Politicans shall solve everything by attacking videogames...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:19:22 GMT

You know, politicians seem to love the pattern: Tragedy! - Something must be done! - This is something, therefor it must be done!

So if I was to say I think our current crop of politicians were making these tragedies more likely to occur by inflaming things... They would be all for having panels set up to investigate them and suggest how to rein in their extremist tendencies, right?

Yeah. Didn't think so. They're only in favor of nonsense when it's pointed by them at others.

Behaving sensibly sadly is about as likely as their pushing to improve mental health care, supporting community policing over antagonistic occupation policing (why yes, our local sheriff does indeed have an armored personnel carrier, not a van with ego issues but an actual APC complete with fifty-caliber machine gun), or put significant increases into basic science and engineering R&D.

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Don't care about privacy? Prove it.

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:16:24 GMT

So, we have yet another executive saying we should stop with all this privacy talk. In this case, Randi Zuckerberg who is Marketing Director for facebook. In fact based on what she's said, "I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away. People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. … I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors." (source: blog post on the EFF's website Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online) she thinks that people won't misbehave if their real names will be attached to their actions...

( rest of rant below cut tl;dr version: I might listen to you if you voluntarily give up all privacy yourself first )

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lilfluff

Politicans shall solve everything by attacking videogames...

Don't care about privacy? Prove it.