I have a similar experience with our "legal" system, spending tens of thousands to defend reduculous accusations. I am glad I used to have means for a good lawyer. And I am really glad you get out of it too. You could have been certainly raped and beaten on the dayly basis. Taxas in a terrible place to get in trouble:
http://www.spr.org
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089095/
With 2.2 million jailed/imprisoned, mostly for petty crimes, this coutry is becoming a new gulag even if the majority is still unaware of it. With the number of policemen and lawyers the highest in world the beast is after new pastures. C'mon guys try it first before rushing to judgements. Go to a bar on a Friday night, have a drink, return back and start your car. Get arrested, spend a weekend in a lockup, with chances of being raped and beated severely. Of visit your child in the wrong time, of just meet a wrong girl who is after your money.
As one of my county judges described our jail: "Its a hell on earth. Nobody should be kept there." And my state is perhaps one of the calmest in the country.
>Like the Russian government even cared if there was >a risk to public safety!
The management types there actally did care about accidents to some degree, as accidents could have affected their carears. Not much different from the management types down here. How do I know? - I actually worked there a few decades ago.
This is a silly one: back in early 80s I used to be employed with St.Peterdburg(Leningrad), Russia Metrorail authorities. At that time they have been upgrading their previous generation driverless system into a newer one, PDP-11(CM-4) based, if I remembed correctly. Its really easy - just devide distance on speed, calculate intervals and control speed/braking. Do it on two fully isolated computer system, and two PDP-11 with 64k of memory have been doing job well. And yes they had a driver sitting idle on the train, but with no need ever to seize controls. Keep also in mind that an avarage russian worker routinely starts a working day with a glass (150ml) of vodka(no kidding), hardware is crappy and interval between trains aproaching 50 seconds while brain capabilities of their management aproaching zero. Still the driverless system used to work fine there with no accidents even back in late 70s. Perhaps in NewYork it's different given the ratio of lawyers and corrupted polititians to real-time engineers.
But no, its in no way anything new.
Long ago I personally saw a BASIC interpreter controlling a huge chemical factory. I could have destroyed it if I wanted to.
An associate who used to work for NASA Shuttle program told me thay they had BASIC interpreter critical systems too.
Remember how Pentagon was almost destroyed by a bunch of dummies in the act that was easy to predict and to prevent. They cannot take care about themselves not to mention defend us. So I would not be suprised to see critical systems connected to the net. Never underestimate the stupidity of MBA types.
And now they are putting a judge to head HS... Oh my..
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I have a similar experience with our "legal" system, spending tens of thousands to defend reduculous accusations. I am glad I used to have means for a good lawyer. And I am really glad you get out of it too. You could have been certainly raped and beaten on the dayly basis. Taxas in a terrible place to get in trouble: http://www.spr.org http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/ http://slate.msn.com/id/2089095/ With 2.2 million jailed/imprisoned, mostly for petty crimes, this coutry is becoming a new gulag even if the majority is still unaware of it. With the number of policemen and lawyers the highest in world the beast is after new pastures. C'mon guys try it first before rushing to judgements. Go to a bar on a Friday night, have a drink, return back and start your car. Get arrested, spend a weekend in a lockup, with chances of being raped and beated severely. Of visit your child in the wrong time, of just meet a wrong girl who is after your money. As one of my county judges described our jail: "Its a hell on earth. Nobody should be kept there." And my state is perhaps one of the calmest in the country.
>Like the Russian government even cared if there was >a risk to public safety! The management types there actally did care about accidents to some degree, as accidents could have affected their carears. Not much different from the management types down here. How do I know? - I actually worked there a few decades ago.
This is a silly one: back in early 80s I used to be employed with St.Peterdburg(Leningrad), Russia Metrorail authorities. At that time they have been upgrading their previous generation driverless system into a newer one, PDP-11(CM-4) based, if I remembed correctly. Its really easy - just devide distance on speed, calculate intervals and control speed/braking. Do it on two fully isolated computer system, and two PDP-11 with 64k of memory have been doing job well. And yes they had a driver sitting idle on the train, but with no need ever to seize controls. Keep also in mind that an avarage russian worker routinely starts a working day with a glass (150ml) of vodka(no kidding), hardware is crappy and interval between trains aproaching 50 seconds while brain capabilities of their management aproaching zero. Still the driverless system used to work fine there with no accidents even back in late 70s. Perhaps in NewYork it's different given the ratio of lawyers and corrupted polititians to real-time engineers. But no, its in no way anything new.
Long ago I personally saw a BASIC interpreter controlling a huge chemical factory. I could have destroyed it if I wanted to. An associate who used to work for NASA Shuttle program told me thay they had BASIC interpreter critical systems too. Remember how Pentagon was almost destroyed by a bunch of dummies in the act that was easy to predict and to prevent. They cannot take care about themselves not to mention defend us. So I would not be suprised to see critical systems connected to the net. Never underestimate the stupidity of MBA types. And now they are putting a judge to head HS... Oh my..