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Last tuesday I participated to a demonstration against the projected reform of the French retirement system. It was nearly mandatory for me to be seen there, on strike (but still paid, that is one of the advantages of being a politician) and holding a party banner. Yet, all moderates present felt the whole thing was an act, a mere baroud d'honneur before an unavoidable defeat. Even the very peak energy unaware Socialist Party recognizes, privately, that the current French retirement system cannot stand unchanged and anybody even vaguely peak oil aware will agree that retirement itself is going to become a thing of the past. Yet, here we were, clamoring in the street in defense of a system we knew is unsustainable. The truth was simply unspeakable even for those few who could think it. Any left-winger audacious, or stupid, enough to question this "to the last ditch" attitude, would quickly be ostracized as an ally of the right and lose whatever position he had acquired inside his organization. As absurd as it sounds, it is the reality anybody willing to bring out a constructive response to our predicament must face. The main obstacle is not some elite plot but a far more diffuse, and formidable, obstacle : this feeling of entitlement so pervasive in developed societies.
The French retirement system is a complex hodgepodge of individual retirement plans or institutions, so complex in fact that a same individual may have to deal with several of them as he reaches retirement age – this will (or rather would have been) probably be my case as I worked a few month in the private sector before becoming a civil servant. All, or nearly all, work the same way, however. Every month a significant part of your wages go to a retirement fund (in my case the CNRACL) which uses said money to pay the pensions of the retirees affiliated to it.
This system works fine as long as working people are significantly more numerous than the retirees they support, which is unfortunately less and less the case. As birth rate decreased during the seventies and high unemployment became a permanent feature of the economy (8% is an absolute minimum here), a growing number of retirees has to be supported by a stagnating or even decreasing number of workers. Moreover, those retirees began their careers during the years of rapid growth, when there still were still a lot of highly paid jobs up for the taking, so the standard of life of most of them is actually superior to the one of most of the workers supporting them.
This would not be an unsolvable problem, should the resources available to society continue to grow. We know, however, it won't be the case. Our civilization is reaching the limits pointed out by the Meadows Report thirty years ago where continued real growth is made more and more difficult due to the depletion of key resources. Add in the limits of social complexity as a problem-solving strategy pointed out by Tainter in his seminal work The Collapse of Complex Societies and it becomes obvious that there only two possible fates for the French retirement system, both equally unpleasant.
First we can choose to go the deflation way. As the economy contracts in real terms and less and less resource are available to society, unemployment will skyrocket and an increasing number of people will turn to the domestic or underground economy for survival. As a consequence, the amount of money retirement management agencies will be able to collect will decrease and it will be only a matter of time before one goes bankrupt. The most sensible solution would be to let it crash and burn, but the political cost would be staggering. What will happen instead is that the state will step in, assume the debts and impose lower benefits for higher payments. This is basically what happens today, except that the government does not seem too eager to assume any debt but its own (and even that...)
Since the available net energy is bound to decline to near pre-industrial levels, there are no reason for this process not to repeat itself again and again until the whole French retirement system is down to a purely symbolic level. Of course, by this point, something really nasty would surely have already happened, making the whole issue quite irrelevant anyway.
We could also choose the inflation way, create a lot of money to fuel a fake growth and pay our debt with it. Of course inflation will quickly rise its ugly head – not necessarily Zimbabwe level inflation, but high enough to make any rise in nominal pensions illusory. All we'll have to do then is let pensions – and wages – stagnate and inflation will quickly make retirement history. That is what happened in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when pensions kept their nominal value while the ruble plummeted.
Were I to say that in the speech I am commissioned to write for the forthcoming departmental rally of the left, I would probably have to find myself another job, and certainly not because I would have uncovered some sinister elite plot to deprive workers of their birthright. The problem is that pensions have been so thoroughly cut from work that most people – including politicians – have come to consider it not as the result of one's labor but as an inalienable right.
At the beginning, pensions were supposed to be socialized wages and a number of unions and political groups still cling to this idea and repeat it like a mantra. They may have been perceived as such during the early fifties, but now they are just subsidies raining down from distant bureaucracies. The result has been a contradictory feeling of helplessness and entitlement. Unless what might have happened within the local chapter of an old style fraternal order, the individual worker has no say in the pension policy. It is decided either directly by the government or by the unholy alliance of workers' and corporations' unions which manages most French retirement organisms. All citizens can do is accept or protest.
