Usually from a system perspective. It is very difficult with some banks to take any bill from the "monthly automatic billing" process. Here in Brazil we had to pass a law to make it mandatory that all banks must without hassle and on the same day, stop any automatic payment.
Are you trying other methods? Did you check your doctor for the stomach-reducing procedure. Have you thought about total control of your diet to not gain weight?
You don't WANT any of that? Then yes, it is your fault and your only
Only in Wonderland does all families consider their kids blessings, ESPECIALLY kids with issues. They may not admit it, they may WANT to love them. That doesn't mean they do.
I have a relative with Down's. She is 22 now with the mind of a 14 year old. Now, she is damn happy, as she was in a good part of her life. Happy, but depressed. Knowing how difficult everything was, trying to understand and not been able to rationalize why, and more important, why her.
But sometimes it is not about the kids, it is about the parents. You have no bloody idea how hard it is, how tiresome and how horrible things can be. You may believe that there is this lovable all-powerful man that sent this child to test you, your fate, and if you fail you go to this very miserable place, but I don't. And given the choice, and more important the knowledge that my child would be born with down, or any other very serious handicap I would ask for my gf\wife\whatever to abort. If she didn't want, well, she would have to raise the child alone, because that is something I don't want to pass through again.
I can understand, and am not saying your situation wasn't serious. What I'm curious 'bout is why someone would use a social networking site MADE to find people rather than a private/generic email address... wouldn't that be safer?
Make friends, or at least have some degree of social interaction in the safest possible way you can (given the circumstances)
From the summary and they're making an effort to shift the focus onto the parents to keep their kids' gaming habits under control. If that is not a sudden out a break of common sense, I don't know what else could be.
I play American Football and used to play Rugby. What I can say is:
American Football is much easier to learn. Too player centric (instead of team), and overcoached. It is more of a play between the 2 coach teams using their players as pawns, and bishops, etc, than about team work
American Football is easier on the player. As you said, you rest. A LOT.
American Football has too many silly rules for nothing. And another bunch just because of all the protection.
I wish I could mod you up AND reply at the same time.
So they got a patent on decoding and interpreting? Isn't that covered by prior art with things like PDFCreator, or is it enough to change file types to get it?
There are many things I do not understand, and I will put this one among those. I don't know about US but here in Brazil at least, it is common practice when you go to the restaurant to pay only for what you pay. Most places can make different tabs for each costumer on the table, even if not, it is normal to pay part of the value on separate credit cards.
You know, because it is very hard to do simple math, specially because it is not common for any cellphone to have a calculator.
There are many important places where we can use it, besides gain an edge on competitive sports (yeah, I know, money talks).
If the coating can be used on anything else, I say we have a pretty serious application on anything that deals with salty water.
Still on the topic of swimming, how good it is the thermal isolation on this things? Can it be made to better diving suits?
Ship sails that do not get wet.
Protective clothes and other fabric for people on icy\snowy places. Specially mountaineers and the guys down at Antarctica.
Is it only water or any liquid? I mean, can I spray alcohol and it won't stick? What about mud? Will it only be the earth particles on the cloth and the liquid will pour off?
Perhaps we just don't think that killing animals is necessarily cruel and/or inhumane.
Exactly. I think that killing is a intriscic part of nature, natural evolution and necessity. Our bodies ARE prepared to eat meat, to deny that is simply stupid. Killng happens, and killing for eating is just that, natural. You don't want? Fine, good for you. I do. And I will keep doing it, as other animals do all the time.
I remember a great quote from someone I don't remember, about why people would be half-vegetarian (I mean, would decry killing some animals, but were ok with fish, for example): Blessed be those animals that have voice. Because they can show their suffer and gather sympathy.
When I was 16 our theatre group in school performed Lysistrata. You know, walking among the audience with a fake hard-on and pass close to your grandparents (I was the Atheniense(sp?) ambassador), really made me blush. But the text is priceless.
We already know how many people are voting prior to election day, very few places allow same day registration.
But even with some weeks of prior notice, that is still too few time. I agree that the main reason of the lack of voting machines in some districts is more to do with the need to try to rig the election, in a "lawful way" (I'm looking at you Ohio). Here at least work because those numbers are written into law.
