Assange Hearing Day 8

Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by mothsonasloth on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:12AM (#24430747)

Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious.

Its no wonder when you have to interact with politicians on a day to day basis that the cultures should mirror each other.

I would much prefer Microsoft Civil Servant sp4 or an IBM Civil Servant AI powered by Big Blue.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by BusTrainBus on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:25AM (#24430844)

“Civil servants in the UK are renowned for being inherently lazy, incompetent and devious.”

Depressing to see such low-quality nonsense on HackerNews.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by DyslexicAtheist on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:57AM (#24431890)

there are several brilliant documentaries[⁰][¹] about the inner political circles in Britain which make exactly the point GP is alluding to:

[⁰] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It

[¹] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by mothsonasloth on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:31AM (#24430882)

Likewise with your comment mate

https://www.clivebates.com/documents/lazycivilservant.pdf

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by CraigJPerry on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:55AM (#24431020)

I’m not sure that an amusing leaflet, ostensibly about civil servants but equally humorous to anyone in a large private enterprise, refutes the parent’s point.

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by mhh__ on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:56AM (#24431025)

Civil servants are not "known" for anything. The civil service is a lumbering giant but you can't characterise it in such terms. You can try but you'd need to drive to a castle to get your eyes tested first

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Re:Assange Hearing Day 8 by bzb5 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:19AM (#24432065)

Civil servants are renowned for those things in every country.

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