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- Charles Stross
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| Government Data Transparency | ||
| The idea that all of the information available to the government should be posted online and be easily accessible to everyone. |
Nickie Haflinger can write a mean tapeworm; he finally creates one that automatically grabs all of the information held by the government and posts it online (and even prints it out on labels).
"HONEST TO GOODNESS" BEEF STEW Despite being advertised as domestic, this stew contains from 15 to 35 percent imported meat originating in areas where typhus, brucellosis and trichinosomiasis are endemic. Authority to label the contents as domestic produce was obtained following the expenditure of appx. $215,000 in bribes to customs and public-health inspectors. This is a cybernetic datum derived from records not intended for publication.
YOUR OVERDUE-TAX DEMAND
For the information of the person required to pay this tax: |
| From The Shockwave Rider,
by John Brunner. Published by Harper and Row in 1975 Additional resources -
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