Promoters of that alternative alleges that it could produce “superior benefits at a similar or lower cost to water users and the public, and at reduced levels of environmental impacts,” by doing the following: Increased water exports from the Bay-Delta in wet years and smaller water exports in dry years; A North Delta diversion facility and tunnel for 3,000 cubic feet of water per second (as opposed to 9,000 cfs in the current BDCP); Major statewide investments in water… [read post]

Product ideas are abandoned before they are submitted to the Commission staff for consideration or after multi-year processes produce nothing but large legal bills and a loss of confidence in the Commission. [read post]

Perhaps, of course, my interest is the greater because the subject encompasses some matters explored here extensively in 2004 and 2005, and Posner appears to agree with a few of the ideas expounded here, e.g., that plagiarism is a species of fraud, and that one author accused of plagiarism may have had portions of the works he signed written by others -- who did the plagiarizing.Posner's book, it may be said, is in certain respects a lawyer's book. [read post]