I've never understood the entire concept of publishing running counts, 'projecting' or 'calling the election.'
Results can start to be published, *at minimum,* after all polls are closed. Not at closing time, but when the polls are actually closed, nobody left waiting in line to vote.
Preferably, the results should come, you know, when the counting is done, but I get it, you guys are impatient.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can scar you for life.
The problem with the original 'names can never hurt me' rhyme is that it teaches the children that their natural and correct reaction to emotional assault is wrong and shameful, and compounds the trauma.
It's as bad as the 'violence never solves anything' meme.
A state can absolutely secede unilaterally. However, the parent country can always invade unilaterally.
The rather unique problem that the US of A has is that there's only two options for friendly assistance; Canada and Mexico, neither one of which would be likely to simply say 'hell yeah!' and provide military backup.
Oh, the thinking is easy. I just use '100 km is about 55 miles' as a basic rule of thumb.
F to C is easy; Take F, subtract 32, divide by 2. 100F = 68/2 = about 34. Close enough for government work.
My point, however, was that despite living in a metric country, to the point that my driver's license lists my height in CM and weight in KG, the culture still hasn't completely caught up. You raise another good point; cooking is still all in imperial. We measure in cups, tablespoons, ounces, and preheat the oven to 350f or whatever.
Celsius is fine for humans. Water freezes at 0, humans are comfortable between about 15 and 25 degrees, 30 is too goddamn hot, 10 is grab a jacket, 5 is grab a coat.
Meters and yards are interchangeable enough for jazz. Oddly enough, though, one of my hand guns is 9mm, the other is.45 inches....
Point being, lots of it is just historical inertia. We don't, in my experience, measure human weight in 'stone,' unlike the motherland, for example.
I'm Canadian, I'm 39 years old. When driving, I think in terms of kilometers. I know it's, say, 50 km to Toronto from here, but I'd have no idea how many miles that is, without doing some math.
However, if anybody asks, I'm 5"11, and I weigh about 180 pounds.
First off, he didn't say 'New discoveries will be rare.' He said 'There is nothing new to discover.' There's nothing to 'interpret' or 'clarify' here.
Second, lets look at your statement. "Also on the insight-level of a child. Nothing like that is going to happen." Not 'This is un-peer-replicated junk, talk to me when they have a working, reproducible model.' No, this is 'Mr. Marconi, your silly notions of transmitting words across the Atlantic Ocean without a telegraph table are ludicrous! Mayhaps you should ask those insane Wright brothers to ferry your messages on the preposterous flying machine they're attempting to build!'
You're absolutely correct. It's exceptionally rare, and proof is required, to demonstrate new and novel ideas. Doesn't mean they're impossible, though.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement -- Lord Kelvin, 1900, when people still believed in the luminiferous aether.
What physics revolutions appeared in the early 1900s, do you think?
How do you have precincts that don't have adequate oversight?
Every interested political party sends an observer, as does the non-partisan government elections body, and anybody who cares to show up and watch, does. This isn't difficult.
You are holding elections the way 3rd world countries hold their first election in history, and it's just absolutely pathetic.
For even funnier schadenfreude, take a look at all of the stuff that America enforces when they help supervise elections in actual third-world countries to combat fraud and electoral shenanigans.
You don't have to do ANYTHING special. Simply allow whatever church to follow any existing tax law that isn't church specific.
You'd think that most churches would fit just fine under existing not-for-profit organization types, except, of course, for the fact that religions tend to be very explicitly for-profit.
Nope, this is the elected official version of 'show your work.'
If the public can't get an idea of how the elected officials are going about their jobs, they can't make informed decisions about keeping them or replacing them in those jobs.
I don't think the government paid for your bus fare, time missed from work, and possibly literacy lessons to drive down to town hall to view the text of bills and what not.
Around here, we get the worst of both worlds. Temperatures can hit 35 c in summer, before humidex, and -35 c in winter, before wind chill. So we get to worry about both heating and cooling.
Exactly. More targeted than blanket TV or Radio ads, more efficient than going door to door, and far less intrusive to boot. And utterly ignorable if you have nothing to contribute, or choose not to contribute.
