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Henry's Daughters
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Henry's Daughters

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193MB

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Only allowed because Henry's daughters are hot.

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Only one of them...

But, what was all that about?  Seems to me to not that different than the typical ethics scenario skits that we go through at work for ethics training, only this one is 6 times LONGER.  Someone seems to have been overly enamored with their screenplay and doesn't know how to edit for brevity.

TTFN

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   I watched it.  The size is irrelevant since my software streamed it.  The girls may be hot, but they were fully dressed.  We need some ethics videos of swimming beach lifeguards.

   I don't think I learned anything.  I already knew that wheeling and dealing can involve all sorts of conflicts of interest.

               JHG

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The reason the OP posted here is that Henry, when a friend asked to descrtibe their mental condition, answered in a hesitating fashion with "Eeee...Thick".

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto:  KISS
Motivation:  Don't ask

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Texas, New Mexico, and perhaps some other states require a certain number of HOURS of continuing education in ethics for PE's.  So condensing it down to the meaningful content is not necesarily in anyone's best interest.

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Ooooooooooooooooooooo.

Can watching this video count as my yearly ethics training?    

Coooooooooooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllll..

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rcookepe- I would guess that the video was done for some sort of course or class, in which case, discussion and analysis of the story would involve more time than watching the video.  I've done their 5-hour course, I think it was.

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I was going to see the video, but if they are fully dressed, forget it :)

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So help me out here, this film was so long winded I have forgotten. Was it to show you how, to twist your fellow men, or how not to?
B.E.

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For those of us who are afraid to watch this at work and insufficiently inspired to log in from home, can we have a thumbnail summary?

Hg

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RE: Henry's Daughters

I watched the first couple of minutes of it.  Looks like basically that Henry and his two daughters are all involved in engineering and wind up with conflicts of interest, with related people working for opposing parties, etc.

It IS safe-for-work, by the way.

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It is a completely benign, but overly melodramatic, piece of film that you might expect to see a workplace ethics class.  The gist of the story is that the father is influencing a public procurement, the elder daughter works in the agency doing the procurement as an evaluator, and the younger daughter works for one of the two competitors.  

EVERYONE of them commits at least one ethical infraction, but the father, to his credit appears to be ready to take the fall and protect his daughters.

TTFN

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It reminded me of this quote by Allen Simpson.  I think he lives in Texas now.

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."

 

 

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An interesting point comes up which is featured in Henry's Daughters.
In the video one of the issues raised is the involvement of law enforcement who wanted to access the data logged by the systems.

An interesting parallel is with Google's Street view program.
It appears that while they asked for permission of various governments to take photos, with some conditions attached, they did not mention that they also were mapping the WiFi community logging network names and MAC addresses. Most governments claim to have been unaware of this activity.

At the root of this is the question of why Google embarked on this program. It must be fearfully expensive and the question is just what the payback is? There have been objections from some about the benefit to burglars, of course, but the value of the WiFi data? They claim it helps with their mobile phone interactive navigation system.
Now just how does this work? Does it require they know the geographical location of every WiFi location? My WiFi broadband is a hot spot because I opted in to the Open Zone project that allows members of the scheme to connect using spare bandwidth on my wireless router but I don't recall Google asking permission to use it for their phone navigation system and I don't see they need my network names or MAC Addresses.
So is this all a cover for some Homeland Security project or can they really make money from this?

See this covered in the Pats Pub thread: http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=265905&page=1
and newspaper articles typical as this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282755/Google-Street-View-secretly-recorded-wifi-information-millions-homes.html
Guess I need to change some of these things.
 

JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

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