Ah, some of the stuff is coming back to me now. I audited declarations and filled out Form 390 Part A'a and Part B's and ensured dangerous goods were loaded safely. For example, you can't put too much dry ice on a plane lest it suffocate the pilots, and really we kept it out of the main cabin, anyway. Some classes of goods couldn't be placed near others, and there were limits on amounts per vehicle.
It seems like there were three Radioactive classifications, and we didn't transport the most intense one. I don't think it was required to keep the radioactive stuff away from the pilots, but we did it anyway because pilots are whiny pansies. Same with infectious agents.
It's all in Title 49 CFR for U.S. domestic transport, and IATA publishes international regulations.
USDOT requires hazardous materials being transported to be marked. One of many reasons is that if there is an accident first responders are alerted to the presences of hazardous material and can take the correct action. For example, you don't want to hose down a shipment of alkali metals with water if the container catches fire. I used to audit hazmat paperwork for aircraft and trucks. I don't recall the amounts, but radioactive materials had to be declared, and there were handling restrictions and limits on the amounts.
I find it somewhat unlikely that there are trucks full of radioactive stuff secretly roving unmarked about the U.S. streets.
OTOH, I know nothing about Mexico's hazmat regulations.
The site still throws up poorly designed pages, imposes goofy requirements, and loads slower than would be optimal. It does, however, appear to get the job done
I'm sorry, are you talking about healthcare.gov or slashdot.org here?
Suppose automation brings manufacturing back to the U.S. What happens to all the Asian manufacturing countries who can't employ their people? I think the U.S. has a lot of figuring out to do to figure out how people can get along without jobs if automation can handle most of the labor, but I think the vacuum left in the export countries would be a more immediate problem.
Not that I'm against it. I've always thought robots doing all our work for us would be fabulous. I don't need a job to fulfill myself, but as of this moment I need one to feed, house and dress myself for about the next 10 years or so.
Technology companies like Google and Facebook already give us things for free. I imagine that some day maybe they'll do the same with tangible things like food or an apartment.
Goddammit! You mean they're going to start changing the interface to my meals and home, too? Shit shit shit shit shit! I'll come home one day and find the door on the roof and ice cream with sprinkles in a taco shell. Damn these companies and their free products!
I thought "wow, cool, I need to see that video," then realized it would be a video of someone watching someone else play a video game. How could I tell who's controlling the hands?
You CAN run the games if Steam goes away. They have promised to release patches to remove DRM if they ever go out of business. Please inform yourself of the facts before you spread your gut feeling as the truth.
Let me run a thought experiment. Valve files for chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy. The trustee will do which of the following?
A. Release the patch so all customers can play their games for free. B. See control of the DRM as an asset to be sold to pay off creditors.
Of course, this study didn't find out what types of soda the children had consumed.
Another study finds that living children are 100% more likely to "destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people" than dead children..
My study shows that kids and parents who lie about their soda consumption also lie about their destructive and aggressive behavior.
Here's a money-saving tip for you: Stop delivering anything less than first class postage to me. They all tick me off, and I throw them away, anyway. You'll find you won't have much to deliver to me anymore.
Given that Server 2012 has a Metro window (which BTW is notably similar to the last few Xbox UI updates) instead of a start window I don't doubt you'll see that "synergy".
I'm sure dispatch systems are a different animal entirely, but long ago I worked at a place with a centralized walkie-talkie repeater; it had two units and rotated which was master every 12-24 hours so the backup was always tested. It was a Motorola system.
If even 1/10 of that number (much less %) got out on the streets in the USA, there'd be dozens of/. posts as it impacted the largest block of slashdotters on a daily basis.
Hell, SOPA was killed by people raging on Twitter. U.S. elected officials would change their religion if people actually took to the streets in droves.
Yeah, I'm still ticked off that I can't force term searches anymore. Google does really well most of the time, but sometimes I need a particular word or the exclusion of a particular word, and Google doesn't obey anymore.
