WMATA crash & track circuits

On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:56:47 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

The eindhoven lab has its merits, I almost worked there. They just did not want to pay enough. But Philips is a multinational, and run by a computer, Been to the Evoluon? I was once, maybe 100 years ago (very long time anyways), and even then it was run by a computer, You could have a try there, in that exposition, I did see some try and bankrupt it. But that was a simulation of course. But when the computer decides that there is more $ elsewhere, say China, then in China it will be next. There is some political will, but Philips has blackmailed the NL gov in the past, I remember that. they just say: If you do not do this or that, then we will move xxx jobs to yyy (out of the country). Of course that ends when no jobs are left... As I stated, it is now the multinationals that run the show, and the US is ONE of their playgrounds. If they think they have a better play elsewhere, then they will leave, and the climate is not that good at the moment in the US.

Yes, loved it, and later it was closed :-(

bankrupt it.

past,

country).

of their playgrounds.

climate is not that good

Right now you can get some of the sweetest deals ever in the US. Company buildings, top notch engineers, equipment and bargain prices, you name it. There is a fairly new gym up the road from here, I kind of predicted they wouldn't make it when they opened, and they didn't make it. Been empty since early last year AFAIR and probably bank-owned. I drool every time I drive by but I don't need a building. I bet you can have that really cheap. Perfect to put a cleanroom in there, tons of parking, nice area.

With sufficient redundancy, there should be at least one working system until the next sceduled preventive maintenance. Let the mountain/smoke stack climbing specialists do the preventive maintenance.

In hydroelectric production systems might run for 70-100 years, although only the building and generator might be original. Everything else might have been replaced during the decades in a rolling upgrade.

To goal is to keep your preventive maintenance time at least one hour shorter than the mechanical PM time etc.

If you are successfull, you are a hero, however, if others have to wait for you, there are going to be some nasty comments.

Paul

That's why I like to design a tad more robust than needed. So there'd be comments like "Can't remember when the last one broke". The best was a service guy who said he now feels like the Maytag man. This was the guy in the ads crunching walnuts because no calls came in.

On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:22:46 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Yes, all good and well, but that is because industry is having a bad time. Son Of A Bush's disastrous financial policies and oil price peaking has caused great problems for airlines, car industry, and it's supporting industry. And what consumers spend more on fuel, leaves them less for purchasing goods. That then breaks the retail chains. Yes, for research, if you can get cheap scientist and equipment it makes sense to at this moment be in the US. But do not underestimate the education effort China, Japan and other countries make. And the sheer number of graduates that leave their universities each year. It could become very attractive to go there.

Not so. Gas is quite cheap here in comparison to your area. About $0.90 per liter. What broke the camel's back was the repealing of the Glass-Steagall act and that happened under Clinton's watch. This act had been put in place in 1933 after the great depression, to present another massive failure of the financial system. Obviously the lessons our forefathers learned have been forgotten.

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It is not sheer numbers that make a scientific community shine. You need Hewletts and Packards and Kilbys and Moores and ...

On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:25:21 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Well your airlines did not think gas was cheap now did they?

As to the Glass-Steagall act, that was repealed by REPUBLICANS:

Talk about numbers, do you not think that the chance that 1 million smart people come up with a cool idea is bigger then 100 thousand?

Basically, referring to the previous paragraph, Son Of A Bush just ripped of your country, the profit went to the oil producing ones, his masters in Saudi Arabia, and he is the one who helped Putin the most, modern Russia and Putin's power is build on oil revenue. But he (Son Of A Bush) also robbed your countries purse, the democrats left a surplus, while after Bush's idiotic war spending there was a deficit and a hole. He then robbed it again by creating a panic in the financial markets, in very much the same way he created a panic by letting 9/11 happen, and was warning for an Al Quada under your bed... The masses fall for that. Then he let this funny trader create such an incredible volatility (remember volatility is what Wall street LOVES), that some rich friends of him could buy up lots of good stuff for almost free, And then the joker started printing money by the billions for his friends. And for all that the taxpayer payed.

It was actually Nixon (an other repugebican president) who disconnected the dollar from the gold. So, anyways, blame it all on Son Of A Bush. See, it is big oil that runs the show, and that will stay as long as oil supplies the energy. Why do you think no new nuke plants were build? Big oil will support envirowiners to oppose nuke plants. Oh, am I getting carried away, what was the subject again? Oh and on the subject of nuke plant accidents, how many more die in oil and coal production each year, then have ever died because of some nuclear mishap (not counting Hiroshima and Nagasaki)? Numbers. Anyways, this is not us.politics, I post there too. Wanna go there and continue this?

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A good leader does not shy away from such difficulty. He should have vetoed it no matter what. I would have.

people

All it takes is one. I do not believe at all that numbers make it happen. What does make it happen is the utmost in entrepreneurial freedom.

your country,

is the one who helped Putin

and a hole.

volatility is what Wall street LOVES),

dollar from the gold.

supplies the energy.

coal production each year,

Nagasaki)?

No, because obviously it would not make much sense.

Sure he was. Every company keeps fat, lazy old men on their payroll for service calls that never come in. And NASA really uses the Energizer bunny to power the space shuttle, too. never mind the fact that Lithium batteries were not allowed in any of the electronics we built for NASA's space applications.

that train

many=20

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the billions

moon base, mars base even.

years.

ALSO has one ISA slot.

already a newer thing but cannot remember

bit with google.

control of the Iranian resources, and up the oil price.

it too.

then becomes unimportant as expert area, other countries

China, perhaps currency Euro) changing US into a third world like

stockpile, some self named generals, or

impress others, that will be misunderstood by

countries in Asia, and the owners are all there

because it is better to play war far from your bed.

who started WW3, but it could as well be US rebels.

Gosh Jan, what a utopian you are. $8=3DP