But this law makes me a criminal for not perpetuating that injustice.
It's not your job to decide that. Our system of law has courts for that purpose, and this law simply allows for (hopefully) more possible cases to be heard by those courts.
I would never cooperate voluntarily with the police as you did because as an individual citizen I have no legitimate interest in helping them to solve crimes.
Well apart from them taking poeple off the street who could possibly harm you you mean? I'm not quite sure you know how things work...
BUT of course people who have done nothing wrong can still be afraid of law enforcement,
Well it sounds like you certainly are. This usually comes from watching too much TV/Internet and not enough real life.
if you're a small business owner, for example, and you start needing to take totalling days or weeks off to appear for depositions, and investigator interviews, and as a witness in court; this can cost you a heck of a lot of money, money which you won't be reimbursed for by the defendant or anyone else.
Crap. A statement would suffice in most cases, and any appearance would be a couple of hours at most.
If you're not willing to donate that time in the interest of putting a possible paedophile behind bars, and possibly saving a child from being raped, then you are a disgusting human being.
Or as an employee it can cost you paid or unpaid leave time ---- which can mean suddenly you cannot pay your rent, or for transportation or other basic necessities.
This is also one of the reasons people don't want to take on jury duty or go to court to fight a small lawsuit or traffic ticket, and will essentially accept default guilt..... pay a $50 ticket, versus take a couple days off work, and possibly put your job at risk while losing much much more in wages.
There is no sense and logic in laws concerning sex, drugs and copyright.
You mean there is no sense on the reporting of these on Internet? What happens in a courtroom and what gets reported are usually two vastly different things.
My entire premise is that civilization and evolution are very thin buffers between being what we actually are: smart animals whose capacity for violence is neither new, nor is it gone.
I'm not saying anything new or revolutionary. We're not even fucking disagreeing. But don't act like I'm making up some fucking straw man argument to tear down.
Ok we're on the same page then. I might've had a few beers before posting that last post. Apologies.
They really didn't use Poe all that much. I was expecting him to be more significant.
Same, but I didn't think he worked as a character.
What Finn couldn't take was massacring innocents. He still presumably had Storm Trooper training, and could fight well.
You learn to fight well by fighting, If this is his first battle then he shouldn't be any good at it. (at least not as good as veterans from the same school of training) And the whole janitor excuse was weak. The whole universe is covered in menial-task-performing robots, yet we're expected to believe the Empire would use specialist soldiers to clean toilets? And despite being the most junior ranked guy on the DeathStar Mk3, he knew all the technical detail to destroy it. It was lame.
Rey obviously has a significant backstory she isn't aware of, which the next few movies will presumably cover. In the meantime, I'm reserving judgment.
She obviously Luke's relation (either daughter or niece) No surprises there (and the family connection surprise has worn a bit thin now).
BB8 is one heck of a lot less annoying than giving C-3PO lots of screen time.
but he's a more annoying version of R2.
If you couldn't activate my iPhone, you couldn't read anything on it, no matter what.
No quantum computer? No forensic analysis? I reckon the NSA could figure it out, so any more advanced race should have some idea how to.
Leia was there for family reasons. If you hadn't noticed, she and Han were Kylo Ren's parents. I think this is one of those things we'll know more about after a few more movies. In addition, she was heavily involved in the earlier revolt, so why not be a big shot with the Resistance?
What was she resisting? And if she is the hardass leader, why not show that? She just seemed to hang in the background looking stupid with her botoxed face.
You apparently have no idea how physically effective an older person can be, and Han really didn't do anything that physically demanding.
Not at the top level no. Which is why all the top sports/action people in the world are under 40. Han couldn't even run properly he's that old.
You want a significant death? How about being killed by your own son while trying to turn him from the Dark Side?
He died almost exactly like Gandalf which was lame, and then he was forgotten about almost instantly. Han is probably the greatest character in the Star Wars universe. He was poorly handled in this film.
defeated a well-trained fighter (Finn),
This should've been no contest. Ask yourself, would Darth Vader have struggled with a Stormtrooper, even if injured? The entire cannon has Stormtroopers as disposable fodder, but as soon as one takes off his mask and joins the good guys, he suddenly really really capable?
and faced another competent fighter (Rey) who wins by out-Forcing him rather than skill.
