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You could first ask if the topic is important to the voter.

AS there are thousands of topics most candidates do not express a preference for things. Each preference they do have also eliminates voters.

"Taxes for wealthy people" [important] [not important]

"War with Iran" [important] [not important]

"Militart spending" [important] [not important]

etc

Just because your submission has zero votes and no comments doesn't mean you are doing it wrong, it just isn't as interesting as other stuff. I do browse your contributions but I don't have votes to give to new topics, I also try not to comment on anything because it is generally not appreciated when I do. Other people don't even have accounts.

Perhaps if submitting something would cost some karma you could submit as much as you want without feeling guilty. If additional submissions in the same hour/day would be more expensive you could chose to ignore that too.

When democracy was implemented, representation was the technology to use. There was no consideration for the citizen to actively participate in the decision making process because there was no means that allowed for it. The option was never on the table.

They/we might have been a bit slow at times, democratic governments always tried to use the best technology available. Before the internet there was television, before television there was radio. The later 2 [at least] gave us top down communication. The voter could, all of a sudden, stay informed in real time. This was a big deal. We made huge progress right there.

We have internet now, we are obligated to use this to improve our democratic system.

It looks like it today (at least to me) but the reason we have representatives was not because we are to stupid to mow our own lawn. On the contrary, democracy assumes the voter to be competent. Would we not be competent enough to vote on specific things it automatically follows that we are not competent enough to vote at all.

We are the first generation to use representation as an excuse not to get involved.

Our politicians are suppose to guess what we want. Some end up choosing something that makes them rich. Not much of a coincidence there? It might be possible in theory for a representative to represent your interests better than you. But it isn't likely or even a believable scenario.

We might not agree, they do provide us a great service actually. One can never have to many different opinions to consider. It seems online American opinions about what Europe should do outnumber the European opinions 10 to 1. They told us a million times what they think about it.

What do the Russians think? And the Chinese? And the Africans? No one knows? Assuming they even have an opinion about it?

If we don't like it we can always censor them?

hehehe

The idea is that we don't want businesses distributing your personal life and we don't want a defamation industry. Imagine the 2 of those combined, it would be powerful propaganda, we would all have to invest in the negative review industry just to compensate. We already have copyrights on everything else, ownership laws that apply to everything except humans. It seems fair for your life belongs to you. It would be something if I couldn't have mickey mouse on my website but could use your face for everything?

On other pages of this website people are being lectured how they should adapt to the website etiquette. I would like to learn how you guys expect Europeans to behave in this context. Should we say what we think? Do you want us to cheer you on? Do you expect us to shut up? How do you want to see this? Just be honest, use whatever language you feel necessary, I'm not easily offended. Here we all thought you would stop eventually, that there would be an end to this. But it has been 34 years now. We've tried pretty much every kind of response. Non of it was what you liked to hear. So, I think it is a fair question? If it isn't, If you think I'm out of line for asking, could you explain why that is? What is the correct behavior for people like myself over the last 34 years. Just your personal opinion, I understand you don't speak for the whole country.

Great blog, very enlightening write up.

for as far as I could figure out...

If a for-profit business seeks to employ you without financial compensation they are breaking the law. If you offer your services below minimum wage you are breaking the law. If the worker's services are an integral part of the employer's business the worker is an employee of that company. If the role isn't an essential functions of the company you could be a contractor.

Either way you must pay wages.

Or can the text on pages like these be stretched to say exactly the opposite of what it says?

us: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp

  Under the FLSA, employees may not volunteer services to for-profit private sector employers.
uk: https://www.gov.uk/employment-rights-for-interns
  Employers can’t avoid paying the National Minimum Wage if it’s due by:
    saying or stating that it doesn’t apply
    making a written agreement saying someone isn’t a worker or that they’re a volunteer
The netherlands: http://www.belastingtips.nl/zakelijk/aftrekbare_kosten/vergo...
  Vrijwilliger verricht werkzaamheden voor een organisatie zonder winstoogmerk.
  De organisatie mag geen (bedrijf) B.V. of N.V. zijn, tenzij sportvereniging.
  De vrijwilliger verricht het werk niet als zijn beroep. 
translation: Must be a no-profit, must not be the same work as your paid job. You may help relatives for free as long as you are not getting social support.

I'm curious now, how does Hufington Post (New York) do it?

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I had a bad idea for you Michael. Every day there are news articles about university professors who did something wrong or have some other reason to quit. You could contact them and point them at your project.

A sample for today:

Professor John Schindler posted a photoshop http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/higher-education/navy...

Professor Bacevich retired http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/good-bye-professor-bacevich/

and is starting a MOOC https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-intl301x-war-greater-midd...

Reddit user 20kadjunct is adjunct professor with an annual salary of $20,000 and 2 other jobs. http://www.businessinsider.com/adjunct-professors-ama-on-red...

professor Thomas Docherty, a nationally recognised critic of higher education leadership and policy, was suspended last term in March. http://theboar.org/2014/06/23/suspended-professor-prevented-...

A fresh badge of Professors every day.

(the plot thickens)

I just found this, I didn't even know it existed.

1998 - Low-level exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: health effects and research needs. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9453702

2004 - Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields as effectors of cellular responses in vitro: possible immune cell activation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15352165

2009 - Amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields for the treatment of cancer: discovery of tumor-specific frequencies and assessment of a novel therapeutic approach. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19366446

2011 - Treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with very low levels of amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829195

2012 - Cancer cell proliferation is inhibited by specific modulation frequencies. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22134506

2013 - Targeted treatment of cancer with radiofrequency electromagnetic fields amplitude-modulated at tumor-specific frequencies http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845545/ Abstract: In the past century, there have been many attempts to treat cancer with low levels of electric and magnetic fields. We have developed noninvasive biofeedback examination devices and techniques and discovered that patients with the same tumor type exhibit biofeedback responses to the same, precise frequencies. Intrabuccal administration of 27.12 MHz radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF), which are amplitude-modulated at tumor-specific frequencies, results in long-term objective responses in patients with cancer and is not associated with any significant adverse effects. Intrabuccal administration allows for therapeutic delivery of very low and safe levels of EMF throughout the body as exemplified by responses observed in the femur, liver, adrenal glands, and lungs. In vitro studies have demonstrated that tumor-specific frequencies identified in patients with various forms of cancer are capable of blocking the growth of tumor cells in a tissue- and tumor-specific fashion. Current experimental evidence suggests that tumor-specific modulation frequencies regulate the expression of genes involved in migration and invasion and disrupt the mitotic spindle. This novel targeted treatment approach is emerging as an appealing therapeutic option for patients with advanced cancer given its excellent tolerability. Dissection of the molecular mechanisms accounting for the anti-cancer effects of tumor-specific modulation frequencies is likely to lead to the discovery of novel pathways in cancer.