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Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:23 pm
by Picard
http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0128.html

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=131768

Like above - if there is anything with this thematics, funny or serious, put it in, and don't forget to discuss.

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:42 am
by Mr. Oragahn
Hey, does the inside of the Narada -being even deadlier than the worst level of Super Mario you could imagine- make sense to you?

Now, son, you should know that handrails are expensive, and I'm pretty sure that based on how complicated Death Star blueprints looked like, adding handrails would require changing entire sections of the battle station. Can you imagine the cost of this "mere" addition? Can you begin to imagine how bad it would make costs skyrocket?? To say nothing of the time the battle station would be rendered unavailable!

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:08 am
by Lucky
Mr. Oragahn wrote:Hey, does the inside of the Narada -being even deadlier than the worst level of Super Mario you could imagine- make sense to you?

Now, son, you should know that handrails are expensive, and I'm pretty sure that based on how complicated Death Star blueprints looked like, adding handrails would require changing entire sections of the battle station. Can you imagine the cost of this "mere" addition? Can you begin to imagine how bad it would make costs skyrocket?? To say nothing of the time the battle station would be rendered unavailable!
We don't know what the Narada was really like before the ramming, and we don't know why it was like that.

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:29 pm
by KSW
Picard wrote:http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0128.html

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=131768

Like above - if there is anything with this thematics, funny or serious, put it in, and don't forget to discuss.
I think the abundance of "bottomless pits without railings" would qualify nicely.

As for exploding consoles, there's simply no reason for them to be designed to carry any amount of power; just make them wireless for fuck's sake!

If there's a thunderstorm, I just unplug my laptop and work on wireless and battery; I don't worry about it exploding from lighting hitting the powerlines or cable.

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:46 pm
by Mike DiCenso
That's a cute idea, but it doesn't work out, especially if the wireless system is destroyed or interfered with in some manner during combat or other situation that puts the ship's systems through high stress.
-Mike

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:15 pm
by Lucky
The consoles are rarely what actually explodes as I recall.

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:06 pm
by Mr. Oragahn
Mike DiCenso wrote:That's a cute idea, but it doesn't work out, especially if the wireless system is destroyed or interfered with in some manner during combat or other situation that puts the ship's systems through high stress.
-Mike
If the wireless system explodes, I think that you do have some problem on the bridge.
Besides, a mere USB cable would do, then. It's just a console, not a power converter, for crissake!

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:33 am
by Lucky
Mr. Oragahn wrote:
Mike DiCenso wrote:That's a cute idea, but it doesn't work out, especially if the wireless system is destroyed or interfered with in some manner during combat or other situation that puts the ship's systems through high stress.
-Mike
If the wireless system explodes, I think that you do have some problem on the bridge.
Besides, a mere USB cable would do, then. It's just a console, not a power converter, for crissake!
But is it the consoles actually exploding, or something near them?

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:56 pm
by Picard
Some times, it is definetly consoles. But other times, you have power relays going off all over the ship.

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:08 am
by Lucky
Picard wrote:Some times, it is definetly consoles. But other times, you have power relays going off all over the ship.
You also have relays going behind the consoles.

Re: Trek vs Wars - suicidal work environments

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:51 am
by KSW
Mike DiCenso wrote:That's a cute idea, but it doesn't work out, especially if the wireless system is destroyed or interfered with in some manner during combat or other situation that puts the ship's systems through high stress.
-Mike
Whatever, use circuit-breakers. It's just a dumb false dichotomy to say there's a catch-22 choice between exploding-consoles and system-failure.