Yes with zero force training she out forces the most force trained person in the universe. It makes the baddies lame since even their best can't compete with amateurs on the goodies team. Any story needs a bad guy who is really tough. There simply wasn't one in this film.
He's pretty darn good at what he does.
Whining and looking extremely ugly? Seriously, when he took the mask off it jolted me out of the story, he was that ugly. And it wasn't ugly like a cool ugly monster, just ugly like an emo goth kid from the local mall. Extremely poor casting.
Right now, when you use your Bank of America card at a store and that store banks with Wells Fargo, BOA sends the money to Wells Fargo. At the same time, across the street, a Wells Fargo customer pays at a store which banks with BOA, so money flows the opposite direction. Millions of transactions moving in circles.
This is pretty much it. I used to work in a bank, and back in the day, at the end of each day the representatives of each bank would meet somewhere with a balance sheet. Bank A owed Bank B $10mil, and Bank B owed Bank A $9.5mil, so they wrote a cheque for $50k and all went to the pub for drinks.
The 21st century version of this is exactly the same but electronic. From the sounds of it, they are looking to use blockchain as the intermediary technology rather than cash, that is all.
I'm not sure who these people are that you keep talking about?
It's an intrinsic property, and when push comes to shove, we'll revert back to it pretty quickly. Having higher brain functions doesn't mean those other things have gone away.
All our higher brain function does is make us better at it. Don't think for one moment that any other species wouldn't do the same if only they knew how.
I thought they were more interesting than the characters in the original.
And now I'll tell you what I like about Ep4 and 5.
Luke starts off as a bit no-hoper from nowhere and comes good. And he does good not by some miracle super skills, but being in the right place at the right time, and having some faith, which is believable.
R2 is simply a robot that is there because of his skills as a space ship control droid, not included into irrelevant scenes for merchandising value (as from Ep 6 onwards)
C3PO was annoying mostly, but needed to translate R2 (and having a major character that just beeps was original for it's time)
Kenobi was great, a mysterious old wise guy that dies halfway through the movie (popular now, but quite rare in its time)
Leia was a strong female leader, yet another reasonably original character for the time.
Tarkin, Piett and other Empire leaders were convincing pseudo-Nazis. That guy in the Ep 7 was a parody by comparison
Darth Vader is one of the baddest villains of all time. No contest
Ep4 while more of a classic tale than original, was the first to do it in the location of a completely foreign Space Universe. I can't think of many non-animated movies that don't try to tie back to the real Earth in some way
Ep5 was the first movie I remember where the heroes are worse off at the end than the beginning.
Lots of ground breaking originality there, I'd love to hear your take on how Ep7 did anything similar.
Poe didn't work for me. He seemed like an extra from Friends rather than a Wedge Antilles which I think he was supposed to be. "Oh I just happened to eject from the TIE fighter when you weren't looking" was lame.
Fin was supposed to be a disillusioned stormtrooper but despite working as a janitor, was thrown onto the front line, then couldn't handle it, yet everyone knew who he was. Then he does a pretty good job on the toughest Sith in the universe. Lame
Rey was pretty good I admit, except she was too good at everything, and looked too much like Hermoine from Harry Potter. I had to wait til the end credits to learn if it was her or not. Not lame, but too perfect.
BB8 was just stupid. It's supposed to be a robot, but the puppy dog expressions are obviously aimed at kids. Lame. (yes R2 was too to an extent but it was more subtle than in your face BB8)
C3PO was not required as usual
R2 switched off after Master Luke left and humans just accept this? He is a computer with mission critical data, no-one thought to reboot/reconfigure/restore him to get the data back? And then he just wakes up randomly at the appropriate time that the story demands? And humans accept this? Lame.
Leia was redundant, no need for her character at all. Lame.
Solo was too old and arthritic to be a convincing swashbuckling hero who wins fights with young people. there's a reason why you don't see many people over 40 at the Olympics. They are useless at physical activity. Like Kenobi, he should've been wise and old then died in a noble fashion, not cheaply by some teenage Marilyn Manson lookalike. Lame.
The blob octopus monsters in Solo's ship were the worst plot devices I've seen in years. We'll kill everyone instantly except one of the heroes who we'll drag along for enough time for someone to save them. Lame.
The bad guys in the scene with the blob monsters made no sense. They looked and sounded tough, but disappeared with no effort. Lame.
