Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official" channel.

@serenityb5816 DON'T START WITH ANY OF THAT machines were switching votes garbage. It never happened and none of you idiots have ever proven a damn thing. Don't waste your breath on any of that conspiracy garbage. You're all idiots. EVERYONE IS TIRED OF IT GROW UP OR GET LOST
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@265hemi7 Its the one thing we can always be guaranteed of. No matter how well intentioned a government program or NGO program or independent charity is - there will always bee some sniveling shite trying to fleece it. I don't know if you remember it but there was that "Schools Building Program" that Labor di. They put up 4.5 Billion to keep the construction industry going and keep all those people employed. It was an absolutely fantastic idea. Private sector construction was at a standstill due to the GFC so they decided to put all those people to work doing stuff at every school in the country. But instead of listening to the school principals and school councils on what each school ACTUALLY needed they had government bureaucrats hand out contracts like confetti. Instead of 4.5 billion being spent on stuff schools needed they spent 2.5 billion on project management and 2 billion doing stuff that in may cases the school didn't need. That schools building program is a case study in bad management that EVERY university student should study.
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@265hemi7 I'm assuming 265 hemi means your a Chrysler boy?
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That's actually a pretty good description of what happened. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I really do like the country but when it comes to their knowledge of other nations they are incredibly ignorant. Its not that I think other nations (like Australia) are perfect - in fact far from it. BUT Americans have this incredible misconception that they think every other nations wants to be just like America or do things just like America does. There are some things America does that really are great and I wished Australia did similar. Most notably in that their college sports system is just awesome. I might be biased in that because I was there on a sports scholarship. On the flip side their health care system is a nightmare that NOBODY wants to copy and yet they think everyone does. If Americans have a great weakness its the inability to think through issues and see what others will see and consider the consequences. Listen to the comment by the village elder at about 10:20 -"There will be consequences for this" This was first telecast in 2011 - what happened?
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To All I just hear the other day that the mother SCOTUS Judge Neil Gorsuch, Ane Gorsuch Burford was the head of the EPA during the Reagan Admin and was also doing the same sort of garbage. Downsize the agency, throw out inconvenient people and replace them with industry goons and then let industry police itself. If you follow the links its easy to find on Wikipedia. The neo-liberals have been at this game for way longer than this documentary lets on.
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@browsepals4123 To quote from the film The long Kiss Goodnight: Were you always this stupid or did you take lessons? That libertarian garbage about stripping down government regulators NEVER WORKS. Every time any government anywhere does it bad sh*t happens. After all the DC-9 crashes people screamed about airline safety. So the FAA got to work making sure planes were built properly and it got safer. Then the FAA got stripped down. Then Boeing cut corners and the Max-8 happened. And that's just 1 example of 1000s.
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Similar is being reported here in Australia. PTSD, battle fatigue, shell shock has been prevalent for 1000s of years and for 1000s of years its been ignored. The kings, emperors, caliphs, dukes and politicians have NEVER CARED about the soldiers they send to war or the consequences that it causes. They look at the win-loss columns and territory they gained or lost and nothing more.
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@Boomslang55 As I said to your other reply in the other thread I agree Suckerbergs money in Democrat politics and the some of the pro-Democrat media are disgusting. If there is a difference its the amount of money being pumped into the radical far right of American politics and how vicious they are even to other Republicans. Starting at 25:45 the guy they are speaking to John Ward is a REPUBLICAN and look at how they attacked him. What the average American conservative in the street needs to realise these people care even less about you than the Left does. To them you are just a lump of talking meat to be pumped. The corporate backers in the Dems aren't much better but the lesser people on the Left want you to have health care and your kids to get a good enough education to get a job.
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This is what you get when you let Milton Freidman's "Greed is good" philosophy dominate your society for almost 50 years. It was madness when it was first suggested. It was madness when they gave him the fake Nobel Prize for economics (Yes its not a real Nobel). It was madness when Regan and Thatcher adopted what he said an gave the world Reaganomics and Thatcherism. The top 1% are psychotically greedy. There's no other basic way to describe them. No they have done this. This is just the latest of "Greed is good."
