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If you start dabbling in DIY remodeling you'll soon find yourself trying understand parts of the national electrical and plumbing codes. They actually remind me

If you start dabbling in DIY remodeling you'll soon find yourself trying understand parts of the national electrical and plumbing codes. They actually remind me a lot of reading the C++XX standards--clearly the product of a ton of time and effort by a bunch really smart and experienced people. There's no way in hell an elected body could/should ever wrote those. So, while I'm not saying that the current system is ideal or even fair, there's absolutely a need to compensate somebody to write and maintain these standards.

andrewflnr 5y ago
Which is irrelevant to whether citizens should have to pay for the texts. If you want private parties to write them, write their contract so the government is paying for full rights to the text, and then distribute them for free.
- tehwebguy 5y ago
  There is an entire missing and/or inadequate subset of the law that the country as a whole and regional governments need to adopt, regulating how governments are allowed to enter into contracts. I'm sure people here could name a dozen other categories but a few that come to mind that should very possibly be banned: - Entering into NDAs -- should governments be allowed to keep secrets for a business they enter into a contract with or do the people have the right to know everything a gov learns in the course of doing business? - Proprietary products, software & services -- if an off-the-shelf alternative exists should govs be permitted to pay for something that they might have to trash as soon as as a contract ends? or something that might go up in price any possible % if they wish to renew? - Sweeping prosecution agreements -- should govs be able to contract with police unions on matters like deferring interrogations when the suspect or indicted person is police? or similarly for government officials? - Privatizing -- should govs be allowed to sell basically anything? that is, if the public has funded the ownership & maintenance of something with tax dollars should a government be able to transfer it to some business or individual rather than lease? without a vote / auction?
CapitalistCartr 5y ago
The NEC is available to read online for that reason, although if your not an electrician, it's nearly incomprehensible. I have an entire book explaining bonding and grounding. It requires too much experience to understand, but it is still essential to a free society that laws be public.

andrewflnr 5y ago

Which is irrelevant to whether citizens should have to pay for the texts. If you want private parties to write them, write their contract so the government is paying for full rights to the text, and then distribute them for free.

tehwebguy 5y ago
There is an entire missing and/or inadequate subset of the law that the country as a whole and regional governments need to adopt, regulating how governments are allowed to enter into contracts. I'm sure people here could name a dozen other categories but a few that come to mind that should very possibly be banned: - Entering into NDAs -- should governments be allowed to keep secrets for a business they enter into a contract with or do the people have the right to know everything a gov learns in the course of doing business? - Proprietary products, software & services -- if an off-the-shelf alternative exists should govs be permitted to pay for something that they might have to trash as soon as as a contract ends? or something that might go up in price any possible % if they wish to renew? - Sweeping prosecution agreements -- should govs be able to contract with police unions on matters like deferring interrogations when the suspect or indicted person is police? or similarly for government officials? - Privatizing -- should govs be allowed to sell basically anything? that is, if the public has funded the ownership & maintenance of something with tax dollars should a government be able to transfer it to some business or individual rather than lease? without a vote / auction?

CapitalistCartr 5y ago

The NEC is available to read online for that reason, although if your not an electrician, it's nearly incomprehensible. I have an entire book explaining bonding and grounding. It requires too much experience to understand, but it is still essential to a free society that laws be public.