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Ambassador sorry after signing ACTA

37 points by voodoochilo 15y ago

jvehent 15y ago
He could have been sorry before signing it. It would have been more useful...
- Create 15y ago
  It is just business as usual: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986) Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003) by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
- voodoochilo 15y ago
  actually he is a she, but you are right. i don't understand those people - they do not even read this stuff.
  - talmand 15y ago
    It's by design. Make the text so long and complicated no one bothers to read it and go by the falsely written summary. That's how the U.S. Congress works, as an example. There are so many laws on the books written by people who purposely wrote them to be difficult to comprehend so that practically every U.S. citizen is a criminal of one sort or another.
    - Create 15y ago
      Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
CWIZO 15y ago
I'm both proud of and sad because of this, with our ambassador in Japan. I just hope it's not too late and we can still fight this thing. There will be a protest in our capital tomorrow and I just hope that at least half of the people who RVSPed on FB will show up.
- voodoochilo 15y ago
  protest the hell outta them!
Karunamon 15y ago
Being a part of evil because you were too "busy" to pay attention is about the lamest excuse I can possibly conjure.
ComputerGuru 15y ago
What good does that do? Where can I cash that "sorry" in? I say this is just PR (or a publicity stunt. Same difference). Everything after the fact is PR. Always is. Perhaps I can just "sorry" my way out of ACTA-induced charges?

37 points by voodoochilo 15y ago

jvehent 15y ago

He could have been sorry before signing it. It would have been more useful...

Create 15y ago
It is just business as usual: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986) Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003) by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
voodoochilo 15y ago
actually he is a she, but you are right. i don't understand those people - they do not even read this stuff.
- talmand 15y ago
  It's by design. Make the text so long and complicated no one bothers to read it and go by the falsely written summary. That's how the U.S. Congress works, as an example. There are so many laws on the books written by people who purposely wrote them to be difficult to comprehend so that practically every U.S. citizen is a criminal of one sort or another.
  - Create 15y ago
    Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu

CWIZO 15y ago

I'm both proud of and sad because of this, with our ambassador in Japan. I just hope it's not too late and we can still fight this thing. There will be a protest in our capital tomorrow and I just hope that at least half of the people who RVSPed on FB will show up.

voodoochilo 15y ago
protest the hell outta them!

Karunamon 15y ago

Being a part of evil because you were too "busy" to pay attention is about the lamest excuse I can possibly conjure.

ComputerGuru 15y ago

What good does that do? Where can I cash that "sorry" in? I say this is just PR (or a publicity stunt. Same difference). Everything after the fact is PR. Always is. Perhaps I can just "sorry" my way out of ACTA-induced charges?