They disabled the automatic general alarm for when the sensor acted up.
Meaning they still got the warning and could investigate before manually raising the general alarm.
That's as such no problem because a good nights rest for the off shift is also a form of safety. The problem is that the sensors were hooked up to an unreliable system and that's why they got too many false alarms.
Although I somewhat concur with your feeling I still see evidence the existing regulatory sytem did not work.
At the same time I know BP or anyone else in the industry never wanted such an incident to occur and yet it did.
As someone knowing the industry well I'd say one of the worst things we have been exposed to over the last 20 odd years are the 'managers' that did not originate in the field but came from various expensive schools.
Basically the oil industry is now managed by a bunch of accountants that have only one guidance, the monthly and quarterly results.
An incident like the present will be felt on the scale of many years and that's something these 'managers' have no concept of.
Besides, they'd never be more than 2 years in the same position anyway.
BP's safety procedures are based on industry standards, which were so good that there had never been a spill in the 40 years prior to the BP spill. 40 years without incident, think about that.
I can see you have nothing to do with the oilfield.
A whole industry exists around well blowout control, just google for wild well control.
Then think a few moments about the fact most of these companies are based in the USofA even though there are much bigger oil producer in the world.
There is a reason the international oil field sees their US colleagues as a bunch of cowboys! And when you combine these cowboys (Amoco) with the pea counters (BP) you get problems like in the Gulf.
a technique with wind/hydro will work anywhere near the coastlines given enough gradient, that's why it doesn't work in the Netherlands
Not quite true, the amount of (stored) energy is a simple function of Mass and Height or Volume and Height.
By lack of height it is possible to spread the volume over a larger surface area, the system is named 'Plan Lievense' after the engineer that proposed it in 1981.
It would involve a large area of water inside a ring dam with a height difference of around 25 meters.
An alternative is to use the deep (between 500 and 1000 meters) abandoned coal mines in the south of the country.
And that's sums up a good reason to pay the initial investment from the public coffers, that way everyone is equally burdened.
So many years after the introduction of internet to the general population it should be evident it's part of a necessary infrastructure, comparable to running water, roads and power.
I work in the oil industryfor over thirthy years and can tell you first hand how education is treated as just another expense to be avoided.
Outside of the US to be in charge of a platform/project you need something called the IWCF certificate (international Well Control Forum).
15 or even 10 years ago it started with an in-depth course explaining the various pitfalls of well control (that what BP/Trans Ocean didn't do) and it was concluded with a serious exam.
Last couple of times, the certificate is valid for 2 years, the course consisted of a bunch of old exams to give you a good idea what kind of questions to expect during the exam.
There is a different standard for government jobs.
When communicating with their servants the government has to be very careful to declare certain political viewpoints controversial.
Before you know you could have a whole department having a particular political leaning, like in the old Soviet block you had to be a member of the party to get on.
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I like the looks of the new interface, but am rather concerned it might put people off by being too different from Windows.
You seem to imply Linux is or should be a follower, I'd rather see Linux as a leader.
That's not to say Linux should ditch good ideas even from Microsoft.
To come back on topic, Gnome's problem has always been it's lack of integration and I doubt they can on that front catch up with KDE.
They disabled the automatic general alarm for when the sensor acted up.
Meaning they still got the warning and could investigate before manually raising the general alarm.
That's as such no problem because a good nights rest for the off shift is also a form of safety.
The problem is that the sensors were hooked up to an unreliable system and that's why they got too many false alarms.
At the same time I know BP or anyone else in the industry never wanted such an incident to occur and yet it did.
As someone knowing the industry well I'd say one of the worst things we have been exposed to over the last 20 odd years are the 'managers' that did not originate in the field but came from various expensive schools.
Basically the oil industry is now managed by a bunch of accountants that have only one guidance, the monthly and quarterly results.
An incident like the present will be felt on the scale of many years and that's something these 'managers' have no concept of.
Besides, they'd never be more than 2 years in the same position anyway.
BP's safety procedures are based on industry standards, which were so good that there had never been a spill in the 40 years prior to the BP spill. 40 years without incident, think about that.
I can see you have nothing to do with the oilfield.
A whole industry exists around well blowout control, just google for wild well control.
Then think a few moments about the fact most of these companies are based in the USofA even though there are much bigger oil producer in the world.
There is a reason the international oil field sees their US colleagues as a bunch of cowboys!
And when you combine these cowboys (Amoco) with the pea counters (BP) you get problems like in the Gulf.
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In the oilpatch?
Ah yes, that explains a lot :)
it's not like BP submitted these in court to prove that they were trying their bestest to stem the leak.
It's called the court of Public Opinion and it's unforgiving.
a technique with wind/hydro will work anywhere near the coastlines given enough gradient, that's why it doesn't work in the Netherlands
Not quite true, the amount of (stored) energy is a simple function of Mass and Height or Volume and Height.
By lack of height it is possible to spread the volume over a larger surface area, the system is named 'Plan Lievense' after the engineer that proposed it in 1981.
It would involve a large area of water inside a ring dam with a height difference of around 25 meters.
An alternative is to use the deep (between 500 and 1000 meters) abandoned coal mines in the south of the country.
Indeed, HVDC is what is run between Holland and Norway
But almost everybody has at least one "windows only" program they must run.
Which is totally irrelevant to new computer users.
And even for those that 'think' they have such a program there usually is a sufficiently similar alternative.
So many years after the introduction of internet to the general population it should be evident it's part of a necessary infrastructure, comparable to running water, roads and power.
No real difference between plants and animals.
The RTVNoord article used the Dutch colloquial pieper for the more common aardappel and Google translated it to squeaker.
I do wonder if one still has to put salt on ones potatoes when they are grown in salt water.
Do you put salt on your fish?
Every kid knows the first eggs were put out by the Easter Bunny.
Miles is another one.
The next one up is usually astronomical units (Sun-Earth distance) or even light years.
Mega or Giga meters are just like Mega or Giga miles unknown.
I work in the oil industryfor over thirthy years and can tell you first hand how education is treated as just another expense to be avoided.
Outside of the US to be in charge of a platform/project you need something called the IWCF certificate (international Well Control Forum).
15 or even 10 years ago it started with an in-depth course explaining the various pitfalls of well control (that what BP/Trans Ocean didn't do) and it was concluded with a serious exam.
Last couple of times, the certificate is valid for 2 years, the course consisted of a bunch of old exams to give you a good idea what kind of questions to expect during the exam.
We see the results in the Gulf.
b.t.w, how's your Dutch?
Yeah, for example judging by the comments on lot's of forums you are spot on.
However interesting your story is, people in situations like yours hardly make a dent in the average for the whole USofA.
Exactly, that's why copponex starts with describing 70-80% of the US population is living in or near a metropolitan area.
Except for the difference in specification of what is broadband.
In this country the vast majority of FM listeners is in their car, at home we have cable, internet or DVB-T, all better than DAB.
Regretfully DVB-T reception is rather difficult in a moving vehicle so we'll stick with FM.
It does all you can expect from a small screen and it does it well.
I'm very interested in what Meego will have to offer above the present Maemo.
The idea of rpm vs. deb is not really appealing to me.
When communicating with their servants the government has to be very careful to declare certain political viewpoints controversial.
Before you know you could have a whole department having a particular political leaning, like in the old Soviet block you had to be a member of the party to get on.
Not exactly democratic!