I'm not very sure of the details, but I was under the impression that some countries in Europe have a direct representation of power according to how many votes they receive. This style of governance is actually more how I would like to see the government run, for example, if the libertarian, independent, green, anarchist, or whatever party gets 10% of the vote in a state, that party should maintain at least 10% control over what happens there rather than hoping that they can beat the parties at large in the next election in the mob-rule style of politics that we have now.
I agree with you about the two party system being a symptom and I did imply that state power was the solution to the over-reaching fed. A lot of states are actually declaring sovereignty:
(NaturalNews) Nine state legislatures have either passed or introduced bills intended to reaffirm their state's sovereignty as laid out in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution. Another twenty states are expected to introduce similar measures this year. While the ramifications of these resolutions are still uncertain, one thing is clear. People are sick and tired of the federal government's usurpation of power not granted to it by the Constitution. They have had enough of fear based economic terrorism and underhanded promotion of policies and procedures that bypass public scrutiny and the will of the people.
I'm not sure runoff voting will solve the problem, for example: if I vote for the libertarian candidate and he's only got 1-5% of the popular vote, I sure as hell don't want my vote "redistributed" to the corporate shill who had 30x as many television and print advertisements.
Voting for either "side" in this broken two party corporate governance is a waste, the best you can hope for is that the guy who wins will fuck you less than the other guy.
that is unless we take control of our federal government by utilizing our state power, but who really paid attention to the local elections? Last time I checked, they were installed by the same corporations/banks that paid for McCain AND Obama!
Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself at opensecrets.org
After reading your post, I ran out and installed Silverlight on my PC, but when I browse over to the instant watch area of the netflix, it still says that my browser is incompatible. How are you getting around this?
I'm using the most recent version of FF, googled silverlight and installed the first thing from microsoft's website.
Actually, I had the exact same experience. I originally owned it on xbox and it totally owned me. So I got Sigma and I'm getting my ass handed to me again, but it sure is fun.
Ninja Gaiden. If it were mentioned in the Bible, the passage would be, "And then God said, '**** THIS GAME,' and promptly threw his controller across the room."
I don't know about you all, but I hardly consider "MTV" a reputable source of insight.
If the popular culture trolls don't like the way a a sequel to one of best selling PC games looks, who the hell cares?
As far as I can tell, people are still playing WoW, which isn't exactly Crysis....
Because we're both still young and full of stupid mistakes. I'd rather not end up paying for the rest of my life because I rushed into a contract before we are/were ready for the possible consequences. I really think the whole idea of marriage is flawed in a sense too, it seems like the concept of marriage in this country is to "lock in" a permanent state of bliss with your partner. Which is probably why most states have different legislation regarding waiting periods before a couple gets married....
Gaming can be an expensive hobby. I dare ask anyone who has a long-term relationship if they would get in 'trouble' if they went out and dropped a large amount of cash on any luxury item.
If not, good for you. I can only hope to be in your position someday...:D
I'm not saying don't support the game industry by refusing to buy games, just take out the middleman who isn't giving us proper value for what our used games are worth.
Personally, I don't purchase used games anymore. I do however buy new releases, thereby supporting the developers and the companies that invested in them, rather than the pawn broker and his corporate overlords.
Not in the Goozex system, the capital is purely contained by the point system. While you can cash out a small portion of your points by using them to purchase a magazine subscription, this is primarily a system of managing inflation.
In other words; unless you took the games you received and sold them to a third party, no they wont.
The Fatal Frame series is the best that I've encountered in the past few years. Sucks that their newest iteration is oldish-gen hardware only.
I never modded my PS2 to play pirated games, it mostly serves as a dvd player these days anyways...
not to mention that nasty cease and desist letter from our craptastic ISP regarding our bittorent use kinda put a damper on the procurement of said pirated games.
I get all my games from Goozex now, check the link in my sig if you feel like legitimately getting games without the hassle of supporting some fascist corporation.
Yet, the people in control now are still perpetrating the same crime.
If a Japanese company built their business on the fact that they manufactured the bombs that destroyed Pearl Harbor, you might boycott them even though it happened 67 years ago.
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your UID is oddly inverse to mine.
