Americans have become so spiky and litigious lately it's hardly
any fun to live here at all.

Sometimes I feel like I have to be careful not to raise my
voice too loud or I'll be sued by someone for disturbing the
flow of their cosmic energy or some such silly thing.

Corporations are not much better, and just try making a
public statement questioning the President or the war in
Iraq!

Mike H.

>Much to my annoyance, I've just had a warning email and my post to a
>forum concerning Renesas uP deleted.
>
>Apart from the fact I've been directed to forum rules, that I can't
>find anywhere on the website, It is apparently true that some
>Americans don't do irony or self deprecating humour.
>
>All I did was to post a problem I'd been having with their version of
>an ANSII C compiler as far as CISC uP's go and made a wry mention,
>that 'it is no wonder I like pics' - even more ridiculous this
>particular website/company produce and sell Pic accessories as well
>as a an attempt at a STAMP clone of basic.
>
>I'm seriously considering whether to return their free development
>board to them, the only thing preventing me at this moment being the
>cost of postage from Australia to America and the fact that Australia
>in its attempt to show everyone how they are playing their part in
>things requires me to provide ID to send a parcel OUT of the country
>- I hope that they actually check parcels coming into the country as
>well.
>
>Colin
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