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Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by kzrdude on Sunday April 28, 2013 @09:05AM (#5621098)
The booster is that (some) Icelanders demand change and are seeking out new politicians. However, a depressing majority seems to have voted to install the old politicians, that were part of setting up the crisis, into power again.
Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by tellarin on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:21AM (#5621511)
Yeah, the return of the right to the majority was weird. They were exactly those defeated on the last election after the Icelandic economy quite literally crash and burned. :-/
Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by mg74 on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:22PM (#5622383)
No the Independent Party (the conservatives) are the ones that were voted out last time and they merely added 3% points this time around (their second worst result ever). But since the Social Dems got slaughtered they are the biggest party now (by virtue of not crashing and burning this time around).

The big winners are the Progressives (the farmers party) and they were last voted out of power some 6 years ago, before the 2007 crash. They are winning now because of the Icesave issue which the Social Dems and the Left Greens fucked up badly last term.

Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by olefoo on Sunday April 28, 2013 @05:06PM (#5622775)
Money and self-deception work just as well in Iceland as in Britain or the US of A.

This is a human problem that must be solved by human means.

It is tempting when looking at the corrupted nature of our current institutions to think of technological solutions that would render our governments incorruptible by the people using them. But it is necessary to remember that an incorruptible institution is also an inflexible institution and that an inflexible institution cannot adapt to changing circumstances without breaking.

Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by nitrogen on Sunday April 28, 2013 @10:09PM (#5623723)
If most problems are "human" problems, how does applying "human" means solve them, when those "human" means are themselves subject to "human" problems? Wouldn't it be more effective to use something that isn't "human" or subject to "human" problems?

Also, how does it follow that incorruptible and inflexible are mutually inclusive?

Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by olefoo on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:14PM (#5623884)
I think you meant mutually exclusive?

As for, "human solutions to human problems" the agonistic form of most western legal systems, where professionals advocate for their clients and present opposing views to someone who is supposed to be an impartial arbiter, but whose decisions can be appealed; would be an example. It is imperfect, but able to deal with changing circumstances. And notably human judgment is involved at every step.

Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by nitrogen on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:50PM (#5623970)
No, I meant inclusive :-). Why must "incorruptible" include "inflexible", and vice versa? Though in hindsight, you're not saying that inflexible implies incorruptible (A <-> B), only that incorruptible implies inflexible (A -> B). Why must that be the case?

I'll simply have to disagree that involving human judgment in every step of a process is a good thing, or that the adversarial legal system does anything other than favor the party with more resources (instead of the party that is more correct). Human beings are simply far too fallible, far too vulnerable to blind spots and biases to be trusted with important decisions. I read once on HN that removing human judgment from part of the judicial process, by implementing sentencing guidelines in criminal cases, actually improved outcomes.

Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by walshemj on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:41AM (#5621591)
And some hardliners want to ban all porn from the Icelandic Internet.
Re:Icelandic Pirate Party enters parliament by mg74 on Sunday April 28, 2013 @03:16PM (#5622354)
It was one guy and he's out of power now. And he's hardly a hard liner, he just likes to ban things.