that was how the lockerbie plane blew

Post #46,059 by boxley 7/19/02 8:59:57 AM Reply	that was how the lockerbie plane blew Swarthy male using white female. You want good airport security? Hire pit bosses from Vegas and professional hard entry thieves from the east coast. Either can spot a con or a mark in a second and both can tell a sleazoid with bad intentions from an identical looking college dude on his way to a wedding. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #46,106 by Ashton 7/19/02 4:07:48 PM Reply	Exactamente! We don't want to face things ever. There is a combination of 'training' but also instinct, art and above all Interest. That plus an ability to actually pay Attention: to small AND large things. In peoples 'presentation of self', their expressions and much else. Few possess all; some possess assortments of these qualities for being an actually Good Observer\ufffd. Most of us are way-low on the scale of each. You PAY for {another dead TLA-killed word} excellence. Hiring Min-wage$ to do Everything is just.. Sooo.. Murican. Why we have ignorant PHBs in charge of Anything! - even if, as is often the case - our lives depended upon their performance. (Remember NT on the Warships? Dead-in-water.. but only occasionally..) ..for YAN reboot or RRR. ..for tracking down that new Secure-DLL-oxymoron. I think.. we'd cheerfully put everyone in lockstep before.. going to the root of any of our large problems. Warz, Drugs, medicine, education, Fundamentalist-assassins, Corrupt governance in now All Three Branches... Introspection is NOT US. <<< $$ R US. Ashton
Post #46,265 by mhuber 7/21/02 2:42:27 AM Reply	Can't we just put better procedures in place? And punish the min-wage drones severely if they try to think? It works for everything else, doesn't it? ---- United we stand Divided we dominate the planet without really trying
Post #46,397 by jb4 7/22/02 2:09:07 PM Reply	You see, Ash, that's the problem! Few possess all; some possess assortments of these qualities for being an actually Good Observer\ufffd. Most of us are way-low on the scale of each. You PAY for {another dead TLA-killed word} excellence. [emphasis added] That's the problem. Skill, and its twin brother, excellence, are the enemy of Management. Skill COSTS. MONEY. And it is not as easy to find. Management wants nothing but interchangeable parts. "Give me a hard time, and yer outta here." "Your kind is a dime-a-dozen." (Corollary: "My kind is irreplaceable!") So, instead of hiring skill, Management hires least-common-denominator volume. And we get...what we got! jb4 "I remember Harry S. Truman's sign on his desk. 'The buck stops here.' Strange how those words, while still true, mean something completely different today." -- Brandioch
Post #46,464 by Ashton 7/23/02 12:14:18 AM Reply	And it kinda makes discussion superfluous. That is, I cannot imagine Anything capable of overriding this predisposition - it may even be in the water. Logic? reason? ed-ja-aky-shun?... nahhh. It appears that once Management whispers yer one of Us now.. better upgrade that Suit.. - any prior smarts drains to just below the spleen, as the Remake begins. Ashton

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