Professor Brian Cox (you know, with the hair and the teeth) is back to teach us more about science, this time in the four-part series Forces of Nature (BBC1), in which he looks at how a handful of relatively simple underlying physical laws generate complexity in nature.
Whatever the merits of these laws, their complexity created considerable uncertainty among managements about the costs of hiring or credit and even the future availability of credit, a consideration that greatly exacerbated the reluctance engendered by the recessionary experience.
The rule that firms must provide health insurance to staff or pay a fine is being delayed until 2015 because of the law's complexity.
Congress acknowledged the new law's complexity, and the likelihood that different provisions might meet different fates, by permitting sections to be struck down individually without invalidating the entire statute.
The legal profession is extremely proud of the common law, and complexity allows both lawyers and politicians to indulge in the micro-management of society and disputes, but such attention to detail reaches a point where it is both futile and self-defeating.
The Kochs and their Republican allies continue to take advantage of the law's complexity and public ignorance to spread the worst kind of misinformation, hoping once again to create chaotic town halls and anti-government protests once the mandate goes into effect.
Interestingly, in law, the complexity of the evidence is actually weighed when deciding whether to present it to a jury.
On the other hand, the time-varying CLF technique, due to the control law, has complexity and needs to measure or estimate the derivative of system parameters.
There is not enough time to educate voters about the law's complexities, the court said, noting further that rushing the rules into effect could have "racially discriminatory" outcomes because South Carolina voters who lack the required photo ID are disproportionately African-American.
After widespread criticism of the law's complexities from banks and expatriate groups — American Citizens Abroad warns on its Web site that Fatca will have a "devastating impact" — the I.R.S. announced in October that it would postpone enforcement by one year, to January 2014.
