Each voting system which performes at least one act of the voting process faster than the human eye can watch it can be tampered with and should not be trusted.
By that logic, I shouldn't trust the bank when they count my bills or coins with a fast, mechanical counting machine. Or the Secretary of State when he/she counts the paper ballots with a scantron or punchcard reader.
Worrying about having 100% security is a waste of time. It is enough to have regular audits of machines, software and processes to insure that everything is working correctly. Now, if the cost of operating an e-vote system plus the cost of auditing the system is greater than the cost of the paper system, then you have something.
Actually, I'm not too worried about cost for this. What is important is getting the accurate results in a timely fashion. It seems that e-voting systems aren't there yet, but we are probably suffering from sample bias (these stories get reported more than stories of irregularities with paper voting systems).
When I buy something with a credit card, there is an electronic record (which actually debits my credit card account), one printed physical paper which the vendor keeps (and then submits as backup to his electronic claim), and one physical copy I keep in case there is a discrepancy that I want to challenge.
The only difference I see with voting is that I, the voter, won't know if there is a discrepancy between my voting receipt and how my vote was actually counted. Honestly, I don't see the need for a printed receipt for the voter, other than some superficial reassurance. If the machine can miscount in other ways, then it's possible for it to print a receipt saying you voted for X but actually record your vote for Y.
Still, we rely on computers for trillions (or more) of transactions a year, so of them extremely important, involving money or lives. There's no reason why electronic voting can't be done in a way to prevent (or at least lower to acceptable levels) the chance of fraud or mistakes.
Has TPB publicly criticized Anonymous before? It's not like this is new behavior for them. If TPB is just now starting to speak against Anonymous, that is interesting. Why now? Why not before? Will they continue to take this stand?
Federal Income Tax - 33% CA state income tax - 9.3% CA and local sales taxes - ~10% Payroll tax (OASDI & HI) - 7.65%
That totals about 60%. There are, of course, a slew of deductions that I get, and the 10% in sales tax is paid on (some) consumption, not income, so it probably equates to 3-6% of income given the size of my mortgage. But in the other direction, I'm not counting property tax (which is not insignificant as I get the Prop 13 shaft) or any of the other hidden taxes and fees I have to pay to the government.
Not that I'm complaining. I get a lot of bang for my tax bucks. But it's important to remember *all* of the taxes we pay, if for no other reason than to be able to shed some light on the fallacy that "half of Americans don't pay taxes".
School administrators don't show up at 7:30 and leave at 3:30.
Neither do teachers.
schools spend so much more money on teachers and their various benefits than they do on administrator salaries,
Per capita? I doubt it. I'm not saying that principals and superintendents are overpaid necessarily, though I'm sure some are. People in charge or running large organizations have a lot of responsibility, so it is natural that they should garner commensurate salaries. However, the tone of your post suggests that you believe that the teachers are overpaid (though perhaps I'm reading too much into it), and I have a hard time believing that is the case.
Last time R's held both houses of Congress and the White House, the average deficit was around $250 billion. Way too much. However, when you look at the years where D's held Congress and the White House, the average deficit was around $1500 billion.
I take it you're not averaging in the Clinton years? (Not to mention that there is a solid one-year offset between voting on a budget and it going into effect, and a longer lag time before some policies (e.g. Bush Tax Cuts) manifest themselves.)
Citation please. Show me this alleged subsidy (and how big it is) that goes only to oil companies. I'm aware that there are supposed to be minor subsidies that oil companies can get, but my understanding is that most such things are not particular to a fossil fuel business.
Expensing Intangible Drilling Costs amounts to a subsidy of $3.2 billion over five years. (See section 4.2 starting on page 15.) Percentage depletion expensing accounts for another $3.2 billion. Both of these apply to fossil fuel companies (so not only oil, but natural gas drillers and coal miners), but the percentage depletion rate was 15% in 2007 for oil and gas producers, but only 10% for coal (this being the percent of revenue they can deduct from gross revenue to account for the lost value of the products they sold, which can be more than the actual cost they paid for the land from which they extracted the resources).
The amount of effort required to look into ONE person in footage is huge.
Which is why facial recognition software is so popular. It's not hard to imagine that technology being coupled with other technologies and AI to make it possible for them to have computers sift through all that data for the juicy bits (which could be forwarded on to a human op for final review).
They are not shutting off all communications. If a protester moved a couple hundred feet, to outside the station, their coverage would be fine.
