You enter the polling place, pick up "n" peices of paper (one per candidate, preprinted with the name, party and so on) and an envelope.
You enter the polling booth, close the curtain, put one of the pieces of paper in the envelope. Chuck the others in the bin or keep 'em in your pockets as souvenirs if you want.
Then you go up to the guys at the polling box, show one of 'em your papers (identity card, passport) they find your name in the list, get you to sign on the line, he says your name "Mr Eunuchswea...r", the other person opens the slit in the polling box, you stick the envelope in the box, he says "...has voted" and closes the slit.
Afterwards they ask you if you want to come help with the count.
The count is easy. The number of envelopes should match the number of signatures, if an envelope contains anything other than one official voting paper it is counted as spoiled, otherwise it is clearly a vote for one or other candidate.
No fuss, no muss, the result is usualy announced within hours of the vote being closed. When there have been attempts to cheat (one poll monitor was found with his socks filled with ballots) they're easy to detect.
The change in meaning of "liberal" and "libertarian" are largely US phenomena.
"Liberal" in the UK mostly means "centre-right", in Europe it means "economicaly liberal", closer to what most Americans would consider as "libertarian".
"Libertarian", though rarely used, would mostly be understood as a synonym for Anarchist.
The use of the word "libertarian" to describe a set of political positions can be tracked to the French cognate, libertaire, which was coined in 1857 by French anarchist Joseph Déjacque who used the term to distinguish his libertarian communist approach from the mutualism advocated by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.Hence libertarian has been used by some as a synonym for anarchism since the 1890s
Because food labelling should be appropriate and helpful. To the end consumer, there is no benefit to knowing whether the food was GMO or not, and such a "warning" would be grossly misleading and would undermine other, more legitimate, labelling that might actually be helpful.
Ah, the "because I know what's good for you" argument.
"Need to know" is appropriate for keeping secrets, not for selling things to people.
Which is more than offset by their very significant wind and solar farms.
Offset? How?
Germany is increasing it's CO2 output when it should be reducing it. They decided to replace clean nukes with dirty coal instead of using their clean wind and solar to replace the dirty coal.
After the Indian Ocean tsunami one of the primary donors of medical supplies was Pfizer, who used the opportunity to dump massive quantities of expired Viagra for a tax write-off.
If you read the article you find that one of the languages they're working on adding next is Italian.
As far as I can tell French Polynesia is the nearest French speaking place to Australia. Maybe they want people to have a better time on holiday in Tahiti?
The maemo/meego devices have given users root access out of the box, perhaps you have to take one minor step to indicate you know what that means, but that's about all. These devices are there for you, and don't really try to protect themselves from their users/owners.
Not actually true with Meego - AEGIS prevents even root from doing various things.
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The nice bit about the Acela is that you can take the ordinary trains with no wifi and hence avoid all the idiots clicky clicking away on their "important" work.
The other advantage of the normal trains is that the bloody airconditioning is less insanely cold.
This is the real story here. Someone has, for the first time in history, managed to be both an anarchist and a libertarian at the same time. Up until now they have been mutually exclusive.
Uh?
libertarian has been used by some as a synonym for anarchism since the 1890s
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Nonsense.
Your receipt from Macy's is worthless.
A paper showing that someone voted for a candidate could be worth money.
Just how did you get hold of someone's vote reciept? Why did they give it to you?
If you are a woman and your husband asks to see you reciept (under threat of physical force) what are you going to show him?
We (France) use a piece of paper.
You enter the polling place, pick up "n" peices of paper (one per candidate, preprinted with the name, party and so on) and an envelope.
You enter the polling booth, close the curtain, put one of the pieces of paper in the envelope. Chuck the others in the bin or keep 'em in your pockets as souvenirs if you want.
Then you go up to the guys at the polling box, show one of 'em your papers (identity card, passport) they find your name in the list, get you to sign on the line, he says your name "Mr Eunuchswea...r", the other person opens the slit in the polling box, you stick the envelope in the box, he says "...has voted" and closes the slit.
Afterwards they ask you if you want to come help with the count.
The count is easy. The number of envelopes should match the number of signatures, if an envelope contains anything other than one official voting paper it is counted as spoiled, otherwise it is clearly a vote for one or other candidate.
No fuss, no muss, the result is usualy announced within hours of the vote being closed. When there have been attempts to cheat (one poll monitor was found with his socks filled with ballots) they're easy to detect.
Who needs computers anyway?
The change in meaning of "liberal" and "libertarian" are largely US phenomena.
"Liberal" in the UK mostly means "centre-right", in Europe it means "economicaly liberal", closer to what most Americans would consider as "libertarian".
"Libertarian", though rarely used, would mostly be understood as a synonym for Anarchist.
