I absolutely hate stories like this. The problem is that is approaches the problem as if there is some Utopian country out there and it's just a matter of getting away from the big bad USA and all your problems will be solved. Nothing could be further from the truth.
All countries have their pluses...and all countries have their minuses. Web forums, such as this, delight in pointing out the problems of the US, and the declaration of "I'm seriously thinking of leaving the US." is heard time and time again.
Do you seriously think that life is all wine and roses elsewhere? Australia is forcing ISPs to block content from their people, slashdot has posted numerous stories concerning British libel cases, where ISPs are forced to remove offensive material. Canada has taxes on recordable media...the list goes on and on.
The point of my rant is not that the US is #1 in any of these categories, but that this "grass is always greener" attitude is not going to get you very far in life.
"... did not comply with Florida state law, which
suggests that you are to mark "at the RIGHT of the name of the candidate for whom you desire to vote." Fla.Rev.Stat. 101.191(1)..."
I believe you are missing a crucial point to this law. Doesn't it also say that any challenges to this design MUST be brought up before the first vote is cast? If it does indeed say that, any challenges after the fact are NULL and VOID. Florida lawmakers certainly didn't want to be responsible for second guessing an election.
Morality has absolutely no place in this. Rule of the law does. Buchanan can say whatever he wants, the media can talk about Gore's "Moral Right" due to leading in the popular vote, it makes no difference. Count the votes *AS CAST*, assign each states electoral votes and declare a winner. In this case, Legality takes precendence over morality...or, as I like to see it, the Moral thing to do is follow the legality.
Listen folks, there are thousands of counties out there, millions of voters. This county in FL is not the only place where voters may or may not have cast votes in ways that they really didn't intend. It is not the first, it is not the last. We cannot, however, start 2nd guessing the ballots that were submitted. That is such a slipperly slope and would result in NO election ever being accepted again. People make mistakes, people vote wrong...some ballots are even thrown out due to mistakes, should we allow all THOSE people to vote again as well? Where does it end?
Of course he won't fix it, that would be admitting he was wrong in the first place. If you haven't noticed yet, people don't like admitting that they were wrong. Christ, Rob, et.al., can't even be bothered to check for spelling errors and redundant postings, let alone be bothered with actually correcting the inherent flaws in the system *that they placed here*!
The whole system is fucked. Karma?? WTF? People trying to get karma?? What's up with that? Who cares? People selling accounts with high karma on ebay? Fuck man, my kid sister's Garbage Pail Kids cards from the 80's are more valuable. Meta-Moderation?? Fuck me gently with a chainsaw Veronica. Secret sid forums?? Please, how *look at my l33t secret club*'ish can you get? You know, maybe Slashdot wouldn't be inaccessable for large portions of time if the code wasn't this overgrown, bloated fat spagetti mess of half-assed hacks and pure bullshit. Can you say "overkill"?
I used to enjoy coming to this site, I really did. But ever since the Andover takeover, this place has really taken a nose dive in the proverbial dumper. Absolutely no journalistic integrity, not even the slightest bit of factual checking on stories, blatant pandering to the mob's worst emotional buttons. It's not "Slashdot, News for Nerds". It's "Slashdot, because National Enquirer was taken. (Not that we respect trademarks though)". Face it kids, this isn't Rob's personal site anymore, that went out the door when he took the money. Now, not that I give a flying fuck about Malda and crew, but this site is ultimately owned/controlled by VALinux, which purports to be a respectable company. How long is VALinux going to keep this cesspool on the books? Don't they care that through continual backing of this site they align themselves with the same bunch of degenerates that back shows like Jerry Springer? Is that the image that VALinux wants to project?
And the biggest joke of them all? Losers complaining about a) their own karma (yes you Signal 11) and b) even worse, losers complaining about *other* people's karma. These are the biggest losers of them all. Do you mean to tell me that some arbitrary fucking score on this troll ridden, universally laughed at and mocked website that we call Slashdot really matters? Jesus H. Christ, move out of your parents basement and get a life.
All of you.
So what is one to do? Quit? Leave? Fuck no! I for one am going to watch this bloated pig die and rot away from the inside. I'm going to enjoy wallowing in the putrid stench that is Slashdot, gorging myself on its bloated teat. My screeds will be long, they will be nasty. You will know I'm here.
