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Allow Supreme Court to rule on Al-Marri case
RE: al-Marri v. Pucciarelli, 08-368
This case will not be heard by the high court until Mr. Obama has become President and he will have options available that will remove the case from the SC's case list. THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN. If Al'Marri is allowed to have his day in court (after 5+ years of being unconstitutionally imprisoned), the Court's decision will restore the protection otherwise tied up in appellate courts. If this case is NOT heard by the SC, then we would have to wait for another atrocious breach of someone's civil rights before being able to bring it…
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National Science Standards for Schools
Almost every developed country on this planet has adopted national science standards for their public education system. These standards are typically set by a group of scientists and educators to avoid the politicized process that takes place in many states (for example in Texas these days). The United States has fallen behind in our science literacy and we need to promote better science in our education system.
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Incentives for shared heating plants in new developments
Requiring every house/townhome/condo to have its own heat source is inefficient and environmentally unfriendly. Implementing shared heating plants (like those used in many large cities) in new developments will benefit both the owners and the environment.
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Pay for performance - not ljust evel
I would like for performance metrics to relate to cash bonuses for Gov't employees. I am OK with a base pay but there should be management discretion and available funds for bonuses. There should be management incentives for cutting costs that result in direct compensation. It doesn't seem right that our government workers operate in what appears more like a communist system than a capitalistic. I think identifynig metrics with accountable results and performance incentives would greatly improve our whole system but especially advance a few areas such as IT.
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free pretzels to go with the free beer
this is obvious... we must not die of thirst.
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Hybrid Mesh- Fiber-Broadband--SATCOM Network
Create a collaborative-open hybrid Fiber -RF Network that takes on the technologies of HSDPA, EVDO-WiMAX- LTE - Wi-Fi and SATCOM.
Do this in a similar way that Meraki Networks and Open-Mesh has leveraged Wi-Fi only to create hotpots that can be stood up in minutes, Allow the federally sponsored networks to host these Government Portals at the state level in Autonomous POPs,.
Deploy these networks so that a user can roam to any broadband network carrier on a device and covers all the frequency bands with a programmable SIM chip or through biometric identification.
Add the the ability to slap…
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Drive a personal health records initiative
Create a national standard for a personal healthcare record (PHR) that can be used by consumers to carry with them on a memory card and managed on a web site or personal computer.
Mandate that health organizations have a way to use this PHR information and allow the consumer to decide which information is private.
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Remove Under God from pledge and In God We Trust from money
I would like the Pledge of Allegiance to be restored what it was before the words "Under God" were added. Also I would like the words "In God We Trust" removed from the currency.
Our government is supposed to be secular and having these words on our money and in our pledge is unconstitutional and a blatant violation of state and church separation.19 votes -
gun legislation
back off on gun legislation change
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Support Community Media and Technology Centers in the U-S
Community Media and Technology Centers provide essential training and ICT tools for people throughout the United States. Their work must be expanded and accelerated to ensure that all people have the ability to engage in civic life in the 21st Century. Expanded funding streams and improved federal policies will ensure that Community Media and Technoogy Centers will flourish in communities across the U-S.
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be a proven systems builder, not an entrepreneur
Do we - as taxpayers - concentrate on seeding thousands of startups, and wait for our salvation to sprout in the form of a few wildly innovative winners? Or do we focus on improving our infrastructure by helping existing companies make their operations and supply chains more reliable and energy efficient? Otherwise said, do we trust entrepreneurs or system builders to help us make the step from a relatively simple, disconnected world to a very complex, highly connected one?
The challenges we face are so fundamentally global and systemic that we should hand the reins to the systems builders from…
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Works closely with someone who understands ordinary people.
There should be someone very close to the top of the CTO's chain of influence who can ensure that assumptions are not made about the infallibility of technology being reliable upon simply because it requires humans to install and manage it and humans are inherently fallible.
Technocrats tend to live in a somewhat rarified intellectual atmosphere and someone should be at hand to keep the CTO's feet firmly on the ground viz a viz the possibilities and risks.
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That the government stay the hell out of the way...
Here is an idea, the Obama CTO can go on vacation for four years and the the free market drive which way technology goes and at the same time stop trying to pass legislation that taxes the hell out of the Internet.
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give everyone free hugs
because it's the right thing to do.
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Standardize systems in use by federal agencies
All federal agencies use one or two common systems for each major function -- one human resources system, one learning management system, one performance and compensation system, etc. Get all agencies to report data using common standards.
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should not be a dumbass
We should have a good CTO. Not a dumbass. That's just my opinion.
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Good Ideas all (almost) butlets do NationalCyberSecurity 1st
Cyber Security should be on top of the list, sure I want Comcast to stop ripping me off but first things first.
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support the development of Nanotechnology
By facilitating the development of Drexlerian Molecular Nanotechnology (DMNT), no end of good may be accomplished. The transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest preoccupation of Man.
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Affordable housing, keep community alive, not big business!
Community members who have lived in big cities and their surrounding areas are now being priced out! Please create policies around building spaces to ensure a neighborhood's vitality, rather than displacing these long time community members for transient businesses and their employees who are not invested in maintaining an area's culture or neighborhood make-up.
3 votes