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Story : http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141501/EU_charges_Philips_others_with_fo IDG News Service - The European Commission has accused manufacturers of cathode-ray tubes of running cartels in the markets for computer monitors and TVs, the regulator said Thursday. The Commission declined to name any of the companies involved, but Dutch consumer electronics manufacturer Philips has received a formal statement of objections from the...

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/smokers_keyboard.jpg Well mine was not an anti-smoking rant.. it was all about what horrors you can find in a computer that being used in a area where smoking is going on.

Anything less than a NASA-grade clean room is bad for your precious apple, and the faithful will never forgive you. Hell actually using your mac is wrong, they are just too damn beautiful for mere mortals to touch.

Suggests to me there is a market for cases with inbuilt small-particle filters. Not that i ever expect to see anyone really address the problem,a certain percentage of delayed hardware failure is great for the hardware business. Anyone whose computer fails from smoke likely fails outside of their warranty period so their going to go strait out and purchase a new one. I would have never bought a new videocard last year accept the fan on the old...

As a smoker fuck right off, I open my machines, clean them every 3 months, format reinstall, xp,now I have windows 7 does the job, i do the cleaning, if I want to smoke next to my dual monitors, my decision,not yours

So is being a pet owner, having carpeting as opposed to hardwoods, or living down wind in Southern California during Santa Ana season going to void your computer warranty? What a load of Sh!t.