Lastly I can't remember too much among the lameness, but Kylo was the weakest villain in movie history. a whiney brat who can't beat anybody, and Snoke looked like a stupider version of Gollum. And Phasma, despite huge publicity did nothing and lay over at the first sign of trouble. All Lame.
Wall to wall lamenees.
The script and plot were more original than they may seem to you.
I'm happy for you to explain the bits that went over my head. But having watched all 7 movies in one week, Ep7 had nothing new. A slightly bigger Death Star, slightly different Star Destroyers, a slighter cuter R2, a slightly uglier Emperor, a slightly differently named "Rebellion" even though it was never made clear who the Resistance were resisting? A slightly different Tatooine, a slightly different Mos Eisley Cantina scene, a slightly different script (but mostly the same).
As far as holes go, there are apparent holes that I think will be explained in the next movie or two.
Not good enough.
Ep 4 was a standalone movie. Ep 5 wasn't but had enough original content to be satisfying. Ep 6 was enough of a standalone movie too despite being too much Fraggle Rock.
Eps 1-3 seemed like they were all just trying to explain Ep 4, and Ep 7 was just Ep 3 "re-imagined" (the worst word of the 21st century)
Ep 7 had no hero (sometimes it was Solo, sometimes Rey, sometimes Fin) and no bad guy (Kylo was lame, Snoke did nothing and has a stupid name), and no real threat (really would Leia, Han, Chewy etc be threatened by a bigger Death Star that they'd already disposed of twice before?)
In short, there was nothing new or interesting, just a rehashed story with weaker characters.
I would hazard that it is not. Trump, despite his appearance and behaviour, isn't a complete idiot. He knows enough to incorporate all his businesses with limited liability.
I think he learned that through trial and error. The first time he had his personal wealth on the hook, and hence had to sell his jet and yacht etc to pay the bills.
After that he probably realised it was better to burn other peoples money than his own. So yeah I don't think he's stupid by any measure. Blunt and obnoxious maybe, but he is clever.
I'm sorry, but healthcare in the US is a mess, has been for a long time, and the ACA didn't fix it.
No because if you read my post, the fixing will take a generation, so you are in no position to make that judgement today.
Here's the quote in case you missed it "Like most major social change, it could take a generation to turn the ship around, but your kids will thank you for it."
And I'm saying people are more important, and no process you can make will change that.
Yes the people (as in citizens) are more important, which is why in public service there are bureaucratic processes.
Note I'm not saying that we should get rid of the process, but if you hire Bernie Madoff, you can't expect processes to stop him from being evil.
In govt you can. Because you simply implement a policy where any executive decision needs to be reviewed by 3 other independent executives from 3 other independent agencies. Then it needs approval from a ministerial secretary, and if deemed a large enough risk, the minister themselves.
This is how it works, and it stops loose cannons like Bernie Madoff from doing whatever they like.
But if you are thinking, "We have good processes, the quality of the people we hire doesn't matter," then your company will fail.
Govt doesn't care, they have no competition. The prime objective of the state to to avoid risk, and heavy process is the only way to achieve that.
My problem is not people who don't like the same movies as me, it's people who on purpose watch things they don't like so they can bitch about it.
I do like it, I just like it for different reasons. A bit like how you came in here to whine about my post. Exactly the same thing, except only one of us is a hypocrite.
Right, I'm not saying we should get rid of process......rather, that process is less important than people. You need to focus on making sure your people are good: you can't expect the processes to make up for that.
But that's what I was trying to say, you can't make the people more important.
The same process that prevents corruption also prevents talent. The best you can hope for is mediocrity (which is actually fine once you accept the risks involved)
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But this law makes me a criminal for not perpetuating that injustice.
It's not your job to decide that. Our system of law has courts for that purpose, and this law simply allows for (hopefully) more possible cases to be heard by those courts.
Maybe for the same reason why they wouldn't want to report evidence of witchcraft if they encountered that?
Does witchcraft involve the rape of children? If not then shut the fuck up...
I would never cooperate voluntarily with the police as you did because as an individual citizen I have no legitimate interest in helping them to solve crimes.
Well apart from them taking poeple off the street who could possibly harm you you mean? I'm not quite sure you know how things work...
BUT of course people who have done nothing wrong can still be afraid of law enforcement,
Well it sounds like you certainly are. This usually comes from watching too much TV/Internet and not enough real life.
if you're a small business owner, for example, and you start needing to take totalling days or weeks off to appear for depositions, and investigator interviews, and as a witness in court; this can cost you a heck of a lot of money, money which you won't be reimbursed for by the defendant or anyone else.
