Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by Ross 54
LOL! ROSS! You have a sense of humor after all! LOL!
But.....the answer is Zero....as they are not so stupid as we are to use a light bulb that puts out more heat energy than light!
Hey, it's a perfectly well engineered device once you call it a heat bulb with a built-in optical diagnostic.
Q: How many extraterrestrials does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: We don't know, we're just bioengineered clones, and we'd love to get laid just once, whether here, there, in a lightbulb or even the freaking Spice
Mines of Kessel, but nooooooo..... it's work, probe, work, probe, work, abduct a jibbering revoltingly fat American, work work, work work work until
your reptilian boss dematerializes you.
I swear.....I would really love to kill the first MBA in Marketing that came up with the idea of built in obsolescence!
I have a few toys and am constantly relacing parts that are specifically designed to either fail within a specific time frame or are designed to
benifit another mega-corp in the effect of using these toys and powering them.
I think it's more like (a) some """genius""" guts engineering and quality control and subtitutes a POS material for something which worked, (b)
failures increase, boss calls in pointy-haired-manager, (c) PHM makes crap on the spot, calling his foolishness "planned obsolesence" and produces a
spreadsheet with increased Return On Equity pseudocomputations, and gets raise.
edit on 7-12-2011 by mbkennel because: (no reason given)