Did I not explain it very well?

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

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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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.

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

Bill

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

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

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

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