I'm still waiting for them to say something interesting. I'm watching some candidates. I won't commit to sending them my social security number and birth date until I have evidence that they're credible.
FYI, I enjoy this website re: americans elect: http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/category/americanselect/ Steve Smith wrote at 03/14/2012 03:08 PM: > What is everyone (else's) current take on the Americans Elect at this > point? I just took the time to (re)sign up and go through about 100 > questions and then looked at the draft candidates and at the "questions" > being put forth for debate by the candidates somewhere down the line. > > Overall I was much more impressed with the situation than I was in the > past. > > The debate "questions" being put forward were hampered in quality by > the source... "the unwashed masses" are going to come up with a lot of > whackadoodle things, or if not whackadoodle ideas, whackadoodle > expressions of perfectly good ideas. I tried "voting" on about 100 of > the questions (some of the most popular, but mostly the "most recent". > It wasn't clear I was helping... I'm hoping the questions get rendered > down more (but also well) as many questions were variations on each other. >> I wouldn't worry about their bad questions or money requests. Just >> ignore those until they are fixed and vote in the primary :P >> >> **************************** >> Greg Sonnenfeld >> >> “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be >> sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:17 PM, glen<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Steve Smith wrote circa 12-01-09 01:51 PM: >>>> Isn't this what Americans Elect (among other things) trying to >>>> address? After the initial flurry of discussion about this group, >>>> I've >>>> seen nothing else here. >>>> >>>> I was disturbed by certain things about them but as an alternative >>>> mechanism, maybe they are worth more attention? >>> I still get e-mails from them asking for money. I've answered 223 of >>> their stupidly dichotomous questions and voted on 20 of them. I've seen >>> nothing from them but solicitations for money. I won't give them any >>> money. I have way too many established charities knocking. >>> >>> At this point, I'm inclined to write them off. >>> >>> -- >>> glen >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
