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Chevron Got North Sea Contract Despite IT Safety Crashes

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-could-go-wrong dept.

DMandPenfold writes "The UK government gave Chevron the go-ahead in September to drill in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, in spite of the US oil giant's admission that its contractor's spill prediction software constantly crashed and was not a reliable predictor of how far oil could travel if an accident took place. The news comes in a week that US investigations into BP's disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill hit the buffers, after an IT contractor firm refused to hand over access to its software."

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  1. Re:Oil Money by MrQuacker · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As one prof of mine said:

    When you understand the unique chemicals and items we can synthesize out of this ancient black goop, you realize how stupid we are for simply burning it.

    That's a lot of potential plastic...

  2. You do know what Guy Fawkes was fighting for? by fantomas · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do know that Guy Fawkes was fighting to replace one monarchy with another? That his intention was not to get rid of Parliament but rather to kill Protestant Christians and replace them with Catholic Christians and maintain the political status quo (a group of rich, landed members of Parliament serving a monarch), just change England from Protestant to Catholic rule?

    I think a lot of people cheer Guy Fawkes because they think he was standing up for democracy and overthrowing tyrannical states whereas I am pretty sure the situation was that he just wanted to overthrow one religious authority with another. He wanted the same political system (monarch served by ineffectual unrepresentative MPs) just a different religious flavour.

    His goal was to replace King James the first of England (and sixth of Scotland) with his nine year old daughter princess Elizabeth.