The Herald also reported than the CNE has hired a firm "whose touch-screen voting machine has never been used in an election anywhere" to provide voting machines for the referendum. There have been widespread reports of people being fired from government ministries and state run industries for signing the petition, or facing threats of firing if they go to repair a disputed signature.
Free trade presumes that all parties obey the law and act in their rational self-interest. Criminal activity harms society, and capitalists pass and enforce laws against criminal activity and abetting criminals.
Capitalists also value the environment. Privately owned forests are better maintained than public forests because the owners will maintain and re-plant to preserve the value of their own land. The worst pollution and biggest environmental disasters are in non-capitalist countries. Practically all aspects of the environment have been improving in capitalist America.
Capitalists are not blind. It is folly to assume that capitalists are either criminals or blind.
If you conveniently neglect to include that the cheaper computers mean that more people will buy them and benefit from using them, that the money saved can be spent to further benefit consumers, and that the costs including tax of the fuel have been paid for and are included in the reduced total price, than your calculation may not show a positive benefit to society. Yes, if you include all of the benefits, trade will always benefit society as a whole.
The fundamental problem here is that companies are able to make money in ways that do not benefit society.
How can a company make money in a way that does not benefit society? To make money, a company must provide a good or service that the consumer values more than the money they pay for it. This benefits society. Also, corporate profits will either be spent, saved, or invested to produce more valuable goods or services. This also benefits society. Trade allows goods and services to be produced for less money, which means more consumers benefit. Trade and competition may not benefit competitors, but it will always have a positive benefit and increase the standard of living of society as a whole.
The IT worker in America is also in direct competition to provide IT services to foreign companies and governments. We are actually doing very well in competition.
A new report from the Commerce Department shows that the U.S. runs a large trade surplus in information technology (IT) services. This is precisely the area where most of the job loss from outsourcing is supposed to be taking place. In 2002, the U.S. exported $3 billion worth of computer and data processing services and $2.4 billion in database and other information services, while importing just $1 billion of the former and $200 million of the latter.
I personally have exported IT services (insourcing) to American companies and governments, foreign companies and governments, and international organizations. How many people do you know that provide IT or other services to foreign companies or governments?
There are also far more jobs using software than producing software. Using outsourcing to reduce software production costs will create more jobs in software use (most of IT) than are lost in software production.
We can and do need to compete better. We still need to improve our math and technical education, as Alan Greenspan says to keep a positive trade balance in IT services.
the best way for Congress to help Americans get and keep good-paying jobs is to improve their math and technical skills so companies won't be tempted to outsource to better-trained workers in China and India.
Standard Oil, the definitive example of The Myth of Predatory Pricing, was not a monopoly. They had peaked in market share long before the government broke them up.
AT&T and the Bells created their markets and local monopolies. AT&T did not overtake competitive free markets.
Microsoft has not done well in markets that they cannot tie to their Windows monopoly.
The only way to get a monopoly in a truly free market is to create a new market.
In the absence of free markets, monopolies are the norm. It is only because of free markets and capitalism that monopolies have mostly disappeared. Except for Microsoft, the only monopolies that still exist in free markets are those that started out as a monopoly in their market. Can you name any company besides Microsoft that has emerged into a monopoly by taking over a free market?
Wal-Mart simply reduces the price paid to bring products into the community, which increases the money that can be spent in the community. The amount of money saved by paying lower prices will always exceed the income lost by those who lose their jobs because of Wal-Mart. Those workers will be able to make more money than before by providing other goods and services paid for out of the money saved because of low prices. There is no indication that Wal-Mart will ever be able to raise prices because of lack of competition. Predatory pricing is a myth. The only reason to oppose Wal-Mart is to prevent the poor from escaping poverty.
California has investigated gasoline prices many times and have never found any signs of price fixing. Will the state ever figure out that it must be adverse regulation that keeps new competitors from entering an increasingly profitable oil refinement business?
Capitalism produces very large markets. Companies that have a large share in a huge market will become much bigger than any monopoly in a small market outside of capitalism.
As a casual observer, it seems that Paul Allen's money is a part of every other innovative product coming out while MS Research doesn't seem to be producing anything very interesting. Individual investors who can afford to fund the most risky, and therefore the most innovative, investments will outperform corporate investments which will only go to innovation that will help the corporation's profits.
Microsoft can die if shareholders (including option holders) go after Microsoft's cash and force the board to pay a large dividend. Microsoft's monopoly profit will be diverted through individual investors to investment and innovation in new platforms and technology. Microsoft will not be able to keep up with software for new platforms if the competition is taking their revenue stream through dividends and using it to compete against them.
But if a new president hikes taxes on dividends and top income then Microsoft's earnings will stay with the company and this will not happen.
Flynt, who recently opened a Hustler nightclub in Baltimore, says everyone in the business is wary, making sure their taxes are paid and the "talent" is over 18.
If a small staff monitoring the internet and a few prosecutions against extreme and violent porn keeps the industry paying taxes and obeying the law then it is definitely not a waste of taxpayer money.
If the multi-billion dollar porn pays all their taxes and stays clean then there will be far more resources and money available to combat other injustices.
Small government is much better than anarchy.
Ashchroft and the justice department hasn't been in the news much since the PATRIOT act passed.
So why is everyone so paranoid about him?
Sadly, the United States of America, has now become United Corporations of America, and all laws dealing with P2P file sharing has been enacted according to the dictates of the rich record labels and their lobby groups.
Form your own lobby group. They lobby, you rant and rage on slashdot, and they win.
Corporations do not control America, they just lobby congress to increase their influence. Anyone is allowed to lobby congress. Put your money where your mouth is, form a lobby group, and try to gain more influence than just your vote. Stay focused only on changing copyright laws, and give money to both parties. Get representatives onto talk radio, news programs, and other places where politicians and ordinary voters get input, and start a debate outside of slashdot. You don't need to spend more than the industry, you just need to spend enough to create a debate. And obey the law until you can change it. Credibility is important.
Outsourcing does have some of the information benefits of open source software. If you RTFA you would read that most of the Indian workers mentioned were working on debugging. Almost all outsourcing adds more workers abroad than are displaced locally. That means that there is more diverse collaboration than with non-outsourced proprietary software. Lower software costs also accelerate the creation of derivative software works. The similarity is mostly economic.
If anyone tried to repeat the Microsoft economic FUD that "open source software is bad because programmers get paid less and pay fewer taxes" or "by being a monopoly, we maximize profits in software and therefore maximize shareholder value and tax revenue" slashdot users would destroy these arguments.
Software is an input that is used by 'software users' to produce many other goods and services. What has been said about the steel and sugar tariffs applies even more to software. There are far, far more 'software using' jobs than 'software producing' jobs. This is also far more revenue and profits from software use than from software production. Higher priced software, whether proprietary, monopoly, or from outsourcing trade restrictions, will save far fewer 'software production' jobs then the number of 'software using' jobs that will be lost.
The 'software producers' who lose their jobs from outsourcing all seem to have nothing to do but hang out on slashdot posting hundreds of anti-outsourcing comments within minutes of any outsourcing story being posted. The 'software users' who gain jobs probably have no idea that their job was created because of the low cost of outsourced software production.
Kerry's tax plan will have no impact on India outsourcing since the corporate tax rates are about the same. India has a 42% effective tax on foreign companies, California has 35% US + 9.3% CA (deductible).
The Kerry plan just penalizes US companies in low tax nations. Native companies pay the native low tax rate while US companies will have to pay the higher US tax rate whether they keep their profits there or bring them back to the US. Most other countries do not tax the foreign profits of their companies. This just hurts US companies abroad and will cost American jobs at home. This may be just what Kerry wants, since his loyalty seems to not be with America. Kerry's tax plan will only encourage more US companies to re-incorporate in offshore tax havens.
I have to view an anti-Bush ad. to read the article defending outsourcing.
"Outsourcing is a sensitive topic in the U.S. for political reasons," Behlendorf says. "But the open-source community has been doing outsourcing since the beginning." Programs like Apache and Linux and many others, he argues, were developed by thousands of volunteers from around the globe -- an example of massively outsourced labor. In a sense, the move by Western corporations to outsource programming operations to developing nations isn't just about cutting costs, it's about adopting a new software development model.
The same slashdot crowd that worships open source demonizes outsourcing. Outsourcing only allows commercial software many of the same cost benefits of open source software. And remember from all the open source debates that most of the money is made from using software, not writing software. Both outsourcing and open source makes software cheaper and more available so that more people can make more money using software.
If open source is good for programmers, than outsourcing is also good for programmers.
