how do i handle ie6,7,8? i don't. its called gracefully degrading. the site is uglier in ie than firefox/ safari/ chrome (and ugly in opera too: opera has no border-radius yet)
oh well
and there are other issues where the shoe is on the other foot. for some reason, ie, safari, chrome, and opera all render border-style:groove correctly, while mozilla seems to do some funky ugly thing with the style. then other bugs only effect the webkit browsers safari and chrome. its pretty much a given that every rendering directive i put in html or css or javascript, one of the 5 browsers i design for (opera, ie, chrome, safari, firefox) will render it wrong. well, not wrong, just different. but here's the key: if the "alternative" style is not truly heinous or interferes with UI, i just let it slide. so every site looks different in every browser
oh well
what i don't understand are these anal retentive developers who are so insistent on every pixel being exactly the same in every browser. just let some browsers look a little goofy, just let it slide, move on, no big deal
if all data loss were just a matter of awesome software, then wonderful. but frequently you are dealing with mechanical failures like the write head crashing onto the platters, death of the controller, failing motor, etc.
no software is going to fix these things. then its to the $100/hr guys in the clean room
"ideas are like assholes, everyone has one, but most of them stink"
99% of the people in your life are full of shit ideas. 99% of what you yourself say is incomplete and ill thought out
the whole point is, only through communication do we develop better ideas. in this sense, the internet is not a step backwards, but a step forwards. that it exposes exactly how awful people's ideas are, this is nothing new or different, its always been this way, probably worse, the quality of people's ideas. what's new and different is that so many people can now work through their philosophical shortcomings on the internet and, if they have an open mind and are not a brain dead partisan hack, they can grow ideologically into a better person
don't lament that so much of humanity, including yourself, is so unenlightened. rejoice that so many strive to be better. how do i know they strive to be better?
because they go online, and communicate. this is the first step towards becoming a better person
if i were 100% certain of my beliefs, i would sit in smug condescension and talk to no one. what would be the point? i already supposedly know everything. only by venturing forth and exposing my beliefs to others are they challenged, and made stronger
as long as people are talking and arguing and being challenged by others, they are becoming better people
so, to paraphrase someone else: welcome to the intarwebs. let a thousand assholes bloom
its obvious to me now that panty twisted hysteria always wins in your mind's eye
i apologize for trying to argue with you with some logic and reason. that gps in situatian A has nothing to do with gps in situation B. no, obviously wrong
the truth of course is: we put gps on kids. OMFG ITS AN UNSTOPPABLE SLIDE TO FASCISM
do you have something to offer besides the usual stilted lying "numbers"?
do you mix your own propaganda or do you merely regurgitate what's fed to you gimp?
its a wonderful lesson in half-truths, dubious interpretations, partial context, creative conclusions, preconceptions...
asshole: more undeserving people are killed by guns in accidents incidents heated arguments and confusion than saved by guns in your boy scout fantasy life of red dawn and dirty harry
you really want to spin that rock of gibraltar truth you lying sack of shit?
maybe you are actually deluded and don't believe that. power to you, you paranoid schizophrenic little man. must be quite serene, living on lies and ejecting your human consccience
MORE PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY GUNS THAN SAVED BY GUNS
BY AT LEAST A FUCKING ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
understand that ironclad truth you lying turd?
i swear you guys are as brainwashed as the fucking church of scientology. its like arguing with a committed creationist retard about evolution, such is your blind deathgrip on lies
or do you really need me to go down the blind alley of battling statistics with your moronic propaganda?
ok
HOW MANY VIOLENT CRIMES WERE COMMITTED LAST YEAR
HOW MANY WERE DONE WITH FIREARMS
HOW MANY MURDERS WERE COMMITTED LAST YEAR
HOW MANY WERE DONE WITH FIREARMS
look it up you propagandized asshole
look it the fuck up and get back to me with your serene motherfucking lies. i'm sure the nra playbook addresses this on page 23. please regurgitate the play. why think for once, right?
blood is on your hands. obviously, not on your conscience, as it is doubtful you have one
but don't worry about it. the sun is setting on your reactionary retarded little world
your days are numbered you fucking dinosaur. its all inevitable demographic change from here
i look forward to the more progressive opinions of your enlightened urban children, as they will inevitably be. see what they see. see what they think the gun represents in their civilian lives, what it inhabits in the landscape: nothing but a threat, even and especially in their own hands
its sad really, to live as a bitter dead end
but you're almost reassuring dear nra zombie, to see history come alive, like visiting dodge city or davey crockett's home or seeing a pirate ship: thank fucking god we live in civil society, look how far we've come. even though some retards amongst us still cling to antiquated modes of living, thinking walking around as their own judge jury and executioner makes any fucking sense in the modern western world
go move to somalia if you want to be fucking relevant, you blind asshole
from hatred for rural assholes who don't understand how their maladjusted view of the real value of guns in civil society results in hundreds of needless urban deaths every year, or don't care
and it is venom. and it is hatred. and it based on the inability to get the blind to see how their incoherent opinions lead to unnecessary deaths
and what makes you think that has any implications whatsoever as to them being put in my car?
