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.
Category Archives: Business
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.
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.
Keep Cars, But Don’t Make People Drive Them
An alternate, and more realistic version of the Green Leap Forward.
Two points: I fear the day that we won’t be allowed to drive, except in special circumstances (like amusement parks).
Point Two: I suspect that a lot of current auto traffic will move to the air, with the advent of Urban Air Mobility, particularly if the vehicles can be powered from the ground (e.g., Jeff Greason’s and Dan DeLong’s Electric Sky is working on such a concept). Airbus has an interesting concept of moving passengers via passenger modules that are moved from one vehicle type to another, like cargo containers, in which you’d share a pod with people from your door to an aircraft, to a long-range aircraft, to another aircraft, to the other door. That’s a lot more interesting and flexible concept than high-speed rail.
SERV
It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the last time Chrysler proposed a spaceship to NASA. I’d forgotten about that.
Wrecking College Students
Three untruths that are harming them. Unfortunately, they’ve been fed a load of toxic nonsense even before they get to campus.
And I have the same reaction to someone who leads an “argument” with “I feel.”