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Article #6528Re: Craftsmanship is dying
From: Mike Berger
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:17
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:17
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aescherm@iastate.edu (A Person of Awareness) writes: >The way that I solve the problem of New is Bad/Old is Good is to buy those >old things that were good and fixable and those new things that I don't care >if I can or can't fix. >Really, if I'm buying a $5 pair of walkman headphones, who cares if they >break? BTW I actually had a Radio Rip Off Store sales-droid offer me a plan *---- I care. Don't you have anything that operates in a way you particularly like, and wish you could keep? I prefer the controls on my old VCR to the new one. My friend loved his cheap, folding headphones, and has been unable to find a replacement as good. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!atropa!berger From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger) Subject: Re: Craftsmanship is dying References: <MOTOYAMA.92Aug11183427@harlgw92.harl.hitachi> <1992Aug11.212327.449@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Aug12.202819.23364@krfiny.uucp> <1992Aug14.111053.17267@news.iastate.edu> Message-ID: <Bt51E2.7Ip@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:17:58 GMT Lines: 17