Because the aim of the regulations is not to simply provide bat bricks. It’s to create an elaborate stack of paperwork regarding the design, planning, requirement and impact of bat bricks. Quite poss… (View Post)

You see this as a bad thing. To worshippers of the Process State, the fact that a long, complex and expensive process is required to do anything, is a sign of that this area is Properly Regulated. (View Post)

It’s very largely about bizarre attempts to “customise” when we buy abroad. Because simply buying a foreign product wouldn’t generate lots of fun decisions and all that paperwork that justifies exist… (View Post)

That is not what Polanski did, according to sworn testimony, in court. To start with, he knew the age of the girl(s). He had personally signed the paperwork involved in working with minors. (View Post)

It is one of the truly good features of the modern justice system. Written in non-technical English as well. So, if you take the sentencing guidelines (also online), you can see how the judge “built”… (View Post)