Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-15-2010

[andrewducker]

• Former boss of Warner Music says that album prices should drop to £1.
  (tags: music marketing)
• Fascinating interview on Steve Jobs and his method of working and approach to design.
  (tags: apple interview stevejobs mac design inspiration)
• The problem with schools - not dumbing down but something more subtle
  (tags: education uk school exams)
• The best statement so far on the Chilean miners rescue
  (tags: startrek funny ChileanMiners)
• World's longest tunnel, joining Italy to Switzerland, is completed.
  (tags: switzerland italy construction transport)
• Rape 'impossible' in marriage, says British Muslim cleric. Of course, UK only changed away from this in 1991.
  (tags: law rape islam uk)
• Scottish male domestic abuse victims rise to 8,600. Female domestic abuse victims fall to 42,800
  (tags: abuse crime scotland uk)
• xkcd on tech support. Oh, how I wish this were true.
  (tags: xkcd funny)
• 10 Great Rock and Roll bloopers that you may not realise that you've heard.
  (tags: music funny)
• Humans completely destroy another life form, purely because it's not cute and fluffy. And it's a virus. And it's really nasty.
  (tags: virus genocide EpicWin)
• Netbooks still selling well, despite predictions of imminent demise.
  (tags: computers laptop)
• On reaching out to bullied kids
  (tags: bullying children)
• Firefox now as fast as Safari, very nearly as fast as Chrome.
  (tags: browser benchmark Firefox chrome safari)
• Pension tax benefits slashed for wealthy. Yaaaaaay!
  (tags: pension tax government uk)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Naah, I wasn't trying to say that my way was _right_. I don't believe there is a right or a wrong way to govern the country, per se. There are things I like more than other things, and there are principles I care about more, but I understand that everyone has different priorities.

I don't think that limiting the pension to x-amount yearly is necessarily better than limiting it to x-amount overall, or some combination or the two. It all comes down to a balancing act, and what they can get a variety of different politicans to agree to.

I do think that there are loopholes that will be taken advantage of in any legal framework, and that there will be a constant battle between people taking advantages of loopholes and other people closing them. And that I'd rather have a simpler system that leaves a few people outside of it than an incredibly complex one that (theoretically) covers everyone.

But I don't get to run the country.

And yes, democracy is definitely the least-worst of all governing systems. Churchill was right.