I have been trying to not be too critical of things but I have to agree with EyeR on this one. The role of leadership is to communicate. When you think, conceptually, about what we should be doing right now it boils down to a few things. 1. Asgardia's 'leaders' communicating with their staff about what they want them to be doing. 2. Asgardia's 'leaders' communicating with their customers (us) about what they are doing. 3. Asgardia's 'leaders' communicating with outside leaders about what we, collectively, are doing to be recognized as a nation. As far as what is happening, 1. might be being done (I'm not on staff so I cannot honestly testify one way or another). 2. is haphazardly being done, with notices being put into subforums where it doesn't make a great deal of sense sometimes. 3. might be being done, as far as the Asgardia website is being said, Igor is contacting national leaders. Now, it is a bit unfair for me, as a non-member of staff, to be criticizing how staff and leadership is doing its job as I don't actually know what they are doing. What I am fair in saying, however, is that as a consumer of information I am not getting what I need to be able to participate or even remain knowledgeable about what can be done to help Asgardia become a nation of which I want to be proud to call myself a member. --- ___Total Side Note___: If any of you have read _Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy_, finding information from Asgardia reminds me of Arthur Dent's comments about how he found out about the plans being posted about his house being demolished. __Foreman__: “But the plans were on display…” __Arthur Dent__: “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” __Foreman__: “That’s the display department.” __Arthur Dent__: “With a flashlight.” __Foreman__: “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” __Arthur Dent__: “So had the stairs.” __Foreman__: “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” __Arthur Dent__: “Yes, yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘_Beware of the Leopard_.”

> IT infrastructure activities are covered That's possibly your opinion and maybe even the offical story, but with that said, if IT was covered then why was such glaring mistakes that indicate a general lack of experience using the internet, let alone providing public facing services several times before we got this far, or how any deeply flawed features ended up in the current model publicly served continually after these flaws have been publicly demonstrated. But your security is important, important enough to keep running and not fix the problems. When it comes to building, you want solid foundations, commonly. For an analogy of such ilk, these foundatations consist of a brick being thrown entirely without thought at the floor a few times until someone complains where it landed and it was moved. Then someone threw another couple of bricks at it. There's been no planning, digging, setting in some concrete for a solid level surface for building from... just a few bricks randomly thrown at the floor. You won't build very high before that becomes dangerous to be around. As currently IT represents the only "tangible asset" then it should really of had some effort to be done "right". Considering the likely weight this will gain over time, and the number of users as much as the userbase themselves (most are of the type to use facebook it seems) then there is definitely an unmet resposonsibility to protect these users, and their data. As this represents the offical "social" nature of our infrastructure also, currently and for the given future, it is certainly worthy of a lot more attention than it was initially granted. Everything on that list is entirely about forward progression with regards to something we would actually *need* to be doing in order to enable other and better things. Like actually exhibiting enough features to possibly be considerd a nation or actually getting that nation into space, long term. Or even existing long enough to let that happen.

Hi, Charles! A simple leaf falling from a tree suffices for a major change at the universal level. While a certain man watched a leaf fall from a tree, he had the inspiration to create a particular martial art. This martial art, which came from the mind of a man who was inspired by a simple leaf that fell from a tree, this martial art has changed the lives of thousands of people on our planet. Let's be like the leaf falling from the tree. She only did what a sheet does. Let's just be us. We change the world simply because we exist. Like the leaf that inspired the monk, we are often unaware of how important we are to others. Please visit my platform. I want to count on your support so that I can continue with my dream of contributing to the creation of a just and egalitarian society based on love and respect for everything that exists. I take the opportunity to protest against the value of $ 150.00. It is a very high value for Brazilian standards. I can not afford it. https://asgardia.space/en/elections/candidates/Portuguese/25668/

Dear Asgardian Brothers! Tomorrow 04-04, we remember the 50 years of the death of the "Man who had a dream". Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the perssonalities that had great influence in my formation. I do not need to tell you how much this man has been or should be important to all who fight for equality in the broadest sense. Let's take this date to reflect a bit on how hard we are actually doing to make Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality. There are few people on the face of the earth who are worthy of good memories. This home is one of them. In a society where we used to construct statues for criminals and Genocides, and give names to Streets, Parks and Avenues, honoring Hypocrites without character, we Asgardians must express our respect for the ideals of this enlightened human being named Martin Luther King Jr. Lucio Costa https://asgardia.space/en/elections/candidates/Portuguese/25668/

