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Failure Is Always an Option

Logic Bomb writes "The New York Times has a short but elegant op-ed regarding the different perspectives of engineers and managers and the role that plays in accidents like the space shuttle Columbia disaster. It's the sort of article you'll nod all the way through, then print and leave anonymously on your supervisor's desk. Any tech managers in the Slashdot crowd might have some interesting comments on how the right balance is struck." Henry Petroski has written several good books on engineering and failure.

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  1. 3rd Post! by toiletsalmon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Till the world blows up!

  2. Thinking about the report, NASA by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NASA is in for a lot of trouble still.
    The report basically said that NASA needed to change as does the government's current perception. The changes needed was that basically saftey needed to be job #1
    Yet, the commision decided to place the report on MS even after having taken a huge hit in the net.
    routghly what that said was the the committee itself was kind of worthless. If they are not capable of decent logic,

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  3. I'VE FAILED TO REMOVE THE YODA DOLL FROM MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX!1!

  4. morons assure US that failure is NOT an option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    when opposing corepirate nazis/unprecedented evile/the walking dead.

    that's right. you/we cannot afford the badtoll that lies ahead, should the greed/fear based georgewellian fuddite execrable fail to be neutralized.

    that's right. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...

    truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.

    the recipe is:

    consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. more breathing. seek others of non-agressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit.

    use key words/indexing to identify yourself/your products.

    the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the power that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.

    as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.

    EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your .asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.

    we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any other pretense is totally false.

    pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about yOUR motives.

    take care, we're here for you.

    as for va lairIE/robbIE et AL, & their disgusting need to suck up to their corepirate nazi sponsors buy use of manipulation/censorship. they are their owned reward eye gas.

  5. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That joke never has been and never will be funny. Stop posting it.

  6. HAVE YOU SEEN THE YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go GNU/Linux!!!

    1. Re:HAVE YOU SEEN THE YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS? by Talia+Starhawke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      GNU is not Linux. :P

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  7. I CAN FEEL THE YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LUNIX!11

  8. THE YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS IS TICKLING ME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINOOKS!!!

  9. THERE'S A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY BUTT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX!!!1

  10. THE YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS IS ALL POINTY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX1!!

  11. Not enough astronauts are dying. by Russ+Nelson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not enough astronauts are dying. Fully one-quarter of the people who make it to the top of Everest die. The fact that astronauts don't says that we're not making space travel cheap enough. More at my blog

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  12. THE GREASED UP YODA DOLL UP MY ASS IS TALKING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GO LINUX!1!1

  13. Re:THERES A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by DrMrLordX · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You, sir/madame, are one of the reasons why I browse at -1. Bravo.

  14. Re:THERES A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, those ears must hurt! That's why I use Darth Vader.

    Man, I love the black helmet!