That's because small town folk are 'good people' whereas us city-slickers are all selfish, rude baby-killing commies. At least that's what I heard on tv last night.
Look, guys. You tried. We know you did your best and you get a gold star for effort.
It is now time to face up to the fact that your system of government has failed. (in oh-so-many ways)
It is time for the USA to join Canada. We are willing to bring you in as a province. If you don't feel up to the challenge of running a provincial government we may consider taking you on as a protectorate instead.
...logistics of getting them designed, approved (by multiple committees) and distributed.
That hardly seems like a valid argument in favour of a system that is several orders of magnitude more complicated to certify.
The second is the time required to count them. How long after your elections are the results announced?
Results are posted a few hours after the polls close. Vote counting and populations sizes are not a problem. Hand counting scales very well. When the counting volunteers are coming from the same population that is doing the voting it does not matter whether you have 1M or 400M voters.
The significant difference (as a few people have mentioned) is the number of different things y'all are voting on each time you run the polls. We are usually making no more than one or two choices where an American may have to make 10 or 20 different selections.
If I can trust 20% of my income in an online transaction, I should sure as hell be able to vote securely and anonomously.
Nope. You banking is not anonymous. It is secure because it can be observed, audited and corrected.
It is the requirement for anonymity that makes secure electronic voting impossible.
...we can surely instal a printer to print out a reciept for each voter, that can be dropped in the ballot box on the way out.
Correct! That is a paper ballot voting system. Using an electronic system as a labour-saving tool augmenting a paper ballot system as you describe would be a reasonable solution.
That fact that this simple and obvious solution has not been implemented calls into question the honour/intelligence of those people making the decisions.
Well that's the key right there. The point is that the electronic system simply CANNOT be secure. It is only acceptable as a labour-saving add-on to a paper system.
It does not matter how good an engineer you are. Nobody has come up with a description of a theoretical system that would be secure (while maintaining voter anonymity)
"what are you taking pictures of if you are worried about them looking at them"
Well, they could be graphic pics of himself cavorting with his gay lover. If he is rich and married to a woman that could be a serious risk to him.
Or maybe they are pics from a series of academic meeting he was having with his middle-eastern islamic peers. Maybe he has also participated in some peaceful anti-war protests and has already been added to a terrorist watchlist for that reason. Since he is a non-citizen at a border control point no laws apply and he could be detained and rendered to Syria or gitmo for 'interrogation'.
Come on now, you can't use Japan as an example when talking about real places. Everyone knows Japan is from an alternate (cooler) dimension and is protruding into our world as a space-time anomaly.
I would guess the opposite. There was a sudden drop in office space supply in a dense downtown area and a sudden surge in desperate companies needing space asap.
Actually, the deficit is the annual contribution to the debt. I think that pretty much sums-up the situation in the USA. People don't even talk about the debt anymore. The most you can hope for is talk of reducing the rate at which you are adding to the debt.
The current banking crisis is a direct result of reforms carried out decades ago that effectively removed the requirement that lenders hold a reasonable percentage of their assets in reserve.
It is and was well known that the new lower reserve requirements were insufficient to ensure a stable banking system. It was decided that the resulting lower cost of capital (and increased profits for the banks) was worth the risk. (lower capital-cost generally results in economic opportunity and growth)
The banks have always known that the new system is a house of cards. They have simply bet that they could transfer the cost of that risk to the government. They made the right bet. They made more money this way and the government has in fact bailed them out.
Ultimately the person responsible is the legislator who signed the document altering the banking reserve requirements. It was that act that constituted the 'wink and a nod' to the banking industry that the government would bail them out if needed. Essentially the US chose to trade financial market stability for increased growth and insure the system with public funds.
No, they're encoding. Transcoding means you're reusing syntax elements from the original video to inform the encoder;
No, transcode means decoding one format and encoding into another format. You may have had a program or project that took advantage of shortcuts in that process but those techniques are not part of the definition of the word transcode.
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hmmm, no thanks.
That price is just too high.
That's because small town folk are 'good people' whereas us city-slickers are all selfish, rude baby-killing commies. At least that's what I heard on tv last night.
Look, guys. You tried.
We know you did your best and you get a gold star for effort.
It is now time to face up to the fact that your system of government has failed. (in oh-so-many ways)
It is time for the USA to join Canada.
We are willing to bring you in as a province.
If you don't feel up to the challenge of running a provincial government we may consider taking you on as a protectorate instead.
Off the top of my head?
Population.
Nope, population size does not matter.
The vote counting volunteers are drawn from the same population that is doing the voting.
If 1% of voters are willing to volunteer to count votes you are good to go whether you have 1M or 400M voters.
...logistics of getting them designed, approved (by multiple committees) and distributed.
