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		president on Jan 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s ... Why don't we just replace elected officials with the website? Then people could vote for issues rather than officials who we don't care about anyway.

angersock on Jan 13, 2012 [–]

Eh, we can't make major changes to government without a lot of red tape. We can, however, match the existing interface.

This is classic hacking of legacy code.

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