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02 Apr 2010, 11:55 am

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Since we still have problems launching satellites don't you thing shuffling planets around is outside our consideration for a few hundred years?


More like tens of thousands of years, if ever. It takes gravity to move planets and mass is the only way to make a gravitational field. To move a planet we would have to build a massive planet out of small pieces. That would take a long, long time.

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03 Apr 2010, 1:27 pm

I would return my power to the People and Senate of Rome. Being Dictator is too much like hard work.


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04 Apr 2010, 7:12 pm

Lets see. Becoming a dictator is easy. Remaining a dictator is hard work. :?

I'll do some eugenics. Breed people to be obedient.
Create a state religion, with me as God-emperor.
Put my clones in all high ranking positions.
Ban random people to concentration camps in Antarctica.
Kill random people.
Nucke each year a city at random.
Torture randomly some of the elites. Yea, i'm not going to kill among the elites. Whats the privilege of being in the elite then?
(all the killing and torture thing is to keep clear at all times hows the boss)
Build some pyramids each year to my glory.

For my familiarly, they will be able to have one million children each, thrue forced invitro pregnancies and some cloning technology, on the population.

For my people, i'll eliminate unemployment. Rest assured, they will always be work for them. 16 hours a day, minimum.

It will be 100% happiness rate, because unhappy people will be mercifully euthanized. Don't you feel very happy alredy? :D



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04 Apr 2010, 7:24 pm

omicron wrote:
Lets see. Becoming a dictator is easy. Remaining a dictator is hard work. :?

I'll do some eugenics. Breed people to be obedient.
Create a state religion, with me as God-emperor.
Put my clones in all high ranking positions.
Ban random people to concentration camps in Antarctica.
Kill random people.
Nucke each year a city at random.
Torture randomly some of the elites. Yea, i'm not going to kill among the elites. Whats the privilege of being in the elite then?
(all the killing and torture thing is to keep clear at all times hows the boss)
Build some pyramids each year to my glory.

For my familiarly, they will be able to have one million children each, thrue forced invitro pregnancies and some cloning technology, on the population.

For my people, i'll eliminate unemployment. Rest assured, they will always be work for them. 16 hours a day, minimum.

It will be 100% happiness rate, because unhappy people will be mercifully euthanized. Don't you feel very happy alredy? :D


When you are ten years old the problems of the world seem simple and easily solved. At about thirteen or fourteen a certain sophistication develops and if you are lucky it keeps moving in until, with a few people, the capacity for sensible thought takes root. It's a useful tool.



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04 Apr 2010, 7:30 pm

Sand wrote:
omicron wrote:
Lets see. Becoming a dictator is easy. Remaining a dictator is hard work. :?

I'll do some eugenics. Breed people to be obedient.
Create a state religion, with me as God-emperor.
Put my clones in all high ranking positions.
Ban random people to concentration camps in Antarctica.
Kill random people.
Nucke each year a city at random.
Torture randomly some of the elites. Yea, i'm not going to kill among the elites. Whats the privilege of being in the elite then?
(all the killing and torture thing is to keep clear at all times hows the boss)
Build some pyramids each year to my glory.

For my familiarly, they will be able to have one million children each, thrue forced invitro pregnancies and some cloning technology, on the population.

For my people, i'll eliminate unemployment. Rest assured, they will always be work for them. 16 hours a day, minimum.

It will be 100% happiness rate, because unhappy people will be mercifully euthanized. Don't you feel very happy alredy? :D


When you are ten years old the problems of the world seem simple and easily solved. At about thirteen or fourteen a certain sophistication develops and if you are lucky it keeps moving in until, with a few people, the capacity for sensible thought takes root. It's a useful tool.


I'm not sure if thi is so much a matter of poor intellectual sensibility as it is a matter of somebody (if I had to wager, in their early adolescent years) seeking virtual attention.



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05 Apr 2010, 12:44 pm

i was kidding :roll:

And the thread didn't mention anything about being a benevolent dictator.



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05 Apr 2010, 1:00 pm

Now, seriously.

Its very important that the population is and feels involved in decision taking. This means direct democracy, under certain conditions. So being a dictator is counter productive, you'll need a secret police to enforce unpopular decisions. For the popular decisions, whats the point of being a dictator then?

I would change the constitution first(direct democracy+republic+protection of minorities+....), then some educational reforms. After a while, downgrade my self to a figure head monarch with advisory powers only. This last one is in contrast to usual figure heads, usually they have less rights then normal citizens, they aren't allowed to speak there minds.



