It is indeed funny to see nerds attempt to ascribe some factual, logical reasoning to why such actions are taken by certain politicians.

When you learn first hand how grossly ignorant of the internet many politicians really are, in almost any country, it can be quite the wake up call.

Funny and painfully ubiquitous. Probably really well-paid monkey astrologers too.

governments write their own checks and set their own pay rate. You can bet they are quite rich.

Actually, that’d be great. The most likely reason it got banned is because of corruption. One reason for corruption is that politicians aren’t paid well. What smart competent sane person would rationally choose to be a politician? Maybe if it paid competitively. I wonder if there is a study on the ROI?

What a wild idea. Corporations and wealthy people are also corrupt. It turns out that it is a lack of morals. Or in many cases a complete dismissal of them for the pursuit of profit.

Most people's morals can be bought, it's just a matter of cost. Increasing salaries for government employees increases the barrier to entry for corruption.

Whether or not a typical state can actually afford it is a completely different issue altogether.

The tree-pruners in the major city near me make 150k a year. I'm guessing that's pocket change to those wacky astrologers. Didn't really mention anything about politicians.

The poor politicians got together and plotted against VLC. Now it's all making sense.

If they are succesfull, then they must be good!

+1. Around 2005/6 there was some news story that some minister was asking why long distance phone call taxes were dropping and someone explained that corporates were using Skype now. His response was that they are still required to pay the taxes. facepalm

Recently, in an op/ed article about something different the journalist said "India is a first world country with a third world government."

More on topic: I didn't know about VLC until an Indian coworker introduced it to me.

> More on topic: I didn't know about VLC until an Indian coworker introduced it to me.

That's an odd remark. VLC is open source software, of course you're going to learn about it through word of mouth.

> Our government is run by monkeys. > My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.

I feel great sympathy for you. From JPN.

It feels the same way over here in the US far too often.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

> Our government is run by monkeys

except the fine print is decided by bureaucrats, and not politicians themselves. your bias against the current government is blinding your logic.

Have you encountered any Indian bureaucrats recently? They are so far detached from technology and science it's hilarious. But they are very smart (cunning) in imitating whatever the ruling government is doing. So if government is trigger-banning everything, bureaucracy will do the same (and double down in most cases) without ever questioning it.

I absolutely love your username.