Comments on: Good intentions, bad legislation

By: Walter E. Wallis

Walter E. Wallis — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:43:39 +0000

Apply the same safety standards to rafting, mountain climbing and shark surfing?

By: Matthew Corey Brown

Matthew Corey Brown — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:11:01 +0000

Just by knowing who did it doesn’t tell why it was done. The office of So in So doesn’t implicate So and So. Only if we look at this amongst their entire record on the matter.

Even then it might be noise as if it is a staffer, a number of possibilities occur to me.

1) Tricked by a lobbyist.
2) Paid by a lobbist.
3) Parents income is devired in a large part by the shuttle.
4) Staffer was against a deadline so he turned to the only precedent he knew of, exsisting FAA airline regulation. And didn’t have full understanding what that regulation has done and entails.

two of those are of the basist intent, One of them is neutral and the last is of the highest intentions.

I was a bit out for blood until the blame was placed on a staffer. That could of been a ruse but we must look at the full record of Senator So and So, before we light the torches.

By: George Purcell

George Purcell — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:52:36 +0000

Who did it is critical, actually. With that information we know why it was done…and can more effectively move against them if their intentions are nefarious.

By: Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:25:39 +0000

Actually, who did it is less important than why it was done. If it was done out of simple lack of clue, education may solve the problem, but if there are other agendas, we may have a much bigger fight on our hands.

By: Keith Cowing

Keith Cowing — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 05:46:27 +0000

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=15252
House Passes Bill Extending Protection for Satellite Launches

“The indemnification provisions in H.R. 5245 were originally part of a larger bill, H.R. 3752, to make additional changes to the Commercial Space Launch Act. H.R. 3752 would have set up a new regulatory regime for private human space flight. The House and Senate are continuing to negotiate a compromise version of that bill.”

By: Keith Cowing

Keith Cowing — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 02:47:19 +0000

Go to http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/000267.html and there is a link for the Senate working draft of H.R. 3752

More info to be added shortly.

By: Simon Jester

Simon Jester — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:02:32 +0000

Right on, Rod!

I respectfully disagree with the “who did it is less important now” statement. Right now, let’s find out who is responsible and organize ballot box punishment. Favor friends, fuque foes.

Jim – let’s have a leak, right effin’ now!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:03:48 +0000

FOIA doesn’t cover conversations in smokefilled rooms (or their 21st century equivalent), Mark. Who did it is less important now than getting the problem fixed.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:35:38 +0000

Wait, what??? I’ve only been following this kind of stuff for a little bit but isn’t our right to know this kind of thing? Freedom of information act and all that?

perhaps this I’m assuming too much regarding transparency.

By: Michael Mealling

Michael Mealling — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:33:31 +0000

Jim can’t say. He was shown the text of the Senate bill on condition that he couldn’t take it and show it to anyone else. So he probably can’t say who the staffer is or even who’s office that staffer is in. Jim decided to break the normal silence that happens before a bill actually gets public airing since the time frame was so short. Because of that you will probably never know who in the Senate came up with that language.