I found this on line and thought most here would find it funny while some could benefit from its wisdom. >:D
Conventional wisdom is that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in government we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
Buying a stronger whip.
Changing riders.
Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."
Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
Pass legislation declaring that "This horse is not dead."
Blaming the horse's parents.
Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
Do a Cost Analysis to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
Procure a commercial design dead horse.
Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
BRAC the horse farm on which it was born.
Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position
You forgot about discussion and approval of declaring the horse's status as "dead" at the NB, but waiting 2 years to issue the ICL on the horse's status. Schroedinger's Horse? If the NB decides the horse is dead, but doesn't update the regs or issue an ICL, is the horse truly dead? >:D
Quote from: Walkman on August 10, 2012, 01:50:08 PM
You forgot about discussion and approval of declaring the horse's status as "dead" at the NB, but waiting 2 years to issue the ICL on the horse's status. Schroedinger's Horse? If the NB decides the horse is dead, but doesn't update the regs or issue an ICL, is the horse truly dead? >:D
Schroedinger's Horse...or the Heisenberg Particle. We can know what it is, and what we think it's status is, but not both. Maybe we can apply Einstein's Theory of Relativity to this. E is everyone who has an opinion, M is the mass/weight/size of the issue, C is the velocity of the rumors of M running through CT, squared.
Then, we can apply the Estes Coefficient to the mix: vehemence times ego squared.
And make sure that said deceased equine is covered in a grey blanket. 8)
Quote from: David Vandenbroeck on August 10, 2012, 01:05:38 PM
I found this on line and thought most here would find it funny while some could benefit from its wisdom. >:D
Conventional wisdom is that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in government ABU threads we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
You needed a minor edit
Still trying to figure out where the batteries are in that Equine Locator Beacon. ;D
Quote from: jks19714 on August 10, 2012, 06:38:33 PM
Still trying to figure out where the batteries are in that Equine Locator Transmitter. ;D
In an aircraft the ELT batteries are located in the rear of the aircraft. Therefore the equine locator beacon battery would be located in the.....oh never mind