The major difference between any M$ OS and any Linux distro (apart from the fact that Linux works, relentlessly:-) is that M$ insists on being in your face all the time and charging you all it can all the time.
They don't have a sustainable model. They exist on the churn. People say, "Nah, this is good enough." and M$ starves for income. Diminishing revenues stops investors, M$ cash reserves dry up and M$, not having a sustainable business, disappears.
Just like Adam Osborne did with the Osborne 1. Different reason (leaked info about the Osborne 2 dried up sales for the 1,) different time scale (M$ can bleed a lot longer,) but same result. One trick ponies die.
The only way to get rid of these parasites is to listen different, see different and think different (and not just about buying a Mac.)
Just develop a taste for life outside the stream and innure yourself to the noise. If you don't spend, its so much easier to tune out the ads. Think of the time you have left to think and enjoy life if you unplug from the acquisition mill.
This is a no brainer. Let 'em set up their system, run 'em parallel for a week duplicating all mail messages as the proxy and you'll soon see which hardware/software you want to toss.br
Hey, Bush is in. He and his pals paid plenty to get there, stomped all over your face to do it and managed to take a 200,000 deficit in the popular polls into a contested 300 vote majority in a rinky-dink senior's skating rink with 25 electoral college votes.
Do you think anybody's rights mean squat? He should be glad it was decided this year. Next year he could have been found guilty of committing Rocky movies.
For then next four years anybody stupid enough to get between them and the trough, where ever they think they see a dollar, is going to get stomped flat.
The man's a moron and his pals are going to manipulate him just like they did his daddy, President George Read my Lips! No, new, taxes Bush who tossed that for Read the page...
After four years they should have carved a billion dollar divot in the economy padding their own pockets, (make it two billion, the dollar will go down and the interest rates will rise, but since they'll be lending the money they won't mind.)
And Philadelphia has always been an embarassing oximoron anyway. They're not my phila and they certainly don't exhibit much delphia. You don't want to go there.
At least, here in New York, its only a member of any minority who doesn't to walk at night in a bad neighborhood (read one with cops in it.)
I want full W3c compliance with XML, DHTML, CSS and the other standards.
To put it plainly, I no longer trust N$ or M$ not to "change their minds" and screw us all into the ground for a lousy buck and a quarter, or worse, for the sheer joy of it.
The creeping feature creature and technology lockout means that I am eliminating the bells and whistles, moving decision making up to the server (thank heaven's for php and PostgreSQL,) and aiming for the lowest common denominator as a delivery/client platform.
They can take their geegaws and stick 'em where the sun don't shine.
Patenting in this case is stupig (not a typo!)
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This is a desperate grab by the ignorant (who can't even tell tobbaco companies that smoking is not a good idea,) to get a corner on something they can't describe, don't understand, haven't a clue of what it really does or how.
Get used to it (or fill out your resume.) The less people understand what their staff is doing, the more they like to micro-manage.
I've run into micro-managers on both sides of the Atlantic in English, French and Spanish cultures. The Japanese are notorious followers and come from a risk averse culture given to intuitive leaps of genius about as often as glaciers.
Your environment is entering into a business stage called ossification. They will now focus on maintenance for lower cost with obsessive fixation. A few incompetent middle managers later and you will find it impossible to acquire tools you need to complete work which has to be done.
At some point, probably soon, they will have stripped themselves of the inventive people that would have helped them weather change.
Of course change is inevitable and you will be looking for work from the weaker bargining position of someone who is unemployed.
Reforming the mechanism for registering votes bought with your money by people who are going to owe so many favors that they are completely hog-tied is a waste of time.
Anyway YOU don't elect a president. The electoral college does. You are there to contribute, (and not just crowd noise either.)
The US is a republic not a democracy. The elections are there as a salve to public opinion but its not the people who vote. If the electoral college decided to screw the election and write in votes to elect Ralph Nader or even you there is absolutely nothing that anyone could do about it.
As it currently stands 50% of the college is bound by law to vote for their party's choice. (Though that's never been tested in the courts and of dubious legality or practicality.) In this election, that 25% for Gore, 25% for Bush and 50% for grabs.
If we could corrupt enough college members (and a million each ought to do it,) we could dispense with this expensive and humiliating election process of racking up favors by one party and the other (notice, and nor or,) which will have to be paid back with partisan contracts awarded or with non-interference in illegal but lucrative business practices. (What M$ is hoping for after contributing to (both sides.)
If you want a democracy, you just have to recruit representatives by conscription.