Even if the ideology of progress had not been so pervasive in our society, this disempowerment would have been sure to generate a deep sense of entitlement. Retirement is no longer something you work for but something you wait for and, as always, when your expectations are not met, the result is frustration and anger.
And it does not help that Frenchmen – like Americans – live in what would have seemed unimaginable luxury to a medieval baron.
Of course, it could be possible to imagine sustainable retirement solutions without reverting to pure family solidarity – which supposes you do have a family and it has the means to support you – or charity – which basically puts your survival in the hands of whatever church happens to rule the area. The Islamic zaqat system might be a way, provided it is organized at a community level and not taken over by the state or some large private organization, as it is too often the case in the Islamic world. The fraternal orders of the English and American nineteenth century might be another. Neither fits very well within the framework of today's French – or American for that matter – society and both would be stiffly resisted by Unions and political parties alike, as would be the suggestion that there are ideas to be found among the Amish, the Hutterites or the other groups born from the radical Reformation.
The necessary shift from bureaucracy and entitlement toward community empowerment, local resilience and personal responsibility will have to grow locally, through our own efforts, and that may mean accepting the hardships which come with it. That is exactly what most people – and the political elite represents them well in that matter – don't want to hear. That is exactly why they will cling to unsustainable structures until they collapse... while we'll grow alternatives in the cracks


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Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie named his lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, to fill the Senate seat left vacant following the death of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D).
Abercrombie, a Democrat, chose Schatz from a list of three finalists forwarded to him by the state Democratic party. Inouye, who served almost 50 full years in the Senate, died on Dec. 17.
The late Senator Daniel Inouye's successor, Hawaii's lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, will be sworn in a day after he was tapped for the position in a move that goes against Inouye's final wishes. TODAY's Natalie Morales reports.
"No one can fill Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's shoes, but together, we can all try to follow in his footsteps," Schatz said in a press conference in Hawaii.
Schatz, flying to Washington with President Obama aboard Air Force One, Tweeted that he was eager to support the president's agenda. The president was returning early from a Christmas break in Hawaii.
Just had a nice, brief chat with the President on Air Force One. Looking forward to supporting his agenda in the Senate.— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 27, 2012
The other finalists for the position included Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, whom Inouye had preferred as his successor, and Esther Kiaaina, the deputy director of the state's Department of Land and Natural Resources.
"Senator Inouye conveyed his final wish to Governor Abercrombie," Jennifer Sabas, Inouye's chief of staff, said in a statement. "While we are very disappointed that it was not honored, it was the Governor's decision to make."
Abercrombie said Inouye's views and wishes weighed on his decision-making process, but "no one and nothing is preordained." He said the possibility of a special election to fill Hanabusa's seat weighed on him in choosing Inouye's successor.
"Sometimes you have to set aside personal considerations in order to look for the good of the whole," the governor, a former congressman, said at a press conference.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office said Schatz would be sworn in to office on Thursday afternoon or early evening, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reported. The Senate reconvenes on Thursday to take up the urgent business of reaching a deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" on Jan. 1.

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This is a list of known in-game tricks and glitches in the second generation 2D Worms games.
Tricks and glitches
- Weapon-specific:
- Bazooka through wall
- Cluster Bomb Head Explosion (Worms 2 only)
- Longbow stops in mid-air
- Vertical Longbow and Baseball Bat
- Kamikaze drowning glitch
- Super Sheep going through walls
- Launching Multiple Super Sheep At The Same Time
- Jumping From Pneumatic Drill
- Chute flare
- Bungee from Jet Pack
- Teleport jump (and turn)
- Worm movement:
- Other:
Fixed glitches
These glitches have been fixed in Beta updates for Worms Armageddon.
- Parachute failure at fall velocity threshold
- Stray pixel in Girder sprite
- Longbow arrow absorption by a Grave
- Loss of control from being hit by a falling worm while on the Parachute
- Pneumatic Drill malfunction
- Ninja Rope snag trap
- Deadlock from Crate / Oil Drum floating on water
See also
- A full history of fixed glitches and other game behavior modifications can be found in the Worms Armageddon Beta ReadMe.
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Flooded in - four directions. No way out! Unless you have a canoe, paddle and waiting relatives lined up.