Crap. A statement would suffice in most cases, and any appearance would be a couple of hours at most.
If you're not willing to donate that time in the interest of putting a possible paedophile behind bars, and possibly saving a child from being raped, then you are a disgusting human being. Or as an employee it can cost you paid or unpaid leave time ---- which can mean suddenly you cannot pay your rent, or for transportation or other basic necessities.
This is also one of the reasons people don't want to take on jury duty or go to court to fight a small lawsuit or traffic ticket, and will essentially accept default guilt..... pay a $50 ticket, versus take a couple days off work, and possibly put your job at risk while losing much much more in wages.
You report a crime, then you yourself can be detained and/or brought in and confined/imprisoned for questioning
Just stop, you are making a fool of yourself.
Prove I encountered it.
The recorded conversation with your buddy on your tapped cell phone where you brag about it.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Oh dear...
There is no sense and logic in laws concerning sex, drugs and copyright.
You mean there is no sense on the reporting of these on Internet? What happens in a courtroom and what gets reported are usually two vastly different things.
I don't sent links for common knowledge
That's nice. I don't accept your bullshit then...
My entire premise is that civilization and evolution are very thin buffers between being what we actually are: smart animals whose capacity for violence is neither new, nor is it gone.
I'm not saying anything new or revolutionary. We're not even fucking disagreeing. But don't act like I'm making up some fucking straw man argument to tear down.
Ok we're on the same page then. I might've had a few beers before posting that last post. Apologies.
They really didn't use Poe all that much. I was expecting him to be more significant.
Same, but I didn't think he worked as a character.
What Finn couldn't take was massacring innocents. He still presumably had Storm Trooper training, and could fight well.
You learn to fight well by fighting, If this is his first battle then he shouldn't be any good at it. (at least not as good as veterans from the same school of training) And the whole janitor excuse was weak. The whole universe is covered in menial-task-performing robots, yet we're expected to believe the Empire would use specialist soldiers to clean toilets? And despite being the most junior ranked guy on the DeathStar Mk3, he knew all the technical detail to destroy it. It was lame.
Rey obviously has a significant backstory she isn't aware of, which the next few movies will presumably cover. In the meantime, I'm reserving judgment.
She obviously Luke's relation (either daughter or niece) No surprises there (and the family connection surprise has worn a bit thin now).
BB8 is one heck of a lot less annoying than giving C-3PO lots of screen time.
but he's a more annoying version of R2.
If you couldn't activate my iPhone, you couldn't read anything on it, no matter what.
No quantum computer? No forensic analysis? I reckon the NSA could figure it out, so any more advanced race should have some idea how to.
Leia was there for family reasons. If you hadn't noticed, she and Han were Kylo Ren's parents. I think this is one of those things we'll know more about after a few more movies. In addition, she was heavily involved in the earlier revolt, so why not be a big shot with the Resistance?
What was she resisting? And if she is the hardass leader, why not show that? She just seemed to hang in the background looking stupid with her botoxed face.
You apparently have no idea how physically effective an older person can be, and Han really didn't do anything that physically demanding.
Not at the top level no. Which is why all the top sports/action people in the world are under 40. Han couldn't even run properly he's that old.
You want a significant death? How about being killed by your own son while trying to turn him from the Dark Side?
He died almost exactly like Gandalf which was lame, and then he was forgotten about almost instantly. Han is probably the greatest character in the Star Wars universe. He was poorly handled in this film.
defeated a well-trained fighter (Finn),
This should've been no contest. Ask yourself, would Darth Vader have struggled with a Stormtrooper, even if injured? The entire cannon has Stormtroopers as disposable fodder, but as soon as one takes off his mask and joins the good guys, he suddenly really really capable?
and faced another competent fighter (Rey) who wins by out-Forcing him rather than skill.
Yes with zero force training she out forces the most force trained person in the universe. It makes the baddies lame since even their best can't compete with amateurs on the goodies team. Any story needs a bad guy who is really tough. There simply wasn't one in this film.
He's pretty darn good at what he does.
Whining and looking extremely ugly? Seriously, when he took the mask off it jolted me out of the story, he was that ugly. And it wasn't ugly like a cool ugly monster, just ugly like an emo goth kid from the local mall. Extremely poor casting.
