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just because information exists at one administrative level doesn't mean that other levels have access to it.
you should look into what a problem it is to collect crime statistics nationally as a function of this information fragmentation. similar situation--though not as extreme--with epidemological information. and god knows what chaos there was when information sharing did happen effectively--why there were all those spies for the dept of agriculture about at one point providing soil and geological data and doing ph tests for farmers & gardeners---what were they really up to?
around here there are lots of fishermen. as an industry, regional fishing pursued rational self-interest in a relatively unregulated context to the point that they fished themselves out of a livelihood--you know, rationally using draggers that rationally destroyed the ecosystems that the fish they depended on required to reproduce. when the feds stepped in to put a stop to it, alot of fishermen blamed the regulations put in place to stop the wholesale destruction of the regional aquatic habitat for the problems that they had themselves created in the first place. so people think all kinds of stupid stuff, even in the face of reality, when it's right next to them.
are there questions about political affiliation on the census?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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