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Yep, just like torture, if you approve, then you approve it for everybody.

But what this will lead to is that powerful computers will be tagged and require a license to operate, like in Burma. The rest of us will use iPods and Kindles, like it or not.

Off to Burma with you...

I think we need to liscence who gets access to this "internet" you speak of since it's clearly dangerous.

Somebody beat you to it.

The person behind the first (it was Japanese) board of this form argued that often good posters with real lives don't post as they cannot be bothered to waste time registering, while poor posters with no lives and huge egos will register. With no name you cannot develop a reputation to fuel your ego.

Right on. And it also needs to be pointed out that many good ideas will never be heard if the author is forced to identify himself. They will simply clam up or create a false ID. In addition to the ratings angle, this is attempt to get the public to go along with up and coming anti-anomitity laws, and given Clinton's and the democrats history of pushing things like clipper chips and back doors(Paradoxically, MnCain was the hero in that case in helping to defeat it), you can bet Hillary will push for it when she gets elected. This is your future if you allow it.

In fact, maybe we should just outlaw all computers...

More money in licensing, and the penalties are better for the prison industry with a minimum of seven years. Our system would drool over those kinds of numbers.

Yeah, they call themselves Marimar, or something like that. That's not to say that outsideers didn't conntinue to call it Burma. BTW, Here ya go