Posts by ThotuWasAToad

redwing7 wrote:

That's true but I'm seeing they're not getting it done on time. Now maybe they're overloaded. That could be the case, but here are 2 recent examples.

I was brought into a plant because they needed lines badly. They contacted me in desperate need of parts in 4 weeks. Nobody else would do it. It took 3 weeks for them to call me into the plant and needed 28 lines built in 10 days. 2 of the lines that included flexible hose, crimps, machined parts and braze. In the meeting the lead engineer said he didn't even have the concept done for those 2 lines.

WTF, they need parts but don't know what they need. Build date was soon them so they were in panic mode. I made out very well on that one.

The other is a clusterfuck caused by using components that have no business being on the assembly. Just like I told them in the beginning, this will cause quality issues. And the poor fucker left holding the bag a a major project with serious quality issues, I just found out he's an intern.

Shits out of control in the EV world.

I'm just riding it out hoping to make a buck.

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Honestly none of that would be uncommon in other industries.

That's just American corporate culture these days. Everything is run by spreadsheet, per a schedule that's rarely if ever met. Every project enters a phase of blame and panic as the next unrealistic deadline approaches.

I don't have a fix for this except:

Cover your ass and make hay while the sun is shining. There is no adult at the helm

redwing7 wrote:

In certain cases it already is. But a big problem is the lack of experience in the engineering dept. in ALL of these new car companies. There will be big problems with many of them. The way I see it is that all these newbs are running and scrambling to catch Tesla. And Tesla in turn is running to try to stay ahead.

A real engineer with some mechanical background (Like Twat) would be worth their weight in gold.

Thing is that at most companies, decisions are made via spreadsheet. Millennial engineers straight out of college don't cost as much as an experienced engineer. And they can put out a lot of work... in terms of number of 'completed' designs, documents, HR goals, etc. Things might be different if management was able to distinguish between quantity and quality.

That's not easy to put on a spreadsheet though. Quantity is very easy to prove. Numbers that are provable and defensible win the day. That's decidedly *not* the same thing as sound judgment. But that's not the goal either.

It's all about covering one's ass and making hay while the sun is shining. Project viability beyond the next deadline is usually an afterthought... if it's a thought at all.

Mr No Name wrote:

i hope so

What sort of thing do you hope happened?

I think Cold War II has been going on for years.

I still wonder about that earthquake.

It's like that explosion in China that came just a few days after the NYSE was hacked, if my shitty memory serves. They said a shipping container exploded. I can't help but wonder if there's a lot more to that story.

Assi wrote:

I've learned a lot, toad. I wasn't aware of all the orange dick around me, and all I need to do to get your opinion is goggle.

I'm seeing so clearly that I'm joining you in a bote for the Indian squaw. Mayba a madeoman foreign policy is what we need. Hopefully her emotional stability will create a market where teepees can be great again

lazs wrote:

Twat.... that was a pretty ironic statement considering that it is the left who has been putting party before country.

lazs

lazs wrote:

I bet he will not ease up on the rhetoric... it will be Trump rally gold.

The knee jerk lefties are the real losers in this.

lazs

Party before country. Typical.

Holden wrote:

I know that seismologists can discern between nuclear and natural seismic waves. Treaties have been policed by this technique for decades.

I know that too.

I also know that such information is tightly controlled. For obvious reasons.

But sure, go ahead and take this at face value. Even if you're wrong, we likely won't know about it for years or decades.

Assi wrote:

Clearly, Trump is a has a madman foreign policy.

It's on Google. Look it up.

Derp.

If you weren't so busy gobbling that orange cock, you'd realize that 'mad-man foreign policy' isn't necessarily a criticism... so much as an observation.

Nobody really knows what the fuck Trump is gonna do at any moment. If used correctly, that can be a powerful thing.

Holden wrote:

In China in April 1999 seismic waves were detected originating from 29 km below the surface. They originated so deep within the Earth that they could, therefore, only be from an earthquake. On the other hand in May 1998, an Indian nuclear test resulted in 72 different seismic signals at stations around the world. On the same day there were 57 other seismic events which scientists were able to distinguish from the nuclear test.

Do you believe everything you're told?

Sluggo wrote:

I bring that up because many lefties apparently think that the precision strike against the terrorist was unprovoked. For some reason.

You'll have to take that argument up with them. That's not how I see it.

I'm not entirely sure that I agree with Trump's strategery so far. But there's a lot of shit that we peasants don't know... and won't know for years if ever.

Trump's got every reason to try and produce a favorable outcome for the U.S. here. And in that I wish him luck

If this thing turns into an actual war, I support whatever the fuck produces good outcomes for Merica. Even if that benefits the likes of Trump.

Few on the Right ever gave Obama even that much support. They've made it clear via both rhetoric and policy that they'd rather watch our country burn than give the Left credit for *anything*.

Sluggo wrote:

They attacked our embassy.

Which is why I haven't had any particular complaints about Trump's response so far. That could change as we learn more of course. But for now- taken at face value- I think Tinyhands has done a decent job with this confrontation.

He may be a piece of shit, but as long as he remains *our* piece of shit, I'm giving him some benefit of the doubt.

That could change as we learn more... I've been wrong before

Assi wrote:

Define Trump's madman approach to foreign policy.

Take that orange dick outta your mouth and fucking google it.

Slamfire wrote:

More it goes the more it looks like the Iranians fired some impotent token blank shots. Basically tough talk from the bunker shit just to save face internally.

I hope you're right. And I hope Trump's mad-man approach to foreign policy is effective.

I'm not saying it should be tolerated. That's not up to me. I'm just saying that I think this non-fatal attack was designed to *allow* a face-saving de-escalation. What Trump chooses to do with that... I wouldn't attempt to guess.

But here's the question that kept me awake last night: that earthquake yesterday. Was that an underground nuclear test?

Did Iran detonate an underground nuke *while* attacking a U. S. base... AND shoot down a 737 (possibly with someone important aboard). All in one evening?

If that's what happened, then I think we're already at war.

-gg- wrote:

But when they hit the Saudi oil fields, they were hitting pretty precise targets.

The air base they hit is the size of a small city. There's huge open spaces. I'm thinking they targeted open areas far from any Americans or structures. There's no way in hell that they were going to do anything, I thought. I think this is just as some of you said. Iran had to do something to save face. They probably even opened back channels to the US to make sure we new what the idea was.

I don't think a response in in order if nothing got hit and no one got injured. I think Trump made a clear point that we are not going to tolerate Iran's bullshit. I think Iran got the point. They are going to pipe the fuck down now.

If any Americans got killed, it's fucking on. No way around that.

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Yeah, those oil field attacks pretty well show that the Iranians could have killed American troops here, but chose not to.

I think that's a good sign from several angles.

If Iran didn't in fact kill any Americans, that shows one of two things IMO:

Either they are incompetent.

Or they have deliberately left a path toward face-saving de-escalation open.

Any guesses as to what Trump's response will be? He won't let this go unanswered.

Assi wrote:

A decade outta be sufficient.

Is that how long it took you to figure out that Shrub War II was a waste of American lives and money?

I will report though that the hard-lefties I know who actually follow this sort of thing... they're shitting bricks right now.