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I don't see anywhere in the article how much power they expect this to generate.
You can guesstimate this. If the rotors are 50 meters in diameter and they intercept 30% of the air going through a circle equal to that diameter, that's 590 square meters (to 2 significant figures). Best power output of a standard wind turbine is about 0.295 * rho * A * v^3; if you assume a figure of 0.2 because of the generation of lift, density of 0.65 kg/m^3 and a wind speed of 25 knots, you'd expect about 160 kw out of the machine. For a 100 meter rotor you'd expect about 650 kw.
Also, what happens when the wind cuts out?
You fly the machine down as far as you can like a gyro-glider, then you power the rotors like a helicopter to land it. They said just about as much in the article. People have been flying gyro-gliders for decades; this is not a new problem and it has been solved.
The sight of a whole flight of these things plummetting to the ground before their rotors can shift from generate mode to motor mode would be rather amusing...
Because you'd never see it. Hint, both synchronous and induction generators are always ready to become motors with a slight change in phase or speed, respectively. The only thing that would change is the direction in which power flows along the cable.
Is Australia really so thirstry for electricity that they need to resort to this?
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The cables would have to be awfully thick (hence heavy) to transmit a decent amount of power 3 miles. Then you're wasting power just keeping them up in the sky.
Not really.
Transmitting power 3 miles, even over lossy cables, doesn't lose much compared to the losses in transmitting power several hundred miles even over low-loss cables.
Keeping the machine in the sky is easy; the rotors develop lift by themselves due to their angle against the wind. You can consider this "wasted power", but it's power that comes from the wind (it's free) and you more than make up for it with the higher wind speeds at the upper altitudes (you get more power from the same size rotor than you would near the ground).
If the winds aren't high enough to keep the machine in the air and still develop excess power, you just reel it down to the ground and park it. You might use a little power to land it and then to help it take off again, but you make up for that with the power it generates when it's on station. You use external power to run the pumps and fans to get a fuel-burning powerplant started up, so I don't see any big difference between the two.
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Jet stream winds would be a real energy bonanza (IIRC they go up to 200 MPH) but I'm not sure if an autogyro would handle winds that high (retreating blade stall seems like a problem, and noise from the advancing blade going supersonic at the tip might be an environmental issue).
Even if you weren't in the jet stream, high-altitude winds often cruise right along. Take a look at this page; at the time I clicked on it, a healthy fraction of the upper-air wind speeds were 40 knots or above, and the majority appeared to be 30 knots or better. A 30 knot wind, even at half of sea-level pressure (500 millibars), still packs a whale of a lot of power. --
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I read the articles (those.pdf files are just scans, not even OCR'ed... what a waste of bandwidth). I noticed that the social worker in charge of the minor had been charged, despite the fact that others at a group home had been in much closer contact with said minor and the SW's boss had ordered the SW to stay in the office to catch up on paperwork. Charging the social worker with a crime under these circumstances is ridiculous; I fully agree with the verdict.
As interesting as what I saw was what I didn't see. There was nothing on the infant's diet (the mother was referred to as nursing). No reference to coffee creamer. No reference to neglect, abuse or malfeasance charges against the mother or supervisors at the group home. Why? Because they've already been through the courts, I'll bet. If it was that bad, there would be equivalent hype about their charges being dismissed. --
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here in Alberta, Canada, a judicial inquiry into the death of a child from *starvation* (the mother fed the kid nothing but nondairy creamer and water) lead to *no legal charges being pressed whatsoever!!!*.
Tell us more about the circumstances. Was this an immigrant woman without support who read neither English nor French, and didn't know the difference between coffee creamer and infant formula because she'd never seen coffee creamer until she got to Canada? That's not a criminal matter, it's just a tragedy. --
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I'm gathering that since he's going through all the trouble of having the business out on an island that far from shore, and keeping the nature of the business a secret, that security is a major concern.
And he has total control over the equipment at both ends of the link. Looks like you could use something like a VPN with encryption using a Linux-based machine. It wouldn't take much hardware to handle 1.5 megabytes/sec. You don't have to worry as much about what goes over the wires versus the air because your ISP is probably the weak point; securing the air link only works against casual snooping.
Packet radio is even less secure... there are probably restrictions on commercial use.
No "probably" about it.
I'm not aware of how much curvature of the earth takes place over 10 KM, or how tall a tower you may be able to build to see over the horizon...