Congratulations on the clean and honest campaign, worthy of an Asgardian. In the days leading up to the parliamentary elections in Asgardia, I met people highly qualified to hold a post in Parliament, but for some reason failed to achieve this goal. What I have to say to these extraordinary minds who have not been elected to Parliament is that we Asgardians all have a role to play in building our society. We do not need to be in Parliament or in Government. In Asgard we are all equal in importance. Only the workplace is different. These bright and dreamy minds will be able to assist parliamentarians and ministers by contributing their knowledge to the construction of Asgardia. We need people who are capable, above all, of well-intentioned support to parliament and government, and these people have already shown what they are capable of by taking up leading public office, and they will certainly be asked in a timely manner. This is admirable. Anyone who puts collective interest above private interest is worthy of my respect and admiration. We are all to be congratulated in this first stage of the construction of Asgardia. Campaigns clean, no personal offense, unlike any we're used to seeing on the news. The Asgardian citizens gave an example of civility and respect. I'm very happy for this. I am a Social Scientist, Specialist in Projects and Social Policies. I work in the Federal Public Administration, where I learned everything not to be done in the public service. I have mainly learned that: In our local society, IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE LEGALLY CORRECT, WE SHOULD BE RIGHTEOUS, and our justice is not always on the side of what is humanly just. I want to be Minister of Citizenship because I feel aligned with Asgardian thinking. I am not only referring to my academic background, because knowledge means nothing if I do not walk side by side with good intentions. These are things that complement each other. I consider myself a person prepared to take over the Ministry of Citizenship, because I allowed life to teach me. I have been a good observer of social relationships throughout my life and I know the mechanisms of interaction in these relationships (I want to thank the Parliamentary candidate, Geoffrey West, a brilliant mind in every way, who made me realize that). A qualified person is not made with a university degree. A person prepared for a position of government does not necessarily need a university degree. He needs knowledge allied to the love of his brothers. If I have the honor of being chosen, I know that I will have special people of character and knowledge necessary for the performance of my ministerial activities. I am not afraid of the future because I will have my brothers highly qualified to build our ideal. I would like the future legislators in Asgardia to remember that. As I have just said, when they begin their activities, the Law must be based on moral principles, not on the moral principles of our original societies, but on the moral principles that govern the good and fraternal human nature that we possess. Because we are different: WE ARE ASGARDIA! I want the Light to accompany our elected members of Parliament. Believe in your love intuitions, for they will never be wrong. Good work, everyone. Lucio Costa - Government Candidate District 9. https://asgardia.space/en/elections/candidates/Portuguese/25668/

Dear Asgardian Brothers! Tomorrow 04-04, we remember the 50 years of the death of the "Man who had a dream". Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the perssonalities that had great influence in my formation. I do not need to tell you how much this man has been or should be important to all who fight for equality in the broadest sense. Let's take this date to reflect a bit on how hard we are actually doing to make Martin Luther King Jr's dream a reality. There are few people on the face of the earth who are worthy of good memories. This home is one of them. In a society where we used to construct statues for criminals and Genocides, and give names to Streets, Parks and Avenues, honoring Hypocrites without character, we Asgardians must express our respect for the ideals of this enlightened human being named Martin Luther King Jr. Lucio Costa https://asgardia.space/en/elections/candidates/Portuguese/25668/

Skype? Teamspeak? The technolgy is available, but such examples are not how you connect properly - instead representing how to most easily ensure your traffic is no longer private and in the case of skype minimally ensuring there's a remotely acessible client able to fetch some "interesting" server-side exploits for execution when it's decided the fully transparent desktop forwarding (including keyboard and mouse input), access to the raw filingsystem and other spyware functionality isn't considered enough. Just going by logs for SSH login attempts on a single machine, deploying teamspeak is likely to be compromised externally(as in, additional to the risks posed by the operators) within hours. Seems to be quite a few exploits available for that. Entertaining closed source solutions really shouldn't even be considered. IMVU does handshakes whilst you chat - but a real comms protocol will protect your traffic, and offer unparalleled reliability. Which of these sounds more useful?

Well that might went complicated when you have to collaborate with people who live 4000 miles away from you. Or when it comes to important meet-ups you can not effort. Technology and virtual approaches helps here a lot to connect people regardless of their roots or financial situation or in different scenarios regardless of their condition or disabilities. But i agree, i would probably prefer to shake your hand in person. Maybe, one day, this will happen. 🖖

Not very long at all Jason, you are supposed to set up everything you would need before you even create the ministries the ideas are to serve! Besides, I was specifically referring to the period after everything has been setup. So one maybe two years is in my opinion a sufficient amount of time. To implement some of the policies one may have in mind. If we gave elected officials more time than two years in office. We run the risk of corruption ruining the political scene in Asgardia. The longer one has power the more used to having that power they become. Which means it could become harder for them to accept losing that power when that time comes and that could lead to bigger problems. There are other potential problems as well. Problems that can be avoided by limiting the amount of time each minister spends in office. Oh, and, the eficacy of a ministry is not affected by the maximum number of terms the minster can serve. It is however, affected by whether or not the office is run competently!

