Oh you crazy engineers, GJ

[Stubby]

They managed to right the capsized Costa Concordia overnight.
Huge feat considering the size of the vessel.
The starboard side is really messed up after 20 months of grinding on the rocks.
Canadian company will 3d laser-assess the ship to decide what repairs need to be done prior to attaching the starboard floatation caissons to float it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24121480

[Schneibster]

There's no way here to "like" a thread or a post. I suppose I can like this person for making posts I like, but it seems kinda, you know, coarse measurement. I thought this forum software had a like post and maybe even a like thread function.

I like handing out compliments. I think there should be many ways of complimenting others and a few ways of reporting problems. And a lot of skepticism on the latter especially for people with lots of likes.

I might criticize someone I love dearly quite harshly because s/he should know better. It should be balanced against the fifteen or twenty times I praised them. This is a fairer representation of my beliefs and feelings.

Oh, and +1.

[Betruger]

Likes are only good in giant communities.

[Schneibster]

Likes are only good in giant communities.

That depends on how friendly the community is. If they're not friendly that's good to know too.

Y'know, y'get more flies with honey. Schneib is old. My cats love me because they always know what to do; I tell them they're good and give them rewards all the time, because most of the time they do what I want. The mere deployment of the N-word ("No," not the other "N-word") and withholding of a treat is sufficient to indicate their route to happiness. And they are remarkably happy. I don't restrict anyone. I just indicate what I think is smart. They almost always agree and when they don't only sacrifice a treat. It seems to me about as coercive as I care to me; they'll do what I want almost anytime if they're scared. They trust me. That's what we need from each other.

Incidentally salvaging this ship was pretty smart. We need to be this smart instead of letting things like Deep Horizons screw up our oceans. It's washing up on our beaches, for cryin' out loud. Just leaving this ship there was a mess; recovering it is what we need to get used to doing every time; we can't afford anything less. Our natural environment is too precious to trade to avoid bankrupting insurance companies. They need to be prepared to fix the damage their insureds can do, not the amount left after when they're done screwing all the people they predict they'll be able to. Anyone who wasn't watching the Exxon Valdez disaster and how the fishermen got done there needs to get educated and pay a hundred thousand bucks for the privilege. I know people who paid way more than that for that fat bastard who was running Exxon.

Last but not least I will point out they would have paid less than 1/3 what it cost their shareholders had they started salvage operations immediately. The rust damage would have been minimal had the salvage effort been timely. And the salvage effort would have been timely had the insurance company not been trying to cheat their way out of it.

Cheaters never prosper.

[Betruger]

People are not cats. Text based discussion on website like this one isn't apples-and-apples with cat & owner interaction.

[choff]

I'll never forget the cook's testimony, the captain called him up to the bridge for a birthday surprise and said, 'look, there's your native island out there', the cook took one look and though, 'we're way too close to the (crunch, crunch, crunch).'

[Schneibster]

People are not cats. Text based discussion on website like this one isn't apples-and-apples with cat & owner interaction.

I sure hope you don't have any children.