[consulting] A chuckle

Sat Aug 7 15:35:49 UTC 2010

"Regulation always brings more problems than those that is purporting to
solve."

I agree 100%, and I think we should really begin discussing which
regulations we'd like to see go first. Some that are at the top of my list
(in the US):
- We need to get rid of the the darn FDA. Don't they know that trying to get
drug manufacturers not to sell us poison, and trying to keep shit out of our
meat, is really just killing small businesses (those that would serve the
poisoned).
- We need to get rid of ALL labor regulations. If a child wants to work, who
are we to tell them that they are 'unfree' (incidentally, thanks for the new
word, I feel really unsmart for not knowing it before). The 40 hour work
week is OBVIOUSLY the biggest cause of unfreedom in the world, as are
workplace safety rules.
- While we're at it, we should get rid of all regulations having to do with
owning and trafficking in other people. Just think of the productivity we'd
lose if we stopped people from
- Banking regulation needs to die so that we can make the financial markets
less unfree. I mean, what have banks ever done to justify "the man" getting
all up in their business? If only the fascist regulators
- It goes without saying that the Oil/Gas/Coal industry needs LESS
regulation. I heard someone on the internets say that the BP well would be
unleaking if regulators hadn't been so strict about getting so many hookers
and cocaine. If one oil giant is unfree, than we have a situation of total
unliberty, and that is totally unnice.

It always uncoldens my heart to know that I can turn to this list to
undumbify myself, I'm feeling more un-uneducated by the moment!

I demand freeeeeee-dddddduuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmbbbbbbbbb!
--
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
Partner | Business Lead
Zivtech, LLC
http://zivtech.com
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Antonio P. P. Almeida <appa at perusio.net>wrote:

> On 7 Ago 2010 10h36 WEST, kristof at pronovix.com wrote:
>
>  The wild running beast that is the Drupal market doesn't need
>> regulation, just brace, be aware, grasp opportunities as they come
>> and enjoy the ride. If you could regulate it, it would die.
>>
>
> Yes. Regulation always brings more problems than those that is
> purporting to solve. It always end up with the big corporations being
> in bed with the regulators and trying hard (and achieving) keeping the
> small upstarts at bay. Cf. television vs. the web.
>
> For an informative view on regulation, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
> and there's also the Misesian view that regulation ultimately leads to
> unfreedom by compounding on an neverending flow of new rules to solve
> the problems that the previous rules introduced.
>
> Let's suppose we introduced some regulation, then the big shops would
> end up, inevitably moving the rules as to favor them at the expense of
> the small upstarts. It's just the nature of power and institutions,
> it's the direction incentives point to.
>
>
>  Service markets are not as liquid as we often think, there is too
>> much meta-communication that is lost through mail and customers like
>> seeing the people that build their sites. They often don't know the
>> channels how to find the good low cost producers any way (if there
>> are such channels).
>>
>> I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in Europe all
>> except multinationals want somebody who lives somewhere maximum 100
>> km away to do their sites, even if you speak the same language.
>>
>
> Indeed. There's a google group drupal-portugal, and there are some
> people posting stuff like "we want a freelancer to do some cheap stuff
> for us", invariably there's always someone that answers, even people
> from Pakistan. Of course for me that says that they're aiming for low
> end markets and providing a bad service. If you want a well done site
> and think that you can get it cheap, you're in for a big
> surprise. You'll end up with a mess that will ruin your image as a
> business. I'm working on a site that is somewhat complex, I inherited
> it from someone who thought it understood Drupal. The result being
> that I spent most of the first time in the project undoing all the
> wrong things. The client is paying, be it in actual %«$, be it in
> opportunity cost. By now the site could have been done. But alas it
> isn't because they failed to screen for someone who has some
> understanding of Drupal. There's no free lunches.
>
>
>  So the doom scenario will not materialize.
>>
>
> Strangely enough I was talking with someone that works at CapGemini
> this week and I was telling him that the web is much more difficult to
> outsource than SAP & boring CRM related stuff. The web is an open
> free market of ideas and technologies. It's a moving target. Would you
> want to be on the phone to Mumbai when your site is being attacked
> with the latest CSRF exploit or with a DOS attack like slowloris? Not
> likely. You want someone that speak your language and *owns* their
> work.
> The web and Drupal are at odds with the 20th century way of doing
> business. We can see that in action in the case of whitehouse.gov. The
> usual beltway bandits belonging to the military-industrial complex had
> to reach out to startups like Acquia and other drupal shops. Why would
> such mammoths do so if not for the fact that their culture is
> antinomic to the web and truly free markets?
>
>  The only way we can stay in the win is to keep on pushing the
>> limits, specializing and innovating every day. Improving our tools
>> and becoming more efficient all the time. The moment you stand still
>> you've lost.
>>
>
> You can't beat that. I agree 101%.
>
> --- appa
>
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