Read: Wikipedia re ISO 9000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000)
If you get a grip of what it is and good for, you will understand the remainder of this post.
Perhaps not.
Of note, midway or toward the end of the Wiki page -
Over time, various industry sectors have wanted to standardize their interpretations of the guidelines within their own marketplace. This is partly to ensure that their versions of ISO 9000 have their specific requirements, but also to try and ensure that more appropriately trained and experienced auditors are sent to assess them.
- The TickIT guidelines are an interpretation of ISO 9000 produced by the UK Board of Trade to suit the processes of the information technology industry, especially software development.
- AS9000 is the Aerospace Basic Quality System Standard, an interpretation developed by major aerospace manufacturers. Those major manufacturers include AlliedSignal, Allison Engine, Boeing, General Electric Aircraft Engines, Lockheed-Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, Rockwell-Collins, Sikorsky Aircraft, and Sundstrand. The current version is AS9100D.
- PS 9000 * QS 9000 is an interpretation agreed upon by major automotive manufacturers (GM, Ford, Chrysler). It includes techniques such as FMEA and APQP. QS 9000 is now replaced by ISO/TS 16949.
- ISO/TS 16949:2009 is an interpretation agreed upon by major automotive manufacturers (American and European manufacturers); the latest version is based on ISO 9001:2008. The emphasis on a process approach is stronger than in ISO 9001:2008. ISO/TS 16949:2009 contains the full text of ISO 9001:2008 and automotive industry-specific requirements. After the new edition of ISO 9001:2015 the ISO/TS 16949:2009 was also completely revised and reissued by IATF (International Automotive Task Force). IATF 16949:2016 is now a stand-alone standard that doesn't include the ISO 9001:2015 requirements but still refers to them and works as an additional automotive-specific requirement to ISO 9001.
- TL 9000 is the Telecom Quality Management and Measurement System Standard, an interpretation developed by the telecom consortium, QuEST Forum. In 1998 QuEST Forum developed the TL 9000 Quality Management System to meet the supply chain quality requirements of the worldwide telecommunications industry. The TL 9000 standard is made up of two handbooks: the QMS Requirements Handbook, and the QMS Measurement Handbook. The current versions of the Requirements and Measurements Handbooks are 6.0. Unlike ISO 9001 or other sector-specific standards, TL 9000 includes standardized product and process measurements that must be reported into a central repository, which allows organizations to benchmark their performance in key process areas against peer organizations. It is important to note that TL 9000 R6.0 contains the full text of ISO 9001:2015.
- ISO 13485:2016 is the medical industry's equivalent of ISO 9001. ISO 13485:2016 is a stand-alone standard. Because ISO 13485 is relevant to medical device manufacturers (unlike ISO 9001, which is applicable to any industry), and because of the differences between the two standards relating to continual improvement, compliance with ISO 13485 does not necessarily mean compliance with ISO 9001 (and vice versa).
- ISO/IEC 90003:2014 provides guidelines for the application of ISO 9001 to computer software.
- ISO/TS 29001 is quality management system requirements for the design, development, production, installation, and service of products for the petroleum, petrochemical, and natural gas industries. It is equivalent to API Spec Q1 without the Monogram annex.
- ISO 18091 is the guidelines for the application of ISO 9001 in local government.[47]
Then, there is further exploration, tighter in word usage -
And they killed that over political incorrectness.
Do you suppose Amazon/Bezos gives a shit over ISO 9000?
Musk, for Tesla or SpaceX or the solar roof business out of Buffalo?
The Wuhan Lab? Did they achieve ISO certification? Prior to 2020?
The beat goes on. Dilbert still going for now, https://dilbert.com
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Dan Burns writes at Left.mn -
The amount of fraud and waste in military spending is incalculable. Over half of it is flagrant corporate welfare, that could and should be far better used. Some people are trying to do something about it, but efforts keep going nowhere.
So, how about we replace “cutting military spending” with “cutting fraud and waste from the military.” The latter of which can be sold as making the armed forces better.
For that to actually happen the White House would have to get behind it, and use its famed “bully pulpit” so that corporate media can’t just mostly ignore what a wretched, mega-sewage hole war pig greed and corruption are – and what that’s costing the rest of us, especially those who need real help most. That’s unlikely to happen with this administration. While it’s been much better than I expected on domestic issues, its foreign policy is the shits, especially its creation of a “new Cold War” with China.
