I read it in the newspaper so it must be true Feb2807

Posted on February 28, 2007
Filed Under Outside Ireland, Politics, Rant, bureaucracy, dismissal, la-la-land, not funny, sci-fi, stupidity, transport | 1 Comment

Sometimes my mind boggles at the people who are supposed to be running things on this tiny planet of ours.

Two stories from The Register:

US Superfighter software glitch fixed
Jets can now cross Pacific, Far East safe for democracy again

Significant new capabilities have been added to the US Air Force’s latest superfighter, the F-22 “Raptor”. The USAF’s Raptors cost more than $300m each, and are generally thought to be the most advanced combat jets in service worldwide. However, until recently they were unable to cross the international date line owing to a software bug in their navigation systems.

And then, Airbus is to lay off 10,000 people (reg link). How does that work? Did the CEO just wake up one day and realise that 10,000 people were sitting around doing nothing.

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One Response to “I read it in the newspaper so it must be true Feb2807”

  1. Cybez on February 28th, 2007 8:26 pm

    Maybe the Airbus workers only did very very very short shifts.Or they only employed blah blah blah.

    I better not continue. I might offend the old, infirm, foreign, mentally unstable etc and that would be like a typical meeting of me and my family ;-)

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