Not OK

Posted Oct 19, 2010 13:43 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Not OK by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Open Standards in Europe: FSFE responds to BSA letter

"that doesn't reflect the reality of the political process we're talking about."

You mean a bunch of politicians and lobbyists talking meaningless bullshit?

I saw an interesting article about that Philadelphia "pi = 3" bill recently? And do you know WHY it failed?

Because a visiting professor kindly pointed out to several prominent politicians that, if you did the maths as *PRE*scribed by the bill, you ended up with the result "pi = 3.2".

And when the European politicians realise they've been fed that sort of bullshit, they are NOT going to be impressed.

Dunno about you, but if someone makes a fool of me, I take offence. And if your career depends on looking sage and wise, the offence could be very damaging to the lobbyist ...

Cheers,
Wol