Manufacturing in a regulated industry is a constant battle between operations an quality. Operations (with an eye toward revenue) tries to speed things up, Quality (with an eye toward recalls and audits) tries to slow things down. Both report through different paths to the CEO. The Geek in R&D will see his work checked over by a different department with a different set of metrics.
You can pick your exceptions, but the overwhelming result of this organizational method is safer and better products.
This is like an Ayn Rand novel from an engineer's point of view. Regulated industries act *nothing* like this. The people in power use that power to push out the cheapest crap that will make the most money, whether that's service or physical product. The people who assist in that activity gain the most favor in the company. The noble engineer you keep describing simply doesn't exist.
The difference between lightly regulated and heavily regulated industries is that the sociopaths in companies from heavily regulated industries are more inventive in their schemes to raise profit at the expense of the general public.
Companies are like children, amoral and selfish. They need a level of constant control to keep them from causing catastrophes.
Driverless cars will eventually eliminate most of the current carnage on the roads. Over 33,000 in 2012.
The payoff is *not* the convenience, it's reducing the chance that you will be killed or maimed on the way to your destination. Average humans are terrible automobile operators.
Some have postulated that consciousness is nothing more than an illusion....
I was just boring my wife with thoughts along those lines this evening. While every study of brain chemistry and injury point to consciousness being nothing more than chemical reactions and environment, I can't get past the puzzle that *I* have a conscious viewpoint, unique to me, and it appears that everyone else has their own. It's hard to experience that without the feeling that there's something more than the physical to consciousness, which is annoying to me, because I don't believe it. =:-o
...With regards to faulting programming: That's the song and dance of humanity. Get over it. You won't have a sole arbiter of knowledge...
You're not addressing my point. I have no problem with us doing the flawed best we can. All I was saying was that procreating is a poor substitute for actually living into the future.
Since you put the quotes around "extend your life" when you mentioned procreation, you appear to acknowledge that it doesn't really extend your life at all. That's just comforting gibberish. When you consider that you share some genes with *every* human alive, what you're really talking about is, "extend your life by taking false comfort in the idea that some humans will exist after you die who have a genetic makeup slightly more like yours than others".
Unless you actually meant "knowledge transfer" to your children, which is ludicrous. Most of what every person "knows" is just wrong, and participating in the faulty programming of replacements seems like a poor substitute for continuing to exist.
You're clearly saying that the point is about Apple's ability to manufacture in China, when this is just as clearly not about where they manufacture, but whether China will permit Apple to continue opening up the consumer market IN China.
Apple is rolling over to let the Chinese government rub their belly, because they want the cash they will get SELLING in China, not just making products there.
I see Elon Musk as a sort of Pablo Escobar, Gaining insane profits over crooked system and other's suffering, Who then tries to create a new PR image of himself as a great man. Remember, I don't think ether one is doing it for cathartic reason but instead to boost their egos through better public image hoping to secure a good spot in the history books. Just like Carnegie and Rockefeller...
You clearly don't know shit about Carnegie if you can compare Musk with that bastard.
"these days we have a corporate-like irresponsible proliferation of premarital sex"
Do you ever read what you write? Maybe you have a neighbor who can come over, preview your posts, and tell you when you should turn off the computer, lie down in a dark room for a while, and try again later.
You are mixing together so many unrelated ideas to make points that are either wrong or incomprehensible, that I honestly am concerned about your sanity.
You entangled the meaningless comparison of the gp post of life insurance for corporations vs. people with an even more meaningless comparison of life insurance to default credit swaps. You're so far off the reservation that your post is literally a waste of space.
We construct a nation of endless laws and millions of government lawyers to regulate huge oligopolies that...
Okay, hold it right there. Here, this only took a second to find: "According to the American Bar Association there are currently 1,116,967 lawyers practicing in the U.S." - from a recent posting.
So, you baldly assert that more than twice the number lawyers practicing in the U.S. work for the government. How in the world do you expect anyone to take ANYTHING you say seriously?
I think you lost the thread of the post to which you replied.
I didn't say it was a *minor* flaw. I didn't say it was a *slight* error in judgment.
I said that people are flawed, and the knee-jerk reaction of the poster I responded to, who said the agent should have been fired, was not an appropriate response.
