edicts

He issued many edicts against opium in the 1820s and 1830s, which were carried out by Commissioner Lin Zexu.

And many of the electric cars in the US are there right now based on edicts/legislation.

Note that this argument applies equally well to enforcing the edicts of England's Star Chamber.

In effect, the wisdom of crowds can overcome the edicts of the anointed[3].

But, they seem pretty loud and I have learned that edicts to never or always do something warrant great suspicion.

So once a rabbinical edict is accepted it has total and complete force of law with virtually no distinctions between it and biblical edicts.

So I believe that the solution requires a grass-roots movement, not more edicts from on high.

So we really don't need a council of professors to deliver edicts from on high.

Management edicts to make changes way too late in product cycles.

Laws are regarded as social contracts rather than rigid edicts.

Are you issuing edicts or asking for help solving problems?

I think that fostering an environment where people are free to organize themselves without edicts and policy produces overall better processes (and ultimately better quality).

Your "Royal Guard" (=the police) are meant to protect your power and to enforce your edicts, not to help your subjects.

Edicts like "global objects are evil" end up paralyzing your development and you will sometimes have to do even more evil things to get around them.

He is questioning why one of the most senior maintainers is directly contradicting one of the most central "edicts" from Linus on the kernel development: Don't break user-land.

I think a discussion about the realities that cause people to organically isolate along "segregation lines" is more valuable than pontificating about a new set of edicts.