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	Courses/CS 461/Museum of unintended consequences - CSWiki
		An unintended consequence occurs when an unexpected and unintended use is made of a mechanism or formalism—such as a law, a rule, a regulation, or even a custom or an accepted ethical or moral precept—that has been established in the world.
		The unintended consequence is almost always different from that end and in many cases may be contrary to it.
		A nice way to distinguish between historical contingencies and unintended consequences in the sense intended here is to ask whether the consequence in question is a direct effect of the triggering event or is a result of an adaptation to a triggering event which has resulted in a change in the environment.
	cs.calstatela.edu /wiki/index.php/Courses/CS_461/Museum_of_unintended_consequences (1637 words)

	Unintended consequences of syndication « Jon Udell
		One unintended consequence of this arrangement was a change in how I used del.icio.us.
		Of course it’s always true that your stream of bookmarks is public — except for the relatively new option to bookmark privately.
		Here’s another unintended consequence that illustrates the surprising things that can happen in this web of information we are spinning.
	blog.jonudell.net /2007/01/25/unintended-consequences-of-syndication (2301 words)

	Unintended Consequences, by Rob Norton: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or "unintended." Economists and other social scientists have heeded its power for centuries; for just as long, politicians and popular opinion have largely ignored it.
		The concept of unintended consequences is one of the building blocks of economics.
		The unwanted children are an unintended consequence of banning abortions, but not an unforeseen one.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/UnintendedConsequences.html (1010 words)

	Unintended consequence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The unintended results may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they should be the logical or likely results of the action.
		Discussions of unintended consequences usually refer to the third situation of perverse results.
		Unintended Consequences of Politically Popular Sentencing Policy: The Homicide-Promoting Effects of 'Three Strikes' in U.S. Cities (1980-1999).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unintended_consequence (1715 words)

	Economics is the study of the systematic, but unintended consequences of human action
		Economics is the study of the systematic, but unintended consequences of human action.
		Capitalism and civilization are examples of unintended consequences.
		Civilization was an unintended consequence of human action.
	alpha.fdu.edu /~koppl/note1.htm (905 words)

	The Bud Angst Report » Blog Archive » The Law Of Unintended Consequences
		Surely, the Founding Fathers, framers of the Constitution, had no notion that the consequence of that prohibition would be the intrusion of profanities, vulgarities, indecencies, even pornography into the living rooms of our homes via an electronic miracle they could not have imagined.
		But the unintended consequence was that we jammed the colleges with people who didn’t want to be there and didn’t belong there.
		When we awakened to the fact that some of our youngsters were neither suited for nor interested in college, we created, first, vocational, and then, vocational-technical schools and found ourselves victims of yet another unintended consequence: our school administrators promptly foisted off their students with behavioral problems and our vo-techs became substitutes for detention centers.
	www.budangst.com /?p=940 (651 words)

	AlterNet: Unintended Consequences
		The result is that the unseen and unintended occur, at times as a bitter riptide which overwhelms the original rationales for engaging in armed combat.
		The consequences are colossal, and malignancies continue to appear.
		In the idiom of international relations, the most worrisome consequence is the perilous state of Pakistan.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=11796 (3368 words)

	aBetterEarth.Org - Unintended Consequences
		All human action has unintended consequences, or effects not originally envisioned or anticipated by the individual or group acting.
		But while the invisible hand is an example of a positive unintended consequence, unintended consequences can sometimes be harmful.
		The Endangered Species Act of 1973 has resulted in a number of unintended consequences not envisioned by the drafters of the legislation that have worsened environmental conditions in some cases.
	www.abetterearth.org /Core_Concepts/coreid.22/core_detail.asp (306 words)

	Global Agriculture and the Law of Unintended Consequences
		Some unintended consequences are neither good nor bad; they simply are what happen.
		As price guarantees impact the fixed-cost structure for farming in the United States, another unintended consequence is that they risk making us less competitive against farmers in other countries.
		That is having the unintended consequence of keeping too many people poor, hungry or malnourished around the world.
	www.cargill.com /news/media/030721page.htm (2557 words)

	Cayman Net News: Yet another unintended troubled consequence of the rollover policy
		The recent headlines concerning the increase in the number of marriages of convenience we are seeing in the Cayman Islands is a clear illustration of the issue of unintended consequences.
		Moreover, and far more concerning is that not only has this particular asinine Immigration Policy thrown up countless unintended consequences for government, the business community and society at large, it doesn't actually do what it was intended to do either.
		It seems that there is no end to the unintended consequences of rollover and once again we here at Cayman Net News continue to say 'no' to the rollover.
	www.caymannetnews.com /cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000050/005008.htm (839 words)

	Unintended Consequences
		As an example of the law of unintended consequences, it's powerful, and it illustrates one of the main results of that law: that those unintended consequences can really bite back when you least expect them.
		The law of unexpected consequences is one that we simply can't afford to forget, and even though they're impossible to adequately plan for, we can minimize their effects.
		Wait a little longer, and security pros in the UK won't be worrying about unintended consequences: thanks to one that I would have never thought of, they'll be blissfully unconcerned about them.
	www.securityfocus.com /columnists/293 (1924 words)

	Digital Life by Chin Wong -- Unintended consequences
		THE law of unintended consequences says that almost all human actions will have at least one unintended consequence.
		Now we seem to be on the cusp of yet another unintended consequence that involves copyrights in a digital age.
		On the other hand, the law of unintended consequences may kick in and trigger a renewed and more widespread interest in free, open source software.
	www.chinwong.com /index.php/site/article/unintended_consequences (680 words)

