I Swear I Will Not Kill Anyone
by Traveling Matt
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<- Click to rate this post! (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...My hard drive crashed. I contacted Hitachi to return it on warranty. This is what they sent me:
Please include your complete shipping address, phone number, and a description of the drive failure, along with your proof of purchase so that we can start processing your RMA if validated. Also, please answer the following question for export compliance certification:
Do you agree that Hitachi GST products will not be used for the design, development, manufacturing, testing, stockpiling, or use of biological, nuclear, missile or chemical weapons?
I guess they're hoping to catch all those people who are comfortable deploying WMD's but just can't find it in their hearts to lie to a minimum wage tech-support employee.
Photo credits: "Radioactive" sticker: CROM / Disk drive: Dino O.
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That's what happens when the lawyers become too powerful. You have to wonder about the conversations that took place right before they wrote that one. I'm guessing it went something like this: "There is the risk that our equipment might be used by bad people and perhaps we'll be liable if our hard drives are used for terrorist activities. Let's add more legal verbage just to be safe!" Unfortunately too many people are too sue-happy these days, so the lawyers are not the only ones to blame for this.
Yeah, I'm one of those rare liberals who's in favor of tort reform. Excellent point.
Wow -- I thought I was the only liberal in favor of tort reform! (This is even more ironic if you consider the industry in which I currently work.)