Well you know... waiting an hour or even 8 is not really the end of the world. This was kinda my point. As for the "cloud" going down for a day? For a start banking is not done in the "cloud" whatever that is, and second, people are actively maintaining these systems. They won't take a day to reboot. And yea, leap years are not that complicated.
There are ways to do electronic cash that is at least as anonymous as real cash. Note that its really hard to be truly anonymous. After all you have to give the cash to someone. Or take it out from somewhere.
Wait 10mins for the power/network to come back online? And does anyone at all accept checks? I don't think any of my banks even issues checkbooks anymore.
It is like an energy free Energy drink! Sheesh, if ya don't want caffeine, perhaps coffee is not a good choice of drink? It is like a skier that doesn't like snow. There should be something about the wookie defense in here somewhere too. It does not make sense.
Companies that don't have profits, don't stick around to "innovate" anything. Seriously, it is the reason for a companies existence. Not to give you free stuff.
Your sentence sounded like a typical argument that direct democracy would somehow lead to problems we _dont_ already have.
Not my intention at all. I want a direct democracy because i think it will be the *least worse* system. Hence the W. Churchill like quote.
I think there would be a natural tendency for people to only vote/care about issues that directly affect them or are interested in or knowledgeable about. Also i hope that rather than the "care about issues once every 3 years" it would encourage a more long term participation and thinking.
Well the last problem is really a bit moot. If there can be wide spread use of force to get votes, then this implies either no "police force" or a corrupt one, in which case there are far easier ways to rig the election.
Also how can you prove your vote was counted with the current system?
And your alternative will result is elitism. Smart people are not as smart as they think they are. As for voting for bad politicians? when was the last time there was a good one on the ballot?
You are preaching to the choir. I am a bit of a fan of direct democracy which needs many cheap referendums, aka internet voting? Personally i think it will be an awful system, but better than anything else we have tried. Still can't work out how to solve the tyranny of the majority.
Your joking right? These are the same people that think the internet is series of tubes that get clogged. The same people that think blocking a website will stop piracy once and for all. The same people that propose things that are so ignorant of the issues that various suggested solutions become comedy stories on/.
Politicians do a lot of things. Studying issues in depth is not one of them.
And politicians are qualified to vote on all issues how exactly? Because they have a MBA or a law degree? Do you really think they are using the big picture when considering only the next election cycle?
Many of the proposed voting protocols assumes there are at least N authorities that count votes and at least M would need to be compromised before you could hack the vote. Votes are sent to all authorities, or are otherwise "published", pre encrypted. There really are technical solutions to most of the problems. At the protocol layer at least. Real implementations that are also easy to use is something else entirely.
As i posted above, some voting protocols specifically deal with these situations. Also while you can post your vote, both guns and cash work just fine.
Security can extend to privacy. In fact a number of proposed voting protocols specifically provide privacy of the vote. Some go further so that you can't even prove to a 3rd party which way you voted, thus removing "mafia" attacks. At least in theory.
Porn laws are very inconsistent across nations. Even within the EU. In some cases anything that depicts someone as underage is illegal, in others it only matters if the actor is really under age. In others it matters if they look underage. Then there is the fact that the legal ages differ a bit as well.
A NZ'er living in Austria here. I have lived here for 6 years. Food prices in NZ have gone up way more than here. NZ is not looking like a good place to come home to right now.
Very interesting. I don't dispute GPS as an accurate global clock, and nowdays a very cheap one. Makes sense that it would be very useful for logging and monitoring.
However this still implies that no GPS does not mean no Grid as many seem to claim.
You only have to check the frequency stability at your socket to set of the hinky meter with statements like "the grid uses GPS for critical timing". We had the grid *long* before GPS and it worked fine. In fact i can't see anything useful that GPS would provide, since you need to PLL to the local grid anyway. Which will have its own local drifts etc. Considering that it takes mins and hours for generators to ramp up or down, i simply can't see what useful thing GPS is doing here.
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Well you know... waiting an hour or even 8 is not really the end of the world. This was kinda my point. As for the "cloud" going down for a day? For a start banking is not done in the "cloud" whatever that is, and second, people are actively maintaining these systems. They won't take a day to reboot. And yea, leap years are not that complicated.
