[OT] Interesting trip

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:49 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>  Their first attempts failed because the
> automatic safety features shut things down so they disabled five safety
> systems in order to make the tests.

There's a lesson in there somewhere! My first job was in a factory -- a
wafer fabrication plant to be precise -- and we had all kinds of safety
features on some of the more complex machines. Some of the safety
features made no sense to me last time, but our overseas vendors used to
warn us that we'd better know what we were doing before we turned some
of them off. Some horrific injuries can result from carelessness -- and
sometimes from a bit of unthinking ambition.

pascal chong