"Lethal"? Based on the fact that AIDS mothers who use AZT die of immune deficiency, exactly like non AZT users?
Have you heard doctors report that 50% of perinatal AZT babies are HIV-? While poor, non AZT mother's babies die before reaching adulthood?
Why then has the President done a 180 on issuing AZT? 'cos it's cost won't interfere with buying arms? (I agree with Mbeki on Heath tho, Willie couldn't find an APC if he was in it - he found nothing wrong with Vlakplaas and De Kock!!)
PS: selling evidence to people who don't need evidence to believe in some moronic horror story doesn't seem like a good business plan. The fact that it's been dotcommed doesn't help anymore. Remember, no AZT means less people to buy your CD-ROM.
The HIV education programs here in South Africa are now getting some funding from the health insurance companies (guess why). Personally, being educated by someone who has the disease has been a powerful experience, knowing that they're only being funded to improve profits is not.
Only recently has the gov allowed AZT to be given to pregnant mothers, after it's insane stance up to now.
The big resentment here in SA has been that the former freedom-fighters, the ANC, has been screwing the poeple and selling out to the IMF, WB, WTO, drug companies, arms dealers, you-name-it... We now have a representative democracy that doesn't give a shit about the people or the invoronment when there's a buck to be made. --
mrBlond
I think those who venture into space could record a short statement, saying something like: "I knew this was a risky job, but just because I died doing it doesn't mean you should spend any time arguing whether or not we should be exploring space - instead support those of us who would give our lives in the pursuit for knowledge..." --
mrBlond
> What better way way for Bill to become
> President? First he gets the government to pay
> billions for a new voting system, then every
> time they use it, he comes out the winner.
Kasreyn, investigate the Swiss system (see Initiative and Referendum) and see if it is close to what you seek - it still has some stupid things but it's a start. During my investigations of basic constitutional principles during the composition of South Africa's constitution (the liberation movement unfortunately yielded to the apartheid/right wing/corporate powers and instituted "representative" democracy which resulted in them eventually selling out to the World Bank, IMF, WTO...), direct democracy (DD) was immediately appealing to me.
If it wasn't so damn hard to learn a 3rd language I'd consider putting Switzerland ahead of New Zealand (were the Greens are growing *within* the "representative" system) as a new home.
> If the grass is greener on the other side... Use fertilizer
The problem with this is that some systems have made themselves immune to reform, try to successfully run for president in the USA without accepting bribes inside the institutionalized corrupt system. I can understand when one feels helpless to affect change in such a milieu.
In response to the jingoist posters who like *their* representative systems, I'd like to explain my view of direct democracy.
> representatives, and I truely believe that they are
> trying to do what they feel is best for the people [...]
> They are trying to give people what they want.
> -- Christianfreak
If totalitarianism is on the right, and anarchism on the left - then the USA flavor of "representative" democracy is diametrically to the right of center where DD is on the left. The DD idea is that, instead of politicians being voted into power (by those not disillusioned by "representative" democracy) and telling people how they should live their lives, people themselves decide on issues and who should execute their will.
I won't mention the S or C words, wouldn't want heads to explode.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted to govern himself. Can he, then, be trusted to govern others? - Thomas Jefferson
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it. - Eugene Debs --
mrBlond
What are your favorite abandoned games that you'd like to try playing again?
Silmarils'Metal mutant - lovely old DOS game. I've never cared much about game sound, but this one blew my mind away: thru the internal speaker - no soundcard! French, so I didn't have a clue what anything meant, and one enemy was blowfishlike (hey I was young).
Terminator: In 3 years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterward, they fly with a perfect operational record.
Sarah: Uh huh, great. Then those fat fucks in Washington figure, what the hell, let a computer run the whole show, right?
Terminator: Basically. The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
"The beauty of the EC system is it makes each vote really count."
Huh? All the votes cast in the country, and specifically all the votes of people in "already decided" states (which can be 50%-1) count for nothing! A Nader vote in Texas can't help elect Ralph nationally if Texas is a majority right-wing state - he gets so many thousand votes in Texas, but gets 0 EC votes.
