If we limit contributions to allowing one citizen to contribute $100 to thier candidate of choice we'd have a win. Corporations should not be allowed to contribute (period) to a campaign in any way shape or form, unless EVERY employee has signed willingly a form that states that they too support their corporations choice. And then the corporation would be limited to the $100 dollar limit. Make a comercial for $100 bucks and I'll show you a fraud lawsuit.
I can't believe I missed this - If you're not going to vote in protest of not liking the choices, write someone in. If the 2/3rds who don't vote actually went out and voted with this one write in, we'd make it known, in no uncertain terms what we were after. What should we write in?
I really liked this one, it made me think and didn't piss me off.
The one problem I found was the inference that not voting was a statement in and of itself, and that MORE people should consider it as a form of letting their views be known. This is a dangerous form of expressing your view and contradicted by your own article.
The fact that 2/3rds of us do not vote now, and that some politicians hold office by a division of 40 or even 30% of the total populace who voted, is evidence that the the current 'statement' you advocate (by not voting) has been made already. And herein lies the danger.
If fewer people vote the target audience of those in power will narrow to those who do. Those who vote now are passionate members of one side of the two party system (what we the masses consider to be THE problem). The voting members of those parties then, by default, law, and lack of participation by the rest of us, have handed to them on a platter the power and position which they NEED to continue their hold on our current form of government. Back to this point in a minute.
This path would lead to one and only one logical/illogical conclusion - War. Many of us already think it's the only solution that will resolve our issues as Americans to find a system that works again (don't deny it, you've all thought and considered the same thing at one point). Some still hold the ideal that this 'war' can be done without bloodshed by changing our system - which would require your participation, or more directly your VOTE, which you have advocated NOT doing. I'm one who believes it's still possible, but not likely due directly to lack of participation by those who do not involve themselves in the current process. It's not likely because of those who refuse to be counted in protest to those who do the counting. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating or suggesting we declare and go to war with ourselves, because of lack of participation, in order to save our nation.
Back to it, I'm trying to point out that as long as those with power retain or posess power passed to them by a non speaking public (no matter the percentage) they will pass laws to continue to protect their power.
The DMCA is a prime example. Protect the hold the media has on media, passed into law by those beholden to them, and allowed to pass because of the non caring public at large. Now, you - the non caring public - have fewer rights. Who cares? You won't obey this law because it's unjust, until you are brought to 'justice' by the system you didn't participate in or feel a part of. Then you'll care, and spend your lifes savings defending your position, shouting at the top of your lungs - while the non-speaking but protesting public pats you on the back for your stand - and does nothing.
This is a cycle that can only end by the overturning of laws and changing our current form of government through involvement by the masses, which is expensive, time consuming, and opens you to legal assult under laws already passed, pushed into prosecution by those who hope to retain their power.
If that willful change does not happen, the resolution WILL be an uprising of the masses, in violent protest to their incarceration and trampled rights. AKA - War.
Nice eval and from experience, true to the bone. I work for a major online presence (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) and I'll tell you a story. I'm a low level IT worker. An operator if you will, one small step above tech support. We are looking for good sysadmins in the bay area and what we are being fed by recruiters and news ads is a steady stream of admins who don't grep, egrep or fgrep the basics of unix, much less the intracacies. But they want 100K+ and a signing bonus. I knew more than the last candidate, but he had a paper certification so we shouldn't have thought twice about hiring him, right? psha. A sysadmin is a valuable employee, but even if these candidates were guru's, a sysadmin is NOT worth 100k a year. Personally I think sysadmins should top out at between 60-70 a year - so yes. I'm in favor of the bill even if it means lower wages for many of the higher ups.
c'mon. Your 26 and making more than your father made in 10 years. Get over it.
He got a 3 for THAT? That's not insightful, it's not even correct. (yeah i'm two weeks behind but what the hell)
1) The LOVE of money is the root of all evil, not money itself. Moreover money is not the root of all power in the US - the arguments to this are too many to even be considered a logical statement. Those with money have power, but it doesn't mean money or power are inherantly evil.
2)The average citizen wasn't swayed by adds or add campaigns, the average citizen just didn't give a rats ass. The number of citizens that even bothered to offer an opinion one way or the other before it passed didn't even register as a fraction of a percent. That's apathy, not ignorance (although the two are not mutually exclusive).
3)Your stance on voting is the way we got into this in the first place. Nice job.
Smart cards hold the number of the beast and would signal the coming end of creation! It's the 7th sign! Repent NOW SINNERS! Stop surfing PORN! I know it's true 'cause that guy who slept with that whore that one time said so!
Discrimination of the dissemination of information by financial barriers. Period. This will re-establish a wealthy ruling class of the 1900's in society, and if you think you can stop it you're dreaming.
