[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[Bob Koehler]

In article <f7b5cf5d-820a-47c8-bc6f-7a3875114add at b17g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
> 
> The $800 toilet seat was a deliberately designed custom sized and
> shaped toilet seat for a deliberately and needlessly specially
> designed toilet.

   Bull.


   The $800 "toilet seat" was a one piece bulkhead, toilet seat, and walls 
   to be installed in a section of the toilet compartment.  

   Everything in aviation cost more than outside of aviation because of 
   the mandatory levels of testing and paper trails.  (If breakage or
   overweight construction of that bulkhead could contribute to the
   loss of the aircraft, the military or FAA wants to know about it. If
   not, then they want proof it can't.)

   In aviation circles, $800 for such a part is a reasonable price, even
   if you're going to make a couple thousand of them for a line of
   commercial aircraft.