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Posted by zzbunker@netscape.net on May 11, 2009, 7:03 pm
On May 11, 5:24 pm, some...@somewhere.net wrote:
> Curt Welch wrote:
> > Well, the US has lots of organized unreason as well. We elected an idiot
> > to run the country for 8 years in one of the most unreasoned moves I've
> > seen in my life. But that's the price you pay for living in a democracy.
> > The power is held by the people as a group, so you live and die by their
> > reasoned, and unreasoned view. The net win is that most people, get
> > things
> > "there way", most the time, even if it's not the smartest way. The goal
> > is to maximize the happiness of the group by minimizing the disagreement
> > in the mob. If most people want to let the idiot run the country, we let
> > the idiot run the country becuase to do anything else would make more
> > people less happy.
> I wonder if things would be improved if we had some type of minimum
> standards for voting. It seems the current voting block tends to vote
> emotionally, not rationally. Bush/Cheney were able to use good old
> ignorant fear to their own ends. Right now it seems we're ruled by people
> who get their worldview from Entertainment Tonight.
Well, idiot Bush gets his aircraft information from Disney World.
Which is why the people with actual technology brains even
build stuff like Holographics, All-In-One Printers, XML, USB, On-
Line Banking,
On-Line Shopping, On-Line Publishling, C++, Distributed Processing,
Light Sticks,
Compact Flourescent Lighting, Broadband Fiber Optics, Cell Phones,
Drones,
Cruise Missiles, AUVs,, and Sefl-Assembling Robots.
And idiot Cheney gets all his economic theories from Saudia Arabia.
So that's what why the people with actual non-zero technology brains
build Pv Cell Energy, Solar Energy, Neo Wind Energy, Biodiesel,
MP3. MPEG, CD-rom, DVD-rom, Optical Computers, Thermo-Electrical,
Microwave Cooling, and Self-Replicating Machines.
> Mike Ross
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