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I absolutely hate stories like this. The problem is that is approaches the problem as if there is some Utopian country out there and it's just a matter of getting away from the big bad USA and all your problems will be solved. Nothing could be further from the truth.
All countries have their pluses...and all countries have their minuses. Web forums, such as this, delight in pointing out the problems of the US, and the declaration of "I'm seriously thinking of leaving the US." is heard time and time again.
Do you seriously think that life is all wine and roses elsewhere? Australia is forcing ISPs to block content from their people, slashdot has posted numerous stories concerning British libel cases, where ISPs are forced to remove offensive material. Canada has taxes on recordable media...the list goes on and on.
The point of my rant is not that the US is #1 in any of these categories, but that this "grass is always greener" attitude is not going to get you very far in life.
I believe you are missing a crucial point to this law. Doesn't it also say that any challenges to this design MUST be brought up before the first vote is cast? If it does indeed say that, any challenges after the fact are NULL and VOID. Florida lawmakers certainly didn't want to be responsible for second guessing an election.
Morality has absolutely no place in this. Rule of the law does. Buchanan can say whatever he wants, the media can talk about Gore's "Moral Right" due to leading in the popular vote, it makes no difference. Count the votes *AS CAST*, assign each states electoral votes and declare a winner. In this case, Legality takes precendence over morality...or, as I like to see it, the Moral thing to do is follow the legality.
Listen folks, there are thousands of counties out there, millions of voters. This county in FL is not the only place where voters may or may not have cast votes in ways that they really didn't intend. It is not the first, it is not the last. We cannot, however, start 2nd guessing the ballots that were submitted. That is such a slipperly slope and would result in NO election ever being accepted again. People make mistakes, people vote wrong...some ballots are even thrown out due to mistakes, should we allow all THOSE people to vote again as well? Where does it end?
Of course he won't fix it, that would be admitting he was wrong in the first place. If you haven't noticed yet, people don't like admitting that they were wrong. Christ, Rob, et.al., can't even be bothered to check for spelling errors and redundant postings, let alone be bothered with actually correcting the inherent flaws in the system *that they placed here*!
The whole system is fucked. Karma?? WTF? People trying to get karma?? What's up with that? Who cares? People selling accounts with high karma on ebay? Fuck man, my kid sister's Garbage Pail Kids cards from the 80's are more valuable. Meta-Moderation?? Fuck me gently with a chainsaw Veronica. Secret sid forums?? Please, how *look at my l33t secret club*'ish can you get? You know, maybe Slashdot wouldn't be inaccessable for large portions of time if the code wasn't this overgrown, bloated fat spagetti mess of half-assed hacks and pure bullshit. Can you say "overkill"?
I used to enjoy coming to this site, I really did. But ever since the Andover takeover, this place has really taken a nose dive in the proverbial dumper. Absolutely no journalistic integrity, not even the slightest bit of factual checking on stories, blatant pandering to the mob's worst emotional buttons. It's not "Slashdot, News for Nerds". It's "Slashdot, because National Enquirer was taken. (Not that we respect trademarks though)". Face it kids, this isn't Rob's personal site anymore, that went out the door when he took the money. Now, not that I give a flying fuck about Malda and crew, but this site is ultimately owned/controlled by VALinux, which purports to be a respectable company. How long is VALinux going to keep this cesspool on the books? Don't they care that through continual backing of this site they align themselves with the same bunch of degenerates that back shows like Jerry Springer? Is that the image that VALinux wants to project?
And the biggest joke of them all? Losers complaining about a) their own karma (yes you Signal 11) and b) even worse, losers complaining about *other* people's karma. These are the biggest losers of them all. Do you mean to tell me that some arbitrary fucking score on this troll ridden, universally laughed at and mocked website that we call Slashdot really matters? Jesus H. Christ, move out of your parents basement and get a life.
All of you.
So what is one to do? Quit? Leave? Fuck no! I for one am going to watch this bloated pig die and rot away from the inside. I'm going to enjoy wallowing in the putrid stench that is Slashdot, gorging myself on its bloated teat. My screeds will be long, they will be nasty. You will know I'm here.
Fuck you very much.