I nearly did that, but for some reason thought COBOL was more interesting than Fortran

(it was a while ago!)

 

Who the hell is COBOL??

PLEASE NO GEEKY IT STUFF HERE - THANK YOU!!

Pete

 

I thought spliting atoms was sitting in the garden breaking hazel nuts on a tree stump o well there goes my YTS scheme.


Huxley


I thought he worked for Biffa

 

pslewis

Can you send me details of the job that was advertised in the newspaper and wot day do those papers advertise jobs?

Ray

i know you cant give away to much info, i only want the info that was in the paper. eg. job details and contract address to send CV
rswli@hotmail.com

[Edited by Ray_li - 11/27/2002 6:45:10 PM]

 

Ray - if you are serious e-mail me, enclosing your CV details and I will forward it.

The job title is Delegated Manufacturing Authority (Electrical/Electronic) - you need to certify weapon electronics, test gear, across a huge site.

Pete

 

Who will you be working for?

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has been central to the defence of the United Kingdom for more than 50 years, providing and maintaining the warheads for the country's nuclear deterrent.

Uniquely among the nuclear powers, AWE covers the whole life-cycle of nuclear warheads, in a single establishment. This includes initial concept and design, through component manufacture and assembly, to in-service support and, finally, decommissioning and disposal.

------------------------------------------------------------

Computing:-

New Supercomputer for AWE

AWE today took delivery of a new massively parallel supercomputer, placing it in the top ten of leading computer installations in the world.
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Engineering:-

Science and Technology Introduction & Objectives

" The overall mission of AWE is to provide the UK national capability for a nuclear deterrent on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence.

The main goals of scientific and technological development at AWE have been to enable the design and production of nuclear warheads which have their performance assured and yet at the same time have the most stringent safeguards against unplanned operation.

Pete

 

Kelvin - a wee bit jealous maybe???


Yeah - like you wouldn't believe LMAO!

 

Not to sure but do you guys have this backpack that detects nucclear waste (not to sure of the term) and can be taken anywhere in the work.

001,002,003,004,005,006 NO 007 then 008 does this ring a bell

001 is for the person that designed it

[Edited by Ray_li - 11/27/2002 7:54:20 PM]

 

KELVIN - I am sure a Solicitors Clerk is very rewarding - but you shouldn't belittle others careers!!

Pete

[Edited by pslewis - 11/27/2002 7:58:32 PM]

 

Dont quite understand Ray??

You have mail by the way - impressive CV my man - I wish you all the best!!

Pete

 

I don't recall ever even mentioning your career I was more concerned with the "God" status you seem to like to give yourself.

How many other people do you see coming on here and talking about how many £100k's they earn, or how much they'd get in a redundancy payout?? Can't recall reading too many of your post's that haven't concerned one or the other... Oh yeah, and who can forget your body builder mates? Don't want to get on the wrong side of you! Come on Pete - if you say it enough times it just might come true!!

Do I care what people think of what I do/earn?? Not really. Not everyone needs to lull themselves into a sense of security

 

someone i knew designed a pack for a company that sent people all over the world if there was a nuclear disaster.
this backpack was black and has a arial that comes out the top. it also has a GPS and a senser that is straped on to the leg.
they used 001, 002 etc for the product but not 007 just incase some stupid person saw them with 007 and decide to shoot him.

i guess it wasnt for you guys then

 

Kelwin - you are a ***!! Post elsewhere then if you dont like it!! your stupidity is only second to my 'Apparent' ego boost!!

I am so honoured how you rate me so highly that you know ALL about me - I don't know, these people who think me an idiot yet STILL put me on their VIP lists so they can track me You are one sad, sad person. Go leech off someone else!!

Pete

 

LMAO!!!