Or they could exercise their right to free speech by, you know, talking to the person next to them.
Yeah, because if the government has the right to shut down electronic communication, they would never use a technology to shut down verbal communication.
Perhaps the problem is not the protesters. I've seen subway stations in Tokyo that were wall to wall people during rush hour. They actually have attendants there to help push the last few people into the subway car. If the station's design cannot handle peak surges of traffic, then the design needs to be modified.
And if BART has to (or even thinks) that turning off cell phone coverage will prevent peak surges (due to protests or otherwise), then they need to reexamine their procedures.
Yes ether might count,
special case of GR, with modification,
So what you're saying is that the general consensus of those theories when they first were developed has been shown to be wrong in some cases?
Couldn't it be that "AGW" as a theory is a "special case" that applies to some fairly specific set of circumstances related to the current state of the planet? Saying that any type of science is settled is just poor rhetoric.
My wife uses Shutterfly to create and print photo albums. It takes a while to upload the pictures, but she's able to do it by folder/directory, so she can start the queue and let it run over night. I'm not sure how long she spends on layout, but they have a very simple interface that lets you add stock graphics and customized captions. There are a score or more layout templates so it doesn't look too cookie-cutter. I'm not sure of the cost, but it isn't prohibitive. We have a 6 month book for each son, then she did one for each birthday that contains the previous years pictures. The nice thing is that if the book gets ruined (which a couple have in the hands of toddlers) you can easily re-order it. Kodakgallery offers a similar product.
What's common is the accusations of astroturfing by fans of competing products, theories, or systems. It's become the "in thing" to claim that any dissenting opinion is astroturfing.
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So, Denmark is like Scandinavia's Louisiana?
I vote by mail in every election. Well, except for the last one. I wanted to take my kid to the polling place so he could see Democracy Inaction.
Print a receipt. The voter verifies the receipt matches his/her vote. The voter puts the receipt in the ballot box. Just like with a paper system.
Municipal Assistant Judge's Assistant Assistant.
Municipal Assistant to the Judge's Assistant Assistant.
Each voting system which performes at least one act of the voting process faster than the human eye can watch it can be tampered with and should not be trusted.
By that logic, I shouldn't trust the bank when they count my bills or coins with a fast, mechanical counting machine. Or the Secretary of State when he/she counts the paper ballots with a scantron or punchcard reader.
Worrying about having 100% security is a waste of time. It is enough to have regular audits of machines, software and processes to insure that everything is working correctly. Now, if the cost of operating an e-vote system plus the cost of auditing the system is greater than the cost of the paper system, then you have something.
Actually, I'm not too worried about cost for this. What is important is getting the accurate results in a timely fashion. It seems that e-voting systems aren't there yet, but we are probably suffering from sample bias (these stories get reported more than stories of irregularities with paper voting systems).
Bullshit! First, fraud has been proven, is very easy and is rampant.
Citation needed.
When I buy something with a credit card, there is an electronic record (which actually debits my credit card account), one printed physical paper which the vendor keeps (and then submits as backup to his electronic claim), and one physical copy I keep in case there is a discrepancy that I want to challenge.
The only difference I see with voting is that I, the voter, won't know if there is a discrepancy between my voting receipt and how my vote was actually counted. Honestly, I don't see the need for a printed receipt for the voter, other than some superficial reassurance. If the machine can miscount in other ways, then it's possible for it to print a receipt saying you voted for X but actually record your vote for Y.
Still, we rely on computers for trillions (or more) of transactions a year, so of them extremely important, involving money or lives. There's no reason why electronic voting can't be done in a way to prevent (or at least lower to acceptable levels) the chance of fraud or mistakes.
In addition, stockpiled weapons are a sunk cost, and depending on their age they may already be fully depreciated.
The difference is that taking out a few extra of those child-raping murderous loonies would just be a bonus
The sad part is, given the current state of /. comments, I can't be sure who you're talking about.
How is that "interesting"?
Has TPB publicly criticized Anonymous before? It's not like this is new behavior for them. If TPB is just now starting to speak against Anonymous, that is interesting. Why now? Why not before? Will they continue to take this stand?
Who? who the hell is paying 50%?
Well let's see.
