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[Urwumpe]

I figure I'll start out on either St. Barts or St. Maarten. Then gradually expand until my domination of the Caribbean is complete. uhh, I mean until I've, uhh. Nevermind. :shifty:

Nuclear pirates, yo ho?

 

[tl8]

I do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Generating_Station

I didn't realise it was a commissioning. That is pretty cool.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

WBN1 went commercial in 1997, unit 2 should be commecial this year. The actual date is a moving target, currently trying for July.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Nuclear pirates, yo ho?

It's hard to enjoy the Caribbean sun in a nuclear submarine. Bring the NS Savannah out of mothballs. Word I have is that she was a party ship back in the day.

 

[Urwumpe]

It's hard to enjoy the Caribbean sun in a nuclear submarine. Bring the NS Savannah out of mothballs. Word I have is that she was a party ship back in the day.

Why not the Otto Hahn?

Also pretty legendary among its sailors.

 

[n122vu]

Nuclear pirates, yo ho?

"Welcome to Ramius' Bar and Grill, where we don't care how drunk you get, as long as you remember things in here don't react well to bullets."

 

[Andy44]

"Welcome to Ramius' Bar and Grill, where we don't care how drunk you get, as long as you remember things in here don't react well to bullets."

"Also, it's okay for Russians to speak with a Scottish accent, as long as you are also the original James Bond."

 

[Loru]

"Also, it's okay for Russians to speak with a Scottish accent, as long as you are also the original James Bond."

And you have dinosaur specialist as henchman...

 

[Urwumpe]

"Also, it's okay for Russians to speak with a Scottish accent, as long as you are also the original James Bond."

"Its always cold in Scotland."

 

[n122vu]

"Also, it's okay for Russians to speak with a Scottish accent, as long as you are also the original James Bond."

 

[Quick_Nick]

The FAA just released guidelines on commercial drone use. They're still requiring visual line-of-sight, which basically makes commercial use nonviable, but waivers are hypothetically obtainable for most parts of the new rules.

The FAA also seems to be inching toward the term 'drone' applying to commercial use and 'model aircraft' applying to recreational use. But it is extremely blurry, and determining who needs to register what is all but a guess.

 

[Urwumpe]

The FAA just released guidelines on commercial drone use. They're still requiring visual line-of-sight, which basically makes commercial use nonviable, but waivers are hypothetically obtainable for most parts of the new rules.

The FAA also seems to be inching toward the term 'drone' applying to commercial use and 'model aircraft' applying to recreational use. But it is extremely blurry, and determining who needs to register what is all but a guess.

So it is going to become the same mess as it is in Germany already. There are exceptions planned to visual line-of-sight, but right now it not possible. The current change to the existing laws was stopped short of de facto banning model aircraft together with drones, by making it so expensive to fly one, that nobody can afford it (like by expecting a registration and pilot license).

 

[n122vu]

 

[birdmanmike]

Hilaria*se

 

[jedidia]

whoops, I just found out that there was a fairly technical presentation on the procedural generation in no man's sky somewhen last year, and I never heard of it.

Nothing groundbreaking, but there's a few interesting concepts in there.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well, there are a sparse handful of managers who actually do know the equipment. The problem I see here is that the "finish line" is so close and this project is so over schedule and over buget that we've got a lot of corporate oversight by a bunch of bozos. These bozos in question are actually pretty smart, within their own realm of expertise. There are masters of regulatory requirements and procedures. They just don't know how most of the equipment works. Almost anybody can read up, study and memorize how is supposed to work; but there's no replacement for seeing is in action after tearing it down and rebuilding it. The best ones though; they'll hear the problem. Ask for input (starting with the junior guy in the room, there's a reason for that), and make a decision (if I agree with it is irrelevent it's not my neck on the block).

One or two guys have asked us for input and run with it, getting on their phones to either get parts for us or engineering support or whatever we need. I'll do whatever I can for a good manager. They are hard to come by.

I was definitely one of the "office engineers", a PhD *gasp* (though not a manager, so I couldn't do too much damage ). I think that is why I left industry to teach, because strangely enough it was so damned hard to get out of the office and actually get into plants and see the nuts and bolts. I'm now blessed to work at a maritime academy with a lot of great old chief engineers and plant engineers and a great old steam ship to romp around in. Our last cruise I was allowed to do assessments in the engine room which meant a lot to me (meant getting out of the damned classroom, for one).

There are definitely some PhD/manager types that don't know what to do without their laptop computer and an Internet connection, and I hate to be lumped in with that crowd just because of having a PhD. There are also some wrench swingers that can be really hard to work with too. But if you work in a place where everyone can put their pride on the shelf and riff off each other, each teaching the other what they know, that's a pretty awesome place to be.

If you have someone with brains who gets the math and physics and thermodynamics and knows what to do with the hardware, stand back and get that person a cup of coffee. To me that's the classic definition of an engineer. That's what I dream of seeing in our students, and we do put out some students that have this happy mix.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Holy Moly! One of the girls/women that worked in outage control is here on her last night of work. She's got this nearly sheer top on that doesn't leave much to the imagination...

I'm not one to oggle, but it is taking a lot of willpower to maintain eye contact.

I think she did it on purpose.

 

[Urwumpe]

Holy Moly! One of the girls/women that worked in outage control is here on her last night of work. She's got this nearly sheer top on that doesn't leave much to the imagination...

I'm not one to oggle, but it is taking a lot of willpower to maintain eye contact.

I think she did it on purpose.

Well, you can't say, that she is working fully transparently...

 

[C3PO]

I'm all for transparency in the workplace, but everything can be overdone. :thumbup:

... aaaaand now I'll be humming Rodney Carrington for the rest of the day. Thanks for that..... #Show them to me....#

 

[Urwumpe]

If you look for a way to make old sailors blush: Let them listen to the curses of programmers who are forced by bean counter mother to develop a large C application on a remote IDE via X11 forwarding over terribly overloaded switches. :beathead:. Right now I am typing in 30 second leaps... type word, wait, wait, wait, check for typos, next word.... :rant:

Having a MBA is no fix for lacking a brain! :facts: