Reading that article regarding the "mathematical argument for the electoral college" made me physically ill. This gentleman relates the democratic process of voting to baseball of all things! He then goes on to somehow glorify the whole process as "exciting" and everyone enjoys "not knowing the outcome until the last minute". Uh oh..I'm starting to feel queasy again just mentioning this idea.
It's unbelievable to me that someone could write, and perhaps actually believe, such drivel. I don't vote for "excitement" and I certainly don't vote because I feel the whole thing is some sort of sporting event, or because I'm in the mood to "gamble". I vote specifically for a certain individual because I feel they are the most competent for the job and they most closely reflect my own beliefs about government, and I would like to see them elected.
I can understand the need for representatives and senators, simply because there are too many issues for everyone to stay informed and vote on daily, but in its current incarnation, we to live in a Republic (we don't make decisions, we elect people who make the decisions), not a Democracy. However, I feel that the electoral college should be abolished, simply because it's members are free to vote against the popular vote and I think that is clearly wrong in this instance. Let's turn America into a Democracy like it was meant to be.
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I was very dissapointed by that comparison, and it's level of cuteness. Perhaps you should supply me with a comparison of Britney Spears and Christina Aguillara so I can achieve my cute comparison quota for the day.
My friends, the entire situation, and by situation, I am specifying not only Napster, but the entire Internet infrastructure and more specifically the dominating force of computers and technology in modern human lives; this situation is really no different than other dramatic changes that civilization and society in particular have endured over the past several thousand years.
I'm just going to come right out and make this statement: environments change and many times we (individually or as a collective) have no control over these evolving forces. We now find ourselves at one of these crossroads in our history as human beings. It is at times like these that we must adapt ourselves to our new environment and make the necessary changes to our lives and laws so as not to stiffle human creation, technological advancement and the wonderful human characteristic known as "imagination".
The following is probably one of the poorest examples that I could possibly come up with, nevertheless it's still valid. When electricity was "discovered", it had the effect of dramatically altering the lives of millions of people, not unlike the way the Internet has changed peoples lives. Candles weren't needed near the quantities that they had been prior to the lightbuld, and so I'm sure that a number of candle makers and companies in industries that were tied one way or another to making candles had to fire quite a few people, or perhaps went out of business alltogether. These companies needed to adapt to a new way of business or be forced to close. Clearly lightbulbs and electricty were a more powerful system than what was previously used (candles and lamps with lamp oil).
The good news was that employees were then needed in the factories that manufacture lightbulds which surely must have offset the loss of jobs that occured from candle factory layoffs.
The above is only one example of many that flew through my head as I wrote this. I'm sure that you personally can easily think up changes in ecomony and lifestyles that have occured in the past as well.
My views are probably more liberal than most in regards to intellectual property, and I won't dwell on that here, but clearly we have come to a point in history where drastic changes to laws and views about intellectual property need to be adapted.
It's only natural that we as humans adapt to our changing environment just as we have done for millions of years and that is all I am suggesting. Let's make concious, informed and logical decisions to allow progress of the human race while not trying to brush under the carpet something that a few people in power find "threating". Let's do what's good for the majority, even at the expense of the few.
I've been working in the special effects industry for the past five years, and can say that a good 75% of what we all see on the television simply isn't real. Everything is altered and made to look as perfect as possible. This includes making supermodels and musicians thinner and/or removing wrinkles.
I was suprised when I first joined the special effects industry at just how many products and items are "enhanced" prior to viewing on the TV. To give you an idea of just how advanced most of the visual effects work is, the guys at my company routinely live by the motto: "If you notice the effect, we didn't do our job right".
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It's unbelievable to me that someone could write, and perhaps actually believe, such drivel. I don't vote for "excitement" and I certainly don't vote because I feel the whole thing is some sort of sporting event, or because I'm in the mood to "gamble". I vote specifically for a certain individual because I feel they are the most competent for the job and they most closely reflect my own beliefs about government, and I would like to see them elected.
I can understand the need for representatives and senators, simply because there are too many issues for everyone to stay informed and vote on daily, but in its current incarnation, we to live in a Republic (we don't make decisions, we elect people who make the decisions), not a Democracy. However, I feel that the electoral college should be abolished, simply because it's members are free to vote against the popular vote and I think that is clearly wrong in this instance. Let's turn America into a Democracy like it was meant to be.
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Perhaps we should develop a "Trailer Park" Linux distro. If we put a picture of Tux driving a camaro on the box, it's sure to be a success.
I was very dissapointed by that comparison, and it's level of cuteness. Perhaps you should supply me with a comparison of Britney Spears and Christina Aguillara so I can achieve my cute comparison quota for the day.
I'm just going to come right out and make this statement: environments change and many times we (individually or as a collective) have no control over these evolving forces. We now find ourselves at one of these crossroads in our history as human beings. It is at times like these that we must adapt ourselves to our new environment and make the necessary changes to our lives and laws so as not to stiffle human creation, technological advancement and the wonderful human characteristic known as "imagination".
The following is probably one of the poorest examples that I could possibly come up with, nevertheless it's still valid. When electricity was "discovered", it had the effect of dramatically altering the lives of millions of people, not unlike the way the Internet has changed peoples lives. Candles weren't needed near the quantities that they had been prior to the lightbuld, and so I'm sure that a number of candle makers and companies in industries that were tied one way or another to making candles had to fire quite a few people, or perhaps went out of business alltogether. These companies needed to adapt to a new way of business or be forced to close. Clearly lightbulbs and electricty were a more powerful system than what was previously used (candles and lamps with lamp oil). The good news was that employees were then needed in the factories that manufacture lightbulds which surely must have offset the loss of jobs that occured from candle factory layoffs.
The above is only one example of many that flew through my head as I wrote this. I'm sure that you personally can easily think up changes in ecomony and lifestyles that have occured in the past as well.
My views are probably more liberal than most in regards to intellectual property, and I won't dwell on that here, but clearly we have come to a point in history where drastic changes to laws and views about intellectual property need to be adapted.
It's only natural that we as humans adapt to our changing environment just as we have done for millions of years and that is all I am suggesting. Let's make concious, informed and logical decisions to allow progress of the human race while not trying to brush under the carpet something that a few people in power find "threating". Let's do what's good for the majority, even at the expense of the few.
I was suprised when I first joined the special effects industry at just how many products and items are "enhanced" prior to viewing on the TV. To give you an idea of just how advanced most of the visual effects work is, the guys at my company routinely live by the motto: "If you notice the effect, we didn't do our job right".
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