It's very sad that I'm agreeing with you. The GOP is currently the party of dirty tricks[1] and I expect little else of them.
The county GOP committee (in Missouri) had an ad in the local rag's voter guide that said, among other things, that if a voter doesn't make a mark for each and every race on the ballot tomorrow, the entire ballot will be thrown out. I'm fairly certain this isn't true and I've asked MO's secretary of state to have a look.
[1] During the '04 campaign, the GOP National Committee distributed fliers in Arkansas that said if Democrats were voted in, they'd try to ban the Bible as hate speech. Jamming some state Democrat get-out-the-vote committee's phones during the same campaign.
It's not just at the federal level that we have political dynasties. Here in Missouri we have at least the Carnahan family and doubtless others, Chicago has the Daleys, and Louisiana politics is infamous beyond the state's borders. Cheney's pet chimp is grooming his daughters for a life in politics, and his opponent in 2000 was also from a political family.
Just because of this, I would at least like to try stochastic voting somewhere in the States. Essentially there is no voting for offices, rather people are chosen via lottery from the eligible pool and must serve[1] (like jury duty) and so holding office is a burden rather than a career. Yeah, you'd get some complete drooling fuckwit in an important role at some point [insert cheap shot here], but it seems worth it to me.
[1] But only one term and thereafter never eligible for at least that office.
The county lockup can be fairly bad, too. Way back when, my scout troop toured one, and it was quite dirty and smelly. Not to the extent of a medieval dungeon, but there was dirt and a half-eaten apple on the beds and the toilet was stopped up with shit. We didn't meet any inmates. The only thing they could look forward to (besides release and exercise period) was being a "trusty", and this status let them outside the jail on supervised work detail. They were only given two meals a day -- no lunch. Nowadays the jail is always overcrowded (end the War on Some Drugs!) but the voters don't give a damn.
Except they'd also have to use different motherboards, since the sockets and chipsets aren't compatible, and sometimes the memory isn't either, as before AMD switched to socket AM2. Better for them to have a single supplier, and Intel's the one with fab capacity (and a better chip, finally).
A better idea is to use Ghost for Linux, because it has a script that writes zeros to the drive's slack space, thus allowing much better compression of the image.
Yeah, my uni's got a similar product called Centurion Guard in all the public labs. You set the machine up, activate the software, then all changes made after you activate it go away when you reboot. You can deactivate it temporarily to install new software. Works pretty well.
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That's why you turn off the gorram phone ringers and maybe the answering machine if you're expecting to get busy.
Bah, it's apparent YOU have never been. Women can lose the mood just like that.
Yes, I've had a phone interrupt. Don't remember if I've had a door interrupt, though.
Cite?
Stop that.
She's been feeling bitchy for a while.
Lockhead, maybe (as in "head up and locked").
fud notfud yes no maybe
Maybe itsatrap as well.
Why do we have tags if the same braindead ones are displayed for most of them?
Parent is not flamebait. Furrfu.
It's very sad that I'm agreeing with you. The GOP is currently the party of dirty tricks[1] and I expect little else of them.
The county GOP committee (in Missouri) had an ad in the local rag's voter guide that said, among other things, that if a voter doesn't make a mark for each and every race on the ballot tomorrow, the entire ballot will be thrown out. I'm fairly certain this isn't true and I've asked MO's secretary of state to have a look.
[1] During the '04 campaign, the GOP National Committee distributed fliers in Arkansas that said if Democrats were voted in, they'd try to ban the Bible as hate speech. Jamming some state Democrat get-out-the-vote committee's phones during the same campaign.
Have you read "A Modest Proposal"? His essay looked to be a satirical way of drawing attention to the plight of the Irish.
Congressweasel, Shirley?
Or Competitor Acquisitions, since that's what they did.
No. Nullsoft had nothing to do with it, it was an outfit called Playmedia Systems who had a program called "Amp". Mod parent -1, wrong.
It's not just at the federal level that we have political dynasties. Here in Missouri we have at least the Carnahan family and doubtless others, Chicago has the Daleys, and Louisiana politics is infamous beyond the state's borders. Cheney's pet chimp is grooming his daughters for a life in politics, and his opponent in 2000 was also from a political family.
Just because of this, I would at least like to try stochastic voting somewhere in the States. Essentially there is no voting for offices, rather people are chosen via lottery from the eligible pool and must serve[1] (like jury duty) and so holding office is a burden rather than a career. Yeah, you'd get some complete drooling fuckwit in an important role at some point [insert cheap shot here], but it seems worth it to me.
[1] But only one term and thereafter never eligible for at least that office.
How often do you get laid?
No shit, where have you been?
There is. Wikipedia has an entry that explains this.
The county lockup can be fairly bad, too. Way back when, my scout troop toured one, and it was quite dirty and smelly. Not to the extent of a medieval dungeon, but there was dirt and a half-eaten apple on the beds and the toilet was stopped up with shit. We didn't meet any inmates. The only thing they could look forward to (besides release and exercise period) was being a "trusty", and this status let them outside the jail on supervised work detail. They were only given two meals a day -- no lunch. Nowadays the jail is always overcrowded (end the War on Some Drugs!) but the voters don't give a damn.
Except they'd also have to use different motherboards, since the sockets and chipsets aren't compatible, and sometimes the memory isn't either, as before AMD switched to socket AM2. Better for them to have a single supplier, and Intel's the one with fab capacity (and a better chip, finally).
Who cares? Drink enough coffee and you vibrate.
Well done, that man.
If it takes spending lots of money to impress a girl, you don't want her anyway.
A better idea is to use Ghost for Linux, because it has a script that writes zeros to the drive's slack space, thus allowing much better compression of the image.
I'm about to find out: got an M44 and will go shooting on Sunday. Thanks for the reminder that I need to get a butt pad. :-)
Yeah, my uni's got a similar product called Centurion Guard in all the public labs. You set the machine up, activate the software, then all changes made after you activate it go away when you reboot. You can deactivate it temporarily to install new software. Works pretty well.