tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post114719002983279228..comments2023-10-31T04:37:20.113-07:00Comments on Bloviating Zeppelin: The Budget And Mad CowBloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-1147341397053855922006-05-11T02:56:00.000-07:002006-05-11T02:56:00.000-07:00Unfortunately neither party gives anything to stan...Unfortunately neither party gives anything to stand up for... so we are at the era of an Evil of Two Lessers...<BR/><BR/>What is going on is known as the *spot check QC*, and it is deplorable.<BR/><BR/>When I was putting a proposal forward to do a conversion of geometrically critical images to digital format at the Agency I worked for, one of the SES (Senior Executive Service... the civilians that can actually easily be *fired* from Federal Agencies) had the bright notion of doing a 10% QC. It needed to be pointed out that the first inaccurate digitization that cost lives in a friendly fire incident would be immediately traced back to same and the bright individual who wanted such a thing.<BR/><BR/>100% QC is the only way to go.<BR/><BR/>That said, give the folks making chemistry labs on a chip a few more years and a cheap and easily made sensor for this and just about every other identifiable chemical or molecular substance should be available. Moore's Law at work to give us such things...A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-1147270655747237122006-05-10T07:17:00.000-07:002006-05-10T07:17:00.000-07:00Mahndisa: Thanks!Fish: In Fornicalia where I live,...Mahndisa: Thanks!<BR/><BR/>Fish: In Fornicalia where I live, the Independent Party is the third largest and now, at 19%, growing in number -- its greatest number in this state comprised of those who are true Conservatives and discover that they had not left their original Republican Party -- but that the Republican Party left THEM.<BR/><BR/>BZBloviating Zeppelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-1147239895387899372006-05-09T22:44:00.000-07:002006-05-09T22:44:00.000-07:0005 09 06Preach on! And take care BZ:)05 09 06<BR/><BR/>Preach on! And take care BZ:)Mahndisa S. Rigmaidenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08507292526980604567noreply@blogger.com