Originally Posted By: Salmo g.

The purpose of business is the transfer of money.

Sg


Bologna. The purpose of business is business.

It is much like the purpose of life, which is life, is it not?

The transfer of money is just a regressive part of business.

Government? Well a little bit of it is necessary.

In my youth I did duty on a several Destroyers as a Machinist Mate in both the aft engine room and main control. The first ship that I served on, (Forrester class) had the main feed pump on the upper level quite close to the throttles which, in my early years of duty I spent most of my time. Well if the DA tank water level got low, and was replenished to quickly the system would not feed the main feed pump and it (the main feed pump) would loose feed water and run away. We, the 'engineers' could manually override the mechanical governors, which we did, or I would not be part of this discourse.

I have seen photos of the results of a main feed pump centrifugally 'exploding' on a Forrester class destroyer. The systems on those systems were faulty as were the governors. They were improved on in later classes.

My point is that government, or governors are only as good as their designers and tenders.

Good night my friends.
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