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Originally Posted by The Reaper
The biggest fans of this high tech crap are the contractors who build it, the politicians who fund it, the eggheads who design it, and the micromanaging "leaders" who want to lean over every soldier's shoulder and tell them how to do their jobs.
This is a criminally negligent.
TR
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I sat on this for 24 hours to let objectivity and SA kick in; went running to burn off some steam as well. I understand and agree with what you are saying with respect to the products proposed. The part I have a problem with is lumping everyone into the same swill water. I have worked for both defense contractors and commercial companies hired by defense contractors, so by extension I participate in the criminal negligence. I honestly can't tell you the thought hasn't crossed my mind many many times. Somehow seeing it in black and white on a board hits home hard.
I haven't met many "fans", actually the contrary. I have rarely worked at an engineering company with "high morale". Only when they were really really small and before they were bought out by bigger fish. No one enjoys designing systems that appear useless or start out as good and then meander off into absurdity. There is no sense of accomplishment in making things work to meet a date, nor compromising on performance or benefit in order to work around laws of physics the proponents simply chose to ignore.
I don't know where the flat-out stupid ideas originate nor how they get approved, but it appears to be a self-lubricating, self-propelling, oblivious-to-reason machine from my perspective.
respectfully