I also didn't say she didn't deserve punishment. I think some discipline, coaching, maybe reassignment are appropriate, but not summary dismissal.
I think you didn't really read the post to which you responded.
Did you really compare a gate agent dealing with an asshole to a mass shooter? It's astounding that you think you know anything about that person by reading one article (if you did read it).
Thanks for the reveal; now I know not to take anything you say seriously.
My post really touched a nerve. First, you don't have all the facts. Second, if you think an asshole customer and a harried service person don't get into this kind of nonsense all the time, in every service industry, then you're seriously out of touch.
I manage 90+ people with what I hope is a reasonable level of compassion. Hopefully you don't manage anyone else.
I'm not going to take anything you say seriously, so feel free to keep digging, but I'm done with this nonsense. Maybe you'll get up to prison time for the gate agent in your next post.
story. Don't all of you sheep realize that stories like this are posted in this fashion just to get your panties in a bunch so that you'll post irate comments and then keep coming back for more? You're being manipulated here and you're oh so willing to take it because you just enjoy being outraged/offended..
Yes, you are correct.
But I point out that you are grazing here too, in the role of "observer too clever to take the bait, who then takes the meta-bait so he can make his observation and feel superior."
I would fall into that category too, except I preemptively offer that I'm no better than you.:-)
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Manufacturing in a regulated industry is a constant battle between operations an quality. Operations (with an eye toward revenue) tries to speed things up, Quality (with an eye toward recalls and audits) tries to slow things down. Both report through different paths to the CEO. The Geek in R&D will see his work checked over by a different department with a different set of metrics.
You can pick your exceptions, but the overwhelming result of this organizational method is safer and better products.
This is like an Ayn Rand novel from an engineer's point of view. Regulated industries act *nothing* like this. The people in power use that power to push out the cheapest crap that will make the most money, whether that's service or physical product. The people who assist in that activity gain the most favor in the company. The noble engineer you keep describing simply doesn't exist.
The difference between lightly regulated and heavily regulated industries is that the sociopaths in companies from heavily regulated industries are more inventive in their schemes to raise profit at the expense of the general public.
Companies are like children, amoral and selfish. They need a level of constant control to keep them from causing catastrophes.
Absolutely, government should get out of the way of private industry.
Remember 2008?
Driverless cars will eventually eliminate most of the current carnage on the roads. Over 33,000 in 2012.
The payoff is *not* the convenience, it's reducing the chance that you will be killed or maimed on the way to your destination. Average humans are terrible automobile operators.
It's going to happen, get used to the idea.
(I'll get off your lawn now, sir.)
...going to be just fine running over raccoons and cats, but larger animals like moose and squirrels are a different matter.
Don't worry, they'll never manage to run over that pesky moose and squirrel.
Some have postulated that consciousness is nothing more than an illusion....
I was just boring my wife with thoughts along those lines this evening. While every study of brain chemistry and injury point to consciousness being nothing more than chemical reactions and environment, I can't get past the puzzle that *I* have a conscious viewpoint, unique to me, and it appears that everyone else has their own. It's hard to experience that without the feeling that there's something more than the physical to consciousness, which is annoying to me, because I don't believe it. =:-o
...With regards to faulting programming: That's the song and dance of humanity. Get over it. You won't have a sole arbiter of knowledge...
You're not addressing my point. I have no problem with us doing the flawed best we can. All I was saying was that procreating is a poor substitute for actually living into the future.
No, just put them in a microwave. On the "frozen pizza" setting.
Don't worry about the missing whitespace. It doesn't detract from the value of your post.
Since you put the quotes around "extend your life" when you mentioned procreation, you appear to acknowledge that it doesn't really extend your life at all. That's just comforting gibberish. When you consider that you share some genes with *every* human alive, what you're really talking about is, "extend your life by taking false comfort in the idea that some humans will exist after you die who have a genetic makeup slightly more like yours than others".
Unless you actually meant "knowledge transfer" to your children, which is ludicrous. Most of what every person "knows" is just wrong, and participating in the faulty programming of replacements seems like a poor substitute for continuing to exist.
You're clearly saying that the point is about Apple's ability to manufacture in China, when this is just as clearly not about where they manufacture, but whether China will permit Apple to continue opening up the consumer market IN China.