Opium. Coca. Cannabis.
Real cash crops.
(I don't recommend trying GMO canabis - you'd piss of many potential buyers)
We import cheap plastic crap and clothes and toys from China and export a gigantic supply of food around the world.
Yup, the US imports manufactured goods and exports agricultural products and raw materials (oil, coal).
Sounds just like any other third world country.
Libertarians are not anarchists
Except for those of them that are.
The use of the word "libertarian" to describe a set of political positions can be tracked to the French cognate, libertaire, which was coined in 1857 by French anarchist Joseph Déjacque who used the term to distinguish his libertarian communist approach from the mutualism advocated by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.Hence libertarian has been used by some as a synonym for anarchism since the 1890s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Because food labelling should be appropriate and helpful. To the end consumer, there is no benefit to knowing whether the food was GMO or not, and such a "warning" would be grossly misleading and would undermine other, more legitimate, labelling that might actually be helpful.
Ah, the "because I know what's good for you" argument.
"Need to know" is appropriate for keeping secrets, not for selling things to people.
Yup, he's an idiot.
Hey, idiot, look at /etc/nsswitch.conf
I also wondered why they didn't just boil water, whether it was ignorance or just a preference for beer instead of water
Ignorance is rather a nasty way of putting it. Don't forget the germ theory of disease was only accepted during the 19th century.
Why go to all the bother of boiling water and letting it cool down again? What would be the point?
In the same manner that oak barrels inject other hydrocarbons into scotch. Benzene in trace amounts might make the beer tastier. Umm, benzene.
There may be some minor differences in the physiological effects of different hydrocarbons. /sarcasm
In the splendid Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey people spend a lot of time drinking :"needled beer" - beer with added ether.
Nice.
Which is more than offset by their very significant wind and solar farms.
Offset? How?
Germany is increasing it's CO2 output when it should be reducing it. They decided to replace clean nukes with dirty coal instead of using their clean wind and solar to replace the dirty coal.
Smart.
We also shouldn't be paying attention to any 500-year-old rules that have something to say about chemistry.
Guess you don't drink much beer.
After the Indian Ocean tsunami one of the primary donors of medical supplies was Pfizer, who used the opportunity to dump massive quantities of expired Viagra for a tax write-off.
Source?
I see people claiming that they donated their own products rather than cash: http://canadiancynic.blogspot.fr/2005/01/mythical-35-million-pfizer-tsunami.html
But where is "expired viagra" mentioned?
for the most part, if someone dissappears without a trace, foul play is involved.
This is your uninformed opinion.
The actual facts are that the majority of requests in recent years were just searches for people skipping out on alimony payments.
Duh, I am so dumb, you're right.
If you read the article you find that one of the languages they're working on adding next is Italian.
As far as I can tell French Polynesia is the nearest French speaking place to Australia. Maybe they want people to have a better time on holiday in Tahiti?
French is an asian language now?
(And why no capital for the poor old frogs?)
I've got 3 N900s, all 3 of which no longer have a functioning cell modem
The sticking a spring on top of the chip trick didn't work for you?
The maemo/meego devices have given users root access out of the box, perhaps you have to take one minor step to indicate you know what that means, but that's about all. These devices are there for you, and don't really try to protect themselves from their users/owners.
Not actually true with Meego - AEGIS prevents even root from doing various things.
The nice bit about the Acela is that you can take the ordinary trains with no wifi and hence avoid all the idiots clicky clicking away on their "important" work.
The other advantage of the normal trains is that the bloody airconditioning is less insanely cold.
Pah, I got 2 asprin and sent home to bed.
What is this, the four Yorkshiremen sketch version of mental health?
the PDF linked to specifically states that the encryption is dependent on the silicone within the device.
Wow. I hope it's not PIP
(Sorry, recovering chemist. This "error" realy grates).
Problem is that after Microsoft bought Skype there is NO VoIP application which is fully anonymous
Are you so insane that you think Skype was "fully anonymous" before Microsoft bought them?
Are you so stupid that you can't work out how to do an anonymised encrypted SIP?
Are you so paranoid that you think you need such a thing?
Oh, you're a Russian. Maybe the answer is "yes". (The question is left to the prejudice of the reader).
It should be "on the people" because some people may not have a problem with policies and may want to do business with Apple anyway.
Absolutely. Everyone should be free to decide which bit of the law of the land they want to follow.
I, for example, can't see why we are not allowed to burn glibertarians in the public parks.
This is the real story here. Someone has, for the first time in history, managed to be both an anarchist and a libertarian at the same time. Up until now they have been mutually exclusive.
Uh?
libertarian has been used by some as a synonym for anarchism since the 1890s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology