"All intents and purposes" means "no, not really, I was kidding for effect."

It's either direct democracy or it isn't.

You made the NON-SPECIFIC claim, that my understanding of all direct democracies was wrong, but you refuse to say how. It is not up to me to GUESS what you are referring to.

It is YOUR argument, if YOU wont make it then it means that YOU are the one making spurious accusations.

Therefore my argument stands. Even in direct democracy, a limited number of people are empowered to determine the course of the government.

well,Old Fellow,do your Own Research!
I live in a Political System that is to all intents and purposes a Direct Democracy!
And all your Obfuscations won't change that!

GOOGLE gives you 7.5 million results in less than half a second!
Ought to keep you busy for a while,while I peruse the Material for the Vote on our next Referendum!

seems you still are not willing to do some research,so you need to use Obfuscations!
Have your way,Fellow,and good luck!
You just missed an opportunity to learn a few things!
Well,no skin off my Patoot!
But Google is still your Friend!

And stop changing your Argument as you go along!

You still refuse to specify anything which can BE researched. And I don't have to change my argument, because you haven't made one for anyone to respond to.
And you are still playing the game of hinting at insults, to avoid answering any arguments or questions.

Re-read your comments!
They are the reason why I tell you to do your research on the Web!

Well, that was a disaster...How about this;...we'll get "Spock" to program the damn thing...that green blooded bloke is the most logical, almost humanoid, vulcan around.
There... that was easy.

No Vulcan mind melds no Vulcan mind control dude

Honestly absolutely not......

Flaws look at phones and PCs

A virus in an ipres could shut down the whole interwork of icongress and I senators

Would shutting down Congress really be bad?

Let's face it, humans are not without their flaws...they are corrupt and illogical, invoking distrust among its citizens.
If the technology were in place, would you be opposed to a computer running the country?
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I would guess that you're referring to Artificial Intelligence[AI]& from countless Sci-Fi tales,nothing ever ends well...

Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence is the hypothetical threat that dramatic progress in artificial intelligence (AI) could someday result in human extinction (or some other unrecoverable global catastrophe). The human race currently dominates other species because the human brain has some distinctive capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. If AI surpasses humanity in general intelligence and becomes "superintelligent", then this new superintelligence could become powerful and difficult to control. Just as the fate of the mountain gorilla depends on human goodwill, so might the fate of humanity depend on the actions of a future machine superintelligence.

However, not only have science fiction writers communicated the potential hazards from the developement of AI but so have more than a few of the greatest minds of our century. Steven Hawking has actually been on the air in labeling the developement of artificial intelligence as one of the most greatest & immenent threats to mankind that could occur within a timeframe of the next 30 years with the techological advances that are being made.
Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking Say Artificial Intelligence Represents Real Threat
http://www.cio.com/article/2877482/consumer-technology/bill-gates-stephen-hawking-say-artificial-intelligence-represents-real-threat.html

Nobel-prize winner Stephen Hawking, who spends a lot of time thinking about the shape of the universe, is also worried. "It's tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science fiction. But this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake in history," he wrote in The Independent, a British newspaper.Hawking, no technophobe, is bullish on the potential benefits of AI and machine learning, and he says AI could become "the biggest event in human history."
"One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand," Hawking wrote. "Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all."
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If the technology were in place, would you be opposed to a computer running the country?

What does it matter we are all gonna die because of the imilitary

So, if there were no military, then we would be immortal?

I'm beginning to realize we don't need a whole computer to run this country... just an app should do it.

only sometimes

many humans with emotion make many great decisions everyday


Id rather risk those sometimes than count on emotionless , robotic , decisions void of the capacity to be humane

Let's dispel of the notion that the human doesn't know what he's doing, he knows exactly what he's doing.

Yes, he does...we just want him to make decisions to benefit the colony, not his personal greed...maybe we should inject insect DNA into all politicians.