A new report from the Commerce Department shows that the U.S. runs a large trade surplus in information technology (IT) services. This is precisely the area where most of the job loss from outsourcing is supposed to be taking place. In 2002, the U.S. exported $3 billion worth of computer and data processing services and $2.4 billion in database and other information services, while importing just $1 billion of the former and $200 million of the latter.
We are insourcing (service exports) far more than we are outsourcing (service imports) in IT. And all the money that gets saved from outsourcing gets spent and creates jobs elsewhere.
Open source software is nothing but massively outsourced labor. And remember from the open source debate that most of the money is made from using software, not writing software. Both outsourcing and open source makes software cheaper so that more people can make more money using software. This adds significantly to both the US and the world economy.
Open access (ISP competition) would be good but regulation cannot create this competition. Rents for pipes will either get set too low or too high, and either the pipe or the ISP's will eventually die. The chance of government bureaucrats getting prices right are very poor. Having structural separation can create ISP competition, but there will still be finger pointing and a monopoly pipe.
Once you have pipe competition, then there is a market, and no government regulation is needed. The pipes can then partner with competitive ISP's to better compete against the other pipes without a need for open access regulation.
The chance of the 9th circuit getting anything right are also very poor.
The LADWP and other California municipal utilities had a surplus of power generation. So instead of being "raped" by the private generators, they "raped" us harder. The average price charged by private wholesalers was $247 per megawatt hour. The LADWP charged an average of $292 per megawatt hour and Glendale charged an average of $327 a megawatt-hour.
Why would you want to create a new government monopoly, which will be impossible to compete against locally.
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Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it
-- Genesis 1:28
Are we to believe that this only means this little ball of
rock that we currently inhabit?
Or, as I believe, that we have barely begun to fill.
Human colonization should be the top priority of our space program.
Add the San Francisco assemblyman, with PhD, trying to legislate feng-shui in the building code to the gullibility list.
There definitely seems to be a negative correlation between PhD's and good government.
Our state also has the worst rated state government
and we have to be rescued by an actor with a correspondence degree in economics.
I think a lack of real-world experience may be behind this. (the goal of getting a PhD is usually to avoid the real world)
The gullibility of the above companies and/. readers (myself included) is that we are still here, and have not fled to better states.
Even more embarrassing, this is Orange County, not the Bay Area where I would expect this to happen. And I looked at the city council web-site and one of the city council members has a PhD, from Stanford, in Educational Psychology. It only shows how useless a PhD has become.
This new governmental policy of letting the corporations dictate public policy has just got to stop.
This is California where having corporations dictate policy is actually a big step forward from having labor unions and trial lawyers dictate policy. There are short term limits for the polititions but no term limits for the special interests so the special interests end up authoring much of California legislation. Having Bill Lockyear actually trying to enforce any law is another big step forward for him. It's pretty pathetic that this little snafu actually increases my opinion of our Attorney General. We can have the people try to dictate California policy. There is a petition out to recall Bill Lockear.
The CBO has plenty of problems. This year it is low-balling GDP growth (2.8%) and it completely disregards stimulus. The only good thing about the CBO is that it is a standard. Once, if ever, Kerry wants to fully define his tax and spending proposals and run them through this year's CBO then there can be a better discussion of deficits.
Sales tax includes use tax because the use of items is the same whether bought on or off line. When states set use tax = sales tax they imply that the sales tax portion of the tax is zero. This implies that all the traffic infrastructure, security, and other services provided by governments to support merchants costs nothing. (Not to mention the tax breaks that government gives to merchants to get them to locate in their jurisdiction so that they can collect the sales tax from that merchant.)
There is money in e-commerce, and states worry that if they don't take their cut the money will be gone. But intrusive taxation up front is counterproductive when the government has a back-end cut of the profits (income tax). When governments are greedy and tax anything they can get their hands onto before it becomes someone else's taxable income, total taxes collected by all governments decreases.
The reason why the unemployment rate has been falling is because people have been being crapped out the other side of the unemployment intestine, so to speak.
The unemployment rate is based on the household
survey of employment, not on unemployment claims. The number of people
"crapped out", discouraged workers, is at 0.3%. This is not high by historical
standards. There is another misconception about the underemployment rate.
The underemployment rate is currently higher than the unemployment rate, duh!
Underemployment should be compared to other underemployment rates,
not unemployment rates. Underemployment is also low by historical and international standards.
The unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 6.3 last June to 5.6 now.
New weekly jobless claims have fallen from a high of 459K last April
to 344K this month.
This tracks very closely to the passing of the most recent tax cuts.