Yeah, I can't get the Netflix app for free on my Xbox 360 without paying for Live. Go figure. Good thing my TV, DVR, Wii and 4 Android devices have the Netflix app for free.
Not that I would use it for Netflix, anyway. The fan is too whiny and loud when it's on to watch movies.
But management is usually gauged, by their superiors or the board of directors, on results. A major production outage is not a good result. This can be used as leverage to get the process changed, if one has the guts to pursue it.
If anyone respects one's opinion, sure. I have yet to be in a position where upper management would consider my assessment, but I have almost exclusively worked for large companies. On the other hand, while the companies I've worked for have done some boneheaded stuff there was usually a business reason behind it, and I have not seen catastrophic business failures such as the OP describes.
I was going for brevity and could claim that management that takes effective corrective action doesn't fall under "stupid", but my impression of the OP's description is that they will continue to rely on the vendor to maintain the industrial equipment after a stern-but-toothless warning not to mess it up again. In any case, the OP's attempt to mitigate management mandates and vendor incompetence are not constructive and will introduce unneeded complexity that could cause other unanticipated failures or political turf wars he's predetermined to lose.
On the other hand, it could be worth the gutsy fight if he's ready to leave/lose his job and see if he can improve the company before giving up on it.
I RTFA'd looking for photos and videos and was going to skip the comments, but I had to let you know that about a minute into the video Pandora started playing "Message In a Bottle".
Slashdot Mirror
Did you not go to high school?
Ah, some of the stuff is coming back to me now. I audited declarations and filled out Form 390 Part A'a and Part B's and ensured dangerous goods were loaded safely. For example, you can't put too much dry ice on a plane lest it suffocate the pilots, and really we kept it out of the main cabin, anyway. Some classes of goods couldn't be placed near others, and there were limits on amounts per vehicle.
It seems like there were three Radioactive classifications, and we didn't transport the most intense one. I don't think it was required to keep the radioactive stuff away from the pilots, but we did it anyway because pilots are whiny pansies. Same with infectious agents.
It's all in Title 49 CFR for U.S. domestic transport, and IATA publishes international regulations.
But that was over 20 years ago I did this stuff.
USDOT requires hazardous materials being transported to be marked. One of many reasons is that if there is an accident first responders are alerted to the presences of hazardous material and can take the correct action. For example, you don't want to hose down a shipment of alkali metals with water if the container catches fire. I used to audit hazmat paperwork for aircraft and trucks. I don't recall the amounts, but radioactive materials had to be declared, and there were handling restrictions and limits on the amounts.
I find it somewhat unlikely that there are trucks full of radioactive stuff secretly roving unmarked about the U.S. streets.
OTOH, I know nothing about Mexico's hazmat regulations.
The site still throws up poorly designed pages, imposes goofy requirements, and loads slower than would be optimal. It does, however, appear to get the job done
I'm sorry, are you talking about healthcare.gov or slashdot.org here?
Try this one weird trick to understand....
Quiznos still exists. Do the others, too? (Although I have no idea where a Quiznos near me is...nor do I care.)
Suppose automation brings manufacturing back to the U.S. What happens to all the Asian manufacturing countries who can't employ their people? I think the U.S. has a lot of figuring out to do to figure out how people can get along without jobs if automation can handle most of the labor, but I think the vacuum left in the export countries would be a more immediate problem.
Not that I'm against it. I've always thought robots doing all our work for us would be fabulous. I don't need a job to fulfill myself, but as of this moment I need one to feed, house and dress myself for about the next 10 years or so.
Technology companies like Google and Facebook already give us things for free. I imagine that some day maybe they'll do the same with tangible things like food or an apartment.
Goddammit! You mean they're going to start changing the interface to my meals and home, too? Shit shit shit shit shit! I'll come home one day and find the door on the roof and ice cream with sprinkles in a taco shell. Damn these companies and their free products!
