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| # | Comment | Survey |
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| 301 | Telepathy would sure bring down my phone bills. | If I could choose one power (magical, super, ability...) it would be.... |
| 302 | No, and men shouldn't be drafted either. I have to agree with Heinlein here. | In a wartime situation, should women be drafted into the armed forces? |
| 303 | I'd support widespread eradication of mosquitoes if I thought we could do it properly without hurting anything else. | Are mosquitoes our friends? |
| 304 | I voted No, because I don't think the state should decide this issue for every school without much stronger evidence of there being a Right Way. Using state-wide democracy to create laws that tell schools how to teach is not the best approach. | California just passed a controversial referendum to end bi-lingual education and replace it with a one year immersion course in english. How would you have voted? |
| 305 | The main page already takes minutes to load sometimes. As much as I'd love to have a larger data sample for the statistics, I'd hate to see performance get worse. *** romkey No, I just load the last month's surveys. | If the active user base of Survey Central increased by a factor of 10: |
| 306 | power and freedom are independent. money = power, but money != freedom. | Does money = power & freedom? |
| 307 | It depends entirely on the task and the OS. | If you are given a choice, do you prefer a Graphical User Interface (i.e. Windows) or a command line (i.e. DOS)? |
| 308 | A society should provide a reasonable amount of protection from violence, fraud, and theft, and nothing else. Theft is poorly defined, since property is a social contract, but IMO, there should be taxation and seizure only as necessary to provide protection services, not to fund arbitrary philanthropic agendas. (I selected "Nothing" but mean "none of the above".) Note that the distribution of food, shelter, clothing, education, etc, may be used as an effective means of crime control. Altruism and other forms of social engineering should be left to the discretion of individuals and organizations. I'm not opposed to socialized health care, education, food, insurance, space programs, scientific research, corporate welfare, artistic grants, etc, but I do think that membership in (and therefore funding of) such social collectives should be voluntary and independent of membership of the otherwise free nation. *** nbarone: If people want to educate all children, they should pay to educate all children. That's different from the current state, which is where if most people want to educate all children, they get everyone to pay to educate all children. If paying for others' education were not mandatory, I think school funding would drop initially, but not disappear. | What do you think a society should freely provide to its members? |
| 309 | More than I'm worth to who? My employer? Other potential employers? Worth is entirely subjective and not meaningful without the context of an evaluator. Other people seem to find meaning in the question though, so I'd love to hear how they came to their conclusions. Jonas: How do you know how much you should make? What does that mean? Of course I'd like to be earning more. Who wouldn't? *** lisashea: You give to charity, but you'd prefer not to earn more money? I don't understand this at all. Wouldn't you rather be able to give even more without impacting your own lifestyle? | About my salary ... |
| 310 | I have lots of gadgets in my kitchen that belong to housemates and that I wouldn't buy for myself. | Kitchen Gadgets! |
