Some thoughts (mostly in comments):
The idea of going to a theme park, on your parents’ dime, with fashionable political fear, having undertaken no scholarly preparation…every single thing about this enterprise seemed wrong.
And expensive and destructive. We have a generation that’s putting off home buying and starting a family because they wasted tens of thousands on either useless degrees or (worse yet) never graduated at all.
…of ObamaCare:
Now a central tenet of the fundamentally flawed law, the employer mandate, is collapsing. What ever will Democrats do?
In a word: panic.
Actually, panic and break the law. The unambiguous start date for Obamacare’s employer mandate, according to Section 1513, is the “months beginning after Dec. 31, 2013.” With the delay, however, President Obama has declared that he is not bound by mere law. All he is missing are mirrored sunglasses and a big military hat.
Obamacare’s employer mandate is a microcosm of liberalism itself. What may sound good at first ends up harming the most vulnerable among us. Businesses that dare to provide jobs to 50 or more employees face steep fines unless they provide expensive government-sanctioned health insurance. Because Obamacare now defines 30 hours a week to be full time, the result is entirely predictable: Businesses are laying off workers and cutting back work hours.
Gee, if only someone who understood economics, human nature and incentives had predicted this?
Oh, wait.
Wow. That’s bad design and bad QC.
a) You shouldn’t be able to install an angular-rate (or any kind of attitude) sensor upside down.
b) The vehicle should be able to sense that it has an upside-down sensor and automatically abort.
It did look like it was having guidance problems in the video, and that would sure explain why.
Time to legalize it. It’s not a new argument, but it’s a surprising source.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Related: Mencken weeps with laughter.
Today is the last day to comment. We need to try to get crewed space vehicles off the munitions list.
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Thoughts from Sarah Hoyt on incentives.
The ACA, to put it gently, is already on shaky ground. Just last week, for example, the LA Times reported that UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest insurer, is dropping out of California’s individual market. Similarly, Blue Cross Blue Shield will not participate in the exchanges in Iowa and South Dakota in 2014. And the WSJ puts the delay of the employer mandate in its discouraging context. Along with the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the Medicaid expansion (28 states haven’t yet agreed to expand) and the refusal by many states (over 30) to set up their own health exchanges, the delay is the third major challenge to the central goal of the law: expanding access to insurance.
“You’ve got three body blows toward expansion of coverage,” said Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, a research unit of Deloitte LLP. “It’s three punches in a row.”
Ultimately, this will be decided in sixteen months. Without RomneyCare to muddy the waters, it will be a much better issue for Republicans.
I’ve wondered this for years: why do we get shampoo, but not toothpaste in hotel rooms?
It really does seem to be a true market failure, and one that’s become more acute since the stupid new TSA rules about carrying such things in carry ons.
…has peaked.
Now, let’s hope the same happens to climate-hysteria sites.