Junk bonds, liar loans, "derivatives", "subprime", EFTs, dark pools, etc. Yes, it's a new bubble. Yes, the regulators are 45 steps behind.
You can't make liquid financial markets safe. You can only outlaw them after they emerge, and unless you're willing to employ gulags and torturers you can't prevent them from emerging.
This is why you're supposed to keep your pension funds, endowments, real property and other critical assets out of liquid markets. It is disappointing that doing this means they're not going to grow 8% a year, but juicy returns require big risks.
We use to understand this but hey, working for a living sucks so abso-fucking-lutely everything has to be hung out on the precipice to return enough dosh. So we employ righteous hyper-statists to punish anyone that might jiggle system a bit and upset all that tasty income. Every few years a new regulatory regime blossoms on top of all of the existing ones to make sure nobody tampers with the magic money faucet.
Keep printing Ben. There aren't enough lawyers on the planet to keep that bubble under control.
Are there any major airports in the US that don't have cameras recording the runways?
There is no general requirement or expectation that airports visually record all runway events. Commercial airliners are permitted to autoland with essentially zero visibility (SFO CAT III landing, for instance) and VFR landings take place with as little as one mile visibility. One SFO runway is 2.25 miles long and there are 4 independent runways. I'm guessing you would need at least 32 costly all-weather cameras lining the runways to have a chance at capturing most, but still not all, runway activity, and this is not done; airports have better things to spend those tens of millions on.
Between the flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, approach radar and physical evidence there will be absolutely no doubt about precisely what happened to this airliner. The only thing lost for lack of video is the attention of gawkers.
Please allow for corruption when speculating about Detroit. This is the land of Monica Conyers and Kwame Kilpatrick. The pension fund managers have been squandering contributions on various and sundry kick-back schemes for decades. Four days ago the feds served warrants on building inspectors for selling permits. Essentially every contract let by the city is a plaything of the city council. The police go through a new corruption scandal every few years and there are multiple concurrent federal investigations of police officials ongoing right now.
At this point one may wonder if the supposed back-up systems physically exist. Discovering that the money was siphoned off by some city council member or other would surprise exactly nobody.
I watch real time each week. Its somewhat weird seeing the slagging off the republicans get there. The dems in the US seem very very friendly to immigration, and to globalisation, and seem to take a lot of funding from the Apple and 'Media' funding.
There are no innocents. Agribusiness wants (and gets) millions of pickers wandering the land unfettered by the INS. Industrialists want (and get) finished goods flowing from third world hell-holes to a Walmart near you without any burdensome tariffs or port authority inconveniences. Gentry liberals incentivise all of this with BANANA policies, pulling up the ladder and adopting ever greater levels of environmental rigor while evacuating our industry to Asia.
Right now we are building new, larger Panama locks and even larger locks in Nicaragua. East coast ports are being dredged to accommodate super-post panamax shipping from Asia; the desire to import is so great we're geoengineering new canals through central America to avoid the shipping costs from the West coast.
That dredging required waivers of the clean water and endangered species acts, which were quietly granted by Obama sans any Keystone-like drama or outrage from Sierra, or anyone else. They just pencil-whipped them out of existence.
The same thing is going on in the UK with post-panamax capable Liverpool2 coming online.
Those that have theirs are not interested in paying their fellow citizens. Well compensated workers might not pine as eagerly for statist bennies. People with incomes do terrible things like develop land and buy SUVs. Better to have them subsist on their third or forth mortgages and not get any big ideas.
And therefore what? Shun foreigners to help perpetuate wildly excessive education cost growth? Or...and here comes a new thought... change domestic education to stop the relentless growth of costs.
We flail about trying to pin the costs of healthcare and education on each other while the costs of these products annually balloon to record breaking levels. Educated people somehow elide any thought about why the costs of these things compound themselves while honing ever more hate filled arguments about who is supposed to pay to a fine point.
And yet he is still allowed to own guns... Because that freedom is so much more important
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
That gets used alot around here when someone doesn't like a government policy regarding terrorism or whatnot. Just thought it would be useful to remind ourselves of the principles we're so eager to invoke at any other time.
Microsoft has accomplished easy installation on a single platform. 12 c is fully supported on many versions of 5 major operating systems. The installation GUI (yes, the whining is about a system with a GUI/wizard installer you can blast through banging on 'next'...) is pretty consistent across platforms.
