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First, I think you're right.
Second, you need to explain why family farms are better or any different at all from corperate farms. How come they don't need it while families do? Someone is always riding the combine. The answer is complicated and too long.
Third, just doleing out money isn't a good thing. Personally, I think paying them to make ethanol is better then paying them not to farm. -
This is massively unfair to 95% of the population.
The poor have no money.
The working class sweats for their money.
The middle class solves problems for their money.
The upper class manage for their money.
The rich's money makes their money.
The entire economic system gives the most opportunity and control to the wealthy. They own and control the most, they pay the most. -
vontrapp, if you get Ron Paul to admend it, then that's one problem down. But "we can admend it" hardly fill me with confidence. It still puts the majority of the burden on the middle-class, doles out welfare, rewards black markets and buying foreign! Unless you want some sort of tariff. That worked out swell in 1930.
What about stuff on Ebay? Garage Sales? Too many holes and grey areas.
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FairTax is interesting. It has one nice effect. It will kill consummerism.
It has a lot of bad. The wealthy will become rediculously wealthy. It gives unending handouts to the poor. The real burden is on the middle-class, the traditional consumers.One big issue I have with it is that services aren't taxed. This is a MASSIVE LOOPHOLE! I didn't buy that from him, I paid him to make it.
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As an Iowan city slicker, I've been saying this since I saw it and did the math. Ethanol is a viable alternative, not to oil, but to farm subsidies.
(Yes, we need the farms. No, I don't want them owned by Enron. No, we can't tax wealth without destroying farmers. They have massive wealth, and move a lot of money, but little profit. )
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Content neutrality is one part of NN. Being a Common Carrier is another part which has nothing to do with content. Read the wiki page on network neutrality.
But 0% of the internet is "public" like you think. It's all run by someone. Even if it's a public univeristy, you don't have the right to use it. Today, most of it is owned by the major telecom companies: AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cox, etc.
0 Network neutrality ONLY for the network - 5 days ago
You do realize that those are companies? The industry is regulated, but the companies that keep tabs on you are not part of the government. To do away with it you'd have to make the whole industry illegal. Something along the lines of: Conveying information about past dealings is illegal. So if you ever told anyone that someone didn't pay you back, you'd get fined.
0 Do away with the credit score system - 23 days ago
Yeah, tracking how people spend their money doesn't sound like a real friendly thing to me. Do you want your mother to know everywhere you shop online? The IRS tracks income, so they know where money got spent.
But all that aside, do you really want PayPal to take a cut of your rebate?
0 Make sure we track spending when we send stimulus checks. - 23 days ago
Honestly, not a bad idea, but it's got nothing to do with the CTO or technology in general.
0 Remove Party Affiliation from Ballots - 23 days ago
Ditto that the top should not mandate the details when it comes to the fluid, chaotic, and ever-changing world of web app dev.
0 standardize on Ruby on Rails for custom web app development - 23 days ago
. . . I think the first thing that solid engineering requires is a good channel of communication.
Now what the heck do you want to fix?
0 Fix Software Engineering in the Government - 23 days ago
This isn't about the CTO or technology though....
0 Invest in financial education for future generation - 23 days ago
In a perfect society, the free market would probably fix all ills, but then again we'd have no need of a government. There is no way anyone will ever convince me that the trust-busting of the lat 1800's was a "bad thing" for America.
And initially, I didn't think we needed legislation for network neutrality. But then Comcast and others started being evil without telling anyone.
0 Follow the Constitution - about 1 month ago
On that note: Space Elevators. If you get a single strand of something with more then ~65-130 GPa of tensile strength, you can extend it past geosynchronous orbit and centrifugal force will suspend it mid-air. Carbon nano-tubes have been made with up to 52 GPa, as opposed to the best steel which has 5 GPa.
Powering the climbing vehicle is another issue. Beam energy is one proposed solution.
0 Beamed energy propulsion - about 1 month ago
uh..
MADE QUICKLY FOR L' WORLDWIDE ECONOMY BECAUSE HAVE CANNOT AWAIT ONLY C' IS SIRS MAKES a C' DECISION; IS URGENT BECAUSE WHEN THE U.S.A. HAS A LE MONDE COLD WITH THE INFLUENZA
I think he's just telling us to hurry.
0 JE VOUS SOUHAITE UNE LONG VIE DE BONHEUR ET DE REUSITE - about 1 month ago
. . . Just a crazy guess, but I'm thinking he might just delegate some of his work off to others. Like, to a secretary or some such. Now, if he were to decide that he needs more help, perhaps with some sort of new emergent issue, the duties and tasks of said position would be unclear. Hence the public survey.
You're trolling the CTO? really?
0 Chief TECHNOLOGY officer? Who gives a shit. - about 1 month ago
Empathetics, did you know that it's a legal, not hardware, issue that keeps the official Adobe Flash player from shipping on the OLPC? You can install it later. Or you can live with the free and open Gnash, which admittedly doesn't play youTube videos, yet.
I'm pretty sure the WindowsXP version would ship with Adobe Flash. It'd just cost more.
So what else do you think it can't do?
1 flood inner city schools with OLPC machines - about 1 month ago
But if it was government funded, wouldn't that be a conflict of interest? Since we're gonna get a CTO and all.
0 Fund Valleywag as an independent journalism site - about 1 month ago
revosteevo, did you just say our power-grids are reliable? And you want to squeeze some more efficiency out of them? Good lord, no.
"Smart" is a buzzword, but those are some good goals.
We need to improve our electrical infrastructure (both transmission and distribution) to support alternative energy, as well as a matter of national security.
0 Build a nation-wide smart grid - about 1 month ago
Yep, not in the CTO field.
0 Decriminalize marijuana use for recreational purposes. - about 1 month ago
That doesn't really involve the CTO much...
0 Protect the 2nd amendment and do not reinstate the AWB. - about 1 month ago
I second Yish. Flood them with cheap laptops, not nessesarily OLPC.
And try to be fair, flood EVERYONE with cheap and rugged laptops.
1 flood inner city schools with OLPC machines - about 1 month ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this idea. But naysayers like kybernetikos have a point. I think that ISPs should have the freedom to sell whatever they want. However, anything less then unrestricted access should not be marketed as the internet, which makes the company something other then an Internet Service Provider.
1 Ensure the Internet is widely accessible & network neutral - about 1 month ago
Naw, it's not the root of all problems. Your problems maybe, but it's not like it causes cancer. And I enjoy buying affordable goods that are cheaper due to lower production costs. It's also the reason why India and China became first world countries.
And how would you stop it? with tarrifs? No, the only way to beat outsourcing is to work harder/smarter.
0 Stop Outsourcing as it is the root cause of all problems - about 1 month ago