In the 70s, our tool kit was a canvas bag. We had to check it before we went to the flight line and both of us signed off that it was complete. Then before we LEFT the flight line, we counted again and signed off that it was complete. If the bird was scheduled to fly before we could get back to the tool crib, the crew chief also counted and signed off. Then we returned to the shop, checked the bag in and it was counted again before we could sign off on the work.
If the tool crib did not get all the tools back, the bird would held until we found the tool or the bird was inspected inside and out. For 2 years I was there, we never lost a tool, and I never heard of anyone losing a tool from any other shop. In fact, my usual task was to lock a fixture, and I had the speed wrench on a wrist leash. Fortunately I never worked on a bird with engines running, which was a whole different protocol.
It is not that hard to count. From the description of this process, I'm disappointed that the shop didn't have a tool board that would show an empty spot, nor any process to question a missing tool. In our shop back then, a missing tool for ANY reason would have been grounds for a complete inspection, evaluation, and questioning. I wasn't allowed to carry tools into the shop, even that teeny screwdriver we used for rotary switches. Absolute control within the shop system.
Leaving something on equipment was just inexcusable. Shocking really.
I had the opportunity to work on F-4s back in the 70s as a member of the USAF. While my stuff was hung off a pylon, I did get to climb in and touch some stuff in the cockpit. One day I check the flags like I'm supposed to, climb in, sit down, and find out that one flag came out of the ejection seat. I wait for an hour while Egress fixes it. Allegedly I was the idiot for not checking, but I'm not allowed to tug on the pins to be sure they are securely fastened. The crew chief never forgave me. At least I didn't go out the roof.
Next week, another F-4 goes long on landing and takes the barrier. Brake was mis-assembled. Apparently F-4 main brakes are complicated. That mechanic made more coffee than I did...
Insightful? One mechanic signs off on a procedure, you can figure that out with the logs. The economy isn't nearly so simple. And I oversimplify that analogy. You can't even begin to blame a group of old white men in a room - there were many rooms, on many continents, for many years. Sheesh.
Seriously, put down the doughnut and get a viable clue, ok?
And why would they do that? PWM has already been used in an attack, it is therefore either MORE likely to be used again, or NOT AT ALL likely to be used again.
Apparently, the latter is the theory in use at this time.
Wired had this in the print version months ago, maybe even a year. You're smart, look it up. Pictures and all.
And predictable, since Foxconn was accepting migrant workers from farm regions that got terribly homesick and realized they had not found the gravy train after all. Returning home would be disgrace, so cashing in on insurance looks darned good.
And mind you this is an example of the trained workforce China is accused of having. Essentially these workers are meat-based robots taught to do the assembly that can't quite be done mechanically with the current state of the art, for the same money. Noodles are cheaper even than McDonald's, or these jjobs would have a chance here. But that's not happening until we can more fully automate assembly. And assuming Japan/Korea/etc don't beat us to that.
We should not be focused on making consumer electronics. Making the guts yes, but final assembly is not where the money is. Designing and perfecting is the money.
Warming Maine's climate is not without consequences;
Warmer winters can impact several industries. Maple sugar output can decrease, not so good for that industry. The apple crop can be affected, a nontrivial source of revenue. There are other crops that benefit from winters with substantial show cover, one common result of colder winters, though not always.
Colder winters do cost more in heating expense, but we have not really made significant improvements in housing design and construction to minimze that cost. Warmer winters would also distrub other processes, though change is not always bad. Just expensive.
I rarely read anything from the global warming camp that describe it as 'a possible problem'. They describe it as inevitable, certain, and beyond doubt. At least publiclly. It's the private discussions about lack of confirming evidence and why they can't find the expected results that concerns me. They can't admit any flaws in their theories. So much for scientific method. This is not about science, it's about politics. Just that way.
Intel still fabs a lot of chips here. Not many jobs relative to revenue, but that's the winning equation. Caterpillar also manages, though our Federal goverment is hell-bent on regulating them into offshoring all of it.
