I will also invoke Godwin's law by comparing the American steel industry to Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
'Murphy's Law'..In the News ..
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Murphy's Laws of Dating
Just when you thought it was safe to go out ...
- Every girl already has a boyfriend.
- If you think things are going well in a relationship, you have overlooked something.
- Given enough time, any relationship will end unhappily.
- Everywhere in the world, women outnumber men. The only exceptions to this are the place you live and any place you may move to.
- Women will talk to you if and only if they are unavailable.
- No woman will treat you as badly as the woman you marry.
Murphy's Laws on Work
- A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.
- Don't be irreplaceable, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
- The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
- You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
- Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
- Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested in, and say nothing about the other.
- When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
- If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
- There will always be beer cans rolling on the floor of your car when the boss asks for a ride home from the office.
- Mother said there would be days like this, but she never said there would be so many.
- Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. This is what I'm doing wrong.
- Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous."
- Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.
- To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing.
- Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
- The last person that quit or was fired will be the one held responsible for everything that goes wrong
- until the next person quits or is fired.
- There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always enough time to do it over.
- The more pretentious a corporate name, the smaller the organization. (For instance, The Murphy Center for Codification of Human and Organizational Law, contrasted to IBM, GM, AT&T ....)
- If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
- People are always available for work in the past tense.
- If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
- At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
- When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
- You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.
- No one gets sick on Wednesdays.
- When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
- The longer the title, the less important the job.
- Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.
- An "acceptable" level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
- Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
- All vacations and holidays create problems, except for one's own.
- Success is just a matter of luck, just ask any failure.
.. It sounds like, 'employer'/owner, GREED - Is @, the 'root' of this 'strike'! o:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/10/17/jim-beam-whiskey-makers-go-strike/92292178/
What Caused the Largest Car Pile Ups in History?
If you saw a massive car accident up ahead of you on the road, you’d swerve to avoid it, right? (Well, at least I hope you would!) Then how come giant car pile-ups are happening every day across the world? Just this year, there was a 21-car pile-up in Michigan, a 15-car pile-up in Jacksonville and a 19-car pile-up in China. Where I live in Southern California, cars tend to pile up faster than junk mail.
Since I kept hearing about these massive accidents, I decided to do some research into their history. Call it morbid curiosity, but I wanted to find the biggest car pile-ups in history. Turns out, compared to the others, a 21-car pile-up is actually pretty small!
-In 2012, at least 140 cars collided in Southeast Texas during extremely foggy conditions.
-In 1991, 104 vehicles, including 11 large trucks, crashed when a dust storm swept across a California highway.
-In 2008, 227 cars and 12 buses collided into a mess of burning metal on the highway connecting Dubai and Abu Dhabi, a result of reckless driving and heavy fog.
Where did the biggest pile-up happen? You probably won’t be surprised that it occurred on the German Autobahn, where speeding isn’t just allowed, it’s pretty much encouraged. In July 2009, 259 cars were involved in a pileup that was blamed on heavy rain and – you guessed it—reckless driving. Sixty six people were injured, and officials estimated it would cost around $2.5 million to clean up the mess.
So who pays for the damage to the cars? That can get tricky. The insurance companies meticulously pick apart the chain of accidents to decide who was at fault. If you were the car that smashed into the first car, you could be responsible for all the damaged cars behind you. Yikes! However, if you were the third car, fourth car or the 258th car, you might not be held liable at all. It’s usually dependent on whether the auditor decides whether you had adequate time to stop. Obviously, the reimbursement process can be even more complicated than the accident!
Then you get into the issue of uninsured motorists. If the guy who hits you doesn’t have it, you’re basically stuck.
Needless to say, the two key lessons here are to not be an idiot when you drive and to have quality insurance. To the first point, stay calm even when drivers are acting obnoxious around you. When the weather turns, slow down and be cautious. You may feel slightly silly if others are whipping past. You may feel embarrassed or anxious because you’re driving “like an old lady.” But if that caution prevents you from wiping out on the side of the road and killing yourself or someone else, then you’re much better off acting like an old lady then a hot young dead dude.
That said, if you’re the one who causes a 259 pile-up, there’s pretty much no insurance on the planet that can help. But you can take steps to cover yourself and not be a statistic.
Beware, of 'Murphy's Law'.. instigators!
http://theinterrobang.com/mistakes-made-weekend-dont-beat-guy/
The 'Cyber- security' angle, on 'Murphy's Law.'
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3132566/security/murphys-law-the-security-version.html
.. Re. yesterday's, 'Aussie' 'amusement-ride' accident.. & its' tragic 'fallout.'
'Late-Breaking ..'Oct. 30th, 2016
CLEVELAND {'assoc. press'} -- There's a light in the 'NFL' Cleveland Browns' locker room at FirstEnergy Stadium that splashes the phrase "Expect to Win" on the carpet for all the players and staff to see.
The sign doesn't mention anything about when the winning is supposed to start.
Not that it matters. At this point, it's anybody's guess, including the luckless Browns.
Another halftime lead morphed into another befuddling loss, this time a 31-28 setback against the New York Jets that sent Cleveland spiraling to 0-8 at the season's midway point. The Browns have dropped 11 straight overall and are 3-26 over their last 29 games.
Next week, the Dallas Cowboys come to town. Then, it's a trip to Baltimore, followed by games against the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants. The weight of the '0' is sure to only grow heavier as time goes by.
"It's a no-brainer. Nobody wants to be 0-8, but that's where we're at," cornerback Jamar Taylor said. "This game is real simple sometimes when you don't get it done. We've still got eight games left — a long time — but you've got to fix the things you do bad."
It's not that Cleveland isn't competitive. The Browns dominated the first half against the Jets (3-5), moving up and down the field with remarkable ease at times during quarterback Josh McCown's return from a fractured collarbone. Yet, when the Jets responded after halftime, the Browns didn't have an answer. Again.
"This is rough, but that is part of it," coach Hue Jackson said. "We have to get better."
Cleveland had a chance to put the Jets in a 17-point hole late in the first half, driving to the New York 10 with 47 seconds to play. An incompletion, a sack and a scramble by McCown forced the Browns to settle for a field goal instead. New York then took the opening kick of the second half and went 78 yards in 12 plays before Ryan Fitzpatrick hit Quincy Enunwa for a 24-yard touchdown in which he bounced off four Cleveland players on his way to the end zone. By the time Matt Forte scored the first of his two touchdowns later in the third, the Browns had seen their early momentum evaporate completely.
It's hardly the first time. The Browns have been outscored 61-13 in the third quarter this season.
"When we do really good in the first half, we've got to figure out how to kickstart that thing in the second half," cornerback Joe Haden said.
It simply didn't happen. The Browns managed all of 133 yards after the break, most of them coming on a garbage-time drive in which the Browns lazily made their way toward the end zone even though they were trailing by 11. When McCown hit Andrew Hawkins for a second touchdown and followed it up with a 2-point conversion to Terrelle Pryor Sr., only 12 seconds remained.
McCown completed 25 of 49 for 341 yards and two scores, but also threw interceptions on consecutive possessions in the fourth quarter that all but ended any chance of the Browns leaving FirstEnergy Stadium with their first victory in 322 days. The veteran fell to 18-41 in his career as a starter in his return from a fractured collarbone suffered in a Week 2 loss to Baltimore, a game Cleveland led by 20 at one point. Nearly two months later, nothing has really changed.
"One half, we played the way we always talk about playing, the way coach talks about playing," McCown said. "That is how we played in the first half. In the second half, we didn't. I say we, but I didn't. I take this one squarely on me."
It's hardly McCown's failure to own. On a day the franchise celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1986 team that reached the AFC championship game and the hometown Cleveland Indians were a game away from clinching an unlikely World Series, the glory days for the Browns seem farther away than ever.
Nobody wants to talk about 0-16. Yet the Browns head into November halfway there.
Au revoir but not goodbye
France is having a terrible year for tourism
Nov 8th 2016, 12:27 by B.R.
IT SHOULD have been a good year for French tourism. After all, as host of the Euros, the continent’s quadrennial international football tournament, it had the perfect chance to showcase its many charms. Instead, 2016 has been a disaster. Visits to the world’s most popular tourist destination have fallen by over 8% in the year to October, according to Bloomberg, compared with the same period in 2015. The number of nights spent in Parisian hotels fell by 21%.
Brexit hasn’t helped. Britain is the country’s second biggest source of overseas visitors. As sterling has plunged, France has become more expensive for those used to popping across the channel to stock up on plonk and Pont-l'Évêque. Consequently, arrivals from Britain are down by 4%.
But terrorism is the main reason for tourists’ squeamishness. Horrific attacks in Paris and Nice over the past 12 months that claimed hundreds of innocent lives, as well as several other well-publicised atrocities, have made Asians, in particular, think again. Nearly 40% fewer Japanese and 23% fewer Chinese have arrived in the country so far this year.
It seems that France will try to allay concerns by deploying more security at its tourist attractions. According to Reuters, Manuel Valls, the prime minister, will set aside some €43m ($48m) to pay for extra personnel and cameras, as well as giving help to restaurants and hotels.
This is something of a delicate balancing act. A country with a highly visible security presence can be both reassuring and a reminder that there is something to be frightened of. When one’s travel plans are immovable—attending a business meeting or conference, for example—then guards on every corner probably help set the mind to rest. When the choice is simply one of preference—a relaxing city break in Paris, Rome or London, say—then tourists might prefer to avoid the place with the most rifle-toting policemen.
Horribly easy though it is to say, the best solution is to thwart future attacks. Tourists are, by nature, resilient creatures. As we have mentioned before on this blog, a study by the World Travel and Tourism Council, an industry body, measured the time it takes for tourism to bounce back from a variety of adverse events. It found that political unrest depresses travel for an average of 27 months; environmental disasters take 24 months to recover from; and the effects of disease lasts 21 months. After a terrorist attack, numbers recover after just 13 months. Three-and-a-half months after the Bastille Day massacre in Nice, let us hope that France gets the chance to test that finding.
From, '20 hours ago'.. as of, this posting.
http://nypost.com/2016/11/08/chess-group-sues-to-block-websites-from-reporting-on-tournament/
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http://www.nwitimes.com/business/steel/steelworker-who-died-told-wife-mill-was-getting-less-safe/article_92ddbe7d-6133-5ee8-9002-42ec48aa5a37.html