Re: The Warm Equations

In article <c1pl7jh8il1r4e0epggt5iut51eat4dfsu@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On 24 Jun 2024 18:28:08 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

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I can remember when riding a vehicle built by Boeing was a sensible
thing to do. Now it looks more like an act of desperation.

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It's not just Boeing.  There was a day when most of the people heading
aerospace companies were engineers.
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The last Boeing CEO who was an actual engineer was Phil Condit, who left
in 2003 after engineering the McDonnell-Douglas merger (which was great for
the company but terrible for th industry).  And he didn't even have a pilot's
license.  

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Looks like "managing the design/testing/construction of air/space
craft" will need to be added to "managing nuclear reactors" as things
that people with MBAs should avoid.
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As opposed to, say, managing a fast food joint or perhaps even a
ball-bearing plant [1]. Things where they aren't likely to actually
kill people by using their education.
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[1] This may presuppose that the customers test sample the product to
ensure that it is acceptable. Then again, fast food joints may be
subject to health inspections that keep the quality up.

Waterloo Region makes available the results of inspections or at
least those where the restaurants failed. It's always interesting
to see what regulations restaurants consider sometimes regulations
and to think about what they'd do if nobody was watching.

My namesake uncle went from the USN to working as a chef
in high end restaurants. One result was that he never ate out
if he could avoid it, preferring food he prepared himself and
knew had not involved... short cuts.

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