Really? Can you take notes while talking on the phone? Can you look up info while taking a call?
honest question... I havent found a phone that can do that (except for the treos, but those are very expensive), so I carry a simple phone and a simple pda.
And does the card tie your vote to your identity? Seems like that'd be a super way to make sure the party in power remains in power - simply track down and intimidate/beat/threaten/kill a bunch of those who opposed you in the last "election".
No, the process was designed specifically to protect identity of the voter... Thats how we finally got the PRI party out of power in 2000, after they had been the ruling party for 70-something years.
The process goes like this:
1.- After your 18th birthday, you can go to a voter registration place (usually at city hall in small towns, or several places in big cities), with your birth certificate. They register your info, take a pic and take a fingerprint.
2.- Your info makes it into the voters register, and your card is mailed back to the registration place. A notification is mailed to your home stating that you can pick up the card at said place... You get the card after your face is verified.
3.- You can start using this card to get beer, go into nightclubs, cash checks, and other adult activities.
4.- Election day comes. You (a responsible citycen) go into the voting place (usually the same place where you picked up your card).
5.- An electoral volunteer worker checks your face against your card, checks your thumb (see point 8 later) and checks this data against the national voters registry. If everything checks out, you are given paper ballots for each election taking place (usually president, deputys, federal and local congresses take place at the same time).
6.- You take said paper ballots to a privacy booth, use a special crayon thats there to cross the party logos that youre voting for. Afterwards, before leaving the booth, you fold each ballot twice (it wont fit the slot in the box if you dont fold it twice).
7.- You leave the booth and place each ballot into the sealed box with the corresponding color.
8.- Before you can leave, a special chemical is smeared in your thumb, which instantly turns a dark brown... This is not paint, but a chemical that reacts to oxygen and to human skin, the color fades in a few days, but ensures that you cannot vote twice in the same election day.
9.- You check the election preliminar results that night, feeling confident that your vote counts and that this is now a modern democracy (despite our decidedly old-fashioned politicians).
Thats idiotic, even here in Mexico (still a third world country, no matter what the president says) the goverment issues national voting cards which are free, and highly secure... In fact, ever since their introduction, they have already displaced drivers licenses and military issue cards as the preferred id for liquor stores, banks, etc
Of course you can find the equivalent of Dr. Nick Riviera's clinic somewhere in the bowels of Tijuana or in some of the less unsavory neighborhoods of Mexico City, but in general the medical care here is up to 1st world standards, with much cheaper prices due to lower costs of living and the absence of frivolous lawsuits.
On a certain Adam Sandler movie, Hitler's punishment in Hell consists on him being dressed up in a french maid costume and being shoved pineapples up his ass personally by Lucifer once a day.
Cute, but show me a "Mandrake Upgrade Edition" or "Slackware Upgrade Edition" and maybe you'd have a case.
There is a severe price difference between Windows and desktop Linux distros... Therefore, there's no market demand for a "Mandrake upgrade edition"
I bought my first Mandrake distro as a closed box, because I wanted the manuals (and contribute with some money to their development), but all of my upgrades have been purchased here
Its just that "Mississippi" didnt fit, because of the sig character limit....And if I had put "Kosciusko USA" I would have gotten even more replies to my sig than I already have.
Some expensive sports cars are indeed electronically governed not to go above 190 km/h, but any "Tuning" ricer boy shop will sell you a replacement chip that disables that condition... or at least sets it at 300km/h
It was made so a ricer kid wouldnt take daddys fancy car without permission and turn himself into road pizza... and destroying the car, which would be the sad part.
But thats because the substandard safety features of your money, not the high quality of the printers.
I bet I could make some 10 and 5 dollar bills that would be easy to dispose of at a dimly lit bar or with a bored teenaged clerk, but I could not do that with my own currency.
Try to go to your nearest border... Both Canada and Mexico have better (or at least more dumb-proof) security in their money. Basically having different sizes and color combinations makes a world of difference.
I had my first computer course in sixth grade on Apple ][c's...
We learned the basics of OS, floppy use, and even some BASIC... But all I remember was playing Karateka... : (
I was so hooked I asked my parents for one... But I guess that was very expensive, because instead of that I got a Radioshack TRS-80 with a tape drive.
I think you would be surprised to know how many failed (or even crooked) executives manage to get new top-level jobs again and again... and apparently no one notices their incompetence (or malice).
Its all about rubbing shoulders with the right people...
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There was an obscure guitar amp company (god, I cant remember its name) where all the knobs went to eleven...
Here in Mexico they are selling chamomille tea tampons and maxipads...
Supposedly the chamomille extract neutralizes organic odors
Really? Can you take notes while talking on the phone?
Can you look up info while taking a call?
honest question... I havent found a phone that can do that (except for the treos, but those are very expensive), so I carry a simple phone and a simple pda.
And does the card tie your vote to your identity? Seems like that'd be a super way to make sure the party in power remains in power - simply track down and intimidate/beat/threaten/kill a bunch of those who opposed you in the last "election".
No, the process was designed specifically to protect identity of the voter... Thats how we finally got the PRI party out of power in 2000, after they had been the ruling party for 70-something years.
The process goes like this:
1.- After your 18th birthday, you can go to a voter registration place (usually at city hall in small towns, or several places in big cities), with your birth certificate. They register your info, take a pic and take a fingerprint.
