It's a whole working database-based app without writing a single line of code!
Visual Basic has been doing that for years; any intro-level VB course will probably involve creating such an application. Is it actually easier to write one with Core Data than with ADO[.NET]?
But theft is theft, and I think the law should see no difference between stealing a DVD physically and digitally.
Rape is rape, and I think the law should see no difference between forcing sex on a woman against her will and staring at her chest.
Wait, that doesn't make sense. They have almost nothing in common.
The only common thread between theft--real theft--and copyright infringement is that you get something for free. That's it.
But think about it for a moment. Is getting something for free really so bad? We all get things for free all the time. Every time you turn on your TV, you're getting something for free; and if you change the channel or use the bathroom during a commercial break, you're not even "paying" for it the way they expect you to.
No, the thing that makes theft wrong is that you deprive someone of something. If I steal a CD from the store, that's a CD they can't sell. If I steal your car, you can't drive to work. But if I only make a copy of your car, you've lost nothing. You might not gain something that you otherwise would have (e.g. if I had decided to rent the car from you), but you were never really entitled to gain it in the first place.
It's not literally "stuck", but I didn't want to type out 6 pages of subtle HCI behavior.
Let me rephrase it, then: I've never had problems with my SJF, other than the sensitivity being all wrong in turrets and vehicles, ever since I figured out that shiny surfaces and optical mice don't go together.
You're doing the opposite: you cannot play FPS with thumbsticks, and yet you imagine that you are unique, and other people can use them just fine.
I know for a fact that other people can use them just fine. I regularly get my ass handed to me by players online who, I can only assume, are using thumbsticks. I've seen a few of my friends (damn fine Halo 2 players, judging from what I've seen and from their ratings) get slaughtered by little kids in a tournament - a tiny local tournament sponsored by a clothing store in a medium sized city. All were using the standard Xbox controller.
I agree that thumbsticks are fundamentally worse for playing first-person shooters (but good luck convincing my friends of that). Halo 2, however, seems to have leveled the playing field quite a bit by adding auto-aim. From what I've seen, there's no shortage of people who are able to kick ass at Halo 2 with a standard controller.
You're right, I'm not a parent. I'm not a child either, but I used to be one, and I remember being unfairly restricted by the law in what I was allowed to do. I remember being treated as a second class citizen--"subhuman" would perhaps be too strong a word--simply because I was born in the wrong year. And I'm sure I'm not the only slashdotter who's had such experiences.
You don't have to be a parent to know that minors deserve rights, just as you don't have to be an employer to know that workers deserve rights.
Pornography, smoking, and other vices are, to a lesser degree, dangerous to those who lack the cognitive skills to make the decision completely.
If you have evidence that watching pornography is "dangerous" to minors, then let's see it. If not, I hope you will refrain from posting such baseless claims in the future.
We all want to know when a pedophile moves into our neighborhood yet there are groups actively lobbying to allow porn in our libraries.
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here - there's no link between pedophilia and porn in libraries.
You're also overgeneralizing. I, for one, would much rather hear about a murderer, a burglar, or an arsonist moving into my neighborhood than a pedophile. If we're going to make convicted criminals register themselves even after they've served their sentences, we should've started with the criminals who pose a threat to everyone.
It is only the very young or the very naive who can claim that it is ok to allow children to view porn, buy cigarettes and booze etc. The interesting this is - these very same will argue against a minor being tried as an adult for murder.
I don't think they can have this both ways
Hang on a minute. The people who want to try minors as adults, without giving them any adult rights, are the ones who are trying to have it both ways! They want to treat people as children sometimes, and adults at other times, depending on when it suits their interests.
I absolutely will argue against minors being tried as adults - in the context of the current legal system. If a 15 year old isn't an adult when he wants to smoke, watch porn, get a driver's license, or sign a contract, then he isn't an adult when he commits a crime either. No crime, no matter how heinous, can magically turn a child into an adult.
OTOH, if the laws were changed so that people under 18 could be treated as adults outside a courtroom, then I'd have no problem treating them as adults inside a courtroom as well.
"Flamebait" does not mean "I disagree." My honest opinions are not intended to incite any flames; please try to be a bit more fair when you're moderating.
So what do you suggest - that we remove any such limitations?
