[ExI] blue screen = hard disk crash?

[spike]

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From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of BillK
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>...Do you really think that the IRS wouldn't be able to find email
documentation from years ago if they needed it to support a court case they
were engaged in?...No IT techie believes a word of it...BillK
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Ja.  They can offer a perfectly transparent dog-ate-my-homework absurd lame
excuse, but the point is there are no serious legal consequences.  If they
destroy the records and take the fifth, the worst that can happen is they
are held in contempt of congress.  So how is that a punishment for a retired
bureaucrat?  That's actually a reward in a sense.  Reasoning: she still gets
her generous pension, and the citation of contempt increases the value of
her memoirs.  She can make a pile of money writing about how the IRS pulled
off the whole caper, print it in hardcopy and sell a jillion of them.  That
contempt of congress citation carries no prison term, no fines, nothing.
Our Attorney General was held in contempt of congress.  Nothing happened.
It's a joke.

spike