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Hmm, well, it's Sunday morning, so I'm not sure how many eyeballs I'll have on this post, but here goes.
Sometime this year, or maybe last year, someone made a comment in a thread about how "regulations are there to allow the honest business to survive"
I thought it was such a great comment that I voted it up, not the least because I figured that I could always return to my user page, look at the list of comments I'd rated and find it again. A bookmark, if you like.
I did just that this morning, and it turns out I ran into an unexpected feature of Scoop, in that the ratings history is expired over time, and now I have no way of finding it again. I tried searching for it, but the key words (honest, regulations, business) don't provide a useful discriminant.
If this rings a bell with anyone, I'd love a pointer to the thread...
Migeru:
Didn't techno have a soundbite along the lines of "regulation is what makes honest business profitable"?
The Scoop search function is crap; you can never find anything that way. I always use the Google search. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
I did use the Google search. It's not a specific deficiency of Scoop; my experience is that any in-house search function is bound to be inferior (not that I'm a google groupie).
My recollection of the thread was that it was something that afew said, and Jérôme à Paris commented something along the lines of "that's it in a nutshell".
If I could see all my ratings, I'd have it in a second, but the page doesn't allow you to examine the archives.
Great answer!!! Sometime during the deregulation craze of the 80s, my dear old mother--a scarred child of the depression was watch the news. She turned to me and snorted, "Fools! doesn't anyone remember what the economy was like before there were regulation on the banks?" I have long maintained that the reason regulated economies do better the deregulated ones is that regulations permit the honest businessman to prosper.
Sometime during the deregulation craze of the 80s, my dear old mother--a scarred child of the depression was watch the news. She turned to me and snorted, "Fools! doesn't anyone remember what the economy was like before there were regulation on the banks?"
I have long maintained that the reason regulated economies do better the deregulated ones is that regulations permit the honest businessman to prosper.
That's the one! I &heart; you. Or I owe you a beer, or something.
What's fascinating in its own right is how approximately I remembered the comment and its followup, and that someone (heh) was still able to locate it. And it was posted just over one year ago.
I got the poster wrong. I correctly remembered that Jérôme wrote the followup, but he never used the word "nutshell".
I doubt we'll ever see any search engine cope with imcomplete information like this and pull off such a feat.
Maybe it was discussion around agency workers, or migrant workers? ie regulations and giving workers better rights so that unscrupulous employers can't exploit them to undercut other businesses. Ad astra per aspera