Federal Income Tax - 33%
CA state income tax - 9.3%
CA and local sales taxes - ~10%
Payroll tax (OASDI & HI) - 7.65%
That totals about 60%. There are, of course, a slew of deductions that I get, and the 10% in sales tax is paid on (some) consumption, not income, so it probably equates to 3-6% of income given the size of my mortgage. But in the other direction, I'm not counting property tax (which is not insignificant as I get the Prop 13 shaft) or any of the other hidden taxes and fees I have to pay to the government.
Not that I'm complaining. I get a lot of bang for my tax bucks. But it's important to remember *all* of the taxes we pay, if for no other reason than to be able to shed some light on the fallacy that "half of Americans don't pay taxes".
School administrators don't show up at 7:30 and leave at 3:30.
Neither do teachers.
schools spend so much more money on teachers and their various benefits than they do on administrator salaries,
Per capita? I doubt it. I'm not saying that principals and superintendents are overpaid necessarily, though I'm sure some are. People in charge or running large organizations have a lot of responsibility, so it is natural that they should garner commensurate salaries. However, the tone of your post suggests that you believe that the teachers are overpaid (though perhaps I'm reading too much into it), and I have a hard time believing that is the case.
Last time R's held both houses of Congress and the White House, the average deficit was around $250 billion. Way too much. However, when you look at the years where D's held Congress and the White House, the average deficit was around $1500 billion.
I take it you're not averaging in the Clinton years? (Not to mention that there is a solid one-year offset between voting on a budget and it going into effect, and a longer lag time before some policies (e.g. Bush Tax Cuts) manifest themselves.)
Citation please. Show me this alleged subsidy (and how big it is) that goes only to oil companies. I'm aware that there are supposed to be minor subsidies that oil companies can get, but my understanding is that most such things are not particular to a fossil fuel business.
Here you go.
Expensing Intangible Drilling Costs amounts to a subsidy of $3.2 billion over five years. (See section 4.2 starting on page 15.) Percentage depletion expensing accounts for another $3.2 billion. Both of these apply to fossil fuel companies (so not only oil, but natural gas drillers and coal miners), but the percentage depletion rate was 15% in 2007 for oil and gas producers, but only 10% for coal (this being the percent of revenue they can deduct from gross revenue to account for the lost value of the products they sold, which can be more than the actual cost they paid for the land from which they extracted the resources).
The amount of effort required to look into ONE person in footage is huge.
Which is why facial recognition software is so popular. It's not hard to imagine that technology being coupled with other technologies and AI to make it possible for them to have computers sift through all that data for the juicy bits (which could be forwarded on to a human op for final review).
The scanners capture digital images which can be easily stored or transmitted in several ways,
But just to be clear, that's not theft.
Or they could exercise their right to free speech by, you know, talking to the person next to them.
Yeah, because if the government has the right to shut down electronic communication, they would never use a technology to shut down verbal communication.
Moving a protest a few hinderd feet is not a problem in my mind.
I do love a good pun.
inherently dangerous station.
Perhaps the problem is not the protesters. I've seen subway stations in Tokyo that were wall to wall people during rush hour. They actually have attendants there to help push the last few people into the subway car. If the station's design cannot handle peak surges of traffic, then the design needs to be modified.
And if BART has to (or even thinks) that turning off cell phone coverage will prevent peak surges (due to protests or otherwise), then they need to reexamine their procedures.
Besides if you want to troll billboards in America,
you should put them under bridges.
Then what would we do with our homeless?
Yes ether might count,
special case of GR,
with modification,
So what you're saying is that the general consensus of those theories when they first were developed has been shown to be wrong in some cases?
Couldn't it be that "AGW" as a theory is a "special case" that applies to some fairly specific set of circumstances related to the current state of the planet? Saying that any type of science is settled is just poor rhetoric.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of witchery?
My wife uses Shutterfly to create and print photo albums. It takes a while to upload the pictures, but she's able to do it by folder/directory, so she can start the queue and let it run over night. I'm not sure how long she spends on layout, but they have a very simple interface that lets you add stock graphics and customized captions. There are a score or more layout templates so it doesn't look too cookie-cutter. I'm not sure of the cost, but it isn't prohibitive. We have a 6 month book for each son, then she did one for each birthday that contains the previous years pictures. The nice thing is that if the book gets ruined (which a couple have in the hands of toddlers) you can easily re-order it. Kodakgallery offers a similar product.
i c suspect in hoodie omg here he comes SMG!
What's common is the accusations of astroturfing by fans of competing products, theories, or systems. It's become the "in thing" to claim that any dissenting opinion is astroturfing.
Spoken like a true shill for Big Nylon Grass.