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What should be the minimum IQ cutoff? And should votes also be weighted based on your score?(Higher score = more votes?)

Our present system of basing time on the Sun's position relative to the Earth is hopelessly geocentric. Besides, we've standardized measures of mass, distance, and almost everything else...wouldn't a 10-hour clock make everything much easier?

There are lots of ways of doing it, but the system I propose is:

10 hours per day

10 days per week

10 weeks per month

10 months per year

And a year would still be one trip around the Sun. So dividing 365.24 days x 24 hours into 1000 new days, under the new system, every day would be about 8 and 3/4 hours long, using "old" hours. So the Sun would rise roughly every 3 days. You'd work a day, then have two days off.

This system would eliminate time zones, leap years, daylight savings time, and the two most unpopular months. I propose February and March, because I hate them.

...while other poverty-stricken groups such as blacks and hispanics tend to vote for the party that promises them the most handouts?

Many of the undeveloped world's problems are blamed on colonialism, and I personally would never want to be ruled by a foreign power. However in recent years many of those supposedly "liberated" from colonial oppression now want it back.

Consider the words of these authors. No malice is intended, only objective, academic interest.

Come Back, Colonialism, All Is Forgiven (Time Magazine)

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1713...

"We should just give it all back to the whites," the riverboat captain says. "Even if you go 1,000 kilometers down this river, you won't see a single sign of development. When the whites left, we didn't just stay where we were. We went backwards."

Haiti and the Blacks (by a black author from Botswana)

http://www.sundaystandard.info/search/search_item....

"I hope black people will learn a lesson from the earthquake that hit Haiti."

"From now onwards, I want black leaders to shut up and never accuse ever white people of being bad. I am sick and tired of big words such as imperialism and neo colonialism which are unable to rescue victims of the earthquake."