[OT] Interesting trip

[Alma J Wetzker]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 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.

Warning:  Do not look into laser with remaining eye.

Something like that?

    -- Alma