"Morris Dovey" wrote ...

On 5/5/2010 8:15 AM, Jack Stein wrote:

Yeah, I can see them using a faulty shut off valve to save some money on
a multi-BILLION $ oil platform. We are talking private business, not
government. Only government would knowingly do something so stupid.

Ford Pinto, Lockheed Electra, exploding laptop batteries, Chinese
drywall,...

...and just for giggles, I did searches on 'design defects' and got
3,480,000 web hits and 2,110,000 image hits.

Stupidity appears to be evenly distributed.

Who was it who said (paraphrased), " If you have trouble understanding the
concept of infinity, just look at human stupidity"?