Good jab 2
UK Telegraph makes a comparison:

In the history of expensive software mistakes, Mariner 1 was probably the most notorious. The unmanned spacecraft was destroyed seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral in 1962 when it veered dangerously off-course due to a line of dodgy code.

But nobody died and the only hits were to Nasa’s budget and pride. Imperial College’s modelling of non-pharmaceutical interventions for Covid-19 which helped persuade the UK and other countries to bring in draconian lockdowns will supersede the failed Venus space probe and could go down in history as the most devastating software mistake of all time, in terms of economic costs and lives lost.

Again, good Twitter point but useless as a rule or comparison.

First: Software in 1962 was a primitive and unsophisticated skill. I don't know how the Mariner code was written, but I suspect it wasn't even Fortran; probably machine opcodes, hard to debug and hard to understand. Modern software has all sorts of internal protections against simple errors, and modern programmers have professional workflow techniques. This is like blaming Ford's safety compliance engineers for a headon crash between 1908 Model Ts. Safety wasn't even a subject in 1908.

Second: In this case the software is NOT THE PROBLEM AT ALL. Blaming the software is Malign Misattribution, a typical Shared Lie. Lots of people write crappy simulation code. I've written some myself. When I animate my old tech models, I'm simulating and predicting how they would have worked, and I sometimes get it wrong. Because I know how the world works in general, I can spot the problem and correct it. The people who decided to use Ferguson's code either don't know how viruses and immune systems work, or more likely they know perfectly well HOW TO WRECK THE IMMUNE SYSTEM.

Third and most important: THEY DIDN'T NEED ANY FUCKING MODELS AT ALL. THERE'S NOTHING NEW ABOUT THIS VIRUS, SO NO NEW RESPONSE WAS NEEDED. PUBLIC HEALTH WAS WELL PREPARED FOR A NORMAL VIRUS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH WAS ALREADY HANDLING THIS NORMAL VIRUS AS IT FUCKING ALWAYS DOES. THE SOFTWARE WAS JUST ONE ELEMENT OF THE HOLOCAUST, NOT THE CAUSE OF THE HOLOCAUST.

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The genocidal anti-health officials who chose Ferguson are just like the Wreckers who built fake lighthouses to steer ships onto the rocks. Ferguson is the bricklayer who built the tower in the wrong place. He knew that he was participating in a crime, but he wasn't the mastermind.

Repeating:

Henry VIII responded to the problem by founding Trinity House, a mutual benefit association or guild for sailors, and giving it full authority over lighthouses and navigation. Trinity House still exists and still has the same functions. Remarkable continuity for an organization, breaking all of Parkinson's Laws. Serving the same purpose for 500 years, funded the same way for 500 years. Every ship that docks at British ports pays a user fee to Trinity House.

Is there any way for a modern monarch to create an equivalent Mutual Benefit Association for real science? I strongly doubt it. Henry was just as evil and crazy as modern kings, but he was motivated by loss of tax revenue. Modern Sorosian monarchs don't need taxes, so they don't need a country or an economy. They run solely on counterfeit numbers generated by central banks.

King Henry of Ford and King Henry of England both operated in a closed circle. Henry of Ford realized that he had to pay his workers enough to buy one of the cars they were building. He wanted MORE PROFIT, and the only way to make more profit is to sell things to workers who are making things. Henry of England realized that he needed uncrashed ships to carry the products that England made, or to import products and crops that England couldn't make. If the ships crashed, the economy would crash and his income would crash. Now the circle is broken. Corporations and governments depend solely on counterfeit numbers.

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, Parkinson, Shared Lie, the broken circle, Trinity House

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