you would think that would be the case, but we are talking about government entities that enlist volunteers to do the job. I'm surprised anything works.
a paper trail or open sourced voting software won't help when the security at the polling place is a joke. Tweleve voting machine smart cards were stolen in Shelby County, TN during their early voting period and it's been assumed that people have used them to vote multiple times. I didn't think about it then, but when I voted at the election commission HQ earlier this week, all the poll workers were behind a bank teller type desks behind glass and the voting machines were in an area in front of them. There wasn't anyone making sure that the smart cards were returned and it would have been easy to take off with one. When you were finished voting, the person behind the 'teller window' took the card and just threw it into a cardboard box sitting on the desk. If they were distracted, it probably wouldn't have been difficult to snitch a card out of that box.
if there is a paper trail, who is to say that someone can't tamper with that? Voting fraud has occurred with plain paper ballots in the past, so I'm sure someone would be working on a way to get around any sort of paper trail the electronic voting machines would generate.
In the 10 years that I've been voting in my current city, I can't recall ever touching a paper ballot. We have computer touch screen machines now, but before that was a machine with membrane buttons beside each candidate's name and a light would turn on to indicate the choice. I didn't have anything to verify what lit up on the panel was what was going to be tallied by the election commission.
the problem with cheapo computers is that they are often built with shoddy parts that won't last very long. High quality cases, power supplies, and fans aren't having their prices cut in half every year and they won't be found in many cheap PCs, but were probably a portion of his $2000 machine.
got any links that backup "grains make cattle sick"? Having grown up on a farm raising cattle and many relatives still in that profession, I'd say that's bullshit.
and the Aussie gun owners that I've communicated with absolutely loathe the current gun laws and hated the government "stealbacks" of a few years ago. The only bright spot of the latter was the govt paid well over market price for what was collected, but it didn't help much since only the law abiding blokes turned their weapons in.
The group consisted of 143 men, including three black slaves and eight members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, three women, and two children. The train contained 73 wagons, one cannon, 93 horses, 52 mules, 66 oxen, 19 cows, 17 dogs and some chickens, and carried enough supplies to fully provision the group for one year.
within 6 months there were over 2000 people living in Salt Lake Valley.
My experience with Federal installations is that most of the people working at them are actually contractor employees, with a handful of actual Federal employees.
for the woman. At a previous job (govt contractor) I had to use vacation and was chewed out about it because it was short notice (like we planned on the kid having to be in the ICU for a few days).
for some reason they think it's sexy when the guy does the dishes. Sorry, I do it so I can have at least one clean plate to eat off of in the fucking house.
I could read when the kids were asleep and she was doing her SCA bullshit. I guess it was easier to con me into marriage than it was for her to get an apartment in public housing. I should have listened to my dad, but I figured it was my only chance of getting married & having a family. and it sort of turned out to be true. I've wasted my youth and my purpose in life now is to make mortgage and child support payments.
She wanted to spend time with you, you wanted to spend time at work.
No, she wanted someone else to watch the kids and I don't like leaving something in an unfinished state. I was always taught that if you have a job to do, do it right and do not leave a mess for someone else to waste their time on. A clock watcher would be better for her social life, but that's not who I am or ever will be. I knew an engineer at RedHat that had the exact same gripe with his spouse.
The article is of such poor quality that it shouldn't be featured on slashdot.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! that would imply that/. has someone dedicated to quality control. Maybe they can tackle that one after duplicate stories on the front page.
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how about building giant heat sink like structures coated with this stuff for the purpose of selling the emission surplus?
you would think that would be the case, but we are talking about government entities that enlist volunteers to do the job. I'm surprised anything works.
a paper trail or open sourced voting software won't help when the security at the polling place is a joke. Tweleve voting machine smart cards were stolen in Shelby County, TN during their early voting period and it's been assumed that people have used them to vote multiple times. I didn't think about it then, but when I voted at the election commission HQ earlier this week, all the poll workers were behind a bank teller type desks behind glass and the voting machines were in an area in front of them. There wasn't anyone making sure that the smart cards were returned and it would have been easy to take off with one. When you were finished voting, the person behind the 'teller window' took the card and just threw it into a cardboard box sitting on the desk. If they were distracted, it probably wouldn't have been difficult to snitch a card out of that box.
if there is a paper trail, who is to say that someone can't tamper with that? Voting fraud has occurred with plain paper ballots in the past, so I'm sure someone would be working on a way to get around any sort of paper trail the electronic voting machines would generate. In the 10 years that I've been voting in my current city, I can't recall ever touching a paper ballot. We have computer touch screen machines now, but before that was a machine with membrane buttons beside each candidate's name and a light would turn on to indicate the choice. I didn't have anything to verify what lit up on the panel was what was going to be tallied by the election commission.
the problem with cheapo computers is that they are often built with shoddy parts that won't last very long. High quality cases, power supplies, and fans aren't having their prices cut in half every year and they won't be found in many cheap PCs, but were probably a portion of his $2000 machine.
thank you for paying attention.
got any links that backup "grains make cattle sick"? Having grown up on a farm raising cattle and many relatives still in that profession, I'd say that's bullshit.
or be wishing for someone to take care of him for free when he gets to be an old coot.
Why kill something if it's not hurting you?
because there's too damn many feral animals and getting rid of them is a good thing.what if the blog was for a group in Europe. would that be ok?
and the Aussie gun owners that I've communicated with absolutely loathe the current gun laws and hated the government "stealbacks" of a few years ago. The only bright spot of the latter was the govt paid well over market price for what was collected, but it didn't help much since only the law abiding blokes turned their weapons in.
My experience with Federal installations is that most of the people working at them are actually contractor employees, with a handful of actual Federal employees.
what companies?
I could see if she didn't do anything around the house, but being there to raise the kid does have some value.
we're talking about the Baby Boom generation, not their parents.
for the woman. At a previous job (govt contractor) I had to use vacation and was chewed out about it because it was short notice (like we planned on the kid having to be in the ICU for a few days).
for some reason they think it's sexy when the guy does the dishes. Sorry, I do it so I can have at least one clean plate to eat off of in the fucking house.
I could read when the kids were asleep and she was doing her SCA bullshit. I guess it was easier to con me into marriage than it was for her to get an apartment in public housing. I should have listened to my dad, but I figured it was my only chance of getting married & having a family. and it sort of turned out to be true. I've wasted my youth and my purpose in life now is to make mortgage and child support payments.
they value their time & money more than having a bunch of kids? Good question.
I know a guy that did. He regrets it and passes along the same advice.
so how did she deal with the pay cut?
She wanted to spend time with you, you wanted to spend time at work.
No, she wanted someone else to watch the kids and I don't like leaving something in an unfinished state. I was always taught that if you have a job to do, do it right and do not leave a mess for someone else to waste their time on. A clock watcher would be better for her social life, but that's not who I am or ever will be. I knew an engineer at RedHat that had the exact same gripe with his spouse.that's when the "what are still doing at work?" calls would start
The article is of such poor quality that it shouldn't be featured on slashdot.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! that would imply that