There are ways to do electronic cash that is at least as anonymous as real cash. Note that its really hard to be truly anonymous. After all you have to give the cash to someone. Or take it out from somewhere.
Wait 10mins for the power/network to come back online? And does anyone at all accept checks? I don't think any of my banks even issues checkbooks anymore.
Well there really are "sugar free energy drinks". Hilarity ensued when i saw the billboard a while ago. Don't remember the brand.
It is like an energy free Energy drink! Sheesh, if ya don't want caffeine, perhaps coffee is not a good choice of drink? It is like a skier that doesn't like snow. There should be something about the wookie defense in here somewhere too. It does not make sense.
Companies that don't have profits, don't stick around to "innovate" anything. Seriously, it is the reason for a companies existence. Not to give you free stuff.
Your sentence sounded like a typical argument that direct democracy would somehow lead to problems we _dont_ already have.
Not my intention at all. I want a direct democracy because i think it will be the *least worse* system. Hence the W. Churchill like quote.
I think there would be a natural tendency for people to only vote/care about issues that directly affect them or are interested in or knowledgeable about. Also i hope that rather than the "care about issues once every 3 years" it would encourage a more long term participation and thinking.
Well the last problem is really a bit moot. If there can be wide spread use of force to get votes, then this implies either no "police force" or a corrupt one, in which case there are far easier ways to rig the election.
Also how can you prove your vote was counted with the current system?
And your alternative will result is elitism. Smart people are not as smart as they think they are. As for voting for bad politicians? when was the last time there was a good one on the ballot?
You are preaching to the choir. I am a bit of a fan of direct democracy which needs many cheap referendums, aka internet voting? Personally i think it will be an awful system, but better than anything else we have tried. Still can't work out how to solve the tyranny of the majority.
Your joking right? These are the same people that think the internet is series of tubes that get clogged. The same people that think blocking a website will stop piracy once and for all. The same people that propose things that are so ignorant of the issues that various suggested solutions become comedy stories on /.
Politicians do a lot of things. Studying issues in depth is not one of them.
Changing who controls what the media reports, for example with legislation only changes who gets to tell the lies.
And politicians are qualified to vote on all issues how exactly? Because they have a MBA or a law degree? Do you really think they are using the big picture when considering only the next election cycle?
Many of the proposed voting protocols assumes there are at least N authorities that count votes and at least M would need to be compromised before you could hack the vote. Votes are sent to all authorities, or are otherwise "published", pre encrypted. There really are technical solutions to most of the problems. At the protocol layer at least. Real implementations that are also easy to use is something else entirely.
As i posted above, some voting protocols specifically deal with these situations. Also while you can post your vote, both guns and cash work just fine.
Security can extend to privacy. In fact a number of proposed voting protocols specifically provide privacy of the vote. Some go further so that you can't even prove to a 3rd party which way you voted, thus removing "mafia" attacks. At least in theory.
I does happen and can be not so serious. I know these people however and they where a little freaked out about it.
And dampers... don't forget the dampers..
Porn laws are very inconsistent across nations. Even within the EU. In some cases anything that depicts someone as underage is illegal, in others it only matters if the actor is really under age. In others it matters if they look underage. Then there is the fact that the legal ages differ a bit as well.
Here in the EU all cash taken in and winnings are recorded against your ID. It is not hard to make gambling hard for money laundering.
A NZ'er living in Austria here. I have lived here for 6 years. Food prices in NZ have gone up way more than here. NZ is not looking like a good place to come home to right now.
Simulated Annealing is many things. Fast is not one of them.
We are talking about getting something into a *different* orbit than the space elevator... Not the space elevator itself.
Very interesting. I don't dispute GPS as an accurate global clock, and nowdays a very cheap one. Makes sense that it would be very useful for logging and monitoring.
However this still implies that no GPS does not mean no Grid as many seem to claim.
You only have to check the frequency stability at your socket to set of the hinky meter with statements like "the grid uses GPS for critical timing". We had the grid *long* before GPS and it worked fine. In fact i can't see anything useful that GPS would provide, since you need to PLL to the local grid anyway. Which will have its own local drifts etc. Considering that it takes mins and hours for generators to ramp up or down, i simply can't see what useful thing GPS is doing here.