Comments on: The Butterfly Effect http://blog.johnlacey.net/the-butterfly-effect/ Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:35:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://blog.johnlacey.net/the-butterfly-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-2554 Daniel Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:02:31 +0000 http://blog.johnlacey.net/?p=369#comment-2554 I've gotten standard form replies to the letters I sent out about that, which is almost worse than getting no reply because the standard form arguments are just a repetition of the very things I contradicted in my letters - another way of saying "thank you for your letter, I didn't read it, but read this." I'm still sitting back and waiting. There's a good chance the clean feed will never happen, because if the whole deal has come about from a too-cosy relationship between government and some sections of the IT industry, then the smart political compromise would probably be to throw tonnes of money at them to develop the filters but then abandon implementation, thus placating both the businesses and the voters (apart from the few who realise and resent the wastefulness of it, especially in tight economic times). I’ve gotten standard form replies to the letters I sent out about that, which is almost worse than getting no reply because the standard form arguments are just a repetition of the very things I contradicted in my letters – another way of saying “thank you for your letter, I didn’t read it, but read this.”

I’m still sitting back and waiting. There’s a good chance the clean feed will never happen, because if the whole deal has come about from a too-cosy relationship between government and some sections of the IT industry, then the smart political compromise would probably be to throw tonnes of money at them to develop the filters but then abandon implementation, thus placating both the businesses and the voters (apart from the few who realise and resent the wastefulness of it, especially in tight economic times).

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