Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? 786
MarkWhittington writes "Glenn Reynolds, the purveyor of Instapundit, asked the pertinent question, 'If big government can put a man on the moon, why can't it put up a simple website without messing it up?' The answer, as it turns out, is a rather simple one. The Apollo program, that President John F. Kennedy mandated to put a man on the moon and return him to the Earth, was a simple idea well carried out for a number of reasons. The primary one was that Congress did not pass a 1,800 or so page bill backed up by a mind-numbing amount of regulations mandating how NASA would do it. The question of how to conduct the lunar voyages was left up to the engineers at NASA and the aerospace industry at the time. The government simply provided the resources necessary to do the job and a certain degree of oversight. Imagine if President Obama had stated, 'I believe the nation should commit itself to the goal of enabling all Americans to access affordable health insurance' but then left the how to do it to some of the best experts in health care and economics without partisan interference."
The answer is SIMPLE (Score:5, Funny)
SIMPLE != LAWYERS
Re:The answer is SIMPLE (Score:5, Funny)
Simple Answer... (Score:4, Funny)
Simple answer, web developement is harder than rocket science!
Re:What ? (Score:3, Funny)
YEAH! We got a model! Just look at the success that Somalia has with that system!
Re:Sabotage (Score:5, Funny)
You voted commie, you got commie.
I appreciate self-parody.
Re:I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was (Score:4, Funny)
You wonder how people like Stalin and Hitler came to power huh?
That explains the brutal dictatorships of Canada, Japan, Australia, and all of Western Europe, since they all have universal health care.
P.S. What color is the sky in your world?
Re:What ? (Score:4, Funny)
Canada has more Polar Bears than the US, so they should have 10 times the number of manufacturing plants than does the U.S
That would even make sense if manufacturing plants were staffed by polar bears.
See what a stupid statement I made?
Yes, yes I do.
Re:Assumes we still could do that moon thing (Score:5, Funny)
Do you really think the government could get its act together enough to put a person on the moon again? Have you been paying attention?
We could just have someone climb the paperwork?
Re: The answer is SIMPLE (Score:5, Funny)
the agile approach could also have been used in the moon program
I'd hate to be the astronaut used when you begin your first unit tests. Especially the ones that happen before the '...and get back home alive' sprint happens.