Modern Democracy

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Just reading this and thinking of the possible fun...

But more seriously, maybe the idea of representational goverment is outdated...what if laws, policy's, budgets... could be proposed, debated, and ultimatly written by everyone and anyone? No need to vote for someone to represent your views in a parliment of 500 odd people, everyone gets their say, the loudest voice wins...

Team America: World Police

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Maybe they would do better to sort some of the problems back home...come on, killing your own citizens is abit extreme...

I like that firing squad is avalible to some lucky people...personaly id say hanging has got to be the best way...but i dont live in a country where that is an issue...

Some interesting facts...

• Since 1973, 124 prisoners have been released in the USA after evidence emerged of their innocence of the crimes for which they were sentenced to death. There were six such cases in 2004, two in 2005, one in 2006 and one so far in 2007. Some prisoners had come close to execution after spending many years under sentence of death. Recurring features in their cases include prosecutorial or police misconduct; the use of unreliable witness testimony, physical evidence, or confessions; and inadequate defence representation. Other US prisoners have gone to their deaths despite serious doubts over their guilt. The state of Florida has the highest number of exonerations: 22.
• In 2004, New York's highest court found the state's death penalty statute unconstitutional. By early 2007, this law had not been replaced.
• Around 3,350 prisoners were under sentence of death as of 1 January 2007.

Facts taken from AI

War Money

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just some interesting notes about how much money america spends on its "defense"/attaking of other countries...for this year $190 Billion...

i just want to compare this to some others things...

• england...$66 Billion
• as a percentage of total spent money...graph US, graph UK
• compared to GDP (the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year) of countries...
  • Portugal - $192 Billion, so thats portugals total income, for the year, slightly more than US gov. spends on defense each year
  • Kiribati - $0.007 Billion - never heard of it ether, but the bottom most on the list...
  • more than the GDP of all but 3 african countries

what else could they do?

How a non-Neutral ISP could work

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just a note as to how big an issue this really could be...