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DSN_klr650@egroups.com, "Jeffrey L. Walker"
wrote:
> If you don't back up your important data (all of it.) on a
regular basis,
> then you really deserve what happens, virus or no virus.
> "Deserve" what happens? What kind of twisted karma
philosophy does this fall under? Unless someone is intentionally
doing bad things to another person they don't "deserve" anything...
> OK, Arne, I seen to have really gotten on your bad side, so let me
explain. What kind of philosophy? Nothing but the honest truth,
learned by me the hard way after losing hundreds of hours of hard
work on no less than four separate occasions (once by a virus, three
by crashes). Who could I blame or point the finger at? Nobody but
myself for not backing up my data.
Not at all... I don't really have a 'bad' side per say... I look like
shit from all angles. I guess the slant I am taking on it is that
being the author of your own "misfortune", and "deserving it" are two
different things. Perhaps we're arguing semantics here...
> But really, the guy was just trying to tell a joke, funny or not,
appropriate or not, and people reacted like he just committed a
felony, not just a faux pas.
I reacted the way I did because I missed the joke entirely. I took
it seriously. Call me slow... Call me sleeping at the wheel... Get
me a cup of coffee... whatever. Had I "gotten it", while I would not
have 'appreciated' this kind of a joke on an Email list that I am
responsible for maintaining, I would not have reacted the way I did
either.
> And if I have to offend people in order to get them to think about
protecting their data and time, to learn from my mistakes, then so be
it.
Hey, now we're talkin' the same language again! =-)
> If you're still pissed at me we could just do like my friends do;
slug it out behind the bar and then buy each other beers afterward.
>
> Jeff
Sorry Jeff... I guess my "owliness" factor was running high. Let's
just go straight to the beers. =-)
Arne