Posted on 07/11/2017 10:36:53 AM PDT by John Conlin
Archimedes, one of the greatest mathematicians and scientists of all time understood the importance of the design of a system. Commenting on the incredible power of levers he noted, “Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.” With a properly designed system almost anything is possible; with a poor one, almost nothing.
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Right now all this brings to mind for me is the Ford Focus I just bought and finding out about all the info on the problems with the dct transmission on the Focus 2014 - 2016.
Ford Taurus transmissions? Lorcin pistols?
Lorcin Pistols? wasnt she a burlesque queen back in the day....
A good book on this topic, from back in 2000:
https://www.amazon.com/Burden-Bad-Ideas-Intellectuals-Misshape/dp/1566633966
New Coke.
The Edsel.
Barack Obama.
My father, a successful engineer & manager at GE for decades, was fond of the phrase “brute force and ignorance gets the job done.” I may or may not agree, but it worked for him.
I’m inclined more toward: simplicity & elegance, built on first principles, assures successful design. GOOD design is efficient, and facilitates subsequent use.
Whichever approach, the imperative is “just do it”. Completion, however poorly executed, beats half-assed incompleteness & delays.
Open Borders.
Muslim Immigration.
Socialism.
Communism.
Obamacare.
Excuse me for summarizing your post but, nobama :)
I seem to recall the common political math of decades past, that increasing government benefits got more votes and the politician would be long gone before the bills came due! While it was not, by any means, done by a single political party, the majority of the resistance did come from the GOP side. Senate Minority Leader Everette Dirksen (R IL) is famous for saying; “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.” and “The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.”
Of course now we see the spendthrift ways impacting on Sen.Dirksen’s home state where the profligacy of long dead politicians now is unsustainable without great tax increases. Yet the controlling politicos seem to think that the problem just needs another layer of wallpaper.
Whenever you tell an American socialist that socialism has never worked, that person will invariably tell you that socialism failed because they didn’t have the right people in charge or they weren’t doing it right.
There are four functions of management:
Plan
Organize
Lead
Control
Control is usually misunderstood. It is not about being a dictator. It is about implementing systems to limit error.
The program’s you have mentioned would probably be fine except for one thing.
Humans.
Humans are impossible to control for.
Humans are bags of emotions walking around.
They want.
They want more.
They want yours.
The Founders of our nation were right to try to design a means of governance that ruled out human passions.
But you can’t rule out human passions.
Politics and sociology and psychology and the law and education and the latest self-help craze will always fall apart.
The one thing that has worked in man’s history is Judaism/Christianity.
Self control based on the love of God.
All the rest is “a chasing after the wind”.
I’m not an evangelist.
I’m a realist.
Planned obsolesce is back in vogue with manufactured goods especially those built in Asia for overseas sales. Refrigerators that only last 3 years, cars that barely last past their warranties but not their payments and the list goes on.
My brother and his little pal were trying to loosen a tough wheel lug nut, much like two zoo chimps attempting carnal knowledge of a deflated beach ball.
They had been grunting and straining for quite some time.
I went to the tool chest and grabbed a hollow steel rod about three feet long, stepped in and slipped it over the ratchet handle and popped the nut loose, no problem. Then told them, that’s called a “cheater” boys.
They looked like cavemen seeing a Zippo lighter spark flame for the first time, everything but hooting.
Kids today ...
Feminism.
Yea i owned a expensive Toyota Supra turbo only to find out AFTER i blew the engine that there was a flaw in the engine build.
the head gasket failed, turned out over the course of the SIX years of that models production the head bolts were not torqued enough.....all i had to do was tighten the bolts....oh, well.
Sad part is i actually had the valve covers off to replace those rotted gaskets.....ugh
The internet was young back then...i wish that i knew.
Toyota never took any blame..
Yea, AMAZING!
Be surprised if half the kids nowadays would know how to park a bicycle..
Although he doesn’t say it, it almost sounds like he’s thinking of FDR has only been smarter—his central planning would of worked.
The problem is not “poor design” but any design at all imposed on the free market. This is why the Depression went on so long and was as bad as it was—for the first time US history centralized design in economics was attempted—disastrously.
But for attempts at “good design” we’d not be in the fix we are now with our horrible mess of horrendously regulated private/government funded health care.
Freedom works....if we’d only believe it.
All we needed to do was pay attention when teach started talking about inclined planes, pulleys, wedges, wheel & axle, levers and screws.
Maybe we just knew what was useful and what was not. A lot of what they gassed about was bollocks.
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