NationStates Jolt Archive

I have been looking through the current UN proposals. I'm trying to find one worth adding my approval to (to help it come up for a vote). Problem is most of them are VERY poorly written.

However, this resolution may have potential (limits the UN influence on sovereign economic affairs): "Free and Sovereign Economies" (page 14) Check it out...

If you know of a "gem" resolution please share it with the rest of us...

The proposal called "Nuclear Facility Guidelines" looks like it is common sense...

The proposal called "Nuclear Facility Guidelines" looks like it is common sense...

What he said ... and not just because I wrote it. :D

Cockarus: "nuclear power can easily become the safest"

1) If that were true it would have already been done. It can always be made safer but it is not going to be easy.

2) You left out the most important and hardest part, nuclear waste! What you do suggest is done about that; bury it on Mars?

Well, clearly I messed up.

When asking of there are any decent UN proposals I should have specified, "other than the one you wrote".

The current UN resolution: Increased Access to Medicine.

Yet another well intended but useless proposal. It states that to carry out this resolution "Nations may do this however they wish".

Nations are already DOING what they wish. I guess this resolution is really a Non-Resolution. :?

Whilst there may be lots that are quite crap relly, there are always one or two that are really worth approving, IMO.

:x Most of the proposals are so bad that our delegate does not even bother reading them anymore. :tantrum: THis makes me very annoyed.

Do proposals ever expire? Or does the BS just keep piling higher and higher?

They expire. We can be glad for that!:D

Do you know what the time frame is?

I know coding changes are not happening, but it would be nice if we could apply "stupid flags" to proposals that deserve to drop off the list...

If you know of a "gem" resolution please share it with the rest of us...


Standard Currency is a good one, and no that badly written.

I wrote it, but I like the idea, and it is an honest one. In the Roman Empire, the roman currency was the main one throughout their known world, but they allowed the countries they conquered to keep their own currencies and ideas... to a degree.

But yes, there are a lot of stupid things there. Like the Hippo thingy. that was $&)!# but yeah.

:x Most of the proposals are so bad that our delegate does not even bother reading them anymore. :tantrum: THis makes me very annoyed.

If you've got a beef with your delegate, remove your endorsement from them...

SC

I would encourage everyone to check out the proposal for a Global Transportation System. Its not a lengthy proposal, but it is adequately written and very logical.

It's a bit frustrating to see vague and worthless proposals like the current 'medicine' proposal get such widespread support. How is the UN supposed to know who is doing enough 'extra stuff' to follow the measure and who isn't? There could at least be a specification as far as percentage of gross domestic product, or a set amount, or.. something. Was this proposal approved solely for the betterment of large pharmaceutical companies? Is there any reason to be a member of a world governmental body that is so worthless?

Hmmm....Well, I rather liked the Hippo one myself...

Truthfully though, I have yet, since my countrys joining the UN, seen one proposal I could honestly agree too.

It often seems to me that the proposals that aren't outright bad ideas are so badly written and so loosly phrased, that one can't with sound mind agree to them, for fear of how they, despite what would doubtless be good intentions at the start, could dubiously be applied.

Yet it is also truth that I have yet to see any of these sort of proposals that I have mentiond *fail* to pass. Indeed they often do, and by an overwhelming margin it seems.

Therefore ,obviosly, the opinion I hold must be in the vast minorety. Am I right?

Despite this, I do believe...hope...that I may yet see a worthy and well thought out proposal come along. Though, it being worthy in my eyes, will doubtless be found less so by the majority, and so be voted down.

These are but one Ladys thoughts. Pray forgive me for rambling on as I am want to do.

Lady Jane
Ambassador of Some Where Else

Cockarus: "nuclear power can easily become the safest"

1) If that were true it would have already been done. It can always be made safer but it is not going to be easy. American reactors have always been very safe, 3 mile island still has one reactor running. And if it wasnt for a few scares it would be widely implemented by now

2) You left out the most important and hardest part, nuclear waste! What you do suggest is done about that; bury it on Mars? New reactor prototypes may produce small amounts of slightly radioactive dust that will decay in terms of centuries rather than millenia. There was an article on these reactors not too long ago in Scientific American.

Cockarus: "nuclear power can easily become the safest"

1) If that were true it would have already been done. It can always be made safer but it is not going to be easy.

2) You left out the most important and hardest part, nuclear waste! What you do suggest is done about that; bury it on Mars?

Personally, I always liked the thought of leaving it out in the middle of the street. :shock:

But seriously. Nuclear waste doesnt exactly disappear. The half-lifes of Nuclear material can ranged anywhere from five hundred to 5 million+ years. And there isnt exactly a safe place on the planet to put the stuff. Of course, there is always Pluto. But that is kinda far away. And we all know the minute the surface is covered with it, we will find something we want there underground. How fun.

Corrin
Armed Republic Of Kel-Moria

Supposedly, someone has already colonized Pluto. So you cant put it there either Corn. I do however like the idea of the middle of the street. Get rid of those pesky neighbors.

Call me biased, but I like the current resolution. :wink:

Okay - you're biased...

A member of my region summed your resoultion up well:

"They started out well, then fizzled. We vote NAY."