On Tuesday 07 October 2014 07:57:46 Erik Christiansen did opine And Gene did reply: > On 07.10.14 08:41, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Seems I read someplace where if federal dollars are involved, its a > > package deal, and you cannot ask for a warranty. In .de land, some > > of the autobahn is now 60 years old and still in good shape because > > even if your company is asked to go fill a pothole, one of the > > things you must do is warrant the fix for 5 years. IOW if that spot > > fails again, you go back and do it again, gratis. And we are told > > it costs Germany about 10% more per mile to build that quality of > > road. Even at 20%, its still one hell of a deal IMO. > > > > But, I'm not licensed to run that train... :( > > I think you're officially exempt: > > In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, > intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from > the cares of office. > - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's > Dictionary" > > > Mind you, we seem to have the same implicit rule here. > > Erik
In 80 years of observation I have only seen one exception to that rule, but he passed 2 decades back. People do not want to trust somebody like John Sunnunu with too high a public office for fear they will not understand him. The almost singular exception to that rule today might be Netenyahu, whose rated IQ is almost twice mine at 270 + change. In a war of wits, either him or Putin can play Obama like an out of tune piano. But Putin got there without benefit of a legit election. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