I will. There's no evidence, for example, that minors are harmed in any way by looking at porn. And even in cases where the activity really is harmful (e.g. smoking), people under 18 ought to be allowed to make their own decisions, just as we adults are; the principle of freedom outweighs any harm individuals might inflict upon themselves by exercising that freedom, IMO.
You seem to missing the rather central point that you don't own and maintain the roads, which is why it's ridiculous for you to suggest you ought to be entitled to payment when people use them.
Who owns the number 123? Who owns the number 256^5000000? Who owns Avogadro's number? (Hint: Not Avogadro.)
No one, right? Numbers can't be owned, even if they're really big or really useful. A music/movie file is simply a big, useful number, like any other piece of information.
It's true that a lot of work goes into coming up with that information. A lot of work went into coming up with Avogadro's number too, as well as the circumference of the Earth, the speed of light, and larger pieces of information such as the theory of relativity. The fact that it takes effort to discover information, however, doesn't mean that the discoverer owns it.
It doesn't feel exactly the same, but it's pretty close. There's some almost imperceptible lag in the mouse movement, which is easy enough to get used to.
My only real complaint is that in Halo 2, turrets are unusable and vehicles are nearly undriveable with the same settings you'd use to move around on foot. You have to turn the sensitivity up to man them without picking up the mouse a lot, but for some reason, it seems the game designers chose to make one axis much more responsive than the other when controlling a turret/vehicle, and the SJF doesn't have independent sensitivity controls for each axis. (If one of those other adapters does, get it!) So when you're trying to shoot someone with a turret, you have to be absolutely still in the Y direction while you're following him in the X direction, or else you'll find yourself looking at the sky or the ground.
Next time I am down at the store I get to walk out with French cheese and wine for free. It would only be the fair thing to do.
No, the fair thing to do would be to copy some French cheese and wine. (You do realize that copyrighted works aren't the same as physical objects, don't you?)
The simple fact is that musicians, authors, and movie producers create something that is physically intangiable.
"Create"? I don't know about that.
Consider an MP3 file, for example. The file is a sequence of numbers, and when you feed it into an MP3 player, you hear a song. No one actually put that song into the sequence of numbers, though. You'd hear exactly the same song whenever you fed that sequence of numbers into an MP3 player, even if the original artist had never been born.
A more appropriate term would be "discover". That is, a musician who produces an MP3 file has discovered a particular sequence of numbers that represents a song he likes, just as a physicist who produces a theory has discovered a set of statements that explain and predict natural events with the degree of accuracy he wants.
A musician applies his skill to discern the good sequences from the bad ones, and to alter the sequence of a song that's almost-right, changing it into one that's just-right. (He actually manipulates it in another form and then converts it to MP3, but that's irrelevant.) And that skill is what's scarce, not the sequence of numbers or the song itself. Therefore, that's what we should be rewarding. Any trained monkey can make copies of a file, but only a musician can discover the songs we want to hear.
What's you're essentially saying is that there is no value in a work itself, only the labor. And sure, you can go ahead and do this. It's called a work for hire.
That's not what I'm saying at all. There's value in a copy of a song, just like there's value in a stylish haircut. The fact is, though, that a song itself is not a scarce resource: we're never going to run out of copies of "Hit Me Baby One More Time". It's inappropriate to force the song into an economic model that's based on the idea that resources are scarce.
I'd like to see if the existing fanbase for a show like Firefly could foot the per-episode production cost. Somehow I doubt it, without paying many times what they do now.
If there aren't enough interested fans to cover the show's production costs, then the show never should've been made in the first place. (Boy, am I gonna get slammed by the mods for saying that!)
Halo with mouse is pathetically easy. The accuracy of a mouse + the auto-aim required for thumbpad aiming makes the game seem childishly simple to an experienced PC FPS player. [...] The only reason the smartjoy-frag doesn't totally dominate high-level play is that it's rather flakey, and the game sometimes gets stuck for a second or two
As the owner and user of a SmartJoy FRAG, I have to say this is absolutely false. I've never had mine get stuck, and I'm still not mopping the floor with my opponents, despite being a skilled FPS player (and quite a good Halo PC player, if I may be so bold).
All the adapter does is allow someone who's used to playing first-person shooters the "right" way to competently play them on consoles, without spending a year getting used to the controller layout. Auto-aim is still there when you're using a mouse, but it doesn't really make much of a difference.
