It would have been clearer.
A regulator on a steam locomotive is designed to keep the engine from overspeed or overpressure.
It is not intended to control where the locomotive runs, what its operating hours are, what color it gets painted, how many wheels it should have, what brand of coal it burns, how much the crew gets paid, what type of leather is on the seats, or any of the thousands of other micromanagement elements that are the vast majority of modern "regulations."
Even you should see the difference between a rule that keeps a business from dumping toxic waste into a river and one that tells it what kind of trees it can plant near the building or what kind of lightbulbs it can use.
It's amazing the faith you have in people in government to oversee everything without self-interest, corruption, greed, or multiple other human failings. I wonder what they do to normal mortals as they cross the borders of Washington DC that makes them so much more fit to run our lives than the rest of us are.
Where does it come into people's heads that it's better to have the reins in the hands of monopolized state power, most of it unaccountable to the electorate, instead of a large number of freely competitive alternatives?
Who decides, Robert?
That was actually the most important part of my post.
Off Topic » in reply to don't pretend you don't know the meaning of "obtuse"
I should have used the term "total control."
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- Salt is healthy after all (originally from Comestible Zone)
- Fatal flaw in this.
- For those bent out of shape about the source website:
- The errors, just in your quote:
- What the heck have people done in the past?
- According to the Kellogg's website, Cocoa Crispies' nutritional info is
- Just because you can't taste it doesn't mean its not there.
- Besides...everyone knows...*gluten free* is the new buzz word. :)
- If you actually read the report, you'll find that that web site is brazenly lying about it
- I suppose its possible previous medical advice was based on error.