Making toaster ovens, DVD players, and basketball sneakers are not high enough value to warrant plants in the U.S. unless you're basing some of that value on 'Made in the USA'. So we should be prepared to give up those industries forever, or at least a very long time.
The next battle is when China starts in on the high-value segments, and outsources their lower value stuff futher down the food chain. Africa is maybe the next low-end manufacturing hub. Maybe South America.
So teach your kids software, EE, design, and media. Creative pursuits are still potentially high-value, and easily exported - at least for now. And at least encourage your representatives to stop killing manufacturing here. Just stop making it worse, please.
ps - Space is a growth industry, and we have a marginal lead in some aspects. worth a try, though Moonshot Gingrich is just pandering to the Space Coast. He'll become Cornshot in the Midwest, Carshot in Michigan, and Solarshot in California. No worse than any other candidate of any affiliation.
They wouldn't have been so damned angry and slammed into the first parking spot they found. See? "Yee-Ha" isn't such a great intergalactic policy after all.
My wife has a replacement knee. We arrive early to go through screening, expecting delays. They always pat her down.
So explain to me how when the alrm goes off, you step aside, run the wand and get a hit around the knee, that the kind TSA officer has to grop her crotch. He missed the metal by a little more than a foot.
Seriously? Morons. This whole TSA thing is Kabuki Security Theatre 3000. I keep expecting Tom Servo to pop out from under the x-ray hood and start rambling.
That works until you run the red light in front of the garbage truck. Claiming it with the TSA at least doesn't get your car crushed. And you can try with the TSA again and again, but physics will hear your argument once in the car.
I'm sure they never ASKED any lawyers. Not that it matters, since the lawyers would usually be prosecutors, and of course they would be inclined to say yes. Especially over a beer, since this is not a conversation to be had officially.
Now can we get this legal precedent applied to domain seizures? Trolling sites for illegally shared files is alll well and good, but claiming the site operators know what is going on is about as much probable cause as was available in this case. the principle should apply.
Don't be offended that Dodd is telling the politicians that took money from his employers to favor their interests and vote to the advantage of their benefactors.
Be offended that:
Our politicians take money from corporate interests that can NEVER be to the advantage of the nation or the people.
Our politicians, having the power to ingratiate themselves to the corporations, also have the power to benefit from their positions by making investments based on the confidential and advance information they receive as a result of their work in Congress.
It is legal that our Congress can take advantage of this information to make investments based on that information.
It is illegal for us, even corporate officials, to make similar investments based on this information. Entirely illegal.
So far as I have read in this discussion, no one has noted Chris Dodd's political party afilliation, which would not be the case, in my opinion, if his afilliation were different.
Dodd's complaint that Congress took the money and isn't delivering speaks volumes. It is time to require complete and immediate disclosure of contributions. It is time to require membes of Congress be subject to insider trading laws just as corporate officials and private investors are. It is time to re-enact Glass-Steagell. It is time to abandon current campaign finance laws as ineffective. It is time to throw them all out. Every one.
It's not about the US government trying to police the world. It's about corporations (from any nation or region) trying to use legislation to preserve their businesses, to squash threats, and provide them more and more profitmaking opportunities, be those opportunities the result of monopolies, oligopolies, patents, or copyrights.
And it's about the relative ease of suppressing content on the Internet. Just get the government to agree with you, and it's moving a few bits around. Done.
And we need to break the connection between our Legislature and corporations. the connection is money and insider trading. And it's currently legal.
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Poking the editors is unwise.
So if Ihit a blog while in Canada, it will see me with a Canadian IP and thwart my access to anything the Canadian government doesn't like?
And if I drive back home to the U.S., I can merrily go on and do what I like wiuth that same blog, and not be blocked?
SO this works well... I wonder how it will work with cross-border proxies. Maybe I need to spin one up just to annoy them furringers.
In the 70s, our tool kit was a canvas bag. We had to check it before we went to the flight line and both of us signed off that it was complete. Then before we LEFT the flight line, we counted again and signed off that it was complete. If the bird was scheduled to fly before we could get back to the tool crib, the crew chief also counted and signed off. Then we returned to the shop, checked the bag in and it was counted again before we could sign off on the work.