There are some problem to try to adapt it to US, mainly since the fact that the voting process is not nation-wide equal, been decided by each state. And that could pose a problem
So it's not really mandatory voting, it's mandatory registration you're after. No complaints here, I have no issue making sure everyone eligible is properly documented if those documented people can still choose not to show up.
Yeah, they just need to justify why they did not went. If they were in transit, no sweat there, and no problem arises. If they were in town and just couldn't be bother to go, they need to pay a fine (IIRC it is about 1 dollar per voting missed, almost ridiculous). And even if they don't pay, they only miss a few things. Example, they can't issue a new passport, or enter the public service, otherwise nothing.
And if your only argument is preventing voter fraud, I don't see that this is one of them. People can get fake IDs, people can enter fake registrations. If someone can fake an ID well enough to burn through someones whole identity you don't think they could tamper with elections if there was any money in it?
Depending on the ID that is a hard thing to do. We used to have easier fakeable IDs, but the new models are kind of harder. You can find some fakes that will pass as real on a first look, but can't survive a more throughly verification. You still have the problem of corruption inheriting to the system (someone inside the issuing organ helping fake some IDs, but that is a different problem to tackle)
You know what else you get? People randomly checking boxes because they either don't know or don't care about the issues they're voting on, yet they have been coerced into voting anyways.
How is coercing a person to vote any better than coercing them not to vote?
Accountability and system control (And not population control, mind you. Secret vote is one of the best things invented).
I personally don't agree with this because I think not having photo ID just makes everyone's life harder but it is the case.
Agreed. I will concede that I do not know the exactly details of the Real ID act, so I'm not sure if there are things there that would make me oppose (example an RFID tag with biometric data). Here we have each very simple:
Every state is obligated to have an office to issue photo IDs. These IDs are valid for the whole country, but there records are kept state-wise (so I can have 2 official IDs, from 2 different states, for example). All these IDs share the same design (changing only a few fields to state where they were issued) and have the same fields.
Your name
Your parents name
Date of birth
Issue date
Place of birth
Birth Certificate data
Right thumb fingerprint
Your photo
Your signature
The important things here is the photo and the signature. Because you can verify if the signature is correct or not, and if the person with the ID is the one in the ID. Easy to identify and not too much info for someone to find too much about you.
It's not that I have anything to hide, but to be frank nothing can be gained from them knowing where I am.
Sorry if did not make it clear on the other post, but you do NOT have to inform if you moved to the Electoral Justice, only on your Tax form. But you can only change where you can vote, if you inform a new address.
3. The biggest one, what does it matter? What do you care as an outsider if someone doesn't care enough to vote.
Because your election affects me, as it affects a whole part of the globe. I follow the American election and SCOTUS as much as I do with the Brazilian legislature and election process. Just take for example the War on Iraq and the new financial crisis. It does affect me, badly, if you guys have a stupid for president, same goes for our own.
And it is not about if someone is lazy enough to vote, it is about the possibilities of frauds. A rigged election like Ohio's DOES affect me, badly. And watching all the problems, and specially, all the crap the government in Ohio did to rig it in favor of Bush, many of those would easily be avoid using how we do it here. (on rush voting hour, early morning or late afternoon, you don't wait more than 1h on line at the full precincts)
All that crap about, "not enough machines for the Democrat precincts" wouldn't happen, simply because since we know many month prior to the voting day how many will vote in each location, and how many votes per machine is needed (this is a fixed number) the rest of the math is easy.
If these people were ignorant, lazy, or dissatisfied enough that they would otherwise be not voting how responsible do you think their forced vote will be?
So they don't show to vote. They count against those that simply couldn't be bothered (we have a shameful of that example on the mayors election last month in the second biggest city in Brazil), and failed to show up.
BUT, since they were registered to a given place, someone could not go on their place and cast a vote, specially with the need of a Photo ID that can be verified to be fake or not.
Because it's a free country. Period. Frankly, our politicians like it when people don't vote. Gives them less reason to do what the people want.
Been a free country is no excuse. We are a free country too, but free is not meant to be "do what you will anytime". There are a few guidelines to be followed for democracy to work.
Voting in the presidential election is not a right, it's a privilege granted by our state legislators. By the U.S. constitution, the states are free to select the electors any way they want.
