Salvatore

"The unstated premise is that rule by elites may be preferable to rule by the people if science should someday discover that average people will be irredeemably swayed by their prejudices and will not make their political decisions based on their intellects."

I disagreed. In my opinion, the argument of the paper suggests nothing of the kind. While your idea is interesting, I believe it delves too far between the lines and looks for some deeper meaning. The Boston Globe is not challenging our form of government. They're merely commenting on the research that suggests people are hard headed, generally speaking.

While your paragraphs about the US Constitution and system of Checks and Balances are spot on, they have nothing to do with the article in question.

This is simply my humble opinion.

In Latin:

  () == arcus
  [] == quadrum
  {} == torquendum

However, this terminology hasn't been used since the Romans first programmed "SalveMundus.for"...

While the idea of increasing nuclear power is one of the leading solutions, it still has to get past some negative fall-out from previous events (i.e. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island). These incidents are the reason why the law (in the U.S. anyway) makes it hard to build one and why there hasn't been one built in the last thirty years. The other critical point nuclear power plant supporters have to break is the popular idea of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). The fear of nuclear meltdowns is so great that coal-plants can't build hyperbolic cooling towers (one of the most efficient type) because the public at large believe the towers are nuclear reactors.

To sum it all up, until the public at large welcomes the idea of nuclear power and gets past previous nuclear mishaps, you won't see many reactors built in America.

If he wasn't dead.

Is this an Orwellian precursor or should we not get too upset about it? Should the Government really be playing internet police?

"There are a crapload of people saying that al-Qaeda was really a CIA database and that name isn't even used by any actual terrorist groups."

'Craploads of people' is always a valid source.

You have just been confused by reading too many conspiracy theories.

On one hand, this is great. It will lead to new technology which will inevitably lead to better video games.

On the other hand, this provides the opportunity for total loss of privacy. Forget freedom of speech, people might start to attack the freedom to think certain thoughts. In other news, China and Iran are thrilled at this new science.

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