Just pick names from the phone books. Four years in, and you're out, here's your job back. See ya, an' thanks.
Imagine! Government without constant currying of favors, whining about the opposition who have said exactly what you said because both of you are two sides of the same slice of tasteless white bread.
And not to watch these Bozos trying to come up with creative ways to repay hose $50,000,000 worth of favors. Remember, vulture capitalists and other industrial strength investors expect to be repaid between 10 and 100 times their investment. That's gonna cost you between $500,000,000 and $5,000,000,000 over the next four years in sheer budget fat that wasn't trimmed.
Remember Papa Bush's famous line, proclaimed loudly at every sound bite opportunity? Read my lips. No, New, Taxes! Remember the next famous line, muttered once while he signed a new tax bill to pay for those favors? Read the page.
A real democratic system would be a lot cheaper.
Total cost 1 television program every four years. No election race, no people not doing their job because they're too busy running for re-election. No trees dying for A to talk trash about B.
If you want a democracy, you just have to recruit representatives by conscription.
Just pick names from the phone books. Four years in, and you're out, here's your job back. See ya, an' thanks.
Computer simutation of cloth is an old CG problem and very complex one. Simulation systems have been evolving for years (just get out your back issues of Computer Graphics World,) and nobody was even claiming to be near doing real-time simulation.
There are three forces at work: gravity, centrifugal forces and the tension of the cloth around objects against these forces. This is not trivial.
Only the force of gravity is predictable.
The rest are all solutions of simultaneous equations. The more realistic the simulation, the finer the division of the cloth area into matrixes of threads. The number of calculations goes up geometrically.
I'm currently engaged in some XML efforts where I work. The hard part is not the XML. Almost all database engines can generate XML wrappers for data objects based on their schema or generate data objects from XML streams.
The difficulty comes from getting two sets of people to agree on what the objects definitions are or are going to be. That requires collaboration and cooperation. Two things that are not going to come from any software effort.
All software developpers tend to treat the invertion of fire as their exclusive intellectual property and you can eat your meat cold and bloody or pay them for the privilege of cooking your steak.
The effort will have to come from consortia of clients and related firms who use data processing but aren't in that business.
That said, yes you can publish the DTD specifications arrived at by the consortia and it wil be aequately covered by the document copyright.
Though I think that using copyleft would allow you to avoid stupidity like the RAMBUS debacle.
Newton said I see far because I stand on the shoulders of Giants. Linus Thorvald RMS et alia are giants. Bill Gates is a big dip in the level playing field. Emulate Linus and you stand a chance. Emulate Bill and your effort will degenerate into a pack of wild dogs tearing at a haunch.
Don't bother. The market is driven by business needs. Microsoft is wasting its money just like Apple did.
When and if business decides that it needs better performance, reliability and security at a lower price (and sadly for Apple ease of use means nothing for bosses who don't use what they stick the employees with,) you can look forward to massive acceptance of Linux.
Apple's ace in the hole is style because their equipment has it (but not a lot of people need it.)
The person had to have a subpenae to requests records on a specific individual. You can't just request data like that and use coercive force to obtain it.
What if somebody went to the public library and asked to see your reading lists?
Just because someone hasn't reached the age of majority doesn't give anyone the right to traipse through records stripping them of any dignity or privacy.
The next argument will be: Well why should we stop just because they've reached the age of majority?
If its not tied to an individual person, what's the point? The school can also run the list through the IP filter to remove all traces of "unapproved sites" which might have been hit by who knows who?
Major snoops and people who are that invasive about information use should be deprived from it for the very reason that the asked for it!
The problem is that while the utter freedom of intellectual property is the goal, you have to drag the rest of the economies to it as well.
The reality is that economic interests concerned have to be convinced that it is in their best interests otherwise you end up with the authorities (who, infact, author nothing but author-ize instead,) in country F rushing some kids bedroom and seizing property for a possible offense in country U.
The economic interests concerned are only concerned with their economic interests.
If you can come up with an economic argument (and screw everything and everybody else,) that can convince one of them to take a limited chance to see if there's a buck profit to be made on ten cents investment, you're in.
If you can't, it'll be settled the way it has traditionally settled right up to the end of last century.
Nineteenth century and prior wars were purely economic. From the Nepoleonic wars to the minor skirmishes of the Boxer rebellion and the Opium wars in the far east. The Boer, Zulu and a depressing litany of wholesale slaughter to encroach on marketing or resource territory.
