After all, their companies have a clear and continuing licence to operate from governments, regulators and citizens alike, they do their best to stay the right side of the law, and many of them as individuals are as uncertain or complacent about the potential impacts of manmade climate change as the rest of society.
Even the Guardian, in its only article on the actual contents of the report, headlined an "extra" £1bn cost to the Treasury of the proposed Public Broadcasting Authority's spending budget, failing to spot that this was more than covered by the continuing licence fee for the first six years, and higher spectrum fees plus VAT on subscriptions thereafter.
In the United Kingdom, the General Medical Council (GMC) has proposed that doctors should undergo a process of revalidation, in which a clinician on the GMC register secures a continuing licence to practise on the grounds that they have demonstrated that they are "up to date and fit to practise" medicine.
While there will be financial implications in ending the show, he hopes people continue to licence it and it will continue to generate revenue.
The government agency Natural England said on Friday that "criteria have been met to allow control of badgers to continue under licence in west Somerset for the purpose of preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis".
Despite the warnings from HRW and other organisations of a worsening rights situation in Bahrain, the Foreign Office's own statistics reveal that the number of arms exports licences continued to increase in 2010 from 34 to 42 with no licences being refused.
To begin with, most licences continued to be freely available, but in 1984 the number of licences authorizing fishing for those quota stocks considered to be under greatest pressure was restricted.
But the law dictates that if the licence holder reapplies for a new licence, the existing licence continues in force until the application has been processed or withdrawn.
I was patient: I worked as an aerospace engineer, got a pilot's licence and continued doing a lot of crazy physical activities to keep fit.
