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But strictly enforcing the laws of the land, rather than a smile and a nod, will.

The issue is that the corporations are allowed to spread virtually unchecked out of the borders of their 'home' country. This allows them to grow virtually unchecked, and use the i…

why does exceptional ability in one translate to sub-par in another? And why does it matter? We would all agree that a Cheetah is much better at running fast than a house-cat, but …

yeah, the young ones have spent the last several years distancing themselves from everything the old man has done, that doing anything that the old man does is seen as regressive. …

I've never really understood the problem with green screen programs: for most businesses, a green screen is perfectly usable, and it has the added bandwidth of low bandwidth requir…

No, it's a bad idea, because then someone would just create dozens, hundreds of companies, and apply for one visa each.

It's a sad truth when a sizeable percentage goes toward employee salaries...

you mean like Gore?

with an electronic, Internet system it's impossible to prevent manipulation on a global level. With paper, in person voting, manipulation is restricted to the local geographical ar…

This is where I take the time to explain to everyone that "Yeah, while it may save you time to do it manually, if you do it THIS way instead, you never have to write it from scratc…

as a counterpoint, take a group of singers - if they all sing their own song, chaos. Then, take of group of singers singing the same song in different keys: terrible music. Finally…

yeah, it would be interesting to crowd source surveillance of a high-profile public official, and place the info on the Internet. After all - if there's no expectation of privacy, …

sounds like this is really prejudiced against poor people. Why is a poor neighborhood inherently more stressful than a rich neighborhood? What's the root cause? Not enough XBox's p…

"the part", like it's just one part of the government.... News Flash: no organization will ever willingly give power.

we should be worried because we are humans - every human endeavor will, at some point, turn bad. It's human nature. Nationalism is good, to point. So are many other things. Blind n…

wait wait, I got this: It's Bush's fault!!!! Nothing is EVER Obama's fault. Unless it's good, then He Did That.

haaaaaaaaa! Might as well say Obama is the inevitable outcome of 50 years of narcissistic, pansy, Me First hippies.

Not being an electrical engineer, I wonder how hard it would be to build a company that provides battery-based (or some other technology) storage of power during off peak hours (bu…

And yet it is illegal to require government issued identification to vote...

"you can still take other modes of transportation without a passport" - for now. Just the nose of the camel here...

Ahh, the fallacy of not learning from history - as soon as a populace is disarmed they are helpless before their lord and master... I mean government. The battle for freedom began …

I'd have to disagree with the UHI paper because of personal experiences in my own life - I live outside a major metropolitan city. Over the past twenty years, I have noticed that t…

Some group has to run the technology - Congress can simply remove funding for the group to run the technology.

it may not be the ultimate, conscious aim, but I am convinced that there is a sort of 'social emergent behaviour' that will move us more and more toward that state of serfdom unles…

maybe not intentionally evil, but an 'emergent evil' caused by the sum of behaviours and thought patterns.