The First World War was fought over the German Junker's marketing of their pigs to central and southern Europe. (Read The History of the Great War by Winston Churchill.)
The Second World War was fought over Axis econo-political control over an expanding territory. Since the planet wasn't expanding, we fought back.
Stalin's wholesale slaughter of the Ukranian Kulaks was committed in the name of agrarian reform.
The only purely idealogical war was the killing fields of Cambodia where almost a quarter of the population was murdered by their own children.
Fighting for piece is like fucking for chastity. Find another way. A concensual way.
Linux and free software frees us from the small minds who would keep us grubbing in the dirt for their own petty purposes.
Making money selling software is akin to making money selling your children or renting your sister by the hour. Its something you do when have no skills to market and only inventory to flog.
The sooner we're done with the boxed set pimps, the better we will all be.
My sendmail doesn't forward but my li'l home server could still get choked by idiotic Spam-bot attempts to get it to do so.
It also returns the mail to whoever sent the spam. That ties up the line in two directions. What I'd like is for sendmail to return the first message from a location and to swallow all further attempts to forward mail from the same location. I'm looking at "sendmail for Linux" to figure out how to make it do that. That takes care of my end of it.
The other end is to make spammers pay for each message they send. You saw the numbers: Up to 20,000,000 emails in one night in a single mailing. That's $660,000. that they don't have to pay the post office.
They paid a mere $27,000 to PSI Net for the priviledge of saving themselves over $500k+ per night and annoying the sh*t out of us?
Sick the authorities on them for email fraud and depriving the post offices of the world of up to $234,960,000 per year in revenue.
Even a paltry 5% sales tax on this amount is $12,500,000. Stolen straight from government coffers. And that's just from one of these ghastly Bozos. There plenty of them. This is a big enough crime to get the FBI, Interpol and governments from around the world interested.
Gee, machines with a decent OS. What a concept... (Though I saw no mention of OS X (Darwin) in the mix, but that's essentially correct too.)
Look for consumer machines to run Linux (PC style) & OS X (Mac Style,) while Windows gets squeezed further and further (unless they give up and go with Linux [not {expletive deleted} likely? To survive, M$ could mutate & metastacize. They already make more money from their investments than their OS!] like Apple went for BSD/Darwin... )
The New Jerusalem has been a vision of Utopia among the idealistic and unrealistic for centuries.
People who "herald" anything as the New Jerusalem clearly don't read history, or philosophy.
Utopia, is Justice, is Reality, is Transcendence is a paradox. (The bold & caps are there for a reason.)
Its all verbal and mental masturbation and people who jerk off with such pifflage are idea murderers and the leading cause of their own unhappiness. And they're also more than willing to share that last attribute with you
There are two factors which would make living in a soit-disant democracy palatable and indeed achievable:
Representation by conscription and
Universality of hegemony.
The representatives we end up electing are usually our answers to Who will do the least damage to me. The best of the worst. The old saw goes: People who want office should be barred from it. They are either greedy, venial and will extract the most advantage from our pockets or they're masochists and not representative either. In the large part we are neither thieves or fools ruled by cupidity or stupidity.
Picking names out of phone books every four years would get us a real democracy and eliminate the incredibly expensive gathering of favors by those who want your vote and which will have to be repaid (out of your pockets) that happens every four years and results in some change of names, but not agendas.
Universality of hegemony would be truly devastating to the entrenched who stuff ballot boxes either crudely, a laMilosevich or with goodies that they don't deliver a laRead my lips: No new Taxes.
It means that just because you happen to be somewhere, doesn't mean that you get your services from and pay your taxes to the local authority. If you're willing to live with Sweden's taxes in order to get their health care, you don't have to put up with the Swedes to do it.
Hate your local demagogue? Why not deprive him (or her,) of your taxes and be under the wing/rule of someone you do appreciate?
The odds of this actually coming to pass are nil, none and fuggedaboudid. And we have pathetic voter turnouts as a result.
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The major difference between any M$ OS and any Linux distro (apart from the fact that Linux works, relentlessly :-) is that M$ insists on being in your face all the time and charging you all it can all the time.
They don't have a sustainable model. They exist on the churn. People say, "Nah, this is good enough." and M$ starves for income. Diminishing revenues stops investors, M$ cash reserves dry up and M$, not having a sustainable business, disappears.
Just like Adam Osborne did with the Osborne 1. Different reason (leaked info about the Osborne 2 dried up sales for the 1,) different time scale (M$ can bleed a lot longer,) but same result. One trick ponies die.
