Fully electronic voting gives a lot of benefits. You can dedidcate a whole "page" to one race/issue, multiple selections can be prevented, and voters can have the option to review/correct their choices.
However voting over the internet from home, even if it can be made 100% fraud- and glitch-proof, cannot be proved trustworthy to the majority of citizens, at least not yet. Why not switch over to a fully electronic system at the polling place.
See, this is how upgrading a system one package at a time can bite you in the ass. I compiled the KDE2 distribution from sources, and now my menus are full of multiple entries, and my kpackage doesn't work.
I don't know anyhting about Sailor Moon really, my point is that IMHO, a geek is not some dork who collects hip electronics and watches prepubescent-esque cartoon characters run around in short skirts. That would be a pervert and a sheeplike consumer.
This ballot was not like yours. It had a single row of punch-holes (machine-counted ballot) with candidates lited alternately on either side of the row. If you look at the word "Democrat" on Gore's entry and follow it straight across to the center line, the hole you might mark is the one that really belongs to Buchanan. If you live in a retirement community, this could make a big difference in your vote.
A straight-up popular election of the President is a bad, bad idea. For one it would be a nail in the coffin of States Rights, and a step toward erasing possibilities like State-by-State adoption of medical marijuana reforms and such.
What is a more important and better electoral reform is the removal of the inherent support for the current two-party system built into the electoral process. Bush and Gore automatically got on the ballot, everyone else had to have petition drives for the right guaranteed them by the Constitution to run for President.
I hope you are a bot of some kind. No sane human being could write a single rambling paragraph of such mass. I sure as hell can't read it well enough to even think about responding.
While I believe strongly in personal firearm freedom, and am ashamed that so many in this Great Land are unable to understand that the armed populace forms the fourth and possibly the most important check and balance in the Constitution, I believe even more strongly in voting by my conscience and my ideals.
I am not willing to sacrifice my right to free speech, my right to my own religious conscience and the exercise thereof, my right to a free press, my right to the integrity and privacy of my own body and to choose for myself what substances may or may not enter into it, and many other rights not here enumerated in order to elect the candidate who is the lesser of two evils when it comes to the significant but singular right to keep and bear arms.
Furthermore, I maintain that at this point it is moot as to whether we can purchase handguns with or without a background check or what have you, as our collective firepower has already been sufficiently reduced such that if push were to come to shove in protecting our other rights, we would have to commit civil disobience in breaking already existing gun control laws to arm ourselves well enough.
Well, a short answer to your remark is that the Libertarian "party line" is that mega-monopolies like the ones that threaten choice and personal freedom in Our Modern America would not be able to exist without the proactive government support and welfare that they currently recieve.
I believe you can find people in almost any political party who think that privatizing the police and/or military is an "interesting idea."
Well yes, of course they go over the edge, but that's where the trans-dimensional physics and the peculiarities of 23rd dimensional horfnoggler diets come into play.
Generations of Republican voters have been suckered in by this claptrap. The Republican candidates jabber on about how they want to reduce taxes and decrease gubbamint, but look at what they want to do:
Increase "defense" spending.
Increase federal involvement in schools, requiring religious indoctrination, and determining which schools continue and which are shut down.
Increase criminalization of private activities, requiring greater law enforcement spending.
Increase prison terms, requiring more jails, guards, and prison uniforms.
Provide more aid to "family farms".
The Republican party doesn't stand for a smaller government, they stand for a slightly different, but similarly-sized government, for which the lower-income citizens pay a larger share than they do now and corporate and wealthy citizens pay a smaller share.
The same goes for "freedom". All these idiots at my work have "Freedom First: Vote Bush" bumper stickers. If "freedom" is really your first concern you should be voting for someone else.
If a candidate has a platform that includes a lot of good stuff for which there is some broad support, and coincidentally also supports some crazy hare-brained scheme that would never possibly come to fruition during their term... what is the possible harm in electing them for the good ideas that might work? It can't be any worse than electing people with the wrong ideas about a lot of "small things" and a more mainstream position on the crazy ideals held by the 3rd party candidate.
