2: Fonts still terrible on Linux. I will jump with joy the day fonts on a Linux machine will look beautiful bey default. Right now, one has to install Microsoft's TT fonts and/or do some compilation. This is a non starter.
I agree fully. Installing msttcorefonts is one of the first things I do before I get a headache trying to read text. This needs serious work. Surely someone in the Linux community can draw fonts?
Microsoft did everybody a huge favor when they gave away their "core fonts for the web"
Easy to read serif and sans-serif fonts are really valuable and not easy at all to design, even for an accomplished graphic artist.
That's why quality fonts are so expensive
Mind you, I am not talking about "cool-looking" or "funny" fonts, almost everyone can make one of those... While a fancy font might work for a logo or maybe a few words in an ad or a poster, anything more than a few sentences becomes unreadable.
I actually have people online accusing me of defrauding them.
Let me explain; I am a Quality Assurance Supervisor for a medium-large company in the tourism industry. We pride ourselves on having a good product and we make over 100,000 travel reservations per year for our customers.
Of course, every once in a while there's a complaint, and I am in charge of fighting those fires. Usually, we resolve the issue amicably and there's no hard feelings.
Thing is, once in a while the customer is not right (people actually using a service and then trying to put a stop payment on their credit card, for example) and a small group have organized and started a "gripe site", posting their complaints and claiming fraud and stuff like that.
Now, if you google "my-full-name + scam" my name comes up. I don't even write the policies here! I'm just the face! Damn, its not fair...
Dr. Manhattan was able to keep Richard Nixon as president until the mid-eighties! I shudder to think of Dubya being president of the US. for three more more terms!
It can be both mandatory and secret by this simple way:
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Months before the election, you go to the voter registry and get your voter card issued/reissued. This card has your picture, your signature and your thumbprint and is hard enough to counterfeit for it to be considered a valid id by banks and the like. This card is also a proof that you are in the national voters registry.
On election day, you show up at your assigned voting location, which is in a closed public area (usually a school or a public library).
Here, before they allow you in, they check your thumbs (see below for the reason) and your voter registration card is verified against the list of voters of your district. This list comes in a "book" form where they have a copy of your voting card, including the picture.
Once he/she finds you in the list (and checks the picture to see that it is indeed you), an election official crosses out your name from the list and allows you proceed to the next step.
At the next desk, you are given a paper ballot for each election happening that day (president, state governors, local and federal deputies, etc)
With these, you step into a booth where thereâ(TM)s a number of black crayons. You use these to cross out the symbol of the party you are voting for on each ballot (or write in another name if you are so inclined).
You leave the booth with your ballots folded twice and drop them into the designated transparent boxes.
And finally, your thumb is painted with an enzymatic liquid that makes the skin in your thumb go red-black in about 30 seconds (the color fades away 3-5 days later).
Then you can go home, feeling happy about fulfilling your civic duty.
note: Each one of these steps is verified by a representatives of each political party, national and sometimes international observers.
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What country is this, you may ask, with such a sensible electoral system? Why your third-world neighbors here in Mexico!
While I will admit that its not perfect and we still get voting irregularities (system works great in the cities, less great in the rural areas), I am sure it beats a lot of systems used in the US.
Giving the vote to every subject to the government's rule is democracy. Giving the vote only to those who have chosen to serve the government is dictatorship.
Actually, by Aristotle's definition, a state where only a subset of the population can vote is either an aristocracy or an oligarchy.
I meant that they probably want to portray themselves as a "oppressed minority" or something like that... Although I seriously doubt the ACLU would fall for it
I knew they claimed to be a religion, but I wasn't aware that Scientologists now claimed to be a "race"... Was this done to claim additional protections?
I remember there used to be a brand of guitar amplifiers (one of the smaller, handmade-type shops) that used to cover their "secred ingredients" in huge blobs of silicone rubber.
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I also enjoyed the comic... I'm biased however, since I am a fan of Scott McCloud.
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2: Fonts still terrible on Linux. I will jump with joy the day fonts on a Linux machine will look beautiful bey default. Right now, one has to install Microsoft's TT fonts and/or do some compilation. This is a non starter.
I agree fully. Installing msttcorefonts is one of the first things I do before I get a headache trying to read text. This needs serious work. Surely someone in the Linux community can draw fonts?
Microsoft did everybody a huge favor when they gave away their "core fonts for the web"
Easy to read serif and sans-serif fonts are really valuable and not easy at all to design, even for an accomplished graphic artist.
That's why quality fonts are so expensive
Mind you, I am not talking about "cool-looking" or "funny" fonts, almost everyone can make one of those... While a fancy font might work for a logo or maybe a few words in an ad or a poster, anything more than a few sentences becomes unreadable.