The only way to get rid of these parasites is to listen different, see different and think different (and not just about buying a Mac.)
Just develop a taste for life outside the stream and innure yourself to the noise. If you don't spend, its so much easier to tune out the ads. Think of the time you have left to think and enjoy life if you unplug from the acquisition mill.
This is a no brainer. Let 'em set up their system, run 'em parallel for a week duplicating all mail messages as the proxy and you'll soon see which hardware/software you want to toss.br
Hey, Bush is in. He and his pals paid plenty to get there, stomped all over your face to do it and managed to take a 200,000 deficit in the popular polls into a contested 300 vote majority in a rinky-dink senior's skating rink with 25 electoral college votes.
Do you think anybody's rights mean squat? He should be glad it was decided this year. Next year he could have been found guilty of committing Rocky movies.
For then next four years anybody stupid enough to get between them and the trough, where ever they think they see a dollar, is going to get stomped flat.
The man's a moron and his pals are going to manipulate him just like they did his daddy, President George Read my Lips! No, new, taxes Bush who tossed that for Read the page...
After four years they should have carved a billion dollar divot in the economy padding their own pockets, (make it two billion, the dollar will go down and the interest rates will rise, but since they'll be lending the money they won't mind.)
And Philadelphia has always been an embarassing oximoron anyway. They're not my phila and they certainly don't exhibit much delphia. You don't want to go there.
At least, here in New York, its only a member of any minority who doesn't to walk at night in a bad neighborhood (read one with cops in it.)
I want full W3c compliance with XML, DHTML, CSS and the other standards.
To put it plainly, I no longer trust N$ or M$ not to "change their minds" and screw us all into the ground for a lousy buck and a quarter, or worse, for the sheer joy of it.
The creeping feature creature and technology lockout means that I am eliminating the bells and whistles, moving decision making up to the server (thank heaven's for php and PostgreSQL,) and aiming for the lowest common denominator as a delivery/client platform.
They can take their geegaws and stick 'em where the sun don't shine.
And sometimes its only a human interest story.
This is a desperate grab by the ignorant (who can't even tell tobbaco companies that smoking is not a good idea,) to get a corner on something they can't describe, don't understand, haven't a clue of what it really does or how.
Its the triumph of greed over common sense.
Recycling is about transporting hazardous crap to safe places.
You don't want hazardous crap? Then you should stop buying it.
How likely is that then?
Get used to it (or fill out your resume.) The less people understand what their staff is doing, the more they like to micro-manage.
I've run into micro-managers on both sides of the Atlantic in English, French and Spanish cultures. The Japanese are notorious followers and come from a risk averse culture given to intuitive leaps of genius about as often as glaciers.
Your environment is entering into a business stage called ossification. They will now focus on maintenance for lower cost with obsessive fixation. A few incompetent middle managers later and you will find it impossible to acquire tools you need to complete work which has to be done.
At some point, probably soon, they will have stripped themselves of the inventive people that would have helped them weather change.
Of course change is inevitable and you will be looking for work from the weaker bargining position of someone who is unemployed.
Reforming the mechanism for registering votes bought with your money by people who are going to owe so many favors that they are completely hog-tied is a waste of time.
Anyway YOU don't elect a president. The electoral college does. You are there to contribute, (and not just crowd noise either.)
And it really doesn't matter anyway.
The US is a republic not a democracy. The elections are there as a salve to public opinion but its not the people who vote. If the electoral college decided to screw the election and write in votes to elect Ralph Nader or even you there is absolutely nothing that anyone could do about it.
As it currently stands 50% of the college is bound by law to vote for their party's choice. (Though that's never been tested in the courts and of dubious legality or practicality.) In this election, that 25% for Gore, 25% for Bush and 50% for grabs.
If we could corrupt enough college members (and a million each ought to do it,) we could dispense with this expensive and humiliating election process of racking up favors by one party and the other (notice, and nor or,) which will have to be paid back with partisan contracts awarded or with non-interference in illegal but lucrative business practices. (What M$ is hoping for after contributing to (both sides.)
If you want a democracy, you just have to recruit representatives by conscription.
Just pick names from the phone books. Four years in, and you're out, here's your job back. See ya, an' thanks.
Imagine! Government without constant currying of favors, whining about the opposition who have said exactly what you said because both of you are two sides of the same slice of tasteless white bread.
