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minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 months agoIf there was a chance of recovering a hard drive worth around $750mil, you bet your ass I’d exhaust every option possible. That said, there’s a pretty good chance the landfill owner and all their employees have been ransacking that place to beat him to it. I mean, that’s the kind of money you and your entire family for generations don’t have to do shit.
minus-squareArbiter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI mean, there’s a chance you can win big at casinos too.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months ago That said, there’s a pretty good chance the landfill owner and all their employees have been ransacking that place to beat him to it. They aren’t because, as I said, they can’t do it. And even if they found it, they couldn’t keep it. And the landfill owner is the local government.
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThat’s assuming they’re following the letter of the law. If I worked there and happened upon that drive, and it turned out to be viable, I’d disappear very quickly.
If there was a chance of recovering a hard drive worth around $750mil, you bet your ass I’d exhaust every option possible.
That said, there’s a pretty good chance the landfill owner and all their employees have been ransacking that place to beat him to it.
I mean, that’s the kind of money you and your entire family for generations don’t have to do shit.
I mean, there’s a chance you can win big at casinos too.
They aren’t because, as I said, they can’t do it. And even if they found it, they couldn’t keep it.
And the landfill owner is the local government.
That’s assuming they’re following the letter of the law. If I worked there and happened upon that drive, and it turned out to be viable, I’d disappear very quickly.