I'm extremely sorry.
However, what I do feel is that software programming involves politics;
whether US politics, or politics elsewhere.
Now, my country, Britain, is also doing very nicely out of the situation
in China.
Bulgaria is flooded with Chinese goods, and so on.
I do not believe that, in the long run, this strange dependence on China
and its
exploitable labour market is doing anyone any good at all.
Having lived in the USA, I am well aware that there is a large diversity
of opinions
there. However, what I do see is a business model (both there and
elsewhere) that
is unsustainable and that props up an awful regime (China).
I mentioned the story with the Halifax Bank of Scotland and my own one
as illustrative of
how decisions made about software can have unseen and unsuspected
effects; some of
which can be described as Political (with a big P) and some as political
(with a small p).
The previous story about a Chinese factory, while, initially told as an
illustration of how
daft some ways of doing things are, struck me as going rather further
than that. Having
been aware of how communist (and other totalitarian) societies work and
living among
a population who are deeply scarred by that sort of society I cannot
help but see the same
thing happening in China; but in a more frightening way. Untll the
collapse of the Berlin
wall the western countries, led by the USA, did its level best to make
those regimes
collapse; which they did. Now I see those same western countries
propping up an
extremely similar regime to feed its hunger for cheap consumer goods.
I am well aware that not all Americans think that the world revolves
around their
country, but, having written a message about the political effects of
software
decisions, to be answered with:
"And this relates to US politics how exactly? "
what do you expect me to reply?
Judy Perry wrote:
So why mention it then? I should think you'd like to get away from it.
Your comment was deliberately provocative and designed to insult
(some) people. Furthermore, it falls into this annoying elitist
mindset that sometimes seems to occur elsewhere that, being free of
stereotypes yourself, you still see fit to stereotype people who
happen to live in the U.S.
Judy
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
It doesn't; but not all of us live in a world that revolves around
the USA.
Judy Perry wrote:
And this relates to US politics how exactly?
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
[email protected]
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
subscription preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
[email protected]
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
