Re: How much effort should I put to hard-wire?

[Robert L Bass <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Robert, you are a know-it-all. A jackoff. A boor. A Cliff Clavin. You have
> an answer for everything, and want to argue every point. I'm not going to
> bother entering a point/counterpoint with you tonight, especially about the
> availability/unavailability of cheap lumber during the World Wars and
> Depression Era, but I feel that it's been way too long since I called you
> what you are- a Class A Prick..

Sorry to have offended you by disagreeing with you.  It's
unfortunate that you are unable to accept disagreement without
resorting to such childish outbursts.

I don't mind if you can't come up with a reasonable counterpoint
other than the above, but perhaps you can at least try to explain
how shortages in WWII (1939 to 1945) and the great depression
(which started in 1929) affected construction in 1920.

Without benefit of your vast knowledge of history, we can only
assume that the lumber market anticipated the troubles to come
and dried up years in advance.  Boggles the mind, eh?

To the point, if you want to try to dissuade people from DIY, I
can understand your motive.  You make a living installing alarms.
No problem.  I advocate DIY and I make a living catering to
DIYers via my online alarm system store.  It's natural that I
want to explain how to do this sort of thing, just as it is
natural that you want to make people believe that doing so is
dangerous / impossible / against the law / whatever.

I would suggest though that you stick to facts.  Try not to make
up stories or at least try to use ones that aren't so silly.  It
doesn't make you sound knowledgeable when you try to associate
lumber shortages in WWII with construction issues in homes that
were built a generation *before* WWII.  It just sounds like
you're trying *very* hard to prove an unprovable argument, to
wit, that there's some sort of "art" to installing alarms.  There
isn't.

This isn't rocket science.  It's not a profession like medicine
or engineering.  It's a blue collar trade requiring little or no
education.  Your tirade above only serves to prove the point.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

Bass Burglar Alarms
The Online DIY Store
http://www.BassBurglarAlarms.com