"Smart" Meters made them sick

[trader4]

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Yeah, free markets can be ugly at times. But the good thing is that places like Detroit are the exception in the USA. For a more uniform equivalent of places like Detroit, you need to look at places you worship, like the former USSR and Cuba. And what even the poor in Detroit have today would stun anyone from those communist hell holes.

Capitalism isn't perfect, but it's a whole lot better than the other alternatives. That's another thing about the libs and kooks. They see ANY imperfection, anything that is wrong with anything and think that more liberal ideas, more govt, more taxes is somehow going to result in a better solution. Almost always, it does not.

The lie repeated. It was not a handout. Of the $700mil TARP money, all but about $70bil has been paid back with interest. And the govt also got major equity positions in companies like GM. They have been selling off that stock at at PROFIT. In fact, the govt will likely come close to breaking even and could have a profit overall. That is no handout.

[trader4]

How do you know the failure was specifically from microcode?

[clare]

I remember those abortions as well - and have forever deleted the name from my memory. About half the price of it's next competition, and about (being really optimistic hear) 1/10 the quality. Made by Tata perhaps??? The first "nano-drive"

[krw]

I won't live to be 10000 years old, dumbass. There will be replacements by then (there already are but you lefties don't care).

harry, we all know you're an idiot. You can turn off the beacon on your head now.

[krw]

Of course. It's not about pollution at all. It's about control. harry likes to be controlled. Some people (lefties) don't have the brains to live on their own.

[clare]

Personally I don't careHOW good the WARRANTY is - it is the quality of the drive that matters. The cost to the customer of restoring even a good backup is generally higher than the cost of the drive - and if there is any problem with the restore - - - .Or if the backup is a couple days old and data is lost- - - - -.

I'd rather have a drive (or just about anything else) that has a reputation for long life and high quality with no warranty than a piece of crap with a 15 year warranty with no-questions asked next day replacement.

Lifetime warranty car batteries that get replaced every 2 years are a pet peeve of mine - along with "lifetime" mufflers that last a year and a half - and you end up paying to replace all the pipes every second time, as well as the labour. Much rather head off to the local custom bender and have a custom bent stainless system installed for less than the price of OEM, just slightly more than aftermarket jobber parts, and have it last 15 years.

[krw]

OTOH, can you imagine a better use for the Los Angeles basin?

Speaking of "Global Warming"!

Everyone in California is living in the dark now.

[clare]

In 20 some years as a computer tech I haven't seen it. I've seen the drives rendered unreadable, or unbootable, but not un-restorable. Not saying it CAN.T happen - but I've never seen it or heard of it being substantiated. 5 years of that with what at that time was the largest distributor of hard drives in Canada.

[clare]

Norton IS a virus!!!

[Frank]

Government subsidies, by definition, mean not cost effective.

[The Daring Dufas]

Throw a cow carcass into an alligator pit and admonish the gators when they don't politely share the bounty. That's the current moronic method promoted by the administration which has handled the reins of government investment in business so adroitly. O_o

TDD

[Stormin Mormon]

I gave the drives to two computer repair people. Both said they could do nothing with the drives. If you want more information than that, the "more information" is totally not available.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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Let's be clear, was the drive destroyed or just the data on the drive? (more likely the data was just made unavailable by wiping out the partition table)

[Stormin Mormon]

I instructed tech #2 to put the drives in the trash can. So, you'll have to just wonder about it, and keep yourself awake all night, pacing the floor.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

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In 20 some years as a computer tech I haven't seen it. I've seen the drives rendered unreadable, or unbootable, but not un-restorable. Not saying it CAN.T happen - but I've never seen it or heard of it being substantiated. 5 years of that with what at that time was the largest distributor of hard drives in Canada.

[The Daring Dufas]

The memory of those things is like the memory of the time I wet my pants in the second grade. You want such a memory to be dim and distant. ^_^

TDD

[harry]

m...

So were these evil people democrats or republicans?

[harry]

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And the ones Bush bailed out?

[harry]

Well as you seem so ignorant on the topic read here.

[harry]

True. But that is not the same as undesireable.

Is the US army cost effective?

[trader4]

m...

It's been explained to you about 3 times now that the Bush bailout was in the form of LOANS. Of the $700bil authorized, most of it was actually handed out by Obama, not Bush. Bush handed out some in the final months before he left. And it was a combination of LOANS and EQUITY positions in the companies that formed TARP. LAst time I checked, only about $75bil was considered still at risk. ALL the bank loans for example have been paid back with interest. The govt has sold off some stock in GM. When it's all over, the govt will have lost little or may even have a profit.

But you libs like to lie, lie, lie. Another tactic with regard to the above is to add that $700bil to the 2008 deficit, pretending it was SPENT. It was *not* spent. Then the libs take that one year huge deficit and use it as a basis, saying that well, now the deficit is just $1tril, so Obama and the libs are bringing it down. Look how thrifty we are!

Now, let's compare TARP, created under Bush to Obama's $800bil stimulus. TARP we have all but $75bil recovered. How much of Obama's $800bil that was gonna create millions of new jobs do we have back? Answer: none, because it was never intended to be paid back.

PS: We don't have the jobs either.

[gfretwell]

Both

The democrats (Clinton) deregulated Wall Street, loosened lending requirements and encouraged huge equity borrowing. The republicans watched it go nuts, enjoying the recovery from the dot bomb recession in 2000.