![]() 120W Multi-Pin AC Adapter for HP Pavilion zv6000 & Compaq Presario R4000 (EA3... $25.50 Wow, where do I start. Good thing one: The product came in good time and worked. Problem one: it lasted only three months. It just quit working, led indicator light not lit, no power to my laptop. The previous one lasted two years. Ok, just a fluke so lets call HP Customer Care. This is where hell begins. Long story short: Problem two: the customer care nighmare begins. Called 1-800-India. Navigated the pushbutton maze and got a person in Inia. Spoke good enough english but Problem three: the line connection was terrible and I had to shout. Problem four: got disconnected. Recalled, pushbutton maze navigated, got person and repeated my story. Got a little further this time. Problem five: was transferred and put on hold for half an hour. Problem six: got diconnected. Problem seven, eight, nine and ten: repeat problem four. Got even further. Problem eleven: got disconected. Ok, time to go to bed will try tomorrow. Problem twelve: see all previous problems. Day three: Problem thirteen: stuck in customer hell... its a freakin tar baby. Finally ... got a guy who said "ok, we have all the data we need. You do not have to do anything further and we will send you a new replacemant power supply in two days." Imagine my joy. But, Problem fourteen: got an email asking for more info. I sent it. Guess what,they replied to my email with a request for the same info that I just sent. Its like they did not even read what I sent. I finally got mad. So they said they would "escalate" if I called them. Their system should be called "customer hell". Three days, over six hours in customer HELL. ![]() 4 Ton Hydraulic Porta Power $98.07 PLEASE SELECT AN OPTION NOTE #1 : This item may receive some damages during shipping. If you decline the EXTRA PACKAGING option For $10.00, we will not cover for any replacement or cost of the Porta Power damaged. Contents: - Hydraulic Pump - Jack Hose - 4 Ton Ram - Spreader Ram - Extension Tubes - Male Connetor - Flat Base - Wedge Head - Spreader Plunger Toe - Spreader Ram Toe - Flex Rubber Head - Serrated Saddle - Blow-Molded Case Weight: 47 Lbs Updated on 7/7/2005 ![]() Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism $35.95 I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles. Thus we meet Ella, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is it a mental disorder, as some would claim, or a matter of sexual identity? An orientation or a life choice? Despite differing opinions, transgenderism has lost much of its stigma over the past decade or so ? though perhaps none of its shock value. Nevertheless, the door is open for a reformulation of the hysterical question, Am I a man or a woman? Utilizing rich clinical vignettes and elements of Lacanian theory, Patricia Gherovici demonstrates how the transgender discourse has both reoriented psychoanalytic practice and reframed debates about gender in American society at large. She traverses historical, theoretical, and clinical grounds to explore what has been termed the democratizing of gender ? for what could be more democratic than the choice of one”Ēs own gender, now able to be changed on demand? Arguing for the depathologization of transgenderism, Please Select Your Gender aims to revise current notions of human sexuality in general. In doing so, it challenges the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with questions typically addressed only indirectly, but which are themselves transforming how analysis is done, advancing new ideas for the clinic that can be extrapolated to social and intellectual contexts in an effort to engage the broader dialogues of gender and sexuality. |
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