I think that the two-party system is a natural outgrowth of only being able to vote for one candidate. Instant-runoff voting (a system where you can rank the candidates you want to vote for) would work out far better, if only because lots of people would choose their favorite third-party candidate as Number 1, and have an established party that they don't hate somewhere further down as a safeguard. In our current system, we waste our vote if we don't pick the winner. A duopoly follows.
Allowing felons to vote seems like a safe guard against corruption to me. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make a law to turn a group of people who you didn't want to vote into felons so they couldn't.
Those methods of vote-selling and intimidation are all possible without receipts, what with the prevalence of camera phones. If you refuse to provide proof of your vote, whether as a picture of your ballot, or a receipt online, you've reneged on the deal. Seriously, the disadvantages to an anonymous voting receipt pale in comparison to its counting/activist advantages.
They threw Game Boy Advance backwards compatibility in there, though. If they were trying to call it something besides a Game Boy (successor), they sure stirred up a lot of confusion with that move.
B-b-but! Corporations are merely a loose organization of individuals pursuing individual goals, while government is a hivemind of minimum-wage DMV workers pursuing a single, tyrannical, un-American, not-God-Blessed end. Only the Libertarians and anarcho-capitalists can lead us out of the darkness!
Yeah, you totally escaped the groupthink. Be prepared to be modded into oblivion, unfortunately.
Can you imagine the amount of bandwidth that would be available if the FCC would just step back and let the consumer-producer market find the most efficient solution for wireless data needs?
Yes, and as somebody with an interest in amateur radio, I can say it would be noisy. Consumerism always demands more.
Okay, so say some incredibly nasty communicable virus shows up tomorrow. We all go home and hide from each other. When exactly do we get to come out again?
Basement-dwelling Slashdotters are a big enough sample of conclusive evidence that they might as well throw padlocks on the doors and be done with it.
Trolls need food, too. Fossil fuels have caused much more devastation to the environment than nuclear accidents ever have. If you want me to prove nuclear accidents can never happen/God doesn't exist, then you've got me in a tight spot. Reactor designs have improved vastly since the ban on all new U.S. nuclear reactors 30+ years ago, and some of those designs can prevent meltdowns altogether. I have some of the same misgivings about nuclear power as the anti-nuclear movement (mostly related to mining), but I honestly don't think mountaintop removal or coal mining is any safer. I know you're just talking out of your ass about preferring a coal plant next door. The main difference between the two, though, is that nuclear reactors contain their waste and coal plants don't.
Spinning it as a failure of capitalism is either ignorant or just plain malicious. It's a perfect example of why too much government regulation is a bad thing.
Spinning it as a "tyrannical government oppressing the innocent, scientific free market!" is either ignorant or just plain malicious. Just as a large corporation systematically concentrates wealth, it will also use the powers that be (the government, usually) to maintain its firmly anti-competitive market. The government does things like this because corporate lobbyists draft bills and get them passed.
A person's time certainly does have value, but not the same value at any given time or place. I certainly don't agree with the GP, seeing as how the customer was willing to pay for it, but seriously, we wouldn't be sleeping or taking any time off if time was money. Rest is not a financial deposit to some unknown deity. There is a such thing as "Free time".
Trolls don't have to explain their reasoning. All they have to do is take what (might) be a minor inconvenience in a license such as the GPL, and expand it into a FUD-storm, listing, and not explaining, dubious alternatives.
Does anyone know how the CD came to be 5.25" in diameter?
Were the designers intentionally working with from the size of the floppy disk, which happened to be right for car CD players?
CDs evolved from 5.25-inch floppies. Seriously, you creationists don't have a good grasp of natural selection, do you? Spinning disks are a very successful phylum.
Residential and personal mobile device customers can expect to pay extraâ" on the order of US$5-10 per monthâ" if they want a public, i.e. non-RFC1918, IPv4 address assigned to them.
Exactly. Artificial IPv4 address scarcity will create artificial value. As we've seen with shenanigans from most ISPs here in the United States, they'll milk this for all its worth. As long as the revenue stream of extortion is greater than giving billions more customers what they want, don't expect them to take the IPv6 plunge.
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I think that the two-party system is a natural outgrowth of only being able to vote for one candidate. Instant-runoff voting (a system where you can rank the candidates you want to vote for) would work out far better, if only because lots of people would choose their favorite third-party candidate as Number 1, and have an established party that they don't hate somewhere further down as a safeguard. In our current system, we waste our vote if we don't pick the winner. A duopoly follows.
Allowing felons to vote seems like a safe guard against corruption to me. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make a law to turn a group of people who you didn't want to vote into felons so they couldn't.
Sounds like the War on Drugs to me.
...start actually fixing problems.
Or do you mean continue rolling over for other people's interests, since you effectively said, "I don't care"?
Where no question is too loaded, and where every comment is on topic.
Except for this one.
