[governance] reality check on economics

[Roland Perry]

In message <B6855143-E49D-4D52-986E-538EFE4A4E42 at ella.com>, at 11:29:50 
on Sun, 20 May 2012, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com> writes
>You are twisting my words. Nothing new there.  We all do it sometimes. So I forgive you.
>
>In the technical environment geeks are usually the way to go.
>This is not the case of other environments.
>Many geeks are idiots when out of their milieu.
>
>As for idiots, we all can become idiots in some fame of reference or other.
>And no, I am not calling all non geeks idiots.
>Only the ones who enter an environment they know nothing about while proclaiming their knowledge.

A lawyer can proclaim knowledge of the law (quite justifiably) when 
entering a technical environment where they nothing about the 
technology.

But they do know what the technology should deliver (eg: privacy and 
security). Surely their opinion about that is as valuable as the 
technologists'?

-- 
Roland Perry

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