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Open Source Effort To Codify America's "Operating System" Online

Rubinstien writes "O'Reilly Radar is reporting on an effort to produce Law.gov, 'America's Operating System, Open Source.' The group Public.Resource.Org seeks to 'create a solid business plan, technical specs, and enabling legislation for the federal government to create Law.gov. [They] envision Law.gov as a distributed, open source, authenticated registry and repository of all primary legal materials in the United States.' According to its new website, 'Law.gov would be similar to Data.gov, providing bulk data and feeds to commercial, non-commercial, and governmental organizations wishing to build web sites, operate legal information services, or otherwise use the raw materials of our democracy.'"

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck the Republican party.

    They ruined the country and now the can't stop complaining about the people who are fixing their mess.

  2. Confession: I smell my own farts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's true- I'll waft them up to my face, or fart on something then smell that. I've noticed a difference between smelling farts off my fingers and farting into a towel and smelling that. I prefer the towel. Sometimes, right before I take a shower, I'll wipe my ass with a towel or my underwear to smell my butt-perfume. I frequently pull the covers over my own head when I fart between the sheets. Oh, and I love the smell and frequency of my hangover farts. I love leaving my room for a few minutes and coming back to smell my still-lingering farts hanging in the air. To me its kind of like climing out of the swimming pool, getting in the hot tub for a few minutes, then going back into the pool. If I want to fart without making a lot of noise I'll reach into my pants and hold my buttcheeks apart with my fingers so the gas can leave my asshole unobstructed. it actually makes a very audible "pssssssssssssss" sound. Like if someone was in earshot but they couldn't see me, they would probably be wondering if i was farting with my fingers in my ass.

    Sometimes if I'm in public I'll find "discreet" ways to indulge my fart-sniffing penchance. For example I'll try to pass gas as quietly as possible, then discreetly fan my thighs open and closed so the gas is wafted up to my face.

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  4. Re:bad phrasing == bad thinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, the paradise of of completely unregulated markets and unrestrained capitalism, like for example the derivative markets. Have you forgotten that last March these unregulated markets almost destroyed the economy of the entire world? Have you not noticed that bailing out the financial greed heads that caused this mess has cost the US government almost a TRILLION DOLLARS? What happened to the to the five or ten or fifteen trillion dollars of evaporated paper profits that these unregulated markets generated? Did they go to the tooth fairy?

    For those of us who live in the real world, only one conclusion is possible: libertarianism is organized stupidity. People don't work that way and groups of people don't work that way. Libertarianism is as bogus as Marxism.

    You want to go to a liberatarian paradise, I got a suggestion: go to the coast of Somalia. Or the countryside of Afghanistan, or northern Pakistan. In fact, if you look at every location in the world where there is no effective governmental control, it is a violent hell hole. All the nice places have lots of government: western Europe, Japan, Australia, some parts of the USA. Like I said before, libertarian thinking does not apply in the real world.