given that IQ of 100 is the average of IQ of the population, in a normal distribution you will have about the same above as below that treshold.

When I complained about the political corrupts that rule back where I live, a swiss guy explained me that voting is the least you can do to keep the politicians in check.
If you actually care, you will have to organize with other people to for instance review the public records or financials.
But in the end quick, reliable, evolutive, secure, private, equal, transparent and open source voting is a must for decision making.
So it is important to replace the voting process with the digital age because that will allow faster and more informed decisions.
Representative democracy doesnt work anymore, I for one would replace it with something more 2.0, the sooner the better.

hi shill, how much are you payed to always jump on any comment that hints of USA government not being the best thing since sliced bread?
are you even for real, or do they have algorithms so powerfull that your propaganda is spewed automatically?

Unnecessary worldwide poisoning with lead through car gasoline (known to be neurotoxic for hundreths of years) still happens today in some parts of the world.
Read http://www.todayifoundout.com/... to see how we really don't deserve the name gaven to our species...

Nowadays, jet fuel, maybe even on purpose for solar management geo engineering (even unilateral as per CFR recomendations), is leaking all kinds of bizarre particulates all over the world.

There is a heated discussion on whether what we now see almost on a daily basis are contrails or chemtrails. Who cares! Just don't poison us!
What matters is that this is relatively new worldwide phenomenon ( less than a decade), and tests have proven that air quality is degrading everywhere.
Why not being more proactive, and make sure that whatever they add to the jet formulas is safe?
Look up, next time you see a nice sun shiny day turn to a misty, smoggy, gray day from air traffic, remember it took almost a century to ban lean in car gasoline. Do you feel safe?
Z

yeah, troll me to oblivion if you disagree!!! Thats gotta be for sure the answer to living in a dual standard society

we could just wait for good old usofa to go there and democratize the hell out of them...
Z

Most people on this forum are IT related, and I do not need to explain how software patents in particular hinder the ability to innovate in the field.
Only the US has terror histories regarding patent trolls and patent dicksizing contests between software companies, which in no way help you be better, faster, and, I would even say more profitable (Lawyers being the only ones profiting out of this)
There is no room for software start ups because of this. Everything that could be patented already is (and a lot that shouldn't is too).
Here, in software patent free world, it's so much better. Whatever you can think of you can do it, and even if you cannot find a solution, you can google for it, code it, and that's it. No lawyers or burocracies needed.
This is a clear situation of the big fish creating rules to eat the small fish. Is that the world you want to live in?

(the same could be applied to the rest of patents, and even things outside patents like equality and justice, but I will stay out of it to keep on topic)

Soundtrack to this comment:
"this is manipulation
will put your soul in danger "
Blasted Mechanism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXtuS4ouiiA [youtube.com]

Main stream media was singled out with the coverage of the event.
Previous attack with CW atributed by UN to the rebels are ignored.
Several intelligence agencys have "undeniable evidence" that Assad was dumb enough to have a chemical attack just when the UN CW inspection team was arriving. Yet, none provides it. No coments about that either.
The reason for intervention (CW usage by Assad) is contested by at least a dozen direct accounts, yet no reports on main stream media.
You are being manipulated.
Remember the saying:
"fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..." how many times do you need to be fooled before waking up?

Soundtrack to this comment:
"this is manipulation
will put your soul in danger "
Blasted Mechanism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXtuS4ouiiA

Main stream media was singled out with the coverage of the event.
Previous attack with CW atributed by UN to the rebels are ignored.
Several intelligence agencys have "undeniable evidence" that Assad was dumb enough to have a chemical attack just when the UN CW inspection team was arriving. Yet, none provides it. No coments about that either.
The reason for intervention (CW usage by Assad) is contested by at least a dozen direct accounts, yet no reports on main stream media.
You are being manipulated.
Remember the saying:
"fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..." how many times do you need to be fooled before waking up?

This looks soooo much like the way smalltalk engines where implemented in the 80's it's boring.
One can always count on MS to bring the latest in software innovation

have you noticed that just for the fact that the country name has democratic or people or republic on its name, it will have a far greater chance of it being a dictatorship... having democratic people's republic is just asking for trouble :P

thanks for the post, long but worth reading, hope someone gives it some moderation to raise its status as most people will pass it with the current 0 points!

Keeping it short, NO (allow me to save some bytes in this rough economy!)

>The terrorists won on 9/11.
Someone won 9/11, because a lot has changed...
I guess your afirmation is true for a certain definition of terrorists, general population on the other hand, lost a lot, civil liberties being just one of them.

as you probably now, USA care about human rights of a country in a proportionally inverse fashion to the amount of oil they import from said country...
hell they are not even using enough internal oil to care enough for their own people!