Comments on: Worse Than a Licence to Kill: Licence to Practise Mathematics

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:52:14 +0000

Here in the UK we have Brown. Add him to your list of leaders who are not only friends with George Bush, but are also proud members of G8 and the Bilderberg Group. Again, it may all seem like pure politics, but those political tendencies have a hidden effect on a variety of policies that directly affect science and technology.

Brown is also held somewhat accountable by some for the nation locking itself in using SharePoint in addition to unnecessary DRM prisons that you find even in the BBC, which is funded by all Brits. The BBC’s media division is now run by a former Microsoft executive (Erik Huggers) who participated in Microsoft’s antitrust trials in Europe, culminating in conviction and penalty for monopoly abuse. It’s a small world we live in.

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:36:26 +0000

The first sentence of the first paragraph doesn’t make any sense.

This is how it should read: This shows how completely detach from reality these people in charge of making laws are.

That’s better.

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:33:08 +0000

That shows how how completely detach from the people in charge of making really are. They pass laws not because there is a need to make things just and fair but to satisfy the desires the friends, those with power and special interests.

The rise to power of Berlusconi and Sarkozy and the next four years or so will make the EU worse than the US. More favoring of special interests, more political corruption through lobbying and more anachronistic laws. More “invisible taxes”. Like petrol or gasoline, tobacco, alchol, the prices of those products (associated with the entertainment industry) will be comprised in most part by taxes.

Extension of copyright, restrictive consumer laws, higher penalty for so called “entertainment pirates”, internet filtering and censorship, adoption, officially, of software patents. These will put into law in the next years by people associated with Sarkozy and Berlusconi, with the help of several key politicians in EU from smaller countries, that had less than satisfactory commitment to Democracy.

Again, remember my words, for they shall come true.