Yes it's entertaining like a baseball game, but do you want your government elected in an entertaining way, or representative of what the people want?
If the majority of Usani voted for Gore, let them suffer under him.
The EC seems to allow a candidate who gets +-10% of the vote to become president and the 90% guy to loose because only a few states force the EC members to vote along with the people's choice. Even when all the EC embers vote the way the people want, the guy with +-25% can become president and the 75% guy looses (SeventyFive%Guy gets 100% of votes for 50%-1 of the EC votes, and 50%-1 votes for the rest).
Am I the only only who thinks this is ridiculous? even for the already ridiculous representative democracy system (vs direct true democracy).
"All ideas must be run past our own intelligence. The planet needs the initiative, ideas and responsibility of each one of us. Each person must understand and believe in their power to use their own ideas on behalf of themself and all of us to change the planet for the better. We have underestimated ourselves and each other for centuries." - Judy Sole
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." - Alexander Tyler, Decline and fall of the Athenian republic
We never tried the condition where the file was the sole copy of some critical document, I don't know if that would have affected the results... We never tried the condition where the file was the sole copy of some critical document, I don't know if that would have affected the results.
I did this experiment with a new stiffy (1.44) but the results were recorded on a file on the disk:(
I think in English (my 2nd language) for all things technical because my 1st language has an absurd hundreds-singles-tens numerical system. I also use Usana spelling (if only it went further): and British everything else.
I was wondering if the language a child grows up learning as its 1st language would affect the way it thinks if it was something like Ido, which is bloody amazing.
>>So powerful and rich corporations are
>>gonna take care of the handicapped and
>>homeless?
>
>Yes, in a sense. Since the government isn't
>taking any money from you, there's no excuse
>"Well, I pay for charity through taxes!", so
>the average decent man will feel compelled to
>give to charity.
The problem is that you are giving people more credit than I do, you see average people as decent, I see them as destroyers of the environment for a quick buck: "Fuck the air, water, soil - in the long term I'm dead."
>would you pay for the Drug War? The
>Libertarians won't make you. Can you say that
>about Nader?
>To me, and end to the War on Drugs means
>legalizing all chemical substances. Not just
>the ones Nader likes.
Greens differentiate between hash and cocaine, if you don't, by all means vote Lib.
>I want the right to life, liberty, and
>property. Absolutely. Without any
>restrictions.
That's great if you own the media and means of productions, it doesn't mean anything if you have to work at McDonalds to survive.
>You're voting for that?
Yes, it means that you may not treat nonrenewable resources from the earth like capital available only to you. It means you buy a van from Zero Pollution Motors, and they recycle it after you're finished with it.
I would say it would be even more interesting if you could use any fractional number adding up to three total!
How about 10 votes? That way you can split it 2, almost 3, and 5 ways. Mrs Bos votes 5 Gore, 5 Bush; Mr Bar votes 10 Nader; Mr Baz votes 7 Libertarian, 3 Bush; Ms Qux only votes 2 Nader (with her remaining 8 going to the binding "None of the above"). Any vote with more than 10 is spoilt going to the binding "None of the above".
but I don't think they are enough to merit the additional complexity
Complex yes, but wouldn't the logistics be worth it? The illiterate and those who can't count can ask election officials to help them weight their vote for their favourite tv politicians.
Your vote is wasted because (1) it will have no effect on the outcome of the election and (2) it is futile as a party building vote.
Why is your single vote for a small party wasted, but that same single vote so powerfull for the whores?
Re voting systems: Why not give every person 3 votes? Mr Bos gives 1 vote for Gore, 1 for Bush, and 1 for Nader. Mrs Bar votes all 3 for Nader. Mr Baz gives 2 votes for Browne, and 1 for None of the above.
Under plurality voting, Nader supporters are effectively disenfranchised, since they must vote against their preferences to join a winning coaltion -- they have a power of zero.
If however their single vote is so powerfull for some bribed big wig, why is their one vote wasted for a 3rd party? Please explain this to me without giving the "better lizard" bleat.
