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Take "largest/smallest" on that site with a grain of salt, seems not to be going through everyone in the region. It told me Avimimus is #1 at $48,465 (beating you by a mere $6, lol). I'm not too far behind you guys at $47,495.

Searching several nations into the calculator, I've noticed the highest GDP/capita varies by a few dollars each time its calculated so that could've been the reason instead.

I've voted against the WA resolution simply because of the mass advertisement for it.

I encourage everyone to view against this piece of legislation, because
1. It forces any nation with no parent protection for their own citizens to enforce foreign patents, and
2. It forces this enforcement to be a minimum of twenty years "or the period used by the member state that granted the patent"

If this is passed, member States with high patent terms can essentially kill innovation for the rest of the world.

Hello, fellow nations!

Natstates wrote:Hello, fellow nations!

Hello there Natstates to Capitalist Paradise! I hope you enjoy your stay here. We are a very nice region. If you have any questions, you can contact our WA delegate Acario or me, Regoslavia! Have fun!

Regoslavia

Other...Weekend voting when most people actually have time to do it.

Whoever moves the world

Czeckolutania wrote:I've voted against the WA resolution simply because of the mass advertisement for it.

I can't believe some people like this. Sorry, but honestly it is our job to vote for what is right. I have said it before and will say it again, if you haven't read Atlas Shrugged, go read it. It covers such a wide variety of topics whilst still giving them an interesting fictitious twist including the morals behind patents.

Whoever moves the world

Keeping in mind that this is still, of course, a game above all else...

I voted other in the poll. The one man one vote thing works just fine when it is really one man, one vote.[1]

The changes that need to happen is to add a verified voter registration process. Verification would include residency, citizenship and eligibility to vote. Part of that verification would include verifying former voter registration with their old election office and notification of the new registration. That way the former registration may be canceled. Same day registration and third party registration end immediately.

Positive government ID must presented at the poll and your name must appear on the voter registration list prior to voting.

These steps must be taken. We have way too many people subverting the system through double voting, triple voting and even more. Tens of thousands of non-citizens vote every election cycle. We have homeless people being bused from polling place to polling place, voting as they are told at each stop in exchange for cash and cigarettes. There are activists that troll nursing homes registering patients that are incapable of voting, but yet the show up on the rolls as voting. And let us not forget the stunning number of dead people that vote in every election.

If conservatives were doing this you can bet your bottom dollar it would be fixed and fixed fast. But if we fix all these problems, those ignorant electors might not elect the right people. Can't have that now, can we?

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[1] I know, I know... The phrase "one man" is going to raise hackles among the Politically Correct Inquisition as sexist, misogynist, backward, contributing to the rape culture, putting down women, etc, etc, etc. But that is the original concept as quoted in history, so walk it off and get over yourselves.

Cymric corporate authority

Capitalist Producers wrote:snip

Yet even with the amount of fraud you claim takes place there is still an all time low on voting? I voted for the quit being spoiled children option. Both parties are more concerned about keeping power and office and making it harder for the other party to do anything, than to actually do something themselves. For instance, you hear almost every Republican congressional candidate stating that they wanted to repeal Obamacare. But not a single solitary one of them could say what they wanted to do instead of that to try and fix health care. It's too easy for both parties to say "It's broke and throw those other bums out" while at the same time not doing anything themselves. We need to get back to people who want to actually govern the country and be leaders rather than just being in power to be in charge without doing anything cause that might mean they don't get to keep the office.

Go away progressives

Whatever one thinks of intellectual property, copyrights and patents, it is foolish to try and base industries on them - as the Chinese regime, in practice, ignores them.

Certainly the Chinese execute a few "economic criminals" from time to time, but this is for show (the people executed are really being executed for offending some powerful ruling Party members). In reality there will be a factory (or other such) round the corner from the execution site - churning out more "forbidden" goods (most likely a factory owned by a relative or friend of the very person who ordered the executions for violating patents or copyrights).

China is the second largest economy in the world - in manufacturing perhaps the largest economy in the world. As it, in reality, ignores copyrights and patents it is not sensible to try and base industries upon them. Companies in the United States (or elsewhere) must base their business plans on being the least expensive and best producers - not waving bits of paper about and expecting the Chinese (and others) to obey them. I am not disputing the morality of intellectual property (IP) - I am just pointing out that it is not practical, in the modern world, to try and base industries on it any more (Hollywood, silicon valley and so on - please note).

