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Category Archives: Business
XCOR
I had lunch with Doug Jones in Mojave last week (he’s one of the “contract” employees remaining). It’s a sad end to a once-promising company.
[Thursday-morning update]
Here’s the story from Jeff Foust. I hadn’t realized that Michael Blum had moved to XCOR after Firefly went under.
[Update late afternoon]
Here’s the take from the local Midland paper.
Libre Office Problem
I’ve been working on a document for a client, and it’s laid out in book format. Each chapter has its own page style (to maintain chapter title in headers) and there are several other styles as well. I’ve been printing it double sided, two pages per side. Today, when I tried to print it, instead of US Letter (which is what I set up all of the styles to be in) it insists on printing in a #8 Monarch Envelope format, which totally screws things up. But there’s no way to change it; the format is greyed out. The default for the printer is US Letter, the page styles are US Letter, but for some reason Office has decided that it’s only going to allow me to print it as an envelope, in this file, and this file only. I can’t find anything in either the Help for the software or by Googling anyone else who has had a problem like this. Is there a Libre Office doctor in the house?
Trumpcare
People will die!
Life Extension
And health extension: interesting new web site. Note that one of the founders is Gary Hudson.
Space Safety Follies
Chris Gebhardt (who I met in real life at Vandenberg on Sunday) has the latest in progress in Commercial Crew.
TL;DR: All these numeric safety goals are utterly arbitrary and will be waived when necessary, as they were on Shuttle every single flight. https://t.co/p9JBD4WPlH
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) June 27, 2017
The Congressional Budget Mess
An interesting history from Yuval Levin.
SpaceX
Eric Berger says it’s getting tougher and tougher to be an honest critic of the company. There comes a point at which dishonesty is all they have.
Today’s Launch
We just got back from Vandenberg (spent time wine tasting up there before coming back to LA). Elon has posted a sped-up video of the landing. Amazing how fast things happen at the end.
The Senate Health-Care Plan
Andrew Klavan says to eat the crap sandwich.
It probably is the best we’re going to get with the current Senate, particularly given, as he points out, that when it comes to health care (as in much else), Trump is no small-government conservative.