I did read your post. Just because time passes doesn't mean something will improve over time.
No, but it also means you can't judge its success or failure in its first year of operation.
The first part of "fixing it" is to get rid of the ACA and replace it with something, almost anything else.
Ok then, there's probably not much point arguing with that logic...
Right now, when you use your Bank of America card at a store and that store banks with Wells Fargo, BOA sends the money to Wells Fargo. At the same time, across the street, a Wells Fargo customer pays at a store which banks with BOA, so money flows the opposite direction. Millions of transactions moving in circles.
This is pretty much it. I used to work in a bank, and back in the day, at the end of each day the representatives of each bank would meet somewhere with a balance sheet. Bank A owed Bank B $10mil, and Bank B owed Bank A $9.5mil, so they wrote a cheque for $50k and all went to the pub for drinks.
The 21st century version of this is exactly the same but electronic. From the sounds of it, they are looking to use blockchain as the intermediary technology rather than cash, that is all.
What people fail to understand is...
Which people?
Why people think this...
Which people?
But then people act...
I'm not sure who these people are that you keep talking about?
It's an intrinsic property, and when push comes to shove, we'll revert back to it pretty quickly. Having higher brain functions doesn't mean those other things have gone away.
All our higher brain function does is make us better at it. Don't think for one moment that any other species wouldn't do the same if only they knew how.
But we're as far as I know the only species that ...
Only because you don't know enough about other species...
I thought they were more interesting than the characters in the original.
And now I'll tell you what I like about Ep4 and 5.
Luke starts off as a bit no-hoper from nowhere and comes good. And he does good not by some miracle super skills, but being in the right place at the right time, and having some faith, which is believable.
R2 is simply a robot that is there because of his skills as a space ship control droid, not included into irrelevant scenes for merchandising value (as from Ep 6 onwards)
C3PO was annoying mostly, but needed to translate R2 (and having a major character that just beeps was original for it's time)
Kenobi was great, a mysterious old wise guy that dies halfway through the movie (popular now, but quite rare in its time)
Leia was a strong female leader, yet another reasonably original character for the time.
Tarkin, Piett and other Empire leaders were convincing pseudo-Nazis. That guy in the Ep 7 was a parody by comparison
Darth Vader is one of the baddest villains of all time. No contest
Ep4 while more of a classic tale than original, was the first to do it in the location of a completely foreign Space Universe. I can't think of many non-animated movies that don't try to tie back to the real Earth in some way
Ep5 was the first movie I remember where the heroes are worse off at the end than the beginning.
Lots of ground breaking originality there, I'd love to hear your take on how Ep7 did anything similar.
Which lame characters?
Poe didn't work for me. He seemed like an extra from Friends rather than a Wedge Antilles which I think he was supposed to be. "Oh I just happened to eject from the TIE fighter when you weren't looking" was lame.
Fin was supposed to be a disillusioned stormtrooper but despite working as a janitor, was thrown onto the front line, then couldn't handle it, yet everyone knew who he was. Then he does a pretty good job on the toughest Sith in the universe. Lame
Rey was pretty good I admit, except she was too good at everything, and looked too much like Hermoine from Harry Potter. I had to wait til the end credits to learn if it was her or not. Not lame, but too perfect.
BB8 was just stupid. It's supposed to be a robot, but the puppy dog expressions are obviously aimed at kids. Lame. (yes R2 was too to an extent but it was more subtle than in your face BB8)
C3PO was not required as usual
R2 switched off after Master Luke left and humans just accept this? He is a computer with mission critical data, no-one thought to reboot/reconfigure/restore him to get the data back? And then he just wakes up randomly at the appropriate time that the story demands? And humans accept this? Lame.
Leia was redundant, no need for her character at all. Lame.
Solo was too old and arthritic to be a convincing swashbuckling hero who wins fights with young people. there's a reason why you don't see many people over 40 at the Olympics. They are useless at physical activity. Like Kenobi, he should've been wise and old then died in a noble fashion, not cheaply by some teenage Marilyn Manson lookalike. Lame.
The blob octopus monsters in Solo's ship were the worst plot devices I've seen in years. We'll kill everyone instantly except one of the heroes who we'll drag along for enough time for someone to save them. Lame.
The bad guys in the scene with the blob monsters made no sense. They looked and sounded tough, but disappeared with no effort. Lame.
