James R. Heckel Sparta, N.J., April 22, 2008 To the Editor: In Bob Herbert's column, Bill Gates is quoted as saying that "our high schools — even when they're working as designed — cannot teach all our students what they need to know today".
When it's working "as designed," I think of guilt as a feedback system, a sort of moral compass that guides us soundly, and lets us know when we need to adjust course.
"Test your disaster recovery plan when it goes in, and test it again annually to ensure that everything is working as designed," Landa adds.
As Obamacare's architect, Jonathan Gruber, likes to point out, the ACA is "working as designed".
Now, even when it works as designed, it's a virtual nightmare — and, occasionally, an actual one.
But Congress has made painfully clear that it values the largely unfettered ownership of guns and their manufacture — despite the social costs of the violence that results when guns work as designed.
Another way that automation can come to grief is when the system works as designed but the pilot becomes confused and does the wrong thing.
New vehicles are appealing because the new technology makes them more enjoyable — when that technology works as designed, that is — yet are more problem-prone because the kinks have not been worked out.
Mr. Sullivan said the plant's safety systems had worked as designed when a sensor detected the contact and shut down Unit 1 at 11 02 p.m.
Even when the shuttle's thermal protection system works as designed, the study says, "different parts expand differently," creating internal tensions.
