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Comment Process Navigator or Visio (Score 1) 401

Have a top level of "put stuff into box" - "magic process box" - "output from box" and then drill down repeatedly from there. Otherwise write a standard operating procedure that everyone follows. You have to make certain assumptions as to the readers knowledge, if they aren't sufficiently trained to know those assumptions they shouldn't be doing the task.
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Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? 752

theodp writes "The NY Times questions the $400M in low-interest federal loans requested by Tesla Motors as part of the $25B loan package for the auto industry passed by Congress last year. 'The program is intended to encourage automakers to improve fuel efficiency, but should it be used for a purpose like this, as the 2008 Bailout of Very, Very High-Net-Worth Individuals Who Invested in Tesla Motors Act?' Tesla says it is assembling about 15 cars a week and has delivered about 80 of its $109,000 base-price Roadsters to date, many of which have gone to the Valley's billionaires and centimillionaires who are Tesla investors as well as early customers. We discussed the company's financial difficulties last month."

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