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My thoughts exactly -- I would much rather be helping raise awareness of government surveillance and developing measures to abate it, instead of giving them eve
by magicmu 11y ago
My thoughts exactly -- I would much rather be helping raise awareness of government surveillance and developing measures to abate it, instead of giving them even more technological power. The front-end of services like healthcare and immigration can be improved all we want, but that doesn't affect any fundamental change in the way things are done (it's a fancy website, but you'll still be waiting 5-10 years for your green card). I struggle to see why anyone who is technologically savvy would want to do this.
- sliverstorm 11y agoThere's literally millions of pending green card applications. You don't think good IT would help? On a much smaller scale, I still remember the thrill of renewing my vehicle registration online, as compared to the slow, slow, slow DMV.
- howterrible 11y agoWhy do you want the government to be more efficient, so they can purchase more bombs, build more black sites to torture, have more cash to hand out to 'moderate' Syrian rebels? You want to further empower a government which seeks complete domination of its citizens and of the world.
- sliverstorm 11y agoLet me guess- anarchist?
- howterrible 11y agoDoes it matter? You have no real response than childish name calling. Instead you rather forget the awful crimes the US engages in on a routine basis, as if helping them free one hand isn't the same as assisting the other hand in murder and torture.
- sliverstorm 11y agoSince when was "anarchist" name-calling? I have no real response because I have tried to have discussions with your ilk a million times and we will simply never see eye to eye.
- sarciszewski 11y agoIt is a label, which combined with "your ilk" is not a productive tone to adopt.
- Bahamut 11y agoTo be fair, howterrible's tone is arguably far worse - he makes accusations that he must want [insert negative extreme not backed by evidence], and goes more in depth as with trying to connect silverstorm with malformed reasoning. At the least silverstorm phrased it as a question in wait of an answer, which is a lot more civil than the outright hostile attack that aimed more to accuse than to enlighten.
- magicmu 11y agoThat's a great point, good IT would definitely help. But it doesn't seem like we're making any real movement towards replacing the current bureaucratic mess with well-designed systems. Then again, I didn't know there were alternatives to the DMV until this very moment.
- zacharycohn 11y agoIt's a big government. One project at a time... :)
- wslack 11y agoI would disagree with that in the abstract. Delays in workflow can be addressed, or at least surfaced, by better back-end tech and reporting, and 18F's repos are public on GitHub.