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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (530338)11/19/2009 3:46:18 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1575783
 
The fed. gov't wasn't getting these numbers out of thin air. Private industry was feeding those numbers to them. It was private industry that fukked up; not the fed. gov't.

Private industry gave estimates based on normal appropriate methods that turned out to be too low.

Nope, they misread the yields. They ran with their initial numbers. Those yield numbers proved to be too high.

Government created the whole framework for the industry that was behind in the shortage.

What does that mean? That's nonsense.

The later is a much bigger example of "fukked up".

And you go along with it because it plays to your book.

I examine and respond to arguments that don't "play to my book". You dismiss them out of hand. That's being extremely close minded on your part.

Of course, I don't. There is nothing in the evidence to suggest the gov't is at fault. Part of the problem is how quickly industry had to move.......the swine flu virus wasn't verified until June and it takes 3-6 months to get the vaccine produced in quantity. Another problem was that the swine flu never went away this past summer and then resurged in Sept. when school started up. However, the yield mistake was purely the fault of private industry. Because you play from your book, you can't imagine such a possibility.
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