Set a maximum number of laws. Require they repeal one for every new one they want.

The problem would be any government setup by our current population would undoubtedly be worse than the current one.

If America was a pure democracy we would already be completely over.

Because before Wikileaks you needed to download a copy of a torrent client?

This has all been out there. Its just wikileaks doing their weekly publicity whoring.

Post an archive of Wikileaks on Cryptome and forget about them.

If people are free to volunteer their time then you can't object to volunteering money as a surrogate. Time==money.

You might want to check your theory against the history of the 20th century.

Politicians get _worse_ when they stop having to hustle for contributions. Take money out of the picture and all they have left is power to suck up to.

You dismiss as 'implantation details' the fact that your plan would set they current two parties in concrete.

Plan rejected. Will make things worse, not better.

Single feral children don't talk. But groups of children, held in isolation without any language contact, develop their own invented language.

The Catholics did it in the middle ages. Apparently they expected the kids to spontaneously start speaking Hebrew. Experiment couldn't be ethically repeated today.

I stole it. No way I can lose money on this one. Guy didn't know what one is worth. Only way I would ever buy a non-tractor Ford.

I will most likely keep it stock, bring it up to princess level and bank the money.

I've seen Mustangs with good engines transplanted it. But none badged as SS. That will piss off the ford guys while simultaneously mocking all the bogus SS Chevys out there.

Sympathies on the Jag. The big six e-type is the one to have, if you want to actually drive it.

WRONG.

During the middle ages humans were raised without being exposed to language (would be scientifically unacceptable today). You don't have to teach language, just expose the kids. The nuts in charge at the time expected them to spontaneously start speaking Hebrew. They spoke a primitive pidgin they invented.

Chomsky is that you?

You know the answer is no. Even if language isn't wired into the brain (as it currently looks) human children develop language by observation and emulation.

Bullshit.

You NEED to travel more.

Dolphins are about as smart as pigs. The extra grey matter is sonar processing. Functional MRI has removed the mystery.

You'd think a place like /. would have put away this long dis-proven assertion. The guy that first asserted dolphins were as smart as people was on acid at the time and failed to teach them human language or to learn dolphin. Didn't matter how much acid he did, they still didn't talk.

Good gig if you're into that kind of thing.

True; they should do their testing in jurisdictions with sane laws. Sounds like NY state is out.

Animal rights activists.

You obviously didn't live/drive through the 80s.

Cars are simple again. The new complications are in the dash (navi etc).

Repairing the detuning that DOT and insurance companies forced the car makers to do.

Nothing new under the sun. Removing the asthma tube from the intercooler on my old Eclipse made it non-CA legal.