Yeah, I heard that Pete Jackson is planning a stupid prequel with stupid "Bilbo when he was young", meeting "Gimli when he was young" and stupid "Gollum before he fell for the dark side".
Also, it seems the script for all this is aimed at children.
In Belgium, where turnout is near 100 %, because mandatory, machine counting is not necessary.
You might tell me that's because the belgian population is 280 times smaller, but that would be an error. What the system needs is distribution. Just divide the country in provinces, provinces in counties (cantons), cantons in communes, and each commune in a number of bureaus. At that point, you have a few hundred to a few thousand people per bureau.
Each bureau has a president and witnesses. After closing time, they sit together and do the hand count. With a little organisation, you can get in done in an hour. Then the results are transmitted to the upper level, added, then transmitted to the upper level. It does not take a long time. Afterwards of course all the paper is taken to the ministry of interior for recount but that's annecdotical.
Actually, it now takes more time because we're in a transition to stupid computer voting, and the unreadable results can only be read in the ministry of interior and thus have to be physically shipped to the capital, which can take up to three hours.
to go back to hierarchical paper voting, I see no reason it couldn't be applied in the US, providing you take one or two extra mid levels.
We have the second amendment. The chinese don't. If the government gets out of hand, we always have the upper hand. Mao said it best: Government comes from the point of a gun.
Three factions:
* 99 % of Joe Sixpackses who don't care about politics
* 1 % Who are discontent with the government, and the government tells the 99% Joe Sixpackses they are terrists
* The government, with the most powerful army in the world
So, in case of a conflict, who do you think wins ? The second amendment was handy at the time the redcoats had to come in ships to attack you, not against a local, powerful army. Come to think of it, did the redcoats endorse the second amendment ? No, it was only voted after the war.
My friend, revolution as we know it is no longer possible. When a corrupt government is replaced (think Soviets or South Africa, counter example are welcome), it is because it has become obsolete, not because some hillbilly used his musket.
While I am not sure about BASE jumping, I don't know what to think about the future of paragliding in Millau. Millau seems to be one of the most rewarding places in France to fly. Imagine 10 miles of valley where you just can soar by stay close enough to the mountain. I hope the bridge does not cut the valley in two.
Technically, all french wine is from the US anyway, there was a terrible vinyard disease some 100 years ago that had all trees extinguished. They had to get the plants back from California
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Yeah, I heard that Pete Jackson is planning a stupid prequel with stupid "Bilbo when he was young", meeting "Gimli when he was young" and stupid "Gollum before he fell for the dark side".
Also, it seems the script for all this is aimed at children.
How could he sell off like this ?
In Belgium, where turnout is near 100 %, because mandatory, machine counting is not necessary.
You might tell me that's because the belgian population is 280 times smaller, but that would be an error. What the system needs is distribution. Just divide the country in provinces, provinces in counties (cantons), cantons in communes, and each commune in a number of bureaus. At that point, you have a few hundred to a few thousand people per bureau.
Each bureau has a president and witnesses. After closing time, they sit together and do the hand count. With a little organisation, you can get in done in an hour. Then the results are transmitted to the upper level, added, then transmitted to the upper level. It does not take a long time. Afterwards of course all the paper is taken to the ministry of interior for recount but that's annecdotical.
Actually, it now takes more time because we're in a transition to stupid computer voting, and the unreadable results can only be read in the ministry of interior and thus have to be physically shipped to the capital, which can take up to three hours.
to go back to hierarchical paper voting, I see no reason it couldn't be applied in the US, providing you take one or two extra mid levels.
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* 99 % of Joe Sixpackses who don't care about politics
* 1 % Who are discontent with the government, and the government tells the 99% Joe Sixpackses they are terrists
* The government, with the most powerful army in the world
So, in case of a conflict, who do you think wins ? The second amendment was handy at the time the redcoats had to come in ships to attack you, not against a local, powerful army. Come to think of it, did the redcoats endorse the second amendment ? No, it was only voted after the war.
My friend, revolution as we know it is no longer possible. When a corrupt government is replaced (think Soviets or South Africa, counter example are welcome), it is because it has become obsolete, not because some hillbilly used his musket.
Wow ! You're gonna emit a frequency ! dude !
It's EMP, the P standing for pulse
Ah Ah Ah ! You have caught the Blonde Virus. This virus is honor based. 1)Forward this email to all people in your adress book 2)Erase your hard drive
Giving people quality for their money is SO 1950s...
Meh ! Mandrake has been 10.0 for how long ?
see sig
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
By then, nuclear fusion should be in production, we will produce our own helium.
In an open source world, this wouldn't have mattered...
They have invented a successor to the abortion pill, RU486. It's called RUPentium, and causes embryo cells not to divide correctly.
Wow ! You mean Mars is only 10 light seconds away ? Duck and cover !
Nice description, but this looks like a white box testing, and the Turing test is black box testing.
You forgot Gallois.
One Token ring ?
While I am not sure about BASE jumping, I don't know what to think about the future of paragliding in Millau. Millau seems to be one of the most rewarding places in France to fly. Imagine 10 miles of valley where you just can soar by stay close enough to the mountain. I hope the bridge does not cut the valley in two.
Technically, all french wine is from the US anyway, there was a terrible vinyard disease some 100 years ago that had all trees extinguished. They had to get the plants back from California
got a pdf of that thesis ?
In French, "le lendemain de la veille" (the day after the day before)