That hardly seems like a valid argument in favour of a system that is several orders of magnitude more complicated to certify.
The second is the time required to count them. How long after your elections are the results announced?
Results are posted a few hours after the polls close.
Vote counting and populations sizes are not a problem. Hand counting scales very well.
When the counting volunteers are coming from the same population that is doing the voting it does not matter whether you have 1M or 400M voters.
The significant difference (as a few people have mentioned) is the number of different things y'all are voting on each time you run the polls.
We are usually making no more than one or two choices where an American may have to make 10 or 20 different selections.
You have just described a paper ballot system.
You have simply replaced the 5 cent pencil with an $8000 electronic device.
If I can trust 20% of my income in an online transaction, I should sure as hell be able to vote securely and anonomously.
Nope.
You banking is not anonymous.
It is secure because it can be observed, audited and corrected.
It is the requirement for anonymity that makes secure electronic voting impossible.
...we can surely instal a printer to print out a reciept for each voter, that can be dropped in the ballot box on the way out.
Correct!
That is a paper ballot voting system.
Using an electronic system as a labour-saving tool augmenting a paper ballot system as you describe would be a reasonable solution.
That fact that this simple and obvious solution has not been implemented calls into question the honour/intelligence of those people making the decisions.
"If you have a verifiable paper trail..."
Well that's the key right there.
The point is that the electronic system simply CANNOT be secure. It is only acceptable as a labour-saving add-on to a paper system.
It does not matter how good an engineer you are. Nobody has come up with a description of a theoretical system that would be secure (while maintaining voter anonymity)
I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
If that doesn't work try submerging the speakers in water.
If that still doesn't work then try microwaving the phone on high for 6 minutes.
Only an idiot incapable of taking care of themselves would want to live in a social welfare state.
really? how's that murder rate working out for you?
In other news, 99.8% of gamers are playing pirated versions of their games.
X (or more) decibels will dammage your hearing.
Keep your volume below X moron.
While we're on the subject... 99% of bars and bands are fucking morons who destroy their fans hearing.
There should be a fucking bylaw or something.
Also, GET OFF MY LAWN YOU BASTARDS!.
(have to yell because the little fuckers have hearing loss)
As someone with a wiener big enough to be seen from space I am concerned by this.
"what are you taking pictures of if you are worried about them looking at them"
Well, they could be graphic pics of himself cavorting with his gay lover.
If he is rich and married to a woman that could be a serious risk to him.
Or maybe they are pics from a series of academic meeting he was having with his middle-eastern islamic peers.
Maybe he has also participated in some peaceful anti-war protests and has already been added to a terrorist watchlist for that reason.
Since he is a non-citizen at a border control point no laws apply and he could be detained and rendered to Syria or gitmo for 'interrogation'.
Your ideas are crazy and impractical.
Also, they would cripple the helper monkey industry you heartless bastard.
No, no, no, the "box" is the skull.
One with a pair of vision balls.
"Any device irregardless of broadcast strength and frequency is not going to affect an electrical connection"
I give you a D in highschool-level science and english.
How did this post get modded +5 informative?!?!?
Indeed.
I'd like to hear folks talking about how much tax we are paying to cover the interest on this debt every year.
Come on now, you can't use Japan as an example when talking about real places.
Everyone knows Japan is from an alternate (cooler) dimension and is protruding into our world as a space-time anomaly.
I would guess the opposite.
There was a sudden drop in office space supply in a dense downtown area and a sudden surge in desperate companies needing space asap.
Actually, the deficit is the annual contribution to the debt.
I think that pretty much sums-up the situation in the USA. People don't even talk about the debt anymore. The most you can hope for is talk of reducing the rate at which you are adding to the debt.
The current banking crisis is a direct result of reforms carried out decades ago that effectively removed the requirement that lenders hold a reasonable percentage of their assets in reserve.
It is and was well known that the new lower reserve requirements were insufficient to ensure a stable banking system.
It was decided that the resulting lower cost of capital (and increased profits for the banks) was worth the risk.
(lower capital-cost generally results in economic opportunity and growth)
The banks have always known that the new system is a house of cards. They have simply bet that they could transfer the cost of that risk to the government.
They made the right bet.
They made more money this way and the government has in fact bailed them out.
Ultimately the person responsible is the legislator who signed the document altering the banking reserve requirements.
It was that act that constituted the 'wink and a nod' to the banking industry that the government would bail them out if needed.
Essentially the US chose to trade financial market stability for increased growth and insure the system with public funds.
No, they're encoding. Transcoding means you're reusing syntax elements from the original video to inform the encoder;
No, transcode means decoding one format and encoding into another format. You may have had a program or project that took advantage of shortcuts in that process but those techniques are not part of the definition of the word transcode.