The GI-Bill shattered the theory that blue collar workers were not smart enough to compete in intellectual pursuits. The internet has the potential to further those accomplishments by providing information to EVERYONE (even those without access to a local institution of higher learning - which have pretty much sold out anyway).
A garenteed stream of revenue seperates the have's from have-not's in a huge way, the same way that $30K+ tech schools keep the lower class in their place, out of technology. And the funny thing is, the smartest hackers usually come from the lower class segments.
Hire REALLY smart people and pay them enough to keep them around. I work for an online trading company (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty;). We pay a lot for support, and have run into this situation before. Your best bet is to have people who work for YOU that can tell them why it's not the other guys fault - essentially being able to corner the vendor into fixing it.
If they are still hesitant to take charge, or the blame, require them by way of your service contract to work with you and the other vendor(s) until it's resolved.
As Chris Farley once said: "I can shit in a box and stamp in guaranteed if it'll make you feel better, but it doesn't mean my product is any good" (paraphrased, thankyouverymuch)
You're more right than you know! The Drug Nazi's are actually real Nazi's, frozen during the final days of world war II and secretly moved to a base in Nevada. Then, when the time was right, they were unfrozen, given secret identities as real Drug Nazi's and public identities as Dept. of Justice employees! It's all conspiracy by the big media conglomerates, the government, big tobacco and THE COLONEL (yeeeess of Kentucky Fried Chicken!) who all meet thrice a year in a secret place known only as "THE MEADOWS". Their plan is to place mind control chips in fluffy bunnies(TM) brand bunny dolls (C) and turn your children into mindless drones of consumerism, who are also gay and want tattoos and face peircings from authorized bunny brand tattoo and peircing outlets, and will work for nothing to buy more stuffed fluffy bunny (TM) brand bunny dolls (C).
Either that or they just don't get the future we're dreaming of. My bets are on number two (although I have dreams of fluffy bunnies..). Ctimes2
Captain, your ship is sailing blind. He made some really good points. Need proof? What's the best looking font on linux? [uh-oh] True type fonts imported from winblows disk. Get over your linux rules religion and start seeing it for what it is.
Which in my opinion is something we can do better. That's why I like linux, because I think I can do it better. It's also why I hate windows - because I know I could do it better but I'll get sued if I try.
AMEN Crazy, AMEN! (This is not a religous endorsment of my own believes, but an emphatic agreement with Crazy Joel). Everyone gets to vote, or I get to be dictator for 5 years. You'll like me. really.
Your right. Wow. What brilliant insight. You must NOT be stupid and uninformed because you said "~advocate what would cause more corruption" which.. really makes no sense, but your still smarter than everyone who disagrees with you. Lets put you in charge. We wouldn't want Americans voting in an election, because they may be uninformed. Jackass.
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Yep, this is a flame but I'm not baiting you. Your really a jackass.
We all know (more than we want to probably) bio-authentication. Eye scans, DNA checks, etc. etc.
So here it is. We have millions of ATM's around the country spitting out cash. You go to them once or twice a week (if you lucky). They are going to be the ones putting up the bioscans first, so we give them a small tax break to host elections through the ATM's. Your ID is more accurately confirmed, security is naturally a little bit better (financial services and all), it'd be more convenient than finding the voting stations now, and to use dead voters you'd have to drag them to the ATM - but then the ATM's have camera's too, and you'd have to do alot of digging, which would really suck.
What do you all think? Or rather, how do make this a reality?
Ctimes2
PS- We could do a lot more with this type of thing too, like give you the opportunity to vote on local and state bills, see the basic information on candidates, etc. but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Voting first, overthrow of the current government second, progress third.
I think there is one other thing being overlooked:
Kids yelling something in the hall that is offensive an hurtfull should get detention. However, they are probably caught up in the moment and trying to impress others. In other words, the kids opened their mouths and something stupid came out.
Posting your slang on the net, printing it, or otherwise making it semi-permanent alludes to the fact that you thought it out, thought again, and went beyond saying it out loud. You engraved it upon electrons as something you believed to be the truth, and that for some unknown reason holds more implications for the accused than a slip of the tounge. By printing it, your statements jump from an unthinking or unkind slip of the tounge to intentional harm.
The town of Milford over reacted, but then I've driven through Milford - in fact delivered a piano there once that drew a crowd of around 100 people to watch (I think it might have been the whole town). I believe the town passtime is grass growing (and not that kind of grass either) & I also think that a cow getting up early would cause those people to over react...
How about an automatic link bar at the bottom of your browser (outside the window if you will, maybe a miniframe?) that links to 10 sites related to the one you're at? Potential for abuse is there of course, but if you could limit it to acedamia it would be nice.
