Seems to work for Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth of Nations just fine, same with most of the European Union and especially Sweden. Lassez-faire is dead.
With all the negative press surrounding electronic voting, I wonder if this signals a jump back to the standard paper or mechanical voting machines.
If Oregon is representative of anything (probably not, though: Oregon tends to think things through a bit more than most states), then the voting booth, electronic or otherwise, is destined for the scrapheap. While everyone else was scrambling towards electronic voting, Oregonians voted to permanently ban the voting booth and extend the voting interval from 8 hours to 1,008 hours. It takes us weeks to find out the results after the last election day in an election cycle.
Popular reaction? We love it! No voting irregularities, readily verified, and easy to photocopy a completed ballot for your records. No waiting in lines, no problems with the voting booths, just fill it out and drop it off at county elections at leasure. Way more than makes up for getting results within the first hours of the cutoff.
Dell, 3D Realms and SanDisk have teamed up! Soon, you will be able to get a Dell with a solid state hard drive with Debian and Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled!
we got to thinking, exactly how many users would we be alienating by using some IE-only functionality on our website?
I know I might be playing Devil's Advocate here, but if users alienated >0, wouldn't common sense dictate that the move in question is a pretty bad one?
They don't go into a lot of detail, but it's entirely possible that the bots in South Korea were, in fact, being controlled from somewhere else. I'd say that it's even *likely*.
Who cares? This is just like California screwing the rest of the west on electricity. Sure, it may have been the congress that voted unanimously to pay for electric at any price, but it was Californians that voted them in and allowed it to happen, Californians as a whole who backed on on the deal, screwing residents of neighboring states in the process.
In both cases, let 'em fry. Ignorance that you're causing harm is no excuse to the fact you're causing harm.
Los Angeles is breathable again because the Santa Anas are picking up. Wait until it stops and the sky turns orange. California emissions standards are a joke, and I wish you guys would stop trying to convince the world you're ahead of the country. You managed to dupe the legislators in Oregon, even, into adopting your far more lax emissions standards. Thanks for dragging us down again, California!
Because when something says 99 cents, it really is 99 cents. None of that offloading the sales tax onto the customer crap, since we don't have sales tax. And those pennies do add up: I fed myself on change pennies saved over time during the Bush depression...
Anyway, the failure of town planners is going to work out by itself in the end. As oil prices skyrocket & people in the suburbs grow fatter, the solution become obvious. Liposuction clinics combined with gas stations
That just begs the question, and forgive me for asking, but are fat fucks a renewable resource? Certainly America has a lot of people so large that they need to attach orange flags to their elbows when they ride a bicycle because they overhang the bike lane on both sides like a stack of plywood in a compact pickup truck, but what happens when the Lard Zepplin crashes?
Also, there is
still this thing called a telephone, which provides more bandwidth than e-mail and IM, and is sometimes useful when telecommuting.
Depends considerably with your line of work. In mine, doing tech support for an international audience, the telephone is next to worthless. Verizon can't keep a phone line working worth squat, and there is no other provider here. And then there's the language problem: Even if the person calling does speak English, they might not speak it in a dialect or accent that I can be expected to be able to decipher, and vice versa, and that they're not one of those retards that thinks using the phone and driving is a smart idea. The telephone is long obsolete, having lost to Jabber and Email. Unlike monopolized telephone utilities, Jabber and Email work and work reliably, and really help to break down the language barrier more so than voice communication (assuming the phones even work today to begin with...).
Please do the world a favor and discourage people from using the phone, and some day we might be able to tell our grandkids about these inconvenient, unreliable, half-assed replacements for the postal service. Only an illiterate monkey or a telco employee could possibly defend the phone. Even for emergency uses, the world got it right the first time with emergency pull handles strategically located in public places.
This is a Bad Thing, as vendor lock-in always is. Because Microsoft is involved, I'm now fighting the plan and want to see the whole thing ripped out since it won't be run responsibly. Personal Telco got it right, they should be the ones to make wifi go wall to wall in Portland.
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Seems to work for Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth of Nations just fine, same with most of the European Union and especially Sweden. Lassez-faire is dead.
