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From
22/05/2001 00:59:51
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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20/05/2001 15:56:45
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00507089
Message ID:
00509770
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>And so on - I can figure at least 500 of non-use the suppositories.

The extreme of this was already described by Dragoslav Andric, author of the first dictionary of Serbian slang (1975 or so, really obsolete now): "The peak of resourcefulness is using suppositories instead of the missing pawns to play chess. The ultimate resourcefulness is vice versa."

>But most important: where is the limit? Who establish the limit? Are people so stupid so they can't figure out by themselves?

That's America, neighbour. One guy has sued the producer of ... because he got hurt by using it, and got ....000.000 dollars in court, so they rather print a dozen warnings (which may be taken as an insult, assuming the supposed intellectual level of the customer) than get sued again. Last famous case is "warning: hot content" on the coffee, because one lady got hurt spilling coffee on herself. After all the decades of technology, they still haven't invented cold boiling water, or at least harmless boiling water.

I've bought an inflatable beach ball here, usual stuff which is produced unchanged for probably fifty years or more - and one segment of it is covered with small print. "Do not use in water deeper than the depth of a child" (?), "child must be accompanied by a qualified adult person"... I'm thinking of opening a school where you can qualify for this.

>You simply can do only one thing with it: you can use it as you surely know. So, why bother to write an interminable list of what you can't do?

Because the list of things people tried to do with it (and failed or got hurt or just tried to pull some money on) is endless. Just like the old game of cops and thieves... no, programmers and users: users are always one step ahead. They'll try one more thing that you couldn't have thought of.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
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