E.G. You're reading an article on quantum mechanics on CNN, your links on the bottom bar (I'm thinking where the netscape icons are on my browser) would link to the university and department front page of the group doing the research. Additional links to other University research postings, trade magazine sites, government contracts for research, maybe the home page of the head of the department mentioned in the article.
A step further, take an article on earth smart cars, links would go to sites about companies that offer them, research about, and fact pages on polution, viability, materials, and history of mechanics.
Could help for when you finally find a site (out of the 1 million hits returned) that you actually wanted, and want to know more.
Instead of passing new laws (and further clogging our already oversized justice system) why not just put the monitors facing such a direction that others will see what your looking at. That would be plenty discouraging for the youngins (I would hope...).
PUhlease. No doubt the mormon bashers would come out of the woodwork. Yeah utah has some f'ed up laws but there are worse places (bible belt). Utah isn't so bad, and if you expected the libraries NOT to be filtered you're smokin' way too much crack. Do you have any concept of how many kids there are in this state? How many parents? How much we pay in taxes to support those kids? Yes I'm from Utah. No I'm not mormon. And the fucking mormons DO NOT in fact rule the state you bandwagon jumping hypocritical jackasses. Get a real cause freaks or move to seattle. MOST of our politicians drink themselves silly on a weekly basis. Too bad they're filtering a public library, but since wacking off in a public place is illegal (and the prosecutors office IS next door to the PD, which is next to the SLC library) you shouldn't be surfing for porn there anyway! Damn I get sick and tired of all the whiney asses who cry about being silenced by religion in utah - When in fact the only ones making noise in the first place are you whiney asses! Go fuck yourselves! When they try to filter my ISP I'll get pissed (which they did try to do by the way, and failed. Not legally yet - The church put a lot of money and users onto my local ISP and threatened to pull out if they didn't filter. They didn't filter, and the church backed off.) I mean REALLY... God forbid someone who believes in god should have an opinion that differs from yours!
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If we limit contributions to allowing one citizen to contribute $100 to thier candidate of choice we'd have a win. Corporations should not be allowed to contribute (period) to a campaign in any way shape or form, unless EVERY employee has signed willingly a form that states that they too support their corporations choice. And then the corporation would be limited to the $100 dollar limit. Make a comercial for $100 bucks and I'll show you a fraud lawsuit.
Ok I'm not the only one who thought of it... eek.
I'll take Milosevic. Pol Pot's just plain crazy with that whole health care thing....
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Ctimes2
The one problem I found was the inference that not voting was a statement in and of itself, and that MORE people should consider it as a form of letting their views be known. This is a dangerous form of expressing your view and contradicted by your own article.
The fact that 2/3rds of us do not vote now, and that some politicians hold office by a division of 40 or even 30% of the total populace who voted, is evidence that the the current 'statement' you advocate (by not voting) has been made already. And herein lies the danger.
If fewer people vote the target audience of those in power will narrow to those who do. Those who vote now are passionate members of one side of the two party system (what we the masses consider to be THE problem). The voting members of those parties then, by default, law, and lack of participation by the rest of us, have handed to them on a platter the power and position which they NEED to continue their hold on our current form of government. Back to this point in a minute.
This path would lead to one and only one logical/illogical conclusion - War. Many of us already think it's the only solution that will resolve our issues as Americans to find a system that works again (don't deny it, you've all thought and considered the same thing at one point). Some still hold the ideal that this 'war' can be done without bloodshed by changing our system - which would require your participation, or more directly your VOTE, which you have advocated NOT doing. I'm one who believes it's still possible, but not likely due directly to lack of participation by those who do not involve themselves in the current process. It's not likely because of those who refuse to be counted in protest to those who do the counting. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating or suggesting we declare and go to war with ourselves, because of lack of participation, in order to save our nation.
Back to it, I'm trying to point out that as long as those with power retain or posess power passed to them by a non speaking public (no matter the percentage) they will pass laws to continue to protect their power.
The DMCA is a prime example. Protect the hold the media has on media, passed into law by those beholden to them, and allowed to pass because of the non caring public at large. Now, you - the non caring public - have fewer rights. Who cares? You won't obey this law because it's unjust, until you are brought to 'justice' by the system you didn't participate in or feel a part of. Then you'll care, and spend your lifes savings defending your position, shouting at the top of your lungs - while the non-speaking but protesting public pats you on the back for your stand - and does nothing.
This is a cycle that can only end by the overturning of laws and changing our current form of government through involvement by the masses, which is expensive, time consuming, and opens you to legal assult under laws already passed, pushed into prosecution by those who hope to retain their power.
If that willful change does not happen, the resolution WILL be an uprising of the masses, in violent protest to their incarceration and trampled rights. AKA - War.
