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PrimeCables won't accept returns on audio-visual electronics

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.01.23

I bought some A/V equipment from a Canadian retailer called PrimeCables. It turns out that they won't accept any returns on "opened" electronics. I have no idea how someone could determine that the electronics they ordered weren't the right items without opening the packages, but there we are.

If anyone in Toronto wants an HDMI splitter from Monoprice let me know.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering