The 3rd World

[WiltonRanch]

I fully agree with you.

The fact that this happens in today's day and age in a 1st world "Knowledge economy" is telling.


Just like in Saskatoon, on the Mcormond / #5 interchange, hauling in a hundred thousand cubes of contaminated dirt to build up the ramps... What, nobody checked the fill properties before hauling it???

We see it on directional work all the time too. Some engineer dreams up having to put a 0-3 cable 11 meters under ground, and his elevations don't take into account the exit side of the bore is 6 meters higher than the entry side.

Hell, read the news lately? Every article on CBC or CTV has typos or grammatical errors - nobody cares about their jobs or the quality of the work they produce.

Was that three years ago when that new bridge in Ontario buckled?


There were engineering fails 100 years ago when theories were new and man was pushing the boundaries on what we call "basic" engineering today. We shouldn't have fails on standard bridges anymore.

Not to mention 100 years ago complex calculations involved human effort and at the very most a slide rule. Today though engineers need to know a lot of high maths, so much is done with computers. Been enough bridge collapses lately but all have been proven to be human error. Whether engineering or the folks building them screwed up. More often it’s a lack of oversight to ensure they’re built right. An act of god is a flood. Building your house on a flood plain is not.

[fjlip]

There needs to be severe consequences for shoddy don't give a shit work! Then quality will improve. Some of the highway repairs/screw ups are third world, ZERO engineering, ZERO common sense. We have a RR crossing in town of Wadena that cave men would be proud of. We have a CP RR crossing #35 S of Fosston that CP should be fined for! Shameful! And over a year later nobody does SFA about it?

[blackpowder]

And it was gonna cost me $38k to run 3 phase 600yds. And then pay for privilege after that.
We have lost our way.
And yes we broke the sound barrier with a slide rule. But those men were military and on a base salary haha.

[WiltonRanch]

Remember high school math. Teacher was a different character but knew his shit. We’re all supposed to have graphing calculators but our teacher taught us to use our minds instead. He gave us a test once in grade 11, no calculator allowed. Even then it was hard as he sat in his chair with his sarcastic smirk. It was a ****ing grade 10 departmental from 1905.

[pourfarmer]

Remember high school math. Teacher was a different character but knew his shit. We’re all supposed to have graphing calculators but our teacher taught us to use our minds instead. He gave us a test once in grade 11, no calculator allowed. Even then it was hard as he sat in his chair with his sarcastic smirk. It was a ****ing grade 10 departmental from 1905.

Like!!! Need more of that