All persons get 24 hours in a day. Within that time, most are expected to do some amount of work for compensation. The model that followed from that is averaged as 9 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday. In that amount of time, we are not only expected to excel at our chosen profession, but to remain entirely civil in the course of our duties. So on one hand, we are expected to be seamless in our application of skill and on the other, remain totally professional.
Now with breach of confidence, intellectual property and trade secrets, working individuals must perform during that time (again to maintain their compensation, necessary to acquire food, clothing, and shelter) but they also must remain bound to a one sided contract that limits their on the job learning capacity, their outside interactions with peers, and their future career choices. With the difficulties facing a modern world wide economy, and similarly in the regional and continental sense of things, it would seem this commission failed to interpret the scope of their task. Human beings cannot be bound by paper to ignore curiousity. And once that curiousity is sated a bit, what then? We share information. We might not share it with everyone in the pub, or on the street, or on the internet.
For whatever unforeseen situation that might arise from the sharing of information, it always seems like a group of lawyers and business persons are active in trying to limit that natural step that comes after discovery. The implications to education, history and international relations are staggering. That a commission would outsource the investigation to a biased party is even harder to believe. It escapes common sense, and demands its own investigation. Blatantly ignoring all other data for a commissioned report from a biased party is no way to ensure any bit of our civilizations will stand. To counteract their "fuck it" attitude, I would propose that internships be offered to university students in each member state. Have them try to replicate each approach. Poll the citizens and on the other hand poll the interests groups. See if the commission had any real foot to stand on.
All persons get 24 hours in a day. Within that time, most are expected to do some amount of work for compensation. The model that followed from that is averaged as 9 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday. In that amount of time, we are not only expected to excel at our chosen profession, but to remain entirely civil in the course of our duties. So on one hand, we are expected to be seamless in our application of skill and on the other, remain totally professional.
Now with breach of confidence, intellectual property and trade secrets, working individuals must perform during that time (again to maintain their compensation, necessary to acquire food, clothing, and shelter) but they also must remain bound to a one sided contract that limits their on the job learning capacity, their outside interactions with peers, and their future career choices. With the difficulties facing a modern world wide economy, and similarly in the regional and continental sense of things, it would seem this commission failed to interpret the scope of their task. Human beings cannot be bound by paper to ignore curiousity. And once that curiousity is sated a bit, what then? We share information. We might not share it with everyone in the pub, or on the street, or on the internet.
For whatever unforeseen situation that might arise from the sharing of information, it always seems like a group of lawyers and business persons are active in trying to limit that natural step that comes after discovery. The implications to education, history and international relations are staggering. That a commission would outsource the investigation to a biased party is even harder to believe. It escapes common sense, and demands its own investigation. Blatantly ignoring all other data for a commissioned report from a biased party is no way to ensure any bit of our civilizations will stand. To counteract their "fuck it" attitude, I would propose that internships be offered to university students in each member state. Have them try to replicate each approach. Poll the citizens and on the other hand poll the interests groups. See if the commission had any real foot to stand on.