Hmmm, my points are still valid for state-only elections. But this is something that bugs me, there is something wrong in a democracy when the highest elected officer in the country is not vote by the people, but by proxy via electoral colleges(is this the correct term?)
Also, many places here DO require photo id.
I know, but it has been chalenged many times, something that I simply cannot understand.
As I posted on another thread, that is something I REALLY can't understand on your electoral process. Why the heck voting isn't mandatory? Why treat it as a right and not as a duty? There are a lot of things to gain from it, besides making the public make a decision. Remember people are lazy, people HAVE the attitude of it is not my problem. They will find excuses to no vote, to not do ANYTHING.
Voting should not be about exercising a right to express oneself, but about the duty of taking part in your country. You should have the RIGHT to vote as you seem fit (even if it is to vote on none of them as protest) and not be persecuted for it. You should have the RIGHT to run for any public appointed office as long as you are a a citizen of your country (or state in the case of USA where that matters). But dammit you have the DUTY to vote and make the process work. Everytime time I see the need of a voting campaign (even the brilliant one as the Leo's di Caprio) I shiver.
Besides that, there are many good things about how we do it here in Brazil: mandatory voting (and if you can't vote for some reason, as been away from your city, you need to justify it to the electoral justice or pay a fine and lose some rights), only ONE location to vote (you are assigned a voting district, that is written on your voting card and only changes when you request it, when moving for example) and the need for a photo ID document to vote.
What does this gives us?
Mandatory voting means that you can control how many votes were issued on the election
Obligatory location and nothing of this silly vote in transit, mail ballot or other things, guarantee you that a precinct has a correct number of votes. You can't stuff it, otherwise it would show. When you vote, you sign a list that you did go there, and the number of votes MuST be EQUAL to the number of people that went, if not cancel that machine and something went wrong there.
Photo ID makes it that you know that the person saying he is John Smith is actually John Smith, so there isn't such thing as voting in the place of another guy.
These are just simple things that could make the election much safer, and only of them comes from the way you see voting (as a right or duty) and how to conduct it. And that is apart from choosing your voting machine (or paper ballot, or whatever)
The government is important in the sense that they limit what parents and teachers can do. Mind you, that watching the American basic education from afar (Brazil in my case) I can see how the government can hind some parents ability to teach their kids, in this case because of too much choice.
It is easy to blame the modern life for your lack of parenting (complaining that you work too hard and you don't have time to watch what your kids are doing), when you have the government doing everything it can to control watch your children know, watch and think. In this case, to have that option is detrimental for society.
The rule of any government regarding education, is to set a minimum high bar on each grade, based on what is good for society, and not the parents. To assert the outer boundaries of our education, so we have parameters to compare and to compete, without setting a hard upper limit (if you want to teach your kid more than it is needed, that is marvelous), and more important to open ways for schools to be able to cope with those rules (funding for public education, very clear guidelines for private institutes, etc
There is a very fine line between helping educate our youth and babysitting a generation of idiots without critical thought. We here are closely to that line, and in some parts have unfortunately crossed it (when you have a dumb president like we have, that happens), but I see that you guys crossed it a long time ago, and seriously need to move back.
You know, as a Brazilian, that is one of those things that I really can't understand. HOw the hell voting is not mandatory?
Having followed the last 3 American elections, one of the most common problem is that you have no idea how many people will vote on any given poll. And specially, since you think that [i]identifying[/i] yourself before voting is evil. How the hell is that evil? And how does it guarantee that I'm who I say I'm.
For example, let's say that I'm Joe Sixpack Republican, and I know that my neighboors is John Addicted Democrat. Since I do not have to show a photo ID to identify myself, what stops me from going to the poll, and saying I'm him, and vote for Republicans as him?
One of the things that works in Brazil, since before the e-voting, is that you couldn't put more votes than possible on a poll. Basically here, everyone 18+ has to vote, and there is ONLY ONE place you can vote, your registered station. Each citizen has a voting card that says where you vote, so you won't forget.
When you get to the poll station, you need to show or your driver's license or your state ID (which has a photo) to prove that you indeed are who you say you are. Than you signed a presence paper and receive a recipt that you indeed went to vote.
After that the poll president authorizes the casting of ONE vote on the machine. You go to the poll station, alone, somewhere noone can see you and your vote, and cast your vote. The machine takes no more votes and you go your merry way.
