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Yeah, I'd be very surprised if anyone in congress could even spell IRC, let alone be an active contributing member of a programming community. It's a shame that
by seanp2k2 10y ago
Yeah, I'd be very surprised if anyone in congress could even spell IRC, let alone be an active contributing member of a programming community. It's a shame that the people who are making the biggest decisions about the legality and future of all this stuff largely have no idea what they're dealing with or have any clue how any of it works.
- Houshalter 10y agoBut that's true for literally every industry. Congress passes laws about healthcare even though very few of them are doctors. They pass laws about oil drilling and I doubt many of them have training in that. Etc, etc. Congress is incompetent at everything. Its just that you only notice when they are talking about something you know about.
- michel-slm 10y agoWhen Bill Frist was Senate majority leader, despite his training as a medical doctor he didn't exactly use that competence in the Terri Schiavo case. Congress is inevitably political, the problem is how to provide unbiased expert advice to it.