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  1. 5 minutes ago, NoRagrets said:

    I bet he takes a break for a year or so.

    Yeah.  During a press conference they asked about his chemo with leukemia and he said it's an every day thing.  I think he is gonna go back to part time for a bit.  

  2. Bibi has gone Putin.  It's about his legacy.  The October 7th attack which I still have some questions about how they carried it off.  He knows the rest of the world especially the United States isn't going to do shit when "the red line" gets crossed so he is doing whatever he wants.  The bombing may have been accidental it may not be, but it has achieved his goal.  I don't know if his main objective is to starve the Palestinian people, but rather to starve Hamas.  If it means that keeping 240 tons of food from the Palestinians just to ensure Hamas doesn't get an ounce, I think he is willing to do that.

  3. 4 minutes ago, statsman said:

    Spell out your comparison. Are you comparing Ambassador Stevens to the Iranian RG commander?

    We ran CIA missions out of Benghazi.  Ambassador Stevens is not the comparison to the RG commander but those CIA dudes probably did just as crazy shit as the RG commander.  

  4. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I think melding is optimal, but you need to have some bias built in to favor a failure one way or another. 
     

    If you’re selling underwear or smart TVs or refrigerators— sure, I am fine with the MBA guys winning. If you cheap out too much and build crap, then the market can punish you. 
     

    If you’re building airliners, or chemical factories, or nuclear reactors then I’m sorry.  The engineers need to win over the MBAs.  There has to be some balance and optimizing but if it comes to a fundamental disagreement, the engineers need to win.  It’s more important for the product to succeed than the company. 

    That was the scariest part about working in oil and gas.  You would get a phone call from the "business unit" and you're thinking to yourself.  What the fuck?  These guys can't be serious.  Then you find out they are.  You ask the engineers and they say yeah we've tried.  The business unit knows how to operate a refinery better than we do.   And then the plant trips and the business unit calls and says hey how fast can we get this bitch back up again 

  5. On 3/25/2024 at 2:27 PM, RPM said:

    I've seen Orkas playing in the bow wake of our ship like dolphins when I was in the Aleutians. Except they ain't dolphins!

    The coolest thing on a submarine was doing a surface transit when the sun is setting.  The dolphins and the orcas would follow along doing fish shit

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  6. 38 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    "Texas was without EDGE Colton Vasek for a bit during practice. Vasek was suited out though spent time with the training staff when the team moved into the live team periods. I won't speculate on what the reason was, but he was absent for a period or two."

     

    Will Vasek ever be healthy?

    Vasek, to me, is shooting blanks

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  7. 22 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Ippei was supposed to translate for Yama also.  He was going to be on the mound visits

    Yep.  He was going to tell him Altuve HBP 3rd inning +600000

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  8. 19 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Why?  Because he is an alum?  It’s not like he was doing a great job. 

    They feel like they are on the up and up.  Getting poached by Aggy is a slap in the face.  They mainly blame lack of leadership at the top.  Apparently they have quite a few vacancies at the top university level and the Board of Regents isn't moving fast enough to resolve this.

  9. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    I certainly can't disagree with your assessment lol, but it's ridiculous to try and hold this incident in a vacuum. In 2017 the FAA was stripped of a bunch of it's power and directed to give more leeway to aircraft manufacturers to "find new efficiencies" and "reduce time to certification".

    Jump ahead a few years a Boeing is killing people by the hundreds because they programmed their airplanes to lawndart, and they were allowed to do so because of regulatory capture. There's a reason we have rules and laws in place to compel for profit entities to do the right thing. 

    Otherwise they'll start cutting corners and incurring grester and greater risk for lower costs, exactly like how Boeing got themselves into this mess. 

    Can you point on the doll where Boeing hurt you.

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  10. 14 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Electrical failures can happen such that power is applied when it should not be. It just seems like an exceptionally unusual coincidence that the cockpit glass would go dark and the seat moves "uncommanded" at the same time, and that the two are completely unrelated 

    Electricity does what it wants, but that seat probably was stepped down to 24 VDC.  It never lost power.  It would have to have closed a switch by the the seat lever and applied power to a relay causing the seat to move forward.  I mean anything is possible, but I'm gonna say not probable 

     

     

    Edit:  and losing power won't do it.  Power coming back may but again uhhhh.   Not probable 

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