[dns-operations] nhc.noaa.gov expired signatures

Crist Clark Crist.Clark at globalstar.com
Mon Jun 28 20:31:30 UTC 2010


>>> On 6/25/2010 at  9:37 AM, Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at tux.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:09:38AM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote:
>> At 10:43 -0400 6/25/10, Rose, Scott W. wrote:
>> 
>> >You may call it a bureaucracy, We like to think of it as "separation of
>> >powers".
>> 
>> You make bureaucracy sound like a bad thing. ;)
> 
> 
> Ed, that reminds me of an SF story where there is a group that
> deliberately sabotages any Galactic Government process that threatens to
> become too efficient, because they had come to realize that too much Big
> Government was a bad thing, and people can usually solve things their
> own way if you let them.  The title of the story had something to do
> with the description of either the image of a too-efficient government
> grinding down the people, or the process used to introduce the
> inefficiencies, and I obviously can't remember the title.  Does anyone
> else remember it?

You may be thinking of Frank Herbert's (of _Dune_ fame) novels
taking place in the ConSentiency universe of _Whipping Star_
and _The Dosadi Experiment._




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