[Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Jonathan Frederickson
<silverskullpsu at gmail.com> wrote:

> How can any decision-making process meet this requirement?

 a 20 year study involving hundreds of people was the subject of this
very question.

> There are
> often conflicting desires between different members of a community. In
> such a case, making *any* decision will have overruled the wishes of
> at least one community member. Democracy at least lets everyone
> express their wishes,

 does that then empower them to have their wishes *met*?  do you feel
that it's good for people to be able to *express* their wishes if they
know that they're not going to be heard?

> rather than having e.g. a dictator that makes
> decisions regardless of the wishes of the people under their
> jurisdiction.

 do you believe that all dictatorships are inherently bad for the
people under their jurisdiction?  are you familiar with paddy
ashdown's instatement as (effective) dictator of one of the (unstable)
eastern eurpoean block countries, about ten years ago?  he said it was
scary as hell, having that much power.  the sheer overwhelming
responsibility kept him from abusing the power of being head of state,
head of the armed forces, judge, jury and executioner, head of the
central bank and everything else.

l.