Posts by Chris Miller
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
It would be pretty shitty if you had to be a WINZ client to use those considering how many people have been booted off benefits and have no actual income. Real unemployment figures are higher than who's on unemployment.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to James Harden,
Or from the WINZ kiosk, apparently.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Nigel McNie,
Agree Nigel, I don't know that you can really call it breaching the servers! He went to the File menu of a public computer and clicked Open File. Mega hax there. If he wasn't supposed to have it, surely they wouldn't have put it there, as I'm sure plenty of lawyers would argue.
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Thomas, I would love to see them go after him for this. LOVE TO. He may well have technically broken the law but public opinion if they tried to charge him for it could get very messy.
And yeah, I've seen statistics that suggest a significant amount if not the majority of benefit fraud is committed by MSD staff, so the fact that the staff can access this stuff is pretty horrifying in and of itself.
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Wait so they're targeting beneficiaries because beneficiaries come into the offices all the time to get help? But... the ones who come in don't need to be targeted with sanctions, because they're coming in to get help already and being proactive. It's the mythical hordes that aren't being proactive that they keep going on about, the ones that don't come into the offices... just like WFF recipients don't.
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My favourite female character on Downton Abbey is Daisy. She's not what a lot of people would call strong. She's naive and sweet. She gets pressured into doing things she doesn't want to do. BUT... she doesn't compromise her ideas of what's right and wrong. Even when giving in and doing what others want, she doesn't doubt her belief that she shouldn't be doing it. She may not have the power to defy peer pressure, but she has the strength to not doubt herself, to refuse to let people gaslight her. To me that is strength, because people in authority are telling her that something is right, she's doing the right thing, and she's just a lowly maid so surely she should be trusting their judgement - but she won't, because she believes in herself.
I think everyone has a different idea of what a strong female character is, and it's sad that too often they think it means an action hero. I want to see variety and, like you, depth. There's a million ways to be strong for women. Why stick with just one?
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You know, reading the synopsis of Logan's Run makes me immediately leap to things like Children of the Corn and The Tribe and this kid's book I read when I was, you know, a kid, about a disease that causes premature aging and death (not progenia - it was high contagious and killed quickly), and it all makes me want to pat old people on the head and say, "It's okay. Young people aren't that scary."
Then again, considering that one of the big red warning signs for civil unrest is a high proportion of educated and unemployed young people, maybe they are.