2.- Your info makes it into the voters register, and your card is mailed back to the registration place. A notification is mailed to your home stating that you can pick up the card at said place... You get the card after your face is verified.
3.- You can start using this card to get beer, go into nightclubs, cash checks, and other adult activities.
4.- Election day comes. You (a responsible citycen) go into the voting place (usually the same place where you picked up your card).
5.- An electoral volunteer worker checks your face against your card, checks your thumb (see point 8 later) and checks this data against the national voters registry. If everything checks out, you are given paper ballots for each election taking place (usually president, deputys, federal and local congresses take place at the same time).
6.- You take said paper ballots to a privacy booth, use a special crayon thats there to cross the party logos that youre voting for. Afterwards, before leaving the booth, you fold each ballot twice (it wont fit the slot in the box if you dont fold it twice).
7.- You leave the booth and place each ballot into the sealed box with the corresponding color.
8.- Before you can leave, a special chemical is smeared in your thumb, which instantly turns a dark brown... This is not paint, but a chemical that reacts to oxygen and to human skin, the color fades in a few days, but ensures that you cannot vote twice in the same election day.
9.- You check the election preliminar results that night, feeling confident that your vote counts and that this is now a modern democracy (despite our decidedly old-fashioned politicians).
Thats idiotic, even here in Mexico (still a third world country, no matter what the president says) the goverment issues national voting cards which are free, and highly secure... In fact, ever since their introduction, they have already displaced drivers licenses and military issue cards as the preferred id for liquor stores, banks, etc
haha, funny, yet false.
Of course you can find the equivalent of Dr. Nick Riviera's clinic somewhere in the bowels of Tijuana or in some of the less unsavory neighborhoods of Mexico City, but in general the medical care here is up to 1st world standards, with much cheaper prices due to lower costs of living and the absence of frivolous lawsuits.
No kidding dude, thats, like, 20 lattes.
You pay 5 US dollars for a latte???
Thats less than a day's minimum wage in my country!
Even here in the capital, the local coffee houses charge 1.3-1.7 USD for a cappuccino.
Theres a ring tone in some nokias that goes:
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(beep)
(beep beep)
(beeep beeep beeep)
(beeeeep beeeeeep beeeeep beeeeep)
Because HG Wells told us so?
And this is still modded insightful!
10 years is a pretty long time when you finally come to throw the switch and it doesn't work.
Or worse, when you throw the switch and the answer is 42
Strange that moderators listen to an AC's opinion of a post... And considering the spelling on both comments, it may even be the same person...
More to the contrary, it has been documented that the iTunes music store sells RIAA stuff at cost just to sell more ipods.
On a certain Adam Sandler movie, Hitler's punishment in Hell consists on him being dressed up in a french maid costume and being shoved pineapples up his ass personally by Lucifer once a day.
Cute, but show me a "Mandrake Upgrade Edition" or "Slackware Upgrade Edition" and maybe you'd have a case.
There is a severe price difference between Windows and desktop Linux distros... Therefore, there's no market demand for a "Mandrake upgrade edition"
I bought my first Mandrake distro as a closed box, because I wanted the manuals (and contribute with some money to their development), but all of my upgrades have been purchased here
Its just that "Mississippi" didnt fit, because of the sig character limit. ...And if I had put "Kosciusko USA" I would have gotten even more replies to my sig than I already have.
Nothing like bringing up Dune on a discussion about physical impossibilities...
Some expensive sports cars are indeed electronically governed not to go above 190 km/h, but any "Tuning" ricer boy shop will sell you a replacement chip that disables that condition... or at least sets it at 300km/h
It was made so a ricer kid wouldnt take daddys fancy car without permission and turn himself into road pizza... and destroying the car, which would be the sad part.
But thats because the substandard safety features of your money, not the high quality of the printers.
I bet I could make some 10 and 5 dollar bills that would be easy to dispose of at a dimly lit bar or with a bored teenaged clerk, but I could not do that with my own currency.
Try to go to your nearest border... Both Canada and Mexico have better (or at least more dumb-proof) security in their money. Basically having different sizes and color combinations makes a world of difference.
See Mexican bills here
I had my first computer course in sixth grade on Apple ][c's...
We learned the basics of OS, floppy use, and even some BASIC... But all I remember was playing Karateka... : (
I was so hooked I asked my parents for one... But I guess that was very expensive, because instead of that I got a Radioshack TRS-80 with a tape drive.
However, I learned loads with that one.
Grub and Rifter have posted alternatives above, and I can also add blackbox to the list of suggestions regarding real usability and minimalism. ...
I know, I know... I have been trolled
You sir, are an idiot.
Islam is a peaceful religion that has unfortunately inspired some dorks to become terrorists.
Same as christianism has done before...
Some of us have jobs... Sorry, as much as I want to be a modern day cavalier, I have to concentrate on providing for my family
I think you would be surprised to know how many failed (or even crooked) executives manage to get new top-level jobs again and again... and apparently no one notices their incompetence (or malice).
Its all about rubbing shoulders with the right people...
It has been argued that if the earth warms up enough the tectonic plates would shift from the diferences in pressure caused by melted ice caps.
Although we may need to wait another decade or so to confirm wherever or not there is global warming.