Old ladies work

Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
RB, spot on! And it goes into other areas too. We had a series of old fashioned investigators at one station I worked at that had a Rolodex of names, numbers, DOBs etc of local reliable sources and local BG's, along with a file cabinet of old reports going back 40 years. New Sgt and Inv came to the station and in one afternoon destroyed ALL it because they didn't see a need "for all that clutter". Flippin' retards destroyed 40 some years of work with a shredder and burn barrel! We were back to point zero in nothing flat!
 
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Charles Graff

Charles Graff

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Interesting thread, but mostly foreign stuff to me. I am not a mechanic, mechanical engineer or fixit guy of any kind. Humans, not gizmos are my stock in trade. I enjoy understanding how they work, but they are not fixable. They either fix themselves, when given the correct information, or go through life unfixed, making great problems for themselves and others. Malfunctioning humans can destroy entire civilizations. Maybe having machines take over the world, is not such a bad idea after all.
 
Ian

Ian

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Wow, what a statement, Charles! When I read "humans are my stock in trade" I thought "what a miserable job!" My opinion of our species in general mirrors yours, only difference is I get no enjoyment from discovering what makes them tick.

There is a flaw in the concept of letting machines take over the world: who designs and makes the machines? That's right....broken humans.
 
Charles Graff

Charles Graff

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Ian said:
Wow, what a statement, Charles! When I read "humans are my stock in trade" I thought "what a miserable job!" My opinion of our species in general mirrors yours, only difference is I get no enjoyment from discovering what makes them tick.

There is a flaw in the concept of letting machines take over the world: who designs and makes the machines? That's right....broken humans.
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Well, it can be a frustrating job, but on occasion you can give folks the right tools to fix themselves and when that happens it makes the other failures worth while. When a human gets things right, it often cascades down a generation or two. It also help to actually like people, which I do. It also helps to have a good degree of self awareness and know I am about as screwed up as anybody. It keeps me from being to hard on others.

You are of course right about the human designed and built machines, but the statement was tongue in cheek.
 
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