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i only have a couple minutes (i have to be somewhere)....so am wondering: with a spill of this magnitude and potential for damage (and i hope it remains potential--i really hope the dome works) what difference does the attitude of bp make?
accidents happen..i don't think anyone is arguing except perhaps as an inversion of your characterizations of what people are arguing or saying, so as a straw man, that regulation can prevent accidents. but regulation can and should require that adequate contingency plans be in place to deal with them. it is self-evident that those plans were not in place in the gulf and that a significant explanation for that was the series of exemptions that bo got for itself in general and this facility in particular---which were only possible in the context of the long-standing relation of regulatory bodies to oil concerns that relies WAY too much on self-reporting.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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