I have a Toyota now and my wife is leasing a Nissan.

When her lease is up we will consider a ford fusion hybrid or cmax hybrid. Considering the ford lineup because they stood up and worked through it without a bailout

Lets not go into the money so many of us lost in the real estate bubble collapse.

I have Honda and Hyundai vehicles now.

My parents had $100 K of their retirement nest egg in GM bonds. As part of the bailout, they were offered $225 and a threatening letter from an Obama underling promising to countersue if they decided to sue. I wouldn't have been as nice about it as my parents were. Fortunately I had decided not to renew my 10 year 8% GM bonds in 2003 when they offered me 3%.

+1

Moe, Larry, and Curly make this bunch look like members of Mensah.

Its a wound for a lot of us.

They decided to take the bailout money, and weaseled on paying it back.

I don't give three strikes.

Strike one was taking the money.
Strike two was weaseling on repayment.

I will no longer purchase, lease, rent, or any other transaction involving their products.

Period

Thanks for unknowingly re-opening an old wound - the General Motors bond fiasco. Interestingly, a headhunter contacted me today about a large number of openings at Chrysler.

I use the AdBlock plugin - available for Firefox, Chrome, and IE. It blocks most third-party and commercial ads. Makes web-browsing safer and WAY faster.

And the emphasis needs to be on criminal - literally. The Hatch Act MANDATES under penalty of federal law that companies under investigation for criminal wrong-doing actively take steps to preserve evidence.

And Government Motors Cars

They have already destroyed any faith left in the integrity of their agency, why not all of the HDs?

Sad but true...

The only such program (with planned obsolescence) I remember was the Bush tax cuts.

I think Rick Perry needs to send 1000 national guards to rescue those hard drives and stop the tyranny

When looters deal with other looters, it is unlikely to result in high quality, good value components.

I think that doubleclick has changed something in their ad server overnight and it is causing some browsers problems. (So far on this one and on http://townhall.com.)
Addendum: townhall is now working for me, but not washingtontimes.
I am happy enough not supporting sites that link to doubleclick anyway.

The destruction of all this equipment (and no doubt purging of the multiple backups any legitimate company would have on hand and off site) is criminal.

It begs the question what are they hiding?

The lunatics are truly running the asylum.

It would be nice if every government program had planned obsolescence baked in...

Why spend other people's money for this. Just write IRS on each hard drive, then line them up as target practice for the many well armed patriots out there. You would be surprised how much utter damage can be inflicted.

Actually, it's entirely possible the Feds might buy thousands of crappy hard disks. Look who they hired to build the Ovomitcare website.

It's amazing, right? The IRS must have gotten a LOT of defective hard drives. What are the odds of that? ;)

Not sure what browser you're using, but I had no issues with IE 11.

$5Au has had exactly one hard drive crash in the last 20 years. And that was not the fault of the hard drive but an incompetent IT employee.

Would have liked to read the article but the doubleclick ads stalled the site.
Guess I got the jist in the title.

Isn't planned obsolence (of hard drives) great?