Now that's because of Trusted Platform Module ; in order to support this DRM feature , each new windows PC has a chip on it that can override part of the OS.
Now the German government thinks that this DRM features is also a Troyan horse that allows some agencies unlimited access to the PC ; now the Chinese government thinks the same. Too bad for Microsoft.
Also see this article here for more info:
http://news.techworld.com/secu...
Multiple choice voting could make things different- if the guy who gets the most approvals is supposed to be the President, number for the Secretary of the Treasury, number three for Secretary of Defense and so on;
This way the voter could choose a government composed of people holding different views;
However politicians would object to this system;-) the top guy would not have the powers to nominate his friends.
Another problem is that this system is not very flexible; no way to perform a cabinet shakeup without voting anew.
Also you might end up with poor choices - the guy who would be good for defense might not be the best choice for treasury;-)
>if you bend your opinion and your words just enough, you can appeal to even more
>and if you lie in such a way that you don't really stand for anything at all but make everyone think you stand for their opinion, then you can appeal to most
>everyone
The candidate still has to appeal to the most number of people, even with multiple choice votes.
I wonder how multiple choice voting system could make the candidates behave in honest ways ?
Please take a look at my side project - the Pooh programming language
It is supposed to be a simple but modern language designed for teaching;
Some of the features:
Does not force to introduce OO concepts from the start; non strict OO viewpoint.
Makes flow visible by tracing of the program flow; the -x command line option instructs the interpreter to trace each statement and evaluation results + intermediate values.
A focus on readability and clarity in syntax and semantics
no statement delimiters - no semicolons
all function parameters are passed as named parameters;
all variables declared in function are local;
Variable must be defined before use, similar to strict mode in Perl; variable is defined if value is assigned to a name.
The language has closures and can do objects by prototyping; has higher order functions like map/fold/filter.
If a non local variable is referenced, then it must have the prefix outer . ; references to global variables from a function must have prefix global . ; object member references must have prefix this.
the Pooh language has green threads / co-routines / generators like Lua; so there are nice for loops like in Python. The local variety of this idea is called Pooh routine.
It is supposed to be a simple but modern language designed for teaching . Here is a list of the main features:
Does not force to introduce OO concepts from the start; variables like strings/lists/hashes are not objects; this is the non strict OO viewpoint.
Makes flow visible by tracing of the program flow; the -x command line option instructs the interpreter to trace each statement and evaluation results + intermediate values.
A focus on readability and clarity in syntax and semantics
no statement delimiters - no semicolons
all function parameters are passed as named parameters;
all variables declared in function are local;
Variable must be defined before use, similar to strict mode in Perl; variable is defined if value is assigned to a name.
The language has closures and can do objects by prototyping; has higher order functions like map/fold/filter.
If a non local variable is referenced, then it must have the prefix outer . ; references to global variables from a function must have prefix global . ; object member references must have prefix this .
the Pooh language has green threads / co-routines / generators like Lua; so there are nice for loops like in Python. The local variety of this idea is called Pooh routine.
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Now that's because of Trusted Platform Module ; in order to support this DRM feature , each new windows PC has a chip on it that can override part of the OS. Now the German government thinks that this DRM features is also a Troyan horse that allows some agencies unlimited access to the PC ; now the Chinese government thinks the same. Too bad for Microsoft. Also see this article here for more info: http://news.techworld.com/secu...
Multiple choice voting could make things different- if the guy who gets the most approvals is supposed to be the President, number for the Secretary of the Treasury, number three for Secretary of Defense and so on; This way the voter could choose a government composed of people holding different views; However politicians would object to this system ;-) the top guy would not have the powers to nominate his friends.
Another problem is that this system is not very flexible; no way to perform a cabinet shakeup without voting anew.
Also you might end up with poor choices - the guy who would be good for defense might not be the best choice for treasury ;-)
>if you bend your opinion and your words just enough, you can appeal to even more
>and if you lie in such a way that you don't really stand for anything at all but make everyone think you stand for their opinion, then you can appeal to most
>everyone
The candidate still has to appeal to the most number of people, even with multiple choice votes. I wonder how multiple choice voting system could make the candidates behave in honest ways ?
Thank you for your attention.
It is supposed to be a simple but modern language designed for teaching . Here is a list of the main features:
Thank you for your attention.