After the poll is closed every party can check the list of how many people voted, how many possible voters the poll has, and how many votes were cast on the machine. If those numbers don't match, that poll is discarded from the election, and an investigation will happen.
Basically, that is possible, because everyone is registered, and you know, for sure, how many people will vote on any given location. (the penalty for not voting and not justifying why you didn't is a pretty small fine, but the loss of the right to apply for public position).
There are many things I don't understand about the american elections, but voting not been mandatory, and many of you finding that the need to identify that you are who you are Saying you are before vote is evil, are close to the top.
About tampering our election system. Is it possible? Yes, it is. Is it as easy as your system? Hell no.
- The machines are not connected to the Internet? (WTF?!?!!?)
- There is no outside port to connect to the machine, and the votes are stored on the memory, not on a SD card. (Again, WETF??)
- If you want to tamper the election, you will need to tamper each machine separated, since others pointed, the source code of the voting system is given to all the parties and they audit the installation, and the digital signature of the code. (I think it is a MD5 hash code, but I'm not sure)
It's interesting that they should award a Nobel for particle physics now, when there's a very real possibility that discoveries at the LHC will make an outstanding case for another within just a few years.
Even if the LHC changes how we view the subatomic world, their contributions can't be denied. I even think that it was on purpose: knowing that the LHC will make more discoveries worthing of a Nobel, they decided to award it now, as not to award again on an even shorter period of time. I'm not sure if I agree with the Committee politics of awarding the prizes after many years, "to let the theory settles", although I agree it is a good way to avoid things like the cold fusion. But I'm sure whoever finds the Higgs using the LHC will be awarded the Nobel 10 years later.
No you won't. Seriously, and it is not hard to think about that. Reason is simple, too few companies will decide to pay that overtime, and an even fewer positions will get that. And if I can't sue them for it, they can just claim on the interview that they will pay, and actually don't, and vÃila I can't prosecute them.
And that idea of yours of "you don't like, go get another job", reality called and they want your silly beliefs back. It just don't work like that. Most people don't have the luxury to select another job, specially students just out of college with plenty of debt and not rich families that can pay them until they find that only job that they enjoy. And they need to get what they can.
Holy FSM! More or less 31 weeks of downtime. Anyone have more details about the warming up and cooling process? I mean, how efectivly is it done and how long it take for each sector?
They are still one of the top service providers for big companies. Their support, SAP development, and services teams are still huge, and, IIRC the top one in USA. They do have a lot of saying in many things technical.
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Usually from a system perspective. It is very difficult with some banks to take any bill from the "monthly automatic billing" process. Here in Brazil we had to pass a law to make it mandatory that all banks must without hassle and on the same day, stop any automatic payment.
And it's my fault?
Are you trying other methods? Did you check your doctor for the stomach-reducing procedure. Have you thought about total control of your diet to not gain weight?
You don't WANT any of that? Then yes, it is your fault and your only
Only in Wonderland does all families consider their kids blessings, ESPECIALLY kids with issues. They may not admit it, they may WANT to love them. That doesn't mean they do.
I have a relative with Down's. She is 22 now with the mind of a 14 year old. Now, she is damn happy, as she was in a good part of her life. Happy, but depressed. Knowing how difficult everything was, trying to understand and not been able to rationalize why, and more important, why her.
But sometimes it is not about the kids, it is about the parents. You have no bloody idea how hard it is, how tiresome and how horrible things can be. You may believe that there is this lovable all-powerful man that sent this child to test you, your fate, and if you fail you go to this very miserable place, but I don't. And given the choice, and more important the knowledge that my child would be born with down, or any other very serious handicap I would ask for my gf\wife\whatever to abort. If she didn't want, well, she would have to raise the child alone, because that is something I don't want to pass through again.
I can understand, and am not saying your situation wasn't serious. What I'm curious 'bout is why someone would use a social networking site MADE to find people rather than a private/generic email address... wouldn't that be safer?
Make friends, or at least have some degree of social interaction in the safest possible way you can (given the circumstances)
From the summary and they're making an effort to shift the focus onto the parents to keep their kids' gaming habits under control. If that is not a sudden out a break of common sense, I don't know what else could be.
