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The "throw away" mentality
More and more, we live in this kind of world, where everything looks like to have gone out of factory just to be discarded at the first opportunity. A few weeks ago, my DVD player, which is a very good player, a Panasonic that I bought in 2004, when these devices were still kind of expensive, appeared with a little problem. The plug was becoming extremely hot with just a couple of hours of use. I took the DVD player to be examined by an authorized Panasonic tech. When my mother new of this, she said: "Why don't you just throw it away, after all DVD players are just so cheap, you can buy a new one." I was shocked to hear this. I went to the repair shop anyway. As it turns out, it was just a bad plug, the replacement plug and cord cost me only US$ 4,00.
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