And not to watch these Bozos trying to come up with creative ways to repay hose $50,000,000 worth of favors. Remember, vulture capitalists and other industrial strength investors expect to be repaid between 10 and 100 times their investment. That's gonna cost you between $500,000,000 and $5,000,000,000 over the next four years in sheer budget fat that wasn't trimmed.
Remember Papa Bush's famous line, proclaimed loudly at every sound bite opportunity? Read my lips. No, New, Taxes! Remember the next famous line, muttered once while he signed a new tax bill to pay for those favors? Read the page.
A real democratic system would be a lot cheaper.
Total cost 1 television program every four years. No election race, no people not doing their job because they're too busy running for re-election. No trees dying for A to talk trash about B.
If you want a democracy, you just have to recruit representatives by conscription.
Just pick names from the phone books. Four years in, and you're out, here's your job back. See ya, an' thanks.
This is exactly the basis for the book "The Society of Mind" by Marvin Minski.
Consciousness emerges and control becomes semi- autonomous when the complexity of a system becomes otherwise unwieldy and unmanagable.
Computer simutation of cloth is an old CG problem and very complex one. Simulation systems have been evolving for years (just get out your back issues of Computer Graphics World,) and nobody was even claiming to be near doing real-time simulation.
There are three forces at work: gravity, centrifugal forces and the tension of the cloth around objects against these forces. This is not trivial.
Only the force of gravity is predictable.
The rest are all solutions of simultaneous equations. The more realistic the simulation, the finer the division of the cloth area into matrixes of threads. The number of calculations goes up geometrically.
We're definitely not there yet.
I'm currently engaged in some XML efforts where I work. The hard part is not the XML. Almost all database engines can generate XML wrappers for data objects based on their schema or generate data objects from XML streams.
The difficulty comes from getting two sets of people to agree on what the objects definitions are or are going to be. That requires collaboration and cooperation. Two things that are not going to come from any software effort.
All software developpers tend to treat the invertion of fire as their exclusive intellectual property and you can eat your meat cold and bloody or pay them for the privilege of cooking your steak.
The effort will have to come from consortia of clients and related firms who use data processing but aren't in that business.
That said, yes you can publish the DTD specifications arrived at by the consortia and it wil be aequately covered by the document copyright.
Though I think that using copyleft would allow you to avoid stupidity like the RAMBUS debacle.
Newton said I see far because I stand on the shoulders of Giants. Linus Thorvald RMS et alia are giants. Bill Gates is a big dip in the level playing field. Emulate Linus and you stand a chance. Emulate Bill and your effort will degenerate into a pack of wild dogs tearing at a haunch.
Don't bother. The market is driven by business needs. Microsoft is wasting its money just like Apple did.
When and if business decides that it needs better performance, reliability and security at a lower price (and sadly for Apple ease of use means nothing for bosses who don't use what they stick the employees with,) you can look forward to massive acceptance of Linux.
Apple's ace in the hole is style because their equipment has it (but not a lot of people need it.)
We had a case like this a while back.
The person had to have a subpenae to requests records on a specific individual. You can't just request data like that and use coercive force to obtain it.
Tell the guy to do his own marketing research.
What if somebody went to the public library and asked to see your reading lists?
Just because someone hasn't reached the age of majority doesn't give anyone the right to traipse through records stripping them of any dignity or privacy.
The next argument will be: Well why should we stop just because they've reached the age of majority?
If its not tied to an individual person, what's the point? The school can also run the list through the IP filter to remove all traces of "unapproved sites" which might have been hit by who knows who?
Major snoops and people who are that invasive about information use should be deprived from it for the very reason that the asked for it!
The problem is that while the utter freedom of intellectual property is the goal, you have to drag the rest of the economies to it as well.
The reality is that economic interests concerned have to be convinced that it is in their best interests otherwise you end up with the authorities (who, infact, author nothing but author-ize instead,) in country F rushing some kids bedroom and seizing property for a possible offense in country U.
The economic interests concerned are only concerned with their economic interests.
If you can come up with an economic argument (and screw everything and everybody else,) that can convince one of them to take a limited chance to see if there's a buck profit to be made on ten cents investment, you're in.
If you can't, it'll be settled the way it has traditionally settled right up to the end of last century.
Nineteenth century and prior wars were purely economic. From the Nepoleonic wars to the minor skirmishes of the Boxer rebellion and the Opium wars in the far east. The Boer, Zulu and a depressing litany of wholesale slaughter to encroach on marketing or resource territory.
The First World War was fought over the German Junker's marketing of their pigs to central and southern Europe. (Read The History of the Great War by Winston Churchill.)