Any representative system fails whereas grassroots direct democracy would have administrators executing the will of the people, instead of doing things to them.
And please -- the Libertarians couldn't put power in the hands of big corporations if they tried. The second they are elected, they intend to fire everyone and sell everything! They won't have any power to give. Good. That's the idea. - Mark Roberts
"The most important political question you can ask yourself is simply this: Do you want smaller government?... Do you want an end to... government intrusions into your life and your business?... Ralph Nader wants to tell you whether you can drive a car at all. But that's the least of his many plans to make government much bigger.... I want to make the federal government so small you won't pay any income tax. (The tariffs and excise taxes already being collected are enough to finance the constitutional functions of government.) I want to free you immediately and completely from the Social Security system. I want to sell off government assets to finance private retirement accounts for anyone now dependent on Social Security -- so you and I and every other American can immediately stop paying the 15% Social Security tax." - http://www.harrybrowne.org/
So powerful and rich corporations are gonna take care of the handicapped and homeless? They are going to school the population, and invest in sustainable and non-profit ventures?
By all means by his $17.5 book, and vote Libertarian, but at least admit that you're a right wing capitalist (and everything that goes with that).
If however you believe in direct grassroots democracy, and protecting our only habitat, vote Green.
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I shit you not!
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"Lethal"? Based on the fact that AIDS mothers who use AZT die of immune deficiency, exactly like non AZT users?
Have you heard doctors report that 50% of perinatal AZT babies are HIV-? While poor, non AZT mother's babies die before reaching adulthood?
Why then has the President done a 180 on issuing AZT? 'cos it's cost won't interfere with buying arms? (I agree with Mbeki on Heath tho, Willie couldn't find an APC if he was in it - he found nothing wrong with Vlakplaas and De Kock!!)
PS: selling evidence to people who don't need evidence to believe in some moronic horror story doesn't seem like a good business plan. The fact that it's been dotcommed doesn't help anymore. Remember, no AZT means less people to buy your CD-ROM.
--
mrBlond
The HIV education programs here in South Africa are now getting some funding from the health insurance companies (guess why). Personally, being educated by someone who has the disease has been a powerful experience, knowing that they're only being funded to improve profits is not.
Only recently has the gov allowed AZT to be given to pregnant mothers, after it's insane stance up to now.
The big resentment here in SA has been that the former freedom-fighters, the ANC, has been screwing the poeple and selling out to the IMF, WB, WTO, drug companies, arms dealers, you-name-it... We now have a representative democracy that doesn't give a shit about the people or the invoronment when there's a buck to be made.
--
mrBlond
I think those who venture into space could record a short statement, saying something like: "I knew this was a risky job, but just because I died doing it doesn't mean you should spend any time arguing whether or not we should be exploring space - instead support those of us who would give our lives in the pursuit for knowledge..."
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mrBlond
>I know it's not indented... I tried... Darn html.. Oh well...
if only Support(/.HTML)
//to indent
CheerUp;
use
infrontOfText
stopUsing
ifOff
PS: Allowed HTML should use lowercase examples, and allow XHTML <br /> - I keep having to remove them :-(®
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mrBlond
> What better way way for Bill to become
> President? First he gets the government to pay
> billions for a new voting system, then every
> time they use it, he comes out the winner.
Don't know how true this is:
One of Bill's first programs was for making class schedules at his school. He devised it so he could share classes with the prettiest girls. He earned $4200 for this project.- discovery-gates.html
http://www.esllessons.com/lessons/reading/reading
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mrBlond
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. - Albert Camus
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mrBlond
Kasreyn, investigate the Swiss system (see Initiative and Referendum) and see if it is close to what you seek - it still has some stupid things but it's a start. During my investigations of basic constitutional principles during the composition of South Africa's constitution (the liberation movement unfortunately yielded to the apartheid/right wing/corporate powers and instituted "representative" democracy which resulted in them eventually selling out to the World Bank, IMF, WTO...), direct democracy (DD) was immediately appealing to me.
