Posts Tagged ‘shared’

July 1st, 2009

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

This date, at least on a personal and professional level, will be cast in stone.
Anyway, this post is mainly addresses to a sub-community, the residents in Belgium, Brussels, Schuman (from general to particular )
If you are somewhere else, please note that:

this post does not change anything on the blog content and direction
if anything, this [...]

Preemptive lawmaking & expert systems

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Today, I was replying to a friend on Facebook about his remark on widespread corruption in his country.

From that, while writing my reply, I started re-thinking about something else: why do we have corruption?

Because we have rules that somebody is willing to circumvent- and somebody else able to let them do it.

And why? Because too many laws and rules are built to regulate something that is already available.

I am now ignoring the “details” of the difference between common law and countries following the Napoleonic approach, because, in our globalized world, also “laissez faire” countries are increasingly regulating tiny details. Either directly or via reporting/control rules.

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