"Will the product(s) be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction"

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I bought a new computer today from the Dell Outlet.  My main work computer finally gave up and exploded last night just as I was switching it off (I thought I could smell something burning for a while and it just went pop as I was shutting it down), and I’d been thinking about it for a while now, so it’s not really a great leap to buy a new one (a Dell Vostro 420 LMT since you ask).

The thing which surprised me was that in the checkout process I was asked the following: “Will the product(s) be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, i.e. nuclear applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes?”  Of course it won’t, and I clicked that box, but it did cross my mind to wonder what would have happened if I’d said yes. [read more]

Posted on Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 at 7:30 pm in Obiter dicta.
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What I have been up to since last time…

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I know it’s been a while since last update, but there isn’t much to say really.

I’m getting on with college, and I have declined a couple of my grades so I have to sit them again – in Physics I am taking the Waves and Nuclear Physics module in January again, after teaching from my nice tutor at home, and Maths I don’t know when I am taking things, but I will be doing, still to work that out.  Talking of my Physics tutor, I am really getting on better in it now with him doing it, he is really, really good, a lot of the things I never really understood with the other tutors I understand with him…which can only be good, lol. [read more]

Posted on Saturday 21st September, 2002 at 12:00 pm in College, Open Diary, People, Work & Career.
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