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in the past it was called "moral hazard"

It was never called "moral hazard". I'm pretty sure it wasn't called "moral depravity" either.

"Motivated Reasoning" is a good term for it though.

and here http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons-essays-books/noncanonical-literature/
and here http://www.toddtyszka.com/fulllist.html

Everyone's experience is different, I guess. The CS department where I went to school was not filled with a bunch of sex-starved, D&D playing dorks. Sure, there were a few of those in the mix. But, for the most part, these were guys that couldn't stand SciFi books, computer games, or RPG sessions (well, unless you count those that program using RPG). Many (including myself) were dating or married while in the CS program. I also did happen to meet several attractive, fun girls in my CS classes.

Gardner's genius deserves more respect than to be misquoted anonymously.

try this link, damnit

4. The Game Laws Part of the starvation conspiracy was the long series of Game Laws. They all brought more restrictions on the poor, making all game and fish the property of the squire or duke or gentleman who owned the land. One fishing law was simply summarized as preventing the "destruction of pond or stew fish" by anyone except the landowner. One of the new game laws of 1771 was spelled out in great detail in the London Chronicle. Apparently there was a loophole in previous legislation which Parliament moved quickly to plug. Rooks and squirrels had somehow not been specified in previous legislation. The new law declared that only landowners of four acres or more, or certain salaried employees, could be in possession of a rook or squirrel. If a "poor man" were caught with a rook or a squirrel without a "ticket" of permission from the landowner, he had to pay a £5 fine (more than he could earn in a year) and deliver the game to the landowner if "he lives within twelve miles." If he lived farther away the constable was to deliver the dead rook or squirrel to the landowner.

When the Bible was first assembled from the Gospels, Acts, Revelations, and the various letters of the apostiles to the early churches, there was much debate as to which versions of various books to include. Most of the books of the Bible had various differences as they were copied by various scribes attempting to preserve them before the first collections of them were gathered. Here's a good timeline of the history of the Good Book.

Furthermore, there's the Pseudepigrapha. These are rejected books of the Bible that scholars of various times either considered falsified or otherwise not worthy to include in the Bible. Usually, they purport to be written by a Biblical figure, but were generally not believed to have actually been written by them at the time of the Council of Laodicea. Then you have the books where are in the Catholic Old Testament but not in the Protestant Old Testament. These are the books most commonly labelled as Apocrypha.

Here's some more info on early church texts.
Here's a FAQ on the history of the Bible.

You can find a lot of this on Google if you know what to look for, but I've been nice and included links without bizarre obscurist religious or UFO ranting. The "lost" books of the Bible are a rich source of material for people with fringe beliefs that are looking to justify them or people who have an axe to grind with mainstream Christianity.

We've already given industry the chance to "sort it out themselves," and it wasn't exactly paradise. In England, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, there were no real restrictions on the behaviour of industry. Ever heard of chimney sweeps?

Contrary to what you've seen in Mary Poppins, chimney sweeps were not happy little boys and girls singing in the streets. They were sold to chimney sweeping companies by their poor parents for less than a month's wages. Older, bigger kids couldn't fit in chimneys, so they had to use little ones (often as young as 2). If a child got stuck inside a chimney they'd just turn the furnace on. Children were cheap, and the poor kept having more. Don't believe me? Here's one source; a Google search turns up more.

This is industry unchecked: a machine with no regard for humanity. Corporations are smarter now, but don't believe for a second that they're any more concerned about human welfare. Nor are they obligated to be. Only one organization has a publicly and legally recognized obligation in this arena, and that's a government.

Most reading this in the US had an opportunity to vote several months ago. Maybe half of you did. If you don't like the President's technical advisor, get off your ass and vote next time

question: is control controlled by its need to control?
answer: yes