On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:51:38 GMT, "Gary H"
wrote:

How long do you want it to last? My Kenmore (Whirlpool) is used a lot and
still going fine after several years. I'm not ready for it to die yet but
eventually it would be nice to replace it with a newer fancier model so if
it goes it goes.
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/rant mode on

Why should I have to keep buying the same things over and over?

Washing Machines, Cars, Computers, etc.

Just upgraded the operating system on my main computer so I could
run a 250 gig USB drive and now half of my software and
peripherials such as the scanner won't work -- contact the
manufacturer and get the old so sorry no support for old machine
on new O/S but we give discount on new scanner.

Americans are being played for suckers. Reread "the Waste
makers" by Packard" see
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067...lance&n=283155

also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

/ran mode off


Unka George
(George McDuffee)

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy
which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;
even a democrat like myself must admit this.

But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy,
for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch,"
but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Letter, 15 Nov. 1913.