So? I mean seriously, what is that elementary school level reply meant to accomplish?

while the Soviets were able to build the most dependable rocket family in history with Soyuz?

More dependable than anyone else - by about .2%, much celebrated by the clueless, irrelevant in the real world.

Translation: "Russia can't even afford the power points for it's super heavy booster, so it's going to concentrate on the development of an unproven booster that budget crunches have already delayed for over two decades."

In the olden days, we pictured guys in construction shacks building it in pieces like the Enterprise in drydock. What can we do now?

Guys and girls in construction shacks.
 

I'm serious - we've better tech and construction techniques than we had in the 70's.

For truly big things? Not as much as you seem to think. Seriously, there's a lot of tech in development (3d printing for example) and a lot of pie-in-the-sky tech (which you list)... but so far, there's pretty much nothing proven to scale much beyond the size of smallish house other than Joe (and Jane) Sixpack.

You don't want issue tracking - you want task scheduling and task completion methodologies. The non-engineer have schedules to fulfill which are usually not associated with a deliverable but a task. If there's no deliverable, there's no bug, no feature, i.e. no ISSUE. So tracking issues loses the focus. Issues aren't always tasks in trackers and that's why those are so tied to code, since they mold issues to whatever a release date/agile software development needs.

This ^10 - the OP is trying to force a square peg into a round hole.

Their core problem doesn't sound like it's technological. It sounds like it's organizational and managerial. You can do quite complex things with the tools listed, but only if you have the organization, methodology, and discipline to use them.

A whiteboard, or even a clipboard, with a master task list (listing what, when, who) and some form of tracking progress (which can also be as simple as a whiteboard or clipboard) is more than sufficient technology for many organizations. That's the easy part. The hard part (regardless of the technology in use) is getting and keeping people organized and in the habit of keeping the system and their peers updated.

Why does not anybody in the solar industry step up and support nuclear energy as the logical replacement for coal to fill all of the known gaps in solar power?

Because it isn't that. Nuclear can't be ramped up and down quickly, so it's not useful for filling in.

Nuclear's inability to ramp up and down quickly is a design choice, not a law of a nature.

That's serialization (which is, in SF, far more common), not compilation (the topic of TFA).

There is a concerted effort throughout government to communicate in manners that cannot be audited.

Like phone calls, or meeting another official at a bar.

I just don't think emails should be regarded this way, they're far too casual

Maybe your emails are casual, but in this case (goverment usage), they're not. They've all but completely replaced conventional (snail) mail for routine communications.
 

they don't really reflect the official acts of people in the way that a true "record" does (in the sense that someone in the 1960s would understand the term "government record.")

Since we live in the 20-teen's, I completely fail to see how the opinions of someone from fifty years ago are relevant.

The government has to serve the interests of everyone. If you say "well more people live in cities" that's fine but that doesn't excuse ignoring the rest of the country.

If the rest of the country were being ignored, you'd have a point.

The FCC should make a point of getting out of the way of that stuff and not treating every part of the country like it is a major city with locally congested airwaves.

Given that 90% of the US population lives in or close to metro and dense urban areas - for all intents and purposes every part of the country *is* essentially a major city with locally congested airwaves.

You assume that those procedures are always going to work after....... a fire! Its not inconceivable that a fire on an airliner could damage vital components possibly related to the environmental, radio and even control systems. Don't get me wrong its an unlikely situation where the radio AND avionics/air handling/navigation systems and their backups (if any) are effected simultaneously but when you have 36.5 million commercial air flights per year its bound to happen eventually.

To put this in terms of a car analogy - you're saying "it's extremely unlikely that a car would have all four tires go flat, the steering wheel come off in the drivers hand, the accelerator and brake pedals fail, the brakes fail, and the gear shift broke off, and yet despite this happening on the outskirts of New York, it still made it to San Francisco without repairs or refueling and on schedule - but with [handwaving] million cars on the road it was bound to happen eventually". The problem isn't that the event is extremely unlikely - it's that the level of fire damage required to produce the event will render the aircraft unflyable. Yet it flew, and continued to do so under apparent control for hours... without executing any emergency procedures.

Learned to really concentrate while serving on a submarine in the USN - to the "music" of fans and humming power supplies... so, for heavy brainwork at the computer all I need is the noise of the computer. Music just pulls me out of what I'm doing.

Oddly enough, the opposite is true when I'm working out in my woodshop, there I like to have music.

I've been clicking around to find a sample, and, maybe it's just me, but I didn't find any.

It's just you, and whoever modded you up - the second link in TFA takes your right to a sample.

(Don't bother though, it's lame.)

Are you talking about France? Or Russia? Or where then?

You sure as heck aren't talking about the US. The military (read Naval) reactor program parted ways with the civilian world decades ago - they're simply too dissimilar. Nor can civilian reactors effectively make plutonium, nor were they needed to. And the for companies involved in military reactors, government contracting is only one small corner of their business. Etc... etc...

That argument only makes sense if you've downed a fifth of Jack and snorted a couple of grams a coke - or if you're completely and totally ignorant of the law.

And yet it made sense to me, and I'm sober as a judge for some reason.

Then you fall into the second category. Or you're just ignorant.
 

Well, works can also enter the public domain through other mechanisms, such as most famously having the copyright term expire.

Since we're talking about works that haven't been around long enough to have their copyrights expire, that's totally irrelevant.
 

But the earlier poster didn't say that they might become generic, he said that they might be generic. This would be the scenes a faire doctrine.

Um, no. That would not be the scenes a faire doctrine. Try searching for the terms on Google.
 

I haven't watched the show

Yet, you blither on anyways.