hmm where these "constructive well thought out amendments " actually spoiling amendments?

you do know how parliamentary procedure works with you know amendments to motions :-) id suggest reading Citrine and Roberts rules as background than the standing orders and rules of debate for the congress before making that assumption

or have the tragedy of the commons devalue the ssl certificate

I did the approved cisco course as an evening class for fun semesters at 3 hours a week a was a pretty good grounding in tcp/ip networking I recon a 19 week 5 days a week could get some one bright enough up to the ccnp level no problem.

I think you mean cut and paste code that they don't know how it works

The uk tested (MI5) them back in the 50's and discarded than as worthless

broken sewage lines are major case of Cholera out breaks in earthquake situations.

but you can dig through all the records and selectively quote one example "monster " the employee for political ends

why would you expose any information about individual civil or crown servants and why should an individual expense claim be exposed? - you do know that civil servants and pseudo civil servants are targeted by terrorists - I personally know two people whose close family where targeted and killed - they are going through the truth and reconciliation process in NI

you forgot the irony tags there comrade

agree campaign reform is a 20-30 year project

he needs to buy a news paper and take lessons from Murdoch

You mean centre right PACS out spent hard right ones

And at a large scale in "plumbing" a real screw up can cost millions (and potentialy kill people) - that banging you get when you turn off a tap can destroy an industrial plant if you screw up badly.

I did and if you have such a long commute then maybe cycling with or with out a boost from electric is not the best way of doing that commute - BTW I used to do 20 miles a day on a MTB as part of my commute.