They're also often incomplete – we typically implement just enough to support the functionality needed by our products at that point in time.
The reformer, in this case, will introduce and implement just enough reform to appease the peasants and contain the conflict.
At the time, Mr Keating and his boss, Bob Hawke, were able not just to implement, but to win re-election on, policies that were as brutal as they were necessary.
The technology itself is easy to implement: just a single line of JavaScript code is all that's needed to create the video summary.
Earlier this week we had Owen Patterson proclaim that climate change might actually be good for us (tell that to the soon-to-be drowned Pacific islanders of Kiribati), while earlier this summer his fellow minister, Richard Benyon, agreed to implement just 31 of 127 recommended marine protection zones on the south coast, as advised by the UK Wildlife Trusts and other expert bodies.
The trick, then, is to implement just the components with an attractive return on investment (ROI).
The advantage of the technique is that it would be easy to implement; just swap the standard photos on passports and driver's licenses with an average image.
Huge Kickstarter success Star Citizen is hoping to implement just that in the future, while Limit Theory and Interstellar Rift are promising their own procedural systems.
The goal then – it's believed Dead Hand was implemented just prior to Russia's arsenal peak in the late 1980's – was to be able to land the cruelest of cruel comebacks, a final, strategic-strike punchline capable of being dropped even after, say, both the Kremlin and Moscow's top brass were obliterated by, oh I don't know, an American bomb.
This could be an example of how Twitter might implement just that.
