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DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA
New submitter crvtec sends this excerpt from CNet:
"Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the biggest backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act, today said he plans to remove the Domain Name System blocking provision. 'After consultation with industry groups across the country,' Smith said in a statement released by his office, 'I feel we should remove (DNS) blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [U.S. House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision.'"
We need publicly financed elections
No. I do not want to wake up and work part of every day to provide campaign cash to someone who says I'm evil for thinking that it's not government's role to make sure everyone gets the same stuff regardless of whether or how they work. I do not want to be forced to support a candidate that says I'm inherently wrong for being, say, male. Or that I'm evil for thinking that people who break the law by sneaking into the country and lying on federal paperwork should get free stuff that I spend other parts of my day working to pay for. You're welcome to give such people campaign cash, but don't force me to.
some form of preference voting
We have it. It's called "voting."
a "no confidence" option
Also called "voting." You get to participate in such events every couple of years.
You may want to run your state or your country like a PTA meeting, but the founders had a much better grip on the tyrrany and foolishness of the simple majority and capricious elections. You do sound like someone who would like California, though. That's working out really well, isn't it?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
you vote counts! ... oh be serious
You're right. No votes are actually involved in picking city, county, and state legislators, muncipal, county, and state executives, congresssional representatives and senators, and president. When we count them, they're all fake, and aren't actually related to humans casting votes. Your congressman is actually picked by secret members of the Trilateral Commission as they fly over in black helicopters deploying mind-control devices made by Haliburton on specs from the Rothschilds.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Nah, it must just be a synonym for voting.
Nah, it's the name for something that runs directly counter to the constitution, and is called for by people who cannot persuade their fellow citizens to vote for their own pet single-cause crusades. You know, because people actually are more nuanced than that.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.