Home Affairs Select Committee - Drugs Policy Inquiry - Evidence Session #5http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=10982 (Requires Silverlight plugin)Quote:This is the Home Affairs Select Committee’s fifth evidence session in the inquiry into drugs policy. The inquiry, which has received numerous written evidence submissions from organisations and members of the public, is intended to be a comprehensive review of drugs policy.
The first panel will be Professor David Nutt, the founder of the International Scientific Committee on Drugs and former ACMD Chairman, and Doctor Les King, a former ISCD and former ACMD Member. The Committee will be questioning Professor Nutt and Dr King of their experience of working with Government and the difficulties involved in having evidence-based drug policy.
The second panel will be the Chairman and two members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The committee will discuss their role and how they can most effectively aid the Government in what is becoming a rapidly changing landscape following the current trend for novel psychoactive 'substance'.
Witnesses
At approx 11am
Professor David Nutt, International Scientific Committee on Drugs and former ACMD Chairman,
Doctor Les King, a former ISCD and former ACMD Member.
At approx 11.30am
Dr Les Iversen, Prof. Ray Hill
Annette Dale-Perera, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
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It is so fucking lame to require Microsoft Silverlight to watch their videos...
To me, this sends the same message as if they said only well-behaving WHITE people are allowed to watch them.
And this comes from a parliament, for God's sake, in the XXI. century. What a shame.
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I think it is wholly wrong to force UK citizens to install proprietary software to access the workings of the political system. I am a little confused about the comment relating to skin colour though!
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Sorry, that was a bit far-fledged and black/white... When I take myself to the extreme, Microsoft has this image of "hard-working, primarily white men of the United States building profitable business on the basis of the protestant work-ethic" (with an enormous, unacknowledged dark-side hidden behind the white-washed and glamorous outwards appearance).
Contrast this with Linux which feels more like an all-encompassing, organic grass-roots thing, well exemplified by the Rastafarian dyne:bolic distribution.
Clearly Babylon and Zion to me.
I got angry because a democratic government, which should be equally approachable by every citizen - no matter the skin color, sex, language, religion or ideology - chose a closed, proprietary platform perpetuated by a poster child of the dying Western capitalist ideology. This choice sends the message that citizens had better succumb to this ideology if they want to partake in the democratic process.
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I totally agree with you on the need for governments to use open platforms to disseminate information. Unfortunately this issue goes far further than just seeing the goings on in parliament, it is embedded in all parts of the system (I imagine this is also the case around the world). It is hard with all the money Microsoft and the likes have to push their products.
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