Justin Richards <justin.richards <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> OT, because I want to rant.
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Adding to the rant...

What used to get me every time is the "need" to calibrate timers.  These ar=
e
manually operated timers, used to measure 10-60 min, with a manual
start/stop operation and the underlying process (biochem reaction) is not
sensitive to a few minutes. =20

Nevertheless, had to have calibration sticker to NIST standard, 0.1 sec or
less.  Does not matter that human reaction is > 0.3 sec...=20

In every place I worked at, we ended up ordering new timers, because the
cost of a new timer is less that the cost of calibration.

ISO standards applied to ridiculous extent.=20



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