Little things that irk you.. (no swearing please)

[Brad]

the law can never deliver justice.

Oh I'm pretty sure it can:

[gunrock]

Inkjet Printers!

Specifically my printer, an HP C5180 all-in-one scanner/printer. It moans about ink running out all the frickin' time. It starts moaning about the ink being low when it's gets to about 20%. Now bearing in mind I don't print pictures often (hardly ever), it's usually google maps output (mostly b&w but no maps) or an occasional photocopy (in b&w) of an important document.

So when it starts to warn you of one of the cartridges running low, you ignore it, as there's around 20% ink left and as it's more expensive per ml than good champage (Link), so you'd be mad to do it immediately. However, every time I print, it now shows a warning on the printer screen that has to manually dismissed before the printing continues. Then after a couple of months, when it's getting around 5%, you get a warning window in Windows that has to be acknowledged and the warning on the printer itself, so that's two bloody button presses needed for it to print.

And then, when it runs out half-way through a duplex print (that's printing on both sides, fact fans!) like it did this morning, it stopped to tell me to replace the cartridge. So I do that and somehow it decides to reprint the document, but I get the first seven pages of a fourteen page document printed on the back of the same seven pages and it doesn't even bother printing the last seven!!!!!

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGE!

[Dogg Thang]

I got rid of an Epson printer because not only did it eat ink cartidges but it actually point-blank refused to print if one cartridge was running low. An absolute pain in the ass. It also ate colour cartridges if you were printing in nothing but black, which is utterly pointless except for milking people for money on new cartridges. It was a complete scam.

I got something else (it may actually have been HP, can't quite remember) and it is so much better. I haven't yet had to replace a cartridge and would have been through at least three sets with the Epson by this stage.

[Jebus]

Shopto.net have irked me today, so much so that I shan't be using them again. (See shippings and arrivals thread for details!)

Quite wrong. Law is about a set or rules and principles that together try to create a civillised society.

How can someones opinion on whate they feel something should be, be wrong?

[J0e Musashi]

RenChi. They sent my item via UPS despite me requesting they do not. Now said item for some odd reason has been sent back to Hong Kong from Stansted, and I wont get it until Friday when I could have had it yesterday if they'd sent it with DHL or FedEX. I'll also have to pay Customs taxes at my front door.

[Brats]

How can someones opinion on whate they feel something should be, be wrong?

Because it's impossible - justice is such a subjective, moving thing that there is no way the law can deliver it.

I could say 'shops should be about giving all their goods away for free'. I guess you could argue that as an opinion it's not 'wrong' to think that. Maybe deluded is a better word (although it actually sounds worse).

[davesol]

Inkjet Printers!

ah yes, i finally got fed up with printers about 5 years ago and haven't had one since. there have been one or two occasions where i have wanted to print things urgently and haven't been able to but they have been very few and far between and other than that I haven't missed it at all.

If I did want to print something I would either do it at work (if it was only a page or two) or go to one of those shops that does printing /scanning etc for you.

I could say 'shops should be about giving all their goods away for free'

Sounds good to me

[Jebus]

Because it's impossible - justice is such a subjective, moving thing that there is no way the law can deliver it.

I could say 'shops should be about giving all their goods away for free'. I guess you could argue that as an opinion it's not 'wrong' to think that. Maybe deluded is a better word (although it actually sounds worse).

Sorry mate, I don't believe one person can say to someone else "your hypothetical opinion is wrong".

[sj33]

I guess the point was that law can't possibly represent ideas of something as subjective as 'justice' because it is exactly that.

[Brats]

Exactly. There's no hypothetical point that can be made because it's simply not possible. There has to be a hypothesis for something to be hypothetical. Saying 'hypothetically speaking, it could rain Bison and Barry Manilows tomorrow' doesn't make sense.

The reason why I said the original poster was 'wrong' was because his post implied that the law was created specifically to bring justice. That is wrong, law was created to make a civilised society. If justice comes out of it, that's just a side effect.

[charlesr]

Although if you subscribe to the pricinples of how to win friends and influence people, telling someone they are wrong is unproductive and there are better ways of phrasing the same thing. Saying "wrong" is a lot quicker though.

[Spatial]

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

[Brats]

Although if you subscribe to the pricinples of how to win friends and influence people, telling someone they are wrong is unproductive and there are better ways of phrasing the same thing.

Fair point. It's a little irk of mine when people say things like 'law should be about justice'. It an vast over simplification of a fairly complex issue.

[abigsmurf]

Youtube's volume slider:

[Brad]

People who are unaware of their surroundings. Parents doing the morning primary school run are the worst. It's a busy place to be at 8:40am yet they will happily walk round a corner whilst looking behind them. This morning was the worst ever. I felt like Bruce Willis in The 6th Sense. It was like nobody could see me!