And you are inside why?
I play American Football and used to play Rugby. What I can say is:
American Football is much easier to learn. Too player centric (instead of team), and overcoached. It is more of a play between the 2 coach teams using their players as pawns, and bishops, etc, than about team work
American Football is easier on the player. As you said, you rest. A LOT.
American Football has too many silly rules for nothing. And another bunch just because of all the protection.
I wish I could mod you up AND reply at the same time.
So they got a patent on decoding and interpreting? Isn't that covered by prior art with things like PDFCreator, or is it enough to change file types to get it?
There are many things I do not understand, and I will put this one among those. I don't know about US but here in Brazil at least, it is common practice when you go to the restaurant to pay only for what you pay. Most places can make different tabs for each costumer on the table, even if not, it is normal to pay part of the value on separate credit cards.
You know, because it is very hard to do simple math, specially because it is not common for any cellphone to have a calculator.
There are many important places where we can use it, besides gain an edge on competitive sports (yeah, I know, money talks).
Perhaps we just don't think that killing animals is necessarily cruel and/or inhumane.
Exactly. I think that killing is a intriscic part of nature, natural evolution and necessity. Our bodies ARE prepared to eat meat, to deny that is simply stupid. Killng happens, and killing for eating is just that, natural. You don't want? Fine, good for you. I do. And I will keep doing it, as other animals do all the time.
I remember a great quote from someone I don't remember, about why people would be half-vegetarian (I mean, would decry killing some animals, but were ok with fish, for example): Blessed be those animals that have voice. Because they can show their suffer and gather sympathy.
When I was 16 our theatre group in school performed Lysistrata. You know, walking among the audience with a fake hard-on and pass close to your grandparents (I was the Atheniense(sp?) ambassador), really made me blush. But the text is priceless.
We already know how many people are voting prior to election day, very few places allow same day registration.
But even with some weeks of prior notice, that is still too few time. I agree that the main reason of the lack of voting machines in some districts is more to do with the need to try to rig the election, in a "lawful way" (I'm looking at you Ohio). Here at least work because those numbers are written into law.
There are some problem to try to adapt it to US, mainly since the fact that the voting process is not nation-wide equal, been decided by each state. And that could pose a problem
So it's not really mandatory voting, it's mandatory registration you're after. No complaints here, I have no issue making sure everyone eligible is properly documented if those documented people can still choose not to show up.
Yeah, they just need to justify why they did not went. If they were in transit, no sweat there, and no problem arises. If they were in town and just couldn't be bother to go, they need to pay a fine (IIRC it is about 1 dollar per voting missed, almost ridiculous). And even if they don't pay, they only miss a few things. Example, they can't issue a new passport, or enter the public service, otherwise nothing.
And if your only argument is preventing voter fraud, I don't see that this is one of them. People can get fake IDs, people can enter fake registrations. If someone can fake an ID well enough to burn through someones whole identity you don't think they could tamper with elections if there was any money in it?
Depending on the ID that is a hard thing to do. We used to have easier fakeable IDs, but the new models are kind of harder. You can find some fakes that will pass as real on a first look, but can't survive a more throughly verification. You still have the problem of corruption inheriting to the system (someone inside the issuing organ helping fake some IDs, but that is a different problem to tackle)
You know what else you get? People randomly checking boxes because they either don't know or don't care about the issues they're voting on, yet they have been coerced into voting anyways.
How is coercing a person to vote any better than coercing them not to vote?
Accountability and system control (And not population control, mind you. Secret vote is one of the best things invented).
I personally don't agree with this because I think not having photo ID just makes everyone's life harder but it is the case.
Agreed. I will concede that I do not know the exactly details of the Real ID act, so I'm not sure if there are things there that would make me oppose (example an RFID tag with biometric data). Here we have each very simple:
Every state is obligated to have an office to issue photo IDs. These IDs are valid for the whole country, but there records are kept state-wise (so I can have 2 official IDs, from 2 different states, for example). All these IDs share the same design (changing only a few fields to state where they were issued) and have the same fields.
The important things here is the photo and the signature. Because you can verify if the signature is correct or not, and if the person with the ID is the one in the ID. Easy to identify and not too much info for someone to find too much about you.
