On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:18:28 +0000, MM wrote:
>>>Not: "very little more effort", but NO extra effort, not one iota.
>>>Zilch extra. Just do it right first time. Airline pilots have to, else
>>>people die. Oh, and tell Cynic you agree with me, okay?
>>
>>Perhaps in that case you could tell me why airlines waste all that
>>money on checking and often double checking every important action?
>>It's surely easier to check that a door is closed than to check that
>>the price you have put on a shelf is correct. So perhaps you could
>>explain why *3* different people check that a commercial aircraft has
>>all its doors closed before it leaves the stand for departure? And
>>that's in addition to door switches that bring up a warning in the
>>cockpit should any door be unlatched. And even with those
>>precautions, there are occasionally (*very* occasionally) cases of
>>aircraft taking off with an unsecured door.
>
>Ah, you now want me to treat seriously your comparison between
>applying a shelf price label in a supermarket with checking the
>aircraft doors before take-off. Yeah, riiiiigggghhhhtttt......
Well, it's you who appear to believe that the same care should be
taken for both.
>Again, you seem to believe that applying the correct label is orders
>of magnitude more difficult than applying the wrong label. I say that
>the effort is exactly the same, and therefore, why not do it right?
The application of the label is not the issue. Ensuring that it is
the *correct* label is the issue. Which will *always* require some
form of double-checking.
I'll take a bet that if I went through all your posts, I'd find
several of them that contained typos or other mistakes. Or will you
claim that none of your posts contain mistakes?
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Cynic
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