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ifearthefeds··on Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
Name five democratic or republican candidate who support changing the status quo so that it helps smaller parties.
ifearthefeds··on Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
There are other parties. If you don't want to vote for Republicans or Democrats, then don't.
ifearthefeds··on The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography
Do you have a source for that?
ifearthefeds··on The 15% Tax Rate
I think the FairTax is a better proposal, much as I dislike the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax

ifearthefeds··on ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content
A shadow partition would be more effective at bypassing customs. For real boots, you use a copy of grub on a usb dongle. When grub is missing, you boot into a honeypot Windows XP partition that was installed only for that purpose.
ifearthefeds··on Crowd-sourced political lobby
Get rid of the indirection. Hiring lobbyist isn't necessary.

Instead, a two step system would be nice:

1. People add money to pool. The pool's contents are publicized.

2. After congressional votes, the pool is distributed to all politicians who voted "correctly".

Note that this incentivizes politicians to oppose the status quo, as the less politicians supporting a piece of legislation, the higher the payout.

ifearthefeds··on ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones for pirated content
This.

I have never been arrested, never investigated. But recent events, have instigated in me a fear of those in power. The Megavideo seizure was a wake up call.

I wont even post comments like this under my normal HN account.