732 results found
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Create a Bill of Rights for the Environment
The environment needs to be protected. Create an environmental bill of rights. Spearhead national effort to get everyone to commit to it and live by it. If consumers demand environmentally friendly production and packaging, corporations will respond. Require corporations to create products with little or no environmental impact (air/water/soil/waste/energy efficiently) and package their products in an environmentally friendly manner.
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Web-enable all government operations of USA
USA should be run completely electronically (to the extent possible) like a very well run private company. The operation should ensure fairness, transparency, efficiency and restore confidence in government, while drastically reducing government spending. It's time to run the country like we are in the 21st Century. The Obama campaign was run like a 21st Century campaign and now it's time to run the country that way too!
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Decouple profit from production for utilities nationwide
Thirty years ago the State of California decoupled profit and production for its utilities. The result has been that per capita energy use has remained flat since, while increasing 50% in the rest of the country. This simple change in the business model makes efficiency a profit center for utilities, thus tapping the cheapest form of energy as a business activity.
California has remained a world leader economically, and its utilities have pioneered new ways to serve and profit. Make this a national policy.5 votes -
Regulatory agencies: arm's-length relationship with industry
It is well-known that many of the country's important regulatory agencies are in bed with the industries that they are supposed to be regulating -- for example the biotech industry's revolving door into key positions in the FDA. This has been shown over and over again to allow for the sale of potentially hazardous materials with inadequate testing, or the ongoing release of toxic substances into the environment with no genuine oversight.
For the health and safety of the country and its people, all of the regulatory agencies should be staffed by knowledgeable people who can be shown to be…
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Repeal the NET Act criminalizing copyright infringement
The NET Act criminalizes activity that many Americans participate in: copyright infringement for a non-commercial purpose. This law harnesses the power and resources of the government on the behalf of private companies, and leaves a threat of jail time hanging over the heads of too many private citizens. Copyright law is complicated and nuanced. There is no justification for bringing prison time into the equation.
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make every ballot a paper ballot, marked by the voter.
Paper ballots, marked by the voter, can be machine counted and hand verified. Transparency from start to finish, and reproducible, audit-able results should be non-negotiable.
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Advise how to reduce greenhouse gases
Provide free advise how greenhouse gases can be reduced. This advise should come with descriptions of what works best in what situation, based on comparative analysis of the various technologies.
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Smart home technology
Efficiency improvements need to account for a good 25% to 30% of our fossil fuel reductions. Smart home technology, with real time exterior temperature integration, can supply a large chunk of the efficiency and its a cool toy too.
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Fund Valleywag as an independent journalism site
Nick Denton has withdrawn private funding from Valleywag, the only website that dared to tell the truth about America's tech industry. For less than the cost of three government employees, Valleywag could operate as a standalone, ad-free, conflict-of-interest free site. I would have something worth reading while chained to my desk at lunch.
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Promote Infrstructure upgrades instead of capping data rates
Third world countries who are just now creating the infrastructure necessary for internet communications are putting in the best technology for the job.
US companies on the other hand are using outdated technology that is downright ancient in comparison. Instead of upgrading their networks they would prefer to impose data caps on users, often times low enough that YouTube and other online video sites can eat through them with little to no effort at all.
In a time when the majority of the country have only one option for high speed internet, many are forced to upgrade to business level…6 votes -
Fund research for ultracapacitors for all eletric cars.
Battery technology will never catch up to the power production of fossil fuel vehicles. It takes too long to recharge and they will go bad before the car is no longer useful.
Ultracapacitors on the other hand have a longer lifetime and recharge much, much faster than batteries. Funding and research needs to be done to make a fully electric vehicle that will compete/replace gas and diesel vehicles, in an effort to drive down fuel costs for Americans.
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Comply with the freedom of information act
Focus on open government and fully comply with the freedom of information act, making archives of data available via the Internet for search and via Web 2.0 API's. , along with the copious amounts of taxpayer funded research and data.
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engage DHS to defend eUSA borders
As security practitioners, we are entrenched in expensive solutions to secure the data and privacy of those customers we serve. Small and mid-sized businesses do not have an equal footing. A centralized cyberdefense department should work towards securing our electronic borders, much like brick and mortar.
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2 chickens in every garage!
You heard me!
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make 4chan.org protected from any laws ever
self explanatory.
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A Mac Nation
This is a time for change. It's time to forget Windows PC machines and all their problems and switch the Federal government over to Apple's Macintosh computers. Everything will be more secure and work as needed when needed.
I also recommend the CTO to make the Federal government totally digital, why kill trees when we have such high-tech technology.
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Repeal the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
"Over the past five years, few companies in the tech industry have even considered an IPO in the U.S. thanks to draconian policies in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that make it far too costly to be a public company in this country. And in the process, the government's fear of companies has made the U.S. far less competitive globally and American-based tech firms have felt that strain."
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Create the post of Chief Online Safety Officer
The next Administration needs to co-ordinate the work being done by the Departments of Justice, Commerce & Education as well as the FTC and FCC in the complex and challenging area of online safety. We need national leadership to ensure that more research is carried out, national awareness raising is launched and that online safety messages reach every school child and their parents.
Under the Clinton Administration we had annual White House Summits on online safety and the President and Vice President used their bully pulpit to urge industry and schools to do more. It is time we had joined-up…
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Please do not forget de animals
Make others countries to respect the life of the animals. If they want help from USA, they such also have high standart in the moral, like the New States does.Make some kind of exchange, not to give help for nothing. Like we buy many thing from others countries, like Chile, why??. if they do not have any moral and love to animals.
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Retain International Ph.D. Students
Every year tens of thousands of new Ph.D.s are earned in the U.S. many of them by international students. Unfortunately, many of these educated workers are forced to leave the U.S. due to visa issues.
The future of the United States will be built upon its technological advantage, and the more people we educate and then send away, the faster that advantage shrinks. These are the best and brightest minds in the word. We have, in many cases, funded their educations. They want to work here and build the future of America, all we have to do is let them.
9 votes