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Lead the world for 2 days......

12:30 PM Mar 13 2008 | Reply

nader1212

nader1212

Saudi Arabia

what you will doing? If you be the king of the world for 2 days….

 

04:37 PM Mar 13 2008 | Reply

Kanaobi

United States

1. pull the american troops from iraq

2. stop the war between israel and palestine. make an agreement between both parties and anyone who keeps fighting will be given death penalty no matter what (it's the only way really)

3. push the US election so we can have new president

4. give myself a GBP 5,000,000,000 as my salary

5. make the developed countries help darfur.

6. buy an island for me.

that'll be enuff.. 

08:47 PM Mar 13 2008 | Reply

lucksnap

lucksnap

Thailand

Kanaobi

u move the country war to yr family war

why I said this

war happen due to they want the benefit, such as petrol, land, jewery, natural resource,....

now u have 5,000,000,000 then yr family will start to look at those money and start family war

hahahaha

09:49 PM Mar 13 2008 | Reply

Blakerieger

Blakerieger

United States

Who has put me in this position?  How complete is my domination and by what means is it maintained?  By what means am I to be dethroned after the two day period, and to what extent are my actions henceforth overruled?

11:26 PM Mar 13 2008 | Reply

M. Augustus

M. Augustus

United States

Assuming that I have two days to govern as an absolute ruler (as opposed to deific levels of power), and that after that, those policies I undertook while in charge are maintained even though I am no longer in power:

1.  Institute high-quality free, public, secular education for every child on Earth.

2.  Institute unmovable, strong penalties for any attempt to blend religion and government.

3.  Implement heavy, heavy fines on any movie studio which makes a remake of or sequel to an earlier film.  (Dammit, no more reimaginings of classic films!)

4.  Impose heavy, heavy inheritance taxes.  I'm all about working hard to give your children more opportunities than you had, but no one has a fundamental right to live off of Daddy's riches without contributing anything to society.

5.  Allocate to myself a small, uninhabited island in the Aegean, spend the rest of my life as a fisherman.

Lucksnap, I know it was a typo, but I love the idea of a country's Jewery as a natural resource over which wars are fought.  It would explain the Israel-Palestine conflict so much better… 

04:35 AM Mar 14 2008 | Reply

nader1212

nader1212

Saudi Arabia

thanks for all …

you have great ideas.

but…

do you will done that at 2 days????!!!!!

 

05:19 AM Mar 14 2008 | Reply

Kanaobi

United States

hell yeah since we're the king of the world Wink

making an agreement or regulation is not that hard really trust me..Laughing

01:26 PM Mar 14 2008 | Reply

Blakerieger

Blakerieger

United States

The thing with the two days is, if policies will revert after the two days, there's really not much of a point.  The most effect we could have is to start a war and kill all of the people who disagreed in two days, which isn't exactly a nice way to go about things.

If policies remain in place, however, two days is also meaningless, because it's a perpetual rule through the constitution we established.

 

I mostly agree with M. Augustus though.  Except that I would enact a "anti-grave-rolling" act instead of #3.  Basically, IP would be prohibited from use in cases that would cause the originators to roll in their graves (were such a thing possible, which of course it isn't, but it's a figure of speech). 

So no Disney sequels (Disney himself was neigh unto violently opposed to them)

No use of Einstein quotes to attempt to support religion

And quite importantly, no use of religious texts to support things that the originators clearly disagreed with.

And… I'd probably give myself a entertainment production studio instead of an island. 

 

In the case that it works via mind control instead of policy implementation- so I have absolute power over humans for two days- I would order everybody who honestly disagreed with my new policies to first report themselves to a census, and to then tie themselves up securely (or if unable to do so, to otherwise temporarily incapacitate themselves until released), establish those who agreed as new government structures around the world, and lock up anybody of particular extreme disposition to be reeducated once everybody "wakes up" from the magical trance.  All children being raised by people in strong disagreement would have to be reassigned to new families- since it wouldn't miss anybody, being of magical quality, I think it would be a safe bet that it would work.

Couldn't ever do that without magic though… so it's not exactly something even worth discussing.

 

08:46 PM Mar 14 2008 | Reply

M. Augustus

M. Augustus

United States

I like your anti-grave-rolling measure, though I still feel strongly enough about the need for fewer sequels  and 'remakes' that I would add it as an addendum even if it wouldn't make the original  creator roll in their grave.  We need more inventive cinema, not more movies based on comic books,  novels, or older movies.

09:28 PM Mar 14 2008 | Reply

Blakerieger

Blakerieger

United States

Generally speaking, but the new batmans are verging on decent… (verging on it)

If they had me write them a good scifi apocalypse scenario that made sense, I think it could be OK

Granted, though, making it a new super hero would work just as well.

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