"If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power" P.J.O'Rourke

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[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Well... it worked for the UK royalty system.

Not quite all the time. The first thing that comes to mind is Mary I's attack on France, though this may be because they were trying to assassinate her and isn't actually a very good example.

I don't see a reason it couldn't be done for a whole senate, other than the fact it's not based on bloodlines.

Culture.

We should just make the senate based on bloodlines (which it partly already is) and then just relegate it in to irrelevance like the UK did with the queen lol.

The Queen isn't irrelevant! She brings in loads of tourism money, and if the government decides to do something stupid like kill all of the firstborns she can step in and stop them (but will probably have to abdicate immediately afterwards).

Seems like the only solution is to simply weaken the power structure,

Off-topic: Would you be interested in the movement to become our own ISPs? Cjdns and Hyperboria are two keywords.

Good comment!

Thank you! Yours too.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Ah interesting about the Queen, I didn't know that.

Becoming our own ISPs is very cool, I've not heard of that. Anything that helps decentralize the internet is a good thing, imo. I'll read more about it.

[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

If you host a server, do it on cjdns. Even if it's a cjdns connected straight to your ISP. Let your neighbours connect to your cjdns. If we need the ISPs then let us use them, but they must never have a monopoly on internet connectivity.

I suspect that parts of the US stand to benefit greatly from this (cough cough Comcast cough).

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Interesting, I bet /u/d3rr would be interested in this technology too.

[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

/u/d3rr (and probably also you; I don't know) would be able to get it to run on a phone. If you can figure out a way to connect a chain of phones together (can you connect it to WLAN while being a hotspot?) then you can give a lot of cheap internet to the people down the road with terrible reception who don't want to / can't pay the monopoly ISP a fortune.

Also, it functions similarly to a less-secret Tor – mostly by accident – so EU citizens can get around the content blocks. If set up correctly, it can actually be faster than the normal internet. It's really quite great.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's super interesting. I still don't quite understand how others connect to it though. I guess from a user's perspective it just looks like a normal server? Or do they have to install this ISP-replacing software too?

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's literally just replacing the link layer of the TCP/IP stack. If you've got a connection to the main internet, then it's as transparent as whatever stuff the ISPs use internally.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bluetooth. That's the second connection.