It's not hipster software. Oracle has the conceit to expect sufficient experience to follow some basic instructions. Nevertheless developers get it done every day without drama.
A poorly written 2D graphics driver is likewise. What makes a 3D graphics driver substantially more so?
Traditional web pages don't directly use a 2D API in the browser so even when vulnerabilities exist they are often beyond the reach of a web application. A web application is limited to manipulating the DOM. No direct access to blitters, compositors, video modes or other hardware features. Even with only this high level exposure there have been exploits, often in image format interpreters.
WebGL directly exposes the complete OpenGL 2.0 ES API (soon 3.0) to Javascript. WebGL apps can probe hardware for features (memory capacity, optional features, extensions, etc.) and identify implementations, each harboring distinct vulnerabilities. WebGL does things like compile shader code, directly manipulate texture memory and transfer large vertex buffers to video hardware. Traditional DHTML can't do anything like that. WebGL truly is an exposure of GPU hardware and driver software directly to web applications.
Not that I am adverse to WebGL. It think WebGL is great and I'm thrilled that Microsoft has capitulated. I'm just failing to pretend WebGL doesn't create new vulnerabilities. It does and we'll muddle through until the stack is hardened because it's worth it. A few years from now the moral equivalent of Photoshop and Solidworks will be in browsers because of WebGL.
As long as the agenda in the US is de-industrialization then industrial workers will continue to get the shaft. Don't like it? Stop accepting every tenet of "free" trade, BANANA and single minded environmentalism as though these things have no consequences.
Otherwise you're just another unthinking malcontent exhibiting your training.
Why is everyone and everything focusing on GENDER?! Gender makes NO DIFFERENCE!!! Even color or race make no difference!! STUPIDITY comes in all colors and genders!!!
Wealth.
Wealthy, secure people deliberately seek sources of anxiety and conflict. A human is denied sufficient angst it will create more. There are no invaders or starvation or plagues or inquisitions to deal with among the Eloi of the west; actual problems are basically solved, so we invent fake problems to fill the void.
Never heard of it. There are probably a dozen alternatives to Kronos and their time and attendance software. If a company with 3,200 employees is so incompetent that they can't get their software ported to Java SE 7 then they deserve to be abandoned by their customers. If a licensee can't be bothered to move to the new runtime for supposedly critical software then they have bigger problems and they should go on neglecting stuff until they get pwned and grownups take over.
but when you have to issue 10 updates in 6 months, that's pretty bad.
Poppycock.
I can't remember ever having my Ubuntu LTS servers go a week without security patches appearing, usually the same few bits of software; the kernel, glibc, apache, mysql, etc. Java SE models an entire machine, provides a vast application API and a powerful optimizing compiler on multiple platforms. It's a mighty piece of software and flaws abound. The real problem with Oracle and Java has been the lack of updates. By rights Java 7 SE should be on about update 110 by now. One a week.
giving neither a link to the source nor direct credit. I dont see GPL anywhere on the site.
There are multiple direct source links here, each with related licenses called out. The GPL licence is mentioned multiple times on that page.
nor direct credit
Direct credit appears in several places, including here.
"The Cumulus Linux software distribution is based on Debian. It provides the same Linux capabilities as Debian with the addition of networking packages."
None of this is more than 1 or 2 clicks into the public site. Stop making stuff up.
We never intended for a support contract to be required to keep JDK 7 up to date. TZUpdater was made unavailable on March 8 as part of the End of Public Updates for JDK 6, and as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again
Now this "bug."
Oracle is an unnecessary source of anxiety and risk and it doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Seems like Oracle employees working on open source stuff are in "monitise it" mode by default and the mistakes they make are revealing this.
Care to point to specific bugs? We've been using SVN for years and never seen these problems.
I've had the same experience. Yet a cow-orker next to me constantly has serious problems with SVN.
They're just reckless. They damage the metadata in their working copies, forget to svn add|move or whatever, do merges wrong and then blame subversion when all that accumulated damage bites them in the ass.
The Linux binaries are 32 bit. You don't have the 32 bit GTK libraries installed.
Use ldd <executable-name> to figure out what else is needs to be installed or clone the github project and build a 64 bit version. Or just wait till Wouter distributes a 64 bit version. It's day #1 of public exposure for this project and you're expected to deal.
