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some idiot in my class threw a swich at my ibook.

California said:
Hector:

Take some advice from a former university prof: you're not doing your "friend" a "favor" by not holding him accountable for his actions.

He won't respect you. He already has shown he doesn't respect you by throwing whatever piece of equipment he threw at your computer.

He's NOT your friend. And you can't buy his continued non-friendship by pretending he didn't damage your iBook.

He did.

There were witnesses.

And it costs you in time energy and money. Look how much energy and consternation it has already cost you by posting this thread.

Stand up for yourself. It's okay. It's called personal integrity. People respect you for that. People want to be friends with people who have it.

So quietly calculate the bill and present it to him or to whomever is financially responsible for him. In the US, your parents are financially responsible for you until the age of 18. Don't mention that you do apple repair yourself or don't make it an issue. Just get the money and whatever you do with it afterward is YOUR decision.

Get some backbone. It is okay to have a clear idea of money. It means you are being honest. It doesn't mean you are a capitalist pig. It also means that you spent your hard time working for your computer, tough luck if he has to spend five months (or whatever) working off his debt.

Don't buy into the idea that different monetary classes have to be held to different moral or legal standards because of their "class" (poor student, rich parent, whatever). This is watery Marxism, and Marx is responsible for the destruction of the economies of most of eastern europe. Fair is fair, despite phony "class" distinctions. Some poor people are greedy and evil, some rich people are generous and good. You are letting someone off the hook for phony arguments and to your own self-deprecation -- not to mention the broken iBook!
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lol, it's just a computer. No need to tell him to get new friends because of his friend's accident.
 
uni professor dude look at the avatar.

you diss the commies you diss me.......

(shame about Communism not working and all, but heh what can you do)

first off me and my friend are old diablo 2 buddies i had a lv 48 sorcerous he had a lv 30 paladin we go way back to my battle.net days

as i said it was an acident he threw it over over me carelessly when i was not expecting him to, it bent my hinge back and now my airport reception is crap, i have my eye on an ebay auction for the replacement part i'm going to bid on it and he will pay for the cost of the part and if it takes me a bloody age to do it my rate of £30 an hour, it will not take me an age and quite frankly i'm never happier than when i ahve a mac cracked open infrount of me.

it's not like i'm sucking up to him if he totaled my ibook i would make him pay through the nose, however he damaged a cheap part i'm not going to bother with the angst that would generate.

besides i'm takeing a large stick to his AMD64 3200 shuttle.
 
Yeah, I just didn't like the "He's a poor student" excuse. Glad you feel good about it, though, in the end. Let us know how your Mac survives.

Sorry you think Che is a role model, despite the upcoming filmic glorification. Che's youthful idealism and compassion on the poor turned into a nightmare of poverty, Statist murder and totalitarianism for Cuba, just like it did for Fidel -- who uses Che's handsome martrydom to his own glory. You do know that more people have died from communism in the last century than all the people who have died in all the wars ever fought on the planet earth?

What is it you like about Communism? The economic part of it -- that no one is to own private property and everyone should allow the State to decide who earns and owns what? Or do you like the governmental part of it -- usually a backstage oligarchy with a tyrant ruling the roost all in the name of the "dictatorship of the proletariat"? Personally, I hate the no freedom of speech or no freedom to vote part of it.

I really am curious, not trying to bait you.
 
Make him pay for whatever it costs you to fix the iBook. Simple enough. If it was more damaging, then I would suggest something different. But you seem to make it into a fairly simple fix, and the fact that you can do it yourself...

What is a "poor" student doing throwing around a switch worth a few grand?:confused:
 
California said:
Yeah, I just didn't like the "He's a poor student" excuse. Glad you feel good about it, though, in the end. Let us know how your Mac survives.

Sorry you think Che is a role model, despite the upcoming filmic glorification. Che's youthful idealism and compassion on the poor turned into a nightmare of poverty, Statist murder and totalitarianism for Cuba, just like it did for Fidel -- who uses Che's handsome martrydom to his own glory. You do know that more people have died from communism in the last century than all the people who have died in all the wars ever fought on the planet earth?

What is it you like about Communism? The economic part of it -- that no one is to own private property and everyone should allow the State to decide who earns and owns what? Or do you like the governmental part of it -- usually a backstage oligarchy with a tyrant ruling the roost all in the name of the "dictatorship of the proletariat"? Personally, I hate the no freedom of speech or no freedom to vote part of it.

I really am curious, not trying to bait you.
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see the whole "it's a shame comunisum dose not work and all" thing take a hint.

the avatar just plain looks cool.

capitalism is the worst system but currently it's the only one that works.
 
Hector said:
capitalism is the worst system but currently it's the only one that works.
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so... in other words... it's the best system?

Lee Tom
 
California said:
Hector:

Take some advice from a former university prof: you're not doing your "friend" a "favor" by not holding him accountable for his actions.

He won't respect you. He already has shown he doesn't respect you by throwing whatever piece of equipment he threw at your computer.

He's NOT your friend. And you can't buy his continued non-friendship by pretending he didn't damage your iBook.

He did.

There were witnesses.

And it costs you in time energy and money. Look how much energy and consternation it has already cost you by posting this thread.

Stand up for yourself. It's okay. It's called personal integrity. People respect you for that. People want to be friends with people who have it.
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In other words, if John Kerry were President, this would pass the global test for an all-out ass-whuppin'!
 
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