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Sunday, Oct 19, 2014 - 19:52 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Bo Cheng Hu

Slow remote desktop connections returned to top my list of irritants in the past week, while the title of latest political personage to rub netizens the wrong way was taken by a former NMP, who shrugged off his involvement in illegal price fixing as "not criminal and no big deal"... all the more as it was merely wage fixing, and not price fixing.

Actually, one could be somewhat sympathetic, all the more as it was ostensibly to raise wages for models (though one of course suspects that the agencies would have benefitted too, if their cut were a fixed percentage of wages) - what rubbed observers the wrong way, it seems, was the unapologetic attitude; now, it may be true that alternative media commentators aren't exactly the most polite bunch, but one hopes to expect better from a Member of Parliament...

...which, as it turns out, doesn't seem to be that popular of a posting nowadays, going by how less than a quarter of elected MPs even bothered to turn up for a sitting a few months ago. To top it off, apparently none of them realised that this meant that a voting quorum had not been met, leaving it to an NMP to point the pertinent fact out.

From this, one cannot help but draw two conclusions:

  • Law not so important, make money most important
  • Attending Parliament not important - but then it's effectively a rubber-stamp nowadays anyway, with the major policy directions all on autopilot

Interestingly, all the more given recent discussions, said NMP further identified "Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and liberals" as the greatest danger to Singapore! Such people might, you know, hold the opinion that hidden collusion is - gasp - wrong! We can't have that!

Now, let it not be said that he's totally out of it, since he does at least realise that vocational jobs have to be paid more to become desirable for locals... while completely glossing over the continued pumping in of labour (on whose dependence was previously a concern, now, not so much) and crushing of independent unions (which could have mitigated the wage squeeze more directly) by the incumbents.

Then again, it's not as if the West is all that pure, with the FBI all hot and bothered by Apple implementing encryption by default on iOS 8 devices (why, don't you trust them?) Well, there's been some pushback with products like the physical plug-and-play anonabox Tor proxy promising privacy (still, it's not foolproof against sufficiently determined regimes)

Back to waiting for experimental results...



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