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Well, everybody knows a phool and his money are soon parted. :-)

(What I wonder is, if they're so dumb, how did they get all of that money in the first place?)

Cheers! Rich

One caller to tech support was from South Africa (of Dutch descent) if that answers your question. Not to say that the Dutch are dumb. Of course they are not. But when earning enough money to satisfy your Maslow needs is optional...

He was having trouble moving his files from one computer to another on LAN in his home, and when the tech could not resolve the issue, he got frustrated, went to dinner, called back to the sales dept of computer manufacturer, and within 30 minutes, was close to spending $5000 on a new machine.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

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Well, sure..they should have a lot of things available. But because aircraft manufacturers understand what buyer is willing to pay for a feature, and charges accordingly, and at some point, the buyer has to decline.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

"I am sorry, due the request from Airbus S.A.S., the requested page has been made temporarily disabled"

Too bad. On the other hand, I believe the photos of the 787 body section fit FUBAR are still floating around on a blog somewhere.

I remember back when Boeing used to have their own people working on the shop floor and they managed to keep this kind of stuff under control.

I rarely if ever have to call tech support. But my Belkin wireless=20 router gave me no end of headaches. It's now in the trash can where it=20 belongs.=20

Oh so they have ended with builtin spam servers in their boxes? :-)

I dault that pilots cause sudden decompression. Ground service personnel might cause this due bad maintaince practices. Like for Japan airlines flight 123:

"repair performed by Boeing was flawed. Boeing's procedures called for a doubler plate with two rows of rivets to cover up the damaged bulkhead, but the engineers fixing the aircraft used two doubler plates with only one row of rivets. This reduced the part's resistance to metal fatigue by 70%."

No amount of computer control in flight would have prevented this.

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You mean all those times the crew of the Starship Enterprise programmed the computer to increase hull integrity weren't real?

:)

bit OT but

martin