Posts by Deiwos

UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs

Re: Hello, Hello ... can you hear me mother ???

“Yes, Minister” was a documentary, it seems!

Any sufficiently large bureaucracy (the persons within) will act to protect its (their) own role. I've witnessed it in action, also for a taxpayer funded organisation.

How the collapse of local cloud provider caused biz continuity issues in UK government

Taxpayer funded data centres exist ...

... & run various services for both, other taxpayer funded entities, & private businesses - worldwide.

I worked with some amazing software/ hardware/ network people, gurus, really.

I was a 'lowly' data centre “operator”, but the role entailed much more.

The entire site is within the purview of the business/ scientific research arm of the administrative state.

I won't name it.

There are dozens of similar sites across the UK.

What possible reason is there for not using this capacity, & expertise? Beyond corruption, I mean.

This could've been handled 'in-house', but, it appears, 'friends, & family' need some lovely taxpayer money.

Signing a renewal contract just before declaring insolvency smacks of corruption - they (the company leaders) must have known the true state of said company.

Sadly, this is simply one more instance of wasting taxpayers money, add it to the tome.

Read “Parliament Ltd” by Martin Williams (2016), & weep!

Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues

This would, if the link is correct, appear to be “Washington's Farewell Address - 1796”

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp

Yet, we learn nothing from history.

The workplace has become a surveillance state

Re: "there is a growing desire among"

So did the other socialists of the Soviet block, so have other socialists done (Mao, Pol Pot, Che, etc.), so they continue to do, today (Zimbabwe, Venezuela, & more).

It's weird that only the NSDAP receive opprobrium for their actions, & not those others I list.

Re: "there is a growing desire among"

I agree with both of your comments.

Just for those lacking the knowledge:

National Socialism (nazi):

(German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology & practice associated with the Nazi Party. (Which name they hated, btw.)

Officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparteior) or NSDAP.

Most definitely, socialist, but seeking the help of a deity, with “Gott Mit Uns” on the belt buckle of each Wehrmacht/ SS trooper.

"Für Ihre Sicherheit"

"For your safety"

To the original, personally, I would label them as socialist, or with socialist tendencies, but using Lenin, Stalin, Marx, etc. as examples. After all, Big Brother was modelled on that sort of behaviour, AFAIK.

As far as fascism is concerned (because that's their next epithet), that's an Italian invention, by Giovanni Gentile, with help from Mussolini.

They're all of a piece, so there's that.