It's not that I have anything to hide, but to be frank nothing can be gained from them knowing where I am.
Sorry if did not make it clear on the other post, but you do NOT have to inform if you moved to the Electoral Justice, only on your Tax form. But you can only change where you can vote, if you inform a new address.
3. The biggest one, what does it matter? What do you care as an outsider if someone doesn't care enough to vote.
Because your election affects me, as it affects a whole part of the globe. I follow the American election and SCOTUS as much as I do with the Brazilian legislature and election process. Just take for example the War on Iraq and the new financial crisis. It does affect me, badly, if you guys have a stupid for president, same goes for our own.
And it is not about if someone is lazy enough to vote, it is about the possibilities of frauds. A rigged election like Ohio's DOES affect me, badly. And watching all the problems, and specially, all the crap the government in Ohio did to rig it in favor of Bush, many of those would easily be avoid using how we do it here. (on rush voting hour, early morning or late afternoon, you don't wait more than 1h on line at the full precincts)
All that crap about, "not enough machines for the Democrat precincts" wouldn't happen, simply because since we know many month prior to the voting day how many will vote in each location, and how many votes per machine is needed (this is a fixed number) the rest of the math is easy.
If these people were ignorant, lazy, or dissatisfied enough that they would otherwise be not voting how responsible do you think their forced vote will be?
So they don't show to vote. They count against those that simply couldn't be bothered (we have a shameful of that example on the mayors election last month in the second biggest city in Brazil), and failed to show up.
BUT, since they were registered to a given place, someone could not go on their place and cast a vote, specially with the need of a Photo ID that can be verified to be fake or not.
The beauty of the system is choice
There is such thing as bad choices.
Because it's a free country. Period. Frankly, our politicians like it when people don't vote. Gives them less reason to do what the people want.
Been a free country is no excuse. We are a free country too, but free is not meant to be "do what you will anytime". There are a few guidelines to be followed for democracy to work.
Voting in the presidential election is not a right, it's a privilege granted by our state legislators. By the U.S. constitution, the states are free to select the electors any way they want.
Hmmm, my points are still valid for state-only elections. But this is something that bugs me, there is something wrong in a democracy when the highest elected officer in the country is not vote by the people, but by proxy via electoral colleges(is this the correct term?)
Also, many places here DO require photo id.
I know, but it has been chalenged many times, something that I simply cannot understand.
As I posted on another thread, that is something I REALLY can't understand on your electoral process. Why the heck voting isn't mandatory? Why treat it as a right and not as a duty? There are a lot of things to gain from it, besides making the public make a decision. Remember people are lazy, people HAVE the attitude of it is not my problem. They will find excuses to no vote, to not do ANYTHING.
Voting should not be about exercising a right to express oneself, but about the duty of taking part in your country. You should have the RIGHT to vote as you seem fit (even if it is to vote on none of them as protest) and not be persecuted for it. You should have the RIGHT to run for any public appointed office as long as you are a a citizen of your country (or state in the case of USA where that matters). But dammit you have the DUTY to vote and make the process work. Everytime time I see the need of a voting campaign (even the brilliant one as the Leo's di Caprio) I shiver.
Besides that, there are many good things about how we do it here in Brazil: mandatory voting (and if you can't vote for some reason, as been away from your city, you need to justify it to the electoral justice or pay a fine and lose some rights), only ONE location to vote (you are assigned a voting district, that is written on your voting card and only changes when you request it, when moving for example) and the need for a photo ID document to vote.
What does this gives us?
These are just simple things that could make the election much safer, and only of them comes from the way you see voting (as a right or duty) and how to conduct it. And that is apart from choosing your voting machine (or paper ballot, or whatever)
The government is important in the sense that they limit what parents and teachers can do. Mind you, that watching the American basic education from afar (Brazil in my case) I can see how the government can hind some parents ability to teach their kids, in this case because of too much choice.
It is easy to blame the modern life for your lack of parenting (complaining that you work too hard and you don't have time to watch what your kids are doing), when you have the government doing everything it can to control watch your children know, watch and think. In this case, to have that option is detrimental for society.
