Guess you have to PC about your PC or a PC will comeround and not be PC
about taking your PC
LOL
( politically correct, personal computer, police constible, politically
correct, personal computer )
"M.I.5¾" wrote in message
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> "Alex Heney" wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 6 May 2008 11:04:30 +0100, "M.I.5¾"
>> wrote:
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>>>"Alex Heney" wrote in message
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>>>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 16:36:03 +0100, Sunny Side Up
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>Mikey wrote:
>>>>>> Just wondered if bailiffs can take someone's personal computer, which
>>>>>> may
>>>>>> hold banking details, private information.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If they can, who would be responsible if fraud was carried out as a
>>>>>> result.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mk
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>No, It would almost certainly come under tools of trade.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Absolute and utter bollocks.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you missed the "personal computer" but?
>>>>
>>>> That means "not a business computer".
>>>>
>>>
>>>Now you are scraping the barrel.
>>>
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>> Rubbish.
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>>>The term 'Personal Computer' refers to the type of computer that is self
>>>contained and capable of sitting on a desk, be it a home desk or a
>>>business
>>>desk. Sitting at my employers's desk right now, I have 2 personal
>>>computers
>>>on the desk.
>>>
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>> While that is indeed the expansion of the more common "PC", it almost
>> unheard of nowadays for a computer to be referred to as a "personal
>> computer" unless it is in the sense of belonging to the person.
>>
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> They are generically and universally refered to as a 'PC' which stands for
> 'personal computer'.
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