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From: "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
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On 25/05/2024 23:07, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 May 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> You mean technotrash that exists in every major data center on the planet?
>> Or are you talking cheap toys?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
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.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)