And in this case, the people involved willingly walked into it, basically, demanded that this sort of control be ceded to the faceless unelected bureaucrats. No one to blame but themselves.
When you create a super-layer of petty bureaucrats to run your lives, you can't be overly surprised when they create a bunch of petty and stupid rules.
Well, a big part of the distinction you are making (life-critical VS commodity software) has gotten lost by the various programming "cargo cults", where every problem is the same and every solution fits into some sort of stupid ritual.
It didn't get caught in testing because testing is by far the most expensive and time-consuming part of the development process, and is always the first thing to get cut/trimmed/"streamlined". Just like it has been forever.
You don't understand. Mars probes cost NASA $3 billion, but a bunch of "space buffs" who have never attempted to build anything are *way smarter* than everybody else.
This is not reddit. It is, however, a place for nerds. The sort of nerds who assume that their extensive programming/clerk typist skills translate to expertise in politics, literature, religion, science, math, statistics, and nearly every other field of human endeavor. And are old enough and arrogant enough to shout down anyone who disagrees. From their mom's basement, while carrying on a heated discussion about how "Jedi" is a real religion.
I think it's a crime that people have to show up at all anymore. Why can't we just show up when we feel like it, and get paid full wages? We can let those other people who don't have kids take up the slack.
YEs, you are mistaken. The velcro was supposed to be limited to small patches with some separation as to prevent fire from propagating from one patch to the next if it caught fire. But it was so useful that they more-or-less carpeted the interior with it.
Teflon was implicated in the initiation of the fire, since it cold-flows and can cause shorts, and start the fire. Once it gets going, particularly in nearly 17 psia pure oxygen (vice the in-flight 5 psia), the velcro practically explodes.
Had the same fire started in-flight there was a remote possibility that they could have vented the cabin and put it out, and maybe survived, but the high pressure on the ground, not a chance, even aluminum can burn in those circumstances and the only reason it didn't was because the capsule burst from over-pressure before it got going.
Only the rankest of hacks "tune" their control laws in the sense you are talking about. You design and analyze the system to meet the necessary requirements, and if you do it correctly and the hardware performs, there is no real doubt whether it will work or not.
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Oh, bullshit. I have lived in many areas of the country, and found one important thing - people are the same everywhere.
And, shut the hell up with the racist crap.
"Don't ask me, I'm just a girl"
And in this case, the people involved willingly walked into it, basically, demanded that this sort of control be ceded to the faceless unelected bureaucrats. No one to blame but themselves.
No, they just can't admit they were wrong, and willingly walked into this buzzsaw.
When you create a super-layer of petty bureaucrats to run your lives, you can't be overly surprised when they create a bunch of petty and stupid rules.
Why let them have calls at all? They're in prison, they have visiting days, why are we so concerned about their luxuries?
So, France demands everyone in the world to comply with *their* law, and you are calling the US "arrogant"?
What if the US passed a law requiring, say, routine showers and mandatory deodorant use? Would France have to comply?
Hydrogen is a dead loser as an airplane fuel - FAR too bulky/not dense enough. Look up the "suntan" project.
Cortana finds gibberish double-talk incomprehensible - just like the rest of us!
No. Energy is being taken out every time. At some point it will become tidally locked, just like the Moon (of earth) and then the heating will stop.
Of course they are using local resources to keep an eye on him. He's a criminal hiding in an embassy, they aren't just going to forget about it.
You are welcome to stay home.
Al Gore bought a 3rd house that is only a few feet above the current water line.
Well, a big part of the distinction you are making (life-critical VS commodity software) has gotten lost by the various programming "cargo cults", where every problem is the same and every solution fits into some sort of stupid ritual.
It didn't get caught in testing because testing is by far the most expensive and time-consuming part of the development process, and is always the first thing to get cut/trimmed/"streamlined". Just like it has been forever.
You don't understand. Mars probes cost NASA $3 billion, but a bunch of "space buffs" who have never attempted to build anything are *way smarter* than everybody else.
This is not reddit. It is, however, a place for nerds. The sort of nerds who assume that their extensive programming/clerk typist skills translate to expertise in politics, literature, religion, science, math, statistics, and nearly every other field of human endeavor. And are old enough and arrogant enough to shout down anyone who disagrees. From their mom's basement, while carrying on a heated discussion about how "Jedi" is a real religion.
I think I will blow up kids party balloons with the waste.
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Hippies are stupid! News at 11.
How the hell is it the job of the governement to tell private companies who they should hire?
I think it's a crime that people have to show up at all anymore. Why can't we just show up when we feel like it, and get paid full wages? We can let those other people who don't have kids take up the slack.
Damn 1%ers!
It happened in 2008 and 2012, too.
YEs, you are mistaken. The velcro was supposed to be limited to small patches with some separation as to prevent fire from propagating from one patch to the next if it caught fire. But it was so useful that they more-or-less carpeted the interior with it.
Teflon was implicated in the initiation of the fire, since it cold-flows and can cause shorts, and start the fire. Once it gets going, particularly in nearly 17 psia pure oxygen (vice the in-flight 5 psia), the velcro practically explodes.
Had the same fire started in-flight there was a remote possibility that they could have vented the cabin and put it out, and maybe survived, but the high pressure on the ground, not a chance, even aluminum can burn in those circumstances and the only reason it didn't was because the capsule burst from over-pressure before it got going.
Only the rankest of hacks "tune" their control laws in the sense you are talking about. You design and analyze the system to meet the necessary requirements, and if you do it correctly and the hardware performs, there is no real doubt whether it will work or not.