Re:Regulate This!!! (Score 1)

Give me a break! Firstly, I am not a fanatic anything. I am open to anything. Secondly, not wanting a million laws does not a right winger make. I've never voted for a Republican in my life. And as far as destroying what makes America great, well if you read the same writings from our founding fathers that I did growing up, America is great because we limit our government. Inching ever closer to a completely regulated environment hardly seems like the spirit America was founded under. And to respond to what you saif about it being "optional". Shit, man, that's how it is now. This yokel wants to make it mandatory. (He said "required"). So where would that put us? At the mercy of politicians, who have a great track record with technology and policy making. Don't confuse mistrust of the government with the antics of a right wing nutter. I know how fun it is to quickly categorize someone from a few sentences, but not all of us can only think in 2 tones. It is possible to simultaneously mistrust the government and large corporations, you know. Not everyone is either begging for the government teet or waving Limbaugh banners in the street. Get a certification? Sure. Like I said, I have many. Ask the government to require regulation? Jesus Hopscotching Christ, does it really make me Trent Lott to not want that? We are doing fine. Fact is, law or no law, when you call Dell Phone Support, you are still getting a 16 year old who is getting paid 6 dollars an hour to read possible fixes from a list on a terminal, A+ or no. And you would just end up paying 20 dollars a minute for the call instead of 10 after people are required to pay taxes and licensing fees to hold the crappy job. And, BTW, going to the doctor is a FAR CRY from getting a NIC replaced. Yes, I do want some assurance the man giving me a colonoscopy has an education to do so. But the guy adding a hard drive? If he screws up, I don't pay. Does an A+ hanging on the wall mean he'll do a better job? Of course not. Does a new government office setup to track him make our tech woes any better? Of course not. Does thinking this make me some kind of militant NRA member who uses words like "feminazi" and "gimmecrats"? I don't really give a shit. I think it just means I can hold a thought for more than 3 seconds without barfing out an opinion. Americans need to THINK before they come up with another use for our government. Be they a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Anonymous Coward!