Are you sure they did not install a bootleg WinXP on it?
(only kidding!)
I actually have people online accusing me of defrauding them.
Let me explain; I am a Quality Assurance Supervisor for a medium-large company in the tourism industry. We pride ourselves on having a good product and we make over 100,000 travel reservations per year for our customers.
Of course, every once in a while there's a complaint, and I am in charge of fighting those fires. Usually, we resolve the issue amicably and there's no hard feelings.
Thing is, once in a while the customer is not right (people actually using a service and then trying to put a stop payment on their credit card, for example) and a small group have organized and started a "gripe site", posting their complaints and claiming fraud and stuff like that.
Now, if you google "my-full-name + scam" my name comes up. I don't even write the policies here! I'm just the face! Damn, its not fair...
Websense does not like YouTube, care to explain what the video is about?
As a former United Airlines employee (who worked the Baggage Services telephone, no less!), this theory is quite plausible to my ears...
I happen to be a fan of both Ender's Game and the Harry Potter series, and can find only small similarities between the two.
Hardly equivalent to a book full of copied content
Thank you, Moryath. It's always a pleasure to hear from someone who actually knows something about copyright law.
I'm sorry, but he hasn't shown any knowledge of copyright law. He has only said that he agrees with your point of view.
I actually hope we don't get any superheroes...
Dr. Manhattan was able to keep Richard Nixon as president until the mid-eighties! I shudder to think of Dubya being president of the US. for three more more terms!
I'd rather have armaggeddon
what's wrong with cyanobacteria?
It can be both mandatory and secret by this simple way:
-
Months before the election, you go to the voter registry and get your voter card issued/reissued. This card has your picture, your signature and your thumbprint and is hard enough to counterfeit for it to be considered a valid id by banks and the like. This card is also a proof that you are in the national voters registry.
On election day, you show up at your assigned voting location, which is in a closed public area (usually a school or a public library).
Here, before they allow you in, they check your thumbs (see below for the reason) and your voter registration card is verified against the list of voters of your district. This list comes in a "book" form where they have a copy of your voting card, including the picture.
Once he/she finds you in the list (and checks the picture to see that it is indeed you), an election official crosses out your name from the list and allows you proceed to the next step.
At the next desk, you are given a paper ballot for each election happening that day (president, state governors, local and federal deputies, etc)
With these, you step into a booth where thereâ(TM)s a number of black crayons. You use these to cross out the symbol of the party you are voting for on each ballot (or write in another name if you are so inclined).
You leave the booth with your ballots folded twice and drop them into the designated transparent boxes.
And finally, your thumb is painted with an enzymatic liquid that makes the skin in your thumb go red-black in about 30 seconds (the color fades away 3-5 days later).
Then you can go home, feeling happy about fulfilling your civic duty.
note: Each one of these steps is verified by a representatives of each political party, national and sometimes international observers.
-
What country is this, you may ask, with such a sensible electoral system? Why your third-world neighbors here in Mexico!
While I will admit that its not perfect and we still get voting irregularities (system works great in the cities, less great in the rural areas), I am sure it beats a lot of systems used in the US.
Giving the vote to every subject to the government's rule is democracy. Giving the vote only to those who have chosen to serve the government is dictatorship.
Actually, by Aristotle's definition, a state where only a subset of the population can vote is either an aristocracy or an oligarchy.
Xtatic Xiphophorus?
You can choose "none of the above" by voiding the ballot: just cross out all of the candidates
That way, you still fulfilled your civic obligation of voting, while expressing your discontent with the existing options.
I meant that they probably want to portray themselves as a "oppressed minority" or something like that...
Although I seriously doubt the ACLU would fall for it
I knew they claimed to be a religion, but I wasn't aware that Scientologists now claimed to be a "race"...
Was this done to claim additional protections?
I'm glad that the YouTube users fought back.
We really need to make people aware of the criminal actions of this cult.
In my opinion, for a modern democracy to work the vote must be mandatory, secret and universal.
This way, no one can pinpoint who voted for whom, thus avoiding temptations of vote buying (at least some of them).
Open standards are important in this case for the simple reason that they ensure that the message will be seen by the largest audience possible.
It will surely come to that, pretty soon...
the YucatÃn peninsula has a caribbean coast (CancÃn, "Mayan Riviera") and a gulf coast (Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen)
Not Google, the Mice... And let me tell you, they are not amused by the delays
I remember there used to be a brand of guitar amplifiers (one of the smaller, handmade-type shops) that used to cover their "secred ingredients" in huge blobs of silicone rubber.
I also enjoyed the comic... I'm biased however, since I am a fan of Scott McCloud.
Blue Ray won't "win" the format wars until they sell more than standard def DVDs
Ok, just wondering.
In that case, I guess we can agree to disagree.