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quantocracy
A system of government based that writes, enacts and expires laws based on a solid foundation of scientific evidence. Each law created has 6 immutable elements: the law itself, the intention behind the law, the estimated costs of enforcing the law, the studies supporting invocation the law, the risks and crucially, an expiry date. At expiration, each law is reviewed for its efficacy, its cost of enforcement to date, how its implementation stands up to the original intention and the validity of the original studies.
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)