As for the World Assembly - it makes no sense for any nation to be a member of this body.

Post self-deleted by Apparatchikstan.

All of the suggestions from the poll, with the exception of mandatory voting and the dictatorship option (which I assume is a joke) sound reasonable to me.

My choice was for other. We need to crack down on the lobbying, super PACs, and the corporate influence that's all too prevalent in elections these days.

Of course the hyper-partisanship, on full display in this region, of the two party system needs to be changed. Yet when we consider that our politicians are more interested in keeping their jobs than actually doing their jobs, I don't see the volatile nature of politics disappearing any time soon.

The united oman

Regarding the poll I feel as if we should have direct voting and get rid of the Electoral College

Cymric corporate authority wrote:For instance, you hear almost every Republican congressional candidate stating that they wanted to repeal Obamacare. But not a single solitary one of them could say what they wanted to do instead of that to try and fix health care.

Maybe that is because it is not government's job to fix it. Obamacare is a huge leap over the constitutional bounds the US government was supposed to remain within.

As for one party over the other, I support most of what the Republicans stand for while holding my nose at other things they stand for. The religious dogma that runs much of the party really grates on my nerves. There are many times religion based planks (gay marriage, abortion, etc) cost them elections because they scare the people in the middle. Take a look at the paralyzing effect Sarah Palin had on the middle electorate in 2008 for one example.

But that support comes in in the form of voting against even worse choices. The American Communist/Socialist Party (a/k/a Democrats) want to destroy everything this country once stood for. Personal responsibility, freedom to excel (and along with that the freedom to fail), the freedom to run a business unmolested, the freedom to keep most of your money and even the freedom to decide what kind of car to purchase and drive are all at risk when these clowns have the power. Don't believe me? Go back and look at the laws and regulations passed and proposed over the last six years.

So I go with the party that can both get elected and do the least damage.

Cymric corporate authority wrote:Yet even with the amount of fraud you claim takes place there is still an all time low on voting?

As far as I am concerned, a failure to vote is a vote. Someone that does not make the effort to get to the polls is voting to allow those that do make the choice for them.

Hyrule and Lorule wrote:My choice was for other. We need to crack down on the lobbying, super PACs, and the corporate influence that's all too prevalent in elections these days.

Which has zero to do with elections in this country.

The united oman wrote:Regarding the poll I feel as if we should have direct voting and get rid of the Electoral College

I think that you need to go back and study your American history and government. The president is to be elected by the states, not the people. The electoral college was set up to ensure all states have a significant say in who becomes president.

If you eliminate the electoral college, California, Florida and the Atlantic Corridor from DC to Boston will elect every president from now on. The rest of the nation need not even go to the polls. With the president being beholding only to those regions of the country, the rest of the nation will get screwed in every area from government aid to highways to contracts to military bases.

There is really no way to get rid of the electoral college without screwing "fly over country."

Capitalist Producers wrote:Maybe that is because it is not government's job to fix it. Obamacare is a huge leap over the constitutional bounds the US government was supposed to remain within.

As for one party over the other, I support most of what the Republicans stand for while holding my nose at other things they stand for. The religious dogma that runs much of the party really grates on my nerves. There are many times religion based planks (gay marriage, abortion, etc) cost them elections because they scare the people in the middle. Take a look at the paralyzing effect Sarah Palin had on the middle electorate in 2008 for one example.

But that support comes in in the form of voting against even worse choices. The American Communist/Socialist Party (a/k/a Democrats) want to destroy everything this country once stood for. Personal responsibility, freedom to excel (and along with that the freedom to fail), the freedom to run a business unmolested, the freedom to keep most of your money and even the freedom to decide what kind of car to purchase and drive are all at risk when these clowns have the power. Don't believe me? Go back and look at the laws and regulations passed and proposed over the last six years.

So I go with the party that can both get elected and do the least damage.

As far as I am concerned, a failure to vote is a vote. Someone that does not make the effort to get to the polls is voting to allow those that do make the choice for them.

I think that you need to go back and study your American history and government. The president is to be elected by the states, not the people. The electoral college was set up to ensure all states have a significant say in who becomes president.

