Off Topic — HabitableZone

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Good grief.
TB — (archived)

No, it is not a "deliberate strategy." Again, where do you GET this stuff? You going to start in on HAARP pretty soon?

Consumer devices and products are made from simple modular circuits and systems and mass-produced elements because they are cheaper and more reliable. Automation makes for lower costs to both the producer and the consumer. What do you think the profit margin is for an automobile company right now? When there actually IS one?

Sure, the old-style TV could have tubes and systems replaced. The new ones can't, but they run forever. I'm only on my second TV downstairs since I moved out here two decades ago.

I don't have to grease my car, replace the hydraulic fluid, top off the battery, or do any of the dozens of routine things I used to have to do to keep my old Delta 88 running.

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