On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:09:05 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

big snip
...this ain't Rocket Science, its a way to make a
cheap product with a guaranteed short lifespan....(I think its called
Stress Engineering...)

I've always heard it called "planned obsolescence".

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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