I don't have any strong opinions on UvdL myself. Some things she seems to have done well, some things very badly, like the phone text messages not being made public.
Like you I'm very much a democrat and I agree fully, except that I also think that the nature of politics is that compromises will have to be made. So if you don't do what you say you will, then you will have to have something to show for it, and the voters will tell you if it was enough.
The post-truth and identity politics infuriate me to no end though.
The tech is already here, but yeah, it's not enough to meet the demand. Not by a longshot. It's very underutilised though. We could make a lot more biomethane than we currently do. If we can make enough I don't know, but I'd like us to use that rather than fossils.
LNG doesn't have to be fossil though. Biomethane is the same gas but made from waste.
The US LNG is however very much fossils, which isn't great I agree.
It doesn't sound like you have a problem with the way elections are done but more about who was elected?
What you suggested doesn't change the way the president is chosen.
I don't know why UvdL was chosen. Do you?
Yeah, she was elected. Can't really say if she's been good or bad, a bit of both I think.
Having the council of ministers select a candidate and then have the parliament vote on it seems like an acceptable way of doing it, especially since its the job of the commission to look to the entire bloc and not any specific country.
What would be a better way of selecting a commission president?
As far as I know i2p doesn't have a distributed file system. I think you can run Tahoe-LAFS over it, but it looks complex. Never tried it.
But if netflix is just a nice gui over S3, then a nice gui over freenet should be simple. Right? Not that I could do it, but I like the idea.
Freenet is a distributed file system. Imagine a useful front end to that where you could upload your content and also subscribe to other people or content. Could be awesome. Too bad I can't code for shit.
With some filters so that you can specify file type, quality, etc...
Then I could share my aquarium videos with the world, anonymously and easily.
Same.
It was. I must have mixed the regions. My bad.
"An armed society is a polite society", or so I'm told.