Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? 349
Alfred Lee Deon writes "Chris Patten, a former EU Commissioner, was speaking at the three-day conference in Nice, France, on European business and technology. 'Many politicians don't understand the technology issues that could affect government IT schemes,' he said.' Politicians have no sound grasp of technology issues — but politicians don't necessarily have a profound grasp of any issue.' He was especially critical of UK's government's ID card scheme — a scheme he felt would not achieve one of its possible objectives of making borders more secure."
Oh Please... (Score:5, Funny)
Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? (Score:3, Funny)
Tubes (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe in Europe.. (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Politicians Have Poor Grasp of Technology? (Score:5, Funny)
john oliver (daily show) put it best (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Snails and Politicians (Score:5, Funny)
Mod me funny... (Score:5, Funny)
Series of tubes, anyone?
Ha ha. That was funny.
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not correct (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't forget the IT people! (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps when you graduate highschool and move into the real world, you would understand that IT people are the problem solvers of the world. We are the soldiers of a digital age, armed with our minds, rapier like wits, and superior intellectual powers. We are the gatekeepers that master over the pleebs and serfs - the unclean, unwashed masses that merely plod on through life oblivious to us as we would be to any extra dimensional creatures. Our blood is the oil on the gears which keeps modern society clawing and grinding on. If there were no IT people, the world would devolve into a neolithic anarchy of canabalism , lawlessness and pagan electronics worship. Perhaps you have seen planet of the apes? We are charlton heston crossed with bruce campbell and we are the saviors of mankind.