"The vast majority of money raised through parking fines goes either on the administration of the system or on other transport initiatives, " he said.

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It is important to note here that if the U.S. government implemented a new national gold standard, any flaws in its conception or kinks in its administration would cause economic pain throughout the system.

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He points out that only works when one party (or coalition) is in charge, whereas "in a system built around an administration and a bicameral Congress, everybody is part of the government - and the government only functions if there exists a certain baseline spirit of co-operation between the mutually indispensable parts".

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The mechanism described is not something the average user could, or reasonably would, leverage, as it requires local access to a system, local administration rights and a debugger in order to work.

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Puppet Labs is the developer of Puppet, software that applies declarative programming to the task of system administration of compute, network, and storage infrastructure in traditional data centers or in the cloud.

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