[BC] KWVE redux

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 02:33 pm, Alan Kline wrote:

>  The Commission seems to forget that the entire point of doing EAS tests
>  is to ensure that the equipment works *and* that the operators are
>  trained in its use. It stands to reason that when fallible humans do
>  this type of thing, there will occasionally be mistakes. That's the
>  entire point of doing tests! That's our opportunity to find the
>  mistakes, retrain where necessary, and refine procedures, *BEFORE* an
>  activation takes place! What's the point of doing tests if the
>  Commission expects us to be absolutely perfect, without human failure,
>  every singe time?

 I would argue ( I have in the past, and the argument won ) that the test
 was SUCCESSFUL !! It successfully did what tests are supposed to do,
 and exposed a deficiency in the system which, heretofor unknown, can
 now be fixed, and re-tested next week.

 To define a violation as a test successfully doing what the test is supposed
 to do, is ludicrous at best. I'm not even sure what the word is, at worst ?

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Cowboy