>OTOH, wondering why bad things happen when you are not following recommended shutdown procedures is like wondering why it hurts when you bash your foot with a hammer.
Here's an odd one: I always close CD bays by shoving them lightly shut, not pushing the stupid little button that's hard to find with the bay open. One day, a LAN hardware fellow was around and gave me a lecture about doing that, like I was going to break it. So, "why would it close so easily by pushing, if they didn't want you to do it that way?" Fell on deaf ears...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.