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Hilarious. Sounds legal and I doubt they would have done it otherwise. Good example of why most regulation is ridiculous because it's generally easy to find a

by gsibble 14y ago

Hilarious. Sounds legal and I doubt they would have done it otherwise. Good example of why most regulation is ridiculous because it's generally easy to find and exploit loopholes.

SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
> Sounds legal On the contrary, sounds a lot like a standard "carousel fraud" > and I doubt they would have done it otherwise. ... Which happens despite being illegal. > Good example of why most regulation is ridiculous Laws aren't perfect, lets try no laws!
- lhnn 14y ago
  The government is quick to enforce "spirit of the law" or "letter of the law" when it's most convenient for them.
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eagsalazar2 14y ago
Good god libertarians make me sick.
- jrs235 14y ago
  I identify as a libertarian... But all these folks blaming the government in this case without truly knowing what took place but just jumping to the regulations are to blame conclusion, make me ill. Yes the law of unintended consequences often occurs with regulations however blatantly taking advantage of someone or something is wrong, legal or illegal. This is where we need a jury of peers to determine whether we want to encourage or discourage the behavior that this company took part in. I'd find this company guilty in a heart beat. It's like jury nullification in reverse. All it takes for evil to triumph is good men to do nothing.
  - emiliobumachar 14y ago
    The law of unintended consequences may well apply to such "jury nullification in reverse", by creating jurisprudence. This partcular case seems like very clear-cut fraud to my layman's mind, though.
- anigbrowl 14y ago
  I'm a libertarian at heart but I have no time for shenanigans of this kind. I want efficient regulations, not an absence of regulation; and streamlined regulations can only work where you have a regulator with sufficient discretion to enforce the spirit of the regulation rather than allowing people to take refuge in pedantic legalism (thus generating more and more regulation to deal with all the potential corner cases).
ucee054 14y ago
Yeah let's get rid of regulation, then we can live under mafia control with bad sanitation! See Kowloon Walled City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Also: see Somalia 10 years ago

by gsibble 14y ago

Hilarious. Sounds legal and I doubt they would have done it otherwise. Good example of why most regulation is ridiculous because it's generally easy to find and exploit loopholes.

SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago

> Sounds legal On the contrary, sounds a lot like a standard "carousel fraud" > and I doubt they would have done it otherwise. ... Which happens despite being illegal. > Good example of why most regulation is ridiculous Laws aren't perfect, lets try no laws!

lhnn 14y ago
The government is quick to enforce "spirit of the law" or "letter of the law" when it's most convenient for them.
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eagsalazar2 14y ago

Good god libertarians make me sick.

jrs235 14y ago
I identify as a libertarian... But all these folks blaming the government in this case without truly knowing what took place but just jumping to the regulations are to blame conclusion, make me ill. Yes the law of unintended consequences often occurs with regulations however blatantly taking advantage of someone or something is wrong, legal or illegal. This is where we need a jury of peers to determine whether we want to encourage or discourage the behavior that this company took part in. I'd find this company guilty in a heart beat. It's like jury nullification in reverse. All it takes for evil to triumph is good men to do nothing.
- emiliobumachar 14y ago
  The law of unintended consequences may well apply to such "jury nullification in reverse", by creating jurisprudence. This partcular case seems like very clear-cut fraud to my layman's mind, though.
anigbrowl 14y ago
I'm a libertarian at heart but I have no time for shenanigans of this kind. I want efficient regulations, not an absence of regulation; and streamlined regulations can only work where you have a regulator with sufficient discretion to enforce the spirit of the regulation rather than allowing people to take refuge in pedantic legalism (thus generating more and more regulation to deal with all the potential corner cases).

ucee054 14y ago

Yeah let's get rid of regulation, then we can live under mafia control with bad sanitation! See Kowloon Walled City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Also: see Somalia 10 years ago