If it wasn't so damn hard to learn a 3rd language I'd consider putting Switzerland ahead of New Zealand (were the Greens are growing *within* the "representative" system) as a new home.
> If the grass is greener on the other side... Use fertilizer
The problem with this is that some systems have made themselves immune to reform, try to successfully run for president in the USA without accepting bribes inside the institutionalized corrupt system. I can understand when one feels helpless to affect change in such a milieu.
In response to the jingoist posters who like *their* representative systems, I'd like to explain my view of direct democracy.
> representatives, and I truely believe that they are
> trying to do what they feel is best for the people [...]
> They are trying to give people what they want.
> -- Christianfreak
If totalitarianism is on the right, and anarchism on the left - then the USA flavor of "representative" democracy is diametrically to the right of center where DD is on the left. The DD idea is that, instead of politicians being voted into power (by those not disillusioned by "representative" democracy) and telling people how they should live their lives, people themselves decide on issues and who should execute their will.
I won't mention the S or C words, wouldn't want heads to explode.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted to govern himself. Can he, then, be trusted to govern others? - Thomas Jefferson
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it. - Eugene Debs
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mrBlond
I remember reading a free hosts' rules a couple of months ago - it went something like this:
"The following are not allowed:
5) No pornography"
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mrBlond
:)
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mrBlond
What are your favorite abandoned games that you'd like to try playing again?
Silmarils' Metal mutant - lovely old DOS game. I've never cared much about game sound, but this one blew my mind away: thru the internal speaker - no soundcard! French, so I didn't have a clue what anything meant, and one enemy was blowfishlike (hey I was young).
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mrBlond
OS/2 warp of course!
sorry
I also prefer the three-letter ones, just in consistency.
Erm http://news.bbc.co.uk/ , http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ ...
"The Internet is American. English only, please." - saweeeet@aol.com in Cuban newsgroup
I am not sure, but i imagine that the 4.7 gb is only on the dual-sided disks, and i imagine too that you have to flip the disc to write to both sides
From the linked page: DVD data capacity of 4.7GB per single-sided disc.
Okay, the whole thing goes:
Terminator: In 3 years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterward, they fly with a perfect operational record.
Sarah: Uh huh, great. Then those fat fucks in Washington figure, what the hell, let a computer run the whole show, right?
Terminator: Basically. The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah: And Skynet fights back.
"The beauty of the EC system is it makes each vote really count."
Huh? All the votes cast in the country, and specifically all the votes of people in "already decided" states (which can be 50%-1) count for nothing! A Nader vote in Texas can't help elect Ralph nationally if Texas is a majority right-wing state - he gets so many thousand votes in Texas, but gets 0 EC votes.
Yes it's entertaining like a baseball game, but do you want your government elected in an entertaining way, or representative of what the people want?
If the majority of Usani voted for Gore, let them suffer under him.
The EC seems to allow a candidate who gets +-10% of the vote to become president and the 90% guy to loose because only a few states force the EC members to vote along with the people's choice. Even when all the EC embers vote the way the people want, the guy with +-25% can become president and the 75% guy looses (SeventyFive%Guy gets 100% of votes for 50%-1 of the EC votes, and 50%-1 votes for the rest).
Am I the only only who thinks this is ridiculous? even for the already ridiculous representative democracy system (vs direct true democracy).
"All ideas must be run past our own intelligence. The planet needs the initiative, ideas and responsibility of each one of us. Each person must understand and believe in their power to use their own ideas on behalf of themself and all of us to change the planet for the better. We have underestimated ourselves and each other for centuries." - Judy Sole
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." - Alexander Tyler, Decline and fall of the Athenian republic
"Vote for me, and I'll set e=2.0, pi=3.0, and extrapolate the rest of the number line from there."
Dear Mr. Black Parrot. Our polling suggests that you are taking away a significant amount of votes from Al. A vote for Parrot is really a vote for W!
