If it is like what the parent says, and if the employer is not very important, say a start up company, it would be fine to let this go.
However, as many would like to point out, this is a city job, a public service job.
That in itself changes the whole game.
As public servants, in theory, they are there to help the public by doing their jobs, whether it be janitorial or clerical.
If this is allowed to happen, it might at the very least devolve into what is currently happening in police jobs.
There if one wants to succeed and keep their job, keeping their supervisors happy and not saying anything bad about them is a must.
Positive criticism cannot be attained and the organization loses a check, another regulating power to help keep it nice and efficient.
Yet, who in their right mind, as a bureaucrat, would let go the chance to control their employees more?
The article itself is a very good read eh. (Which is probably why there are not that many comments here yet (RTA FTW).
It focuses mostly on the war/espionage aspects and has very few mentions of privacy and such, downplaying it rather well.
The interesting thing I learnt is that the NSA is pretty messed, [the article saying they] want security but they would rather know everything about everyone.
In all, it's probably all hype eh. Sure there are implications of damage war can be brought, but as the article sometimes pointed out, it's hard to distinguish from economic spying and military espionage.
In any case, the best thing that can happen (for me) is if America does decide to go ahead and give the NSA even more power they seek. When everyone is under the eye of bigbrother, there should be war. Which is fun eh.
If there is no war, America would be a sucky place to live in. Canada would probably be bullied into doing the same thing, so my place would be messed too.
Heh... but in all this, I find that I am really anxious for that to happen. I really want to forget everything, take out a few guns, and go out guns ablazing. Like that dude in V for Vendetta. Yarr.
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Being a homeless, jobless bum is alright if you have the cash, or a neat gun.
If it is like what the parent says, and if the employer is not very important, say a start up company, it would be fine to let this go.
However, as many would like to point out, this is a city job, a public service job.
That in itself changes the whole game.
As public servants, in theory, they are there to help the public by doing their jobs, whether it be janitorial or clerical.
If this is allowed to happen, it might at the very least devolve into what is currently happening in police jobs.
There if one wants to succeed and keep their job, keeping their supervisors happy and not saying anything bad about them is a must.
Positive criticism cannot be attained and the organization loses a check, another regulating power to help keep it nice and efficient.
Yet, who in their right mind, as a bureaucrat, would let go the chance to control their employees more?
The article itself is a very good read eh. (Which is probably why there are not that many comments here yet (RTA FTW). It focuses mostly on the war/espionage aspects and has very few mentions of privacy and such, downplaying it rather well. The interesting thing I learnt is that the NSA is pretty messed, [the article saying they] want security but they would rather know everything about everyone. In all, it's probably all hype eh. Sure there are implications of damage war can be brought, but as the article sometimes pointed out, it's hard to distinguish from economic spying and military espionage. In any case, the best thing that can happen (for me) is if America does decide to go ahead and give the NSA even more power they seek. When everyone is under the eye of bigbrother, there should be war. Which is fun eh. If there is no war, America would be a sucky place to live in. Canada would probably be bullied into doing the same thing, so my place would be messed too. Heh... but in all this, I find that I am really anxious for that to happen. I really want to forget everything, take out a few guns, and go out guns ablazing. Like that dude in V for Vendetta. Yarr.
In all, if the quality of video games start to suck, I still have my tennis racket to hit other people with just in case the apocalypse comes