The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

Sure? I mean I would presume the government regulates its own assets.

[Habbaku]

They are not the same things.

Could you clarify what you mean?

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

Is anyone saying they are the same thing? 

[Grey Fox]

They are not the same things.

Could you clarify what you mean?

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

Is anyone saying they are the same thing? 

That's how I read Der's comment.

& maybe Tyr because who knows what he was saying.

[Habbaku]

I am fairly confident that Tyr's statements can be summed up as follows: "Everything I don't like is capitalism, even socialism."

[Jacob]

Mongolian Folk metal: http://www.teamrock.com/features/2015-11-25/meet-tengger-cavalry-the-world-s-only-mongolian-folk-metal-band

[Syt]

They're pretty good. Chinese metal band Ego Fall also did a Mongolian themed album (Spirit of Mongolia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3XXUZ-81s0

[Liep]

There's a political debate about Thursday's vote with all the party leaders. They say you deserve the politicians you have, but I feel this is a cruel punishment unfit of whatever wrongs we might have done.

[Admiral Yi]

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

What's the point of regulating your own activities?

[The Brain]

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

What's the point of regulating your own activities?

Rhetorical?

[Jacob]

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

What's the point of regulating your own activities?

Accountability to your stakeholders.

A transparent and independent system of regulation is pretty useful, even if one of the actors being regulated is ultimately accountable to the same entity.

I mean, the Constitution regulates how government carries out its own activities in the US. Plenty of people see value in that.

[Valmy]

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

What's the point of regulating your own activities?

Um because you have to? The Army has regulations. You get issued a regulation weapon that must be cared for in a regulation manner.

[garbon]

Everyday I regulate.

[mongers]

I often see people on Oxford Street riding about on those.

[Garbon]

You shop on Oxford street. 

[/Garbon]

[DGuller]

Government regulation & government ownership are not the same things. One doesn't have to preclude the other.

What's the point of regulating your own activities?

Because the government, like every other complex organization, consists of many people, and people taken together work more effectively when bound by some rules?

[Admiral Yi]

Because the government, like every other complex organization, consists of many people, and people taken together work more effectively when bound by some rules?

Sure, but that could be accomplished by setting policy.  We will do things this way.  We will hire people to do things this way.  We will fire people who don't do things this way.