people claim that boeing has deteriorated in quality simply because the ceo is a "business person". what people forget is that the previous ceo (dennis muilenburg) was an engineer by trade. engineers can be greedy, soulless people too. even more so than most pampered business execs. we, as engineers, really don't want to admit this, but it's true. the ceo and management hold a lot of the blame, but the people working there are complicit too. if there's a few people who have been murdered over their conscience, there are a few thousand who took the money and shut up. because no one spoke up, the safety culture completely deteriorated. and now it's too late
@sun@nosleep tomorrow boeing's starliner is supposed to make its first manned flight to the ISS, even though there's a known helium leak. The planned date for the first manned flight was 2017.
> In his memoir The Singapore Story, Lee [Kuan Yew] relates that he tried unsuccessfully to drop 'Harry' when being called to the bar at the Middle Temple, but had stopped using the name by then. He succeeded when called to the Singapore bar the following year.
> Before returning to Singapore, Lee dropped his English name, Harry. Notwithstanding, even until the end of his life, old friends and relatives referred to him as Harry.
@cjd yes, they banned the song itself in a few places and the alternate lyrics are thought to maybe possibly be 'incitement' so they have to be monitored
@phnt@meso@cell@mrsaturday i think people only put up with it because they don't know it can be better. that and they are too lazy to actually learn more than 2 nights a week.
> While serious injuries from turbulence are still relatively rare, recent flights hit by severe turbulence show how quickly it can strike, bringing more attention to the danger. We asked WSJ’s Jon Emont about how flight-safety regulators and lawmakers are trying to address the phenomena.
maybe they should first make a regulation and a law that makes it illegal to have doors falling off