Nice "excluded middle" fallacy, buddy. You're not really interested in solving the problem, just bitching about it. Whatever.
A simple solution would be to require a certain number of signatures to get on the ballot. I expect a smart person could come up with a number of other possible solutions to that problem, at which point people like you will say "but there's this other problem you haven't thought of yet, THEREFORE WE SHOULD DO NOTHING".
What we ought to do is ban private campaign financing entirely. Every campaign gets the same fixed amount from a general government fund, end of story.
Or perhaps the wealthy have a lot of extra money and thus can afford to buy pols that will put their benefactors' will above that of people who can't afford to finance campaigns.
It's true and I hope that someone better wins the D nomination in '16, but if it comes down to her and a Republican I'm going to have to vote against the Republican; as much as HC would be a bad choice it's a cinch that the other guy would be worse.
Don't natter at me about third parties; thanks to first-past-the-post voting for them really is a wasted vote, because you'll never convince enough people to vote for a minor party most of them have never heard of.
Assuming you can convince the majority that they're not pissing their money away by contributing. Most people don't have lots of spare money and there's no guarantee that even with a victory the pol's going to listen.
Several of the states have old decommissioned gas chambers that were previously used for executions. I doubt it'd take much to get them airtight again; you'd just need new seals and a couple pumps: one to pull out atmospheric gas and another to pump in nitrogen, until you get a mostly-pure nitrogen atmo at STP.
Do your archives contain anything of consequence? These are the only known copies of works by a major dead artist, they're worth taking extra precautions over that your old 16-color horse porn doesn't
but if the disk was properly stored and was of a good brand
If.
This is pretty typical of Slashdot, really: technical people with some education second-guessing people who do $THING for a living even though they don't have the same knowledge of the field or the circumstances, but by $DEITY they're smart people and they know things, so they're instantly armchair experts.
Let me see... I last used a floppy a couple years ago and it was basically single-use: wrote data to it once, got it back off once, then Bad Sector City. Most of that 10-pack of floppies was the same way.
Granted "modern" 3.5" floppies are much lower quality than what we had in the '80s but your assertion that floppies never break is stupid.
I would've just stuck the disks in and tried to copy it myself.
Possibly that's because you're an idiot. Floppies and drives degrade just like everything else and taking these extraordinary measures gives a better chance of not permanently damaging something priceless during recovery attempts.
The iPad in particular wants more amperage than older standard iPod/iPhone chargers can supply; it's part of having a larger, more power-hungry screen. It'd be better if all their chargers were identically specced, though.
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Links, fuckwit, links. Post a link from the Center for Responsive Politics or somewhere else not paywalled.
Yeah, you've got nothing.
I don't have that luxury because Missouri is still more-or-less a swing state, though we are definitely leaning Republican these days.
Nice "excluded middle" fallacy, buddy. You're not really interested in solving the problem, just bitching about it. Whatever.
A simple solution would be to require a certain number of signatures to get on the ballot. I expect a smart person could come up with a number of other possible solutions to that problem, at which point people like you will say "but there's this other problem you haven't thought of yet, THEREFORE WE SHOULD DO NOTHING".
What we ought to do is ban private campaign financing entirely. Every campaign gets the same fixed amount from a general government fund, end of story.
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Yeah, you've got nothing.
We are talking about money to support a political campaign's opponents if the politician doesn't do what he's told, dipshit.
Or perhaps the wealthy have a lot of extra money and thus can afford to buy pols that will put their benefactors' will above that of people who can't afford to finance campaigns.
Don't lie.
It's true and I hope that someone better wins the D nomination in '16, but if it comes down to her and a Republican I'm going to have to vote against the Republican; as much as HC would be a bad choice it's a cinch that the other guy would be worse.
Don't natter at me about third parties; thanks to first-past-the-post voting for them really is a wasted vote, because you'll never convince enough people to vote for a minor party most of them have never heard of.
I hope this project doesn't wind up giving us more ignorant teabaggers in Congress.
Assuming you can convince the majority that they're not pissing their money away by contributing. Most people don't have lots of spare money and there's no guarantee that even with a victory the pol's going to listen.
In the meantime the world economy collapses and we'll end up with the rich and powerful running things anyway, just differently.
That's a stupid idea, but unfortunately I don't know of a smart idea to handle this that's got a likelihood of succeeding.
Several of the states have old decommissioned gas chambers that were previously used for executions. I doubt it'd take much to get them airtight again; you'd just need new seals and a couple pumps: one to pull out atmospheric gas and another to pump in nitrogen, until you get a mostly-pure nitrogen atmo at STP.
The government's barely respected the 4th Amendment for a very long time now.
Regulatory capture.
But if it works then you've proven you're smarter than everyone else, and that's obviously more important.
Do your archives contain anything of consequence? These are the only known copies of works by a major dead artist, they're worth taking extra precautions over that your old 16-color horse porn doesn't
Right? What happens if a neckbeard's dandruff flake gets into the drive and thence between the read head and the magnetic disc?
but if the disk was properly stored and was of a good brand
If.
This is pretty typical of Slashdot, really: technical people with some education second-guessing people who do $THING for a living even though they don't have the same knowledge of the field or the circumstances, but by $DEITY they're smart people and they know things, so they're instantly armchair experts.
Let me see... I last used a floppy a couple years ago and it was basically single-use: wrote data to it once, got it back off once, then Bad Sector City. Most of that 10-pack of floppies was the same way.
Granted "modern" 3.5" floppies are much lower quality than what we had in the '80s but your assertion that floppies never break is stupid.
Do any of your random old floppies hold the only known copies of works by a major dead artist? Wanker.
Heh, no. I was never a Miggie user back in the day, I've just got much experience with PC floppies and Murphy.
I would've just stuck the disks in and tried to copy it myself.
Possibly that's because you're an idiot. Floppies and drives degrade just like everything else and taking these extraordinary measures gives a better chance of not permanently damaging something priceless during recovery attempts.
The iPad in particular wants more amperage than older standard iPod/iPhone chargers can supply; it's part of having a larger, more power-hungry screen. It'd be better if all their chargers were identically specced, though.
This makes the Russian media's use of "Fascists!!!!1" to describe anyone the Kremlin doesn't like deliciously ironic.
Pfft. You've never seen anyone being made to quarter soldiers in their homes, have you?