IP Adress = "Intellectual Property Adress"

[Alrik]

Well, just look here : www.boingboing.net/2010/04/08/minister-for-digital.html

Something went horribly wrong there, didn't it ?

Is this a fake or not ?

If not, then ... Something's rotten in the state of ... Great Britain ...


Alrik

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

Historically there is a parliamentary privilage that says that a minister doesn't actually have to know anything about what he's commenting/working on. This is because it's very hard to get qualified people who are also interested in being a politician.

[Elliot Kane]

Or indeed a politician with any idea of what he's talking about...

Something is definitely rotten in Britain and this is just a small part of it. The depths pf ignorance of the govt when it comes to IT is boundless.

Another govt blunder on the internet.

[Dark Phoenix Rising]

if you consider that a minister can be required to perform any job, from accounting to farming to tech services, I think it's unreasonable to require that a minister will actually know anything about the subject when they take the post. However if they don't pick good advisers, and they don't listen to them I think there is then going to be a problem.

After all, how many people here can honestly say they know what to look for to tell if there's going to be an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in cattle, and what to do about it? Or what the difference between a mature cod and one that shouldn't be caught is?

[Elliot Kane]

All the more reason to diversify the people in parliament.

Not knowing everything about the job they are given is understandable; not finding out as much as they can after getting the job is criminal.

[Hand-E-Food]

Frankly, I think it's a fair oversight. As a geek I find it funny, but especially given the context of the letter, that's a perfectly understandable mistake.

[Elliot Kane]

It would be pretty amusing if they were harmless, sure. But they are planning to put through one of the most repressive and intrusive pieces of internet legislation ever created on the back of their ignorance. They plan to give themselves the power to snoop on everything anyone does online not as an emergency anti-terrorist power to be used in extremis, but as a matter of course. And they can't see anything wrong in this...

That's why they are not funny, HEF.

[Alrik]

Minority Report.

Why do this things become out of control ?

Is Might, is Power at last a thing in itself ? A kind of Entity which tries to control people ? Control them so that they change everything so that it can grow in a stabilized environment ?