Re: The Warm Equations

On 8/9/2024 8:38 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 8/9/24 13:45, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/9/2024 11:57 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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Anytime any engineering business names an accountant as the CEO, write
it off.  Boeing did so several years ago.  The accountants will drive
the costs to zero no matter what happens to the employees.

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When I was a kid, Boeing, Lockheed, and Douglas all had presidents who
were certified to fly their company's products and sometimes did.
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This is no longer the case; it is as if General Motors was run by someone
who couldn't drive.
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Note that Air Tractor's president can fly his company's products.  Not
sure about Cessna or Piper anymore.
--scott

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Hughes Aircraft too.
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Lynn
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     Commodore Business machines was a business employing
competent and inventive engineers but the guy to took it
over was a financier and he took it into bankruptcy in 1994
to get his money back.  Doing so he killed a good but simple
GUI Interface though you can get some Amigas today, paying as
alway a premium, as well as emulators for Window and Linux.
But I learned enough about computers from AmigaOS to move
to Linux without much pain but the bean counters have killed
a lot of great things.
      bliss

"True Stories From A Former Car Dealer #15: Ignition Switches" by: Jerry Reynolds
  https://www.carpro.com/true-stories/true-stories-from-a-former-car-dealer-15-ignition-switches
"For the quality summit, we decided to look at Ford Focus ignition switches. It was a major problem for customers of this new car and a real headache for the dealers. Focus owners would put their key in the ignition switch, but it would not come out. That meant owners of Focus had to leave the key in their car making it susceptible to theft or call their Ford dealer."
"From there, we went to the Wixom Assembly Plant where the Thunderbird was made, and gathered in a large conference room to specifically dissect the Focus ignition switches. Someone handed each of us an ignition switch complete with key so we could examine them. We were shown why the switches were failing at such a high rate. It was really quite interesting, and easy to see why the failure rate was so high. They collected those back from us and handed each of us the new and improved switch from a different supplier."
"We could see and feel the new switches were heavier and seemed better constructed. At this point, I am feeling pretty good about what we were being told. They opened the floor for questions, and one dealer asked how much more the new switches were than the old ones. The answer was fifty cents."
"The next question was from me. I wanted to know when the new switches started being used. The answer I got left me speechless for a moment. We were told there were "5000 of the old switches left, and as soon as those ran out, they would switch to the new ones.""
Lynn