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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: Are you from the UK? Like to type? |
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Good, sign this!
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Dvorak-SKL/
200+ signatures and it'll get an official response. See:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/faq
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What will happen to my petition once it is finished?
Once your petition has closed, usually provided there are 200 signatures or more, it will be passed to officials who work for the Prime Minister in Downing Street, or sent to the relevant Government department for a response.
Every person who signs such a petition will receive an email detailing the Government's response to the issues raised.
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Here's the keyboard it's talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
That's what I use too. Waaaaay better than qwerty. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| This is not an issue for government. Let the market decide. Stop wasting valuable public resources on trivial matters. BTW, you are Canadian, no? |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, Mr Shankly. My suspicions are confirmed!  |
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tzechuk
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| This is not an issue for government. Let the market decide. Stop wasting valuable public resources on trivial matters. |
I tend to agree.
Why should the Government deal with this? You are interfering with free competition. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| This is not an issue for government. Let the market decide. Stop wasting valuable public resources on trivial matters. |
I tend to agree.
Why should the Government deal with this? You are interfering with free competition. |
Perhaps, but there are way bigger fish to fry if you are actually worried about interference in the free market or government waste (Iraq). Also, as a design and not a product it's more akin to looking into a new standard for buildings or streets (which governments do) than anything else.
BTW, it was a guy from the UK on Facebook that created this, not me. |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| This is not an issue for government. Let the market decide. Stop wasting valuable public resources on trivial matters. |
I tend to agree.
Why should the Government deal with this? You are interfering with free competition. |
Perhaps, but there are way bigger fish to fry if you are actually worried about interference in the free market or government waste (Iraq). Also, as a design and not a product it's more akin to looking into a new standard for buildings or streets (which governments do) than anything else.
BTW, it was a guy from the UK on Facebook that created this, not me. |
I can think and breathe at the same time. This is still a trivial waste of the time of an elected official. If these keyboards are as good as you say they are, they will catch on. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
| This is not an issue for government. Let the market decide. Stop wasting valuable public resources on trivial matters. |
I tend to agree.
Why should the Government deal with this? You are interfering with free competition. |
Perhaps, but there are way bigger fish to fry if you are actually worried about interference in the free market or government waste (Iraq). Also, as a design and not a product it's more akin to looking into a new standard for buildings or streets (which governments do) than anything else.
BTW, it was a guy from the UK on Facebook that created this, not me. |
This is still a trivial waste of the time of an elected official. If these keyboards are as good as you say they are, they will catch on. |
Well, it's not the biggest deal in the world either way (I'm not going to cry myself to sleep if this guy's petition fails and I hope you don't either if one elected official's time is wasted). Dvorak's a bit like constructed IALs which also don't receive as much attention as they should so sometimes we come up with unorthodox methods to get attention. |
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