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Response to A "perfect" democracy is possible.. 2003-03-20 01:21:40 Reply

At 3/20/03 01:04 AM, Commander-K25 wrote: Hint: [...]

I agreed with you then, and as well as what you said just now, but I disagree with the 'is the best form of government' statement because even if the guy was a gem...

-(I am NOT a religious person)-

-(At all)-

Let's say he was Jesus. Everything I said still holds true.
Judas, in a word.

Therefore, I stand by my original statement. A "benevolent dictatorship" is not even an ideal form of government.


"A witty quote proves nothing."
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Response to A "perfect" democracy is possible.. 2003-03-20 08:57:41 Reply

At 3/20/03 01:01 AM, TheShrike wrote:
At 3/20/03 12:35 AM, Commander-K25 wrote: The best form of government is a benevolent dictatorship. The problem is finding an incorruptible, benevolent dictator.
"benevolent dictatorship"... That's almost as good of an oxymoron as "military intelligence".

I don't agree. I think in a benevolent dictatorship, there would still be those underneath who thought they could do the job better. And if the guy doesn't have a huge success rate and the popularity to go with it, it breeds internal upheaval.

**Points at Shrike**

Yep... what he said.

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Response to A "perfect" democracy is possible.. 2003-03-20 09:37:11 Reply

I hate people who post the error message in their post to get enough characters to actually submit it. Grr...that bothers me.


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Response to A "perfect" democracy is possible.. 2003-03-20 16:31:58 Reply

At 3/20/03 01:05 AM, Judge_DREDD wrote:
At 3/20/03 12:39 AM, PreacherJ wrote:
I always preferred Technocracy, myself.
good name for it. I thought this over during the 90's and came up with the name "Natural Progression" based on a voting system which evolves as fast as millions of ppl can apply their votes - including "soft voting" where time and interest in subject matter also adds weight to each users over-all mass and voting power - it's similar how NG works! After all, that's why i'm here ;O)_*

Damn, you thought it up already? And I thought I was special. And yeah that NG weight thing is a pretty innovative idea =P

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Response to A "perfect" democracy is possible.. 2003-03-20 18:02:29 Reply

At 3/20/03 04:31 PM, NoNameProphet wrote:
At 3/20/03 01:05 AM, Judge_DREDD wrote:
"Natural Progression"

(Prog. as in program ;O)_*

Damn, you thought it up already? And I thought I was special. And yeah that NG weight thing is a pretty innovative idea =P

aye, i'm mildly Narcoleptic, so i can tap into the collective unconsciousness and feed on global concepts, but generally a few years after someone makes a film about it.. my mistake is i tried to make the Prog itself!

it kinda goes like this; "it's based in a 3D world of 'atomic particles' - which are pyramids (tetrahedrons) - the smallest datum for a 3D object (6 lines, 4 points)...

...These "kubix" (a name i dubbed ;) start their existance amassed in tight ball, but undergo a "big bang" effect, thus spreading its contents until evenly distributed throughout the current quadrant of cyberspace. Slowly as new data enters the space (like typing words on the keyboard) they configure themselves by attracting thier local neighbours (like an information gravity well). When they merge we'll only see the standard representation of the data and not the kubes it's made of. Eventually greater numbers of kubes will substitute for additional lines, color, sound or behaviourism, etc.

Like topics will also arrange themselves in cluster galaxies...

The person that adds data also gains relative mass in the system, and is thus able to help affect the position of data (thru gravity effect) but as thousands of ppl enter data into the system, each persons overall gravity influence is divided and diminished, so adding data to the model is important for one's on weight of influence.

Redundancy is also built into the system..."