Some amount of "snooping" is easily rationalized in the Tea Party mind as a necessary evil of defending the nation, wherein the concept of "nation" is entirely legitimate and desirable. In the Tea Party mind terrorists are real. They are not figments of Cheney and Rumsfeld's corporate media created to justify anti-muslim racism. They are real and the government is obligated to preclude and deter attacks.
An aside; The above does not mean Tea Party people live in terror of being killed by terrorists. Rather, they hate it when terrorists "get over" on the country because it feels to them like an exposure of weakness and a humiliation and makes them very, very angry. Very angry... You have no idea. Seriously. The liberal axiom that masses of Tea Party people live in media inspired terror is nonsense. Outrage is the correct characterization and the media is loathed.
Back to tolerance of snooping; Tea Party people, believing the nation must be defended, and that part of the defence requires a limited amount domestic spying, perceive the Left's absolute intolerance of any form or degree of domestic intelligence as a.) irrational hysteria, at best or b.) an oikophobia based desire (in the sense of loathing one's own nation or people,) to deliberately maintain vulnerabilities, at worst. To the Tea Party these civil liberty extremists exaggerate claims and their motivations are suspect.
Thus, the instinctual reaction of a Tea Party person is to discount the hysteria and exaggeration driven public discourse about surveillance. Tea Party people don't want the statists listening to their phone calls any more than you do, but they're not going to preclude their desire and expectation that the government be allowed some limited ability to detect hostiles by jumping off the absolutist civil liberty cliff with you.
Moderated positions such as that are easily overwhelmed by the screaming extremists. It's your choice to perceive that as indifference and miss the truth. There are plenty of conservative libertarians, for instance, that might serve as allies against pervasive surveillance if they were allowed some room.
I cannot imagine in what universe he is inhabiting
It is long past time to have shed that naivety.
Hate filled libtards like Morrison regard the very existence of Republicans as criminal. The guy released his stupid little recording thinking he had blown the lid on his enemies. The fact that almost nobody cared because all he actually had was boilerplate campaign activity was a complete surprise to him. Doubtless he is convinced that the reason for the general indifference is that we're all brainwashed corporate consumerdroids. Or something.
The distance between reality and these people is profound and that fact should no longer be a surprise to any rational adult.
NOAA is run by celebrity bureaucrats that gift huge satellite deals to influential contractors that then run up costs. It's gotten so bad inside NOAA that they've banned OIG staff (Office of the Inspector General, the people responsible for oversight of NOAA) from attending Program Management meetings because the IG has recently aquired the nasty habit of investigating NOAA's indifference to cost overruns.
There have been no large budget cuts. Here is the history of NOAA's annual budgets for the past 20 years, transcribed from a series of NOAA budget "blue books" which provides the actual NOAA budget authority enacted by Congress.
NOAA has enjoyed generous budgets over a long period of time. They can't afford to launch satellites not because of dah evib repubwikins but because they are failing to govern themselves responsibly.
The NOAA swamp needs to be drained and dupes like you need to check yourselves; you don't know what you're talking about.
How does recognizing the overwhelming impact that profit has on behavior give me a distorted world view?
Recognizing the overwhelming impact that profit has on behavior gives you a distorted world view because the impact of profit does not, in fact, overwhelm. Profitable ingredients have been pulled, are being pulled and will be pulled in the future, as per the phosphate example.
Here is you: profitability precludes restrictions on the use of a substance. Here is reality: many otherwise profitable substances are banned or severely restricted.
Your world view does not allow for reality and is, therefore, distorted. It's fun and hip to indulge these sort of malcontent views, but it's badly incorrect.
The richer people get the more they dwell on the environment, quality-of-life, health-and-safety, wealth disparity, etc., so they advocate all sorts of limits, requirements and obligations on behalf of various agenda. Liberal gentry will not permit the masses to indulge a post scarcity world.
Slashdot Mirror
Junk bonds, liar loans, "derivatives", "subprime", EFTs, dark pools, etc. Yes, it's a new bubble. Yes, the regulators are 45 steps behind.
You can't make liquid financial markets safe. You can only outlaw them after they emerge, and unless you're willing to employ gulags and torturers you can't prevent them from emerging.
This is why you're supposed to keep your pension funds, endowments, real property and other critical assets out of liquid markets. It is disappointing that doing this means they're not going to grow 8% a year, but juicy returns require big risks.
