{"id":61466,"date":"2016-12-23T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61466"},"modified":"2016-12-23T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T14:11:09","slug":"point-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61466","title":{"rendered":"Point Of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We distribute computer information so a single crash isn\u2019t devastating.\u00a0 We distribute warehouses so deliveries are quicker.\u00a0 We distribute police officers so criminals don\u2019t have a safe space to operate.\u00a0 Distributed transportation \u2013 everybody having their own car and good roads to drive it on \u2013 are what built America into the world leader in mobility and prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Urban planners insist we should move to cities, live densely in converted warehouses, ride trains. \u00a0That\u2019s essential to save the planet.<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">The plan assumes the trains will run.\u00a0 What if they don\u2019t? \u00a0Then everybody is stuck, captive, <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/london-commuters-face-second-day-strike-disruption-080455798.html\"><span class=\"s3\">held hostage to the demands of the train crews<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I vaguely recall America having this sort of trouble, years ago, employees essential to the national transportation system went on strike threatening to cripple the nation.\u00a0 Seems to me Ronaldus Magnus handled that problem swiftly and decisively.\u00a0 Might be worth looking into, Ms. May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the world of the utopian left, nothing ever actually goes wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We distribute computer information so a single crash isn\u2019t devastating.\u00a0 We distribute warehouses so deliveries are quicker.\u00a0 We distribute police officers so criminals don\u2019t have a safe space to operate.\u00a0 Distributed transportation \u2013 everybody having their own car and good roads to drive it on \u2013 are what built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61467,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61466\/revisions\/61467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}