Time to go back to your trigonometry. The height of the tower required to see across a given angle across a perfect sphere is equal to the radius of the sphere times the secant of the angle minus 1. Figuring the Earth's radius as 6400 km, a 10 km distance is 1/640 radians. (secant( 1/640 ) - 1 ) = 1.22e-6 according to Windoze calculator; multipy by 6400 km and I get a tower height of 7.8 meters. A couple of fifty-footers ought to do the job just fine. --
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Some people either can't read, or read the wrong thing (like not checking the FCC specifications for power output levels before shooting their mouths off). As someone cited in #5, the Cisco Aironet bridge uses a whole fifty milliwatts (that's one-twentieth of a watt) to get 1 megabit/sec over a 25-mile link. A gnat sitting on the antenna wouldn't absorb enough power to hurt it, and that's with one of those little spike antennas; a dish antenna would have such a low power density across the surface (not at the feed horn) that you can dismiss any ill effects to people or wildlife.
FWIW, if the range is 10 miles that page says you could expect 11 Mb/sec out of the Ciscos. --
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The Outlook "Fool and Mouse" virus, now verified to be a mutant strain of Foot and Mouth, has been observed to do the following:
Click on all goatse.cx links.
Pop up the Stile Project page when your boss's voice is detected on your microphone.
Replace Greek and Latinate words and phrases in your memos with "All your dead language are belong to us".
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FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) -- Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.
"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.
The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."
However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.
Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.
Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"
A pity, but I can make a few guesses from the properties.
If it can detect a few hundred organisms in 20 minutes, that is not enough time to grow them or do anything else that depends on reproducing them. The only other technology I'm aware of that could do that is the use of fluorescently-labelled DNA probes to detect the pathogen DNA directly. It seems likely, to me (IANAbiologist) anyway, that this could detect both bacteria and DNA-based viruses.
The boon for food safety is obvious, but the boon in removing the fangs of bio-warfare is just as great. If you can detect a spray of bugs on the battlefield or in the New York subway, identify them by species in 20 minutes and have a readout of their genetic modifications (antibiotic resistance genes, etc.) in another 20, you could be giving people treatment serum, vaccines or antibiotics before the first person falls ill. A bio-attack becomes a call for mobilizing the public health brigades for mass vaccinations, and few if any ever use a hospital bed. Death toll: close enough to zero to ignore. Saddam Hussein's bio-war labs become useless. I like this. --
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What would you rather have: people putting money into detecting and defending threats from outside the species or even the planet, or people worrying instead about what the people on the other side of the hill are doing and working up ever-more-dangerous weapons to keep them from attacking - while they do the same?
Say what you want, but focussing on an outside threat that's both real and helps to foster the growth of science and useful technology is a lot better than starting an arms race with the neighbors. --
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You'd still have prior claim to the name in that business, because you were using it there first. --
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"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots." -- Demotivators
...but instead of spending all this time trying to get it to crash into the ocean why don't they just send this thing out towards the Sun? There would be less worries of it going of course and hitting land.
Okay, here's a clue, so pay attention.
If you make a change of 1 m/sec in the speed of an object in low-earth orbit, the other side of the orbit changes in altitude by something over a mile (exactly how far I'm not willing to calculate at the moment). Taking Mir and dumping it into the Pacific requires changing its altitude from about 120 miles to 60 miles, so it needs maybe 60 meters per second of delta-V.
Kicking Mir out of Earth orbit to anywhere else requires about 3000 m/sec of delta-V (from ~8000 m/sec orbital speed to ~11000 m/sec escape velocity). That's about 50 times as much, and a lot more than 50 times as expensive. Sending it to the Sun requires cancelling Earth's orbital velocity around Sol, which is about 30,000 meters per second... you do the math. --
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The dogmatic and religious flock will point out that it is not beyond the scope of god (the unknown and unseen benevolent ruler of all we survey.. ) to have 'planted' the skull of what seems to be a common ancestor - to test our faith no less!
You're saying that they believe that God would plant a falsehood "to test our faith". In other words, their idea of God is that he's a liar.
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They'd also need a faster CPU.. TiVo only runs at 54mhz while Kerbango runs at 81mhz. 54 wouldn't be enough to play audio streams.
If TiVo doesn't have enough crunch to reconstruct audio streams, how does it reconstruct the audio which goes with its MPEG data? Either it does have enough CPU horsepower, or it has some other chip (like a DSP) doing that part of the job. 54 MHz has to be enough, because the thing works. --
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It was pathetic when Microsoft tried it, and it's even more pathetic now. The real problem is, with so many astroturf campaigns coming how is anyone supposed to find other real fans instead of the paid shills? Hollywood will drown the communities of interest in the noise of their paid promotions.
