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Lack of necessary knowledge in Congress (state and Federal) is even why we changed daylight saving times that did nothing to decrease costs. And that cause increase costs. Such as equipment that now has the wrong time for three weeks every year.
Cited in another discussion was WiFi. About 50% of the states banned public WiFi by anyone but the incumbent communication companies. This law was made only to protect the big communication companies (Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, etc) from innovation by smaller companies (ie Earthlink). Why would any legislature do this? Their only information comes from expensive lobbyists.
Why has Google increased their Washington office from near zero to become their largest facilities outside of the Silicon Valley? Lobbying rather than basic technical knowledge is important when Congressmen are extremists rather than informed moderates. He who pays more to buy a Congressman learned long ago which ones are best purchased. With a Supreme Court who said this was good, even Google must now buy Congressmen.
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