I thought "wow, cool, I need to see that video," then realized it would be a video of someone watching someone else play a video game. How could I tell who's controlling the hands?
Whew, time waste avoided.
(Still, cool.)
You CAN run the games if Steam goes away. They have promised to release patches to remove DRM if they ever go out of business.
Please inform yourself of the facts before you spread your gut feeling as the truth.
Let me run a thought experiment. Valve files for chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy. The trustee will do which of the following?
A. Release the patch so all customers can play their games for free.
B. See control of the DRM as an asset to be sold to pay off creditors.
Of course, this study didn't find out what types of soda the children had consumed.
Another study finds that living children are 100% more likely to "destroy things belonging to others, get into fights, and physically attack people" than dead children..
My study shows that kids and parents who lie about their soda consumption also lie about their destructive and aggressive behavior.
Isn't LA-LV too hilly for a high-speed hyperloop at ground level or even ground level plus a few meters? I think it would be a vomit comet in a can.
Anyone want to buy a slightly used keyboard?
Ew.
Here's a money-saving tip for you: Stop delivering anything less than first class postage to me. They all tick me off, and I throw them away, anyway. You'll find you won't have much to deliver to me anymore.
My mailbox is something like 400m away.
Ah, so you still have door-door delivery. (I live in suburban U.S.A., and my front door is about the typical 400M from my bedroom.)
Given that Server 2012 has a Metro window (which BTW is notably similar to the last few Xbox UI updates) instead of a start window I don't doubt you'll see that "synergy".
Explicitly marking sarcasm and irony as such is rather defeating the point, isn't it?
I'm sure dispatch systems are a different animal entirely, but long ago I worked at a place with a centralized walkie-talkie repeater; it had two units and rotated which was master every 12-24 hours so the backup was always tested. It was a Motorola system.
If even 1/10 of that number (much less %) got out on the streets in the USA, there'd be dozens of /. posts as it impacted the largest block of slashdotters on a daily basis.
Hell, SOPA was killed by people raging on Twitter. U.S. elected officials would change their religion if people actually took to the streets in droves.
Yeah, I'm still ticked off that I can't force term searches anymore. Google does really well most of the time, but sometimes I need a particular word or the exclusion of a particular word, and Google doesn't obey anymore.
Yeah, I can't get the Netflix app for free on my Xbox 360 without paying for Live. Go figure. Good thing my TV, DVR, Wii and 4 Android devices have the Netflix app for free.
Not that I would use it for Netflix, anyway. The fan is too whiny and loud when it's on to watch movies.
Is it wrong that I am bothered that the space in "police officer" isn't escaped?
But management is usually gauged, by their superiors or the board of directors, on results. A major production outage is not a good result. This can be used as leverage to get the process changed, if one has the guts to pursue it.
If anyone respects one's opinion, sure. I have yet to be in a position where upper management would consider my assessment, but I have almost exclusively worked for large companies. On the other hand, while the companies I've worked for have done some boneheaded stuff there was usually a business reason behind it, and I have not seen catastrophic business failures such as the OP describes.
I was going for brevity and could claim that management that takes effective corrective action doesn't fall under "stupid", but my impression of the OP's description is that they will continue to rely on the vendor to maintain the industrial equipment after a stern-but-toothless warning not to mess it up again. In any case, the OP's attempt to mitigate management mandates and vendor incompetence are not constructive and will introduce unneeded complexity that could cause other unanticipated failures or political turf wars he's predetermined to lose.
On the other hand, it could be worth the gutsy fight if he's ready to leave/lose his job and see if he can improve the company before giving up on it.
IPv6 uses hierarchical addressing, so the routing tables will be less complex for IPv6 even if everybody gets IPv6 tomorrow.
I RTFA'd looking for photos and videos and was going to skip the comments, but I had to let you know that about a minute into the video Pandora started playing "Message In a Bottle".