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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (570076)6/3/2010 8:04:07 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1579709
 
Inode, I understand that there is a lot of hearsay in the media.

Validation of an engineering design is my specialty, though, so I hope you understand why my ears perk up when I hear these kinds of reports.

At least in my line of work, if something goes wrong, the computer chip malfunctions. No big deal. But if something goes wrong on an oil rig, KABOOM followed by GIANT OIL SLICK. Not good.

Inode has a point in that everyone is trying to put the blame on BP and accompanying them with all kinds of threats. Even if its true about BP negligence, at this stage of the game, it accomplishes nothing to pile on.

While I read everything about what happened prior to the explosion with a jaundiced eye, last nite, AC 360 had on the show the wife of one of the rig workers who got killed. She said her husband was home just before the explosiion and he acted very peculiarly. Suddenly, he had this urgency to get a will drawn up [he was 35] and went through the house explaining how things worked and then showing how Transocean was liable should he die at the site. I don't know if he had a premonition of death, or if things were being run so badly at the rig, but her whole conversation was eerie to say the least.
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