As seasoned North Queenslanders we've been watching the weather forecasts very carefully. We take flooding at this time of year for granted.
This morning we drove our which-roads-are-blocked-pilgrimage and were lucky to meet up with some locals. Lucky, because most of our neighbours are now being cut off and soon we'll only be touch via phone and facebook.
The locals we met were waiting with their vehicles, blocked at a river crossing on the road to Jumbun. We watched a canoe on the other side of the road paddle towards us - it was one of those classic moments you just have to photograph.
We had a yarn about the bridges being planned for Cassowary Coast and agreed this regularly flooded spot in Murray Upper would surely be a contender.
At this time of year rainfall is on our minds, and our facebook status statements are full of comments from locals keeping a watchful eye on how heavy the rain will be, and sharing up-to-date information and links.
We have reason to be concerned because even though a cyclone is not heading directly for us we know the outcome is torrential rain everywhere. We know rain is on the way and we like to know how much, when and where.
We know by tracking it on our favourite sites; ABC Local Radio,Oz Cyclone Chasers, NQ Flooding update and of course BOM (Bureau of Meteorology).
Before it begins to flood we do the following:
Stock up on food and supplies (that was a couple of days ago and any local down at the supermarket lines knew it, non locals were bemused, obviously not realising what was on the way)
Realise the best laid plans are about to go up the river
Make sure our cameras are poised to share our version of the flood with our friends similarly marooned on line
Dissect the weather with our mates
Keep checking the weather sites
A major aftermath of flooding can be the shortages of essential items in the supermarket and until the trucks can make it through; it can take a couple of weeks before the shelves are restocked.
The rain is hammering down and I wonder: what are my friends and neighbours up to right now?
I've heard through the facebook vine: they have been beanbag floating in their flooded duck ponds, getting their boats ready (but to go where?) and taking and then uploading their images and thoughts on the flood.
Once you are in the midst of flooding the general idea is to have fun, keep safe, and via the internet work out and observe when those water levels will go down to safely let you out!
Today we've been amazed. This is the biggest flooding at Murray Upper since we've lived here. The creeks and river are overflowing everywhere in a way we've not witnessed before. The Murray Falls would be brilliant if you could safely make it there.
A few of the children, including my own, are really disappointed that a planned cartooning workshop at the library has had to be cancelled, because the weather has made sure no one can make it.
Perhaps it's time to cartoon rain, boats, happy people arriving home and a runaway parking sign like the one I saw going up river just a couple of hours ago.
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Thanks Lisa, Jo, Michael, and Brad, The water levels are going down, however, this morning there was a big tree that fell down next door, softened by rain, wind and possible prior cyclone damage - it made us jump. Yes, Michael, creating is the thing to do, time to make some more videos! One member of the family has composed some music, and played it to us too.
And it keeps on raining. Good day to be inside watching a movie, listening to music or creating something.
Good luck with everything over the coming weeks and stay dry(ish)!
I hope you don't run out of food June! Keep us in the loop of how you are and be safe!
I used to love getting cut off when I lived with my family on the farm. Rain was about the only time we had lazy days. Stay safe June. Love the parking sign.
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Kevin Pietersen has been given a gentle reminder over his on-pitch behaviour following the obvious disappointment he exhibited after his dismissal in the third ODI in Ranchi.
Pietersen was adjudged by umpire S Ravi to have been caught behind off Ishant Sharma for 17 but lingered in the crease for several seconds in apparent disbelief at the decision.
While Pietersen may well have been unfortunate with the dismissal, replays suggesting that the ball brushed only his thigh, England's limited-overs coach, Ashley Giles, supported the action of the match referee, Andy Pycroft, to have an informal chat with Pietersen.
Giles was particularly keen to remind Pietersen how difficult umpiring could be in conditions as noisy as the ODI in Ranchi where umpires have little hope of distinguishing between the noise of the bat clipping the pad or the ball clipping the edge of the bat.
"Andy was right to speak to Kev," Giles admitted, "but I think common sense prevailed. It was just a little word. I didn't think it was a reaction, more disappointment from Kev.
"But we've got to be careful with reactions to decisions. It's tough for the umpires here, it's so loud that decision making is tough. We understand that."
Pycroft also had a brief conversation with Giles, taking the chance to talk with the England coach after bumping into him in the toilet at Ranchi airport. "It was in the gents," Giles said. "So that was a nice scene for my first meeting with the match referee."