Apple is rolling over to let the Chinese government rub their belly, because they want the cash they will get SELLING in China, not just making products there.
I see Elon Musk as a sort of Pablo Escobar, Gaining insane profits over crooked system and other's suffering, Who then tries to create a new PR image of himself as a great man. Remember, I don't think ether one is doing it for cathartic reason but instead to boost their egos through better public image hoping to secure a good spot in the history books. Just like Carnegie and Rockefeller...
You clearly don't know shit about Carnegie if you can compare Musk with that bastard.
When hyperbole is the sole content of a post, well... see my comment.
And when a ham-handed attempt at humor is the sole content of your snippy post... well again, see my comment.
Better luck next time.
"these days we have a corporate-like irresponsible proliferation of premarital sex"
Do you ever read what you write? Maybe you have a neighbor who can come over, preview your posts, and tell you when you should turn off the computer, lie down in a dark room for a while, and try again later.
You are mixing together so many unrelated ideas to make points that are either wrong or incomprehensible, that I honestly am concerned about your sanity.
"They invented a reason,
That's why it stings,
They don't think that you matter,
Because you don't have pretty rings."
-Jonathan Coulton
You entangled the meaningless comparison of the gp post of life insurance for corporations vs. people with an even more meaningless comparison of life insurance to default credit swaps. You're so far off the reservation that your post is literally a waste of space.
free market may not be so free nor easy
What "free" market?
We construct a nation of endless laws and millions of government lawyers to regulate huge oligopolies that...
Okay, hold it right there. Here, this only took a second to find: "According to the American Bar Association there are currently 1,116,967 lawyers practicing in the U.S." - from a recent posting.
So, you baldly assert that more than twice the number lawyers practicing in the U.S. work for the government. How in the world do you expect anyone to take ANYTHING you say seriously?
I think you lost the thread of the post to which you replied.
I didn't say it was a *minor* flaw.
I didn't say it was a *slight* error in judgment.
I said that people are flawed, and the knee-jerk reaction of the poster I responded to, who said the agent should have been fired, was not an appropriate response.
I also didn't say she didn't deserve punishment. I think some discipline, coaching, maybe reassignment are appropriate, but not summary dismissal.
I think you didn't really read the post to which you responded.
Did you really compare a gate agent dealing with an asshole to a mass shooter? It's astounding that you think you know anything about that person by reading one article (if you did read it).
Thanks for the reveal; now I know not to take anything you say seriously.
Every word you wrote is delusional fantasy. You're insane. Here's a tip; stop rage posting.
Step back, and don't post again until you reengage your brain.
Thanks for posting twice - I guess you didn't get your rage out the first time.
He probably could have sat with his kids if he were nice about it. But he wasn't.
I'm tired of the attitude that possession of a child gives you the right to act like an asshole.
"Where do you work, I wonder, that you believe people who have flaws, like we all do, should be treated like used tissues?"
Probably a place where police/SWAT don't show up with machine guns if he whines "Timmy's being mean to me".
Okay, you win the prize for "asshole, over the top reply" on this one. SWAT? Machine guns? Really?
I'll be even your dog doesn't take you seriously.
My post really touched a nerve. First, you don't have all the facts. Second, if you think an asshole customer and a harried service person don't get into this kind of nonsense all the time, in every service industry, then you're seriously out of touch.
I manage 90+ people with what I hope is a reasonable level of compassion. Hopefully you don't manage anyone else.
Criminal behavior? Really?
Okay, now you're just talking out of your ass.
I'm not going to take anything you say seriously, so feel free to keep digging, but I'm done with this nonsense. Maybe you'll get up to prison time for the gate agent in your next post.
story. Don't all of you sheep realize that stories like this are posted in this fashion just to get your panties in a bunch so that you'll post irate comments and then keep coming back for more? You're being manipulated here and you're oh so willing to take it because you just enjoy being outraged/offended..
Yes, you are correct.
:-)
But I point out that you are grazing here too, in the role of "observer too clever to take the bait, who then takes the meta-bait so he can make his observation and feel superior."
I would fall into that category too, except I preemptively offer that I'm no better than you.
Absolutely. Have a bad day, make one wrong judgment call, and see your livelihood vanish. Good luck getting another job.
Where do you work, I wonder, that you believe people who have flaws, like we all do, should be treated like used tissues?