	"Unintended Consequences" and Other Irritants - Paul Sampson - Eclectica Magazine v7n3
		"Unintended consequences" should be the stuff of jokes, the practical jokes that life plays on us.
		When an outcome is as predictable as dead civilians in a bomb-target zone, it's a pernicious evasion to call this an unintended consequence.
		Then there's the domestic one, in which the unannounced consequence, the specifically denied consequence, is clearly the intended outcome.
	www.eclectica.org /v7n3/sampson_salon.html (3517 words)

	Unintended consequences \| thebulletin.org
		And it is almost equally certain that the Revolution in Military Affairs will, in the best tradition of the Law of Unintended Consequences, make the United States less secure in the long run by encouraging the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and--perhaps--by inspiring Russia to revitalize, insofar as possible, its nuclear arsenal.
		Although World War II was a "good" war in that it had to be fought by the allies as a matter of moral and practical necessity, it quickly degenerated into a conflict in which U.S. and British policies targeted German and Japanese civilians in city-bombing campaigns, killing--by any reasonable estimate--well over a million.
		Pursuant to the Law of Unintended Consequences, as U.S. conventional capabilities become ever more overwhelming, other countries are likely to take countervailing actions.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf00moore (3770 words)

	The Law of Unintended Consequence - ClickZ
		In its simplest form, the law of unintended consequence has evolved as an acceptable, if not logical, explanation for unanticipated effects.
		In pop culture, the law of unintended consequence is embodied by the phrase "stuff happens."
		The log files hold the proof of the law of unintended consequence.
	www.clickz.com /experts/search/opt/article.php/3507091 (1148 words)

	Unintended Consequences
		She concludes that the Stern Review, however controversial, need be neither right nor wrong to serve the valuable purpose of stimulating policy makers to think about the consequences and costs of climate change.
		Unintended Consequences: Wharton's Thoughts on AIG and "finite reinsurance" (April 7, 2005)
		Unintended Consequences: Spitzer and SEC investigate "finite insurance" (Nov. 16, 2004)
	www.dougsimpson.com /blog (7349 words)

	NPR : Somalia: Decades of Unintended Consequences
		All Things Considered, June 7, 2006 · President Bush is beginning to discover what his father learned while he was in the White House.
		Somalia is -- and has been for decades -- a case study in the law of unintended consequences.
		During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, jockeying for influence on the Horn of Africa, poured weapons into Somalia and Ethiopia.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5457422 (515 words)

	Bush & the Media Cover-Up the Jihad Schoolbook Scandal
		Therefore one would assume that the unnamed US officials who, we are told, are distressed at these "unintended consequences" must previously have been unaware of the Islamist content of the schoolbooks.
		In the body of the article the Post asserts without evidence that steeping "a generation in [Islamist] violence" was an "unintended consequence" of giving Afghan children violent Islamist schoolbooks.
		"Unintended consequence" is fast becoming the US Establishment's favorite excuse for the many disasters of its foreign policy.
	emperors-clothes.com /articles/jared/jihad.htm (2177 words)

	Oliver Postgate - Creator of Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and other Childrens TV classics
		“Because not being intended, unintended consequences are not on the list of what was expected to happen, so if one does happen, nobody has to notice it or connect it with whatever was intended.
		It was amply, lavishly, foreseen, and that makes it different in kind from a mistake or a piece of mental inattention, different because the carnage is clearly the result of an actual refusal to see the situation that was most likely going to result from his action.
		Then, in the light of these, proposals are made for small convenient actions to be taken and campaigns encouraged which will enable people to change their light-bulbs and feel that they are facing up to reality without seriously reducing their ‘standard of living’”.
	www.oliverpostgate.co.uk (1542 words)

	Unintended Consequences, by Rep. Ron Paul
		Inevitably, unintended consequences overwhelm the short-term and narrow benefits of authoritarian programs designed to make the economic system fair, the people morally better, and the world safe for democracy.
		And now our obsession with conquering and occupying Iraq is about to unleash consequences that no one can accurately foresee.
		More likely, the consequences will be severe and surprising and not what anyone planned for or intended.
	www.antiwar.com /paul/paul55.html (1838 words)

	Unintended consequence of church's 'raising the bar' - Salt Lake Tribune
		Unintended consequence of church's 'raising the bar' - Salt Lake Tribune
		Unintended consequence of church's 'raising the bar' (7/26)
		If that happened, "the ranks of our full-time missionaries will swell," Ballard said, "and we will move much closer to our divine mandate to take the gospel to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people."
	www.sltrib.com /ci_2890646 (1154 words)

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	Unintended consequences \| The Daily Reckoning's
		The latest unintended consequence of Uncle Sam's pursuit of ethanol — rising beer prices in Germany.
		Der Spiegel reports on a barley shortage that the brewing industry attributes to farmers growing corn in fields where they once grew barley, such is the demand for corn brought about by the generous U.S. subsidy for corn-based ethanol.
		The answer becomes even more obvious once the net energy gain is factored in, and is compared to that of other feedstock crops, which, according to the smart people, corn is the absolute worst choice other than wheat.
	www.dailyreckoning.us /blog/?p=369 (1056 words)

	Is The Funding Of Terrorism Another Unintended Consequence Of Drug Prohibition?
		This advertisement appeared in the National Review, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, The Nation, Reason Magazine and The Progressive in the fall of 2001.
		Is the funding of terrorism another unintended consequence of drug prohibition?
		United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, "Economic and Social Consequences of Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking" (New York, NY: UN Drug Control Program, 1998), p.
	www.csdp.org /ads/narcofund.htm (402 words)

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