Well reading through this is about a scary as it can get. Are people really advocating for an elite group of intellectuals that will decide the fact of the unwashed masses. Who defines the questions that define you as a member of the voting elite? Anyone remember literacy tests in the south to prevent " undesirables " from voting. Because you feel intellectually superior to your fellow man doesn't give you the right to control his or her life. One-man one vote is what makes everyone feel like they have control over their future. Take that away and the "feeble minded underclass" will rise up against their "intellectually superior" ruling class. Someone has to clean sewers and someone has to paint pictures. All make society work and all have a say in it's future. Many of you advocating for this kind of a system As to electronic democracy, the American form of government was designed specifically to avoid such knee jerk lawmaking. The point of the American form of government is to make sure rash laws are not passed in the heat of the moment. So that if a bomb goes off in a federal building killing many people the electronic election that night doesn't vote to kick all Arabs out of the country. Tell me that wasn't the mood of the country after Oklahoma City. Think of the discourse on you favorite news group and then imagine the debate each night over lawmaking. It would tear the county apart. I can't think of a worst idea.
Mac OS X is Unix based so if they are running it there then a command line is accessable. Got telnet FTP and all the other fun stuff. The World Wide Web Consortium document applies to Mac OS 7.5.5, 7.6, 8 etc.. I would assume they are not using OSX because they are running WebStar instead of apache but you never know do you.
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Well reading through this is about a scary as it can get. Are people really advocating for an elite group of intellectuals that will decide the fact of the unwashed masses. Who defines the questions that define you as a member of the voting elite? Anyone remember literacy tests in the south to prevent " undesirables " from voting. Because you feel intellectually superior to your fellow man doesn't give you the right to control his or her life. One-man one vote is what makes everyone feel like they have control over their future. Take that away and the "feeble minded underclass" will rise up against their "intellectually superior" ruling class. Someone has to clean sewers and someone has to paint pictures. All make society work and all have a say in it's future. Many of you advocating for this kind of a system As to electronic democracy, the American form of government was designed specifically to avoid such knee jerk lawmaking. The point of the American form of government is to make sure rash laws are not passed in the heat of the moment. So that if a bomb goes off in a federal building killing many people the electronic election that night doesn't vote to kick all Arabs out of the country. Tell me that wasn't the mood of the country after Oklahoma City. Think of the discourse on you favorite news group and then imagine the debate each night over lawmaking. It would tear the county apart. I can't think of a worst idea.
Mac OS X is Unix based so if they are running it there then a command line is accessable. Got telnet FTP and all the other fun stuff. The World Wide Web Consortium document applies to Mac OS 7.5.5, 7.6, 8 etc.. I would assume they are not using OSX because they are running WebStar instead of apache but you never know do you.