[strictnein]

> The problem with your laissez-faire fundamentalism is that it ignores the fact that what these organizations claim to "actually trying to accomplish" is actually harmful and has considerable negative impact on society in general.

We were trying to make our weather monitoring systems better, at minimal or no cost to our customers and the public.

> What is not ok is to frame regulations as whimsical rentism from bureaucrats

In our case it was, and we were told that it was from one of the people involved in the approval process.