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@Tryptameanie 574341 wrote:

Stock exchanges and the like at very bad places to misplace a zero or make an unfortunate error with a , or a decimal point. That shit can cost millions, of tax payer money you thieving banking bastards.

unfortunately (and coincidentally) this is one of the main arguments used worldwide to justify prohibition and drugs testing of staff in safety (and now even business) critical rôles by the political right wing (many of them are blaming cocaine use by bankers for the 1980s financial upheavals even though there were many other reasons).

Computer systems can (and should be) programmed to check for vlues that are way out or abnormal; for instance a telephone system control unit that can sense a telephone line that has no voltage present on it whatsover (should be -48V) should flag an alarm the line could be disconnected and definitely not try to use it to make calls from. similarly data values which are way out should cause alarms to be generated.

What happens with financial markets and the high pressure high competition environments wihch breed the systems used there is more like the practice of selling cheap LED christmas tree lights that use marginal quality LEDs in a series string and feed them with full 230V mains downstream of cheap diode rectifiers; with more forward current than recommended. So they give up the ghost the same as the old glow lamp ones and have to be replaced every few years; thus “feeding the market” even though it negates the good of LED lighting (which uses less electric).

I’ve encountered too many otherwise well educated enginers who try and justify bullshit like this as “the free market in action” (totally ignoring the harm it causes especially to the countries what make the chemicals in LEDs (far worse than drugs) to the point I am glad guns are not legal in my country or I’d hunt down these blighters with an old style British revolver (these make you take care not to use too many bullets and to gather up cartridge cases to avoid excessive litter (and leaving evidence).

@Tryptameanie 574353 wrote:

Have you been on the humourjuice GL LOL? That was quite an amusing post my friend 🙂

Unfortunately not; other than cheap sherry (which I cannot drink at work and then ride my bike as the streets are full with bobbies and PCSOs checking everything with wheels) it has to go in the CD register down here -last time I had to check the fax machines were working I’ve got away with saying to a nurse “by Christ; all that lot would knock a Big Issue seller stone dead within 10 seconds; and the old lady gets the same every week”

I was just speaking to one 5 minutes ago :laugh_at: (most likely I’d only get sent to the same place I work at anyway :laugh_at: )

deifnitely; elephants have to be declared for health checks (and would have to get up a hill; the traffic jam caused would be immediately obvious). Most visitors do not bring in anything larger than dogs; though we’ve had a duck brought in in a cat basket before…