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ITS FEBRUARY 2022 and the world is in an even worse situation. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. The whole world saw the January 6 attempted coup and everyone's wondering what's happening because no major player has been charged. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING to do with Wall St, Trump, The Trump family, any of the people linked to Jeffery Epstein (including Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and others). The only case the DOJ seems really interested in is that Australian guy. You know the one who told the truth about some war crimes.
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@wolfejar FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s when Reagan was in the WH. It wasn't that hard to see then that what he was doing was going to have some very serious outcomes eventually. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they used to drag me into all sorts of discussions mostly the amendments. I'd studied Orwell (1984 & Animal Farm) in high school as almost every Australian does. I used to argue any country could slide into a totalitarian nightmare if it wasn't careful and it was fairly clear to me American's had a number of false beliefs. The number 1 false belief was that the US Constitution (despite being brilliant) was indestructible and it would keep America safe. What do we now know? Can the US government get around the Constitution? 2 words "Patriot Act" What have you just highlighted? A piece of legislation that was brilliant and did the job got dumped and 23 years later the consequences have landed like a sledge hammer to a skull. What did I see back in the late 80s? Reagan pulling apart the health system, the savings & loans system and other things with the idiotic stupidity that the private sector does everything better. If that concept was true then why did the Great Depression happen or any of the other stock market crashes happen. I was there in America when one of those happened. A bunch of my frat brothers lost bad. The money they had made from summer jobs was in the stock market. They went to class one day and by by the time they got home it was over. I did aerospace engineering and was there when Challenger crashed. I'd actually been in Florida and watched Columbia take of only weeks earlier. In the aftermath (when they were choosing to replace it or not) Kelly Johnson (famous for the SR71, U2,...) said "DON'T replace it. Use the $4 Billion to do something better." I got into an argument with a bunch of my frat brothers at the time. I repeated what Kelly Johnson said and they screamed back that America HAD to have 4 shuttles to counter the Soviet threat. After that was the idiocy surrounding Space Station Freedom. Yeah the reason America hasn't gone back to the moon (and a lot of other things) is because decisions were being made for the wrong reasons with no consideration of lessons learned from history combined with not considering long term effects.
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Have you never heard the saying "History repeats?" Its almost the one thing you can guarantee that every tribe, state and nation WILL DO is they will repeat historically stupid things. Usually chanting "This time it will be different!" Even when nations write their history and put in place things to prevent repeating a mistake some clown will say in front of every one. "This time it will be different!" Need anyone remind Americans of the similarity between Vietnam in the 1970s and Iraq in 2003.
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@nn-hx8oe WHY DON'T YOU TELL US ALL WHAT YOUR SOURCE OF WISDOM IS? Is it pro-Trump Fox, Skynews, OAN, Newsmax? OR Is it pro-Putin RT? Your mouthing off at people, hiding behind a pseudonym AND not telling anyone who you listen too. FYI - I don't watch CNN. EXPOSED
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@nn-hx8oe WELL YOU STILL HAVEN'T TOLD US YOUR SOURCE. You've spewed out another pile of incoherent crap and garbage. You can't even form clear sentences or use punctuation properly. Anyone can see your the person repeating what others have told you. Go back to school and learn to read, write and think before you mouth off at others. I hear they are taking new students at Prager U.
