The legal/mail/response page is still available here. Typical quotes include things like (in a response to Dreamworks) "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are....... morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons."
A middle way would be to not choose between the two, and instead combine them. That is what being a project leader in tech projects is all about: You come with a heavy tech background and thus have the know-how, and now your beard is gray enough to be credible in the role of leader.
My advice would be that. From now on, spend your energy on reading information systems literature, along with business intelligence and similar. Meanwhile, offer to take charge of the tech projects in your organization and delegate most of the actual techie stuff to the people you're now bossing around.
I'd say an experienced tech project leader is more employable than a pure code monkey or a pure bureaucrat.
And if worst comes to worst and your hands start shaking with abstinence from programming, there's nothing stopping you from getting your hands dirty in some programming work inside the projects either.
Guys like this should be sentenced to public service instead, for example to working for free as an assistant computer teacher for a year, under monitorship from the authorities. That'd turn his obvious competence into something useful, as well as being a net benefit to the society economically.
So far, the best suggestion I have heard for protesting against this law is to simply add fra@fra.se to the CC of every single mail you send. Hell, they want the mail so let's just sent it to them directly.
The amusing thing about this is that FRA is a government agency and that this is their official address. By law they are required to register and archive all mail arriving on that address so that citizens asking for a mail later on can get it.
There has actually been quite a lot of fuss around this law. For example, a seldomly used law paragraph enabled the social democratic minority to delay this proposal for a year, something which gained quite some attention when it happened. If that had not been done, the law would have passed a year ago.
An update to what was happening during this period is available at http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.156736 (swedish only). IDG is the largest swedish news agency for technology-related news.
At the national swedish radio homepage http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/ekot/artikel.asp?Artikel=1242136 you can read about finlands protests against the law. They also published news about the growing criticism of the law at http://www.sr.se/Ekot/artikel.asp?artikel=1240436 (both links in swedish).
Everyone knows the sexual capacity of rabbits. You though it was from munching all them carrots? Oh no, it's the caffeine! (/me goes to make another cup of coffee )
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The legal/mail/response page is still available here. Typical quotes include things like (in a response to Dreamworks) "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ....... morons, and
that you should please go sodomize yourself with retractable batons."
A middle way would be to not choose between the two, and instead combine them. That is what being a project leader in tech projects is all about: You come with a heavy tech background and thus have the know-how, and now your beard is gray enough to be credible in the role of leader. My advice would be that. From now on, spend your energy on reading information systems literature, along with business intelligence and similar. Meanwhile, offer to take charge of the tech projects in your organization and delegate most of the actual techie stuff to the people you're now bossing around. I'd say an experienced tech project leader is more employable than a pure code monkey or a pure bureaucrat. And if worst comes to worst and your hands start shaking with abstinence from programming, there's nothing stopping you from getting your hands dirty in some programming work inside the projects either.
Guys like this should be sentenced to public service instead, for example to working for free as an assistant computer teacher for a year, under monitorship from the authorities. That'd turn his obvious competence into something useful, as well as being a net benefit to the society economically.
So far, the best suggestion I have heard for protesting against this law is to simply add fra@fra.se to the CC of every single mail you send. Hell, they want the mail so let's just sent it to them directly. The amusing thing about this is that FRA is a government agency and that this is their official address. By law they are required to register and archive all mail arriving on that address so that citizens asking for a mail later on can get it.
There has actually been quite a lot of fuss around this law. For example, a seldomly used law paragraph enabled the social democratic minority to delay this proposal for a year, something which gained quite some attention when it happened. If that had not been done, the law would have passed a year ago. An update to what was happening during this period is available at http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.156736 (swedish only). IDG is the largest swedish news agency for technology-related news. At the national swedish radio homepage http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/ekot/artikel.asp?Artikel=1242136 you can read about finlands protests against the law. They also published news about the growing criticism of the law at http://www.sr.se/Ekot/artikel.asp?artikel=1240436 (both links in swedish).
Everyone knows the sexual capacity of rabbits. You though it was from munching all them carrots? Oh no, it's the caffeine! ( /me goes to make another cup of coffee )