Those methods of vote-selling and intimidation are all possible without receipts, what with the prevalence of camera phones. If you refuse to provide proof of your vote, whether as a picture of your ballot, or a receipt online, you've reneged on the deal.
Seriously, the disadvantages to an anonymous voting receipt pale in comparison to its counting/activist advantages.
Ideally, the receipt provided to the voter would be imprinted with an anonymous unique number to verify their vote online
On the surface, this seems a good idea and really, its the only way that an electronic system can be trusted
In reality though, it opens the possibility of vote buying and intimidation
You might have a good point. If you don't explain it, though, it's indistinguishable from FUD.
The "I'm in the back of an unmarked white van" patch has already been released.
Osama Bin Laden, is that you?
How about a death penalty for anyone that buys anything from spam?
We'll file that one behind the death penalty for anyone who has ever used Microsoft Windows or anything besides Gentoo or Slackware.
They threw Game Boy Advance backwards compatibility in there, though. If they were trying to call it something besides a Game Boy (successor), they sure stirred up a lot of confusion with that move.
B-b-but! Corporations are merely a loose organization of individuals pursuing individual goals, while government is a hivemind of minimum-wage DMV workers pursuing a single, tyrannical, un-American, not-God-Blessed end. Only the Libertarians and anarcho-capitalists can lead us out of the darkness!
Yeah, you totally escaped the groupthink. Be prepared to be modded into oblivion, unfortunately.
Can you imagine the amount of bandwidth that would be available if the FCC would just step back and let the consumer-producer market find the most efficient solution for wireless data needs?
Yes, and as somebody with an interest in amateur radio, I can say it would be noisy. Consumerism always demands more.
The Ubuntu install botched on an ATI card, and this popped up:
Waiting 2 minutes before trying again on display :0
D:
Okay, so say some incredibly nasty communicable virus shows up tomorrow. We all go home and hide from each other. When exactly do we get to come out again?
Basement-dwelling Slashdotters are a big enough sample of conclusive evidence that they might as well throw padlocks on the doors and be done with it.
Trolls need food, too.
Fossil fuels have caused much more devastation to the environment than nuclear accidents ever have. If you want me to prove nuclear accidents can never happen/God doesn't exist, then you've got me in a tight spot. Reactor designs have improved vastly since the ban on all new U.S. nuclear reactors 30+ years ago, and some of those designs can prevent meltdowns altogether. I have some of the same misgivings about nuclear power as the anti-nuclear movement (mostly related to mining), but I honestly don't think mountaintop removal or coal mining is any safer. I know you're just talking out of your ass about preferring a coal plant next door. The main difference between the two, though, is that nuclear reactors contain their waste and coal plants don't.
The star was spinning so fast that we all heard a "whoooooosh" through the vast expanse of space.
Why would CERN be sending out death threats? Confident this will be the big one, maybe.
Spinning it as a failure of capitalism is either ignorant or just plain malicious. It's a perfect example of why too much government regulation is a bad thing.
Spinning it as a "tyrannical government oppressing the innocent, scientific free market!" is either ignorant or just plain malicious. Just as a large corporation systematically concentrates wealth, it will also use the powers that be (the government, usually) to maintain its firmly anti-competitive market. The government does things like this because corporate lobbyists draft bills and get them passed.
Time = Money, the capitalist mantra...
A person's time certainly does have value, but not the same value at any given time or place. I certainly don't agree with the GP, seeing as how the customer was willing to pay for it, but seriously, we wouldn't be sleeping or taking any time off if time was money. Rest is not a financial deposit to some unknown deity. There is a such thing as "Free time".
Trolls don't have to explain their reasoning. All they have to do is take what (might) be a minor inconvenience in a license such as the GPL, and expand it into a FUD-storm, listing, and not explaining, dubious alternatives.
Does anyone know how the CD came to be 5.25" in diameter?
Were the designers intentionally working with from the size of the floppy disk, which happened to be right for car CD players?
CDs evolved from 5.25-inch floppies. Seriously, you creationists don't have a good grasp of natural selection, do you? Spinning disks are a very successful phylum.
The feeling of sound lagging input could be a different issue or it could be psychological.
Or in 30-50 milliseconds it could be, y'know, the speed of sound.
Residential and personal mobile device customers can expect to pay extraâ" on the order of US$5-10 per monthâ" if they want a public, i.e. non-RFC1918, IPv4 address assigned to them.
Exactly. Artificial IPv4 address scarcity will create artificial value. As we've seen with shenanigans from most ISPs here in the United States, they'll milk this for all its worth. As long as the revenue stream of extortion is greater than giving billions more customers what they want, don't expect them to take the IPv6 plunge.
(Not trying to generalize, just for many instances)
They "drive in your blind spot" because they're trying to pass, but you aren't letting them.
Government-granted monopolies on ISPs are most likely the result of corporate lobbying.