tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post8417147114378686533..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Jesus Wept II: The CrudeningJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-30468242840341523922010-06-02T17:10:19.559-04:002010-06-02T17:10:19.559-04:00Bobo is Barbie saying 'math is hard!'
BS,...Bobo is Barbie saying 'math is hard!'<br /><br />BS, all complicated systems are built upon simple systems. Just because some wanker in an airconditioned office high above the fray can't fix his toaster doesn't mean we're all toast.<br /><br />He's just as stupid as the rethugs calling it an act of god.<br /><br />The risks were assessed and the people who stood/stand to The Sailorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14291047659785847514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-29677212745045004812010-05-30T15:45:55.167-04:002010-05-30T15:45:55.167-04:00Grace: will you give me a link about all the assi...Grace: will you give me a link about all the assistance the Fed Gov is giving Louisiana? Because I haven't read or seen much. Persons living near the coast are getting ill from the fumes of oil & dispersant. Is the Fed Gov helping them? Or, like the EPA chief after 9/11 are they saying "Everything is OK"?Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-22059663897678610322010-05-29T21:07:21.122-04:002010-05-29T21:07:21.122-04:00Trust me, BP and all the other corporate hacks hav...<i>Trust me, BP and all the other corporate hacks have done the risk assessment, and concluded that a limited liability cap was worth all the risk in the entire Gulf of Mexico.</i><br /><br />Nanute: Louisiana also calaculated the risks and gave approval for the rig. Louisiana calculated the risk of damaging or destroying its tourism and fishery industries against the certainty of oil revenue. Grace Nearinghttp://scriptoids.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-27252455033976377702010-05-29T06:32:31.036-04:002010-05-29T06:32:31.036-04:00But the real issue has to do with risk assessment....But the real issue has to do with risk assessment. It has to do with the bloody crossroads where complex technical systems meet human psychology.(Brooks.)<br />Trust me, BP and all the other corporate hacks have done the risk assessment, and concluded that a limited liability cap was worth all the risk in the entire Gulf of Mexico.nanutenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-23360657378081318342010-05-28T20:32:53.145-04:002010-05-28T20:32:53.145-04:00I'm imagining Brooks' defense of Ice Nine,...I'm imagining Brooks' defense of Ice Nine, written from a cruise boat lodged in a frozen ocean.<br /><br />It's also funny to me that he paints "More government regulation!" as the radical crazy man's response and then ends his column by saying, essentially,<br /><br />"BP was too acclimated to taking big risks. If only there were some way to stop them from doing Christophernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-24031593153495431032010-05-28T16:53:45.093-04:002010-05-28T16:53:45.093-04:00I think Atrios sums up David Fucking Brooks' s...I think Atrios sums up David Fucking Brooks' schtick pretty succinctly: "Who Could Have Predicted?"<br /><br />Still, it's always entertaining to watch an expert like Riley methodically reducing one of Bobo's inane dribblings to a blackened smear.grouchomarxistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-63805153315122649662010-05-28T16:01:55.808-04:002010-05-28T16:01:55.808-04:00Fucking Brooks, that asshole.
I've long assert...Fucking Brooks, that asshole.<br />I've long asserted, based on my intimate familiarity with things technical and shit that goes wrong, that mankind has been pushing the comfort levels of risk v. gain for some time. But by no means does that imply, ignore or forgive that people should not strive to do their best, alleviate as much risk as possible, and get a handle on walking that edge.<br /heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1507281160630838862010-05-28T16:01:27.877-04:002010-05-28T16:01:27.877-04:00The idiot claim that no one can understand technol...The idiot claim that no one can understand technology! No one can *deal* with catastrophes! <br /><br />Kind of comment made by a home-schooled creationist. <br /><br />The engineers on the Horizon seemed to understand the technology perfectly well. It was the greedy-moron BP manager who did not have a clue.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-43144395084432787142010-05-28T13:51:42.563-04:002010-05-28T13:51:42.563-04:00Danke sehr, immer.
Yet another lesson here that e...Danke sehr, immer.<br /><br />Yet another lesson here that even the most innocuous of trivia in a Brooks column should never escape suspicion: <br /><i>More pedestrians die in crosswalks than when jay-walking. That’s because they have a false sense of security in crosswalks and are less likely to look both ways.</i><br /><br />This is what happens when you get Brooks regurgi-cyclying Malcolm R. Porrofattonoreply@blogger.com