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Linux As a Model For a New Government?
An anonymous reader writes "The hedge fund investor who prided himself on achieving 1000% returns, Andrew Lahde, wrote a goodbye letter to mark his departure from the financial world. In it, he suggests people think about building a new government model, and his suggestion is to have someone like George Soros fund a new government that brings together the best and brightest minds in a manner where they're not tempted by bribery. In doing so, he refers to how Linux grows and competes with Microsoft. An open source government. How would such a system work, and could it succeed? How long before it became corrupt? Would it need a benevolent dictator (Linus vs. Soros)?"
So long and thanks for all the money.
This is a terrible idea. Any thinking person knows that we should use BSD as a model for a new government.
This guy's the limit!
Cool! I always wanted to fuc.. fork the government.
And then along comes some group that disagrees with the project leaders and they fork it. Since the government 0.6.1.1 code is open, they start their own 'republic of Tivo', which makes consumers of government very happy and makes 'the father of open source government' unhappy.
Soon, there are so many government distributions, each with their own election managers and schedulers (some completely fair, some not) that nobody knows which government is best for them. They only know it sometimes won't sell wireless and sometimes the open source penal code is not 100% compatible with new versions of the city manager and some people keep getting called 'blobs'.
I'm sure that someday will be the 'year of open source on the government' and one of the distributions will Linspire us to all wear little red hats instead of tin foil. What a Novell idea!
We'll be laughing all the way to the bank about our new, freee government until the judge hits us with patent infringement and says gleefully, "RTFM Noob!" as he issues the kill -9 sentence on us.
We would all be ruled by a penguin, but not just any old penguin:
An emperor penguin :)
Summation 2
The wealthy bankers already buy and sell our elected representatives; why would they want to make it official?
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Shouldn't that be "Linux As a Model For a GNU Government"?
This guy's the limit!
In USSA, government bailout forks YOU!
Most of their proposals seem to be based on the idea of some sort of dictator, with everyone's best interests in mind.
As a Mac user this sounds strangely familiar
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Logistics?
If the Dow loses 15% of its value we don't have to figure out where to hide all the lost dollars. Lose 15% of the human population and you either have to find lots of grave space or learn to live with the stench.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
AC wrote: And then along comes some group that disagrees with the project leaders and they fork it. Since the government 0.6.1.1 code is open, they start their own 'republic of Tivo', which makes consumers of government very happy and makes 'the father of open source government' unhappy.
Soon, there are so many government distributions, each with their own election managers and schedulers (some completely fair, some not) that nobody knows which government is best for them. They only know it sometimes won't sell wireless and sometimes the open source penal code is not 100% compatible with new versions of the city manager and some people keep getting called 'blobs'.
Sounds like hellheaven ala Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash or Ken Macleod's Star Fraction. There are plenty of nutty little microstate endorsers that would love to see something similar to this occur. Me, I'll be happy when they let me eat cake. Preferably with Oreo-based crust. Mmmmm.... crust.
Fixed that for you. ;)
Some say its already forked.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
# fsck.democratism /dev/world /dev/world
fsck.democratism: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open
Could this be a zero-length partition?
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I think Google is working on something like this.
The Google Navy
greed@All_Evils:~#
Yes! Lets fork the country and call it some other name!
Of Code And Men
Since the government has been forking us for so long, I don't see anything wrong with forking them.