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@yvonneplant9434 I agree. Way back not long after Trump won 2016 Masha was on the Australian TV program "Planet America" and gave the best explanation that I saw anyone give on that whole fiasco. Masha explained that in Putin's experience elections are decided before election day. Election day is just a confirmation exercise and that's how it works in the Russian version of democracy. Way to often we think (and particularly Americans) there is one version of democracy. In Putin's brain Hilary had already won months and months beforehand. Everything else was just theatre because that how he thinks. So what was Putin doing hacking emails handing stuff to Trump's people? We all tend to forget that Hilary in her career of upsetting people had also slapped Russia (including Putin) with sanctions while she was SecState. PLUS Putin hated the fact that America had undermined and helped trash his glorious Soviet Empire. So he hated her. PLUS Soviet political strategy all through the cold war was "We are unpredictable while America is predictable." So having a lose cannon like Trump in the White House wasn't what Putin wanted. Putin wanted a predictable America he could play the classic Soviet games with. Just imagine what would have happened if Comey had kept quiet about finding the laptop with emails and then Hilary had won. Consider what Trump and the GOP would have done once the Russians started releasing proof that Comey had withheld vital information that helped Hilary win. Can you imagine how Trump and the GOP would have taken that? That's what is great about people like Masha, Julia and Konstantin Kisin. They understand Russian culture because they were all born into Russian culture. For almost 30 years we have been trying to put Russian politics into a Western Democratic Model. Its like trying to run Apple Software on a Windows PC - it doesn't work.
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@twatts1523 What, gives you that impression? How does anyone who understands their subject mean they're a spook? I think you're stretching reality a bit too far.
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@bIametheniIe Absolutely true. And if their share price struggles the Pentagon will just bail them out with some ridiculous project or they will be given yet another NASA job to milk like a bloated cow. Prof Mark Blyth (who's pretty damn smart) said recently we need to separate which of our corporations actually can make money from those that are just good at tax management and financial games. I think its pretty obvious where he'd put Boeing and the tragedy is they used to build great stuff now they're a joke.
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@CYMotorsport Yeah all valid comments now please tell everyone how many rich people are on death row and how many poor people are on death row? Or how about the 3 guys Trump sent to the injection table AFTER losing the election compared to the 4 murderers he pardoned a few days later who worked for Blackwater and gad killed 17 people in the Nisor Square massacre. Sorry buckwheat but the American Justice system is broken. In fact most of the justice systems around the world are broken to some extent its just that some are more broken that others.
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@MsWobbly1 Clearly you have never worked in software development SO PLEASE DO NOT say anything that stupid or idiotic ever again about something you DO NOT UNDERSTAND. I work in industrial software including safety related systems. 1) It was NOT a logic error. It was a sensor failure that should have been foreseeable. 2) In engineering we have systems. methods and techniques for evaluating errors that look how the hardware and software will react to errors. Among these are: FMEA - Failure Mode Effect Analysis HAZOP - Hazard and Operability CHAZOP - Control Hazard I know about these things because I do it for a living. Boeing did NOT DO the things it should have done by good practice. Boeing cut corners and over 300 people died.
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@mgoblue0970 Its NOT just America its now a pandemic that's 1000s of times worse than COVID ever was. I'm Australian and we have the same disease infecting our nation. Go watch the news and commentary from anywhere and you'll see it. The only differences from one country to the next are: - How bad the infection is? and - What they are doing about it? Sadly in most cases the answers are BAD and NOTHING.
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@maramba32 Actually its: As long as you have ENOUGH money. You wont be charged. Remember buying politicians and controlling the judiciary isn't as cheap as it used to be and the fact you can't claim it as a business expense on your tax return is just un-American.
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@Stopinvadingmyhardware Which comment are you referring to? If your asking about Epstein there's not much we really know for certain. He was extremely good at picking vulnerable young girls out of a crowd and just as good at serving them up to specific men. We'll never really know for sure but my bet is, he was one of the most clever blackmailers in history. I suspect he's dead because somebody got hold of his information stash. Ask yourself how does somebody in that game stay alive? Leverage. How do they get killed? They lose their leverage. What amazes me is that Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive. She must have something stashed away that people know about but not where it is and that's kept her alive. If you have any better answers feel free.
