Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

On 5/25/2024 7:54 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

On 25/05/2024 23:07, Scott Dorsey wrote:

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Thu, 23 May 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
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The East Asian Technotrash I found in various categories on Amazon
were mostly from mainland China. But I won't say it all is, because
this is a game anyone can play.
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You mean technotrash that exists in every major data center on the planet?
Or are you talking cheap toys?

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In terms of the trash in datacenters, the basic philosophy among the IT
people is that it doesn't matter if equipment is built well or not beause
it will be replaced in three years anyway due to technological change.
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This is what put guys like DEC out of business... nobody wanted to spend
money for more solidly-built machines when they were going to discard
them long before their expected end of life.
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Never dealt with Japan, have you?
 I'm supporting systems there that will *not* be replaced unless and until they collapse into a pile of rust.
 Then there'll be a massive panic, because, of course, no-one is planning on how to replace them - and yes, that has been pointed out to them, and yes, I got into trouble.
 

Do they have as part of the specs for bids "must survive atomic bombing and Godzilla attacks"?  :)
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