Miranda

I saw this posted a couple of days ago -- King County has made a new way of stating rights. I was ready to be kind of pissed off for silly pandering, but honestly, I think this is a great way of saying things. It might be a good thing to say to even adults.In real life and online I, and many others, talk abstractly about "rights." It makes a lot of sense from an incredibly precise way of looking at things. I enjoy the precision of ideas and thoughts, some people bristle at the pedantry I sometimes descend into (my wife included). But it's the legalistic and formal logic parts of myself that come out.A lot of people aren't wired like that. And that's not to say that that is a bad thing (*). A plain language version like this is excellent and I don't see why regular Miranda isn't replace with something like this.

• • I'm a programmer. This is my domain. Most people would look at what I do and state they couldn't stomach the though of sitting at a desk all day problem solving like I do. I look at our testers and I can't stomach doing what they do all day long -- and they generally feel the same about my own jobs. I look at our designers and long for the ability to do what they do. We're all wired different -- and that's a good thing. For fuck's sake you don't want too many of any one person.