Paper ballots work really well. Rigging the election requires a LOT of people in many regions of the country, it's easy to explain to the people how it works, and it scales with population size. The only downside is you need to wait until the next morning to see who won.
Democracies have far fewer civil wars and less social unrest than any other form of government, because the people believe that if they have enough support to win a civil war they also have enough support to win an election. But only if they trust the elections are fair.
Making American agriculteral exports cheaper will kill people. Many poor in the third world earn their living by making or selling food, and the subsidies take that away. It doesn't matter how cheap the food is, if you have no money because western countries wiped out the local economy with massive subsidies then you starve.
A massively parallel computer (2048+ cores) with each core having suficient cache to eliminate most memory bottlenecks would give the same results as all that complexity- providing the software was written to fully support it.
China wants to be THE superpower, running the entire world. Russia wants to be the major world power ruling their little corner of the world. Treating them the same way plays down the threat posed by China and inflates the one posed by Russia. Russia invaded the Ukrain and stole some land, China invaded the entire South China Sea and is stealing the entire sea. China's One Road initiative is based upon loaning money to foreign countries, stealing it back, then siezing control of those countries when they can't repay the loan. What China is currently doing in the occupied country of Tibet is much worse than what Isreal is doing to the occupied country of Palestine.
The reason that America is attacking Iran is because Saudi Arabia pays well to attack their enemies. And the US Government will happily overthrow a democracy with a good human rights record at the behest of a terrorist spawning (Taliban, ISSIS) oppressive dictatorship any day of the week.
America was built on unrestricted immigration. The huge waves of immigration was essential in invading the existing countries of North America and exterminating their citizens. Also the Apollo program, the Manhattan project, and the space shuttle were designed by immigrants.
You take cash from the bank, transaction (serial numbers) recorded. You pay gas station for gas, they deposit cash in bank, transaction (serial numbers) recorded. Cash is tracked.
If you build an automated factory on the moon building orbital solar power stations and catapulting them into earth orbit, then it's worth fighting over. For mining? No, the shipping costs are too high.
The people paying for the rockets and mining equipment want property deeds, so that will be provided. So long as they limit the claim size the rest of the world will do nothing to stop China from setting up mining colonies on the moon. Once the first colony is started all the other world powers will do the same so they don't get left out.
A clear lesson from history is "If you can defend your claim, it's yours." If you foolishly think a bunch of laws trump guns you are clearly ignorant of the current state of Palestine.
Socialized Medicine is beloved by the citizens of every country that has tried it, and cheaper than Capitalist Medicine while also giving better medical results. Possibly you mean Communism? It's not the same thing.
Everything the government needed to stop 9/11 was in a government database prior to the attacks. But nobody saw the evidence because the American intelligence agencies are burried under so much data they can't process it.
Based upon our lack of exploration of Antarctica, I would think we'll have to wait for global warming to melt the gate free of its ice cavern and be spotted by spy sattellite. So probably 50 years.
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The term limit on President means Obama can't run against Trump. Are you sure you don't want that?
Paper ballots work really well. Rigging the election requires a LOT of people in many regions of the country, it's easy to explain to the people how it works, and it scales with population size. The only downside is you need to wait until the next morning to see who won.
Democracies have far fewer civil wars and less social unrest than any other form of government, because the people believe that if they have enough support to win a civil war they also have enough support to win an election. But only if they trust the elections are fair.
Texas votes Democrat, except for the gerymandering. Oh wow, what was fun. Now I see why you do it.
Legacy Apps and the Legacy GUI are what sells Windows. Every single move away from that Core Value costs them customers and money.
You forgot option 3: Switch to Android. Making a desktop version of Android would not be hard for Google.
Making American agriculteral exports cheaper will kill people. Many poor in the third world earn their living by making or selling food, and the subsidies take that away. It doesn't matter how cheap the food is, if you have no money because western countries wiped out the local economy with massive subsidies then you starve.
A massively parallel computer (2048+ cores) with each core having suficient cache to eliminate most memory bottlenecks would give the same results as all that complexity- providing the software was written to fully support it.
China wants to be THE superpower, running the entire world. Russia wants to be the major world power ruling their little corner of the world. Treating them the same way plays down the threat posed by China and inflates the one posed by Russia. Russia invaded the Ukrain and stole some land, China invaded the entire South China Sea and is stealing the entire sea. China's One Road initiative is based upon loaning money to foreign countries, stealing it back, then siezing control of those countries when they can't repay the loan. What China is currently doing in the occupied country of Tibet is much worse than what Isreal is doing to the occupied country of Palestine.
The reason that America is attacking Iran is because Saudi Arabia pays well to attack their enemies. And the US Government will happily overthrow a democracy with a good human rights record at the behest of a terrorist spawning (Taliban, ISSIS) oppressive dictatorship any day of the week.
America was built on unrestricted immigration. The huge waves of immigration was essential in invading the existing countries of North America and exterminating their citizens. Also the Apollo program, the Manhattan project, and the space shuttle were designed by immigrants.
You take cash from the bank, transaction (serial numbers) recorded. You pay gas station for gas, they deposit cash in bank, transaction (serial numbers) recorded. Cash is tracked.
Or you use ocean water. Available in bulk, and you only need the high reservoir as the outflow from the generators can go straight into the ocean.
Or you could make the pipe filling the Hoover Dam work both ways, pump up and generator down.
If you build an automated factory on the moon building orbital solar power stations and catapulting them into earth orbit, then it's worth fighting over. For mining? No, the shipping costs are too high.
The people paying for the rockets and mining equipment want property deeds, so that will be provided. So long as they limit the claim size the rest of the world will do nothing to stop China from setting up mining colonies on the moon. Once the first colony is started all the other world powers will do the same so they don't get left out.
A clear lesson from history is "If you can defend your claim, it's yours." If you foolishly think a bunch of laws trump guns you are clearly ignorant of the current state of Palestine.
Socialized Medicine is beloved by the citizens of every country that has tried it, and cheaper than Capitalist Medicine while also giving better medical results. Possibly you mean Communism? It's not the same thing.
American society does a good job of stamping out the ability to think logically.
Everything the government needed to stop 9/11 was in a government database prior to the attacks. But nobody saw the evidence because the American intelligence agencies are burried under so much data they can't process it.
In a country run by the 1% the spread of Socialism is counted as bank robbery.
Based upon our lack of exploration of Antarctica, I would think we'll have to wait for global warming to melt the gate free of its ice cavern and be spotted by spy sattellite. So probably 50 years.
Having a fine for every pre-installed App you can't un-install would be very popular.
Or Proportional Representation where you add up the votes nation wide and you get a percent of the seats equal to your percent of the votes.
The illegals are just tourists if they can't get jobs and collect welfare.