get one of the touchpad light switches. all they require is human contact to complete the circuit. No force required. Connect this to a FM transmitter that will send a signal to a device her husband can keep next to him to wake him up. The beauty of this is she can be anywhere within the transmission range and the husband can still be alerted. Plus they could have extra receivers if they wanted.
Yipee. At least it would give me something to do with that old Toshiba laptop sitting in the closet.
Wait, you have an old PII-800mhz(or better) laptop laying in your closet unused? Can I have it? I don't have a laptop and that's plenty fast for me to get REAL work done on it.
Or donate it to your local highschool, I'm sure they have teachers there that could use that well equiped of a laptop for REAL work too. My aunt is a teacher in a public school and would have constant use for a laptop like that.
Not by mail. You drop one in a regular old ballot box like in the good ol' days. The other one you keep for personal proof of vote. In theory, you wouldn't even need this second one. As long as the First one is machine printed and machine readable, that would be the only one you need. As long as you selected the right votes before printing it would be as fool proof as possible for the voter.
Sure, "the boss" can do that now. Doesn't mean you have to tell him. Plus, you can always say you threw the receipt away(like most people do at ATM's).
Simple reason for not doing this.
Minorities.
States like CA have a higher minority population that a lot of other states. The EC has the effect of allowing their voices to be heard as loudly as the 80% WASP population.
That and states have the right to stage their own elections and report to the federal government as they choose. Thats why some states split their EC votes, because they feel popular voting is a better system, so they enacted that system withing their own state.
Of course, if you say "I go to RPI" people always respond with, "Oh, how is Rochester?".
Fools...
"Hail, Dear Old Rensselaer" has Rensselaer, no RPI. Written by alumns of '34(1834 or 1934?)
"The Fighting Engineers" has both, written by alumns of 1923.
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get one of the touchpad light switches. all they require is human contact to complete the circuit. No force required. Connect this to a FM transmitter that will send a signal to a device her husband can keep next to him to wake him up. The beauty of this is she can be anywhere within the transmission range and the husband can still be alerted. Plus they could have extra receivers if they wanted.
Yipee. At least it would give me something to do with that old Toshiba laptop sitting in the closet.
Wait, you have an old PII-800mhz(or better) laptop laying in your closet unused? Can I have it? I don't have a laptop and that's plenty fast for me to get REAL work done on it.
Or donate it to your local highschool, I'm sure they have teachers there that could use that well equiped of a laptop for REAL work too. My aunt is a teacher in a public school and would have constant use for a laptop like that.
Not by mail. You drop one in a regular old ballot box like in the good ol' days. The other one you keep for personal proof of vote. In theory, you wouldn't even need this second one. As long as the First one is machine printed and machine readable, that would be the only one you need. As long as you selected the right votes before printing it would be as fool proof as possible for the voter.
Sure, "the boss" can do that now. Doesn't mean you have to tell him. Plus, you can always say you threw the receipt away(like most people do at ATM's).
Simple reason for not doing this.
Minorities.
States like CA have a higher minority population that a lot of other states. The EC has the effect of allowing their voices to be heard as loudly as the 80% WASP population.
That and states have the right to stage their own elections and report to the federal government as they choose. Thats why some states split their EC votes, because they feel popular voting is a better system, so they enacted that system withing their own state.
Of course those not in the immidiate vicinity would benefit from the mass burning of marijuana this would cause.
There's nothing like the smell pot in the morning. Or something like that.
Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb.
great episode
Of course, if you say "I go to RPI" people always respond with, "Oh, how is Rochester?". Fools... "Hail, Dear Old Rensselaer" has Rensselaer, no RPI. Written by alumns of '34(1834 or 1934?) "The Fighting Engineers" has both, written by alumns of 1923. -adeffs@rpi.edu