On Monday 04 February 2002 04:43 pm, you wrote: > > I just have to ask... wouldn't it cost you more at this point to get it > > back than to just buy a new one? > > Yes > > > Unless it has some sentimental value > > No > > > or you're just doing it for the principle of the thing > > Yes > > >it seems like a > > moot point to me. > > i only lost a keyboard, Lorry lost the power supply for her laptop and > spencer lost a whole computer. > > this time i only lost a keyboard, next time i will have to decide on which > hardware i can afford to lose before i take anything to the installfest if > i take anything at all! > > (ok so maybe i am overreacting, Nah. You're not overreacting. It's a violation, even if the financial loss to you is small -- and laptop power supplies and whole systems aren't cheap. -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------