Other than posting to the "delete and combine requests" forum, I'm not sure. if a person gets over 5000 points s/he gets the ability to remove images themselves - maybe one of these few people would do it for you... or you could boot it on up to 5000 points and take on that role :P
Nuclear is infinitely cleaner and more efficient than coal and hydro (both widely in use across north america) As for wind and solar, they are great alternatives - provided the environmental conditions are there to support them. Wind generation needs a fairly consistent wind flow of a minimum speed that many areas are not suited for. As for solar, we haven't seen the sun in over a week; we'd be on blackout right now :P
"Can't see it happening, the internet is too huge to start having control over it for starters. There are so many ways to get round any restrictions they might put in place for it to be successful."
China has a lot of censorship technology already in place. Mind you it's not perfect, but it's there and enforced. Imagine what could happen with the power of enterprise (i.e. profit) behind such filters or screening software. If they did it right (and this is the government, so that's a big 'if') they could cause a boom in innovation with regards to private industry trying to gain profit from such a government imposed (as opposed to consumer-driven) system.
With the forced cooperation of internet service providers everything from credit card info to which type of porn a person prefers could be logged and accessed. Mind you, the massive amounts of data that currently pass through the internet would be hell to keep a record of so for the most part such a monitering system would collapse on itself if it tried to do everything... But if it only wanted to do a specific task, say, record emails and other data with specific key words, this could be much more feasable. Making ISP's responsible for scanning for such data and relaying the info would make the task far more managable.
I don't particularly think that anything of this sort will happen, but who knows what might change with a catastrophic internet disaster.
Hamz said:
"The thing to remember though is if America does pass some internet patriot act then its only going to affect American users the biggest. Thank god i'm from the UK!"
And I baked a cake yesterday and decorated like a dive ball (blue pokeball) for my fiance... I'll have pics in about a week when the camera gets back from vacation
check out Browse -> People then click on Alphabetical. Pick a letter. I guarantee you someone there doesn't have a description, or even a photo in most cases.
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