Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
Is it that incompetent CEOs always push for high salaries ?
My best guess would be even simpler -- poorly managed companies are more apt to pay too much for a bad CEO. Companies have cultures, and those cultures can be dysfunctional.
Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
I mean, come on, it's ridiculous to have the guy in charge of deciding (more or less) the fate of the net (or major regulations), when he has not the faintest clue of what it's all about...
I'm in total agreement. I expect that everyone on this board is in total agreement. Without getting too backroomish, I'd say that the problem has to do with how committee positions and power are doled out in Congress. There's nothing capitalist about how our legislature passes around the goodies. And I'm not sure how you could make it more efficient. We're having a hard time just trying to make it less corrupt.

It comes down to a question of whether government can be made better. I don't know if anyone has any bright ideas on that front. Democrats argue for better government, but they're awfully vague on specifics. Republcians argue for less government, but once they're in power they're even bigger expanders of government than the Dems.

I should stop there, for fear of getting this thread tossed into the Backroom.

Yes, it's absurd that this man is intimately involved in regulating the internet. No, I don't have any bright ideas for how to get rid of him and ensure the person who replaces him isn't a bigger idiot.

Last but not least, it's good to laugh at these moronic kleptomaniacs. Derision is useful when your back is up against the wall.