Third parties have a good function. They often choose to focus on issues that both the main parties want to avoid talking about.

You know, in this economy, with the job market so bad, I really find it hard to believe that its that hard to find workers who don't have a similar enough background that they cannot be trained to do the various tasks. Although I think that is part of the problem, excess specificity. They won't want a database admin, they want SQLSERVER 2007 enterprise edition. And they need Symantec AV version 12 admin. And they expect to pay minimum wage. So they code those parameters into the resume filter, feed through 50 thousand resume, no hits. Gee I wonder why.

Deterministic? Have you see quantum physics? Yes galaxies and planets are deterministic, but until they prove string theory or m-brane theory I still say there is free choice. And even then I would say, "what is causing the strings to vibrate the way they do?"

I sort of like a variation, ALL laws except the constitution come up for review, 10-30 years. If it can't be voted positive by simple majority, then it gets repealed. If you want to fix the constitution, then go through the amendment process.

I would say that if they miss more than one prior art they risk losing the patent. That will light a fire for them to be more accurate.
I think copyrights need to be dramatically shortened. I mean come on, 75 years after the DEATH of the of the author? And corporate ownership is FOREVER
I would mandate that copyrights need to be registered. Even if it is something like a dollar a year.. In that way we can identify orphan works that should be made free.

Pet peeve of mine, a TAX CUT is a LOWERING of taxes. A decrease in the rate of increase IS NOT A CUT. If taxes go up 3 percent instead of 5, IT IS STILL AN INCREASE.

I disagree on sellers liable for selling to uninfomed buyers. How exactly am I supposed to tell if someone is stupid or malicious? If I lie or mislead about what a product can do or what it contains, or how it works, I'm ok with that. Put how am I supposed to guess that someone will buy my toaster and fill it with napalm and ignite it in a movie theater?

For dietary supplements, I would say treat them as drugs in that the drug company that makes them must prove them safe, not that the government has to prove them dangerous, as is now the case.

Government people have the right to look at your data. But, after one year, the person whose privacy was violated needs to be informed of who looked at your data, from what government agency, and why. Lawsuits are permitted for abuse.

Inventions, knowledge, and data developed with tax payer money should be available to the tax payer without having to pay a company again. Will need restrictions for national security and privacy.

No more patent trolls, patent owners must actually make what they patent.
No more submarine patents, date of effectiveness should be that of original filing.
Patent submitters must pay proportional to the number of claims that they make.
No more patenting mathamatical functions like exclusive or.
Patent holders may lose patents if they fail to disclose prior art.

I guess the folks that defined dark as the new light (How many Microsoft engineers dues it take to change a light bulb? None: they just define dark as the new standard) are happy working at Apple now.

I myself would rather people not use this old stuff as all it does is jam the airways. I'd have a good laugh to think that these blokes are surveying the environment to count the "illegal" access points, and they count more "access points" then there are people from all the SSID's that fakeap is sending out.

What we need are a few people to run the 'fakeap' program to create thousands of "access points" for them to chase :-).