martin said:
Jim Thompson wrote:
[snip]I find that 15-25MPH over the limit is very comfortable for the road.
Sometimes you can even double up... the elevated curved ramp from
Pecos Road to I10W is marked as 45MPH... I don't even lean at 90MPH.
That's unusual. Typically the recommended curve speeds in the US are
quite realistic numbers, less conservative than in other countries.
Really? Wow. Stuff like that is just absurd. I guess it's calledkrw said:That happened in the US too.
John said:You don't have unions where you live?
Joerg said:In the UK? Back in highschool our economy teacher used their situation
as the perfect example of the level of absurdity it can reach: As in
most other countries locomotives were migrating from steam to electric
and Diesel. That meant that there was no longer a job for boilermen.
After all, if there is no boiler then you don't need a boilerman. Pretty
logical, ain't it? Not so for the union. According to what we learned
back then the union demanded that a boilerman had to be riding along on
every Diesel and electric locomotive. AFAIR this became standard
operating procedure.
Macros in there. Got a virus warning :-(
Doesn't mean there is one, of course, but why on earth don't the
bureaucrats in those organizations wise up and publish in an acceptable
form? I mean, it ain't rocket science.
Jim said:Jim Thompson wrote:
[snip]
I find that 15-25MPH over the limit is very comfortable for the road.
Sometimes you can even double up... the elevated curved ramp from
Pecos Road to I10W is marked as 45MPH... I don't even lean at 90MPH.
That's unusual. Typically the recommended curve speeds in the US are
quite realistic numbers, less conservative than in other countries.
I don't find that unusual at all... US speed limits are set by
politicians (to maximize revenue), NOT by road designers :-(
I just got a macro warning, using open office, but no virus warnings.
I disabled the macros, as usual, it all seemed OK
Yep bureaucrats........
martin
On Wed, 09 May 2007 09:53:50 -0700, the renowned Jim Thompson
[snip]I don't find that unusual at all... US speed limits are set by
politicians (to maximize revenue), NOT by road designers :-(
...Jim Thompson
I thought the curve speeds were recommended maximums, not legal
maximums, since they're in orange.
They vary a lot from place to place in the US, IME, sometimes there's
an insanely tight curve with a 20mph maximum that's entirely
realistic, but other times you can easily double up on the speeds on
dry pavement.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
And sometimes, you miss things on the applications...John said:I might even admire the quality of the job.
John
Eeyore said:Joerg wrote:
Certainly not now. And certainly not in recentish times generally.
US trains seem bizarrely over-manned to us.
martin said:
Jim Thompson wrote:
[snip]I find that 15-25MPH over the limit is very comfortable for the road.
Sometimes you can even double up... the elevated curved ramp from
Pecos Road to I10W is marked as 45MPH... I don't even lean at 90MPH.
That's unusual. Typically the recommended curve speeds in the US are
quite realistic numbers, less conservative than in other countries.
I don't find that unusual at all... US speed limits are set by
politicians (to maximize revenue), NOT by road designers :-(
...Jim Thompson
Same here.
Eeyore wrote:
Not really out here in the US. The 900 series is considered "the
engineers car". The workmanship is just so much better. Under the hood
it looks as neat as inside a jet engine cowling. No wires slobbering
about etc.
Really? Wow.
Stuff like that is just absurd. I guess it's called
entitlement mentality, where people are no longer willing to re-train
for another job because they don't have to.
Me, I would feel miserable
just sitting there in order to collect a paycheck while making no real
contribution to the process.
Sorry for the second post, but I found this rather interesting siteReally? Wow. Stuff like that is just absurd. I guess it's called
entitlement mentality, where people are no longer willing to re-train
for another job because they don't have to. Me, I would feel miserable
just sitting there in order to collect a paycheck while making no real
contribution to the process.
And sometimes, you miss things on the applications...
Like the time we were interviewing for a Technician position, and had
gone through about 20-30 applicants before we finally got ONE that
actually know one end of a soldering iron from the other. Seemed like a
nice guy, and we were all unanimous about hiring him. Then, HR comes
down and say WTF! You want to hire HIM!
Turns out he was a convicted felon, and a RSO (Registered Sex Offender)
and they didn't want any thing to do with him. So, we ask him what it
was all about. Seems several years before, in his youth, he had gotten
drunk, and walked over to a bush to 'relieve' himself. Unfortunately
for him, there was a woman on the other side of the fence behind the
bush, and she called the police. He was convicted of public drunkeness,
exposing himself, and public urination.
He was black, the woman was white.
We hired him, and he did a great job. His nickname was 'Flash'...
Charlie
Rich said:I heard some UL about some guy who lied his way into a job, and wasn't
discovered until it turned out that he couldn't do the job.
Rich said:Obviously, you've never seen the inside of a real jet engine cowling. ;-)
