It’s past time to punish it with donor strikes, if conservatives can. But at least under Trump, the Justice Department may start to address it.
All posts by Rand Simberg
Space Force HQ
Greg Abbott wants it in Houston.
Of course he does. Let’s put the HQ of one of the services in a place that gets slammed by hurricanes and floods on a semi-regular basis.
Vandenberg would be a good location, other than earthquakes, but Colorado Springs, the current home of Space Command, is probably best, both in terms of centrality and low risk of natural disasters (other than fire). It could even share the service academy with the Air Force.
Venezuela
The collapse is near.
Via Stephen Green, who writes: “We’re watching the last chapter of Atlas Shrugged play out in Venezuela in realtime.”
Yes, it was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to manual.
[Update a few minutes later]
Aaaaand the water plants have shut down.
[Update mid-afternoon]
Trump’s biggest challenge: Educating the kids on socialism. We shouldn’t have to do this, but the schools clearly haven’t. And unfortunately, that’s no accident.
The 737 Max 8 Crashes
They may have been caused by “safety” “features.”
Gee, someone should write a book about that sort of thing.
Oh, wait
[Update a while later]
That is to say, the learning period currently set to expire in 2023 (I think) for the FAA (or whoever) to not regulate mission assurance should be extended indefinitely. Guess I should op-ed that.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 12, 2019
[Mid-morning update]
And it's equally unclear at this point (at least to me) whether it's a bad design or a crew-training issue (did they RTFM?), though the fact that there have been no such incidents in the US suggests the latter.
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) March 12, 2019
[Afternoon update]
An interesting perspective.
[Update a while later]
State owned @FijiAirways cannot afford to ground their #737MAX – they taken a billion dollars out of compulsory superannuation fund for their wish list. Grounding would bankrupt airline … even the state itself…. pic.twitter.com/SumhqSDRuM
— Michael Field (@MichaelFieldNZ) March 12, 2019
The New Soviet (Hu)man
Kamala Harris says we can create it.
These leftists, continually in denial about human nature, have no sense of self awareness.
WordPress
Is there a database doctor in the house? I’m trying to do a new installation. I created the database, follow all the instruction, but when I start to install WordPress, it creates a database structure, with no tables, then kicks out a bunch of errors for each table it didn’t create. It’s somewhat infuriating.
S3x Bucket Lists
This seems a little weird to me. I’ve never done it in a car, and if I did, it would have only been because it was the only place available (which was in fact the case for many teenagers in the mid-20th century). I also don’t get the “in a body of water” thing.
White House Behavior
Democrat presidents have behaved much worse than Trump. Yes.
Colorado
The bullies are running it. And ruining it. We’d been thinking of retiring there, but we’re rethinking that now.
A New Space Project To Mars
In New Zealand. Entirely by women. Hey, more power to them.