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Friday, May 9th, 2008 02:23 am (UTC)
I'm doing wonderfully well at expressing myself of late. This thread a seeming proof in itself.

You are correct, I'm including mistakes of inadequate knowledge, intentional acts, and careless error.

I'm thinking not of situations where zero tolerance is the necessary criterion. But instead of areas where the result of a lack of foolproofing causes frustration. The examples I can come up with lead mostly to annoyance, not to pain. For instance, I dealt today with what I swear was a 0 degree of freedom regulation for sampling. This large level of restrictions, while likely leading to superior results, also lead to a wonderful threat of several million dollars in fines for the inability to obtain it, for the inability to meet o'erweening criteria.

I feel like I'm writing the nonsense poetry I enjoyed as a child. "I am not certain quite / that even now I've got it right." Or clear. But I'll refrain from arguing longer. I think we're largely if not almost entirely in agreement that the level of foolproofing and liability addressure has long since passed the reasonable. But I find the response that all foolproofing is unworthy a goal as almost knee-jerk and thus wrong.

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