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shmokes:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 25, 2009, 11:24:28 am ---
BUT what is far more stupid is continuing to do the same thing again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again (did I get the count right ?) knowing in advance that it will happen


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That's absurd.  EVERYBODY does this.  You go outside without an umbrella again and again and again and again knowing in advance that once in a while you will sometimes be caught in an unexpected rainstorm.  You could obviate the problem, of course, by carrying an umbrella everywhere you go at all times.  But you don't want to carry an umbrella everywhere you go.  It's inconvenient.  So you don't do it.  But the more often it rains, the more likely you are to break down and start carrying an umbrella.    

Nobody goes around taking preventative measures for every possible bad thing that could happen as soon as he learns of the possibility.  It depends entirely on how bad the thing is and how likely it is to occur.  For example, I do take an umbrella just about everywhere I go.  I keep one in my school bag.  I keep one in my car.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 25, 2009, 01:08:26 pm ---
. . . your not smart


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Hmm . . . something about that insult makes it sting less than it should.  What could it be . . . ?   :laugh2:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 25, 2009, 11:19:12 am ---
Any incident after the first or maybe even second are all your fault - I don't care if the phone dials 911 when the battery runs low.  You know it, you didn't alter your behaviour, you are accountable.


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But you are still missing the point.  I don't care at all about the 911 time that I personally have wasted.  The amount of emergency service time I've wasted is measured in seconds, not minutes.  It's completely negligible and you're just being a drama queen.  When you look at the wasted resources cumulatively, yeah, it's substantial.  But that's a problem that only Blackberry's can fix, and it's a problem that they should fix, because it is their mistake.

And there is absolutely nothing unreasonable about my irritation that a product that I purchased doesn't work the way it should.  And frankly, there's nothing unreasonable about my failure to apply highest priority to correcting a problem that is fairly minuscule.  I got to it eventually.  You're acting like the building was on fire and I sat around watching it burn instead of trying to escape when I had the chance.  Again, that's just the drama queen in you.

missioncontrol:
I've only called 911 twice in my life, once when I witnessed an horrific accident, the other time when my house was on fire.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 25, 2009, 01:18:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on March 25, 2009, 11:24:28 am ---
BUT what is far more stupid is continuing to do the same thing again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again (did I get the count right ?) knowing in advance that it will happen


--- End quote ---

That's absurd.  EVERYBODY does this.  You go outside without an umbrella again and again and again and again knowing in advance that once in a while you will sometimes be caught in an unexpected rainstorm.  You could obviate the problem, of course, by carrying an umbrella everywhere you go at all times.  But you don't want to carry an umbrella everywhere you go.  It's inconvenient.  So you don't do it.  But the more often it rains, the more likely you are to break down and start carrying an umbrella.    

Nobody goes around taking preventative measures for every possible bad thing that could happen as soon as he learns of the possibility.  It depends entirely on how bad the thing is and how likely it is to occur.  For example, I do take an umbrella just about everywhere I go.  I keep one in my school bag.  I keep one in my car.


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What is absurd is you trying to treat the statement in the abstract, despite the fact that you know full well it refers to specifics.

Your response reveals the crux of the issue that you are having with folks here -- you don't see your repeated misdialings of 911 as an issue. I see miscalling 911 as something bad while you either don't care or are happy to keep doing it because you can blame RIM.

If your phone was dialing your Mom's number, then most folks here would have been in total agreement with you. But that's not what is happening and you couldn't be bothered to take simple steps to prevent it.

It is also very revealing that you carry an umbrella everywhere so that *you* don't get wet, but that you can't be bothered to take simple precautions to prevent your continuing misuse of emergency services.

Maybe we should just take up a collection to get you a new phone -- that way you aren't inconvenienced and *we* can be the ones to take responsibility instead of you.

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