It doesn't need to simply be a matter of intimidation if you lose the secret ballot... what about someone organizing lots of voters short on cash and promising twenty bucks if you can show an official "I voted for candidate X" slip? A paper trail also opens up the possibility of vote buying.
Carcasonne is an excellent entry point into the world of strategy board gaming. The rules can be learned in about 15 minutes, but it takes many games to really get a sense of winning strategies. It is also infinitely replayable, since the board is different every time you play. Truly, one of the great games of the last few years.
The biggest tip that it's a fake is that they said they plan to track the homeless people using Windows NT boxes. I mean, come on, you could track what, about 10 people before they crash? I think that our privacy is safe unless they switch to a more stable os to herd us.
Why don't we feed the hungry now, and pay for space exploration in say 100 or 200 million years? That way we all win.
Because if we feed all the people who are hungry, that accelerates an already problematic rate of population growth. Then we don't have 500 million years, we have a few thousand, before the earth can't support our well fed population of trillions. How long have people been on the planet? How many of them are here now? That sort of growth cannot be sustained for even a geologically short period of time without a new frontier to send the people to.
The big problem with most of the online resources is that they only list houses that are handled by agents. There are some very nice places for sale by owner (I just bought one myself). There is a website that just lists these, so that you can find some of what's available.
http://pal-net.com/
I'm not sure how national it is, but it had a fair amount from western new york.
I recently switched jobs, and went from developing in a Unix (Solaris) environment to a PC environment. What I've discovered is that, with a little effort, you can turn the PC into a development platform similar to *nix. NTEmacs, ActivePerl, A C/C++ compiler, a desktop pager, Apache, and the like are all freely available for the PC, and can be used to build a very open development environment even if you are forced to use a Microsoft OS. Of course, you have to convince the boss that your system is better than the slick packages...
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It doesn't need to simply be a matter of intimidation if you lose the secret ballot... what about someone organizing lots of voters short on cash and promising twenty bucks if you can show an official "I voted for candidate X" slip? A paper trail also opens up the possibility of vote buying.
Carcasonne is an excellent entry point into the world of strategy board gaming. The rules can be learned in about 15 minutes, but it takes many games to really get a sense of winning strategies. It is also infinitely replayable, since the board is different every time you play. Truly, one of the great games of the last few years.
The biggest tip that it's a fake is that they said they plan to track the homeless people using Windows NT boxes. I mean, come on, you could track what, about 10 people before they crash? I think that our privacy is safe unless they switch to a more stable os to herd us.
Why don't we feed the hungry now, and pay for space exploration in say 100 or 200 million years? That way we all win.
Because if we feed all the people who are hungry, that accelerates an already problematic rate of population growth. Then we don't have 500 million years, we have a few thousand, before the earth can't support our well fed population of trillions. How long have people been on the planet? How many of them are here now? That sort of growth cannot be sustained for even a geologically short period of time without a new frontier to send the people to.
But who wouldn't pay to see "Billy and the Boingers" back on the road again?
The big problem with most of the online resources is that they only list houses that are handled by agents. There are some very nice places for sale by owner (I just bought one myself). There is a website that just lists these, so that you can find some of what's available. http://pal-net.com/ I'm not sure how national it is, but it had a fair amount from western new york.
I recently switched jobs, and went from developing in a Unix (Solaris) environment to a PC environment. What I've discovered is that, with a little effort, you can turn the PC into a development platform similar to *nix. NTEmacs, ActivePerl, A C/C++ compiler, a desktop pager, Apache, and the like are all freely available for the PC, and can be used to build a very open development environment even if you are forced to use a Microsoft OS. Of course, you have to convince the boss that your system is better than the slick packages...