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And this article is 10 years old. It has gotten so much worse.

I can say the opposite. I have had craft, in the field, make design choices without engaging the engineer, and now the client is angry because shit isn't working right, because someone made a command decision in a silo.

Drawings are never perfect. Most of the time, engineers are working off client provided drawings that aren't very accurate, so the assumptions are bad when the shovel hits the ground.

That is neither the craft, nor the engineer's fault.

I am an EE and I can't magically know that the last guy to hang an antenna put it 10' higher than he was supposed to and the client doesn't want to pay for a site visit.

So now my tower climber is pissed because he has to make multiple climbs, take photos and then wait with his thumb up his butt, while I am trying to get the client to agree to a plan, and he is going to blame me.

Now I am a Construction Manager, and I get pissed at the engineer when he provides drawings that don't give even half the info I need.

I'll buy the material, no problem, but you need to give me a fucking BoM because I don't know what your design criteria is and I am not going to guess.

I'm sure as hell not going to let my craft buy whatever coax connection is available, and fits, to connect a feedline.

They don't know what actually goes into that.

Likewise, an engineer can't tell if an existing conduit has enough room to snake a new cable because the cable schedule isn't always accurate. But then my craft doesn't know how to calculate conduit fill b because they don't know the types/level of voltages in the existing lines.

I have also NEVER known an electrician who, when first laying eyes on a job, not complain about the terrible work performed by the previous electrician.

Working brownfields is always going to be a pain and everyone loves to bitch when the job ends up being harder than it should have been.

I will say this. I love being a construction manager 100 times more than being an engineer, but having that background is fucking invaluable because I can spot problems from further away and can usually resolve them quickly.

They are required to have a minimum of three years of design experience and have to pass a PE exam before they are allowed to verify their own designs.

Up until that point, all of their designs are required to be sealed by another PE.

I'm of two minds on this.

1. WTF, Trump. Was the genocide in Gaza meant to antagonize Iran into a war from day one. But when they didn't, Israel attacked anyway and then rhenU.S. was like, fuck it lets go?
2. Don't give a shit about Iran. They are no better than Israel or the U.S.

A pox on both... on all three of their houses. Make it 5, fuck Russia and China too.

I feel like having a qualified person perform the installation is more important than the actual permit.

I understand why people don't want this requirement though, it will add at least a couple hundred more dollars to the cost.

IMHO, though, a couple hundred dollars more up front, is worth the headaches down the road from a shitty install.

Don't get me wrong. The Iran - Contra affair was a terrible circumvention of U.S. law and North deserved to go to prison and Reagan should have been impeached.

However, this post is a mischaracterization of that event.

This was part of an overall plan to get American hostages released.

That being said, we sold arms to Iran, who was fighting Iraq (a U.S. ally at the time), and one of the intermediaries we used was fucking Israel.

Yup, Israel helped us sell arms to Iran. So Iran can turn around and use them against an ally.

North was then made a fall guy.

I was younger when this happened but I recall, at the time, it was characterized as we just sold them parts for their airplanes and defensive arms.

Man, we just can't stop fucking our face with our own foot.

I mean when comparing Spaceballs to Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles, I can see the argument for it not being great.

It is definitely not one of his better movies.

I still kind of like it though and I will support almost any Mel Brooks vehicle. At least just for the off chance we get another glorious movie like Blazing Saddles.

Classic Mel.

I hope Bill Pullman's son is in this too as Lonestar's son. And his name is Bob.

It blows me away how fucking easily my fellow countrymen are led by their god damned nose.

Closet fucking fascists, all of them, and too stupid to recognize simple fucking fallacies.

My life sucks, ooh it must be because an illegal committed a crime. Even though immigrants have a lower crime rate than our ever present white trash.

The patterns are so similar that it is kind of pointless to try and identify. All the damn different gopher snakes too.

Every freaking snake that isn't a black snake, in Texas, seems to look like this.

Just treat them all as venomous, leave them alone, and go about your day.

President Trump took extraordinary action on Saturday by calling up 2,000 National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in California, making rare use of federal powers and bypassing the authority of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.

It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor, according to Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, an independent law and policy organization. The last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965, she said.

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, immediately rebuked the president’s action. “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,” Mr. Newsom said, adding that “this is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.”

Governors almost always control the deployment of National Guard troops in their states. But the directive signed by Mr. Trump cites “10 U.S.C. 12406,” referring to a specific provision within Title 10 of the U.S. Code on Armed Services. Part of that provision allows the federal deployment of National Guard forces if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”

It also states that the president may call into federal service “members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws.”

Mr. Trump’s directive said, “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Saturday night that Mr. Trump was deploying the National Guard in response to “violent mobs” that she said had attacked federal law enforcement and immigration agents. The 2,000 troops would “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester,” she said.

Although some demonstrations have been unruly, local authorities in Los Angeles County did not indicate during the day that they needed federal assistance.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on X late on Saturday that the Pentagon was “mobilizing the National Guard IMMEDIATELY.” But he did not say when or where the troops would assemble, or identify their units.

Mr. Trump’s directive authorized the secretary of defense to “employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion.” In Mr. Hegseth’s post on X, he said that active duty Marines were “on high alert” at Camp Pendleton, about 100 miles south of Los Angeles, and could also be mobilized.

Protests have occurred on Friday and Saturday in California to oppose federal immigration raids on workplaces. The latest is unfolding at a Home Depot in Paramount, Calif., about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

California Democrats have braced for months for the possibility that President Trump would seek to deploy U.S. troops on American soil in this way, particularly in Democratic-run jurisdictions. Privately, they have acknowledged that such a move, absent the state’s agreement, would have profound implications.

Mr. Trump suggested deploying U.S. forces in the same manner during his first term to suppress outbreaks of violence during the nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He opted against doing so at the time, but he has repeatedly raised the idea of using troops to secure border states.

In 2020, in the final days of Mr. Trump’s first presidential term, military helicopters were used to rout peaceful protesters demonstrating against police violence near the White House.

“For the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. “It is using the military domestically to stop dissent.”

The National Guard was last federalized in 1992, Ms. Goitein said, when President George H.W. Bush sent troops to Los Angeles to control riots after police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. That deployment was requested by the California’s governor at the time, Pete Wilson.

Mr. Trump and his aides have often lamented that not enough was done by Minnesota’s governor to quell protests that followed the death of Mr. Floyd in 2020.

During a campaign rally in 2023, Trump made clear he was not going to hold back in a second term. “You’re supposed to not be involved in that, you just have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in — the next time, I’m not waiting,” Mr. Trump said.

RTO is now just a tactic to force people to quit.

Fun fact: USN Aircraft Carriers have their own ICAO code.

Dude, how many stories of Muslim father's that go fucking crazy over their daughter seeing an "infidel", have you ignored to not understand that there is a real risk she could be under?

Right

Listen, I hate that fucking South African douchebag as much as the next guy, but Space X has fucking dominated the space race. No one even comes close to them.

They turned the industry upside down, and have more launches then the rest of the world combined. In fact it's not even close.

That you can't separate the success of Space X from Musk, is a you problem.

Sure it sucks that he benefits from their success, but also, no one believes that Musk has anything to do with their successes either.

The repeated failures of Starship is surprising but if you can't appreciate what a phenomenal achievement the landing of the super heavy was, then you don't really understand the industry enough to be commenting on it.

Appreciating Space X accomplishments does not make you an Elon boi.

Half his gig is space and is he supposed to leave Space X out of his articles?

He talked about the Longmarch as well. I guess that makes him a terrible Chinese apologist.

She's awesome. I love Eric Berger's contributions too.

That is a good one.