Why would private regulators be more efficient? Regulation will always seem inefficient no matter the nature of the regulating agency because it has different goals (ensuring safety and efficacy) vs making a profit for shareholders.
Public regulators are always preferable, when a market needs to be regulated as you admit, because the public, through the press and their elected representatives, can hold them accountable for their actions. If someone from the Mayo Clinic is receiving improper benefits from pharmaceutical companies how does the public find that out? There are no laws that would force disclosure of those relationships.
In the case of public regulators like the FDA, Congress can force its leaders to testify and the press has tools like FOIA to get at private documents. They're not perfect and can still lead to corruption and regulatory capture, but are preferable to private organizations with no public accountability regulating the pharmaceutical industry.
Atleast in the marketplace, if you mess up - you go broke (or you should, don't even get me started on the idiocy of 'too big too fail'). There's some incentives to hustle, but also to not ruin your firm in the long-run.
At the FDA you know you are on an Imperial Star Destroyer, and that whatever happens - worse case scenario it takes like 5 years to fire you.
Declaring that "government is the problem, just privatize it" without bothing to think through or research anything about the actual issue is the political equivalent of "just use node.js and mongodb, it's web scale".
Yes, I understand. But sounds of goofy to refer to them as FOIA. If you say "FOIA" people assume you are referring specifically to the federal law called Freedom of Information Act and that you are probably trying to request a record from a federal agency.
My state also has laws to help the public access public records. We just dont call them FOIA because they have a different name as they do in other states.
Very small number of people are rich enough to build their own roads (with all rights of way issues, etc.). And each road would only connect very small number of points. Helicopter probably would be way, way cheaper at this point.
Paid roads with less traffic, etc. or paid lanes are a commonplace, OTOH, but one doesn't have to be exactly rich to use them.
The American invasion if Iraq, whose planning and execution Condeleeza Rice was involved in was clearly a violation of the UN charter, which prohibits aggressive action by one nation against another without the authorization of the UN Security Council.
You can use CORS [1] on browsers that support it. [2] You really should use it if at all possible given your application's constraints, so you don't have to abuse GET requests and can use a JSON parser.
Unfortunately CORS is not really doable if you have to support IE and need non-cookie authentication, as my company recently discovered to our sorrow. No custom headers, so goodbye to your X-Auth-Token. That has only been fixed in IE10.
It ia not thorny. Discriminating on the basis of race is immoral. Period. You cannot determine someone's character or how they fit into an establishment's 'vibe' simply based on the color of their skin.
For a and b you should check our core.match [1] and core.typed [2]. One of the best parts of using lisps is that things that are features of other languages can be implemented as libraries. Not to say Scala probably isn't great too, but I haven't ever really used it.
[1] http://www.chromium.org/blink