No. According to Lik-Sang, your play will be different from normal users:
Well, of course Lik-Sang says that. They're trying to sell the damn things!
The other side wants stuff for free and has nothing constructive to add that might offer an alternative for the people depending on this production and distribution for their income today.
Wrong. Here's an alternative: if your job is to perform a service, expect to get paid like someone who performs a service.
You don't see mechanics fixing a car and then trying to collect money every time the owner starts it up. You don't see barbers cutting hair and suing their customers when they show their new haircut to others. You don't see physicists lobbying for laws that would make it illegal to use, say, the theory of relativity without paying hefty fees.
So why should a musician, an author, or a movie producer expect to be treated differently? There are two kinds of jobs in this world: manufacturing jobs and service jobs. If you produce a physical object, you can sell it and forego any claim of ownership over it once it's sold. If you apply a skill, you can get paid for your time instead. Nothing else is sustainable.
You balance a FPS for keyboard/mouse and it's unplayable with a normal controller. Creating a game where it becomes required to use add-on hardware to be able to compete is a great way to kill a games sales.
Nonsense. Halo 2 is still quite playable with a normal controller. I mean, *I* sure as hell can't play it that way, but go to any tournament and you'll see top-level players using a regular Xbox controller. It doesn't need any rebalancing to be playable with a keyboard and mouse; with a SmartJoy FRAG, you can play the game as well as anyone as long as you set it up right.
Or look at Halo 1 on the PC. The game balance is exactly the same as it was on Xbox, but you can also use a keyboard and mouse to control it (which, of course, everyone does).
If Xbox had a kb+m option, I would go out and buy Halo2 right now.
Check out the SmartJoy FRAG from Lik-Sang. It lets you use any PS/2 keyboard and mouse with the Xbox. I used one of those and an X2VGA+ to set my Xbox up on my computer desk, and now playing Halo 2 is almost (but sadly, not quite) like playing Halo 1 on the PC.
Our economies work, and pretty well in comparison to many others, based on some basic capitalist principles. People who rip off copyright material are upsetting the economics at best, and screwing a genuinely needy content creator out of fair compensation for their work at worst.
Huh. I'd say copyright itself is what upsets the economics. Songs and movies are not inherently subject to the same economic laws as scarce goods; copyright is an attempt to force them into an economic model where they don't really fit.
I don't for an instant buy the usual weasel words about [...] the guy who buys more music as a result of the illegal copying (whom I strangely have never met).
Really? Let me introduce myself.
My name's Mr2001, and I have bought more music because of illegal P2P file sharing than I ever would have otherwise. Just off the top of my head, I can think of over a dozen albums I bought solely because I downloaded some of the songs first, came to like them, and decided to check out the band's other material. Before the advent of Napster, I only ever bought music from a couple artists that I knew I liked.
The most recent purchase I can credit to P2P is The Bloodhound Gang - Hefty Fine. Others include albums from Garbage, Bush, Cake, No Doubt, Evanescence, Daft Punk, and Fatboy Slim. In fact, the No Doubt CD I bought is a singles collection, and I already had nearly all the tracks on it; I made the conscious choice to throw a few bucks their way for the music I'd already been enjoying.
There's no control over viewing angles. This is a console thing, as consoles until the 360 haven't had enough power to allow freedom of view.
WTF? Console games have had movable cameras since the days of the PSX. Limiting the camera angles is a design choice; the system's power has nothing to do with it.
Typically it's done because the programmers can't get a player-controlled camera working correctly and conveniently, or because allowing a wider range of viewing angles would require more artwork, or because they're going for a tightly controlled cinematic look.
That people are doing this primarily as a way to get "OMG FREE WAREZ!1" because they can't be bothered to pay for software/media is reprehensible.
You know, I've encountered something similar in my business. I charge people a small $10 fee to help them cross busy intersections. But lately, I've noticed that some of those jerks can't be bothered to pay me, and they just go right across the street by themselves when the light changes! Don't they know they're taking money out of my pocket? It's reprehensible!
And to make things worse, the city council laughed at me when I asked them to pass a law making it illegal for anyone to cross the street without paying me first. They don't even care that these thieves pose an even bigger threat to me than file sharers do to the media companies. We're living in dark times, my friend.
Washington is not going to change until you get some real competition in there and that means a third party.
