Re:What needs to happen...
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Actually, I'm neither A or B. Because while I do trust my credit card number on the web, that's only because they say I don't have to pay for things if my number gets swiped. But I have no assurances that someone isn't going to crack the third party tallying server and make their own group win.
The point that I was trying to make is that there is no real feasible way to allow everyone to get up and debate the points in question. There just isn't enough time for everyone to put in their two cents. The concept behind the electoral college is that you elect people you trust who have time and will get their voices heard, and through them, your voices. Its no different then a legislative assembly of some sort.
And what's wrong with ideas that were made when people sent messages on horseback? As much as we bitch and whine about the laws in the US, I have rarely heard someone moaning about the constitution itself, which was also created when people sent letters by horseback.
Re:What needs to happen...
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And just how exactly are we going to set up some kind of election to vote on these issues? A poll somewhere? And I'm so sure that no one is going to vote multiple times. Not to metion the logistics of trying to have some sort of rational debate before hand with the millions of people who actually care to discuss this.
ICANN is a failure, yes. But, it doesn't mean that there isn't some central authority needed to take over for ICANN. The internet is too big now to not have some sort of almost hegemonal group in charge. Yes, there should be community input, but it has to be structured. Maybe take a page out of the US Constitutional framers book and set up some sort of internet electoral college, and have each region elect their rep. And then those reps go and make the decisions.
But in no way can there be a true democracy on the internet, it worked for the Greeks because there weren't millions upon millions of people trying to get their voice heard.
alright, you're a re-re. Virus is not a third declension noun. Its a second or fourth. As the common endings for those declensions are -us. And even if it was a third declension noun, its plural would end in -is.
using credit cards online, transmitting propriety information such as trade secrets and such. Really, anything that we currently use PGP for now, it'll just take some new hardware.
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Actually, I'm neither A or B. Because while I do trust my credit card number on the web, that's only because they say I don't have to pay for things if my number gets swiped. But I have no assurances that someone isn't going to crack the third party tallying server and make their own group win.
The point that I was trying to make is that there is no real feasible way to allow everyone to get up and debate the points in question. There just isn't enough time for everyone to put in their two cents. The concept behind the electoral college is that you elect people you trust who have time and will get their voices heard, and through them, your voices. Its no different then a legislative assembly of some sort.
And what's wrong with ideas that were made when people sent messages on horseback? As much as we bitch and whine about the laws in the US, I have rarely heard someone moaning about the constitution itself, which was also created when people sent letters by horseback.
And just how exactly are we going to set up some kind of election to vote on these issues? A poll somewhere? And I'm so sure that no one is going to vote multiple times. Not to metion the logistics of trying to have some sort of rational debate before hand with the millions of people who actually care to discuss this.
ICANN is a failure, yes. But, it doesn't mean that there isn't some central authority needed to take over for ICANN. The internet is too big now to not have some sort of almost hegemonal group in charge. Yes, there should be community input, but it has to be structured. Maybe take a page out of the US Constitutional framers book and set up some sort of internet electoral college, and have each region elect their rep. And then those reps go and make the decisions.
But in no way can there be a true democracy on the internet, it worked for the Greeks because there weren't millions upon millions of people trying to get their voice heard.
Worst case: You get taken out (you're gonna leave anyway so you've got nothing to lose)
Actually, worst case would be: you get taken out, he quits, gets a giant severance package and follows you to your new job.
alright, you're a re-re. Virus is not a third declension noun. Its a second or fourth. As the common endings for those declensions are -us. And even if it was a third declension noun, its plural would end in -is.
using credit cards online, transmitting propriety information such as trade secrets and such. Really, anything that we currently use PGP for now, it'll just take some new hardware.