It's just like what happened to Usenet, where the spammers have made most newsgroups absolutely useless. What a loss. --
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Sure. You take a length of glass fiber and wind it around a spool. You take a laser, split the beam and send half into each end of the fiber (or maybe just use the fiber itself as the laser). The light goes around and around and eventually comes out the other end. You take this light and shine it on a screen or set of sensors, where (being coherent light) it forms a diffraction pattern.
If nothing was moving, you'd just see a static pattern. However, if you turn the spool around its center axis the photons going one way through the fiber have to travel a bit longer to get to the end than the photons going the other way. The diffraction pattern shifts, and you can measure this shift.
Look up "laser ring gyro" for more information. Here's a link. --
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since DS1 had lost its star tracker, it has to use its CCD camera to orient itself. That means it can't keep track of its orientation very well while it is snapping photos of stuff around it anymore.
Yes and no. It can keep track of its orientation in two axes using its sun sensor (which is still working just fine) and its rate gyros (which tell it how fast it is turning). The problem is that the sun sensor doesn't help in the third axis (rotation around the sun-spacecraft axis) and the gyros have a non-zero drift rate.
I've been privy to some of the talk about the development of the MURKY navigation software, and it has been fascinating. The people running DS1 are the créme de la créme of geekdom. --
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Besides, the copper that some chips are made of is a pretty good conductor of heat already.
Maybe it would be, if the copper weren't just nanometer-wide ribbons on the surface of the silicon. Mostly the copper keeps things cool by being a better conductor than aluminum, which reduces resistive heating. --
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how do we stop the spam of porn? Run away! Run away!
If spam was treated as theft of service and people had an individual right of action against spammers, Garcia could be part of a group who'd proceed to sue the spammer out of every last penny he has. Once you've gotten rid of the spammers, you won't have any more porn spam.
Of course, you could require instead that all computers shipped with a WEB BROWSER or HTML-ENABLED MAIL CLIENT also ship with Javascript and Active-X disabled. That eliminates pop-ups and a whole host of other things too, while not costing a cent. But that must be too much effort for someone dumb enough to think that censorware will accomplish anything useful (like, what's the first thing a spammer is going to do before sending out spams... check to see if the web site is on the common block lists, and if so, get a new domain!).
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But without E-Rate, there's no monetary string to pull to force the schools to dance to the censor's tune (and Congress cannot mandate filters otherwise). It is the camel's nose in the tent. CIPA is the camel.
E-Rate exists encourage schools to have internet access, including the poorer districts. In itself, it's not a bad thing.
When it becomes a vehicle for things like the CIPA (and given Congress' penchant for getting other entities addicted to their money, then attaching terms and conditions which would have scuttled the original appropriations), you have to ask yourself again if it's worth it.
I don't know, which is why I asked Boucher that very question over here. But it needs to be asked. --
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The remedy with the greatest chance of success is pushing Congress to reverse itself and make the E-rate funds restriction-free.
Not hardly. THE solution is to get rid of this E-Rate nonsense, the bureaucracy which distributes it and the tax which supports it, and let schools and libraries buy services on the open market. If filtering is a good deal, it can survive without special mandates or subsidies. --
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With companies like Burlington Coat Factory and large parts of the Mexican government leading the way, perhaps we'll see corporations deploy Linux to the desktop as a way to minimize TCO and eliminate licensing issues and the consequent legal costs.
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- Transmitting power 3 miles, even over lossy cables, doesn't lose much compared to the losses in transmitting power several hundred miles even over low-loss cables.
- Keeping the machine in the sky is easy; the rotors develop lift by themselves due to their angle against the wind. You can consider this "wasted power", but it's power that comes from the wind (it's free) and you more than make up for it with the higher wind speeds at the upper altitudes (you get more power from the same size rotor than you would near the ground).
If the winds aren't high enough to keep the machine in the air and still develop excess power, you just reel it down to the ground and park it. You might use a little power to land it and then to help it take off again, but you make up for that with the power it generates when it's on station. You use external power to run the pumps and fans to get a fuel-burning powerplant started up, so I don't see any big difference between the two.I think this is a very clever idea, and I hope that someone can find a way around the air-traffic and bird-strike issues that are bound to arise and make this practical.
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Even if you weren't in the jet stream, high-altitude winds often cruise right along. Take a look at this page; at the time I clicked on it, a healthy fraction of the upper-air wind speeds were 40 knots or above, and the majority appeared to be 30 knots or better. A 30 knot wind, even at half of sea-level pressure (500 millibars), still packs a whale of a lot of power.