What you're describing would be a person seeking a ride posting to Uber's app a message saying 'I want to travel from Point A to Point B, ride to take no more than X amount of time, no stopovers, and I'm willing to pay Y amount', which individual drivers would then be free to accept or not accept.
What the system would look like with 'independent contractors' would be that a person looking for a ride would log into Uber's app, and would be presented with a list of available drivers, and what those drivers were charging per KM or whatever, as well as a list of value-adds (nicer car, say, experience with traffic patterns in the area, user-controlled sound system, whatever) which the ride-seeker would then choose from.
Canada basically has three electoral states, on the federal level:
1: A party has a majority. They can do what they want, basically unimpeded.
2: A party has a minority. This is basically a way of the populace to tell the party 'watch it, you're getting a bit out of hand.'
3: The other party suddenly wins majority. This happens on a regular basis. Basically, once a party has had a majority for, oh, eight to twelve years, either it gets complacent, or the usual corruption and cronyism gets too bad to ignore, and we 'teach the incumbents a lesson' by electing the other party for a while.
Note that due to the riding and first-past-the-post system, a government can win a 'sweeping majority' with ~40 percent of the popular vote.
Also, we don't elect a separate executive; imagine if you simply voted for Congress, and whichever party got the most seats in Congress got to put their party leader into the presidency. There's no reason why, in a minority situation, a few parties couldn't get together and form a coalition. This is, in fact, how it's supposed to work; the idea is that if you have a majority, you don't need to bother with a coalition. The way it works in practice, though, is that even with a minority, the government with the most seats gets to fill the office of Prime Minister, and will loudly decry any attempts to form a coalition as 'undemocratic.'
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Don't forget that a non-zero number of 'undecided' responses in a poll are absolutely decided, and don't want to say for some reason.
In this case, the Bradley Effect is probably a non-trivial factor.
I've never understood the entire concept of publishing running counts, 'projecting' or 'calling the election.'
Results can start to be published, *at minimum,* after all polls are closed. Not at closing time, but when the polls are actually closed, nobody left waiting in line to vote.
Preferably, the results should come, you know, when the counting is done, but I get it, you guys are impatient.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can scar you for life.
The problem with the original 'names can never hurt me' rhyme is that it teaches the children that their natural and correct reaction to emotional assault is wrong and shameful, and compounds the trauma.
It's as bad as the 'violence never solves anything' meme.
In 2012, Trump thought the EC was a horrible, undemocratic institution that was thwarting the will of the people.
In 2016, Trump is just fine with the EC. Funny, eh?
A state can absolutely secede unilaterally. However, the parent country can always invade unilaterally.
The rather unique problem that the US of A has is that there's only two options for friendly assistance; Canada and Mexico, neither one of which would be likely to simply say 'hell yeah!' and provide military backup.
Don't forget that the GOP also controls Congress, the Senate, and will be appointing at least one justice to SCOTUS, probably more.
Oh, the thinking is easy. I just use '100 km is about 55 miles' as a basic rule of thumb.
F to C is easy; Take F, subtract 32, divide by 2. 100F = 68/2 = about 34. Close enough for government work.
My point, however, was that despite living in a metric country, to the point that my driver's license lists my height in CM and weight in KG, the culture still hasn't completely caught up. You raise another good point; cooking is still all in imperial. We measure in cups, tablespoons, ounces, and preheat the oven to 350f or whatever.
Celsius is fine for humans. Water freezes at 0, humans are comfortable between about 15 and 25 degrees, 30 is too goddamn hot, 10 is grab a jacket, 5 is grab a coat.
Meters and yards are interchangeable enough for jazz. Oddly enough, though, one of my hand guns is 9mm, the other is .45 inches....
Point being, lots of it is just historical inertia. We don't, in my experience, measure human weight in 'stone,' unlike the motherland, for example.
Ok, please provide The Context.
I'm Canadian, I'm 39 years old. When driving, I think in terms of kilometers. I know it's, say, 50 km to Toronto from here, but I'd have no idea how many miles that is, without doing some math.
However, if anybody asks, I'm 5"11, and I weigh about 180 pounds.
