Duck boat sinks.... and OP/ED

[Brian37]

Yea, that is the same ignorance as when climate change deniers ignore the long term data, and say, "today was cold so therefore climate change is a hoax".

LONG TERM you cannot keep advocating speed and at the same time ditch oversight. It may be great for short term profits, but the faster you go and especially without regulations, the more things can go wrong.

Apollo 13 did not get back safely without redundancy. In fact, the movie does a disservice to the reality of the real event. The movie would have you believe that everything was on the fly, when the majority of the "what ifs" that did go wrong, were PLANNED OUT PRIOR TO THE LAUNCH.

There is no fucking excuse for that duck boat to go out. PERIOD! Even a non boat captain can watch the local weather and see the high waves and wind speed and decide not to take their private non commercial boat out. Even with open burn of leaves in your yard, all you have to do IS FUCKING LOOK ON THE WEB.

Knowing how many times as a delivery driver during snow storms my pizza chain managers PRESSURED ME to take risks and how many times I slid off the road and almost KILLED MYSELF, I can very easily understand that the Duck Boat driver still did it because he didn't want to get fired.

Really?   Using phenomenon demonstrably unrelated to climate change as a platform for discussing climate change is a sign of knowledge and judgement in your opinion, then?

Well, a gamma ray burst occurred 6 billion years ago and it’s light just reached us yesterday.  Now take it away, convince me why that is an occasion to discuss regulation and climate change.

I am looking out our long term marketing. Our climate has been get it done quick, get it done cheaply, the rich know what is best for everyone. It is the same no rules mentality that caused the great depression. Any climate change scientist will tell you "Of course you cannot single out one hurricane, or snow storm or heat wave" but you CAN look at the frequency in the terms of long term. THAT is what I am addressing.

Not even owning a business, or a boat for that matter, I live on the coast, and constantly hear on local weather reports ADVISORIES that tell all boaters regardless of size or use, that it is not safe to go out on the water. I hear the boat advisories EVERY FUCKING DAY living on the coast. When it is calm, they say nothing, when it is rough they tell EVERYONE to stay off the water. 

If you own a business you should NOT put the public at risk. But if you are driven by profits and you can intimidate an employee into doing it anyway and all you care about are profits, and the employee needs to eat, you can very easily get them to take risks they would not do if off the clock.

Our loophole at the pizza chain was "the driver has the final say", sounds great in theory. But, I lived in a "right to fuck the employee" state, and even when I told the manager it was unsafe to drive, I got a dirty look, and seen plenty of drivers FIRED for doing the right thing in bad weather, and not because of the manager either, but the corporate mentality above them.

I'd bet my life that the pilot of the boat, was either gung ho himself, or under pressure and didn't want to get fired.