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DerbyDad03 wrote:



It's just possible that there are valid reasons for using Google-
groups . Perhaps one's corporate-installed image does not allow for
the installation or use of newsreader applications or personal email
accounts. If one didn't use Google groups in those situations, one
couldn't break up the work day by engaging in such witty banter with
other members of this group.



Hey, you want to steal time from your boss, and use his hardware for
personal gain, that's your business. My comment on your newsreading
habit was merely following suit with your WebTV joke. (Apparently you
don't actually have a computer at home, because the only place from
which you seem to post is googlegroups.)

This thread was started by a guy who was worried about not having
grounded someone else's computer. I told him not to worry. The odds of
that causing any trouble whatsoever are essentially astronomical.
Virtually nobody gets "electrocuted" at home, period.

It's amazing that your average guy will tailgate and speed while
chatting on the cell phone, have unprotected sex, eat chicken in a
restaurant, climb a poorly positioned ladder, smoke, weave a
motorcycle through traffic with six inches of clearance on either
side, and then come home and worry about a ****ing ground plug.

The importance of earth ground to a computer is not safety so much as it
is protection.