They should have used
Register units!
The Commonwealth Games boxing tournament collapsed into farce today as official scales delivered wildly inconsistent readings and declared virtually every fighter overweight. Fighters who had been given readings above their weight class at the Delhi weigh-in rushed to sweat off extra pounds, with frantic runs, gym sessions or …
if they sourced scales that were supposed to be calabrated corectly, then I hold very little faith that the weights from the gym have been sourced from a reliable supplier too...
ether way... it showed one or both were incorect....
I makes me wonder if my pint was really a pint !!!
Well, I for one am not surprised. The quality of the games delivery is not any different from the quality of software product we get from over there.
It is managed using the same management methods and the same level of embezzlement, corruption and nepotism.
Our glorious sportsmen should stop bitchin'.
We have to contend on a daily basis with the same quality when dealing with banking systems, billing, networking, call center, etc and we do not bitch. They are now showing that they cannot live with it for 3 days once in a century. What is once in a century compared to operating something produced this way on a daily basis? And we are not even allowed to complain about it...
Nuff said. Nothing new here. This does not qualify as news. It is "business as usual".
Sounds like these scales were made by the same outfit that made my wife's cookery scales which we purchased on a visit to China.
My wife, an experienced careful cook, weighed out the ingredients and the fruits of her work were frequently disappointing. One day the low battery indicator light flashed so she resorted to her older scales and the results were perfect.
The the penny/cent/dong dropped and on changing the batteries we found that several different readings could be achieved even when weihhing the same item!
Made in China should serve as a warning.
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