I beg to academically differ if i may

Money != votes....at least not the peoples votes and not directly. It requires our collective consent before translating into actual votes.

Money = advertising and influence
Influence/lobbying equals politician's votes surely
Advertising equals influence over sheeple , who then do indeed vote as directed (when bothering to take time from the cud).

So money ends up influencing votes in the most egregious way. But if people were to decide that it was time to end corruption and vote the bastards out in favor of real public servants, we could technically retire a sizable portion of congress in one fell swoop. And if we collectively put emphasis on getting educated about issues, thus making informed choices on our own ballot selections rather than allowing political advertising to hold such sway, there is nothing sort of mayhem that big $ could do about it.

OK, "yeah, right,...likely." is the response to that,...but the point still holds....we collectively consent to this mess. And we should never take that failure out of the equation. You're point that they become some manor of "majority" is taken, they are certainly trumping the people's business to an ridiculous and disgusting extreme. But they are a "majority" because we allow it.

stuff ain't people

I stand corrected sir, good information and your point does make sense now....and my apologies!

i would then put forth that the problem isn't just 'government' but perhaps more appropriately, 'large systems' of which american government is certainly one of the biggest. It's a minor quibble based on what I now understand your point to be, but one I think is important in this day and age.

Stupidity is exponential. Living with 4 people in a house is tough...living with 300 million........

You obviously have little experience in education.

....oh, and your politics are showing...IT challenge is related to gov't regulation how? And please do tell how this unspoken rational outweighs simply being cash strapped and crisis focused?....ok, not as sexy as knee-jerk rant against the "gob'met"...carry on with that

Off on a complete tangent.... Since I am still shooting even when I can see myself doing it, is it really a 3rd person shooter? I mean I suppose if it was you instead of I shooting, or even if'n you join me in shooting, we could get it up to a 2nd person shooter. But one would kind of require some random dude on ur screenz to honestly go wit 3rd person. Or perhaps I need to drink a beer and kill a mob of mobbed up mobs.

You need to watch a little CK http://www.maniacworld.com/we-have-white-people-problems.html

yes, but mining the vodka is a sticking point

As I hope would I, but are you honestly saying that most people would as well? or would they take offense at being lectured too?

As much as we all want to believe we'd be ever so enlightened in viewing such an event with an honest introspection, it's human nature to take offense when someone outside the tribe bitchslaps you.

Just consider how you would react if a group of Chinese "hacktavists" defaced a bunch of local sites in order to bring our attention to the issues in our system. What a wonderful benefit that would be right?

Wrong

This is doing exactly zero good as far as I can see, and probably is doing some damage to the very cause they appear to be championing.

Yeah but most of them "remember" only what the party line was. I dated a gal from China a few years back who was a quite intelligent and reasonable individual living in the west, and she was quite perplexed by the western "portrayal" of that incident. ...remember that they aren't seeing what you and I are seeing, even when it's inside their own country.

ftfy Let's give credit where it's due. That's quite a picture as is. I found it quite entertaining my self. Would be nice to have a share-able coordinate system though. perhaps you would put that together then?

I'm torn between "Gonna Fly Now" (theme from rocky) or "Imperial March" (Darth Vader's Theme) music.... either way, looking stern and purposeful while appearing oblivious to the fact that there is a band following me through the door would be essential.

One assumes a theme song when you enter a room?

I agree with your point that this is a bad idea, but would take it much farther by saying we get in plenty of fatal accidents on the ground. From drunk driving to other mischief to just plain bad luck. 2D is plenty dangerous. Adding a 3rd D to this mess would be a colossal #$&^ up, and not just on the road. Sitting at home having a nice lunch, when all of a sudden.....

... a wingman joke in here somehwere.....