If the tool crib did not get all the tools back, the bird would held until we found the tool or the bird was inspected inside and out. For 2 years I was there, we never lost a tool, and I never heard of anyone losing a tool from any other shop. In fact, my usual task was to lock a fixture, and I had the speed wrench on a wrist leash. Fortunately I never worked on a bird with engines running, which was a whole different protocol.
It is not that hard to count. From the description of this process, I'm disappointed that the shop didn't have a tool board that would show an empty spot, nor any process to question a missing tool. In our shop back then, a missing tool for ANY reason would have been grounds for a complete inspection, evaluation, and questioning. I wasn't allowed to carry tools into the shop, even that teeny screwdriver we used for rotary switches. Absolute control within the shop system.
Leaving something on equipment was just inexcusable. Shocking really.
It happens with the gummint also.
I had the opportunity to work on F-4s back in the 70s as a member of the USAF. While my stuff was hung off a pylon, I did get to climb in and touch some stuff in the cockpit. One day I check the flags like I'm supposed to, climb in, sit down, and find out that one flag came out of the ejection seat. I wait for an hour while Egress fixes it. Allegedly I was the idiot for not checking, but I'm not allowed to tug on the pins to be sure they are securely fastened. The crew chief never forgave me. At least I didn't go out the roof.
Next week, another F-4 goes long on landing and takes the barrier. Brake was mis-assembled. Apparently F-4 main brakes are complicated. That mechanic made more coffee than I did...
Insightful? One mechanic signs off on a procedure, you can figure that out with the logs. The economy isn't nearly so simple. And I oversimplify that analogy. You can't even begin to blame a group of old white men in a room - there were many rooms, on many continents, for many years. Sheesh.
Seriously, put down the doughnut and get a viable clue, ok?
As with so many repairs, it's not the parts cost, it's the labor.
And like your Geo Metro, do you really trust that head gasket repair? Really?
So people who act in self-preservation should not be trusted with leadership?
Seriously?
And we elect Presidents with degrees in Political Science.
That would be a better qualification for overseeing the TSA?
Actually, would that be a better qualification for leading the nation? Would being ASA certified make you a better racecar driver? More desireable?
And why would they do that? PWM has already been used in an attack, it is therefore either MORE likely to be used again, or NOT AT ALL likely to be used again.
Apparently, the latter is the theory in use at this time.
Would your "My Maximum Acceptable Annual U.S. Terrorism Deaths" be less if one of those deaths were yours?
Wired had this in the print version months ago, maybe even a year. You're smart, look it up. Pictures and all.
And predictable, since Foxconn was accepting migrant workers from farm regions that got terribly homesick and realized they had not found the gravy train after all. Returning home would be disgrace, so cashing in on insurance looks darned good.
And mind you this is an example of the trained workforce China is accused of having. Essentially these workers are meat-based robots taught to do the assembly that can't quite be done mechanically with the current state of the art, for the same money. Noodles are cheaper even than McDonald's, or these jjobs would have a chance here. But that's not happening until we can more fully automate assembly. And assuming Japan/Korea/etc don't beat us to that.
We should not be focused on making consumer electronics. Making the guts yes, but final assembly is not where the money is. Designing and perfecting is the money.
Warming Maine's climate is not without consequences;
Warmer winters can impact several industries. Maple sugar output can decrease, not so good for that industry. The apple crop can be affected, a nontrivial source of revenue. There are other crops that benefit from winters with substantial show cover, one common result of colder winters, though not always.
Colder winters do cost more in heating expense, but we have not really made significant improvements in housing design and construction to minimze that cost. Warmer winters would also distrub other processes, though change is not always bad. Just expensive.
Be careful what you wish for.
What? That's not the theory...
I rarely read anything from the global warming camp that describe it as 'a possible problem'. They describe it as inevitable, certain, and beyond doubt. At least publiclly. It's the private discussions about lack of confirming evidence and why they can't find the expected results that concerns me. They can't admit any flaws in their theories. So much for scientific method. This is not about science, it's about politics. Just that way.