My question: How long does it take to turn an idea into a active government scheme or system? Would the next person in office have to continue setting up an initiative from the previous office? Allowing for a single to person to not gain too much power is one thing, but if its counter intuitive to the efficiency...

I disagree with you Nathan and think three to four years is too long. The idea is to limit the amount of power any one official has and giving them three to four years is not how that is done. There is also the chance that having the power of whatever office they hold for so long will have a negative effect on them. Also if a person needs three plus years to settle in to their new position. There is a very good chance that they are not ready for the job which the campaigned for. Two years is in my opinion more than enough time

> Invoke evolution and the tree must be there to grow the seed, and the chicken must be there to lay the egg. This depends entirely on whether or not you consider the adjective in a 'chicken egg' to be derived from what laid the egg, or the contents of the egg. Technically speaking the first chicken egg didn't have to come from the first chicken. That which we now call a chicken would have mutated from something that wasn't a chicken, but was very chicken-like. The contents of the egg, the genetic material, would become the first real 'chicken'. Thus, the egg was a 'chicken egg' because its contents were the first chicken, when defined by its contents. If, however, you are of the opinion that the creature which laid the egg describes what kind of egg it is, then the chicken has to come first because of the very premise of your definition. You cannot have a 'chicken egg' because you have defined an egg as possessing an adjective appropriate to the creature which laid it, not its contents. By the first definition, where the contents of the egg determine its adjective, all the eggs purchased in the store laid by chickens but with unfertilized embryos in them are not chicken eggs at all, but just eggs. They gain no identifiers because they cannot grow into any organism. By the second definition, where the creature which lays the eggs determines its adjective, eggs in the store are 'chicken eggs', even though they will never become a chicken themselves. A tree follows similar rules. Thus, this argument cannot be answered without first identifying under which premise we are identifying a 'seed'.

Invoke evolution and the tree must be there to grow the seed, and the chicken must be there to lay the egg. But we're getting slightly ahead of ourselves here. This all happened a long time ago, and there was no-one taking notes. There is much open to interpretation, argument etc - but some things are more or less assured. First came the single cell organism. Those without a reproductive cycle rapidly became extinct as environmental stresses overcame the design. Those with reproductive cycle eventually overcame the environmental stresses. Then two or more single cell organisms found mutual benefit - the "waste" of one enabling survival of the other. Eventually forming into a more complex system that's more resilient, "adopting" other organisms into the collective and mutating existing to become even more resilient until the most basic multicellular single organisms - with inherent reprodructive ability - became recognisable. You need seeds to grow trees - unless you've something that reproduces over time and becomes a tree.

My answer is no. Because Politics is Cerruption and political parties are just as worse. Here in America the liberal snowflakes are still complaining about presidential candidate lost and Obama along the Democratic and half of the Republican party is accusing Russia for a Crime that they didn't commit. All Because they got caught red handed over the face of cerruption. All political parties are brought by the ruling class of Elite Globalist that's been responsible for the War on drugs and terror in which case it was a nightmare and a failure. Also having political parties has been widening the income gap between the rich and poor. It's becoming out of control and a new system without money, Elites, Political parties, and beliefs of state would be the way to go if we do not want same problems that earth nations have.

There shouldn't be any need for political parties, IMHO, because we can make all our own decisions, collectively. Much in the same manner we are progressing in various directions currently with regards to arguing amongst ourselves about what we should actually be doing, as much as how we should be doing it. Any "key position" within "government" should(IMHO) be held by common consensus, preferably selected from those qualified to deal with the subject in question. By qualified, I don't necessarily mean academics. With ministries devoting to various topics, our "experts" in these fields should naturally migrate in order to offer their input and guidances, so for any given topic there should be a plentyful supply of rational input. I don't think there's much requirement for a "leader" as such, but understand some would feel the requirement for, and there can be purpose behind a single figurehead. For some considerable time the only offering I'd accept for such a position would be Igor Ashurbeyli, partially out of respect for his rights to his creation, but mostly to ensure not only the foundations but the entire initial period(and if you do that right, by extension, the rest of growth) progresses within tollerences of his vision of it.

I disagree VSE, there are many examples of forms of government that are contradictory to the idea that politics and corruption go hand in hand. Just look at small villages for example. They still rely on elders, wise people, and so on and corruption is not a problem in regards to their leadership. Favoritism is not even a thing in modern politics. Politicians do not have favorites they are simply paid off and that is where the corruption comes in

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