Did I not explain it very well?
 

Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

Did I not explain it very well?
 

On Mar 25, 4:28*pm, Bill Wright wrote:
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

There's no fool greater than the incredibly well paid ones.
My god some of the stuff I have to put up with in my business makes me
shudder.

My brother used to work as a chemical engineer, and after the recent
acquisition of a colour plotter (this was 20 years ago) could show his
exec the detailed breakdown, in a nice coloured graph, of the output
from a laser mass spectrometer. The boss sent his lackey down to the
workshops later in the day asking if he could get his tie embossed
with a nice stripe using the new 'laser plotter colour device'.
o_O

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:03 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

People do have weird and wonderful ideas. My great aunt was not a CEO
though.

Did I not explain it very well?
 

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know and
what you don't need to know.

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On 25/03/2011 16:59, Scott wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:03 +0000, Bill
wrote:


Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.


My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

People do have weird and wonderful ideas. My great aunt was not a CEO
though.

Yes, my Grandmother had the same belief and used to go around her house
switching off all the 15A and 5A sockets in case the electricity leaked
out. Fair play she was in her 70s in 1947 or so.
Don

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:40:44 +0000, Donwill
wrote:

On 25/03/2011 16:59, Scott wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:03 +0000, Bill
wrote:


Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.


My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

People do have weird and wonderful ideas. My great aunt was not a CEO
though.

Yes, my Grandmother had the same belief and used to go around her house
switching off all the 15A and 5A sockets in case the electricity leaked
out.

It is not so silly for someone who doesn't understand electricity. After
all we turn off taps in kitchens and bathrooms to prevent water being
lost. The difference with electricity is that it is invisible so you
can't see it flowing out of a socket!

Fair play she was in her 70s in 1947 or so.
Don

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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In article ,
Scott wrote:
My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

Think lots still do by all these dummy plugs you see around...

--
*One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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"Jumbo Jack" wrote in message
...

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know
and what you don't need to know.

The CEO had been given the knowledge. He just didn't process it very well,
which is necessary for most jobs I would have thought.

--
Max Demian

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Scott wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:03 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

People do have weird and wonderful ideas. My great aunt was not a CEO
though.
My grandma used to take the light bulbs out in winter in the
outbuildings in case the electric froze up and burst the wires.

Bill

Did I not explain it very well?
 

Jumbo Jack wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know and
what you don't need to know.


Yes but his job is primarily about assimilating information and making
good use of it. Don't forget these people step into top jobs in
industries about which they know nothing. This isn't about knowledge, as
such.

Bill

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Max Demian wrote:

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know
and what you don't need to know.

The CEO had been given the knowledge. He just didn't process it very well,
which is necessary for most jobs I would have thought.


That's exactly it.

Bill

Did I not explain it very well?
 

On Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 17:34:40h +0000, Jumbo Jack suggested:

So its what you know and what you don't need to know.

No, it is who knows you that counts.

How much did George Osborne know about running the finances
of a nation before he was appointed to the job?

He does not even have a degree in economics, but one in
modern history.

How much did Charles Allen know about running a TV company?
Nothing, and look at the mess he made of it.

Did I not explain it very well?
 

Bill Wright wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you
know and what you don't need to know.

The CEO had been given the knowledge. He just didn't process it very
well, which is necessary for most jobs I would have thought.


That's exactly it.

Bill

I also know of a person in a 'top job' who cannot find her way about at
all, either by use of a map or a satnav. Nor can she organise her
private life, and her judgement of people must be pretty bad from the

Another example was the educated lady who declared that a new office had
far too many electric points on the dado trunking. "You don't need all
those you know! Haven't you seen those things that are a sort of strip
of electric sockets? You just plug it into one socket on the wall and
then you can plug about six things into it all at once. I got one from
the Radio Times and it's brilliant!"

It's that sort of blind ignorance coupled with supreme confidence in
one's knowledge, so typical of the arts educated elite in this country
that leads to these people pontificating about windfarms and other
environmental issues.

Bill

Did I not explain it very well?
 

"J G Miller" wrote in message
...
On Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 17:34:40h +0000, Jumbo Jack suggested:

So its what you know and what you don't need to know.

No, it is who knows you that counts.

How much did George Osborne know about running the finances
of a nation before he was appointed to the job?

He does not even have a degree in economics, but one in
modern history.

Exactly - and what a ****ing mess he's making of it!!!!! But then again, his
£4.6m keeps him cushioned from any of the effects of his inept meddling.

Did I not explain it very well?
 

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know
and what you don't need to know.

The CEO had been given the knowledge. He just didn't process it very
well, which is necessary for most jobs I would have thought.


That's exactly it.

