Posted on 04/18/2006 5:06:47 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I'm really impressed with whoever did the picture with the knife.
I don't understand how his station could have been struck by lightning when it's protected by an icon of its patron saint.
As scams go this one is just soooo sad! 1) if you are running a non profit org out of your house.... its a tax write off. Not to mention if you have home owners insurance and have the equipment listed it is covered. You can also take out insurance on the equipment itself as a NPO and have it covered by acts of god and get a good tax break on it... Hmmmm the fishy smell here reeks. Also a GOOD UPS and Surge protection system would have opened the circuits and blown first shunting the whole surge to ground. I will admit these are slightly pricey but if you have that kind of equipment then you need to buy the best. Waaaaa goes the Lib.
'Good to see you back, CH, albeit on a limited basis for now -- you were basorely missed...
I hate to air my stupidity, but I'll sacrifice my dignity to try and help someone else out. :) I was on my computer one day and I heard the rumbling of a thunderstorm that seemed to pop up out of the blue. I unplugged my computer and my TV and was just walking out of the room when I heard a mighty BOOM! And then, all hell broke lose in my room. My computer, my TV and my phone all went BOOM!
While I had unplugged from the electrical outlet, I neglected to unplug the TV cable wire and computer modem wire from the phone lines they were hooked into. The lightning had made a direct hit on the phone box attached to the outside of the house on the wall of the room that I was in. It blew the TV screen, fried my motherboard (although luckily didn't hurt my monitor) and it fried my phone. Soooo, maybe your fax machines were still connected to the phone line even though they were unplugged from the electrical outlet?
No, but quality brands of UPSs and surge protectors come with equipment insurance as part of the purchase price. My humble APC-brand UPS has $10,000 worth of equipment insurance.
Even if it was a direct hit, mail them the fried device, they mail you a check. Their devices, and the computers hooked to them, are damaged so rarely that they can give this kind of coverage.
Any bets that someone is collecting insurance, AND trying to hit on the DUmmies? Of course, that's like shooting retarded fish in a barrel.
"Any bets that someone is collecting insurance, AND trying to hit on the DUmmies? Of course, that's like shooting retarded fish in a barrel."
That's not a Bet this boy would take.
Same here! I spent most of Easter Sunday unplugged because of the storm watch bulletins we were constantly getting via TV. The only cable I don't unplug is the phone cable going to the DSL modem. If it fries Verizon will replace it.
Oh, and I have full-replacement-value insurance. And that's for two PC's and a couple printers which I don't use for business. How this RAT idiot can have a website broadcast and no insurance is beyond me. Sheesh!
LOL wow that's scary-good blood work
Insurance? That you'd pay for yourself? A private-sector transaction that assumes somebody else won't bail you out? What kind of self-respecting left-wing radical would have any part of that?
Thanks, but I just contributed the DUFU screen -- PJ already had the base image.
An accurate and entertaining summary... and the last two sentences would make you a great tagline....
Ha ha... that's exactly what I was thinking. I'm surprised the DUmmies didn't try to blame the Administration's environmental policies for this.
During a Perfect Rovian Storm™.... BUWAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Actually, a conservative broadcaster would have been expected to have proper precautions and insurance in place.
Liberals are constantly on a shoestring budget
Because no one wants to pay for it or advertise on it.
I find this story very fishy. We unplug the computer from the wall, too. I have over 12,000 names in my FTM which is on a CD but I would hate to lose that file.
ZOT!!!
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