If you eliminate the electoral college, California, Florida and the Atlantic Corridor from DC to Boston will elect every president from now on. The rest of the nation need not even go to the polls. With the president being beholding only to those regions of the country, the rest of the nation will get screwed in every area from government aid to highways to contracts to military bases.

There is really no way to get rid of the electoral college without screwing "fly over country."

Beautifully said.

Cymric corporate authority wrote:Yet even with the amount of fraud you claim takes place there is still an all time low on voting?

P.S. Somehow I dropped a paragraph from the last post. Here is is:

I want to thank you for pointing that out. The fact is that lower turnout makes voter fraud more effective. If only 25% of legitimate voters turn out that means a fraudulent vote overcomes four legitimate votes.

Apparently putting funds into the auto industry increases heart disease. Good to know.

I voted other and perhaps I'm answering a different question, but I don't think voter turnout is really the problem. In my opinion, the real problem is that we have entirely too many voters who haven't the first clue as to who or what they are voting for. Unfortunately, I doubt there's a foolproof way to guarantee that all voters are at least sentient and literate, possessing a basic understanding of US history and government. At a minimum, I think the right to vote should require a satisfactory score on a citizenship test, similar to those administered as a part of the naturalization process. An IQ test might not be a bad idea either...at least that would eliminate people like Alec Baldwin and his ilk.

I suspect that many don't bother to vote in certain states and/or congressional districts simply because they know they are hopelessly outnumbered by the ignorant masses who cast their votes according to mindless drivel and rhetoric that's endlessly spewed forth by the mainstream media. I'm happy to say all the people I voted for in this last election were elected. But, I'm luckier than some, as I live in the "fly over country" Capitalist Producers mentioned above.

United Kodiaks wrote:At a minimum, I think the right to vote should require a satisfactory score on a citizenship test, similar to those administered as a part of the naturalization process. An IQ test might not be a bad idea either...at least that would eliminate people like Alec Baldwin and his ilk.

You mean like this one? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/literacy_popup.html [1]

Alas, your plan is illegal. After the supreme court upheld the use of literacy tests in several cases through the 1950's, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 pretty much outlawed literacy tests as a requirement to vote. From that day forward, the Democ rat's edge began increasing toward the mess we find ourselves in now.

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[1] Just for grins I took that test. What a bear! Out of 68 questions I had to go look up ten or twelve. Most to be sure of my answer, but a couple because I no clue. There was one question so ambiguous that I could figure no way to look it up. With all of that, I still missed three of them.

I think everyone should give this test a try and post their results. Kind of gives you a new respect for the voters that were forced to take them and passed them back in the bad old days.

Capitalist Producers wrote:You mean like this one? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/literacy_popup.html [1]

That's not quite what I had in mind. I was thinking specifically of the same test required via the naturalization process.
http://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/quiz/learners/study-test/study-materials-civics-test/naturalization-self-test-1

Capitalist Producers wrote:

Alas, your plan is illegal. After the supreme court upheld the use of literacy tests in several cases through the 1950's, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 pretty much outlawed literacy tests as a requirement to vote.

You're correct, and its fairly safe to say that this particular Act will never be repealed. While I applaud the intent to eliminate racial discrimination from the right to vote, I think they went overboard in making literacy tests illegal. The example from the pbs site you shared, is ridiculously more difficult than it should be. In addition, the means of test administration was both highly subjective and discriminatory. In my opinion, the citizenship test is neither, and would be a reasonable alternative to the horrid example from Alabama in 1965.

Capitalist Producers wrote:You mean like this one? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/literacy_popup.html [1]
I think everyone should give this test a try and post their results. Kind of gives you a new respect for the voters that were forced to take them and passed them back in the bad old days.

I gave this a shot earlier this morning. I missed 8.5 questions, including both #8 & #49 which were worded differently, yet essentially the same. (#8 is misleading since it references the "colonies" which were all "states" at that point in time). I'd say there were 4 or 5 that were lucky guesses, so I could have easily missed 14 if I had guessed incorrectly. If it had been timed, I'd have probably scored considerably lower. :(

The poll on the last piece of legislation ended 3 days ago, when are we going to hear the results?

Guys I'm back!

The united oman wrote:Regarding the poll I feel as if we should have direct voting and get rid of the Electoral College

Oman don't californize the government. The goverment in California is a mess.

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