We use to understand this but hey, working for a living sucks so abso-fucking-lutely everything has to be hung out on the precipice to return enough dosh. So we employ righteous hyper-statists to punish anyone that might jiggle system a bit and upset all that tasty income. Every few years a new regulatory regime blossoms on top of all of the existing ones to make sure nobody tampers with the magic money faucet.
Keep printing Ben. There aren't enough lawyers on the planet to keep that bubble under control.
Are there any major airports in the US that don't have cameras recording the runways?
There is no general requirement or expectation that airports visually record all runway events. Commercial airliners are permitted to autoland with essentially zero visibility (SFO CAT III landing, for instance) and VFR landings take place with as little as one mile visibility. One SFO runway is 2.25 miles long and there are 4 independent runways. I'm guessing you would need at least 32 costly all-weather cameras lining the runways to have a chance at capturing most, but still not all, runway activity, and this is not done; airports have better things to spend those tens of millions on.
Between the flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, approach radar and physical evidence there will be absolutely no doubt about precisely what happened to this airliner. The only thing lost for lack of video is the attention of gawkers.
the city had a valid contract
Please allow for corruption when speculating about Detroit. This is the land of Monica Conyers and Kwame Kilpatrick. The pension fund managers have been squandering contributions on various and sundry kick-back schemes for decades. Four days ago the feds served warrants on building inspectors for selling permits. Essentially every contract let by the city is a plaything of the city council. The police go through a new corruption scandal every few years and there are multiple concurrent federal investigations of police officials ongoing right now.
At this point one may wonder if the supposed back-up systems physically exist. Discovering that the money was siphoned off by some city council member or other would surprise exactly nobody.
I watch real time each week. Its somewhat weird seeing the slagging off the republicans get there. The dems in the US seem very very friendly to immigration, and to globalisation, and seem to take a lot of funding from the Apple and 'Media' funding.
There are no innocents. Agribusiness wants (and gets) millions of pickers wandering the land unfettered by the INS. Industrialists want (and get) finished goods flowing from third world hell-holes to a Walmart near you without any burdensome tariffs or port authority inconveniences. Gentry liberals incentivise all of this with BANANA policies, pulling up the ladder and adopting ever greater levels of environmental rigor while evacuating our industry to Asia.
Right now we are building new, larger Panama locks and even larger locks in Nicaragua. East coast ports are being dredged to accommodate super-post panamax shipping from Asia; the desire to import is so great we're geoengineering new canals through central America to avoid the shipping costs from the West coast.
That dredging required waivers of the clean water and endangered species acts, which were quietly granted by Obama sans any Keystone-like drama or outrage from Sierra, or anyone else. They just pencil-whipped them out of existence.
The same thing is going on in the UK with post-panamax capable Liverpool2 coming online.
Those that have theirs are not interested in paying their fellow citizens. Well compensated workers might not pine as eagerly for statist bennies. People with incomes do terrible things like develop land and buy SUVs. Better to have them subsist on their third or forth mortgages and not get any big ideas.
and they are not loaded down student loands
And therefore what? Shun foreigners to help perpetuate wildly excessive education cost growth? Or ...and here comes a new thought... change domestic education to stop the relentless growth of costs.
We flail about trying to pin the costs of healthcare and education on each other while the costs of these products annually balloon to record breaking levels. Educated people somehow elide any thought about why the costs of these things compound themselves while honing ever more hate filled arguments about who is supposed to pay to a fine point.
And yet he is still allowed to own guns... Because that freedom is so much more important
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
That gets used alot around here when someone doesn't like a government policy regarding terrorism or whatnot. Just thought it would be useful to remind ourselves of the principles we're so eager to invoke at any other time.
install [...] a SQLServer strength.
Microsoft has accomplished easy installation on a single platform. 12 c is fully supported on many versions of 5 major operating systems. The installation GUI (yes, the whining is about a system with a GUI/wizard installer you can blast through banging on 'next'...) is pretty consistent across platforms.
It's not hipster software. Oracle has the conceit to expect sufficient experience to follow some basic instructions. Nevertheless developers get it done every day without drama.
A poorly written 2D graphics driver is likewise. What makes a 3D graphics driver substantially more so?
Traditional web pages don't directly use a 2D API in the browser so even when vulnerabilities exist they are often beyond the reach of a web application. A web application is limited to manipulating the DOM. No direct access to blitters, compositors, video modes or other hardware features. Even with only this high level exposure there have been exploits, often in image format interpreters.
