Hitech does not make democracy better

The guy who ended up winning the vote for the NDP leadership was the pro-Israel candidate. That currently leaves us with the top three party leaders all of the opinion that Israel is more important than Canada. Our current Prime Minister has said that he would stand by Israel no matter what the cost. Think about the implications of that for a minute - for a leader of a country to offer to sacrifice every resource at his control for the benefit of another nation.
 
Some of that is most likely lip service to appease certain lobby groups. Harper is likely the only one that will actively go out of his way to follow Israel to hell and back.
 
Glaucus said:
Some of that is most likely lip service to appease certain lobby groups. Harper is likely the only one that will actively go out of his way to follow Israel to hell and back.
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I hope so - but in general, the more someone thinks they have the unquestioning backing of others, the more likely they are to do something stupid - which means, if you are serious about your commitments, you end up having to go be stupid with them.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
which means, if you are serious about your commitments, you end up having to go be stupid with them.
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on the macro level this statement is also extremely true as well... gingrichians must support moonbases, santorumians must accept locking chastity belts on their women folk.... etc
 
In Theory hitech should make democracies easier. We have super secure ATM machines that are fairly hacking proof. We can build similar voting stations. And we could keep the voting stations on their own network and off the internet, which makes hacking harder for the average bear.

The difficult really becomes in the politic, as always. We end up with small groups of people that control the vote count. Do we really want to rely on a private company with closed doors to just announce 'X is now President'? Definitely not. Open source and open accountability must be part of the vote.
 
faethor said:
In Theory hitech should make democracies easier. We have super secure ATM machines that are fairly hacking proof. We can build similar voting stations. And we could keep the voting stations on their own network and off the internet, which makes hacking harder for the average bear.

The difficult really becomes in the politic, as always. We end up with small groups of people that control the vote count. Do we really want to rely on a private company with closed doors to just announce 'X is now President'? Definitely not. Open source and open accountability must be part of the vote.
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the fact that we are doing exactly that which is contrary to both our capability and need suggests to me that it is deliberate...
 
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