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Feminist science-fiction, like all militant literature can be godawfully bad; it can also, occasionally, turn out surprisingly well and reach beyond its original intent, asking all sorts of hard questions about our society and our future. Elisabeth Vonarburg's In the Mothers' Land is one such work. I must avow, to my great shame, that when it first came out in
The world of In the Mother's Land is ours, several centuries down the line. After the collapse of our society, for reasons never clearly stated, surviving elites have retreated into high-tech refuge cities where they have slowly gone extinct while the outside fell into chaos – those events are described in Vonarburg's debut novel The Silent City. This chaotic situation did not last, however, and a new society has built itself upon the ruins of the old one.
Due to global warming large areas have been lost to the sea, and most of
The warlord states and survivalist communities which formed the background of The Silent City have coalesced into ferociously patriarchal kingdoms: the Harems. Run by a tiny all-male elite lording over an enslaved female majority, they finally fall to a revolutionary wave triggered by the coming of a messiah-like figure – Garde – but led by a covert revolutionary movement dating back to the failed revolt described in The Silent City.
Like most revolutions, this one did not exactly bring peace and freedom. While the deposed kings fled north to their stronghold of Wardenberg, the victorious revolutionaries turned their kingdoms into queendoms, every bit as tyrannical and warlike as their predecessors: the Hives. Yet it is from these hives that the world of In the Mother's Land evolved after another revolution, relatively peaceful this time.
The world in which Vonarburg's heroine Lisbeï is born is hardly an utopia, but it is a working society. It is a loose confederation of provinces, themselves loose confederations of autonomous city-states: the Capteries. Those relatively small communities are ruled by hereditary captes who represent them at the provincial assemblies. They share a common history and culture but are diverse in language and ideology, ranging from hardline fundamentalists – the Judites – to progressives.
The Mother's Land is beset by problems caused by resource scarcity and gender imbalance. Most children die young from a mysterious genetic disease. Research and recuperation of scrap metal and devices left over by our civilization is a major industry, and indeed the heroine's job. Yet The Mother's Land's knowledge of its own past is extremely limited. All that remains of our time, aside from a few miraculously recovered texts and artifact, are heavily distorted fairy tales – including Ys – and barely recognizable cultural items. In fact, The Mother's Land barely cares about what is for it a distant and irrelevant past; and of Lisbeï's discoveries, the one which causes the most turmoil is about the much more recent and more important fall of the harems.
The real ecotechnic societies which will emerge out of the ruins of our time will, of course, bear little resemblance with the carefully crafted Mother's Land, but this does not mean that it has nothing to teach us.
Its first lesson is that real ecotechnic societies will be very different from our societies. They may not share our hopes and values. They may even consider them abhorrent or, even worse, irrelevant. They will be, of course, our children, and their societies will have been shaped by the decisions we make now; but those decisions, and the spirit in which they will have been made will have long forgotten. It is not only somewhat vain to try to impose our ideologies upon a distant future, it is futile.
When we make a choice about what we want to preserve and transmit – or not transmit – we must remember our descendants may have a very different agenda. We all know that a large part of Greco-Roman culture was lost during the Dark Ages, but what we often fail to realize was that this loss was in fact a choice. Faced with very limited resources, early medieval monks chose to preserve Justin Martyr's apologies rather than Claudius' Etruscan grammar. We may disagree with this choice – I certainly do – but we can rest assured that our descendants will make similar ones.
The second lesson is that future societies will be as fluid as ours. We often see traditional societies as immobile, set in their ways, and without a history. The truth is that they often claim to be so, because they draw their legitimacy from tradition. That is what led Saxon kings to engineer convoluted genealogies going up to Woden Himself, or Chinese historian to grant imperial legitimacy to the most unlikely claimants so that subsequent dynasties might have somebody from whom to be bequeathed the Mandate of Heaven.
Real societies do change and the same way Vonarburg's Harems became Hives, then Capteries, which, in turn will undergo a number of change over the course of the novel, so future societies will continuously evolve new languages, philosophies and religions. Even after the tragedy of collapse is played out and something of a stable way of life is achieved again, countries and people will continue to compete for scarce resource and civilizations will develop new ways of inventing themselves until mankind itself fades out and goes extinct. That means that there is no point in trying to bring out any kind of heaven on Earth, not only because such an endeavor generally results in a very convincing hell, but also because societies never stay put and even a successful utopia is bound to eventually evolve into something else.