If Oregon is representative of anything (probably not, though: Oregon tends to think things through a bit more than most states), then the voting booth, electronic or otherwise, is destined for the scrapheap. While everyone else was scrambling towards electronic voting, Oregonians voted to permanently ban the voting booth and extend the voting interval from 8 hours to 1,008 hours. It takes us weeks to find out the results after the last election day in an election cycle.
Popular reaction? We love it! No voting irregularities, readily verified, and easy to photocopy a completed ballot for your records. No waiting in lines, no problems with the voting booths, just fill it out and drop it off at county elections at leasure. Way more than makes up for getting results within the first hours of the cutoff.
Dell, 3D Realms and SanDisk have teamed up! Soon, you will be able to get a Dell with a solid state hard drive with Debian and Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled!
Be careful, I think Slashdot beat you to the punch on that idea.
I know I might be playing Devil's Advocate here, but if users alienated >0, wouldn't common sense dictate that the move in question is a pretty bad one?
Who cares? This is just like California screwing the rest of the west on electricity. Sure, it may have been the congress that voted unanimously to pay for electric at any price, but it was Californians that voted them in and allowed it to happen, Californians as a whole who backed on on the deal, screwing residents of neighboring states in the process.
In both cases, let 'em fry. Ignorance that you're causing harm is no excuse to the fact you're causing harm.
Have you considered perhaps making this the straw that broke the camel's back and say "Goodbye, Microsoft" already?
Los Angeles is breathable again because the Santa Anas are picking up. Wait until it stops and the sky turns orange. California emissions standards are a joke, and I wish you guys would stop trying to convince the world you're ahead of the country. You managed to dupe the legislators in Oregon, even, into adopting your far more lax emissions standards. Thanks for dragging us down again, California!
Heh, your signature is misguided. You've gotten Finagle's Law and Murphy's Law confused.
Nice try, but I will not find the magic google keywords that cater to your fetish for you.
You must be new, or you would have known The Internet's motto: "Yes, there's porn of that."
Because when something says 99 cents, it really is 99 cents. None of that offloading the sales tax onto the customer crap, since we don't have sales tax. And those pennies do add up: I fed myself on change pennies saved over time during the Bush depression...
That just begs the question, and forgive me for asking, but are fat fucks a renewable resource? Certainly America has a lot of people so large that they need to attach orange flags to their elbows when they ride a bicycle because they overhang the bike lane on both sides like a stack of plywood in a compact pickup truck, but what happens when the Lard Zepplin crashes?
That was surprisingly species dysphoric for someone who isn't obviously a furry fan.
Verizon: We never start working for you!
Oh, good, that gives us in Oregon 3 hours (2-hours mountain time) to get out of the way of the apocolypse.
I thought BSD quit doing the job operating those systems, changed his name to Kenny and started going to school in Park County, Colorado.
Mmmmm, eight year old duplicate. This one really takes me back to my high school days.
Depends considerably with your line of work. In mine, doing tech support for an international audience, the telephone is next to worthless. Verizon can't keep a phone line working worth squat, and there is no other provider here. And then there's the language problem: Even if the person calling does speak English, they might not speak it in a dialect or accent that I can be expected to be able to decipher, and vice versa, and that they're not one of those retards that thinks using the phone and driving is a smart idea. The telephone is long obsolete, having lost to Jabber and Email. Unlike monopolized telephone utilities, Jabber and Email work and work reliably, and really help to break down the language barrier more so than voice communication (assuming the phones even work today to begin with...).
Please do the world a favor and discourage people from using the phone, and some day we might be able to tell our grandkids about these inconvenient, unreliable, half-assed replacements for the postal service. Only an illiterate monkey or a telco employee could possibly defend the phone. Even for emergency uses, the world got it right the first time with emergency pull handles strategically located in public places.
I was suggesting that Ballmer is the technical type that should know better but confused it deliberately to further his own point.
Well, that just goes to show that caveat emptor still has meaning.
If that's what Ballmer meant, perhaps he should have said that instead of blaming it on Linux?
So why not reverse engineer yourself a free daemon to replace the proprietary one and quit bitching?
This is a Bad Thing, as vendor lock-in always is. Because Microsoft is involved, I'm now fighting the plan and want to see the whole thing ripped out since it won't be run responsibly. Personal Telco got it right, they should be the ones to make wifi go wall to wall in Portland.
You learned nothing from the free software movement and Linus Torvalds.