And that means electoral reform. The plurality voting system we use today simply will not get us to a state of having more than two viable parties, according to Duverger's law. If we want parties that really represent us, we need proportional representation for Congress and a better system (approval or Concorcet voting) for filling single offices.
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It's a whole working database-based app without writing a single line of code!
Visual Basic has been doing that for years; any intro-level VB course will probably involve creating such an application. Is it actually easier to write one with Core Data than with ADO[.NET]?
But theft is theft, and I think the law should see no difference between stealing a DVD physically and digitally.
Rape is rape, and I think the law should see no difference between forcing sex on a woman against her will and staring at her chest.
Wait, that doesn't make sense. They have almost nothing in common.
The only common thread between theft--real theft--and copyright infringement is that you get something for free. That's it.
But think about it for a moment. Is getting something for free really so bad? We all get things for free all the time. Every time you turn on your TV, you're getting something for free; and if you change the channel or use the bathroom during a commercial break, you're not even "paying" for it the way they expect you to.
No, the thing that makes theft wrong is that you deprive someone of something. If I steal a CD from the store, that's a CD they can't sell. If I steal your car, you can't drive to work. But if I only make a copy of your car, you've lost nothing. You might not gain something that you otherwise would have (e.g. if I had decided to rent the car from you), but you were never really entitled to gain it in the first place.
It's not literally "stuck", but I didn't want to type out 6 pages of subtle HCI behavior.
Let me rephrase it, then: I've never had problems with my SJF, other than the sensitivity being all wrong in turrets and vehicles, ever since I figured out that shiny surfaces and optical mice don't go together.
You're doing the opposite: you cannot play FPS with thumbsticks, and yet you imagine that you are unique, and other people can use them just fine.
I know for a fact that other people can use them just fine. I regularly get my ass handed to me by players online who, I can only assume, are using thumbsticks. I've seen a few of my friends (damn fine Halo 2 players, judging from what I've seen and from their ratings) get slaughtered by little kids in a tournament - a tiny local tournament sponsored by a clothing store in a medium sized city. All were using the standard Xbox controller.
I agree that thumbsticks are fundamentally worse for playing first-person shooters (but good luck convincing my friends of that). Halo 2, however, seems to have leveled the playing field quite a bit by adding auto-aim. From what I've seen, there's no shortage of people who are able to kick ass at Halo 2 with a standard controller.
You're right, I'm not a parent. I'm not a child either, but I used to be one, and I remember being unfairly restricted by the law in what I was allowed to do. I remember being treated as a second class citizen--"subhuman" would perhaps be too strong a word--simply because I was born in the wrong year. And I'm sure I'm not the only slashdotter who's had such experiences.
You don't have to be a parent to know that minors deserve rights, just as you don't have to be an employer to know that workers deserve rights.
If you have evidence that watching pornography is "dangerous" to minors, then let's see it. If not, I hope you will refrain from posting such baseless claims in the future.
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here - there's no link between pedophilia and porn in libraries.
You're also overgeneralizing. I, for one, would much rather hear about a murderer, a burglar, or an arsonist moving into my neighborhood than a pedophile. If we're going to make convicted criminals register themselves even after they've served their sentences, we should've started with the criminals who pose a threat to everyone.
Hang on a minute. The people who want to try minors as adults, without giving them any adult rights, are the ones who are trying to have it both ways! They want to treat people as children sometimes, and adults at other times, depending on when it suits their interests.
I absolutely will argue against minors being tried as adults - in the context of the current legal system. If a 15 year old isn't an adult when he wants to smoke, watch porn, get a driver's license, or sign a contract, then he isn't an adult when he commits a crime either. No crime, no matter how heinous, can magically turn a child into an adult.
OTOH, if the laws were changed so that people under 18 could be treated as adults outside a courtroom, then I'd have no problem treating them as adults inside a courtroom as well.
"Flamebait" does not mean "I disagree." My honest opinions are not intended to incite any flames; please try to be a bit more fair when you're moderating.
You can also download Visual C# Express for free from microsoft.com.
So what do you suggest - that we remove any such limitations?
I will. There's no evidence, for example, that minors are harmed in any way by looking at porn. And even in cases where the activity really is harmful (e.g. smoking), people under 18 ought to be allowed to make their own decisions, just as we adults are; the principle of freedom outweighs any harm individuals might inflict upon themselves by exercising that freedom, IMO.
