The hiatus? What hiatus?

You mean the Inconvenient Truth that falsified all the major climate models of the "settled science" of global warming? Oooopsie. The dog ate all extra heat. I mean he buried it in the yard. I mean the ocean. Yeah, that's the ticket. The ocean. Yeah.

You see, that's the way science is supposed to work. You make a model. And claim the science is settled, and only "denialists" don't believe it. And then when reality proves it's wrong, you rationalize why it was wrong. Even though it was settled. And is settled. Forever and ever. Amen.

It's like the Pope, you see. Pope's are infallible. But sometimes they were wrong in the past. But they're always infallible now.

The Science is Settled! The Science is Settled! The Science is Settled!

Nyah nyah nyah nyah. I can't hear you. Nyah nyah nyah nyah.

The Science is Settled! The Science is Settled! The Science is Settled!

Every law is an implicit threat of violence, backed by guns.

Manual overrides are key to most designs, particularly in new systems.

It's not going to all work perfectly. Not gonna happen. Make sure a person can brute force a solution. You can automate more when the requirements are better understood, and have stabilized.

The goal should be a *process* that works, whatever the tech, and that includes *people*.

That's the way government solves problems - point guns at people to shut them up. Problem solved!

Yes, only people who offer value in free exchange are the greedy ones. Men with guns who take they want aren't greedy at all.

Yes, the Kulaks are always sabotaging the plans of the Party!

Now you're catching on.

Killing people - not so profitable. Threatening to kill them - very profitable. That's where the power is at. Things are the way they are because most people support men with guns making it that way.

Yes, that's part of the tactic of the corps. No bureaucrat is going to cut his own project. Or his own budget.

So the corp over promises, and the bureaucrats sign on, thereby committing to the project and the relationship. The bureaucrats are never going to say "please cut the project where all my expertise and relationships are", even if he's not being greased under the table. Which the decision makers are.

You win the Thug of the Day award. Yes, people shouldn't be *allowed* to exchange value for value based on their own preferences. The government should step in and shoot them. Yay! What a Brave New World!

It's the guns of the government that caused the problem. When the government no longer enforces medical monopolies, we'll stop paying monopoly prices.

It's costs that much because men with guns prevent competition from others who would provide those chemicals at a lower cost.

When I'm free to purchase medical care from anyone willing to provide it, it will be time to talk about market failure in health care. Until then, the medical mafia is just another shakedown operation enabled by government guns.

Health care is cheap. Government control is expensive.

Then reality has shown him to be correct. Rules are enforced on the ruled by the rulers. Rulers don't enforce rules on themselves. Rules are for the peasants.

And even if the requirement documents never changed, even if they were chiseled in granite, they'd still be shit.

When doesn't this happen in government IT? Shit requirements in, they're run through a blender every other month, and a system slowly grows, while the bureaucrats sign off again and again, because he who spots the problem is held to have created the problem.