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by JEQuidam
Mon May 18, 2009 8:35 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

I've poked through y'all's website and tried to digest as much as I could ... it's an awful lot of reading for a sound-bitten world. You are correct. I realized that even when I started TTO. The TTO website is for the opinion leaders and thinkers. This revolution won't happen in the near future. It...
by JEQuidam
Thu May 07, 2009 7:23 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Getting Past the Mental Blocks
Replies: 9
Views: 14674

Re: Getting Past the Mental Blocks

The TTO website was recently moved to a new server, and in the process the report referenced above was replaced with an obsolete version. Please download this report again to make sure you have the current one: http://www.thirty-thousand.org/documents/QHA-04.pdf The Minimum and Maximum Size of the U...
by JEQuidam
Tue May 05, 2009 7:21 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 14
Views: 11698

Re: Let's build a forum!

So it primarily affects non-federal elections. The NRA seems like a cure that has long outlived the disease, and which now produces harmful side effects (by creating a special privileged classes). With respect to federal elections, if the congressional districts were small enough (e.g., 50,000) we w...
by JEQuidam
Mon May 04, 2009 9:25 pm
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Getting Past the Mental Blocks
Replies: 9
Views: 14674

Re: Getting Past the Mental Blocks

Trucker,

Regarding Article the first, be sure to download and read the report at this link:
http://www.thirty-thousand.org/documents/QHA-04.pdf

"The Minimum and Maximum Size of the U. S. House of Representatives"

...Jeff
by JEQuidam
Mon May 04, 2009 8:47 pm
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 14
Views: 11698

Re: Let's build a forum!

seax wrote: By the way did you know the Supreme Court is leaning toward doing away with the 'Voters Rights Act'?
I don't know enough about this to have an informed opinion, but it doesn't seem like doing away with the VRA, in modern times, would have any practical consequence.
by JEQuidam
Mon May 04, 2009 7:29 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 14
Views: 11698

Re: Let's build a forum!

seax wrote: By the way did you know the Supreme Court is leaning toward doing away with the 'Voters Rights Act'?
Thank you Seax, for joining in.

Do you have an links which would elaborate on SCOTUS and the VRA?
by JEQuidam
Mon May 04, 2009 12:22 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 14
Views: 11698

Re: Let's build a forum!

Paul wrote:What do you think about the "Why is THIS solution a better solution than..." category idea?
Actually, I'm too tired to think about it now. Need to crash. What would the name of that forum be?
by JEQuidam
Mon May 04, 2009 12:18 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: The Trucker's view - and replies thereto
Replies: 16
Views: 15678

Re: The Trucker's view - and replies thereto

Trucker, well, when it comes to explaining the concept of expanding representation, the bottom line is that you go with what works for you (and be willing to change the explanation if it's not working). I'm certainly not the arbiter of what works and what doesn't. That's why we need this forum, to s...
by JEQuidam
Sun May 03, 2009 11:58 pm
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 14
Views: 11698

Re: Let's build a forum!

One of the things I really want to contribute to and help with is to make increasing representation relevant. To demonstrate and open up discussion on how so many of the challenges we face today are largely brought on by the lack of representation which results in a plutocracy that answers and resp...
by JEQuidam
Sun May 03, 2009 8:07 am
Forum: Section 2: “Article the first” of the Bill of Rights
Topic: The Mystery of the Bill of Rights' First Amendment
Replies: 5
Views: 16850

The Mystery of the Bill of Rights' First Amendment

This is the contents of a TTO press release dated 11-October-2007 . Links to supporting resources are provided in the text below. Why the very first amendment proposed in the Bill of Rights was never ratified and how that failure put the U.S. House of Representatives on the path to oligarchy. THE T...
by JEQuidam
Sun May 03, 2009 6:56 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: The Trucker's view - and replies thereto
Replies: 16
Views: 15678

Re: Let's build a forum!

Educating people on top of taking this issue on is essential. Part of the Educating needs to be developing strategies on how to take on the leviathan. Michael, it is a two-headed leviathan, isn't it? One head is the Republican Party, the other head is the Democrat Party. Speaking of California, the...
by JEQuidam
Sun May 03, 2009 6:50 am
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: The Trucker's view - and replies thereto
Replies: 16
Views: 15678

Re: Let's build a forum!

Reality is unpleasant, but maintaining/enhancing the power of incumbency is the primary interest of incumbents. On that we can all agree. ... I spend lots of time shouting toward the left wing moonbats trying to make them understand that most of the issues they claim to care about... ...The right w...
by JEQuidam
Sun May 03, 2009 5:16 am
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build * forum!

Please halt making posts until we figure out what is causing the *'s in the posts. Paul, it was the censor list, as you found. Hence the need for pre-launch testing! An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. -- Niels Henrik David Obviously we're becoming...
by JEQuidam
Fri May 01, 2009 1:07 am
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

With regards to the above post, can make a strategy category? Let's be more specific. Strategy for doing what exactly? I do want to re-organize the forums -- as I'm still thinking about what makes sense (but they won't get flatter!). Can we increase the number of posts viewed on each page? Agree. C...
by JEQuidam
Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:41 pm
Forum: Section 10: Achieving the revolutionary vision
Topic: The Trucker's view - and replies thereto
Replies: 16
Views: 15678

Re: Let's build a forum!

I would make some suggestions based on my experience with attempting to spur interest in the topic of discussion. Most people seem to have the attention span of a lab rat. Hey Trucker! It's been a awhile since we've chatted (via e-mail). I understand your point as I'm often one of those attention-s...
by JEQuidam
Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:46 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

I think the problem with the number of clicks to this post is too many sub-categories. I really believe that we should expand sub-categories as necessary and just use top-level categories while the community is tiny. Paul, I know you are a "flat forum" advocate and in time I may be forced...
by JEQuidam
Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:31 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

To ensure I understand, "Recent Topics" is not a forum, but sort of a virtual forum. That is, all those topics actually reside in their respective forums, but are highlighted in "Recent Topics", is that right? Yes that is correct...I believe you can specify which forums to inclu...
by JEQuidam
Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:48 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

Have a look at this (note "recent topics" at the top)... To ensure I understand, "Recent Topics" is not a forum, but sort of a virtual forum. That is, all those topics actually reside in their respective forums, but are highlighted in "Recent Topics", is that right? Th...
by JEQuidam
Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:59 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

Administrator wrote:I've made it so the last topic title will show on the index page and if there is a new post, since a users last visit, within the forum the link will turn red.
Thank you, Rich.

Is there a way (an easy way) in phpBB to create a box that shows most recent and/or most active threads?
by JEQuidam
Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:06 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Re: Let's build a forum!

Just a suggestion, maybe using more colors or bolder fonts for clickable headlines or subheads could guide people to active posts, or help to show various alternatives? That's a good idea. Can we do that? I was also wondering if there can be a side panel that shows most recent postings and most act...
by JEQuidam
Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:20 pm
Forum: Feedback on TTO's Website or Forum
Topic: Let's build a forum!
Replies: 27
Views: 27482

Let's build a forum!

Hello friends... I think this is the first posting here. I set this forum's permissions to "standard permissions" thinking that would be, well, standard . Does anyone recommend something different? Are there any other functions we should allow or disallow? Also, this is for "registere...