Steve Firth wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Which you simply don't seem to appreciate.

Oh I appreciate that there are always idiots around who think that
jamming interlocks is a really clever trick. You can usually tell who
they are because of the missing gingers, curdled eyeballs[1], etc.


[1] A friend of my fathers who worked at Marconi who tried a
non-standard "trick" of looking down a waveguide.

What you don't seem to appreciate is that things are proscribed for a
reason. And from the sounds of it, YOU weren't the manufacturer you were
a service tech.

Well steve, I have you the benefit of the doubt, but its plain you have
no clue about which you spout.

I wasn't the service tech, I was actually there designing a very small
bit of Sea Wolf.

The guys who were getting round the interlocks, were tasked with setting
up the transmitters. Once installed in their racks, there was no other
way to do it but 'live'.

Of course they worked on live chassis all the time. They after all
designed and built them.

It was juts that once stuck in ships in Her Majesties Navy, they had to
deal with people of almost as low intelligence as you, so they were put
in racks, and made idiot proof.

So relax, and go with your paranoia. WE didn't look down waveguides, or
laser rangefinders, either, nor did we push airguns up each others arses
to see what happened. We knew pretty well what we were doing, oddly enough.

Now its clear that youy dont, so for you, the important thing is to
stick to the rules, which are for the obedience of fools like you.

WE wrote them, knowing that wiser men than you, would know how to break
them safely without having to have it spelt out in words of one
syllable, using numbers no greater than ten, which we know you find
challenging without taking your bootees off first.