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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (138726)	8/10/2001 10:37:12 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575583

I maintain the place I live because its my home..that means making sure the roof doesn't leak, the wiring is sound, the water is potable etc. That's the same way I view the planet. This is home to our species....its in our best interest to keep it up and not take advantage. Maintaining your home is fine but what if some regulations required you to put in a $15,000 air purifier system when the air is just fine, and then after you had it installed and running a few years the regs changed and the old system was no good and it had to be replaced? You want your home, either your house or the earth to be kept reasonbly nice, but the cost and benefits both have to be considered. Even a bunch of regulations that might make sense individual can cause problems when they are combined and the net result is a regulatory straight jacket. This problem becomes even worse when you add the regulations that don't make sense, and the fact that the laws and regulations can be so complex that even when a company is willing to spend a lot of money to comply they can't always be sure that they are in complience, and after making an expensive and difficult effort they still get slammed for violating some regulation or regulatory interpretation. Tim