The Second World War was fought over Axis econo-political control over an expanding territory. Since the planet wasn't expanding, we fought back.
Stalin's wholesale slaughter of the Ukranian Kulaks was committed in the name of agrarian reform.
The only purely idealogical war was the killing fields of Cambodia where almost a quarter of the population was murdered by their own children.
Fighting for piece is like fucking for chastity. Find another way. A concensual way.
Linux and free software frees us from the small minds who would keep us grubbing in the dirt for their own petty purposes.
Making money selling software is akin to making money selling your children or renting your sister by the hour. Its something you do when have no skills to market and only inventory to flog.
The sooner we're done with the boxed set pimps, the better we will all be.
My sendmail doesn't forward but my li'l home server could still get choked by idiotic Spam-bot attempts to get it to do so.
It also returns the mail to whoever sent the spam. That ties up the line in two directions. What I'd like is for sendmail to return the first message from a location and to swallow all further attempts to forward mail from the same location. I'm looking at "sendmail for Linux" to figure out how to make it do that. That takes care of my end of it.
The other end is to make spammers pay for each message they send. You saw the numbers: Up to 20,000,000 emails in one night in a single mailing. That's $660,000. that they don't have to pay the post office.
They paid a mere $27,000 to PSI Net for the priviledge of saving themselves over $500k+ per night and annoying the sh*t out of us?
Sick the authorities on them for email fraud and depriving the post offices of the world of up to $234,960,000 per year in revenue.
Even a paltry 5% sales tax on this amount is $12,500,000. Stolen straight from government coffers. And that's just from one of these ghastly Bozos. There plenty of them. This is a big enough crime to get the FBI, Interpol and governments from around the world interested.
This report was aimed at your boss, not at you. Apple is carving out its own niche and it is NOT in the boring 9-to-5 world of the work office.
Apple can rule the living rooms and professional home-offices with style, dash and panache.
If you're enjoying something, do you want to wrestle with failings of the OS, or would you rather just enjoy it.
If you're creating something or advising someone, do you want to wrestle with failings of the OS, or would you rather just get it done.
Linux boxes will rule the garages, "we mean business" home-offices and tinkerer's shops.
If you're tinkering at something you want to do, do you want to wrestle with failings of the OS, or would you get something accomplished.
Gee, machines with a decent OS. What a concept... (Though I saw no mention of OS X (Darwin) in the mix, but that's essentially correct too.)
Look for consumer machines to run Linux (PC style) & OS X (Mac Style,) while Windows gets squeezed further and further (unless they give up and go with Linux [not {expletive deleted} likely? To survive, M$ could mutate & metastacize. They already make more money from their investments than their OS!] like Apple went for BSD/Darwin... )
Now are we surprised?
Katz is a few bricks shy of a load...
The New Jerusalem has been a vision of Utopia among the idealistic and unrealistic for centuries.
People who "herald" anything as the New Jerusalem clearly don't read history, or philosophy.
Utopia, is Justice, is Reality, is Transcendence is a paradox. (The bold & caps are there for a reason.)
Its all verbal and mental masturbation and people who jerk off with such pifflage are idea murderers and the leading cause of their own unhappiness. And they're also more than willing to share that last attribute with you
There are two factors which would make living in a soit-disant democracy palatable and indeed achievable:
Representation by conscription and
Universality of hegemony.
The representatives we end up electing are usually our answers to Who will do the least damage to me . The best of the worst. The old saw goes: People who want office should be barred from it. They are either greedy, venial and will extract the most advantage from our pockets or they're masochists and not representative either. In the large part we are neither thieves or fools ruled by cupidity or stupidity.
Picking names out of phone books every four years would get us a real democracy and eliminate the incredibly expensive gathering of favors by those who want your vote and which will have to be repaid (out of your pockets) that happens every four years and results in some change of names, but not agendas.
Universality of hegemony would be truly devastating to the entrenched who stuff ballot boxes either crudely, a la Milosevich or with goodies that they don't deliver a la Read my lips: No new Taxes.
It means that just because you happen to be somewhere, doesn't mean that you get your services from and pay your taxes to the local authority. If you're willing to live with Sweden's taxes in order to get their health care, you don't have to put up with the Swedes to do it.
Hate your local demagogue? Why not deprive him (or her,) of your taxes and be under the wing/rule of someone you do appreciate?
The odds of this actually coming to pass are nil, none and fuggedaboudid. And we have pathetic voter turnouts as a result.