The trouble with upgrading a package at a time with a distro like Mandrake or Redhat is that they tend to put out point releases every month or two, and all the "leet new stuff" RPMs are built on these point releases or even on the upcoming development trees, leading to a big pain in the tush, having to suddenly install all sorts of other crap to get one thing..
So what I do, is compile almost everything from sources for a long time, then install a new release every few months.
Of course, I don't run a ton of services, so the reconfiguring thing doesn't affect me much.
I am officially revoking the Geek Licenses of all you furby-collecting, Sailor Moon-watching social retards who didn't know that Gallileo's "paltry" 150bits/second transmissions are the result of a heroic rescue from yet-another-NASA-failure.
What is the maximum addressable memory of the old 6502 anyway? I know with the Z80 it was 16k, so if it was the same for the 6502 then to use 16M ram it would have to use a hell of a lot of pages, and coding would be a bitch.
The SuperCPU is an accelerator/memory expansion board that includes a 16-bit descendant of the 6502 (Same chip as the SuperNES), which can address all that memory.
Personally I don't think this counts as a C64 Web Browser, really it is a SuperCPU Web Browser, which is a signifigant difference considering the cost of a SuperCPU. Still, it is a pretty impressive piece of assembly programming, and runs on the C64's now pathetic system bus and video hardware.
Isn't Nullsoft essentially a vanity purchase for AOL anyway? I don't see what possible profit motive was behind it. So what harm does it do AOL to let the Nullsoft boys run wild, but reign in potentially litigenic stuff like Gnutella.
I used to think it was important for open source projects to have a good document describing the direction, feature goals, and planned behavior. Well, I still do, but I think now that there is a more pressing need...
README files! I've been browsing freshmeat and SourceForge just for the hell of it and what some projects actually neglect to mention anywhere on their homepage or in the README file, is what the general purpose of the program actually is!
Maps do not contain information to convey when the little stretch where two highways merge and then re-diverge involves shifting left across 4 lanes, merging, thne furiously continuing to shift left to avoid "exit only" lanes for 3 exits, then shifting right across 3 lanes to finally exit.
Yes, it would send the message that the 25% of people who don't like any of the candidates can't get their sh*t together enough to run somebody else, and are immaterial to the political process.
Have you SEEN the "undecided likely voters" on tv?
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It makes it all the more important that the type of unlikely voter we've got in these parts votes, to balance out the elementary school teachers and nurses.
Not that I'm saying elementary school teachers and nurses are bad people. They just seem a little bewildered about this whole "government" thing and what it does.
Seriously, blocking software may be bad, it may have lots of problems, but if the majority of the people want computers bought with public funds to not show porn, that's a decision that's OK by me..
If the majority of the people want public lynchings of left-handed people...
Since the President cannot grow or shrink government to 0% or 100% suddenly by decree, what is the harm in electing one whose goal is 0%. By voting for the guy claiming to aim at 80% of the current size, you would doom yourself to a government that is actually larger than the goal, since it is generally impossible for a President to get everything he wants.
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However voting over the internet from home, even if it can be made 100% fraud- and glitch-proof, cannot be proved trustworthy to the majority of citizens, at least not yet. Why not switch over to a fully electronic system at the polling place.
See, this is how upgrading a system one package at a time can bite you in the ass. I compiled the KDE2 distribution from sources, and now my menus are full of multiple entries, and my kpackage doesn't work.
...waiting for Mandrake 7.2 to ship...
I don't know anyhting about Sailor Moon really, my point is that IMHO, a geek is not some dork who collects hip electronics and watches prepubescent-esque cartoon characters run around in short skirts. That would be a pervert and a sheeplike consumer.
This ballot was not like yours. It had a single row of punch-holes (machine-counted ballot) with candidates lited alternately on either side of the row. If you look at the word "Democrat" on Gore's entry and follow it straight across to the center line, the hole you might mark is the one that really belongs to Buchanan. If you live in a retirement community, this could make a big difference in your vote.
What is a more important and better electoral reform is the removal of the inherent support for the current two-party system built into the electoral process. Bush and Gore automatically got on the ballot, everyone else had to have petition drives for the right guaranteed them by the Constitution to run for President.
I hope you are a bot of some kind. No sane human being could write a single rambling paragraph of such mass. I sure as hell can't read it well enough to even think about responding.
