But with the various smoothing mechanisms built into the accounting rule, that can take decades.
There are a whole lot of reflex mechanisms built into the Internet, too.
"We had survival mechanisms built in to avoid sitting around debating whether we should run away from the saber-toothed tiger," Mr. Benningfield said.
He also realised that the mechanisms built into the US system and designed to keep the NSA in check had failed.
The infrastructure and response mechanisms built to bring an end to polio can and should be repurposed into sustainable public health programmes and a functioning health infrastructure.
"These two employees, especially the caseworker, thwarted long-established policies and mechanisms, built from lessons learned from previous tragedies involving children, designed to prevent exactly what these two allowed to happen," the panel said.
On the Brooklyn Bridge, Rick Heffernan, a 38-year-old epidemiologist walking along with a Starbucks cup in his hand, asks Mr. Tropea about the risks and whether the safety mechanisms built into the device could be defeated.
However, Mr. Verchot did agree that Greenpeace's numbers appeared to overstate government expansion plans, and that mechanisms built into REDD meant abuse of the type alleged in the group's report simply could not happen.
Robots could serve as the nec plus ultra of this fetishisation, forms of capital seemingly so "endowed with a life of their own" that their nature as unfeeling mechanisms built for particular purposes is hard to lay bare.
A video released by Airbus shows the complex safety mechanisms built into cockpit doors to prevent terrorist attack, but which are likely to have also prevented the captain from taking control of the A320 and bringing it out of its dive.
"Our tools have stringent oversight and compliance mechanisms built in at several levels," continues the report.
