O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

8 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

1. Link error.

2. So if you build a multi-billion dollar bridge with defective parts and in such a manner that rain will prematurely destroy it you get a bonus because the shoddy work was completed on time? Isn’t government grand?

3. I took the broken link as a “hide the decline” kinda moment…don’t want anybody knowing what’s going on don’tcha know.

4. Link fixed.

5. I thought I was reading about a bridge in Quebec.

6. I thought I was reading about a bridge in Quebec.
   I’d say that California, and, in particular, San Francisco, is a pretty close equivalent to Quebec.

7. The odour you smell is refined corruption. A must now in Obamaland.
   Where honor or dignity is a sin.
   Accountability a curse to the left.Including corporate America.
   you can bet your used socks this guy has connections with the political left if not Obama.

8. As an engineer, I have to suggest that contracts should have clauses involving how long the product should last, distinct from compliance to ever-evolving codes. Professional engineers are routinely hauled into court (after their retirement) when their design at some point fails, with sometimes dire financial consequences to them. Even with fluid legal entities performing the work, is there no way to call the morally deficient to task? If foreign-sourced parts were an issue, maybe more reliable local product could have been used? Or at least a multiple price structure based on supplier geography / reliability?
   Almost forty years ago, I swore an oath on cold steel to do everything possible that nobody would be hurt because of mistakes in my work. Partly because of that, I chose a career where any errors I might make would not hurt lotsa people. Other engineers may make more money than I do, but I sleep at night.
   Midnight ramblings.