Bill

I also know of a person in a 'top job' who cannot find her way about at
all, either by use of a map or a satnav. Nor can she organise her private
life, and her judgement of people must be pretty bad from the

Another example was the educated lady who declared that a new office had
far too many electric points on the dado trunking. "You don't need all
those you know! Haven't you seen those things that are a sort of strip of
electric sockets? You just plug it into one socket on the wall and
then you can plug about six things into it all at once. I got one from the
Radio Times and it's brilliant!"

It's that sort of blind ignorance coupled with supreme confidence in one's
knowledge, so typical of the arts educated elite in this country that
leads to these people pontificating about windfarms and other
environmental issues.

Bill

but she's earning more than thee.....

Did I not explain it very well?
 

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Jumbo Jack wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know
and what you don't need to know.
Yes but his job is primarily about assimilating information and making
good use of it. Don't forget these people step into top jobs in industries
about which they know nothing. This isn't about knowledge, as such.

Bill

so you know he did that then...please explain how.

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and bolting on aerials and using a signal finder is SOOOO difficult.

Did I not explain it very well?
 

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:50:08 -0000, "Jumbo Jack"
wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and bolting on aerials and using a signal finder is SOOOO difficult.

I'm not in the business, but I have a very clear impression that there
are many people for whom "bolting on aerials and using a signal finder"
so as to get good results is very very difficult.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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In article , Jumbo Jack
scribeth thus

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know and
what you don't need to know.



And who you know to get those jobs in the first place;!...
--
Tony Sayer

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"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:50:08 -0000, "Jumbo Jack"
wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you
go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking
up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not have
Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and bolting on aerials and using a signal finder is SOOOO difficult.

I'm not in the business, but I have a very clear impression that there
are many people for whom "bolting on aerials and using a signal finder"
so as to get good results is very very difficult.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

for you maybe but tinkers seem to be able to do it...

Did I not explain it very well?
 

It's that sort of blind ignorance coupled with supreme confidence in
one's knowledge, so typical of the arts educated elite in this country
that leads to these people pontificating about windfarms and other
environmental issues.

Bill

Yes now that is really scary. That Merkel in Germany now wants to do
away with all the reactors they have and go renewables..

Just absolutely stupid rather than wait and see what went wrong and then
make informed -engineering- decisions on the matter..


--
Tony Sayer

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:22:25 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:



It's that sort of blind ignorance coupled with supreme confidence in
one's knowledge, so typical of the arts educated elite in this country
that leads to these people pontificating about windfarms and other
environmental issues.

Bill

Yes now that is really scary. That Merkel in Germany now wants to do
away with all the reactors they have and go renewables..

Just absolutely stupid rather than wait and see what went wrong and then
make informed -engineering- decisions on the matter..

I agree totally.

There is natural concentration on the six reactors that are in trouble
at the Fukushika No 1 (Daiichi) plant. However, there is a second plant
11.5 kilometres to the south, Fukushima No 2 (Daini) Nuclear Power
Plant, which has four reactors. These have not been in the news because
the problems there have been much less and manageable.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS...i_1403112.html

So it would be valuable to know what the differences are that resulted
in serious damage to one plant and much less serious to the other.

This website has news reports by people in the industry:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/fukushi...arthquake.html

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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On Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 20:22:25h +0000, Tony Sayer wrote:

That Merkel in Germany now wants to do away with all the reactors
they have and go renewables..

That may be the impression which Kanzler Merkel is giving at the present
time, but wait until after the state elections, and nothing much will change,
and it will be back to business as normal.

But there is certainly nothing wrong in trying to improve on the percentage
of power generated from renewables rather than other sources.

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"Scott" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:28:03 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.


As I remember it, most coffin dodgers feared that a light socket switched on
with no bulb in it would leak electricity and poison them like gas.

I knew a Hungarian car mechanic who refused to have a microwave oven because
he thought it was radioactive!

I even showed him a copy of the EM spectrum chart and pointed out where
microwaves were at the medium-high end of radio waves in comparison to IR
from his regular oven and radiation way over yonder beyond UV.

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Scott wrote:
My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

Think lots still do by all these dummy plugs you see around...


AFAIK those were originally intended to stop kiddies sticking things in the
holes.

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"Max Demian" wrote in message
...
"Jumbo Jack" wrote in message
...

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you know
and what you don't need to know.

The CEO had been given the knowledge. He just didn't process it very well,
which is necessary for most jobs I would have thought.


Its nothing unusual for suits to be thick as two short planks - its not what
you know, its who you know.

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"Jumbo Jack" wrote in message
...

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

and could you do his job.....I very much doubt it. So its what you
know and what you don't need to know.

The CEO had been given the knowledge. He just didn't process it very
well, which is necessary for most jobs I would have thought.


That's exactly it.