WebGL directly exposes the complete OpenGL 2.0 ES API (soon 3.0) to Javascript. WebGL apps can probe hardware for features (memory capacity, optional features, extensions, etc.) and identify implementations, each harboring distinct vulnerabilities. WebGL does things like compile shader code, directly manipulate texture memory and transfer large vertex buffers to video hardware. Traditional DHTML can't do anything like that. WebGL truly is an exposure of GPU hardware and driver software directly to web applications.
Not that I am adverse to WebGL. It think WebGL is great and I'm thrilled that Microsoft has capitulated. I'm just failing to pretend WebGL doesn't create new vulnerabilities. It does and we'll muddle through until the stack is hardened because it's worth it. A few years from now the moral equivalent of Photoshop and Solidworks will be in browsers because of WebGL.
As long as the agenda in the US is de-industrialization then industrial workers will continue to get the shaft. Don't like it? Stop accepting every tenet of "free" trade, BANANA and single minded environmentalism as though these things have no consequences.
Otherwise you're just another unthinking malcontent exhibiting your training.
Capital punishment western liberals enthusiastically support.
Why is everyone and everything focusing on GENDER?! Gender makes NO DIFFERENCE!!! Even color or race make no difference!! STUPIDITY comes in all colors and genders!!!
Wealth.
Wealthy, secure people deliberately seek sources of anxiety and conflict. A human is denied sufficient angst it will create more. There are no invaders or starvation or plagues or inquisitions to deal with among the Eloi of the west; actual problems are basically solved, so we invent fake problems to fill the void.
Kronos
Never heard of it. There are probably a dozen alternatives to Kronos and their time and attendance software. If a company with 3,200 employees is so incompetent that they can't get their software ported to Java SE 7 then they deserve to be abandoned by their customers. If a licensee can't be bothered to move to the new runtime for supposedly critical software then they have bigger problems and they should go on neglecting stuff until they get pwned and grownups take over.
No sympathy. Grow up and deal.
but when you have to issue 10 updates in 6 months, that's pretty bad.
Poppycock.
I can't remember ever having my Ubuntu LTS servers go a week without security patches appearing, usually the same few bits of software; the kernel, glibc, apache, mysql, etc. Java SE models an entire machine, provides a vast application API and a powerful optimizing compiler on multiple platforms. It's a mighty piece of software and flaws abound. The real problem with Oracle and Java has been the lack of updates. By rights Java 7 SE should be on about update 110 by now. One a week.
giving neither a link to the source nor direct credit. I dont see GPL anywhere on the site.
There are multiple direct source links here, each with related licenses called out. The GPL licence is mentioned multiple times on that page.
nor direct credit
Direct credit appears in several places, including here.
"The Cumulus Linux software distribution is based on Debian. It provides the same Linux capabilities as Debian with the addition of networking packages."
None of this is more than 1 or 2 clicks into the public site. Stop making stuff up.
Oracle a week ago:
We never intended for a support contract to be required to keep JDK 7 up to date. TZUpdater was made unavailable on March 8 as part of the End of Public Updates for JDK 6, and as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again
Now this "bug."
Oracle is an unnecessary source of anxiety and risk and it doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. Seems like Oracle employees working on open source stuff are in "monitise it" mode by default and the mistakes they make are revealing this.
Care to point to specific bugs? We've been using SVN for years and never seen these problems.
I've had the same experience. Yet a cow-orker next to me constantly has serious problems with SVN.
They're just reckless. They damage the metadata in their working copies, forget to svn add|move or whatever, do merges wrong and then blame subversion when all that accumulated damage bites them in the ass.
The Linux binaries are 32 bit. You don't have the 32 bit GTK libraries installed.
Use ldd <executable-name> to figure out what else is needs to be installed or clone the github project and build a 64 bit version. Or just wait till Wouter distributes a 64 bit version. It's day #1 of public exposure for this project and you're expected to deal.
I just want to know
I'll explain.
Some amount of "snooping" is easily rationalized in the Tea Party mind as a necessary evil of defending the nation, wherein the concept of "nation" is entirely legitimate and desirable. In the Tea Party mind terrorists are real. They are not figments of Cheney and Rumsfeld's corporate media created to justify anti-muslim racism. They are real and the government is obligated to preclude and deter attacks.
