What Einstein has taught me

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. -A. Einstein

You know what you're talking or not?

In every project that I handle, I met quite some number of peoples. Some are expert, some are stupid, and some are “sing ka” (con man). I thanks god that so far those peoples that I deal with are quite normal, until recently I met some fucking ego idiots.

Lot of peoples likes to show off their capability in front of their bosses. So they like to talk a lot whenever their boss is there, whether the word comes out from their mouth is logic or not, they just don’t care and start to pluck from the sky and throw it out to show their “intelligent” and “hardworking-ness”.

When these peoples start to talk, the only action I can do is showing the shocking face and I don’t know how to answer those stupid questions which don’t need answer. There are many stupid real life examples that I can share you, and believe it or not, this is the first time I want to become as stupid as possible in order for me to follow their instructions.

1. In order to have “fantastic” control system, I have been asked to on and off the air-cond. unit installed in the manager room. The reason given is that the manager maybe already went back home and he forgot to off the air-cond.
You don’t actually need the control system, what you need is to employ a guy to fully responsible to on and off the air-cond unit for their bosses by pressing the switch in front of their manager room.

2. In order to have a nice look and feel, I have been instructed to take out all the relays from the relay panel. But how I going to split the signal between PLC and indicator light? And guess what, the given solution is to drive the indicator light from a PLC digital out O_o.
PLC is not an item for you to show off; it is a very important equipment to do the complex control sequence. A relay is not an ugly old component; it is a very important and useful component in simple and reliable hardwires logic.

3. Two management level guys stop the welding because they found out that the gap between two pieces of pipe is bigger than the welding rod diameter. The reason given is that the welder can’t weld properly with gap like this.
Bro, you know what you talking or not? If you need welding course I can introduce a cheap and quick welding training for you with my own cost.

Lot of time, people doesn’t realize that how irritating is their stupid question, argument and reason are. If you really want to challenge people’s work, please make sure you have all the proper knowledge and skill before you start fire. Don’t insult people’s intelligent because of your stupidity.

Human stupidity

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

I love this quote, it is simple, teasing and yet it is so true. I don't know why Einstein said this, but I believe he should be sicked when looking at those idiots that are ruin the world.

Once a while we heard some stupid stories about some stupid ideas, stupid actions, illogical statement from friend around us. Sometime we wonder how come these idiots exist in this world. They should, by all means, extinct from this world. However, when we zoom to a bigger screen, there are endless wars at every conner on the third planet from sun. I personally don't understand why people war, what are they looking for? For justice? For wealth? For living?

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

If Einstein knew his knowledge will be used to create atomic bomb, he will definitely wouldn't publish his papers.

When we laugh at people's stupidity, please look at ourself, are we a joke for others?

Some facts behind the sohai project

1. According to wiki - List of human spaceflights, until 10 Oct 2007, there are total 260 manned spaceflights that reached 100 km or more in altitude, of which 252 reached orbit successfully (sorry for the failure 8).

2. The list of human spaceflights

• List of human spaceflights, 1960s
• List of human spaceflights, 1970s
• List of human spaceflights, 1980s
• List of human spaceflights, 1990s
• List of human spaceflights, 2000-present

3. According to wiki-Space tourism the cost to sent a human to space is around US$20M, but we spent RM95M (about US$26M) to sent a sohai to space.

The cost for space tourism now is US$30M and fully booked until 2009. I wonder how many rich man/women in this world. I wish I can visit to space some day.

4. According wiki-Angkasawan program, it is a project under the government-to-government offset agreement through the purchase of Sukhoi SU-30MKM fighter jets for the Royal Malaysian Air Force. Under this agreement the Russian Federation will bear the cost of training of two Malaysians and to send one to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2007. Why we still pay so much???

5. According to The Age, Malaysia would basically be using foreign space programs as a "taxi service" to transport its angkasawan, gaining nothing of merit.

6. Quoted from The Age -

That's not Malaysia "boleh", that's Malaysia "bodoh" (stupid).

Angkasawan

Today we spent few million RM to bring a sohai to the space. I wish the money can be used for education or research instead of sending a sohai out of the Earth.

What a waste!