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Subject:RE: Your opinion, please! From:MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:34:01 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bonnie Granat [mailto:bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info]
> > Sorry - I should have been more precise. The clients
> understand their
> > business well, but the regulation of it (a recent
> development) has them
> > baffled.
> >
> > Hope that de-baffles!
> Not really, Brian. ;) Why did they buy your company's
> software? What does your
> company's software do? And if they don't know what it does,
> what the heck are
> they doing using it?
> Let's see.Highly regulated. Either pharmaceuticals or
> securities, eh? How can
> the regulation of their business baffle them? Perhaps they
> need some advice
> from professionals in their field? As a consumer, hearing
> this is making my
> teeth itch.
You people make me wonder, really.
I would have thought that it would bother you a tad more as
a citizen, voter and..... **taxpayer** that there even COULD
be an industry whose regulations (government [dis]function)
change weekly.
How in the name of anything that remotely pretends to sanity
could an industry function when its regulatory environment
can't even be predicted/stable for a month? Look up the definition
of insanity. Right there, beside "doing the same thing over
and over and expecting a different result", is what you folks
have described "changing the rules every week and expecting
business to thrive (and keep employing taxpayers...)".
On the other hand, if there are writers on the regulator side
who can actually keep up with the spewing of revised regulations
every couple of weeks, maybe you should learn from them how they
keep up. Oh, wait. They don't have a requirement that their
stuff be understandable. Sorry.
Let me know how it all plays out. The only solution I can see
involves going postal, and I'd rather it wasn't me that went.
Where are my pills?
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