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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Deadly costly consequences for skimping on the maintenance?... PG&E to stand trial over deadly California wildfire wrote: A California utility giant must face trial for manslaughter for its role in a 2020 wildfire that killed four people, a state judge has ruled. It is the latest legal trouble for Pacific Gas & Electric, which has been blamed for a series of deadly wildfires in the state in recent years. But what of the Directors and their directions?... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It looks like the little leprechaun's push for profits (and personal bonuses) is finally taking its toll on our national airline's reputation. Electrical fire at Melbourne Airport surrounds Qantas plane in smoke. This is just another incident in a long line that have been happening of late. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
... To me, that sounds and smells like a total cover-up. Here's hoping that coverup has been blown soon enough! Except: Shellfish deaths: Minister rejects call for further probe wrote: The government will not carry out further investigations into what killed thousands of shellfish off the North East and North Yorkshire coast. ... We have childish lame excuses to deliberately not look... Don't look down? Hopefully some lab will volunteer to test a few samples to blow the whole polluting scam out of the water?... All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19317 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
An idea for self diving cars in the UK run by the Smart Mobility Living Lab, London and Nissan is to move some of the technology to the side of the roads so that the cars can be warned well in advance of obstructions and road blockages and therefore can change lanes or the route. https://smartmobility.london/ |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24907 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
However was this allowed to run onwards?... Ajax armoured vehicle project back on track, says defence secretary wrote: The Army's "troubled" programme to build the new Ajax armoured vehicle "has turned a corner" according to the defence secretary. To me, that sounds like no fix at all... The squaddies won't even be able to hear their own guns go off... How did such a farce become so long running...? All in our deadly greedy world? Maritn See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24907 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
What do they care, it's only taxpayers funds. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
What were they thinking? Indian police arrest three Marion Biotech employees linked to toxic cough syrup. Indian police have arrested three employees of a pharmaceutical firm whose cough syrups were linked to the deaths of 19 children in Uzbekistan, a police officer says, as the country looks to recover from recent setbacks to the industry. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The cost savings of avoiding better practices and rules for profit has its costs in other forms that arn't good for anyone, but greed overrules good sense. Rail boss tells train crew to skip inspections, limit reports in leaked audio. And Donny's policies while he was in charge have a lot to do with letting it happen. Toxic train wrecks are the high cost of rigged cost-benefit analysis. ...But cost-benefit analysis itself is a con. It’s a corporate-lobbyist-backed pseudoscience — only slightly better than gazing into a crystal ball — that for decades has misled regulators into delaying, diluting, and denying urgently needed public protections, including higher safety standards for trains. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Unbelievable. Norfolk Southern CEO refuses to support rail safety bill in Senate testimony. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw refused to endorse bipartisan rail safety legislation Thursday in his first congressional testimony since last month’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Apple and Foxconn turn back the clock to use slavery working hours: Apple, Foxconn convince Indian state to loosen labor laws wrote: Lobbying leads to landmark legislation that anticipates iPhone production Chinese-style workers Do you know where your i-thingie comes from?... All in the name of unhealthy greed and profit... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
What 'game' is greedy profits vs your health? Eli Lilly cuts insulin prices after years of outrage wrote: Advocates say it's a long overdue start to fixing outrageously high prices... All a game of deadly Marketing with no morals?... Can Marketing ever be healthy?... Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30933 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I simply note in the workers paradise of California, USA a worker can be on the clock for 16 hours. YMMV especially in the EU. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19317 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Another chemical fire, this time in Pasadena, Texas. No doubt releasing a lot of pollution into the air and ground. At least one person injured. Associated Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0bZtjXQHms |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Another case of profits over safety? New leak of radioactive water detected at nuclear plant. A Minnesota nuclear plant where 400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked last year is temporarily shutting down after discovering a smaller leak this week. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
How can such profiteering skimming be reconciled against those lives dangerously impacted?... Record revenue for staff agencies supplying NHS wrote: Companies providing freelance staff to the NHS to cover for big shortages of doctors and nurses have seen their income rise by tens of millions of pounds since 2019. All an expensive and deadly game of "crisis management"? Something needs fixing... Better management needed, and more realistic politics needed, to properly provision what is needed both inside and outside our hospitals? This is no way to run a service for life! Stay healthy folks!! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Now that Officials say water and air are safe after train carrying highly flammable ethanol derails in Minnesota the EPA, DOJ sue Norfolk Southern over East Palestine train derailment and most of the blame now is attributed to Longer trains, fewer workers: Minnesota derailment follows years of railroad cost cutting. ....Some train accident rates have risen nearly 25% in the past decade, and union workers say further cuts to staffing imperil the nation's safety in the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment in February and a fiery derailment Thursday morning in rural Minnesota. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
An ongoing deadly reminder: YouTube - Bhopal: The Worst Industrial Accident in History YouTube - After Bhopal: Cleaning up the World's Worst-Ever Industrial Disaster Really? Cleaned up? Ignoring the ongoing ill health, death, and misery?... All in our deadly greedy business world... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36390 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
J&J and their Texas 2 step shuffle. Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management files for bankruptcy for a second time after company agrees to pay $13.1 billion to settle lawsuits. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21017 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
... Yet another corporate example of how we need to rework responsibility to act upon the actual people who profit from their deadly actions... Stay healthy folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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