Off Topic: Stupid Bureaucrats (was Re: Long names are doom ?)

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Well that raises a whole can of worms - how the media, et alia are out
screaming how we need all kinds of gun safety laws "to protect the children"
when in point of fact, more are killed every year in back yard swimming
pools. The proper algorithm ought to be to sort on the number of deaths per
anum & get them in descending order. Start at the top of the list and work
your way down.

But there is a whole class of people in this world who can't seem to be
happy unless they are running everyone else's life. Maybe it gives them a
sense of superiority. ("You're too stupid to live unless I'm here to help
you...") Or maybe it makes them feel needed. ("I must be a good person
because I'm protecting the poor wretches who would otherwise lie down in
traffic if I weren't there to stop them...") In any event, they generally
forget the most fundamental of all human rights: Free Will.

MDC
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"Larry Elmore" <ljelmore@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> Try reading the instructions on a can of instant coffee. Most tell you
> to heat water to boiling and pour it over the powder/crystals, stir it,
> and then to enjoy it -- _carefully_ (dont gulp it) because the coffee
> will be HOT. Duh...
>
> > As for the hammer? I'd suggest OSHA require they all be wrapped in
> > styrofoam. :-)
>
> Though you'd never guess it from TV news, more small children die in the
> US from drowning in large buckets than from firearms accidents. OSHA
> carefully studied this. Among the recommended possible solutions
> suggested by their committee were to require _holes_ in the bottoms of
> large buckets, or rounded, non-flat bottoms so they can't stand up on
> their own and so tip over! This got a lot of ridicule in the press some
> years ago as a prime example of government bureaucrats at their finest.
>
> Larry