On 01/18/2012 07:22 PM, TekBudda wrote:
On 1/18/2012 11:43 AM, Dafydd Crosby wrote:
On 01/18/2012 10:25 AM, Mel Walters wrote:
Can people with the GOOD ideas be persistent too?
People with good ideas are persistent, but tend not to run for
government. The shortage of people with engineering or scientific
backgrounds in North American politics is staggering.
I fail to see where engineering& scientific backgrounds somehow equate
with the only people being capable of generating GOOD ideas?
Ah, I should have added a line break. I didn't mean to imply S&E
backgrounds meant people generating good ideas, but that they could
implement technologically realistic and effective ideas. Messing with
DNS is an ineffective means of <s>censorship</s> copyright control.
Here's the thing - if the people making the laws don't bother to
understand the technology, they can never make fair, reasonable laws
about that technology.
I'd like to believe that the politicians think they're doing the right
thing. However, by being uneducated in technical matters, they're
ill-equipped to make laws about technology and susceptible to
misinformation. Just the past 10 years (let alone the past 40) has been
host to an incredible amount of innovation, and by not updating their
technical understanding, they are legislating the past, not the current.
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