Re: A french product design student is looking for an internship

From: Terry Given (my_name_at_ieee.org)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:54:05 +1300

Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:16:33 -0500, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:07:47 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Active8 wrote:
>>
>><snip>
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>>>>Like the jackasses that installed their crane at Bethlem Steel,
>>>>Sparrows Pt., MD. Low grade bolts broke and f'd up my stepdad. Beth
>>>>Steel dicked him around. The contractor from OH wasn't required to
>>>>carry insurance at the time they did the work (or maybe never) and
>>>>they filed bankruptcy to get out of paying him the 4.2 M he was
>>>>finally awarded.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Sorry to hear about your stepdad Mike.
>>>
>>>That sort of *** is all too common, and is unacceptable. Hopefully it
>>>was people who just didnt know what they were doing; it would be
>>>downright evil if done deliberately to reduce cost.
>>
>>I've seen that crap on the tube. Remember the Czech
>>project/production mgr on 60-minutes that had his test tech tweak
>>the pressure transducers ( one end-use was for military helicopter
>>altimeters ) with dental instruments to get them to pass? There's
>>others that have been caught using cheap parts to get over on costs.
>>60-min in NZ back then?
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> There can be delightful end results.
>
> When my grandfather (my father's father) worked for the West Virginia
> State Road Commission, he advised a highway design engineer that the
> banking on a particular curve was not correct.
>
> The engineer said, "Nonsense", and proceeded to drive the curve at
> such a speed that he skidded off the side of the mountain and died.
>
> Such poetic justice is all too uncommon ;-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson

ROTFLMAO! Thats beautiful :)

Cheers
Terry

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