You seem to missing the rather central point that you don't own and maintain the roads, which is why it's ridiculous for you to suggest you ought to be entitled to payment when people use them.
Who owns the number 123? Who owns the number 256^5000000? Who owns Avogadro's number? (Hint: Not Avogadro.)
No one, right? Numbers can't be owned, even if they're really big or really useful. A music/movie file is simply a big, useful number, like any other piece of information.
It's true that a lot of work goes into coming up with that information. A lot of work went into coming up with Avogadro's number too, as well as the circumference of the Earth, the speed of light, and larger pieces of information such as the theory of relativity. The fact that it takes effort to discover information, however, doesn't mean that the discoverer owns it.
Look at the success of the porn industry with almost the same product, but they do not have a lock on the pipe like AOL/Time Warner did.
Well, to be fair, they have a pretty solid grip on a few other "pipes"...
Why did they name this new moon after the dog in 101 Dalmatians? They're just opening themselves up to a lawsuit from Disney.
Last I recall, there are about 201 Democrats (and 1 Socialist?) in Congress. This isn't a republican versus democrat issue
Isn't it? Last I recall, 201 votes is still a minority.
It doesn't feel exactly the same, but it's pretty close. There's some almost imperceptible lag in the mouse movement, which is easy enough to get used to.
My only real complaint is that in Halo 2, turrets are unusable and vehicles are nearly undriveable with the same settings you'd use to move around on foot. You have to turn the sensitivity up to man them without picking up the mouse a lot, but for some reason, it seems the game designers chose to make one axis much more responsive than the other when controlling a turret/vehicle, and the SJF doesn't have independent sensitivity controls for each axis. (If one of those other adapters does, get it!) So when you're trying to shoot someone with a turret, you have to be absolutely still in the Y direction while you're following him in the X direction, or else you'll find yourself looking at the sky or the ground.
Next time I am down at the store I get to walk out with French cheese and wine for free. It would only be the fair thing to do.
No, the fair thing to do would be to copy some French cheese and wine. (You do realize that copyrighted works aren't the same as physical objects, don't you?)
"Create"? I don't know about that.
Consider an MP3 file, for example. The file is a sequence of numbers, and when you feed it into an MP3 player, you hear a song. No one actually put that song into the sequence of numbers, though. You'd hear exactly the same song whenever you fed that sequence of numbers into an MP3 player, even if the original artist had never been born.
A more appropriate term would be "discover". That is, a musician who produces an MP3 file has discovered a particular sequence of numbers that represents a song he likes, just as a physicist who produces a theory has discovered a set of statements that explain and predict natural events with the degree of accuracy he wants.
A musician applies his skill to discern the good sequences from the bad ones, and to alter the sequence of a song that's almost-right, changing it into one that's just-right. (He actually manipulates it in another form and then converts it to MP3, but that's irrelevant.) And that skill is what's scarce, not the sequence of numbers or the song itself. Therefore, that's what we should be rewarding. Any trained monkey can make copies of a file, but only a musician can discover the songs we want to hear.
That's not what I'm saying at all. There's value in a copy of a song, just like there's value in a stylish haircut. The fact is, though, that a song itself is not a scarce resource: we're never going to run out of copies of "Hit Me Baby One More Time". It's inappropriate to force the song into an economic model that's based on the idea that resources are scarce.
If there aren't enough interested fans to cover the show's production costs, then the show never should've been made in the first place. (Boy, am I gonna get slammed by the mods for saying that!)
As the owner and user of a SmartJoy FRAG, I have to say this is absolutely false. I've never had mine get stuck, and I'm still not mopping the floor with my opponents, despite being a skilled FPS player (and quite a good Halo PC player, if I may be so bold).
All the adapter does is allow someone who's used to playing first-person shooters the "right" way to competently play them on consoles, without spending a year getting used to the controller layout. Auto-aim is still there when you're using a mouse, but it doesn't really make much of a difference.
Well, of course Lik-Sang says that. They're trying to sell the damn things!
The other side wants stuff for free and has nothing constructive to add that might offer an alternative for the people depending on this production and distribution for their income today.
Wrong. Here's an alternative: if your job is to perform a service, expect to get paid like someone who performs a service.
