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While government is not perfect, to say that it waste's all it collects is absurd and frankly doesn't exhibit much intelligence. Some of the most efficient organizations in our country are government (social security, medicare, etc) institutions. I suppose all government workers are slackers too? Come back and post when you have something well considered and worthwhile to say...

Is it really caught if you don't observe the trap? If you observe the trap and the cat is not caught, can it be not caught again? Poor cat, I knew & didn't know it well...

Naw, they found that the thing would look for a long time before making a decision but they used the wrong form of the word (stare)...

It depends on your definition of complex system. Is it any system wherein linearity no longer holds true or is a predictive facet that defines a system or function as complex? I've always found it advantageous to not rush to judgment.

You're wrong. They are police officers, not geeks. In order to follow procedures such as what you suggest would take numerous police officers off the streets due to budget conflicts. They had reasonable expectations that the stuff was supposed to work. And it usually does. My biggest problem with their procedure was that there was absolutely no second source. They should have centralized storage as well as dvd's for the files.

Yeah, like who would they get to play Indy since Harrison Ford would be way too old?

I agree regarding government. I couldn't get DSL service through my local phone service provider (I'm definitely rural in Pennsylvania) so I tried a third party. They're using the phone service providers equipment and my DSL works fine (for 2 1/2yrs). Just for grins, I thought I'd try my phone provider again last month to see if maybe I could get a price break. Guess what, they still don't offer DSL to my phone number / address. I don't get it?

I agree completely with buying in the sweet spot. However, I have (& have had) enough drives in play to say without any question that WD's fail more frequently and more catastrophically than any other brand. I personally liked Maxtor but I believe they've been bought out by Seagate, which is not that bad. Seagate customer service is much easier and faster to deal with when there is a problem.

WD has always wanted the end user to download a diagnostic program and then supply the results prior to issuing an RMA. I still remember the first drive I had that died and not only could I not download the software, but the drive was not even being acknowledged in the CMOS. The guy made me setup the drive as a slave and run the diagnostics (which would not recognize the existence of the drive) before issuing an RMA.

On future drive issues, I was able to solve this problem by telling the customer service rep that the drive has flames issuing from its case and please excuse me for a moment while I extinguish them. Only then would they issue an RMA without running the diagnostics...

Well, I've read everything you cited and am not sure what you're getting at. I certainly didn't find anything damning and in fact the secrets website contained much information that was a testament to his record.