Dell Refutes Allegation of Support for HCI

http://www.newsbytes.com/ ^ | 2/28/2002 | Brian McWilliams

[Don Joe]

I have to again say they were a bunch of "hair-trigger hotheads" whose shoot-first behavior gives ammo to the anti-gun crowd.

What a load of inflamatory, sanctimonious agitprop. By your brand of logic, Rosa Parks should have shut up and rode in the back of the bus, because "they let her on, and they let her ride to her destination, so she should stop making noise and giving them negroes a bad name."

[Registered]

[Whilom]

Some Second Amendment nuts are, well, nuts. Weigand appears to be from a tree. The rest of us working to keep our Second Amendment rights need not get into a tussle or a tizzy defending the fringe. We keep on track -- the Second Amendment means what it says.

[Don Joe]

"one of untold THOUSANDS of affiliate sites that are signed up and approved with NO screening process"

Wow. If that's correct, then perhaps Dell should be screening those affiliates instead of honest, law-abiding American customers.

After all, if what you say is true, there is nothing to prevent NAMBLA, Hamas, Alqaida, Islamic Jihad, Hezbolla, or any number of other terrorist or child-molester outfits from generating financing via Dell's affiliate program.

Since Dell's affiliate program terms which someone posted here the other day say that they have the right to deny affiliate status to outfits they deem offensive or inappropriate, I sit here in amazement at the revelation you posted above.

[Don Joe]

"Some Second Amendment nuts are, well, nuts. Weigand appears to be from a tree. The rest of us working to keep our Second Amendment rights need not get into a tussle or a tizzy defending the fringe. We keep on track -- the Second Amendment means what it says."

Yup, you're right. The back of the bus is good enough. You get where you're going just as fast as you would if you were sitting in the front of the bus. Second-class citizens are still citizens, after all. Stop making waves, you'll only make it worse for the rest of us. We need to know our place, and stay in it.

[MississippiMan]

Wow. If that's correct, then perhaps Dell should be screening those affiliates instead of honest, law-abiding American customers.

And perhaps you and others should stop bashing the only conservative major computer manufacturer in the country over a mistake that they've admitted and done everything within reason to correct. Or perhaps you'd rather just keep beating your chest to see if you can reduce the number of such companies to zero instead of one. When Dell apologized and offered a free notebook to Weigand and he refused, he became a grandstander. When something like this affiliate business has been explained a dozen times and you still don't get it, there's no hope.

Have a great day, Don.

Over and out.

MM

[fivetoes]

Has anyone ever seen them together in the same place at the same time?

Come to think of it, why no. 8-)