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As interesting as what I saw was what I didn't see. There was nothing on the infant's diet (the mother was referred to as nursing). No reference to coffee creamer. No reference to neglect, abuse or malfeasance charges against the mother or supervisors at the group home. Why? Because they've already been through the courts, I'll bet. If it was that bad, there would be equivalent hype about their charges being dismissed.
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FWIW, if the range is 10 miles that page says you could expect 11 Mb/sec out of the Ciscos.
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- Click on all goatse.cx links.
- Pop up the Stile Project page when your boss's voice is detected on your microphone.
- Replace Greek and Latinate words and phrases in your memos with "All your dead language are belong to us".
This virus can be economically devastating and even deadly to vulnerable individuals. Dismissals already number in the hundreds, and several victims have died from acute embarrassment.--
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Apparently the symptoms hit so fast at the end of the infection that there isn't time for antibiotics to do the job; the toxins generated by the bacteria aren't destroyed by the medication, and the toxins create the majority of the symptoms. For more information, check this page (Google is your friend).
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Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) -- Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.
"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.
The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."
However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.
Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.
Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"
Copyright © 2001, SatireWire. (reproduced without permission)
http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/outlook.shtml
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If it can detect a few hundred organisms in 20 minutes, that is not enough time to grow them or do anything else that depends on reproducing them. The only other technology I'm aware of that could do that is the use of fluorescently-labelled DNA probes to detect the pathogen DNA directly. It seems likely, to me (IANAbiologist) anyway, that this could detect both bacteria and DNA-based viruses.
The boon for food safety is obvious, but the boon in removing the fangs of bio-warfare is just as great. If you can detect a spray of bugs on the battlefield or in the New York subway, identify them by species in 20 minutes and have a readout of their genetic modifications (antibiotic resistance genes, etc.) in another 20, you could be giving people treatment serum, vaccines or antibiotics before the first person falls ill. A bio-attack becomes a call for mobilizing the public health brigades for mass vaccinations, and few if any ever use a hospital bed. Death toll: close enough to zero to ignore. Saddam Hussein's bio-war labs become useless. I like this.
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Say what you want, but focussing on an outside threat that's both real and helps to foster the growth of science and useful technology is a lot better than starting an arms race with the neighbors.
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You'd still have prior claim to the name in that business, because you were using it there first.
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If you make a change of 1 m/sec in the speed of an object in low-earth orbit, the other side of the orbit changes in altitude by something over a mile (exactly how far I'm not willing to calculate at the moment). Taking Mir and dumping it into the Pacific requires changing its altitude from about 120 miles to 60 miles, so it needs maybe 60 meters per second of delta-V.
Kicking Mir out of Earth orbit to anywhere else requires about 3000 m/sec of delta-V (from ~8000 m/sec orbital speed to ~11000 m/sec escape velocity). That's about 50 times as much, and a lot more than 50 times as expensive. Sending it to the Sun requires cancelling Earth's orbital velocity around Sol, which is about 30,000 meters per second... you do the math.
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If they're worshipping the Prince of Lies it sure would explain a lot, wouldn't it?
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It was pathetic when Microsoft tried it, and it's even more pathetic now. The real problem is, with so many astroturf campaigns coming how is anyone supposed to find other real fans instead of the paid shills? Hollywood will drown the communities of interest in the noise of their paid promotions.
It's just like what happened to Usenet, where the spammers have made most newsgroups absolutely useless. What a loss.
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I meant "interference pattern". Diffraction has nothing to do with it.
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If nothing was moving, you'd just see a static pattern. However, if you turn the spool around its center axis the photons going one way through the fiber have to travel a bit longer to get to the end than the photons going the other way. The diffraction pattern shifts, and you can measure this shift.
Look up "laser ring gyro" for more information. Here's a link.
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I've been privy to some of the talk about the development of the MURKY navigation software, and it has been fascinating. The people running DS1 are the créme de la créme of geekdom.
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Of course, you could require instead that all computers shipped with a WEB BROWSER or HTML-ENABLED MAIL CLIENT also ship with Javascript and Active-X disabled. That eliminates pop-ups and a whole host of other things too, while not costing a cent. But that must be too much effort for someone dumb enough to think that censorware will accomplish anything useful (like, what's the first thing a spammer is going to do before sending out spams... check to see if the web site is on the common block lists, and if so, get a new domain! ).
If you were looking for proof that the average voter is dumb enough to vote for a moron, you've got it. <sarcasm> I guess that's what they mean by "representative democracy". </sarcasm>
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I don't know, which is why I asked Boucher that very question over here. But it needs to be asked.
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