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Don Paup on the court with Jim Poole
Don receiving the Ken Davidson Sportsmanship Award
Dr. Donald C. Paup
It is with great sadness that we report that Dr. Donald Clark Paup passed away on August 7, 2012 at his home in Vienna, VA, due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. Don is justly famous in the badminton world as one of the top players this country has ever produced, in addition to his many years as a badminton coach and a professional in exercise science.
As a player, Don's badminton achievements spanned from the late 1960s through 2002. He won 18 national titles - nine U.S. National Men's Doubles and one U.S. National Mixed Doubles championships, as well as eight Senior National Doubles Championships. He also won the Mexican and South African Open Men's Doubles championships. Internationally, he played on, captained, or coached the U.S. Thomas Cup Teams from 1964 to 1979, U.S. Devlin Cup Teams, and the U.S. Touring Team to South Africa. Don was inducted into the Badminton Hall of Fame in 1973, and years later, the Walk of Fame; received the Ken Davidson Sportsmanship Award in 1976; and served on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (1968-1997).
Don also had an extensive coaching career, including serving as coach of the U.S. International Teams from 1971 to 1974, coach at the Olympic Festival, coach of The George Washington University (GWU) women's badminton team, and coach at many badminton camps – including the Connecticut Badminton Camp (1974-1983) in Farmington, CT, and the GWU Badminton Camp (1988-1999) that was a favorite of players from throughout the United States. Don also authored two badminton skills books and teaching films.
On the badminton administrative side, Don was a Director of the U.S. Badminton Association (the predecessor of USA Badminton) from 1976 to 1982, and served as Chairman of several USBA committees. He served on the NASPE and AIAW Intercollegiate Badminton Sports Committees, was Tournament Director for two AIAW National Championships, and served as a badminton clinician for most AAPHERD National Conventions. He served as Service Judge for the Thomas Cup (1967), Umpire for the World Games (1981), and Line Judge for the Olympic Games (1996) in Atlanta, GA.
Don also had a distinguished career professionally. After earning his BA at Occidental College and MS and PhD at Tulane University, Don did two Postdoctoral Fellowships, and then came to The George Washington University in 1973 as Director of the Exercise Center of the National Exercise and Heart Disease Project, and as an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. In 1978 he became Professor of Human Kinetics and Leisure Studies in the School of Education and Human Development, and in 1990 he became Chair of the Department of Exercise Science and Tourism Studies, and he served as Director of the Exercise Science Programs for many years. He also acted as Director for many fitness, exercise science and human performance programs, and has authored over 50 publications in the field of exercise and sport science. In 2006, after 33 years of dedicated service, Don retired from GWU as Professor Emeritus of Exercise Science.
Those of us who played alongside Don or benefited from his coaching and mentoring – and we are many – will remember Don not only as a brilliant player, but as the best badminton strategist around. Sitting next to him during a match was simply fascinating – he invariably pointed out some subtle tactic or shortcoming that was making the difference in the competition unfolding before you, which neither the players nor other observers perceived. It was not hard to understand why he and his long-time partner Jim Poole dominated U.S. men's doubles for so many years.
In the Northeast, he is most remembered in the badminton community by the many players and students who he coached, ranging from the very top echelon of U.S. players, to beginners. He was always ready to help and play with new and learning players, and encouraged and coached many of them to become accomplished badminton athletes. Don's support for "everything badminton" was legendary as well, not only at GWU, but also in the entire badminton community, where he organized and supported countless activities and events over his career. Don was truly one of the great leaders in the U.S. badminton world, and a friend and mentor to generations of players and coaches. He will be sorely missed on and off the court.
A memorial service celebrating Don's life will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012, at 2:00 p.m., at Emmanuel Lutheran Church located at 2589 Chain Bridge Road in Vienna, VA. Don is survived by his wife of 49 years, Helen Sands Paup, two daughters, Elizabeth Schlier and husband Carl, and Jennifer Butlin and husband Steve, as well as four grandchildren.
To honor Don, the Northeast Badminton Association has established a fund to support the education, development, and certification of coaches in the Northeast region, the Donald C. Paup Coaching Fund. More information about the fund and how to make a memorial contribution is available on the Northeast Badminton Association website at www.northeastbadminton.net. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.moneyandking.com.


