In my opinion, healthcare.gov failed so miserably primarily because nobody at HHS was in charge of the project,
How many lines of legalize was the Affordable Care Act? Just translating the ACA into requirements would take longer than the time allotted to getting the web site up and working --- and then you need at least one individual who completely understands the sometimes conflicting requirements.
No. The web site was doomed before it even began.
This is controversial but it should be said. but the biggest problem, religion, cant be solved with technology because religious zealots dont operate logically.
History doesn't bear this out. During the black plague in Europe, the Jews fared much better than others because of a ritual of cleanliness. Islam also has numerous cleansing/washing rituals. At best, lumping all religions together is ignorant.
From a technical standpoint, no single decision has ever been that important... The problems tend to be around alienating users or developers and I'm pretty good at that. I use strong language. But again there's not a single instance I'd like to fix. There's a metric shitload of those.
It's probably not a coincidence that Torvalds said this just a few weeks after critics like Lennart Poettering started drawing attention to the abusive nature of some commentary within the open-source community. Poettering explicitly called out Torvalds for some of his most intemperate remarks and described open source as "quite a sick place to be in."
Still, Torvalds doesn't sound like he's about to start making an apology tour. "One of the reasons we have this culture of strong language, that admittedly many people find off-putting, is that when it comes to technical people with strong opinions and with a strong drive to do something technically superior, you end up having these opinions show up as sometimes pretty strong language," he said. "On the Internet, nobody can hear you being subtle."
...mice and rats diverged somewhere between 12 and 24 million years ago.
What does this even mean?
Part of the problem is that we want clear and distinctive buckets (labels) to put things into: this a rat, this is a mouse,
It's amazing I was wrong. Dammit!
It's amazing that someone admitted they were wrong. Consider +2 to your credibility.
...standard US foreign policy...
No, that level of insanity started with the Bushes.
I agree. We all hate the Bushes. But there's no reason to deny Viet Nam or Korea happened just because we hate the Bushes.
Anyone who defines chemical weapons as "WMDs" is doing it wrong. Very wrong.
Thank you. For a moment there I was afraid we wouldn't be able to say that Bush lied.
Most of them are buddhist, vegetarians or vegans.
Do you think buddhism is some kind of diet? Or should that have been a period after buddhist?
Do you think vegetarians is some kind of diet? Do you think vegans is some kind of diet? I suppose if you're a cannibal it could be, but I highly doubt that what GP meant.
Also, as far as I am aware, you are not allowed to have security cameras on your property that film parts of other's properties. Those laws should suffice, or at least be amended to include "roaming" cameras.
Be sure to check with your local laws. IANAL and I understand the law slightly differently --- which might be because we're in different localities (or because IANAL).
We are not customers, however I would argue that we are service providers. We provide service to Google's business by consuming advertising. As a service provider I also do not want my emails ignored.
If you're the service provider to Google then according to this ruling it is you that is not allowed to ignore e-mail from Google.
My initial perception was the same as your experience: that the black and Latino populations were solid blocs
I never said they were solid blocks. That one day --- when violence was threatened --- then they formed one solid block. During normal times they weren't.
That said, they form pretty solid voting blocks. Blacks have consistently voted 90% for Democrats since Johnson's Great Society.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
