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Topic "Obsolescence" was discussed 3,481 times on 1,015 sites in last 3 months
General Motors instituted "planned... General Motors instituted "planned obsolescence" so your new car would fall apart after a few years and it has come back to bite them. 4:30 AM Jun 1st from web
The unification of N and S Korea has Nippon very nervous...The unification of N and S Korea has Nippon very nervous along with China; making huge contracts for the Naval arm of MIC military industrialized complex. Fret not; for we only sell planned obsolescence with a very calculated recipe of destabilization
Started 2 days, 3 hours ago (2009-11-12 21:56:00)
by dawsona
I am making a provision for stock obsolescence based on last movement date of a material number which can exist in up to 35 separate plants. (Doing this for a number of legal entities) What I will have is a list of material numbers down the page (too many for columns in Excel 2000) and will use a lookup to each plant (on a separate page as their are too many rows to merge into ...
Started 1 day, 15 hours ago (2009-11-13 09:31:00)
by TE
Quote: Originally Posted by Patrick Just FYI, you may want to do a little more research before getting the GTX 295. It is a dual GPU card -- some games/apps won't be impressive, and may even perform worse than two GTX 280s in SLI. thanks for the info.
Started 4 days, 3 hours ago (2009-11-10 21:22:00)
by midwestjeff
Apparently Pioneer only makes a certain number of each type of unit and then stops production. This means that I get a refurbished XMP3 to replace my broken one. Plus, the warranty isn't updated on the replacement so when it breaks in 6 months I am forced to buy a new one. I know, no one cares. Fuck off.
Started 4 days, 15 hours ago (2009-11-10 09:43:00)
by beac
Why sell you one great, long-lasting thing when they can sell you dozens of cheap, temporary things? Such bad customer service and SO bad for the planet too.
Started 1 day, 14 hours ago (2009-11-13 10:59:00)
by Doug Brott
Quote: Originally Posted by bobcamp1 OK -- I meant to say "loud" and not just "noise". But these results are skewed if people say "I don't think it's loud but I have it in an cabinet all the time. So I voted no." Plus, the sudden increase in activity doesn't happen all the time. So opening the door for five seconds and listening...
Started 3 days, 2 hours ago (2009-11-11 22:10:00)
by pkcrafter
It looked like we were making some progress in this thread, but now it seems to have died. The number of posters who made comments is very small and that says something in itself. Quote: Now in truth, the small staff of regular wiki administrators and editors tend to have their hands full with cleaning up the wiki, ferreting out typos and bad links, dealing with ...
Started 2 days, 1 hour ago (2009-11-12 23:05:00)
by Luke
Quote: Originally Posted by Ryan09 GM put a "Life span" on their auto parts so that they would wear out after a certain amount of cycles the said part was used/operated. That way the part would just start malfunctioning/stop working so the vehicle owner would have the "said" automotive part replaced by them selves or the dealer to ...
Started 4 days, 23 hours ago (2009-11-10 01:34:00)
by AngryBeaver
Quote: Originally Posted by SirRobin Well that's the thing you see... Thanks to Reagan, the Bushies, and even Clinton to a degree, organized labor in this country has been mostly neutered. This meant that when the latest self inflicted economic disaster occurred... The American workforce is very much in a "every man for...
Started 5 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-09 14:53:00)
by The Medway Handyman
The Night Tripper wrote: Hi all as the title says really. I'm likely to be buying my first cordless power tool in the next few weeks. Likely to be a Combi Drill as part of my 'boarding the attic' project, but obviously it will be used in future for other jobs around the place. I'm aware of the differences in characteristics between Nicad, NiMH and Li-ion, but I'm wondering more ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-07 07:39:00)
by Fox Terrier
Quote: Originally Posted by Chango Are you typing this while wearing a starfleet uniform? Because that's what you sound like WTF? You mean: "Ha, look at that stupid kid that lives in a little old house, excercises regularly and recycles stuff instead of SMART people like me in my grand mcmansion with a donut in ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-06 06:35:00)
by Co-Death Panel Democrat
Quote: Originally Posted by hardcorpsII its possible that the environmental impact of disposing of the clunker F150s is greater than carbon offset of increasing the mpg by 1-3. no shit considering how much water alone is expended in the manufacture of a single automobile and they're deliberately ...
