Socialism: 1. A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
I believe one of the benefits of and primary arguments for a secret vote is that one may vote their conscious without fear of reprisal or other repercussions. The paper ballot fulfills this perfectly.
The system described here has a double edged sword. If the voter can log on to verify their vote, then someone else can force them to log on a prove they voted "correctly".
A simple solution would be to enable a voter to only confirm their vote was tallied correctly at the registrar's office, after providing picture ID, allowing only the voter to view the confirmation, and not providing any kind of receipt.
Truly smart people can, as required, attain knowledge or a skill that enables them to achieve a goal.
Example: The use of a "cat's eye" lens in a Coronagraph was pioneered by a team that included a physicist who had no training in optics. He decided to take home some text books and read up on it. He obtained knowledge of how the cat's eye lens optics works and suggested it as a way to block out the light of a star to better see orbiting planets. Something the optical guys on the team never thought of.
Well, the one thing that always bugged me about math classes is that the practical aspects were few and far between. It was like doing nothing in English except diagram sentences, conjugate verbs, etc.
Guess that's why I'm a programmer. I can make my own rules.
Why is this information not already available in digital form ahead of time?
Would it not make for more productive class time if the students could print the notes for the class before hand and then spend the class time trying to understand and ask questions then instead of taking the notes and then asking questions the next class?
They say that, but there is no enforcement mechanism. Further, it is entirely possible that information about past events could cause problems in the current time frame.
So the question is, should someone who is accountable to no one make the decision, or should it be someone who is accountable to the political system and/or the legal authorities?
If all that you say is true, then why bother having any kind of system for the classification of any information.
Everything should be published. Obama's travel schedule/routes, secret codes, locations, troop movements, etc. Everything. Because if someone can decide to leak something, for any reason at all, then anyone can leak anything.
For much less than 500 million, you can probably get a very discreet and effective hit squad to take out the entire management of Eolas and the attorneys too.
COBOL is the Mac truck or Diesel Electric Locomotive of Business Infrastructure applications.
It's not pretty like the myriad of sissy and strangely named languages (WTF is GlassFish?), It's not "nuanced" like the various OO languages, and it definitely doesn't do Web pages (that I know of).
But when you need to get down to business and process millions of transactions, generate millions of billing statements, or other reports, especially reports, COBOL is what you want.
When there's heavy lifting to be done, COBOL's the one.
Slashdot Mirror
"The Senate bill forces patients to wait six months before entering the pool. "
Oops! Guess the Senate doesn't believe in the no-pre-existing condition thingy.
Socialism:
1. A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. Not Fire and Police protection.
3. Government owning GM and Chrysler.
Still hungover from last night's party eh?
It's not about doctors, it is about forcing one group to pay for another group. Same old Bullshit from the Left. "Spreading the wealth around".
Capitalism is the worst...except for everything else.
I believe one of the benefits of and primary arguments for a secret vote is that one may vote their conscious without fear of reprisal or other repercussions. The paper ballot fulfills this perfectly.
The system described here has a double edged sword. If the voter can log on to verify their vote, then someone else can force them to log on a prove they voted "correctly".
A simple solution would be to enable a voter to only confirm their vote was tallied correctly at the registrar's office, after providing picture ID, allowing only the voter to view the confirmation, and not providing any kind of receipt.
Exactly.
Truly smart people can, as required, attain knowledge or a skill that enables them to achieve a goal.
Example: The use of a "cat's eye" lens in a Coronagraph was pioneered by a team that included a physicist who had no training in optics. He decided to take home some text books and read up on it. He obtained knowledge of how the cat's eye lens optics works and suggested it as a way to block out the light of a star to better see orbiting planets. Something the optical guys on the team never thought of.
(From an old Discover magazine)
Hmmm....
Well, the one thing that always bugged me about math classes is that the practical aspects were few and far between. It was like doing nothing in English except diagram sentences, conjugate verbs, etc.
Guess that's why I'm a programmer. I can make my own rules.
Why is this information not already available in digital form ahead of time?
Would it not make for more productive class time if the students could print the notes for the class before hand and then spend the class time trying to understand and ask questions then instead of taking the notes and then asking questions the next class?
*Mao*
Moa thought this too. 30 million die now so 100 million can live later.
Nice.
They say that, but there is no enforcement mechanism. Further, it is entirely possible that information about past events could cause problems in the current time frame.
So the question is, should someone who is accountable to no one make the decision, or should it be someone who is accountable to the political system and/or the legal authorities?
Wikileaks make no distinctions.
If you think they do, please tell us about the mechanism they use to decide.
Troll moderators should try answering the question instead of suppressing them.
If all that you say is true, then why bother having any kind of system for the classification of any information.
Everything should be published. Obama's travel schedule/routes, secret codes, locations, troop movements, etc. Everything. Because if someone can decide to leak something, for any reason at all, then anyone can leak anything.
But then, it's all for the greater good eh?
One day, someone is going to get killed because of a leak on Wikileaks.
I hope that if it ever happens they find a way to hold Wikileaks and the leaker accountable.
Mod this man up!
For much less than 500 million, you can probably get a very discreet and effective hit squad to take out the entire management of Eolas and the attorneys too.
They would probably do the attorneys for free.
So data checks in but doesn't check out?
That's more like the Roach Motel.
I wrote a crap load of text trying to explain what you asked for. Instead go here:
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/
Look at the COBOL version and then others. Then imagine you had no clue what the program was supposed to do.
Either you don't know much about COBOL, or you are just really cranky today.
I'm not up on all the new sissy languages. Do any of them have anything analogous to the Record construct?
100 DataRecord char(100)
110 Name char(30)
115 FirstName char(15)
117 LastName char(15)
120 Address char(40
etc.
It may seem cumbersome, but if you've ever been told to modify a 20 year old program, this kind of code is a dream.
COBOL is the Mac truck or Diesel Electric Locomotive of Business Infrastructure applications.
It's not pretty like the myriad of sissy and strangely named languages (WTF is GlassFish?), It's not "nuanced" like the various OO languages, and it definitely doesn't do Web pages (that I know of).
But when you need to get down to business and process millions of transactions, generate millions of billing statements, or other reports, especially reports, COBOL is what you want.
When there's heavy lifting to be done, COBOL's the one.
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Tongue only partially in Cheek.
I suspect you would find that being a Banker is also tough shit, but the payoff can be better, especially if someone is bailing you out all the time..
Banking laws and financial instruments as much the domain of PhDs as is many different sciences.
Where do you think all those fancy derivatives and the automated trading applications that crash the market all the time came from?
At least in these cases, most people agree than someone needs to be shot.