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Editor's note: Norman Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He is teaching a course in the fall about ethics in tech. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) -- Leaders of the tech industry, long treated as national heroes, are looking a lot less heroic these days.
In case after case, we see tech titans and entrepreneurs misbehaving or breaking the law. They push the boundary of acceptable or ethical behavior that most of us have to play by. Even if some of them provide the technologies of tomorrow, it doesn't mean they can operate under different set of rules.
The biggest case to rock Silicon Valley in decades is a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of former engineers against tech giants such as Google, Apple, Intel and Intuit. The leaders of these companies -- Apple's Steve Jobs, Google's Eric Schmidt and others -- are accused of conspiring to avoid poaching each other's engineers.
These executives didn't want to bid against each other for talent and risk disruption of projects caused by departure of key personnel. By secretly colluding to halt the labor competition, their companies got to keep the engineers and put a brake on their salaries.
The plaintiffs, who claimed heavy lost wages as a result -- about $9 billion for the estimated 100,000 engineers who were affected -- submitted as evidence damning e-mail messages, such as ones written by Schmidt that show he not only agreed to the plan but admonished others to not leave a paper trail. While Google's noble motto is "don't do evil," its corporate practice has at times failed to match what the company preaches.
Artificially suppressing wages is not the only labor ethics issue.
Age discrimination is one of Silicon Valley's dirty little secrets. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook once made a comment tantamount to admitting that his company engages in age discrimination in hiring. And last year, Facebook quietly settled an age-related EEOC case.
In 2011, Google settled a multimillion dollar age discrimination suit brought by a former director, Brian Reid, who was 52 when he was fired. He had been subject to verbal slurs regarding his age, and data obtained during the legal discovery process suggested general ageist behavior by Google. (Disclosure: I served as an expert witness in that case.)
Then there's the issue of privacy.
Google has tried to get users to press Congress to support the company on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, which it opposed as going too far in combating copyright infringement. Schmidt's chilling 2010 comment, "We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about," hasn't exactly inspired trust.
Facebook has repeatedly faced howls of protest over its privacy policies, and Zuckerberg didn't help matters with his feeble protestation that privacy is no longer a "social norm."
Joe Green, head of the immigration lobbying group FWD.us, which was founded by Zuckerberg, noted last year that the tech companies "... control massive distribution channels" that they could use to influence elections.
Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain described hypothetical scenarios in which this could be done surreptitiously, with both Facebook users and the public being unaware. Sounds creepy, doesn't it?
It's not all bad. Facebook declined to join the anti-poaching scheme, and Zuckerberg and his wife have given generously to California and New Jersey schools. And in 2010, Google withdrew from China rather than be complicit in China's Internet censorship -- an instance in which the company did live up to its noble motto.
Yet, there is no doubt that many tech leaders feel an almost messianic sense of entitlement. They consider their products as so beneficial to humanity that they act as though they are "boy kings."
Must we resign ourselves to these boy kings' shenanigans? What can we do?
For one thing, we should teach more ethics courses to people in tech. Engineering education has long included a component of ethics and social responsibility.
The Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology requires ethics instruction in all accredited university engineering curricula. The ABET code of ethics consists of tenets such as "serving with fidelity the public, their employers and clients," and cites lofty goals of "integrity, honor and dignity."
The stated principles for the Association for Computing Machinery, the main computer science professional body, are similar but more detailed, notably in including a section on information privacy.
Yet idealistic instruction in ethics may be undermined by the perceptions that one can't fight the system.
For example, there seems to be no plan to bring criminal charges against the anti-poaching colluders, even though federal judge Lucy Koh indicated she is still not happy with the proposed settlement for the engineers who experienced lost wages as a result of the secret wage-theft pact. And it is doubtful that a jury of libertarian Silicon Valley peers would vote to convict the tech bigwigs anyway.
Perhaps the most effective method of ethics enforcement is the old-fashioned one: Public shaming. When startup CEO Greg Gopman made insensitive, condescending remarks in reference to San Francisco's very visible homeless population, or when fellow entrepreneur Peter Shih made demeaning public remarks about women, public uproars made them both apologize.
And the recent revelation that Facebook experimented on nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge has sparked outrage over the company's ethics policy -- or lack thereof. The company blamed the incident on a rogue research team and said to take "a very hard look at this process."