The tax cuts specifically reduce personal income tax rates,
and increase business-like personal deductions,
while corporate tax rates remained unchanged.
This makes self and small business employment more competitive against business establishment employment than before. It is no surprise that the employment has increased significantly, to a record high, since then while payroll survey job numbers have been flat. This divergence, the large increase in non-payroll employment, is a good thing. Working for yourself or directly for a small business owner is much preferable than working for pointy-haired-bosses in big corporations.
Because the 'jobs' and 'unemployment' come from different surveys,
many people come to the incorrect conclusion that anyone neither unemployed
nor on a payroll job is 'discouraged'. That is that anyone who doesn't work for a
PHB is a "discouraged worker".
I would think that most slashdotters would believe the opposite to be true.
There are a lot of people in the United States that do not really believe in
the ability of the "common person" to make valid decisions when it comes to selecting a government.
Many people would rather have appointed judges and lawbreaking mayors make the law rather then the will of the "common people" who vote. The "common people" have been doing very well lately. They have consistantly voted to reverse tax hikes passed by state legislatures recently and in California the "common people" recalled a governor and elected a new governor with a degree in economics to replace him.
These are the same people who would remove qualified scientists from an advisory panel because their findings do not support a particular ideology or business model. Exactly.
Some people define "respected scientists" as only those who believe in their
ideology (like global warming). All scientists who doesn't agree are labeled
"industry stooges".
Some people would like to
Outsource our military and subvert our "interests" to a corrupt
organization of dictators and mostly corrupt elected officials (the U.N.).
They would like to suppress any
connection they don't want to find and repeat the same lie repeatedly until they think people will believe them. They also suppressed discovery of
proliferation activity for political gain (China-gate).
Which way do you thing the activist hackers who would alter evoting dquipment
would go?
Slashdot Mirror
The article says that the system can have 16 candidates, and machines can be chained for a max of 64.
That wouldn't exactly work over here.
135 or more candidates in one race for office.
Different primary ballots for multiple parties, with different rules on who can vote in each race.
Multiple votes in a race (party central committee)
Lots and lots of races: national, state, local, judicial, etc.
Yes, we do need the massive complexity of Diebold or similar systems to run American elections.
Free trade presumes that all parties obey the law and act in their rational self-interest. Criminal activity harms society, and capitalists pass and enforce laws against criminal activity and abetting criminals.
Capitalists also value the environment. Privately owned forests are better maintained than public forests because the owners will maintain and re-plant to preserve the value of their own land. The worst pollution and biggest environmental disasters are in non-capitalist countries. Practically all aspects of the environment have been improving in capitalist America.
Capitalists are not blind. It is folly to assume that capitalists are either criminals or blind.
If you conveniently neglect to include that the cheaper computers mean that more people will buy them and benefit from using them, that the money saved can be spent to further benefit consumers, and that the costs including tax of the fuel have been paid for and are included in the reduced total price, than your calculation may not show a positive benefit to society. Yes, if you include all of the benefits, trade will always benefit society as a whole.
There are also far more jobs using software than producing software. Using outsourcing to reduce software production costs will create more jobs in software use (most of IT) than are lost in software production.
We can and do need to compete better. We still need to improve our math and technical education, as Alan Greenspan says to keep a positive trade balance in IT services.
AT&T and the Bells created their markets and local monopolies. AT&T did not overtake competitive free markets.
Microsoft has not done well in markets that they cannot tie to their Windows monopoly.
The only way to get a monopoly in a truly free market is to create a new market.
In the absence of free markets, monopolies are the norm. It is only because of free markets and capitalism that monopolies have mostly disappeared. Except for Microsoft, the only monopolies that still exist in free markets are those that started out as a monopoly in their market. Can you name any company besides Microsoft that has emerged into a monopoly by taking over a free market?
Wal-Mart simply reduces the price paid to bring products into the community, which increases the money that can be spent in the community. The amount of money saved by paying lower prices will always exceed the income lost by those who lose their jobs because of Wal-Mart. Those workers will be able to make more money than before by providing other goods and services paid for out of the money saved because of low prices. There is no indication that Wal-Mart will ever be able to raise prices because of lack of competition. Predatory pricing is a myth. The only reason to oppose Wal-Mart is to prevent the poor from escaping poverty.
California has investigated gasoline prices many times and have never found any signs of price fixing. Will the state ever figure out that it must be adverse regulation that keeps new competitors from entering an increasingly profitable oil refinement business?
