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From: mark.parity@each.end
In article , ghost
writes:
>In article <596c4bf3.115e2c8864%mark.parity@each.end>,
> mark.parity@each.end (Serial Comms Sucks) wrote:
>
>> >> I think I looked about a year ago, and that was still about the best I
>> >> could
>> >> buy without spending ridiculous amounts of money. Rich git.
>> >
>> >rich? I wish. No .. my company offers a Computer Assitance Program, you
>> >pay 10% down and they give you a 2,500 dollar interest free 18 month
>> >loan, payment deducted strait from your paycheck. You can go higher than
>> >2,500 but you pay everything over that in the down.
>>
>> Cool! Do you have to order online, or can you get touchy-feely with the kit
>> before you buy it?
>
>You can go into a store and touchy feely stuff.
I -think- there's one nearby, but it may have closed.
>But it's all through a
>website and mail order stuff when you actually buy it. Well, it was when
>I did it four almost five years ago now, it may have changed since then
>I haven't recently looked .. the policies change on a yearly basis as
>the company decides to keep switching vendors and what not.
Yeah, exactly. From one vendor who sucks to another vendor who also sucks.
Mate of mine was sent a CD-ROM instead of a DVD/CD combo, and a DVD. By
the time he'd managed to trudge through the forest of stupidity they call
a "service helpline" to talk to the "technical people" who actually knew
the difference between a CD and a DVD, they were burbling on about the
"14-day limitation" and saying it wasn't their problem.
>> >I love working for a mega-corp some days.
>>
>> And I bet there are some days you don't.
>
>occasionally. Though I actually enjoy my job most of the time. I get to
>demand things from the phone companies and they have to comply .. it's
>a great gig.
Sounds good. Do they have special music for when they keep Important
Customers on hold?
>> >> Hey, you can have it. It'll be an improvement on the incumbents.
>> >
>> >Neat. Alt.Cyberpunk should co-opt more newsgroups!
>>
>> Are you guys related to the 2600 mob, or maybe the AHM peeps?
>
>I'm sure some of us in acp post and/or read those groups - I do not.
>Mostly alt.cyberpunk is centered around the literary movement with the
>Sci-Fi genre that calls itself "cyberpunk" ... William Gibson being the
>foremost writer of that group, or at least most widely recognized
>outside the acp crowd.
I was wondering if I should mention him, but... now be honest... his
stuff is rather dated, don't you think? Not to mention the entire genre
being given a bad reputation by that stupid movie with Keanu Reeves.
We've got a third-rate sci-fi writer by the name of James Follett in
demon.local; I've not read any of his stuff, though, so couldn't easily
categorize it. And Rebecca Ore hangs out in some of the UPA groups,
although she mostly seems to talk about routers nowadays.
And I maintain Peter F Hamilton could take the lot of them with one paw
tied behind his back.
>ghost
>~/~ Sometimes I forget to pray I'll make it through this fucking day ~/~
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