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On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:34:30 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-07-25, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:06:27 +0100 Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Fortunately I don't develop SSL, chip microcode or aircraft
>>> controllers. People accept my code falls over occasionally.
>>
>> To be perfectly frank, it's *very* fortunate that you don't develop
>> aircraft controllers.
> 
> Pancho seems to have adopted Microsoft's quality criteria:
> "Sort of works, most of the time."
> 
> Microsoft's crime against humanity is getting people to lower their
> standards enough to accept bad software.
> 
>>> This is the way structural engineering works. Bridge building etc.
>>
>> Funny you should cite bridge-building. As a friend once observed:
>>
>> "The Romans made their architects stand under the arches they designed
>> while the keystone was put in place and the supports removed.
>>
>> The Romans built bridges that stayed the #&@! up."
> 
>     It is hard to imagine a more stupid decision or more dangerous way
>     of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of
>     people who pay no price for being wrong.  -- Thomas Sowell

That sums up the American Way nicely...