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mrBlond
Nader: 110% total, 134% economic
Browne: 94% personal, 9% economic
Buchanan: 9% economic
VoteMatch
I did this experiment with a new stiffy (1.44) but the results were recorded on a file on the disk :(
I think in English (my 2nd language) for all things technical because my 1st language has an absurd hundreds-singles-tens numerical system. I also use Usana spelling (if only it went further): and British everything else.
I was wondering if the language a child grows up learning as its 1st language would affect the way it thinks if it was something like Ido, which is bloody amazing.
>>So powerful and rich corporations are
>>gonna take care of the handicapped and
>>homeless?
>
>Yes, in a sense. Since the government isn't
>taking any money from you, there's no excuse
>"Well, I pay for charity through taxes!", so
>the average decent man will feel compelled to
>give to charity.
The problem is that you are giving people more credit than I do, you see average people as decent, I see them as destroyers of the environment for a quick buck: "Fuck the air, water, soil - in the long term I'm dead."
>would you pay for the Drug War? The
>Libertarians won't make you. Can you say that
>about Nader?
Erm, yes, see: http://votenader.org/press/000908d rug war.html, http://votenader.org/press/000906 tvl etter.html, http://votenader.org/issues/racei nam erica.html.
>To me, and end to the War on Drugs means
>legalizing all chemical substances. Not just
>the ones Nader likes.
Greens differentiate between hash and cocaine, if you don't, by all means vote Lib.
>I want the right to life, liberty, and
>property. Absolutely. Without any
>restrictions.
That's great if you own the media and means of productions, it doesn't mean anything if you have to work at McDonalds to survive.
>You're voting for that?
Yes, it means that you may not treat nonrenewable resources from the earth like capital available only to you. It means you buy a van from Zero Pollution Motors, and they recycle it after you're finished with it.
How about 10 votes? That way you can split it 2, almost 3, and 5 ways. Mrs Bos votes 5 Gore, 5 Bush; Mr Bar votes 10 Nader; Mr Baz votes 7 Libertarian, 3 Bush; Ms Qux only votes 2 Nader (with her remaining 8 going to the binding "None of the above"). Any vote with more than 10 is spoilt going to the binding "None of the above".
Complex yes, but wouldn't the logistics be worth it? The illiterate and those who can't count can ask election officials to help them weight their vote for their favourite tv politicians.
Why is your single vote for a small party wasted, but that same single vote so powerfull for the whores?
Who's line is that originally anyway?
The Greens have this weird thing for environmental issues: regarding clean air, water and soil as important!
I've never had that much confidence in corporations to do the Right Thing. Personally I think grassroots direct democracy is better.
Warning: really read about X before you vote for X.
Re voting systems: Why not give every person 3 votes? Mr Bos gives 1 vote for Gore, 1 for Bush, and 1 for Nader. Mrs Bar votes all 3 for Nader. Mr Baz gives 2 votes for Browne, and 1 for None of the above.
If however their single vote is so powerfull for some bribed big wig, why is their one vote wasted for a 3rd party? Please explain this to me without giving the "better lizard" bleat.
Any representative system fails whereas grassroots direct democracy would have administrators executing the will of the people, instead of doing things to them.
Vote for a binding None of the above option
"The most important political question you can ask yourself is simply this: Do you want smaller government? ... Do you want an end to... government intrusions into your life and your business? ... Ralph Nader wants to tell you whether you can drive a car at all. But that's the least of his many plans to make government much bigger. ... I want to make the federal government so small you won't pay any income tax. (The tariffs and excise taxes already being collected are enough to finance the constitutional functions of government.) I want to free you immediately and completely from the Social Security system. I want to sell off government assets to finance private retirement accounts for anyone now dependent on Social Security -- so you and I and every other American can immediately stop paying the 15% Social Security tax." - http://www.harrybrowne.org/
So powerful and rich corporations are gonna take care of the handicapped and homeless? They are going to school the population, and invest in sustainable and non-profit ventures?
By all means by his $17.5 book, and vote Libertarian, but at least admit that you're a right wing capitalist (and everything that goes with that).
If however you believe in direct grassroots democracy, and protecting our only habitat, vote Green.