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Re:A quarter of Alabamians live in homes without internet ac... by thebooktocome on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:29AM (#21898769)
PG&E's problems are due to a change in liability laws combined with decades of poor maintenance.

A non-profit government-run utility wouldn't have a profit incentive to skimp on equipment maintenance for decades. It would have other, more interesting problems.

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Re:A quarter of Alabamians live in homes without internet ac... by huffmsa on Saturday December 28, 2019 @08:58AM (#21898914)
The US military skips on maintenance all the damn time.

They were running bootleg copies of Windows as recently as 2015 because they don't have the resources or incentives to upgrade.

Every office of the executive executive branch is in theory non/not-for-profit but they still manage to waste as much money if not more than a comparable private sector firm.

Federal light and power would not go well.

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