[Info-vax] What is VMS?

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In article <2c173e60-a071-47b0-a5c1-4ba50e27593c at m4g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
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>Well, I may not have spoken accurately. Neither of us know enough
>about the situation to make such firm statements about it. My point is
>that without inspections things like this would happen far more often.
>You only hear about the times things go wrong. It's easy to take for
>granted that things are fine simply on their own. When something goes
>wrong, then you find out. It's not clear from what I know whether the
>gov't inspector was at fault.

Payola!  My FiL was a QC inspector for some of the companies selling to
the gov't.  Whenever he'd found issues and reported them, he was dealt 
with by a mafia-like group of thugs telling him to look the other way!
If elevator inspection is like proNJ auto inspection (where they drive
the car at 10MPH, hit the brakes and if it stops, you've passed), then
I will continue to take the stairs.



>Hey, if there were two elevators side by side, and one was regularly
>inspected and one wasn't, which would you choose?

The stairs!



>Climb stairs? What's the tallest building in your area? Many have
>health issues that prevent them from climbing stairs. The "lazy ass

I've climbed the stairs of lady Liberty and I've climbed to the top of
many a mountain.  I will take the stairs whenever there's the option.



>people" are the ones who just stand there on a down escalator.

Lazy.  I even walk on the UP escalator.  It helps to keep my pedometer
ticking.



>Hey, stairs have problems, too.

They've worked fine for thousands of years.  A well proven technology.  

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