Berlin's new airport's fire alarm/suppression system didn't work. The solution? Interns!
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Well, I live in the middle, so I guess I'm perfectly normal...
No, I infected you already.
I moved from the East coast to CA
Spent 20 yrs in between those 2.
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That's how they build them to begin with. Saves all that tedious mucking about with scaffolding.
Oh wow, so advanced. So they just have to brush the dirt off after?
That's probably the trick in how they're going to erect the world's tallest building.
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True, you're in what i like to call "the land of it's too fucking hot to ■■■■"
If you say so …
Looks beautiful for this weekend.
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@accalia said:
True, you're in what i like to call "the land of it's too fucking hot to ■■■■"
If you say so …
Looks beautiful for this weekend.
trople degree heat?i stand by what i said before, you're in "the land of it's too fucking hot to ■■■■"
/me prefers a room temperature of 65°F (18°C)
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/me prefers a room temperature of 65°F (18°C)
You can still have that. There's this wonderful invention called "air conditioning." Combine that with sun screens on your windows (a necessity if you want to sleep past 4:00 AM in the summer anyway), low-e windows, high-R insulation, and you should have no trouble getting that cool without breaking the bank.
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Oh wow, so advanced. So they just have to brush the dirt off after?
That's probably the trick in how they're going to erect the world's tallest building.
That one's a bit tall for a crane, so I expect to see a lot of helium balloons.
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I would think their neighbors to the east would have that honor.
The probable difference is that in the West, the Law enforcement system is less corrupt so this sort of stuff comes to light "quicker". In the East, we only get find out when a building made of substandard materials collapses, and only then if a Westerner gets hurt.
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Alien is a relative term. Anybody that is not native is, by definition, alien. The question then becomes: Who is native?
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who lives in my nose
Left or right nostril? This is important as it will determine the leanings of the controlling influence.
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No no no. Baggage follows you around wherever you go, unless you can escape it by getting on a plane. It's the blue sky thinking (which can be very aesthetic, if not ethereal) that gets sucked up to eventually join all the normal ideas that went out of the window. Which is kinda ironic because it's that sort of idealistic thinking that causes the rational ones to be chucked in the first place.
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Spent 20 yrs in between those 2.
And here's me thinking our railway infrastructure is slow and inefficient.
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He was "...untimely ripped..."
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Damn Germans, why must they suck at engineering?
Because the German engineers' boss says so. As is clearly stated in the fine print, you get the features you order, you get the quality you pay for. No more, no less.
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Actually, it's a Dutch company responsible for the fire alarm system.
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That explains it then ...
Those coffeeshop meetings where a bad idea
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Those coffeeshop meetings where a bad idea
“where a bad idea” WHAT?! Does the bad idea jump up on the tables and start dancing to '80s disco tracks? Or does it pull a 70 cm long dragon dildo out of its ass and start dipping it in the shop's supply of civet-produced beans? <Going for the word-is-missing effect here>
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Because the German engineers' boss says so. As is clearly stated in the fine print, you get the features you order, you get the quality you pay for. No more, no less.
Actually, it seems more like they adopted software-development best-practices for that project. That is, ever-changing requirements & specs, feature creep, outsourcing to multiple different companies/contractors that don't get to talk to each other, and so on. I mean, they even got to the point where people are seriously considering the rewrite-from-scratch to be a viable solution.
Filed under: Yay for software-development best practices.
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They've already got the architecture astronauts and the existing solution that's wildly idiotic, all to fix something that wasn't a big problem in the first place. Yep, reminds me of SW-dev…
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Again, the contractors actually like it when their internal communication is sub-par.
Because then everything takes longer which makes them more money. There's no incentive to be actually efficient, which is where the real problem lies.
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a 70 cm long dragon dildo
The Netherlands, Coffeeshops & sex shops ... are they located in Amsterdam?
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There's no incentive to be actually efficient, which is where the real problem lies.
That's the problem with cost-plus pricing, and it's been known to be a problem for a long time.
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And here's me thinking our railway infrastructure is slow and inefficient.
That's cause I drove. Got lost in a couple potholes for a while.
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Actually, it seems more like they adopted software-development best-practices for that project. That is, ever-changing requirements & specs, feature creep
but but but... WE'RE AGILE!
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Baggage follows you around wherever you go, unless you can escape it by getting on a plane.
You have mistaken baggage for luggage.
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That's a bad illustration right there
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Who'da thunk it? The German part of the company (Imtech) largely responsible for this whole mess is bankrupt.
And since the main branch is not financially isolated, it will most likely lead to bankruptcy for the whole corporation.
Well, 2017 as the opening year is quite doubtful now. Not bad, considering that 2012 was planned as the original opening year.
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And since the main branch is not financially isolated
TRWTF has been identified. There's no point in being a bunch of unethical scumbags if you can't also make sure that you can make out like bandits when everything collapses. Unless the real people concerned have done this using some privately-held thing off to the side…
Pass the popcorn!