An aside; The above does not mean Tea Party people live in terror of being killed by terrorists. Rather, they hate it when terrorists "get over" on the country because it feels to them like an exposure of weakness and a humiliation and makes them very, very angry. Very angry... You have no idea. Seriously. The liberal axiom that masses of Tea Party people live in media inspired terror is nonsense. Outrage is the correct characterization and the media is loathed.
Back to tolerance of snooping; Tea Party people, believing the nation must be defended, and that part of the defence requires a limited amount domestic spying, perceive the Left's absolute intolerance of any form or degree of domestic intelligence as a.) irrational hysteria, at best or b.) an oikophobia based desire (in the sense of loathing one's own nation or people,) to deliberately maintain vulnerabilities, at worst. To the Tea Party these civil liberty extremists exaggerate claims and their motivations are suspect.
Thus, the instinctual reaction of a Tea Party person is to discount the hysteria and exaggeration driven public discourse about surveillance. Tea Party people don't want the statists listening to their phone calls any more than you do, but they're not going to preclude their desire and expectation that the government be allowed some limited ability to detect hostiles by jumping off the absolutist civil liberty cliff with you.
Moderated positions such as that are easily overwhelmed by the screaming extremists. It's your choice to perceive that as indifference and miss the truth. There are plenty of conservative libertarians, for instance, that might serve as allies against pervasive surveillance if they were allowed some room.
This story is not true.
Now you're arguing with UN scientific research just like those "anti-science" AGW sceptics.
Yay for cherry picking your preferred science.
managed to lobby legislators into having a national internet sales tax which it can fairly easily implement
Your public school reading comprehension, that that of 'Insightful' mods, is showing.
I cannot imagine in what universe he is inhabiting
It is long past time to have shed that naivety.
Hate filled libtards like Morrison regard the very existence of Republicans as criminal. The guy released his stupid little recording thinking he had blown the lid on his enemies. The fact that almost nobody cared because all he actually had was boilerplate campaign activity was a complete surprise to him. Doubtless he is convinced that the reason for the general indifference is that we're all brainwashed corporate consumerdroids. Or something.
The distance between reality and these people is profound and that fact should no longer be a surprise to any rational adult.
because of Republican intransigence
NOAA is run by celebrity bureaucrats that gift huge satellite deals to influential contractors that then run up costs. It's gotten so bad inside NOAA that they've banned OIG staff (Office of the Inspector General, the people responsible for oversight of NOAA) from attending Program Management meetings because the IG has recently aquired the nasty habit of investigating NOAA's indifference to cost overruns.
There have been no large budget cuts. Here is the history of NOAA's annual budgets for the past 20 years, transcribed from a series of NOAA budget "blue books" which provides the actual NOAA budget authority enacted by Congress.
(billions)
1993 1.70
1994 1.99
1995 1.96
1996 1.93
1997 1.97
1998 2.05
1999 2.27
2000 2.34
2001 3.09
2002 3.36
2003 3.34
2004 3.74
2005 3.92
2006 3.91
2007 3.90
2008 3.90
2009 4.40
2010 4.70
2011 4.60
2012 4.90
2013 4.93
2014 5.55 (requested)
NOAA has enjoyed generous budgets over a long period of time. They can't afford to launch satellites not because of dah evib repubwikins but because they are failing to govern themselves responsibly.
The NOAA swamp needs to be drained and dupes like you need to check yourselves; you don't know what you're talking about.
How does recognizing the overwhelming impact that profit has on behavior give me a distorted world view?
Recognizing the overwhelming impact that profit has on behavior gives you a distorted world view because the impact of profit does not, in fact, overwhelm. Profitable ingredients have been pulled, are being pulled and will be pulled in the future, as per the phosphate example.
Here is you: profitability precludes restrictions on the use of a substance.
Here is reality: many otherwise profitable substances are banned or severely restricted.
Your world view does not allow for reality and is, therefore, distorted. It's fun and hip to indulge these sort of malcontent views, but it's badly incorrect.
Phosphates are being removed from detergents after who knows how many decades of profit. Will that fact impact your distorted world view? Not likely.
What do you folks think?
The richer people get the more they dwell on the environment, quality-of-life, health-and-safety, wealth disparity, etc., so they advocate all sorts of limits, requirements and obligations on behalf of various agenda. Liberal gentry will not permit the masses to indulge a post scarcity world.