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@wildmano1965 Yeah it started under Reagan when he castrated the DOJs ability to prosecute anti-trust cases. Now 40 years later the western world is paying the price of being dominated by monopolies and the 3rd world has been raped of their resources. Its one reason I hate the American Right. They are always screaming about how they believe in and protect the Constitution and yet have trampled on and neutered parts of it to their own benefit.
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@a.k2483 WTF doe you mean by "No"????? Have they not explained in this how the top level of Wall St. got away with everything they did that caused the 2008 GFC??? If you don't like being called a M0R0N then don't be a M0R0N.
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@jakebredthauer5100 Yeah but Russia should also stop being a pain in the butt to the rest of the world. I can see a moment coming when one some guy from a small country gets up in the United Nations and just lets fly at how America, Russia and China just wont stop interfering in everyone else's business and tells the 3 of them to FK-OFF. And when the Brits, French and others laugh at it he throws stuff at them too.
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I did aerospace engineering but work in industrial control systems including safety related subsystems. You're NOT wrong, but not quite right either. People who hide pertinent information FOR ANYTHING that results in the deaths of others need to face CRIMINAL CHARGES. Murder charges versus manslaughter or other charges would be dependent on what they knew and what they hid. One of the key things we do as part of standard engineering processes are called HAZOPs (Hazard & Operability Studies). The purpose is to identify hazards and work out mitigation strategies. Once you work out a strategy (or solution) the next step is called FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis). Its where we assess the components in a system or subsystem and consider the known types of failure and assess what the effects are. That comment by the Boeing Engineer that asked what happens if the AOA Sensor fails is exactly what should have been the start of an FMEA. That question should have been assigned to a person or team and there should be a readily traceable set of paperwork. For a critical safety functions or systems. Option 1 You're designing as per standards or guidelines using certified components, which is always my preferred option. Certified components become certified from FMEAs and testing. Using certified components comes with added costs but also come with all the safety information. Option 2 You are taking responsibility for everything including FMEAs, certification and anything else. Option 3 Ignore the Question. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ If you consider the comment by one of the Boeing engineers (at 30:30) ASKING about "what would happen if the AOA sensor failed" that tells me NO ONE DID an FMEA on that system. Because if they had there would be a paper trail and by now someone would have found it. I can't imagine any circumstance where experienced engineers WOULD NOT have realised this system would eventually crash a plane. Its part of basic safety ideology that any failure you can reasonably describe will eventually happen. You assume the failure WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN and then assess what then happens. I actually wrote to Ralph Nader (who lost a relative in one of these accidents) and explained my background and qualifications. I told him what his people needed to look for in terms of design paper work and reports. THEY NEVER GOT BACK TO ME. I do hope they got the right people with the right advice.
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@TheEvertw We agree on one thing - it was absurd. Sorry but I wont waste much time on someone who wont listen to experience training and qualifications. Even the most basic analysis says the MCAS was going to crash planes. It was a 1oo1 system that was NOT fail safe and its obvious one of its basic failure modes was going to drive the plane into the ground. That leaves very few answers. - They never did an FMEA at all; or - They did a very poor FMEA; or - They did and proper FMEA and then DELIBERATELY IGNORED it. Those first 2 options are negligence, the 3rd is WILLFUL negligence and legally very different.
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You're absolutely right but what this shows is WHY we aren't seeing anything on the January 6 attempted coup. Just 2 years after this story (in 2015) it was reported that Wall St bonuses topped $28 Billion while the entire minimum wage bill for America was $14 Billion. In the years since there have been no major anti-trust cases to break up the "too big to fail" crowd. In fact the DOJ has not pursued any major anti-trust case for decades. In the years since there have been the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers and most recently the Pandora Papers and no major player has been charged. How far has any investigation gone on the Jeffery Epstein situation or his involvement with Trump, Clinton and others. Watching Lanny Breuer give nothing but cowardly excuses explains why nothing is being done about ANYTHING. What this shows is that the cancer in the DOJ has been festering for decades. They are so scared of losing a case they don't prosecute anything but the surest of cases. Its cowardly and its helped wreck the world.
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