[NTLUG:Discuss] re: SB1116

[Fred]

Regarding the difference between the letter of the law and intent:

"intent" has very little bearing in court, only the "letter" is followed. What
we are doing by denying the errors in and not opposing legislation such as this
is creating a situation that exists in many 3rd world countries where just
about every endeavor breaks some law. At that point, the law is selectively
enforced on the basis of politics.

So, it would be best to oppose any new legislation on the basis that further
entanglements only compound our problems, not solve them. 

An analogue would be an operating system code that has been patched repeatedly
without a rewrite... something with millions of lines that no one has a clue as
to how the pieces interact until the users get a chance to debug it "live"... 
kinda like cobol, come to think of it...  multiply that by a couple of
exponents and you have our legal system.

Maybe some bright young person can develop CASE tools for writing laws...
(CALE? L=legislation)... a whole library of macros... followed by the
establishment of a fully functional test lab. Something to get all these
engineers back to work speaking English instead of Hindi.
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