I would argue that having any government move to open source is good for everyone. I don't know if it will be cheaper but I do think it will like give the people more bang for their buck. Instead of those dollars going into one person's pockets, they can not only still be used to solve the government's software problems but also provide software libraries and frameworks for other to bulid off of.

But what if they don't get squished? Think about the intelligient alien species that might be on the other side! Do you really want to curse another intelligent species with such a disease?

What's funny is that a lot of thiests probably thing the same thing about you.

Until the last human dies, the pig species will survive, because we like bacon.

While I don't know what made Minecraft initially popular, I think its prolonged success was a happy accident. Notch decided to write the Minecraft client and server in Java which is a relatively easy to decompile language. This encourage a few hacker types to make their own mods. This eventually evolved into third-party mod APIs like Bukkit and Forge which further encouraged third-party content. I don't know what the percentages are but I would guess there is a lot more people playing modded Minecraft than vanilla Minecraft. Since there is not an official modding API, I don't think Minecraft would be nearly as popular today if it had been written in C or C++ because there would much less likely be such a rich modding community for the game.

Also, since the entity that is issuing the tickets also has no say on whom that funds are allocated to, there is a much smaller chance of corruption. Unfortunately, where money is involved. There is always a chance of corruption. I suppose the government could lie on how much ticket revenue they bring in.

The points was to split the entity that is issuing tickets from the entity that is benefitting from them. Right now, they are, more or less, one and the same.

I think all funds generated through traffic tickets should go to an untouchable fund. Once a year citizens of the jurisdiction have the options of submitting a charity in which they would like the funds to go. Once the submissions are counted, the fund is split amoung the submitted charities based on the percentage split of the submissions, That way government jurisdictions can't use traffic violations as a means of funding.

I am trying to figure out what their stances are also. If their only goals are to limit the power of PACs, make it so that only individuals (not businesses/corporations) can contribute to politicians, limit contributions from a single individual to a reasonable ceiling, and illegalize backroom dealings; I would think that almost anyone would get behing that, Their website alludes to that direction but not does not make their goals clear. No one wants to fund an organization that is going to do something against their stances.

sudo su -

Compared to Netflix. Amazon Prime is a joke.

Liability for your code would also destroy open source libraries and collaberation. Why would you give something away for free if you knew someone could sue you over it?

Because there is no guarantee that it will always work?

Not all the trades. Just the timestamp of the last trade for each user.

They could also use cooldowns rather than a delays. HFTs will then put themselves at a disadvantage if they are constantly making trades because they will have to wait the whole cooldown before they can react. Meanwhile, everyone else will have no delay since their last trade was long before (at scale).