I just bought my wife a HP laptop from C. City. Are they known to be bad?
Or do you abuse yours? I have all my reciepts for 10 years back.

Scotty

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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Believe me, I'll be off again to the Bahamas as soon as hurricane season
is done. I've got some things to take care between now and then. I've got
to haul and paint the bottom. I've got to get my friggin' new sails
through
Customs. I've got to get my new laptop warranteed (it boots up only about
half the time) and HP is running me through the ringer and delaying and
delaying and demanding proof of purchase to the extent that's it is
getting
downright humorous. I've scanned and Photoshopped and attached for
HP and US Customs till I'm sick of it but I won't give up. It is really a
pleasure to beat these people at their own game. I have well above average
computer skills and plenty of cracked and free software to beat the
*******s
at their own game of delay and discourage. I WILL prevail. After all this
worldly hassle with technology it makes it all the nicer to go off for six
months at a time and just sail and enjoy life as it was meant to be lived
sans the hassle of the constant battle against those who would attempt
to rip me off. It is totally disgusting to buy a computer for a grand or
so and
the damned thing craps out in less than a year and the manufacturer then
tries every game in the book to squirm out of their warranty. How many
people keep receipts and can even find them after close to a year? How
many people can scan them in and process them into a .tif file so an old
faded out Circuit City receipt with the vanishing ink can be read by a
scanner
enough to tweak with Photoshop to prove the proof of purchase? I'm
thinking
not many. I'm thinking most people give up and end up screwed. Not me,
man, I will fight them tooth and nail until I get my due. They will lose.

Then I will go sailing with my new sails and my new instruments and my
repaired for free under warranty computer and my bottom paint and I will
anchor in out of the way places and enjoy the solitude and whatever else
the good earth and sea has to offer. When I decide I need a little
civilization
I will anchor in a Bahamas harbor and go to a bar and drink myself silly.

I will hit on every attractive woman in sight till I come up with one
who's
interested in a little sailing with sex on the side. That's the way a man
was
meant to live. The wind, the sea, the boat the freedom, the beauty of it
all as God meant things to be. That's for me. This newsgroup is only a
bit of a diversion until I can do what I really want to do - sail and sail
and
sail . . .

S.Simon - a man who lives to sail


"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...
Simple, I envy you, well not you per se, but the fact that you have so
much
(all?) of your time available to go sailing. If I wasn't tied down by
job
and family responsibilities, I'd be off sailing somewhere right now.
Every
time I go sailing (not wimpy little day sails) I always dream about
staying
out for a month or two. Eight days is the longest I've been able to
rack up
so far, and it only left me wanting more.

You really should go cruising before your time runs out. Hear that
ticking?
GO NOW !!!!!

Scotty