Minor disaster

[gene heskett]

On 5/19/25 08:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 5/19/25 7:57 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> MR ZenWiz writes:
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>>> Turns out it was a dead SSD - / or /home (TG), but it's huge one that
>>> might just be under warranty;\\SOLVED, thanks all.
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>> Ah, yes, of course. The latest advancements in modern technology: 
>> hardware with a built-in suicide clock.
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> No different from the US auto industry in the late '70s.
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> I *SAW* GM engines in their dynometer test building with blown rods, 
> cracked heads, etc.  No engine may last longer than 50,000 mi. Failure 
> was built-in BY design.  I can also talk about what I was told was 
> happening at Ford and Chrysler at the time.  BTW, I was at AMC then; 
> they had their fail features.
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> Of course the CJ-6 windshield in your lap after driving faster than 
> 65MPH was a system integration tolerance-limits fault; really quite 
> "cute", pass the warranty claim risk around.  CJ-6 rollover was just 
> plain use-beyond-design limits.  Drive at X speed, turn at Y radius: 
> rollover.   Who would have thunk people would want to do that? 
> Inherited from the CJ-5; Reagan never drove his dirty old Jeep like that.
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> Thank you Toyota for forcing change.
Their hands aren't squeaky clean either. I bought my now passed missus 
an early RAV4. First time in for a bag recall they wanted to put a new 
$400 water pump in it, claimed it was leaking.. I refused, nearly 10 
years later and her passing from COPD, I sold it to her niece up in NY 
State for about book, 175k miles on it then,  only 1 quart of makeup 
antifreeze ever needed, now has around 300k on it, same OEM water pump.
> Computer industry is just following hallowed traditions.
Yup...
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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