"Robert Baer" wrote in message
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| Ages ago (20 years+) when i worked in the calibration lab at Ford Aero
| Space, we got about 20 brand new Fluke DVMs (small bench models) to
| calibrate.
| *All* of them were an order of magnitude !better! than the specs.
| Six months later, we found that they still were that good.
| Too bad the government contracts demanded a worst case 6 month cal
| cycle; these were so good that a 2 year cycle (or "never") would be good
| enough.

Government policy: "If it ain't broke, go ahead and fix it"?

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