I always wondered why people give gift cards. Why not just give someone the money and let them decide where to spend it. Giving a gift card is equivalent to giving cash and then telling the recipient where they must spend it. How is that better than the cash? Am I missing something here?
I could say this scheme can't work in practice, but I would only be 99.99999% sure of it. The reason it can't work is left as an exercise for the reader -- a very easy one, I might add.
Wow! That makes my day. An article by Thomas Sowell featured on slashdot! He's a great writer, and he happens to be a conservative black too. Please read some of his other articles too while you're at it.
"To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery."
Read Christopher Hitchens article on this movie before you fall for it hook, line, and sinker. Hitchens is a lefty, by the way, or at least he was one, but he seems to be waking from his stupor.
Boy, what a bunch of idiots here at Slashdot. It would be depressing if I let it get to me.
Online voting cannot possibly provide a paper trail, so it cannot be secure. Also, online voting opens up a pandora's box of vote selling schemes and vote coercion. See Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Voting.
I'll probably get ridiculed for this suggestion, but I think that Ada 95 would be an excellent choice. It has a reputation for rock solid code. Check out my Ada page. If you don't know much about Ada, you will be surprised.
What concerns me about high-speed planes is their vulnerability to terrorism. Heck, who needs a bomb? All you need is a frickin' 50-cal rifle a mile away. One bullet through the cockpit at takeoff, and sit back and watch all hell break loose.
Well, maybe, but...
Airplane windshields have to be pretty tough to withstand bird strikes. I'm not sure what a bullet from that far away would do. If it shattered the windshield, yes it would get pretty drafty in the cockpit, but I doubt it would shatter. I'm just guessing that they must be made out of some bullet-proof plastic. Also, the terrorist would have to kill both the pilot and co-pilot to really bring the plane down. That wouldn't be easy.
What concerns me about high-speed trains is their vulnerability to terrorism. Heck, who needs a bomb? All you need is a frickin' bowling ball somewhere on the tracks, then sit back and watch all hell break loose.
Yes, the tracks will have to all be fenced in, but can we guarantee that some Jihado-sicko won't get a pair of wire cutters and get access to the tracks? And what about the great view through that fence, eh?
I think the best sitcoms from my youth were Beverly Hillbillies and Get Smart. Yes, I know they were corny, but sometimes they were hilarious. And that lead-in of Agent 86 walking down that long hallway is truly classic.
Then again, I haven't watched a sitcom since the 60s. Either they don't make 'em like they used to, or I grew up.
Ya, and the biggest marketing scam of all is the notion that you don't love your wife if you don't send a suitcase full of money to some billionaire in South Africa. What a farce.
I tried to make it a link when I first put in my sig a year or two ago, but I was unsuccessful. Apparently links don't work the same way in sigs as in the body of a comment. Please correct me if I am wrong.
According to Warren Farrell in The Myth of Male Power (an amazing book), the amount of retail space devoted to women's products is SEVEN times that devoted to men's.
What I find amazing about this entire "global-warming" controversy is that, even if the theory is true, the clear solution is to use more nuclear power, but few of the so-called "environmentalists" who believe in global warming are touting nuclear power. Check out my web page Ignorance about Nuclear Power is Killing Us (Literally) You will find very enlightening articles by a top expert (no, not me).
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I always wondered why people give gift cards. Why not just give someone the money and let them decide where to spend it. Giving a gift card is equivalent to giving cash and then telling the recipient where they must spend it. How is that better than the cash? Am I missing something here?
No reply needed. Your post speaks for itself.
By the way, are you aware that the Nazis were left wing socialists, you moron?
The Kerry campaign is trying to stop the publishing and distribution of Unfit for Command.
Has Bush tried to have any of the hundreds of books that criticized him banned? No, not one.
Then again, you have a real disadvantage when the truth is against you, eh?
Check out GVI, the Graphical Voter Interface. It's free software in every sense, and I think it's pretty nifty.
OK, dumbass.
I could say this scheme can't work in practice, but I would only be 99.99999% sure of it. The reason it can't work is left as an exercise for the reader -- a very easy one, I might add.
Wow! That makes my day. An article by Thomas Sowell featured on slashdot! He's a great writer, and he happens to be a conservative black too. Please read some of his other articles too while you're at it.
"Can anyone else guess why this project isn't opensource yet."
Check out GVI, the Graphical Voter Interface.
I should have included an excerpt:
"To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery."
Read Christopher Hitchens article on this movie before you fall for it hook, line, and sinker. Hitchens is a lefty, by the way, or at least he was one, but he seems to be waking from his stupor.
Boy, what a bunch of idiots here at Slashdot. It would be depressing if I let it get to me.
Ignorance about Nuclear Power is Killing Us (literally).
Online voting cannot possibly provide a paper trail, so it cannot be secure. Also, online voting opens up a pandora's box of vote selling schemes and vote coercion. See Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Voting.
I'll probably get ridiculed for this suggestion, but I think that Ada 95 would be an excellent choice. It has a reputation for rock solid code. Check out my Ada page. If you don't know much about Ada, you will be surprised.
Bingo!
The tax code is waaaaay too complicated. That's got to be a large part of the reason the IRS systems are such a mess.
What concerns me about high-speed planes is their vulnerability to terrorism. Heck, who needs a bomb? All you need is a frickin' 50-cal rifle a mile away. One bullet through the cockpit at takeoff, and sit back and watch all hell break loose.
...
Well, maybe, but
Airplane windshields have to be pretty tough to withstand bird strikes. I'm not sure what a bullet from that far away would do. If it shattered the windshield, yes it would get pretty drafty in the cockpit, but I doubt it would shatter. I'm just guessing that they must be made out of some bullet-proof plastic. Also, the terrorist would have to kill both the pilot and co-pilot to really bring the plane down. That wouldn't be easy.
What concerns me about high-speed trains is their vulnerability to terrorism. Heck, who needs a bomb? All you need is a frickin' bowling ball somewhere on the tracks, then sit back and watch all hell break loose.
Yes, the tracks will have to all be fenced in, but can we guarantee that some Jihado-sicko won't get a pair of wire cutters and get access to the tracks? And what about the great view through that fence, eh?
Ignorance about Nuclear Power is Killing Us
I think the best sitcoms from my youth were Beverly Hillbillies and Get Smart. Yes, I know they were corny, but sometimes they were hilarious. And that lead-in of Agent 86 walking down that long hallway is truly classic.
Then again, I haven't watched a sitcom since the 60s. Either they don't make 'em like they used to, or I grew up.
Check out my article Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Voting.
ESR has hit the nail on the head. If your a software developer and you don't get it, read it again.
Ya, and the biggest marketing scam of all is the notion that you don't love your wife if you don't send a suitcase full of money to some billionaire in South Africa. What a farce.
I tried to make it a link when I first put in my sig a year or two ago, but I was unsuccessful. Apparently links don't work the same way in sigs as in the body of a comment. Please correct me if I am wrong.
ElectionMethods.org seems to be back up now. I just hope it stays that way. Hope you like it.
According to Warren Farrell in The Myth of Male Power (an amazing book), the amount of retail space devoted to women's products is SEVEN times that devoted to men's.
What I find amazing about this entire "global-warming" controversy is that, even if the theory is true, the clear solution is to use more nuclear power, but few of the so-called "environmentalists" who believe in global warming are touting nuclear power. Check out my web page Ignorance about Nuclear Power is Killing Us (Literally) You will find very enlightening articles by a top expert (no, not me).