Read the whole item. Again the link:
https://left.mn/2023/03/a-way-to-maybe-sell-cuts-to-the-military-budget/
What Dan gets wrong, like Dilbert on ISO 9000, is what locally Matt Look talks of as wants and needs. We want fairness. We need stimulus. That means subsidize something, so why not all those west coast engineers each having one foot or both in "the complex?"
They do not invest as much as consume, so the money is recycled in the economy and there is that wonderful multiplier effect.
If you trim that payroll sop, you then have to give the money to the rich, who are into stock buybacks to boost market value of present holdings. No recirculation.
No multiplier the economists tell us about. All those engineers, individually they upgrade home electronics, they eat, they drink and toot, and that means buying toys and food and such. It is good for the nation. It stimulizes - and stimulates. Both!
You can feel it if you close your eyes and relax with MsM on the TV set.
So, a short but spot-on explanation where you can see how Dan may be Dilberted.
That may turn out to be so irrespective of whatever his policy differences might be vis-a-vis Scott Adams. It doesn't matter. With enough political correctness afoot, you cannot help but be incorrect about something. Anything. Even about --- Crabgrass.
Boat rocker, BEWARE.
You have nothing to lose but what you have. (You thought I'd say chains? Been done. Aim new.) Damned little is what you're allowed to have but that is better than croaking from some medical condition or a cure that ends up worse for you than the disease.
Boat rocker, BEWARE.
It is written on every MsM sign post. Somebody posted a handbill down the street. All you have to do is read; (thinking optional while not optimal). Drift along. Drift away.
_____________FLASHBACK TO DAY ZERO______________
But most of all, Reagan _ former movie actor, former California governor, 81 years old and finally turning gray _ talked about the changes he has seen in this century and about change for the future.
"Let us all renew our commitment," he said, "renew our pledge to day by day, person by person, make our country and the world a better place to live. Then when the nations of the world turn to us and say, "America, you are the model of freedom and prosperity,' we can turn to them and say, "You ain't seen nothing yet!' "
The crowd loved it, loved the Gipper, loved one another.
Loved the illusion.
.......................sensed the cold reality.............................
In looking into YouTube for "Drift Away," it was there, or in a different comment thread, "It was better being twenty in the 70's than being seventy in the 20's."
True. And the Gipper quote - Since then do you have an opinion on what we've seen? And could we use a reset? Biden back then . . .
_________UPDATE_________
Opinion sharing, AP style. Strib doing the carry publishing of the AP product. Does what you pick to share, shape? It is interesting that Strib carried it as a "Business" post, not general news, or op-ed. More strips out there than any one outlet picks to feature. A market with many small producers, syndication as middlemen, publishing concentrated more than yesteryear.
Syndication of strips - does that mean "if you carry all five strips we can give a bulk carry discount?" These are guesses at how the business levels are run. Production of the strips is a cottage industry, competitive, and there appears to be a bargaining power funnel as one moves from sellers to buyers, so that syndication appeals.
But that's a guess.
Quote enough people saying the same thing, that carries an implication you are reporting a consensus. Walt Kelly and Al Capp published their art in a different time.
Were they to come from the grave to express or publish an opinion I'd pay more attention, but that's me, not everyone. If either were to arise and express, I would not expect don't worry be happy.
That also is a guess.
AP itself carries the feed item Strib used, online here at AP, as "AP News."
It seems all the artists AP quotes offer opinion, not factual content. Just saying.
When AP closes its item as it does I envision the ghosts of Capp and Kelly looking askance:
“Macanudo” creator Ricardo Liniers Siri, known professionally as Liniers, said Adams was moving into unfunny territory and that’s a cartoonist’s third rail.
“Grievance generally is not fun. The funniest guy at a party is not the one just complaining about everything. That’s the annoying guy,” he said.
“I don’t do grievance. I’m just trying to focus on whatever is good that we have around,” he added. “Because in the context of a newspaper with so much bad news, I try to have an optimistic space.”
Lil' Abner and Pogo had long runs, third rail or whatever. I did follow AP's Macanudo link. You should too. It's the syndication page. They also syndicate Blondie, Snuffy Smith, and Crankshaft. Not politically incorrect. Just, mediocre. Blah and predictable. Snuffy's the best of the lot, and not bad. There's Nancy and Slugo. Dagwood and Blondie. Not a political bone in their bodies. Bloom County and Boondocks were good while they lasted. Calvin and Hobbs too. Mostly a wasteland.