On 1/18/2012 11:43 AM, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > On 01/18/2012 10:25 AM, Mel Walters wrote: >> Can people with the GOOD ideas be persistent too? > People with good ideas are persistent, but tend not to run for > government. The shortage of people with engineering or scientific > backgrounds in North American politics is staggering.
I fail to see where engineering & scientific backgrounds somehow equate with the only people being capable of generating GOOD ideas? There are just as many douche-bags in those fields as there are elsewhere & plenty of fields or disciplines that have people that can generate GOOD ideas as well. But I will agree that a lack of people with GOOD ideas to tend to run for office. Or...if they do...they quickly get lost in the shuffle & the passion, fire & GOOD ideas soon dissipate or disappear all together. What people fail to recognize about this issue is that people do deserve to get acknowledgement, protection, etc. for their ideas or their works. However...like most things...taken to far it becomes what we seem to have now. From what I understand about SOPA/PIPA the punishments for breaches (whether real or imagined) seemed to be a bit harsh & outside the bounds of reason as far as the legitimacy of the powers that be essentilly coming in like stormtroopers & taking over. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