I am not willing to sacrifice my right to free speech, my right to my own religious conscience and the exercise thereof, my right to a free press, my right to the integrity and privacy of my own body and to choose for myself what substances may or may not enter into it, and many other rights not here enumerated in order to elect the candidate who is the lesser of two evils when it comes to the significant but singular right to keep and bear arms.
Furthermore, I maintain that at this point it is moot as to whether we can purchase handguns with or without a background check or what have you, as our collective firepower has already been sufficiently reduced such that if push were to come to shove in protecting our other rights, we would have to commit civil disobience in breaking already existing gun control laws to arm ourselves well enough.
I believe you can find people in almost any political party who think that privatizing the police and/or military is an "interesting idea."
Well yes, of course they go over the edge, but that's where the trans-dimensional physics and the peculiarities of 23rd dimensional horfnoggler diets come into play.
The Republican party doesn't stand for a smaller government, they stand for a slightly different, but similarly-sized government, for which the lower-income citizens pay a larger share than they do now and corporate and wealthy citizens pay a smaller share.
The same goes for "freedom". All these idiots at my work have "Freedom First: Vote Bush" bumper stickers. If "freedom" is really your first concern you should be voting for someone else.
If a candidate has a platform that includes a lot of good stuff for which there is some broad support, and coincidentally also supports some crazy hare-brained scheme that would never possibly come to fruition during their term... what is the possible harm in electing them for the good ideas that might work? It can't be any worse than electing people with the wrong ideas about a lot of "small things" and a more mainstream position on the crazy ideals held by the 3rd party candidate.
Did this kid win the "chubby bunny" contest? Or the "blow a bubble with the gum hidden in the bottom of this cream pie" contest?
You forgot to mention the international zionist conspiracy.
So what I do, is compile almost everything from sources for a long time, then install a new release every few months.
Of course, I don't run a ton of services, so the reconfiguring thing doesn't affect me much.
I am officially revoking the Geek Licenses of all you furby-collecting, Sailor Moon-watching social retards who didn't know that Gallileo's "paltry" 150bits/second transmissions are the result of a heroic rescue from yet-another-NASA-failure.
The SuperCPU is an accelerator/memory expansion board that includes a 16-bit descendant of the 6502 (Same chip as the SuperNES), which can address all that memory.
Personally I don't think this counts as a C64 Web Browser, really it is a SuperCPU Web Browser, which is a signifigant difference considering the cost of a SuperCPU. Still, it is a pretty impressive piece of assembly programming, and runs on the C64's now pathetic system bus and video hardware.
I christen thee "Elbow Macaroni"
Isn't Nullsoft essentially a vanity purchase for AOL anyway? I don't see what possible profit motive was behind it. So what harm does it do AOL to let the Nullsoft boys run wild, but reign in potentially litigenic stuff like Gnutella.
I used to think it was important for open source projects to have a good document describing the direction, feature goals, and planned behavior. Well, I still do, but I think now that there is a more pressing need...
README files! I've been browsing freshmeat and SourceForge just for the hell of it and what some projects actually neglect to mention anywhere on their homepage or in the README file, is what the general purpose of the program actually is!
American highways *can* be pretty bad.
Yes, it would send the message that the 25% of people who don't like any of the candidates can't get their sh*t together enough to run somebody else, and are immaterial to the political process.
It makes it all the more important that the type of unlikely voter we've got in these parts votes, to balance out the elementary school teachers and nurses.
Not that I'm saying elementary school teachers and nurses are bad people. They just seem a little bewildered about this whole "government" thing and what it does.
I'll be eligble to run in the 2008, hold your horses. :)
Seriously, blocking software may be bad, it may have lots of problems, but if the majority of the people want computers bought with public funds to not show porn, that's a decision that's OK by me..
If the majority of the people want public lynchings of left-handed people...
Since the President cannot grow or shrink government to 0% or 100% suddenly by decree, what is the harm in electing one whose goal is 0%. By voting for the guy claiming to aim at 80% of the current size, you would doom yourself to a government that is actually larger than the goal, since it is generally impossible for a President to get everything he wants.