Ctimes2
The only wasted vote is one made out of fear. You really are an Anonymous Coward aren't you... - Ctimes2
c'mon. Your 26 and making more than your father made in 10 years. Get over it.
Ctimes2
1) The LOVE of money is the root of all evil, not money itself. Moreover money is not the root of all power in the US - the arguments to this are too many to even be considered a logical statement. Those with money have power, but it doesn't mean money or power are inherantly evil.
2)The average citizen wasn't swayed by adds or add campaigns, the average citizen just didn't give a rats ass. The number of citizens that even bothered to offer an opinion one way or the other before it passed didn't even register as a fraction of a percent. That's apathy, not ignorance (although the two are not mutually exclusive).
3)Your stance on voting is the way we got into this in the first place. Nice job.
Ctimes2
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Discrimination of the dissemination of information by financial barriers. Period. This will re-establish a wealthy ruling class of the 1900's in society, and if you think you can stop it you're dreaming.
The GI-Bill shattered the theory that blue collar workers were not smart enough to compete in intellectual pursuits. The internet has the potential to further those accomplishments by providing information to EVERYONE (even those without access to a local institution of higher learning - which have pretty much sold out anyway).
A garenteed stream of revenue seperates the have's from have-not's in a huge way, the same way that $30K+ tech schools keep the lower class in their place, out of technology. And the funny thing is, the smartest hackers usually come from the lower class segments.
pay-per-neuron licenses are next.
Someone get me off this rock!
Ctimes2
Does this mean the cost of my school books is going to go down?
If they are still hesitant to take charge, or the blame, require them by way of your service contract to work with you and the other vendor(s) until it's resolved.
As Chris Farley once said: "I can shit in a box and stamp in guaranteed if it'll make you feel better, but it doesn't mean my product is any good" (paraphrased, thankyouverymuch)
My 2
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Either that or they just don't get the future we're dreaming of. My bets are on number two (although I have dreams of fluffy bunnies..). Ctimes2
Which in my opinion is something we can do better. That's why I like linux, because I think I can do it better. It's also why I hate windows - because I know I could do it better but I'll get sued if I try.
No offense.
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Yep, this is a flame but I'm not baiting you. Your really a jackass.
So here it is. We have millions of ATM's around the country spitting out cash. You go to them once or twice a week (if you lucky). They are going to be the ones putting up the bioscans first, so we give them a small tax break to host elections through the ATM's. Your ID is more accurately confirmed, security is naturally a little bit better (financial services and all), it'd be more convenient than finding the voting stations now, and to use dead voters you'd have to drag them to the ATM - but then the ATM's have camera's too, and you'd have to do alot of digging, which would really suck.
What do you all think? Or rather, how do make this a reality?
Ctimes2
PS- We could do a lot more with this type of thing too, like give you the opportunity to vote on local and state bills, see the basic information on candidates, etc. but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Voting first, overthrow of the current government second, progress third.
Ctimes2
Kids yelling something in the hall that is offensive an hurtfull should get detention. However, they are probably caught up in the moment and trying to impress others. In other words, the kids opened their mouths and something stupid came out.
Posting your slang on the net, printing it, or otherwise making it semi-permanent alludes to the fact that you thought it out, thought again, and went beyond saying it out loud. You engraved it upon electrons as something you believed to be the truth, and that for some unknown reason holds more implications for the accused than a slip of the tounge. By printing it, your statements jump from an unthinking or unkind slip of the tounge to intentional harm.
The town of Milford over reacted, but then I've driven through Milford - in fact delivered a piano there once that drew a crowd of around 100 people to watch (I think it might have been the whole town). I believe the town passtime is grass growing (and not that kind of grass either) & I also think that a cow getting up early would cause those people to over react...
Ctimes2
E.G. You're reading an article on quantum mechanics on CNN, your links on the bottom bar (I'm thinking where the netscape icons are on my browser) would link to the university and department front page of the group doing the research. Additional links to other University research postings, trade magazine sites, government contracts for research, maybe the home page of the head of the department mentioned in the article.
A step further, take an article on earth smart cars, links would go to sites about companies that offer them, research about, and fact pages on polution, viability, materials, and history of mechanics.
Could help for when you finally find a site (out of the 1 million hits returned) that you actually wanted, and want to know more.
Ctimes2
This is new technology? I know for a fact they've had it since -at LEAST- I turned 16... I catch every red traffic light whenever I'm running late!
....*Strained whisper*=There is no God!...
*Puke*
Instead of passing new laws (and further clogging our already oversized justice system) why not just put the monitors facing such a direction that others will see what your looking at. That would be plenty discouraging for the youngins (I would hope...).
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