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Old 06-12-2011, 04:01 PM   #5
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by hermes View Post
After 13 days the screen became unreadable suddenly, it looked as if it had gotten water inside (no) or the circuit board went insane. Fortunately, I still had my receipt. Privacy buffs may be interested in the fact that Best Buy requires both a phone number and a digital signature. Given that in my case both were not entirely correct I wonder why they bother. Oh, and teller didn't even immediately have $200 cash on hand to refund. Perhaps everyone is using plastic these days.

Do I feel bad about lying about two things identifying myself? Absolutely not. As the author of "Making Yourself Invisible' puts it, according to his high school teacher a lie is "not telling the truth to someone who deserves to know." When I am asked if I have any spare change and I say 'no' this is not a lie in the moral sense. But I do not like the fact that increasingly we have to lie if we value our privacy in the commercial, governmental and work worlds. I would rather not be asked in the first place. As this is not an option, I am training myself to to not always be forthcoming with total strangers - like my name with the woman I slept with last night.
Should have tried to swap the pocket edition for a 950.
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