Plainly obvious. So why don't the OTHER experts in climatology understand this?
Intel still fabs a lot of chips here. Not many jobs relative to revenue, but that's the winning equation. Caterpillar also manages, though our Federal goverment is hell-bent on regulating them into offshoring all of it.
Making toaster ovens, DVD players, and basketball sneakers are not high enough value to warrant plants in the U.S. unless you're basing some of that value on 'Made in the USA'. So we should be prepared to give up those industries forever, or at least a very long time.
The next battle is when China starts in on the high-value segments, and outsources their lower value stuff futher down the food chain. Africa is maybe the next low-end manufacturing hub. Maybe South America.
So teach your kids software, EE, design, and media. Creative pursuits are still potentially high-value, and easily exported - at least for now. And at least encourage your representatives to stop killing manufacturing here. Just stop making it worse, please.
ps - Space is a growth industry, and we have a marginal lead in some aspects. worth a try, though Moonshot Gingrich is just pandering to the Space Coast. He'll become Cornshot in the Midwest, Carshot in Michigan, and Solarshot in California. No worse than any other candidate of any affiliation.
They wouldn't have been so damned angry and slammed into the first parking spot they found. See? "Yee-Ha" isn't such a great intergalactic policy after all.
Im also referring to so many previous seizures .
Wtf are you going on about?
My wife has a replacement knee. We arrive early to go through screening, expecting delays. They always pat her down.
So explain to me how when the alrm goes off, you step aside, run the wand and get a hit around the knee, that the kind TSA officer has to grop her crotch. He missed the metal by a little more than a foot.
Seriously? Morons. This whole TSA thing is Kabuki Security Theatre 3000. I keep expecting Tom Servo to pop out from under the x-ray hood and start rambling.
"they could justify ignoring traffic lights too."
That works until you run the red light in front of the garbage truck. Claiming it with the TSA at least doesn't get your car crushed. And you can try with the TSA again and again, but physics will hear your argument once in the car.
And say 'no'. Once.
I'm sure they never ASKED any lawyers. Not that it matters, since the lawyers would usually be prosecutors, and of course they would be inclined to say yes. Especially over a beer, since this is not a conversation to be had officially.
Now can we get this legal precedent applied to domain seizures? Trolling sites for illegally shared files is alll well and good, but claiming the site operators know what is going on is about as much probable cause as was available in this case. the principle should apply.
Leastways, I wish it did.
Don't be offended that Dodd is telling the politicians that took money from his employers to favor their interests and vote to the advantage of their benefactors.
Be offended that:
Our politicians take money from corporate interests that can NEVER be to the advantage of the nation or the people.
Our politicians, having the power to ingratiate themselves to the corporations, also have the power to benefit from their positions by making investments based on the confidential and advance information they receive as a result of their work in Congress.
It is legal that our Congress can take advantage of this information to make investments based on that information.
It is illegal for us, even corporate officials, to make similar investments based on this information. Entirely illegal.
So far as I have read in this discussion, no one has noted Chris Dodd's political party afilliation, which would not be the case, in my opinion, if his afilliation were different.
Dodd's complaint that Congress took the money and isn't delivering speaks volumes. It is time to require complete and immediate disclosure of contributions. It is time to require membes of Congress be subject to insider trading laws just as corporate officials and private investors are. It is time to re-enact Glass-Steagell. It is time to abandon current campaign finance laws as ineffective. It is time to throw them all out. Every one.
It's not about the US government trying to police the world. It's about corporations (from any nation or region) trying to use legislation to preserve their businesses, to squash threats, and provide them more and more profitmaking opportunities, be those opportunities the result of monopolies, oligopolies, patents, or copyrights.
And it's about the relative ease of suppressing content on the Internet. Just get the government to agree with you, and it's moving a few bits around. Done.
And we need to break the connection between our Legislature and corporations. the connection is money and insider trading. And it's currently legal.
This must change.
I am unfamiliar with the quotation. You presume much my friend, and in error.