We may have to give the tech boys some time, but hopefully they'll be smart enough to realize that codes of ethics are just as important as computer codes.
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The St. Louis County Sheriff's Department says the crash happened north of Duluth where a road is under construction. The SUV left the road Saturday night, struck several large concrete drain pipes and overturned.
Several people passing by stopped to help and watched as the driver ran into some nearby woods. Sheriff's officials say the driver returned a short time later and stole one of vehicles belonging to the passers-by.
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FiL went to a Christmas party last night.
FiL dressed up as Santa Claus.
FiL got stinking drunk.
FiL had to be helped home.
Dearest Mrs Claus is not speaking to FiL.
But FiL feels no remorse...
The Dwarves - Drinking Up Christmas (buy e-here)
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Too Much Chrimbo Cheer
Posted by FiL at 12/16/2007 01:52:00 p.m.
9 comments:
- Mentok said...
Fil as Bad Santa! The mind boggles. Did anyone film it? This just sounds like such a natural for YouTube.
(if the missus really isn't speaking, I think you should at least fake remorse. Men never win silent-treatment contests.)
- 17/12/07 07:54
Bad Santa, great film, good on ya Fil, you were sounding a bit grinchy before this, great post of the dwarves tune, seasonal, yet tasteless, speaking of which its my works outing tomorrow, hopefully it will pass without incident
- 17/12/07 10:24
- Natsthename said...
Pardon me if I don't ask what Santa has in his bag!
Merry Christmas, FiL!!
- 17/12/07 13:37
Oh FiL,
How could you.............not have it on video?
Bad Boy. At least you'll get a bit of peace and quiet from tlw!
big kiss
- 17/12/07 14:15
- Mentok said...
I nearly forgot ... Happy Birthday!
- 17/12/07 21:58
I am glad his hat was not standing at a attention, if you know what I mean.
Just would add insult to injury.
- 17/12/07 22:55
- mjrc said...
ah, so this was a birthday celebration? nothing like the morning after an over-the-top night on the town to remind us that we're not getting any younger!
oh, i kid. i'm feeling your pain. although the last time i had to be removed from a party, i couldn't for the life of me remember what i'd done, which may or may not have been part of the problem. : )
happy natal day, dear fil!
- 18/12/07 03:45
There, there FiL. Go eat somebody's brain and you'll feel much better. It goes well with birthday cake.
Why do I feel that the final scene of the party was of a reeling Santa being led away whilst yelling "My name is Nikolai Ceaucescu and I want my country back!!!!"
Happy birthday, you ancient relic you! 40 is not far away! Bwwahahahahah.....
- 18/12/07 18:37
- Just a Girl said...
A birthday bash?
Oh happy one to you!
- 20/12/07 08:10


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Outlook Signatures
Build mass-deployable Outlook signatures using a Word-like designer.
Codeless Logon Scripts
Build graphical logon scripts with your own logo by pure point and click.
Kill your print servers
Print to IP printers directly.
Software Deploy and Inventory
Push software without a management server and inventory to the cloud.
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Same features - less complexity.
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Lockdown Local Admins
Revoke local admins rights and have users request ad-hoc access under full audit.
Rating: 5 out of 5
"Use this as a replacement for VBScript and PowerShell"
"It's easy to include attractive GUI elements in FastTrack scripts, beyond the basic dialog boxes and text input that VBScript offers ... Another powerful feature is the ability to distribute scripts as Windows Installer (.msi) or standard .exe files. Although interesting in its own right, this ability results in a much more intriguing capability: to repackage -- or wrap -- software installers as .msi files without using snapshots. If you've ever created an .msi installer file from before-and-after system snapshots, for use with a software distribution system such as Group Policy or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), then you know how hit-and-miss the results can be."
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Rating: 8 out of 10
"Faster than the rest"
"We found the FastTrack syntax to be more transparent and easier to learn than Microsoft's PowerShell – the editor in particular provided good support in this regard. the Script Editor offers a large number of options from the command set through to simple output of graphical elements, which cannot be achieved at all with PowerShell or other solutions or only with a significantly greater level of effort."
"Anyone wanting to tackle the many hurdles in everyday admin and especially anyone for whom logon scripts and client automation is a priority will benefit from the variety of functions offered by FastTrack."
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