But jury-rigged solutions are the norm here, for good reason.
Even if jerry-rigged solutions do work, they still take time to implement.
Jury-rigged solutions for missing or broken parts, custom fast-charging battery packs, and the lenses… oh, the lenses.
Anyone who has seen outdated equipment nursed along a generation after its expected lifetime with retrofitted spare parts and jerry-rigged solutions has witnessed this in action.
In truth, what New York needs is wholesale reform of its ethics laws, not a jerry-rigged solution.
Because election technology is changing so quickly, it is not clear that the new requirements, particularly the demand for a paper trail, will stand the test of time, and advocates for change are already worried about a jury-rigged solution for 2008.
A jury-rigged solution like this might fly in another wing of NBC Universal but this is the news division, in which the demands of the profession are supposed to trump all else.
Meanwhile, the certainty of human back pain, like the inevitability of labor pains, is evidence of the jury-rigged, best-solution-at-hand nature of evolution.
When a system is broken, we resort to improvised solutions, jury-rigged workarounds, hacks.
The Iranian students chanting "Death to dictatorship" may not be able to do anything about it, but the fact that they've identified their real problem as their own bad mullahs, not outsiders -- and their real solution as true democracy, not some rigged Islamic version -- is a big change.
There is no question in my mind that all of these planks are incredibly worthy goals to pursue (and the specific solutions above addressing the money flood and rigged U.S. House districts are both promulgated in Unlock Congress).
