GENIUS FORUMS

"there is no prefered plane for all the spirals. The plane is determined by the axis of rotation of the massive body at the center." broke Just to clarify here broke, I gather you mean there isn't one universal standard among all such disk formations in the cosmos. Instead, there is one o...

"I believe it should be repealed. The main reason is that the traditional election process itself has been usurped by the uncheckable power (programming) of the electronic voting machine." CG Ugh! An unauditable vote?! I find it ironic that U.S. officials are known to audit elections in &...

"Not, I." hs And yet, it was important enough for you to open the clearly labeled topic, and go to the further trouble to post that? Your behavior indicates a falsehood. If you didn't care, why would you post, or even open the thread? If you do care enough to do both, why assert a non-pro...

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Could hit the nail on the head hs. I'll never know.
I'm on dial-up. I'm basically limited to text, and small still graphics.

Should the U.S. Constitution's electoral college be repealed? The electoral college (ec) seems to advantage the Republican party. How much of an advantage? More than 3 to one, according to law professor Lani Guinier. "It's not just whether your vote counts, but whether your vote counts equally....

"An electorate capable of living up to the Constitution would never have let Bush take office." daybrown

The electoral college is Constitutional.

daybrown, you have inspired a new topic.

"From which direction?" Uni From the direction the U.S. Founders headed us toward, in the 18th Century. "It has to do with the fact that those who live here implicitly agree to the social contract." Uni "Implicitly"? I'm not so sure. Psychologist Joy Browne says we mov...

"El Salvador has an inclusive immigration policy and no "horrid pyramid schemes."" Unidian

I'm not sure what immigration policy has to do with encroaching socialism.

"if we simply let all the anti-government people" Unidian "If we" "let" them? How sad that government bestows such -benevolence- upon us, AT GUNPOINT. If Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare* are such a great deal, why are they compulsory? When agricultural workers ...

"Perhaps it is inherent in the hature of government." DH

"hature"
Excellent pun / Freudian slurp.

"How about some quotes on the topic?" DH

Thanks DH.
Well done.

I hadn't read the Lord Acton one. I like it.

That's probably one piece to the puzzle Ryan.

Thanks.

Even high school physics text books assert that solar systems are formed from accretion disks. But don't the laws of thermodynamics (entropy) suggest that the sphere is the lower ordered state? What causes randomly scattered debris congesting a region of space stratify out into a disk? And then into...

"A benign government would, as the US government did all thru the 20th century, decide who is competent to manage their own affairs, and who because of youth, senility, or mental dysfunction, could not, and needed more intensive case management." day Perhaps. I could easily imagine a heav...

"What makes you think other people are as sensible as you are?" broke I don't. But I think legal constraints don't work as well to keep citizens sober as self-restraint. "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of [their own] folly is to fill the world with fools."...

"What is "victimless"?" broke Just about any conduct by or between consenting adults, including recreational drug usage*, sexual prostitution, gambling, etc. broke, On Drug War: I believe if recreational drugs were decriminalized, their recreational abuse would decrease per capi...

"It seems that hardly anybody considers a stateless society." Toban There were anarchists long before Socco & Vanzetti were executed. Some confuse anarchy with chaos, riot, bloodshed, & destruction. It's not necessarily so. Anarchy can simply mean, without formal government. It's ...

Responding to: "... 170 million people were killed by their own governments, outside of wars." Sapius responded: "EXACTLY! So what is the solution to that then?" Sapius To what DH posted, I add: "What conflict? Between countries or local upraising?" Sapius No. A conflic...

PS "During the 20th Century, somewhere around 42 million people were killed in wars. That's a lot of deaths. But during the 20th Century, somewhere around 170 million people were killed by their own governments, outside of wars." DH About half of all marriages end in divorce. All the other...

broke, It's nutty. My disdain for U.S. imperialism may not reach quite the same fever pitch it does for Shahrazad, I still hate it. "CIA playing footsie with Noriega" broke a) and Saddam b) Wasn't the first U.S. President Bush head of the CIA when Noriega was a U.S. "intelligence asse...

- follow up - "No, not monumentally dangerous ..." Sapius I won't quibble over the adverb. It could lead to the unwilling extermination of humanity, the absolute and total removal of any living human from the cosmos. I'll leave it to you to decide if that's monumental or not. "Of cour...

"Does it mean that since it was so, it shall always be so?" Sapius Sapius, it seems I'm in a rut of hackneyed clichés. Here I go again. "Murphy's Law: if something can go wrong, it will go wrong." An opportunity for something to happen isn't a guarantee that it will. But consid...

OK broke, I'm w/ you so far. Do you think the U.S. government might be rendered more benign if the Constitution were amended to prohibit itself from enforcing laws against victimless crimes, and impose strict humanitarian protocols limiting the use of coercive force at home and abroad? No more moral...

"Appeals court: First Amendment protects forum trolls too" "Protects" them from what / whom? I haven't read the ruling. I'm sure it protects them from government. But it has no affect on how the site administrator handles it. The site admin. & moderator/s can apply any stand...

"I believe the solution suggested is quite viable and possible, only that we are judging it through our past and current world situations hence don’t find it plausible or practical." Sapius "Those that do not study history are destined to repeat it." "Don't put all your e...

Can government be benign?


Note:
I would like to thank DHodges for inspiring this topic as follows:

"I think it is possible for a government to be benign" DHodges

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