Proposed udpates policy change

[Al Dunsmuir]

On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 5:59:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 22:44 +0000, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
>> The LHC is an interesting analogy; it certainly has problems that can be
>> picked out with 20:20 hindsight, but there was no way anyone could have
>> changed the processes in advance that would prevented them coming up in
>> the first place.

> This is certainly true. However, if they'd decided to build the whole
> thing based on their first calculations, measuring once and cutting
> once, and without doing any checking to make sure they were building
> everything in a straight line, it probably would've gone even worse =)

> you're right it was a bad example to pick, though, without further
> explanation.
> -- 
> Adam Williamson

Um... Adam, on that straight line thing.  Last time I checked, they
were trying to make a very large perfect circle. **GRIN**

Some days Murphy is the only winner, no matter what we do!