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05 Apr 2010, 9:57 pm

omicron wrote:
Now, seriously.

Its very important that the population is and feels involved in decision taking. This means direct democracy, under certain conditions. So being a dictator is counter productive, you'll need a secret police to enforce unpopular decisions. For the popular decisions, whats the point of being a dictator then?



In a society with a population larger than that of an insane asylum, direct democracy is impractical. And besides, it is an open invitation to The Tyranny of the Majority. Think of what happened to poor Socrates in democratic Athens. Sentenced to death by a temporary majority on the Athens city council.

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07 Apr 2010, 7:28 pm

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I would put suicide booths all around the cities and towns. Stepping into one and using it would be completely voluntary. It would also be created to perform it's function in the most humane way possible; what ever that may be uncovered to be. I imagine that after a while people with a naturally low resilience would naturally select themselves out of the population. I think this would lead to a generally healthier and happier society in the long term. This is just one idea out a group that I would like to implement and experiment with. People who have a natural tendency toward reckless behaviour could also be encouraged to lower their numbers naturally as it was before modern technology came along. For example, kids that get their driving licenses for the first time and then immediately go driving at top speeds on the roads thereafter. If they crash their cars and are critically injured, I would like to deny them life saving surgery that is possible with modern techniques. I think it would punish the genetic predisposition to 'push too far'. I know I am giving very isolated examples that could be picked apart, but these are the types of policies and ideas I would like to see pursued in a dictatorship role (a hypothetical one). Perhaps then we could have a world less inclined to breed the types of situations like what happened with Lehman Brothers and so on.

Flame away. :P


Why in the world would you want to weed out those who can't tolerate *this* society? Weed out those who revel in it instead. I thought the point of dictating was to make things better, after all.


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08 Apr 2010, 11:52 pm

Outlaw all forms of animal testing and enforce harsher penatlaties for people who abuse animals.



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08 Apr 2010, 11:56 pm

start the eggman empire!


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09 Apr 2010, 12:28 am

Make it legal for people to have pet tigers and such.

Things such as shock collars, choke chains, cattle prods horse whips, spirs, and bits in bridals would be outlawed period. If you were caught with one in your posession you'd have a lot of explaning to do. Horse and greyhound racing would be held in the same reguard as dachund racing. Animals in circuses would be illegal with the exception of pets who truely loved to perform but the owner would have to move moutnains to prove the animals truely enjoyed it. If someone wanted to be a vet they would only take courses that protained to that feild. Butt kissing courses such as literature and phycology would be elimated unless the student truely wanted to take them and it would be the same for other courses.

Teachers who allowed bullying or engaged in it themselves would be suspended from teaching for LIFE and be in jail for YEARS and there would be such a stigma to them it would be hard for them to find another job when they did get out of jail.

Make crack and pot legal. If people truely want to poison themselves and mess up their bodies, let them. I don't care.

They'd probably overthrow me my first week because I cared more about animals than I did people.



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09 Apr 2010, 1:06 am

0. Assemble several 'think tanks' to tackle difficult issues.

1. Reduce world population through nonviolent, reasonably humane means.

2. Invent a clean, safe, and efficient energy source.

3. Start a program to invent/manufacture a nutritious, tasty, environmentally friendly, but most importantly, cheap to produce foodstuff.
That isn't people.

4. Start a program of space colonization : first the inner solar system, later, the outer solar system.

5. (a) Implement an improved system of schooling.
(b) Schooling will be mandatory for all, regardless of age. Those over 18 will attend every other year.

6. Prohibit the practice of all religions. (if possible)



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09 Apr 2010, 1:23 am

Solve this,

PrisonerZero wrote:
1. Reduce world population through nonviolent, reasonably humane means.

With this:
PrisonerZero wrote:
4. Start a program of space colonization : first the inner solar system, later, the outer solar system.



PrisonerZero wrote:
6. Prohibit the practice of all religions. (if possible)


Only if the worldview known as Atheism is classified as a religion, otherwise, shut the fart up.



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09 Apr 2010, 1:24 am

Eggman wrote:
start the eggman empire!


A high wall needs to be build.



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09 Apr 2010, 1:56 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
PrisonerZero wrote:
6. Prohibit the practice of all religions. (if possible)


Only if the worldview known as Atheism is classified as a religion, otherwise, shut the fart up.


It's not.

How many (well known) Atheists have been murderers, thieves, rapists?