Whistleblowing Is Sexy

I've just been watching this video and accompanying article about Edward Snowden, the guy who blew the whistle on the PRISM surveilance by the NSA. There's no transcript but the information in the video is broadly repeated in the article - just in different words.

It's very interesting. We all hope we'd do the right thing in that situation but reality is that most people don't. I admire his courage and morals and from what he says he's gone to extensive means to do this while simultaneously releasing the smallest amount of information he could have, which I also admire. I hope that the releases produce the public accountability that he hoped for, and that changes really do happen.

Plus he looks like Daniel Radcliffe, which really makes the video nice to look at :)

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Biggest thing I seem to learn when working out physics problems - I still get the physics part right, then screw up the basic arithmetic bits like I did in high school in the 1980/1990s... Some things never change??

Writing is hard so mostly I am just doing the problems mentally as I go through the book, but it's easy to convince yourself you knew how to do it when you can look at the answers so every so often making myself work one out on paper.

I managed to forget a minus sign and wrongly solve 100 − 300, but I did the university physics right. This is why I almost failed year 12 math - I could do the hard bits but I did them without paying enough attention to the little shit