Capitalism produces very large markets. Companies that have a large share in a huge market will become much bigger than any monopoly in a small market outside of capitalism.
As a casual observer, it seems that Paul Allen's money is a part of every other innovative product coming out while MS Research doesn't seem to be producing anything very interesting. Individual investors who can afford to fund the most risky, and therefore the most innovative, investments will outperform corporate investments which will only go to innovation that will help the corporation's profits.
Microsoft can die if shareholders (including option holders) go after Microsoft's cash and force the board to pay a large dividend. Microsoft's monopoly profit will be diverted through individual investors to investment and innovation in new platforms and technology. Microsoft will not be able to keep up with software for new platforms if the competition is taking their revenue stream through dividends and using it to compete against them.
But if a new president hikes taxes on dividends and top income then Microsoft's earnings will stay with the company and this will not happen.
Ashchroft and the justice department hasn't been in the news much since the PATRIOT act passed. So why is everyone so paranoid about him?
Form your own lobby group. They lobby, you rant and rage on slashdot, and they win.
Corporations do not control America, they just lobby congress to increase their influence. Anyone is allowed to lobby congress. Put your money where your mouth is, form a lobby group, and try to gain more influence than just your vote. Stay focused only on changing copyright laws, and give money to both parties. Get representatives onto talk radio, news programs, and other places where politicians and ordinary voters get input, and start a debate outside of slashdot. You don't need to spend more than the industry, you just need to spend enough to create a debate. And obey the law until you can change it. Credibility is important.
Outsourcing does have some of the information benefits of open source software. If you RTFA you would read that most of the Indian workers mentioned were working on debugging. Almost all outsourcing adds more workers abroad than are displaced locally. That means that there is more diverse collaboration than with non-outsourced proprietary software. Lower software costs also accelerate the creation of derivative software works. The similarity is mostly economic.
If anyone tried to repeat the Microsoft economic FUD that "open source software is bad because programmers get paid less and pay fewer taxes" or "by being a monopoly, we maximize profits in software and therefore maximize shareholder value and tax revenue" slashdot users would destroy these arguments.
Software is an input that is used by 'software users' to produce many other goods and services. What has been said about the steel and sugar tariffs applies even more to software. There are far, far more 'software using' jobs than 'software producing' jobs. This is also far more revenue and profits from software use than from software production. Higher priced software, whether proprietary, monopoly, or from outsourcing trade restrictions, will save far fewer 'software production' jobs then the number of 'software using' jobs that will be lost.
The 'software producers' who lose their jobs from outsourcing all seem to have nothing to do but hang out on slashdot posting hundreds of anti-outsourcing comments within minutes of any outsourcing story being posted. The 'software users' who gain jobs probably have no idea that their job was created because of the low cost of outsourced software production.
Kerry's tax plan will have no impact on India outsourcing since the corporate tax rates are about the same. India has a 42% effective tax on foreign companies, California has 35% US + 9.3% CA (deductible).
The Kerry plan just penalizes US companies in low tax nations. Native companies pay the native low tax rate while US companies will have to pay the higher US tax rate whether they keep their profits there or bring them back to the US. Most other countries do not tax the foreign profits of their companies. This just hurts US companies abroad and will cost American jobs at home. This may be just what Kerry wants, since his loyalty seems to not be with America. Kerry's tax plan will only encourage more US companies to re-incorporate in offshore tax havens.
If open source is good for programmers, than outsourcing is also good for programmers.
Open source software is nothing but massively outsourced labor. And remember from the open source debate that most of the money is made from using software, not writing software. Both outsourcing and open source makes software cheaper so that more people can make more money using software. This adds significantly to both the US and the world economy.
Open access (ISP competition) would be good but regulation cannot create this competition. Rents for pipes will either get set too low or too high, and either the pipe or the ISP's will eventually die. The chance of government bureaucrats getting prices right are very poor. Having structural separation can create ISP competition, but there will still be finger pointing and a monopoly pipe.
Once you have pipe competition, then there is a market, and no government regulation is needed. The pipes can then partner with competitive ISP's to better compete against the other pipes without a need for open access regulation.
The chance of the 9th circuit getting anything right are also very poor.
The LADWP and other California municipal utilities had a surplus of power generation. So instead of being "raped" by the private generators, they "raped" us harder. The average price charged by private wholesalers was $247 per megawatt hour. The LADWP charged an average of $292 per megawatt hour and Glendale charged an average of $327 a megawatt-hour.
