here with two trunks, no cash, and an american public that was stupid enough to castigate people who spoke heavily accented english as being dumb (despite knowing more than one language).

killingtime wrote:

Neo, you'd return it, right?

Yep, I return stuff.
I learned that from watching "Summer School" with Mark Harmon, where the kids got free sunglasses by complaining.

NeoLuddite wrote:

I have one I'd like to slay. But if it falls wrong it hits the house and turns into a Vonage commercial. So I'll pay for someone who'll have to use their own insurance to pay for it.

Better do it before the next Nor'Easter.

killingtime wrote:

You are nutz...you have some weird guilt complex somewhere in your distant past. *me is STILL trying to figure out why you just wont RETURN THE DAMN THING!

Because it's a bolt that fell out and is missing.

It's a 50 cent part I can replace.

Why cause a large profit loss when I can just buy a a bolt and fix it?

If I cause a loss - don't you understand that we all pay for it in the long run?

killingtime wrote:

Better do it before the next Nor'Easter.

I wish a storm would kill it. It's a catalpa tree, about 2-3 ft diameter, so it's seen a few winters. I just hate it. Huge leaves, annoying pods, looks like some evil Halloween tree when it finally looses its leaves.
Pretty for about a week in June when it blooms. Pisses me off the rest of the year.

dreamaster wrote:

My parents came over on the boats during ww2. The grandparents started here with two trunks, no cash, and an american public that was stupid enough to castigate people who spoke heavily accented english as being dumb (despite knowing more than one language).

Okay...

So, your parents came over between 1939 and 1945.

The Great Depression was from 1929 thru 1941.

So, they did experience it.

What I don't understand is your comment about your grandparents. Did they come at the same time as your parents, after or before...

*confused*

Perhaps, your parents ingrained the "salvage everything" attitude?

What background are you? Eastern European?

dreamaster wrote:

Because it's a bolt that fell out and is missing. It's a 50 cent part I can replace. Why cause a large profit loss when I can just buy a a bolt and fix it? If I cause a loss - don't you understand that we all pay for it in the long run?

In that case, they should replace the .50 part vs. a return. And do the service on it free.

dreamaster wrote:

Because it's a bolt that fell out and is missing. It's a 50 cent part I can replace. Why cause a large profit loss when I can just buy a a bolt and fix it? If I cause a loss - don't you understand that we all pay for it in the long run?

*Wow* You are 1 in a 1,000,000.

NeoLuddite wrote:

I wish a storm would kill it. It's a catalpa tree, about 2-3 ft diameter, so it's seen a few winters. I just hate it. Huge leaves, annoying pods, looks like some evil Halloween tree when it finally looses its leaves. Pretty for about a week in June when it blooms. Pisses me off the rest of the year.

LMAO!!!!!!!!! Such an adverse reaction to a TREE!

LOL.

Those pods are awesome! See, I would get pissed off by the petals. I have a cherry tree and I hate when the white/pink petals litter all over the lawn!

I have a walnut tree...so I can relate to the pod thing.

the parents/grandparents arrived at the same time. They fled Lithuania when the soviets and germans were busy killing everyone.


They arrived in 1944 - , I wouldn't of been born had my uncle on my paternal side not died - since the rest of the paternal side went to australia as planned while Muma and Tevalis had to take care of the details then flee to america.

killingtime wrote:

LMAO!!!!!!!!! Such an adverse reaction to a TREE! LOL. Those pods are awesome! See, I would get pissed off by the petals. I have a cherry tree and I hate when the white/pink petals litter all over the lawn! I have a walnut tree...so I can relate to the pod thing.

I tend to be fairly even tempered with most people, but intolerant and violent with inanimate objects that don't bend to my will.

killingtime wrote:

*Wow* You are 1 in a 1,000,000.

???

NeoLuddite wrote:

In that case, they should replace the .50 part vs. a return. And do the service on it free.

Suppose he makes the repair...then its still faulty. He goes to use it again and it maims him. He makes a claim for a 1,000,000. He wins, the company goes bankrupt...then the government needs to take care of him then we still pay...

killingtime wrote:

Suppose he makes the repair...then its still faulty. He goes to use it again and it maims him. He makes a claim for a 1,000,000. He wins, the company goes bankrupt...then the government needs to take care of him then we still pay...

BUT...he didn't have to pay for that $.50 part.

dreamaster wrote:

the parents/grandparents arrived at the same time. They fled Lithuania when the soviets and germans were busy killing everyone. They arrived in 1944 - , I wouldn't of been born had my uncle on my paternal side not died - since the rest of the paternal side went to australia as planned while Muma and Tevalis had to take care of the details then flee to america.

Okay...*mostly unconfused*

But who is Tevalis?

NeoLuddite wrote:

I tend to be fairly even tempered with most people, but intolerant and violent with inanimate objects that don't bend to my will.

LMAO...I had bf like that...years ago...he threw a printer off a 3 story balcony because it wouldn't print out my term paper.

killingtime wrote:

Suppose he makes the repair...then its still faulty. He goes to use it again and it maims him. He makes a claim for a 1,000,000. He wins, the company goes bankrupt...then the government needs to take care of him then we still pay...

So now I'm being accused of whacked out lawsuits because I prefer to take personal responsibilty and fixing my own stuff?

dreamaster wrote:

???

I am just saying that most people wouldn't go through the aggrevation and time to fix it themselves.

NeoLuddite wrote:

BUT...he didn't have to pay for that $.50 part.

LOL!

dreamaster wrote:

So now I'm being accused of whacked out lawsuits because I prefer to take personal responsibilty and fixing my own stuff? You multi-generational americans as a whole seem to smoke crack on a daily basis.

No, I was merely showing the flip side of the coin.

I am 3rd generation, I believe. Yes, 3rd.

I have never smoked crack, but other diversions are fine.

killingtime wrote:

LMAO...I had bf like that...years ago...he threw a printer off a 3 story balcony because it wouldn't print out my term paper.

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
-Steve Wozniak

NeoLuddite wrote:

Where did you get that?

killingtime wrote:

Where did you get that?

I think it was volt.net, a bunch of cool electrical arcs and other related stuff

NeoLuddite wrote:

That looks like a lamb.

killingtime wrote:

That looks like a lamb.

I think that one is 500, 000 volts arcing through the moisture in the air. Like a lamb with a machine gun.