First off, he didn't say 'New discoveries will be rare.' He said 'There is nothing new to discover.' There's nothing to 'interpret' or 'clarify' here.
Second, lets look at your statement. "Also on the insight-level of a child. Nothing like that is going to happen." Not 'This is un-peer-replicated junk, talk to me when they have a working, reproducible model.' No, this is 'Mr. Marconi, your silly notions of transmitting words across the Atlantic Ocean without a telegraph table are ludicrous! Mayhaps you should ask those insane Wright brothers to ferry your messages on the preposterous flying machine they're attempting to build!'
You're absolutely correct. It's exceptionally rare, and proof is required, to demonstrate new and novel ideas. Doesn't mean they're impossible, though.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement
-- Lord Kelvin, 1900, when people still believed in the luminiferous aether.
What physics revolutions appeared in the early 1900s, do you think?
How do you have precincts that don't have adequate oversight?
Every interested political party sends an observer, as does the non-partisan government elections body, and anybody who cares to show up and watch, does. This isn't difficult.
For even funnier schadenfreude, take a look at all of the stuff that America enforces when they help supervise elections in actual third-world countries to combat fraud and electoral shenanigans.
You don't have to do ANYTHING special. Simply allow whatever church to follow any existing tax law that isn't church specific.
You'd think that most churches would fit just fine under existing not-for-profit organization types, except, of course, for the fact that religions tend to be very explicitly for-profit.
I don't think they're picking on Verhoeven, so much as Verhoeven historically did great movies that are good candidates for remakes.
It's like saying Moby Dick was obviously a crappy novel, because so many people are 'trying to do it better.'
Nope, this is the elected official version of 'show your work.'
If the public can't get an idea of how the elected officials are going about their jobs, they can't make informed decisions about keeping them or replacing them in those jobs.
I don't think the government paid for your bus fare, time missed from work, and possibly literacy lessons to drive down to town hall to view the text of bills and what not.
Around here, we get the worst of both worlds. Temperatures can hit 35 c in summer, before humidex, and -35 c in winter, before wind chill. So we get to worry about both heating and cooling.
Exactly. More targeted than blanket TV or Radio ads, more efficient than going door to door, and far less intrusive to boot. And utterly ignorable if you have nothing to contribute, or choose not to contribute.
What you're describing would be a person seeking a ride posting to Uber's app a message saying 'I want to travel from Point A to Point B, ride to take no more than X amount of time, no stopovers, and I'm willing to pay Y amount', which individual drivers would then be free to accept or not accept.
What the system would look like with 'independent contractors' would be that a person looking for a ride would log into Uber's app, and would be presented with a list of available drivers, and what those drivers were charging per KM or whatever, as well as a list of value-adds (nicer car, say, experience with traffic patterns in the area, user-controlled sound system, whatever) which the ride-seeker would then choose from.
He even wrote a small book as a followup. You Have The Right To Remain Innocent.
And yet, far less intrusive than the police performing an old-fashioned door-to-door canvassing.
Canada basically has three electoral states, on the federal level:
1: A party has a majority. They can do what they want, basically unimpeded.
2: A party has a minority. This is basically a way of the populace to tell the party 'watch it, you're getting a bit out of hand.'
3: The other party suddenly wins majority. This happens on a regular basis. Basically, once a party has had a majority for, oh, eight to twelve years, either it gets complacent, or the usual corruption and cronyism gets too bad to ignore, and we 'teach the incumbents a lesson' by electing the other party for a while.
Note that due to the riding and first-past-the-post system, a government can win a 'sweeping majority' with ~40 percent of the popular vote.
Also, we don't elect a separate executive; imagine if you simply voted for Congress, and whichever party got the most seats in Congress got to put their party leader into the presidency. There's no reason why, in a minority situation, a few parties couldn't get together and form a coalition. This is, in fact, how it's supposed to work; the idea is that if you have a majority, you don't need to bother with a coalition. The way it works in practice, though, is that even with a minority, the government with the most seats gets to fill the office of Prime Minister, and will loudly decry any attempts to form a coalition as 'undemocratic.'
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