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[quote]Bechtel will finish it and make huge money[/quote] XOM is a capable company but in a bind if committed to a hard completion date. Bechtel won’t bend them over but won’t do them any favors. Risk Management is a bear that can eat you alive. ...

re: *Not a Licensed Surveyor

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/22/24 at 4:26 pm
[quote]Seems to me the craft or trade of Land Surveying served us well before complicating the process with "the science of Geodesy". Which system of surveying provides evidence of curvature? (or do they?) Cynics (like myself) would say the over-complex Geodesy was adopted as a surveyor tool t...

re: *Not a Licensed Surveyor

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/22/24 at 1:08 pm
[quote]Question for you (and anyone else who has surveyed land): Do you take into account the "curvature" of the earth? OR Do you assume the land is flat?[/quote] Depends on the technique being used and the end geodetic datum desired. Survey grade GPS requires a datum shift from satell...

re: *Not a Licensed Surveyor

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/22/24 at 9:18 am
[quote] Licensing is meaningless, all it ensures is there is less competition, it has nothing to do with competency other than providing consumers with the warm fuzzies. If anyone doubt this consider the same entity that licenses professionals also licenses drivers...[/quote] Totally and completely...

re: *Not a Licensed Surveyor

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/22/24 at 9:07 am
Try to use it for a boundary survey for legal purposes and any however minor future dispute in court and you’re screwed. Use it for general layout planning purposes is fine, but I wouldn’t build a fence next to your neighbors using that data. Your friend will need an EDM and RTK GPS, plus researc...
[quote]Hard to stay buckled up for 13+ hours...and not particularly healthy to do so....[/quote] Just fasten then loosen the belt until comfortable and avoid bouncing your noggin hard off the ceiling in clear air turbulence. CAT is not remotely reliable to forecasting or real-time imaging. ...
[quote]Clark is like Jackie Robinson. She's going to get a lot of attention for breaking down barriers in a league built by the majority race. It doesn't mean the black WNBA players are lesser than Clark just like it didn't mean the white MLB players were lesser than Robinson. [i]But we should cel...

re: RIP Jim Otto #00

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/20/24 at 12:19 pm
Tough old school s.o.b. and great player who was well respected in the league. ...

re: My dog passed last night

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/20/24 at 12:10 pm
[quote]I rescued him at 6 months old. He had been abused and was scared of everything. And slowly came out of his shell (but stayed scared of grocery bags til the end) He was the sweetest dog I’ve ever had.[/quote] Sorry for your loss and Kudos for taking an abused rescue and bringing him back t...

re: “Name brand” gasoline

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/15/24 at 8:23 pm
[quote]Thought Techron was[/quote] Most Corvette owners forums agree and it’s what I use. Top Tier branded gas, Shell, Exxon etc have additives that do reduce carbon buildup over time on direct injection engines, which is most of them nowadays. You can do yourself by adding additives to “cheap” ...
Ban the Devil’s Lettuce and derivatives, pass legislation to conceal the governor’s and State Agency’s taxpayer funded communications, call a Constitutional Convention to be done in 2 weeks where no one knows what’s in it, and I’m sure we’ll move up next year. ...
[quote]She’s about to get a hard dose of Sharai law when she inevitably steps out of line in the ME[/quote] Rules don’t apply to her. Hopefully she disrespects Allah and gets locked up for a few years. ...

re: Yellowjackets are underrated

Posted by Mr Breeze on 5/11/24 at 7:42 pm
Sat down on my grandpa’s pond dock as a kid to fish for bream and you guessed it, right on top of a yellow jacket nest underneath the wooden dock. Dropped the cane pole in the water and ran like hell, they were faster. Hate those bastards. Saw the first one today, have read the early, solitary o...
[quote]Fun fact: he and Hunter s Thompson lived together for a year in the keys after Thompson’s first divorce. Very little has come out about their escapades together, but I can imagine it was a helluva time.[/quote] Very cool did not know this, nor that Jerry Jeff Walker drove Thompson to Key Wes...
[img][img]https://i.imgur.com/3ZUzeWW.jpg[/img] [link=(https://www.swpc.noaa.gov)]Space Weather Prediction Center[/link] ...
IIRC, sometime after Katrina the Corps of Engineers told Plaquemines Parish they couldn’t justify spending $4 billion, or whatever the huge number, to raise their levees from Belle Chase down to Venice to the same height as Nola, to protect a population of 25,000 people. Katrina destroyed most o...
Jim Cantore is here. ...
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[link=(https://www.fox17.com/news/local/faa-issues-temporary-ground-stop-at-nashville-international-airport-bna-due-to-thunderstorms)]Fox Nashville Live Broadcast [/link] My sister and her family live there, so far so good for them. Murfreesboro area getting slammed at the moment. NWS has...
[quote] Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.”[/quote] Immediate as in today or next week? [quote]“The company voluntarily informed us in April that it may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding...