From: bretcahill@aol.com   
      
   The Texas grid isn't really like a consumer product. To even get paid you need   
   to deal with politicians, bureaucrats and regulators during a massive decades   
   long outbreak of Libertaria where no one is accountable for anything.  Yet the   
   high tech gas    
   turbines didn't fail.  The problem was merely a lack of low tech insulation   
   and space heaters.   
      
   Same as the OP issue.   
      
   A study of the World Trade Center collapse said it would have survived the   
   attack with the right joints and insulation.   
      
   The major difference: not so many lives depend on a consumer item and it can   
   still be made to work.   
      
   "Humility can make you rich."   
      
   -- Buffet   
      
   "The heart of the earth is of gold."   
      
   -- Nietzsche   
      
      
      
      
   > At first you wonder how they got the difficult part correct and screwed up   
   the easy part. The parts that fall apart aren't really necessary so you can   
   still use the thing. Often it is better stripped of the unnecessary junk.    
   >    
   > So why are only the frivolous extras breaking?    
   >    
   > This is easy to explain.    
   >    
   > They put the bright people on the essential difficult part and the less   
   competent people on the less necessary easy parts.    
   >    
   > And the incompetent people don't even get the easy part right.    
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   > Bret Cahill   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)