The rule of any government regarding education, is to set a minimum high bar on each grade, based on what is good for society, and not the parents. To assert the outer boundaries of our education, so we have parameters to compare and to compete, without setting a hard upper limit (if you want to teach your kid more than it is needed, that is marvelous), and more important to open ways for schools to be able to cope with those rules (funding for public education, very clear guidelines for private institutes, etc
There is a very fine line between helping educate our youth and babysitting a generation of idiots without critical thought. We here are closely to that line, and in some parts have unfortunately crossed it (when you have a dumb president like we have, that happens), but I see that you guys crossed it a long time ago, and seriously need to move back.
You know, as a Brazilian, that is one of those things that I really can't understand. HOw the hell voting is not mandatory?
Having followed the last 3 American elections, one of the most common problem is that you have no idea how many people will vote on any given poll. And specially, since you think that [i]identifying[/i] yourself before voting is evil. How the hell is that evil? And how does it guarantee that I'm who I say I'm.
For example, let's say that I'm Joe Sixpack Republican, and I know that my neighboors is John Addicted Democrat. Since I do not have to show a photo ID to identify myself, what stops me from going to the poll, and saying I'm him, and vote for Republicans as him?
One of the things that works in Brazil, since before the e-voting, is that you couldn't put more votes than possible on a poll. Basically here, everyone 18+ has to vote, and there is ONLY ONE place you can vote, your registered station. Each citizen has a voting card that says where you vote, so you won't forget.
When you get to the poll station, you need to show or your driver's license or your state ID (which has a photo) to prove that you indeed are who you say you are. Than you signed a presence paper and receive a recipt that you indeed went to vote.
After that the poll president authorizes the casting of ONE vote on the machine. You go to the poll station, alone, somewhere noone can see you and your vote, and cast your vote. The machine takes no more votes and you go your merry way.
After the poll is closed every party can check the list of how many people voted, how many possible voters the poll has, and how many votes were cast on the machine. If those numbers don't match, that poll is discarded from the election, and an investigation will happen.
Basically, that is possible, because everyone is registered, and you know, for sure, how many people will vote on any given location. (the penalty for not voting and not justifying why you didn't is a pretty small fine, but the loss of the right to apply for public position).
There are many things I don't understand about the american elections, but voting not been mandatory, and many of you finding that the need to identify that you are who you are Saying you are before vote is evil, are close to the top.
About tampering our election system. Is it possible? Yes, it is. Is it as easy as your system? Hell no.
- The machines are not connected to the Internet? (WTF?!?!!?)
- There is no outside port to connect to the machine, and the votes are stored on the memory, not on a SD card. (Again, WETF??)
- If you want to tamper the election, you will need to tamper each machine separated, since others pointed, the source code of the voting system is given to all the parties and they audit the installation, and the digital signature of the code. (I think it is a MD5 hash code, but I'm not sure)
It's interesting that they should award a Nobel for particle physics now, when there's a very real possibility that discoveries at the LHC will make an outstanding case for another within just a few years.
Even if the LHC changes how we view the subatomic world, their contributions can't be denied. I even think that it was on purpose: knowing that the LHC will make more discoveries worthing of a Nobel, they decided to award it now, as not to award again on an even shorter period of time.
I'm not sure if I agree with the Committee politics of awarding the prizes after many years, "to let the theory settles", although I agree it is a good way to avoid things like the cold fusion. But I'm sure whoever finds the Higgs using the LHC will be awarded the Nobel 10 years later.
No you won't. Seriously, and it is not hard to think about that. Reason is simple, too few companies will decide to pay that overtime, and an even fewer positions will get that. And if I can't sue them for it, they can just claim on the interview that they will pay, and actually don't, and vÃila I can't prosecute them. And that idea of yours of "you don't like, go get another job", reality called and they want your silly beliefs back. It just don't work like that. Most people don't have the luxury to select another job, specially students just out of college with plenty of debt and not rich families that can pay them until they find that only job that they enjoy. And they need to get what they can.
Holy FSM! More or less 31 weeks of downtime. Anyone have more details about the warming up and cooling process? I mean, how efectivly is it done and how long it take for each sector?
They are still one of the top service providers for big companies. Their support, SAP development, and services teams are still huge, and, IIRC the top one in USA. They do have a lot of saying in many things technical.
As to how many of those had point hair.
A number of readers are sending word that the blogosphere and Twittersphere WTH is a Twttersphere? A new form on the R5 space?