I'm not very sure of the details, but I was under the impression that some countries in Europe have a direct representation of power according to how many votes they receive. This style of governance is actually more how I would like to see the government run, for example, if the libertarian, independent, green, anarchist, or whatever party gets 10% of the vote in a state, that party should maintain at least 10% control over what happens there rather than hoping that they can beat the parties at large in the next election in the mob-rule style of politics that we have now.
(NaturalNews) Nine state legislatures have either passed or introduced bills intended to reaffirm their state's sovereignty as laid out in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution. Another twenty states are expected to introduce similar measures this year. While the ramifications of these resolutions are still uncertain, one thing is clear. People are sick and tired of the federal government's usurpation of power not granted to it by the Constitution. They have had enough of fear based economic terrorism and underhanded promotion of policies and procedures that bypass public scrutiny and the will of the people.
From http://www.naturalnews.com/025638.html
I'm not sure runoff voting will solve the problem, for example: if I vote for the libertarian candidate and he's only got 1-5% of the popular vote, I sure as hell don't want my vote "redistributed" to the corporate shill who had 30x as many television and print advertisements.
Voting for either "side" in this broken two party corporate governance is a waste, the best you can hope for is that the guy who wins will fuck you less than the other guy.
that is unless we take control of our federal government by utilizing our state power, but who really paid attention to the local elections? Last time I checked, they were installed by the same corporations/banks that paid for McCain AND Obama!
Don't take my word for it, look it up yourself at opensecrets.org
I figured it out on my own, I had to opt in to the beta. I only just found this email, it got buried under politikal spam.
After reading your post, I ran out and installed Silverlight on my PC, but when I browse over to the instant watch area of the netflix, it still says that my browser is incompatible. How are you getting around this?
I'm using the most recent version of FF, googled silverlight and installed the first thing from microsoft's website.
Actually, I had the exact same experience. I originally owned it on xbox and it totally owned me. So I got Sigma and I'm getting my ass handed to me again, but it sure is fun.
Ninja Gaiden. If it were mentioned in the Bible, the passage would be, "And then God said, '**** THIS GAME,' and promptly threw his controller across the room."
I don't know about you all, but I hardly consider "MTV" a reputable source of insight.
If the popular culture trolls don't like the way a a sequel to one of best selling PC games looks, who the hell cares? As far as I can tell, people are still playing WoW, which isn't exactly Crysis....
In fact, I'm in full support of this idea now!
Those cameras posted on telephone lines are SO hard to knock out!
They are the size of softballs
I'm just gonna start walking around with a baseball bat "defending our civil liberties."
Astronaut1: Hey, whats that thing over there?
Astronaut2: I dunno, google it.
After the ecstasy, the laundry.
Gaming can be an expensive hobby. I dare ask anyone who has a long-term relationship if they would get in 'trouble' if they went out and dropped a large amount of cash on any luxury item.
If not, good for you. I can only hope to be in your position someday... :D
I'm not saying don't support the game industry by refusing to buy games, just take out the middleman who isn't giving us proper value for what our used games are worth.
Personally, I don't purchase used games anymore. I do however buy new releases, thereby supporting the developers and the companies that invested in them, rather than the pawn broker and his corporate overlords.
In other words; unless you took the games you received and sold them to a third party, no they wont.
I never modded my PS2 to play pirated games, it mostly serves as a dvd player these days anyways...
not to mention that nasty cease and desist letter from our craptastic ISP regarding our bittorent use kinda put a damper on the procurement of said pirated games.
I get all my games from Goozex now, check the link in my sig if you feel like legitimately getting games without the hassle of supporting some fascist corporation.
my girlfriend and I are planning on buying one
Fucking exclusively I might add.
Which is annoying because its (Fatal Frame) actually how I conned her into a PS3.... Damn you interwebs and your faulty informations!
Better late than never!
We love you guys.
I wonder how long it will take to get around the newest most securest(tm) DRM EVER?!
It sure is now.
Yet, the people in control now are still perpetrating the same crime.
If a Japanese company built their business on the fact that they manufactured the bombs that destroyed Pearl Harbor, you might boycott them even though it happened 67 years ago.