Lastly I can't remember too much among the lameness, but Kylo was the weakest villain in movie history. a whiney brat who can't beat anybody, and Snoke looked like a stupider version of Gollum. And Phasma, despite huge publicity did nothing and lay over at the first sign of trouble. All Lame.
Wall to wall lamenees.
The script and plot were more original than they may seem to you.
I'm happy for you to explain the bits that went over my head. But having watched all 7 movies in one week, Ep7 had nothing new. A slightly bigger Death Star, slightly different Star Destroyers, a slighter cuter R2, a slightly uglier Emperor, a slightly differently named "Rebellion" even though it was never made clear who the Resistance were resisting? A slightly different Tatooine, a slightly different Mos Eisley Cantina scene, a slightly different script (but mostly the same).
As far as holes go, there are apparent holes that I think will be explained in the next movie or two.
Not good enough.
Ep 4 was a standalone movie. Ep 5 wasn't but had enough original content to be satisfying. Ep 6 was enough of a standalone movie too despite being too much Fraggle Rock.
Eps 1-3 seemed like they were all just trying to explain Ep 4, and Ep 7 was just Ep 3 "re-imagined" (the worst word of the 21st century)
Ep 7 had no hero (sometimes it was Solo, sometimes Rey, sometimes Fin) and no bad guy (Kylo was lame, Snoke did nothing and has a stupid name), and no real threat (really would Leia, Han, Chewy etc be threatened by a bigger Death Star that they'd already disposed of twice before?)
In short, there was nothing new or interesting, just a rehashed story with weaker characters.
I would hazard that it is not. Trump, despite his appearance and behaviour, isn't a complete idiot. He knows enough to incorporate all his businesses with limited liability.
I think he learned that through trial and error. The first time he had his personal wealth on the hook, and hence had to sell his jet and yacht etc to pay the bills.
After that he probably realised it was better to burn other peoples money than his own. So yeah I don't think he's stupid by any measure. Blunt and obnoxious maybe, but he is clever.
Still no link? Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
I'm sorry, but healthcare in the US is a mess, has been for a long time, and the ACA didn't fix it.
No because if you read my post, the fixing will take a generation, so you are in no position to make that judgement today.
Here's the quote in case you missed it "Like most major social change, it could take a generation to turn the ship around, but your kids will thank you for it."
it's the appropriate response to let you know what a douchebag you are.
No the appropriate response would be ignore me, but since you have no self control, sucks to be you!!!
After all, there's a small chance we might help you realize why you have no friends.
But I have a lot of friends. Maybe you are projecting your own social deficiencies on others as a way to compensate for this?
That's where your attempt to project your own loser behavior onto him falls apart.
And I succeeded in bringing you down to my level. Ouch.
And I'm saying people are more important, and no process you can make will change that.
Yes the people (as in citizens) are more important, which is why in public service there are bureaucratic processes.
Note I'm not saying that we should get rid of the process, but if you hire Bernie Madoff, you can't expect processes to stop him from being evil.
In govt you can. Because you simply implement a policy where any executive decision needs to be reviewed by 3 other independent executives from 3 other independent agencies. Then it needs approval from a ministerial secretary, and if deemed a large enough risk, the minister themselves.
This is how it works, and it stops loose cannons like Bernie Madoff from doing whatever they like.
But if you are thinking, "We have good processes, the quality of the people we hire doesn't matter," then your company will fail.
Govt doesn't care, they have no competition. The prime objective of the state to to avoid risk, and heavy process is the only way to achieve that.
temperature recording stations, which have never been a constant, and you rely on multimillion dollar satellites
The satellites are also not constant. You have to adjust for ...
Retreating glaciers are constant though...
My problem is not people who don't like the same movies as me, it's people who on purpose watch things they don't like so they can bitch about it.
I do like it, I just like it for different reasons. A bit like how you came in here to whine about my post. Exactly the same thing, except only one of us is a hypocrite.
Here's a bit of wisdom from Ke$ha:
Oh jesus, are you serious?
I think you're in the wrong place...
Right, I'm not saying we should get rid of process......rather, that process is less important than people. You need to focus on making sure your people are good: you can't expect the processes to make up for that.
But that's what I was trying to say, you can't make the people more important.
The same process that prevents corruption also prevents talent. The best you can hope for is mediocrity (which is actually fine once you accept the risks involved)