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You have a constitution that is designed to prevent one man at the head of one agency deciding he doesn't like blacks, or communists or Jews or Muslims.

Instead you need at least the supreme court to decide you don't like these people. If you are allowed to tell phone companies to break the law and you will pardon them later - where do you stop?

The astronomer Freeman Dyson was part of the operational analysis team in WWII that worked out it made most sense to only search for and attack refuelling and resupply U-Boats (milkcows)

The Vulcan flight gear famously included hiking boots so the crews could walk to Turkey after completing their mission

And if your hiring is based on 'all we need is C++ programmers' and everybody who 'knows' C++ is equivalent - then that's what you do.

The disconnect is that can (or want to) hire college graduates for $25K - or preferably as unpaid interns.

They don't want to hire 20year experience engineers for $100K

Fiorina destroyed HP as a great engineering company turning it into a printer ink marketing scam.

Hurd managed to get almost every remaining engineer to leave - see the stories posted here at the time.

Hurd is the guy who managed to single handedly destroy the remains of HP's engineering ability. I give it about a week before the last Sun guy leaves.

Of course this could be a cunning plan to avoid the costs of redundancy payments - hire Hurd and watch all your best engineers resign for free.

You may also wish to connect each drawer to the AC power ground on it's PSU

The British vulcan bombers of the same era had the range to reach Moscow - but not the range to return to the UK.

It's what's known in graphic design as a GMST = Generic Meaningless Swoosh thing.

Those were erected as tourist things by hotel chains.

There is Cleopatra's needle in the centre of London - but it wouldn't make sense to have the pyramids and Sphinx as the symbol for London 2012.

It was representing an inukshuk - native eskimo culture that is about as far from Vancouver as Mexio is. Culturally it would have made as much sense to have an easer island statue.

Not to mention the transmitter power you would need if they were 25,000miles away in GSO rather than 90mi away in LEO

This did meet the requirements for what it would be used for.

Intended to be based in Germany in the 60s facing the Russians it wouldn't be powered up for 600 hours, because in 60 hours you would have been overrun.

Same in software - an application that fills a business purpose but has bugs or "errors" is correct.

An error free perfect piece of software hat doesn't is useless

Thats the difference between maths and engineering.

A proof that has a single exception is wrong, a brige that stays up with a broken rivet is correct

Siemens took over the BBC's R+D depts as part of the outsourcing deal which means they now run pretty much all the technical services.

BBC outsources to Siemens,

This includes handing over all it's unique skills

Siemens, then bills the BBC for stuff it already knew how to do.

Management demonstrates with many Powerpoints how this is saving everybody money.