DW>> Thats very apt considering what'ss going on at the moment, dont you
 DW>> think? 

 BL>   Yes. I really like it. To me, that's the definition of democracy; you
 BL> might not like the laws but at least you know what they are.

Indeed, and knowing seems to be half the problem, at least with some
sections of the community.

 DW>> It describes the upper echelon of most large businesses and govt
 DW>> departments. 

 BL>   Yair... groups of people making up their own rules and enforcing them
 BL> free from prosecution. They protect themselves from the law with a layer
 BL> of stooges.

yes, the one thing that springs to mind is parliamentary privilege.

 DW>> Who would you put in control of the computer?

 BL>   The computer would be programmed to follow the law; not go off and
 BL> write its own. It's interesting if you look at the function of the

Though sometimes, compassion is needed and this is why you cant really
leave things to a computer, unless you included parameters that enabled it
to think outside the given implication and ramifications of the strict
letter of the law.

Things would be run strictly according to the law, but there would be no
"fairness"


 BL> business does. Why have a Health Department when you already have
 BL> hospital accounting departments? Why have a Police Department when you
 BL> already have police stations? Why not make taxation automatic on gross,

because they have to acountable to someone, or else you would have
autonomous departments, each with possiblly different rules.

 BL> no deductions, no stuffing around? Why have diplomats when you can use a
 BL> FAX to get the same result? 

somethings just need to be said in person, to get the right inflection, you
know what it's like when someone takes a message the wrong way, even if it
wasnt intended that way, thats how wars start.


 DW>> It has merits, but do you think the general populace will go for it?

 BL>   It worked in Russia and it's already happening in the West as our

what worked in russia???  I dont think you could class anything as actually
working in Russia

 BL> problem is a ballooning bureaucracy at an average cost of $100K each.
 BL> They're not a service industry, they're an anti-service industry (like
 BL> the AntiChrist only with a shorter tail).

I can see that middle management are sometimes more prolific than they need
to me, but what you are speaking off is more than just a revolution, it's
the complete opposite of what happens now, convincing people that it's for
their own good would be the hard part.


warm fuzzied huggles,
                    teddy


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