Once again the ego come's through - put you on my VIP list??? Please!!! And as for thinking you are an idiot?? - You said it

 

AWE is a dead end(and you have no other option beyond there), you know as well as everyone else is that we'll run out of money for self development of Nuclear ordnance.
This stuff about supercomputers is just bluster and its really just pure academia(Government Uni type Research establishment), any existing upgrade to UK nuclear deterrent will come from the US. The mould of independence in Defence is broken e.g. when we collaborated on Eurofighter or replaced Polaris with Trident......see Apache Helecopters as another example of 'Contracting out' defence.......
I'll only briefly mention the political option, it only takes one 'Liberal' based government to scrap the Nuclear option, your only hope is that the status quo remains in Labour/Conservative government. The risk of a breakup of the UK with Northern Ireland and Scotland being likely to drop out given the vote going the wrong way will bugger it up completely. remember that the SNP are the second party in Scotland, any major swing in voting will mean they are in and independence from Westminster. They have an anti Nuclear weapons policy so you can just close Faslane....So Pete ask yourself, where will YOU be working.....Make mine a large portion of fries my man....




[Edited by camk - 11/27/2002 9:52:56 PM]

 

Lewis
Just as I guessed.
You are a sad old man who has no hobbies or lifestyle. Thats why you are still working at 72 and spend ALL your leisure time on this BBS. I hope to god that I will have been in a comfortable retirement for 15 years by the time I reach your age. Unless of course you are lying about your age which would make you an even sadder git

 

Pete - your dolls house reference is interesting. Didn't one of the people behind Barbie dolls later get into guidance systems???

 

The replies on here to Lewis are amazing

ROFPML

Keep up the good work fellas

 

Not in the top ten for long. Last time I looked it was somewhere around 23rd or something. Amazing how fast the superduperputers are getting nowadays

Yeah, that job sounds dead easy, bang one together for you in my lunch hour, no worries

Cheers

Ian

 

I used to do that, worked at most of the nuclear establishments in the UK, both Civil and Military on the electronic test systems, mainly working with Utrasonic and eddy current systems down to component level plus calibration to the required standards. One of my favourite projects was working on the robot that crawls down the reactor core rods and scans the core for cracks. Once you set it up and get it walking down the core you cant touch it again or you die. And then they wonder why nuclear power is expensive.

Pity the technology went so throw away digital, it either works or stick a new board in, it got boring so i left. I saw some interesting things though, probably the stangest feeling was walking around on top of nuclear reactors, it's so quiet yet it could wipe out most of the UK if it went **** up.

Working at AWE is nothing special, i used to go to those places every day. Dont you get sick of the constant bleeps from the radiation detectors? that probably explains why you have strange notions, such as not liking gold wheels, it's enough to send anyone mad.

 

Yes, John - the 1 second bleeps do still happen Used to give me a headache, not now!!

I seem to remember we DID throw all the dead wood out a few years ago - sorry to see you go, but we MUST move on see??

Pete

 

I see you now look after the systems for round coconut shaped boats?? I can understand now why you got out - the attraction must have been TOO great

Pete

 

Pete - you not at work today?

Honestly, are you really 72? Seems like you are choosing to ignore more and more posts making legitamite points contrary to your assertions.

Come on mate - consider it an amnesty - come clean with no flaming

D

 

I didnt work for AWE, i was too highly skilled for that place, they paid me to come on site at extortionate rates to do a job they didnt have the ability/certification to do in-house. So no dead wood being dumped, i changed job when it got too easy/boring.

Dunno what your second comment means? I work on multi terra byte databases for some of the largest turnover UK businesses, it's a bit more mentally challenging than the work i did at places like AWE.

 

The roads around AWE are speed-camera-city too

FORTRAN, mmmmm

 

Nowt wrong with FORTRAN, use it every day to do a few sums.

 

I can also write FORTRAN

 

pslewis: For someone who claims "you shouldn't belittle others careers", you've done a pretty good job of belittling the firemen!!

 

John don't start taking he seriously

Typical play on words I guess.

Coracle - small round boats used by welsh fishermen?