The point of an election, in a democratic society, is to allow the majority of the people to choose the candidate that most represents their interests.
The system of checks and double-checks is predicated on the assumption that you can find trustworthy people, and in an honest society, most of the watchers will be trustworthy. If the majority of the watchers are trustworthy, then the checks and balances will mostly stop the dishonest people.
But this is true only if that population is made up of mostly trustworthy people. If most of the people are dishonest, then you will end up with many dishonest watchers, and most elections will be dishonest.
However, I maintain that this is a correct outcome, since this, in its own ironic way, reflects the wishes of the dishonest majority.
If the majority of the people are dishonest, then they will have dishonest elections, so their elected representatives will be an accurate reflection of that population.
Democracy is not easy, does not often work in any given instance. It only triumphs in the long run, as long as individuals retain the courage and freedom to believe in it.
We DID win the Cold War. The failure of the communist system was exposed through the freedoms in the West. Freedom triumphed over repression.
However, we have already lost the Terrorist War. The freedoms lost under the Patriot Act and related measures will never be fully returned. Amerika will always be a paranoid nation going forward. Amerika will never return to the freedoms it had in the last century.
I think future historians will look back at the rise and fall of the Amerikan Empire and mark 2000 as the year the decline began.
But its a technology race. There is technology under development to sense when someone in a movie theatre is recording a movie. There is technology in use that can identify which radio stations passing cars are listening to. So why not technology that can detect you using your hidden camera? and tap the wireless connection its transmitting to?
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but what happens when the 'bad guys' start building drones of their own? . Imagine drone shoot-outs over the city. .
Today's definition of Terrorism is very different from what the real definition is.
GW and his puppeteers have defined Terrorism as anything that is done by anyone that is not the United states _corporations_ or it's allies.
I think its too late to stop the US from becoming the world's first corporate-ocracy. Much too late.
The point of an election, in a democratic society, is to allow the majority of the people to choose the candidate that most represents their interests. The system of checks and double-checks is predicated on the assumption that you can find trustworthy people, and in an honest society, most of the watchers will be trustworthy. If the majority of the watchers are trustworthy, then the checks and balances will mostly stop the dishonest people. But this is true only if that population is made up of mostly trustworthy people. If most of the people are dishonest, then you will end up with many dishonest watchers, and most elections will be dishonest. However, I maintain that this is a correct outcome, since this, in its own ironic way, reflects the wishes of the dishonest majority. If the majority of the people are dishonest, then they will have dishonest elections, so their elected representatives will be an accurate reflection of that population. Democracy is not easy, does not often work in any given instance. It only triumphs in the long run, as long as individuals retain the courage and freedom to believe in it.
So what did your company standardize on?
And with no evidence required, the party in power could use this as a big stick against companies that are too friendly to the other party.
All this ranting is well and good, but would somebody be useful for a change and include some links to how to encrypt?
We DID win the Cold War. The failure of the communist system was exposed through the freedoms in the West. Freedom triumphed over repression. However, we have already lost the Terrorist War. The freedoms lost under the Patriot Act and related measures will never be fully returned. Amerika will always be a paranoid nation going forward. Amerika will never return to the freedoms it had in the last century. I think future historians will look back at the rise and fall of the Amerikan Empire and mark 2000 as the year the decline began.
But its a technology race. There is technology under development to sense when someone in a movie theatre is recording a movie. There is technology in use that can identify which radio stations passing cars are listening to. So why not technology that can detect you using your hidden camera? and tap the wireless connection its transmitting to?