On Wed, 19 May 1999, Dan Steinberg wrote:
> I don't find this appalling at all.
That's a shame.
> It is indeed a very safe feature of the system. Consider the
> alternatives. Something gets drafted that (despite good intentions)
> created tremendous inequities accidentally. Imagine the fallout if
> there was no way to right the wrongs. IMHO this is a feature not a bug.
> Remember that it took a conscious <G> act of Congress to take this step.
An agency(or in this case their contractor) collected what was at the time
an illegal tax. The U.S. Congress then reotractively made the tax legal so
that the funds could be retained.
I apologize if I am simply restating what occured, but I am amazed that
anyone could find that a "feature" rather than a bug.
> They are your elected representatives. If you don't like their
> decisions you have the power to vote them out of office.
So I am told.
> Just consider an alternative where you don't have those powers, where
> decisions were taken by un-elected non-representative beings. Where
> you had no immediate way to right wrongs. What would you call that:
> ICANN???
Apples and oranges.
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