kristjansson

"there's less missile business, and the missile people are making moon rockets now, but I don't see how that could possibly help them make missiles again if they were asked to"

So you really think the world as we know it works just fine if everyone defends their own borders and attacks their neighbors' at will?

Iraq is not the correct analogy. Iraq put us a bit over our skis attempting to enforce our desired norms while entertaining some acquisitive impulses against an inferior opponent with ultimately limit…

You’re a very smart guy. You can’t seriously be wondering how allowing a major power to wage and win a war of aggression in Europe might be contrary to American interests? He’ll surely be appeased by …

Not the designs, the people and supply chains that build them…

Get a lawyer. Get an accountant. Ensure they have experience in the relevant jurisdictions (yours, and your former company’s). Realize there is a risk to be borne here, by someone, and you should expe…

Jane’s been right all along

NB they still administered a cognitive test to candidates that passed (blegh) the biographical assessment

The executive cannot refuse to even try to execute duly authorized programs.

How is the composition of the ATC workforce independently relevant, except as mediated through staffing levels?

The relevant question is whether this issue affected the absolute number of filled ATC positions, not just who got them. Though the facts on the latter are Not Great, and nuance is not exactly abundan…

Hint: why do they work in a tower?

Exactly. Freeways and airports and fallow fields fully paid for. Cheap imports and complete and utter physical security. BLM land to hunt and graze and drill and fell. Rivers that don't catch…

Even quoting the NIH/NSF budgets (or their line items) misses the point of the current actions. Yes, they're smaller fractions of the USG budget, but they not immaterial. This is not an atte…

Look, the plausible version of this is spelled: "force the AMA to allow and the USG to fund more residency slots, so the supply of MDs can meaningfully grow, and the premium they demand be reduce…

The US could pay its debt tomorrow, in full. We'd like to avoid that shock, if possible, but there's nothing uncreditworthy about running a fiscal deficit. USG revenue/spending should …

Whatever rational refactor/rewrite you want does not start with `find . -iname ' dei ' -delete`.

Conversely if that’s all it takes to induce them to give up it tells you something about the benefits they felt were accruing from BTC.

They also need a congress willing to increase revenues or decrease spending.

What created the conditions for that R&D to take place in relative security, and to be realize its return in a global marketplace?

2007 is a choice baseline… did something happen in 2008?

You’re describing the independent Inspectors General. That were summarily fired. Could they have had more power and independence? Sure. But there were real independent offices doing what you describe…

It’s a great unit for dealing with lots of water though. Talk x billion gallons vs xxx million gallons and people glaze over. A m3 is too small, but the entire Colorado compact is only like 17 km3. …

> water flow upstream, across a couple of mountain ranges Don’t forget back in time

> uncited The actual motion is linked from TFA. I should have been clearer that I was referring to that. It's worth reading the bits TFA extracts in the context of the motion, both for the sup…

The $38k isn't even truly a fine, its back-pay to the workers.

The government's motion (that Reason, to their credit, link in the first paragraph) is much more helpful on the actual case. In this case, the answer is kinda both. Administrative law stuff like…

Yes, that's their slight-of-hand.

It's not new. The point of the footnote is to demonstrate that money and property are distinct for the kinda of constitutional argument attempted, and have been distinct since the founding.

He had several days in court over four years, in the sort of venue specified by the visa program he took advantage of. Administrative courts are still adversarial courts where all the normal civil pr…