You don't see mechanics fixing a car and then trying to collect money every time the owner starts it up. You don't see barbers cutting hair and suing their customers when they show their new haircut to others. You don't see physicists lobbying for laws that would make it illegal to use, say, the theory of relativity without paying hefty fees.
So why should a musician, an author, or a movie producer expect to be treated differently? There are two kinds of jobs in this world: manufacturing jobs and service jobs. If you produce a physical object, you can sell it and forego any claim of ownership over it once it's sold. If you apply a skill, you can get paid for your time instead. Nothing else is sustainable.
Closed network without all the BS (cheaters, etc.) I don't have much time to play online so I would gladly pay $5 / month just for this aspect of it.
No cheaters, huh? I guess you haven't played Halo 2 lately.
You balance a FPS for keyboard/mouse and it's unplayable with a normal controller. Creating a game where it becomes required to use add-on hardware to be able to compete is a great way to kill a games sales.
Nonsense. Halo 2 is still quite playable with a normal controller. I mean, *I* sure as hell can't play it that way, but go to any tournament and you'll see top-level players using a regular Xbox controller. It doesn't need any rebalancing to be playable with a keyboard and mouse; with a SmartJoy FRAG, you can play the game as well as anyone as long as you set it up right.
Or look at Halo 1 on the PC. The game balance is exactly the same as it was on Xbox, but you can also use a keyboard and mouse to control it (which, of course, everyone does).
If Xbox had a kb+m option, I would go out and buy Halo2 right now.
Check out the SmartJoy FRAG from Lik-Sang. It lets you use any PS/2 keyboard and mouse with the Xbox. I used one of those and an X2VGA+ to set my Xbox up on my computer desk, and now playing Halo 2 is almost (but sadly, not quite) like playing Halo 1 on the PC.
Our economies work, and pretty well in comparison to many others, based on some basic capitalist principles. People who rip off copyright material are upsetting the economics at best, and screwing a genuinely needy content creator out of fair compensation for their work at worst.
Huh. I'd say copyright itself is what upsets the economics. Songs and movies are not inherently subject to the same economic laws as scarce goods; copyright is an attempt to force them into an economic model where they don't really fit.
I don't for an instant buy the usual weasel words about [...] the guy who buys more music as a result of the illegal copying (whom I strangely have never met).
Really? Let me introduce myself.
My name's Mr2001, and I have bought more music because of illegal P2P file sharing than I ever would have otherwise. Just off the top of my head, I can think of over a dozen albums I bought solely because I downloaded some of the songs first, came to like them, and decided to check out the band's other material. Before the advent of Napster, I only ever bought music from a couple artists that I knew I liked.
The most recent purchase I can credit to P2P is The Bloodhound Gang - Hefty Fine. Others include albums from Garbage, Bush, Cake, No Doubt, Evanescence, Daft Punk, and Fatboy Slim. In fact, the No Doubt CD I bought is a singles collection, and I already had nearly all the tracks on it; I made the conscious choice to throw a few bucks their way for the music I'd already been enjoying.
HTH.
WTF? Console games have had movable cameras since the days of the PSX. Limiting the camera angles is a design choice; the system's power has nothing to do with it.
Typically it's done because the programmers can't get a player-controlled camera working correctly and conveniently, or because allowing a wider range of viewing angles would require more artwork, or because they're going for a tightly controlled cinematic look.
That people are doing this primarily as a way to get "OMG FREE WAREZ!1" because they can't be bothered to pay for software/media is reprehensible.
You know, I've encountered something similar in my business. I charge people a small $10 fee to help them cross busy intersections. But lately, I've noticed that some of those jerks can't be bothered to pay me, and they just go right across the street by themselves when the light changes! Don't they know they're taking money out of my pocket? It's reprehensible!
And to make things worse, the city council laughed at me when I asked them to pass a law making it illegal for anyone to cross the street without paying me first. They don't even care that these thieves pose an even bigger threat to me than file sharers do to the media companies. We're living in dark times, my friend.
Washington is not going to change until you get some real competition in there and that means a third party.
And that means electoral reform. The plurality voting system we use today simply will not get us to a state of having more than two viable parties, according to Duverger's law. If we want parties that really represent us, we need proportional representation for Congress and a better system (approval or Concorcet voting) for filling single offices.
Actually, they just sent me the code, after months of no contact.. perhaps some people saw my signature and pressured them.