14 thoughts on “Safe Is Not An Option”

  2. I have a few questions.

    Does your link work for approximately 80% of users? If we click on it and Amazon says we purchased the book, should we make sure by calling Amazon and verifying that their front end correctly sent the order information to their distribution center? Have they even written that code yet? Could our order be canceled or delayed because of an illegal Presidential decree? Is there a large tax penalty if we don’t buy the book? Is Amazon going to send our personal information to DNC activists? Is the Amazon site wide open to Nigerian scammers or Ukranian hackers? Did Jeff Bezos repeatedly say “Go to the website. If you want to buy Rand’s book, you can buy his book. Period.” or do I have him confused with someone else?

  3. Good news – congratulations! It’s quite an achievement.
    And SpaceX just successfully did its launch. So good news all around.

      1. After I read it I could probably contribute a review – in iambic pentameter.

        Risk. Simberg doth explain the case that when
        explorers open new frontiers in space
        they must be bold enough to risk their lives
        and we ourselves must let them reach such heights
        without a billion dollars spent on this
        and that and every thing that comes to mind
        in fearful fevered dreams of engineers
        who worry over every failure mode,
        no matter how unlikely it might be.

        But it would probably suck because epic poems need a hero with a bizarro name like Roland, Odysseus, or Achilles and all I’ve got to work with are names like Alan, Gus, Neil, Buzz, and assorted others.

        2. Oh, good point. But did you ever look at the name “Konstantin” and think it’s a prescription laxative? If not, look at it again with a pharmaceutical pronunciation.

          Similarly, a “polemic” is a lecture delivered by an angry guy on stage holding a mic on a pole, like most stage mics are mounted.

  5. “This is the first thing in this project that happened ahead of schedule.”

    Only because they quoted a delivery that was three times longer than they required.

  6. “Only because they quoted a delivery that was three times longer than they required.” Which is good. When I was a kid, the airlines suddenly, almost as a unit, improved on-time percentages for their flights to close to 100%. You know how they did it? By moving back their arrival times by fifteen minutes or half an hour. And that wasn’t a trick, it was a very big improvement for customers, especially those with connecting flights. Being a few minutes late is a whole lot worse than having to wait an extra few minutes. There’s a reason why standard deviation is the most important statistic after the mean.

  7. Am I to understand that my copy is on its way? There hasn’t been a kickstarter update in a couple of months.

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