At 07:55 PM 4/26/03 -0700, Mike Rosing wrote: ...
More proof all our fears of the government actually being dangerous are totally false. They are incompetent beyond comprehension. I think I better go check out that movie "Brazil" again.
Unfortunately, dangerous and incompetent are not mutually exclusive. Just ask the people involved in the Steve Jackson Games case. Or that security guard that almost got framed by the FBI for the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics. The fact is, the US government is an enormous organization. Within it are good guys and bad guys, geniuses and morons, and everything in-between. The fact that the FBI and Secret Service are short on clued-in computer people tells you little about whether NSA or NASA are, say. This is no different from any other large organization--Microsoft has some first-rate security people, for example, even though you might never guess that from looking at Internet Explorer. Agencies like EPA and FDA have very sharp scientists working for them, but that may not lead to scientifically sound policy coming out of even those agencies, and certainly doesn't have much connection to scientifically sound policy coming out of Congress, say.
Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
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