Re: How do I block a (mains) smoke alarm (so my steam cleaner doesn't trigger it)

[w_tom <w_tom1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  If the population has 'no incentive to find it', then how do
you explain Norway?.  Why is France currently more productive
(per hour worked) than the US?

  The problem with some government programs is that they
become distorted by legalized bribery?  When an Amtrak line
exists from Chicago to Philadelphia, then why must a Chicago
traveler pass through Washington DC?  Legalized bribery wanted
Amtrak to operate in WV.

  Three nuclear power plants had a potential Three Mile Island
problem.  Two shutdown for repairs.  The third (in Toledo OH)
remained operational.  Amazing what a $450,000 fund raiser for
Bush Cheney can do.  Later a hole was discovered in that
plant's 6 inch containment vessel.  No problem.  Nobody died.
Therefore there was no corruption?

  Appreciate that government programs do sometimes work as
good, sometimes better, than private sector.  But the question
being asked is about getting best results for the buck
(quid).  Some countries that pay more taxes and get more
services do have better standards of living.  But this is
really more about who top management is.  A politician
routinely bribed by campaign contributions or a corporate
executive in collusion with his competition (or with no
competition).  That says far more about 'incentives';  why
some private sector and public sector solutions don't work.

  Don't get lost in all the free market verse socialism
mumbo-jumbo.  A program is only as good as its top
management.

Mark Leuck wrote:
> The problem is when the government gives support and opportunity
> the end result is a population which has less support and
> opportunity and no incentive to find it