Bill

I also know of a person in a 'top job' who cannot find her way about at
all, either by use of a map or a satnav. Nor can she organise her private
life, and her judgement of people must be pretty bad from the

Another example was the educated lady who declared that a new office had
far too many electric points on the dado trunking. "You don't need all
those you know! Haven't you seen those things that are a sort of strip of
electric sockets? You just plug it into one socket on the wall and
then you can plug about six things into it all at once. I got one from
the Radio Times and it's brilliant!"

It's that sort of blind ignorance coupled with supreme confidence in
one's knowledge, so typical of the arts educated elite in this country
that leads to these people pontificating about windfarms and other
environmental issues.

Bill

but she's earning more than thee.....


The perfect place to clamp down on benefits.

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:16:51 +0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

Fukushika

? That spelling must be a radiation induced typo.

Fukushima.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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In article ,
Ian Field wrote:

Think lots still do by all these dummy plugs you see around...

AFAIK those were originally intended to stop kiddies sticking things in the
holes.

Many of them have the disadvantage that an enterprising child can
unplug them and then put them back upside down using just the earth
pin, thus unshielding the live and neutal.

-- Richard

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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:

Just absolutely stupid rather than wait and see what went wrong and then
make informed -engineering- decisions on the matter..

However, many of the problems were probably not engineering ones.

-- Richard

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In article , J G Miller wrote:

How much did George Osborne know about running the finances
of a nation before he was appointed to the job?

He does not even have a degree in economics, but one in
modern history.

Is there any evidence that chancellors with economics qualifications
make better decisions than those without? I imagine we have had a
fair sample of both.

-- Richard

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
...
On Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 17:34:40h +0000, Jumbo Jack suggested:

So its what you know and what you don't need to know.

No, it is who knows you that counts.

How much did George Osborne know about running the finances
of a nation before he was appointed to the job?


George Osmosis - nuff said.

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On 25/03/2011 16:28, Bill Wright wrote:
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/qu...bab141832.html

--
Ron

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In article ,
Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:

Just absolutely stupid rather than wait and see what went wrong and then
make informed -engineering- decisions on the matter..

However, many of the problems were probably not engineering ones.

like having a high enough wall to keep the tsunami out.

-- Richard

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:58:24 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:

In article ,
Richard Tobin wrote:
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:

Just absolutely stupid rather than wait and see what went wrong and then
make informed -engineering- decisions on the matter..

However, many of the problems were probably not engineering ones.

like having a high enough wall to keep the tsunami out.

That's easy if you know what size of tsunami to expect.

From this document published today by the World Nuclear Association:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/fu...nt_inf129.html

The design basis tsunami height is 5.7 m for Daiichi and 5.2 m for
Daini, though the plants were built higher than this above sea
level. Tsunami heights were reported as 14 metres for both plants.

That is in a country with plenty of knowledge and experience of
earthquakes and tsunamis.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

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Jumbo Jack wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Bill Wright wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

but she's earning more than thee.....

That's why I'm so mad about it.

Bill

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Jumbo Jack wrote:


This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

and bolting on aerials and using a signal finder is SOOOO difficult.

No it isn't, at least not when you're as good at it as I am. But that's
hardly the point.

I'm just marvelling at how some of these top dogs seem to be inept when
it comes to everyday life, and dealing with the sort of minor challenges
that we all face on a daily basis. I mean, if he'd been some sort of
unemployable thicko in a ****ty council flat I wouldn't have been
surprised, but...?

Anyway, what do you do for a living? It is difficult? For you?

Bill

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Peter Duncanson wrote:

I'm not in the business, but I have a very clear impression that there
are many people for whom "bolting on aerials and using a signal finder"
so as to get good results is very very difficult.

Yes, the trade does attract a lot of low life, tattooed bobble-hatted
buggers who smoke in the customer's house and don't even use spanners or
have a proper set of ladders.

Bill

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Ian Field wrote:

As I remember it, most coffin dodgers feared that a light socket switched on
with no bulb in it would leak electricity and poison them like gas.

I knew a Hungarian car mechanic who refused to have a microwave oven because
he thought it was radioactive!

I even showed him a copy of the EM spectrum chart and pointed out where
microwaves were at the medium-high end of radio waves in comparison to IR
from his regular oven and radiation way over yonder beyond UV.

But radioactivity is ionising radiation. It won't appear on an EM
spectrum chart.

Bill

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Ron Lowe wrote:
On 25/03/2011 16:28, Bill Wright wrote:
Last week I advised a customer as follows: Your terrestrial reception is
very poor. I can replace the aerial with a better one, but I can't give
you a 100% guarantee that reception will always be perfect. I suggest
you go for Freesat.

We discussed this at length.

The next day, I installed Freesat for him.

Today he rung to complain that although reception on the Freesat box was
perfect the picture when he didn't use the Freesat box was still
breaking up, "despite it coming from the satellite." The TV set does not
have Freesat built in.

This customer is CEO of a quango with a multi-million pound budget.

Bill

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/qu...bab141832.html

That's excellent!

Bill