Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Hats Off to the Obamacare Website Programmers
You may think I am about to tear into the programmers for the Obamacare websites or make fun of them. You may think this post will be some tongue-in-cheek sarcasm. But it is not.
Everyone wonders how after three years that the website launch for signing up for Obamacare could fail. It is simple. The programmers did not have three years. In fact, how long did they have?
Just this summer I remember the talk shows having discussions about states in which it was not still decided if they would open up a health care exchange or the federal government would. This summer that happened. No one was sure whom would be responsible.
This means not a single line of code could have been written yet. Only two or three months maybe for some sites to program and get ready for October first and millions of users. Unless you are a programmer you might not know what an insane request that is.
In these past three years Obamacare has been coming into shape and facing legal challenges. Obama himself has delayed parts of the legislation in a manner that is unconstitutional. How the whole system works has been free form regardless of the law. No one knows what it will look like in the end.
It is still changing.
So I cannot stand by and let people make fun of the programmers. They are at the mercy of the blowing winds of regulations. It is like herding cats. How can the programmers make a finished product for a system with changing rules?
You can not stress test a system if it is not finished. Obamacare is under an ever changing set of rules. We still don't know what it will all come down to.
How do you program that?
Herding cats, man. Herding cats.
You don't want to program that.
Everyone wonders how after three years that the website launch for signing up for Obamacare could fail. It is simple. The programmers did not have three years. In fact, how long did they have?
Just this summer I remember the talk shows having discussions about states in which it was not still decided if they would open up a health care exchange or the federal government would. This summer that happened. No one was sure whom would be responsible.
This means not a single line of code could have been written yet. Only two or three months maybe for some sites to program and get ready for October first and millions of users. Unless you are a programmer you might not know what an insane request that is.
In these past three years Obamacare has been coming into shape and facing legal challenges. Obama himself has delayed parts of the legislation in a manner that is unconstitutional. How the whole system works has been free form regardless of the law. No one knows what it will look like in the end.
It is still changing.
So I cannot stand by and let people make fun of the programmers. They are at the mercy of the blowing winds of regulations. It is like herding cats. How can the programmers make a finished product for a system with changing rules?
You can not stress test a system if it is not finished. Obamacare is under an ever changing set of rules. We still don't know what it will all come down to.
How do you program that?
Herding cats, man. Herding cats.
You don't want to program that.
Get Arrested for Telling a Joke in America
Get arrested for telling a joke in America. Seriously. A recording playing at an airport announces that you can be arrested for making jokes about the TSA.
Come on people. The TSA are hard working people! Why would you make jokes?
Meanwhile an airport was evacuated because of burnt toast.
Come on people. The TSA are hard working people! Why would you make jokes?
Meanwhile an airport was evacuated because of burnt toast.
The World Will End by 2050
The Weather Channel website makes this claim in a blogpost, or is it a news story?
Read it for a good laugh. It is an insane diatribe about the demise of people with illogical linking of calamities linked to climate change that is described as global warming; a lot of disasters.
I'm not even going to bother rebuffing anything in the post. It would take too long. Just read it and laugh.
<sarcasm>Thanks Weather Channel. You are soooo credible.</sarcasm>
Read it for a good laugh. It is an insane diatribe about the demise of people with illogical linking of calamities linked to climate change that is described as global warming; a lot of disasters.
I'm not even going to bother rebuffing anything in the post. It would take too long. Just read it and laugh.
<sarcasm>Thanks Weather Channel. You are soooo credible.</sarcasm>
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The World Will End by 2030
So says Sir Bob Geldof.
He didn't say the world would end but that humans would be extinct by 2030. Why?
Climate change.
It's good to get your world ending predictions from a semi-successful musician, isn't it?
He didn't say the world would end but that humans would be extinct by 2030. Why?
Climate change.
It's good to get your world ending predictions from a semi-successful musician, isn't it?
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Why Business is Good
Glad to post a positive video.
Richard Branson explains a successful business is a business that benefits people. So cool to hear that business are not preying on consumers, tackling them to the ground, and eating out their wallets.
Richard Branson explains a successful business is a business that benefits people. So cool to hear that business are not preying on consumers, tackling them to the ground, and eating out their wallets.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Boo Freaking Hoo!
Major butt hurt instead of painful renal failure.
Ha HA! Jokers!
Cry me a river you slimy lizards! ( Note: Lizards are not slimy but cold blooded and feel slick due to their scales. Lizards are awesome! ) All of you politicians suxor!
Government shuts down, but I'm sure they're gonna get back pay. ( Eloquent on the "gonna," huh? )
So who's asses are chafed?
Department of Commerce
I don't care.
Go butt hurt yourself.
Ha HA! Jokers!
Cry me a river you slimy lizards! ( Note: Lizards are not slimy but cold blooded and feel slick due to their scales. Lizards are awesome! ) All of you politicians suxor!
Government shuts down, but I'm sure they're gonna get back pay. ( Eloquent on the "gonna," huh? )
So who's asses are chafed?
Department of Commerce
I don't care.
Go butt hurt yourself.
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