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| Obamacare Needs a Drop-Dead Date | |
| 2013-10-16 | |
| by Megan McArdle [Bloomberg]
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Darn... forgot to mention: The Bureaucrat "customer" sure as heck ain't gonna make a snap decision until he figures all that stuff out and talks to a superior. An insider programmer at CGI suggested the site would be ready in between 2 weeks to two months. Heck, I am sure resolving ONE contradiction would take a bureaucrat a week... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2013-10-16 12:33 |
| #7 Oh, another thing: I pointed out in the earlier comment that it is possible for a set of business rules to be contradictory, and since it is desired to deliver the graft/loot/bribes reliably, the contradiction must be resolved one way or another by adding another business rule or modifying one or both of the rules that are contradicting each other. Here's the kicker: There are business rules in Obamacare that are there for political, not logical, reasons. I cannot emphasize this enough: You cannot logically determine how to reconcile any pair of rules without consulting the customer. The customer is a government toady charged by politicians to ensure reliable delivery of the graft/loot/bribes. Before the "customer" can resolve the contradiction, he has to determine which ones are political or logical, determine who the political players are that are benefitting from the rules being in there in the first place, determine the power relationship between conflicting political players if BOTH rules are there for political reasons, and create a new business rule that specifies which rule takes precedence. The bureaucrat "customer" has to do this, aware that hell will come down on him when someone promised graft/loot/bribes don't get their cut and scream at the politician who inserted the business rule into the law in the first place. Oh, and what keeps the bugs alive, flourishing, and multiplying, are the cases where a political rule contradicts a logical one: it takes no brains to realize how a leftist bureaucrat would decide THAT one. The negation of the logical one creates a latent bug/contradiction that keeps the program buggy. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2013-10-16 12:28 |
| #6 I have a more fundamental issue: putting a set of business rules into a form that will be slavishly followed without fail by a computer reveals contradictions and inconsistencies. The rule set for Obamacare are now eight times the size of the Bible, and were designed by people whose main mental goal was not logical consistency but the implementation of a fantasy that is logically unattainable. Let me go further: the fact that the law was written by Liberals and proving difficult to implement in a program, is proof of the mental inability of Liberals and the realistic impossibility of attaining the ends they desire. The plans of a Liberal never succeed in real life, but the Liberal himself can prosper by way of the the "float" between proposal and recognized failure: In real life, the money runs out eventually, but that "eventually" takes many decades, enough time for people to forget, for the scoundrels to cover their tracks, and for the media to doctor and airbrush the past. That doesn't happen in a computer program, where the internal logic (or illogic), of a scheme that would last decades in real life before crashing, runs to a crash or failure in a matter of minutes. In the real world, the scheme's life-time is extended by corruption: deliberate violation of the rules to satisfy or placate or "work around" a perceived violation of the desired end. The numerous exemptions Given by the White House to placate those who would otherwise crash the system is the only way to keep it going. In a computer program, there will have to be overrides numerous IF statements, each of which, by their very existence, say "this individual is more privileged than another, not equal." In short, Liberalism is a "program" that can only run on a flawed cpu that cannot produce consistent results, and would crash on one that requires consistency. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2013-10-16 12:15 |
| #5 What an idiotic piece! Fixing the website should be the least of anyone's concerns. Even when ObamaCare is chugging along at 100% IT IS STILL BROKEN. Delays won't help. Fixing the website won't help. Just end the damn thing. Pass a budget which defunds it, pass a 1 year debt ceiling increase and GO HOME. Also, thought the comment yesterday that the website will suddenly start working fine the second O-Care is funded was pretty cynical, and not at all unlikely. Dems hiding the true costs until it's too late to fix? Nah, those guys would never do anything like that... |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-10-16 10:22 |
| #4 Baraq Saves |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-10-16 09:22 |
| #3 It will continue until we all accept the government as our lord and savior or we all drop dead. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-10-16 04:16 |
| #2 Well, the PLAN was for Obamacare to give us drop dead dates. But like all things Obama, it's a failure. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Oil Rig Insanity Division 2013-10-16 02:19 |
| #1 Obamacare DOA (Dead On Arrival) It crashed and burned and will continue to burn until declared unconstitutional or the law is recinded. |
| Posted by: Woozle Thuque1118 2013-10-16 01:51 |