Why would you want to create a new government monopoly, which will be impossible to compete against locally.
Are we to believe that this only means this little ball of rock that we currently inhabit? Or, as I believe, that we have barely begun to fill. Human colonization should be the top priority of our space program.
There definitely seems to be a negative correlation between PhD's and good government. Our state also has the worst rated state government and we have to be rescued by an actor with a correspondence degree in economics. I think a lack of real-world experience may be behind this. (the goal of getting a PhD is usually to avoid the real world)
The gullibility of the above companies and /. readers (myself included) is that we are still here, and have not fled to better states.
Even more embarrassing, this is Orange County, not the Bay Area where I would expect this to happen. And I looked at the city council web-site and one of the city council members has a PhD, from Stanford, in Educational Psychology. It only shows how useless a PhD has become.
This is California where having corporations dictate policy is actually a big step forward from having labor unions and trial lawyers dictate policy. There are short term limits for the polititions but no term limits for the special interests so the special interests end up authoring much of California legislation. Having Bill Lockyear actually trying to enforce any law is another big step forward for him. It's pretty pathetic that this little snafu actually increases my opinion of our Attorney General. We can have the people try to dictate California policy. There is a petition out to recall Bill Lockear.
The CBO has plenty of problems. This year it is low-balling GDP growth (2.8%) and it completely disregards stimulus. The only good thing about the CBO is that it is a standard. Once, if ever, Kerry wants to fully define his tax and spending proposals and run them through this year's CBO then there can be a better discussion of deficits.
Sales tax includes use tax because the use of items is the same whether bought on or off line. When states set use tax = sales tax they imply that the sales tax portion of the tax is zero. This implies that all the traffic infrastructure, security, and other services provided by governments to support merchants costs nothing. (Not to mention the tax breaks that government gives to merchants to get them to locate in their jurisdiction so that they can collect the sales tax from that merchant.)
There is money in e-commerce, and states worry that if they don't take their cut the money will be gone. But intrusive taxation up front is counterproductive when the government has a back-end cut of the profits (income tax). When governments are greedy and tax anything they can get their hands onto before it becomes someone else's taxable income, total taxes collected by all governments decreases.
This is completely untrue.
The unemployment rate is based on the household survey of employment, not on unemployment claims. The number of people "crapped out", discouraged workers, is at 0.3%. This is not high by historical standards. There is another misconception about the underemployment rate. The underemployment rate is currently higher than the unemployment rate, duh! Underemployment should be compared to other underemployment rates, not unemployment rates. Underemployment is also low by historical and international standards.
The unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 6.3 last June to 5.6 now. New weekly jobless claims have fallen from a high of 459K last April to 344K this month. This tracks very closely to the passing of the most recent tax cuts. The tax cuts specifically reduce personal income tax rates, and increase business-like personal deductions, while corporate tax rates remained unchanged. This makes self and small business employment more competitive against business establishment employment than before. It is no surprise that the employment has increased significantly, to a record high, since then while payroll survey job numbers have been flat. This divergence, the large increase in non-payroll employment, is a good thing. Working for yourself or directly for a small business owner is much preferable than working for pointy-haired-bosses in big corporations.
Because the 'jobs' and 'unemployment' come from different surveys, many people come to the incorrect conclusion that anyone neither unemployed nor on a payroll job is 'discouraged'. That is that anyone who doesn't work for a PHB is a "discouraged worker". I would think that most slashdotters would believe the opposite to be true.
Many people would rather have appointed judges and lawbreaking mayors make the law rather then the will of the "common people" who vote. The "common people" have been doing very well lately. They have consistantly voted to reverse tax hikes passed by state legislatures recently and in California the "common people" recalled a governor and elected a new governor with a degree in economics to replace him.
These are the same people who would remove qualified scientists from an advisory panel because their findings do not support a particular ideology or business model.
Exactly. Some people define "respected scientists" as only those who believe in their ideology (like global warming). All scientists who doesn't agree are labeled "industry stooges".
Some people would like to Outsource our military and subvert our "interests" to a corrupt organization of dictators and mostly corrupt elected officials (the U.N.). They would like to suppress any connection they don't want to find and repeat the same lie repeatedly until they think people will believe them. They also suppressed discovery of proliferation activity for political gain (China-gate).
Which way do you thing the activist hackers who would alter evoting dquipment would go?