ah, because you there is a slippery slope. that legislators and average folk don't know the difference between a parolee and a nonparolee's car, and don't care. that gps's are sentient beings that are out to take away your freedoms, propelled in an unstoppable force that proceeds without any human cognition involved. or, no: it is done by human beings. but they have no ability to tell the difference between a parolee and a nonparolee's car, and if the police put a gps on my car, i won't care, no fellow citizen will care, no legislator will care, no judge will care. or know the difference
therefore, drunk rednecks should get rocket launchers
pfffft
oh i'm sorry if "drunk redneck" offends your cultural sensitivities
the only truth about uncontrolled gun ownership is that rural folk benefit from them (police are far away) while urban people suffer for them (in urban settings they are the provenance of thugs)
hundreds die every year in urban settings for the sake of a legal framework which only serves rural assholes. a MINORITY enjoy a legal status quo to the detriment of a MAJORITY. not very democratic
it would be nice if guns could be made legal in the countryside, illegal in the cities, but of course this is impossible
well, guess what? the usa is not an agrarian society anymore when these anachronistic laws were set. it is mostly urban already, and this will only accelerate. in places where urban dominance is well-established, like europe, guns are seen as vile, not beneficial
so its only a matter of demographic inevitability in a democracy before the nostalgic antiquated rural gun owners are finally trumped, and guns are rounded up
and then rural folk will suffer for the sake of urban folk, killed by illegal firearms in home invasions, with no gun of their own and the police far away. you find that injust? what of the hundreds killed in urban settings by gun toting thugs you blind selfish asshole
instead of rural assholes holding urban folk hostage and allowing hundreds of urban folks to die every year at the hands of urban gun toting thugs, the reverse will hold true. welcome to fucking democracy, you fucking red neck
fuck you rural twatstains. i hope you understand how your quaint nostalgia results in hundreds of urban deaths in your country. if you do understand that, congratulations on not caring, asswipe
but don't worry about it. critical mass is not there yet. your gun will NOT be taken from you
but it will be taken from your children
or rather, your children will be urban, and recognize the wisdom you do not
but if they DID put gps on a child, it does not follow that that opens the door to putting them on speeders, as the parent post implied. but thanks for the threadjack. pfffft
if someone uses gps tracking devices in adults in the future, it will have absolutely nothing to with their use in children now. if you use them in children, there are no implications whatsoever as to their future use in future groups. to believe so is to think other people are unable to understand the difference between children and adults. therefore, your previous bloviating about gps tracking in children leading to gps devices in SPEEDERS for fuck sake is an example of fear-addled thinking on your part of the highest retarded order
examine how you think about the issue. retract your statement about speeders. otherwise, your thinking is EXACTLY the thought processes of morons who think gays marrying leads to legalized necrophilia and evolution taught in our schools leads to atheism
just admit you fucked up, and moved on, and drop the slippery slope bullshit in all future arguments, for the sake of your own lucidity
some people believe if we allow gays to marry, we also have to accept pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, polygamy...
or howabout: if we try to control assault weapons in the usa, the government is inevitably going to take away all guns in the usa
or: if we teach evolution in schools, soon everyone will be a godless atheist
no: all of this is retarded hysteria. but some people actually believe this. because they are letting their irrational fears overpower their logical thought
as you are:
you believe if we accept child tracking by gps, we're on an unstoppable slippery slope into a black hole of everyone being tracked by gps
uh... how about no? how about you are irrational and fear addled?
there is no such thing as slippery slope. your fears are unfounded. why? because people understand the concepts and can think about the differences between children and others. you don't hold a monopoly on that ability
really
please lose your irrational fears and develop the ability for coherent logical thought. the idea of the slippery slope is a tool for propaganda, nothing more
"Well my parents changed my diapers for me as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government change my underwear"
"Well my parents turned my television off at 10 pm as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government control our televisions"
"Well my parents spanked me as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government deliver corporal punishment"
etc., etc.
none of these things happen, or are widely accepted by the public, simply because, get this: your average person can tell the difference between an adult and a child and that different policies should apply to them. i sound like i am being pedantic, but i have to state the excruciatingly obvious because your entire slippery slope argument depends upon the idea that no one can tell the difference between an adult and a child conceptually except you. why do you think you alone possess some magic perception of the dumbfoundingly obvious and that you need to remind everyone else of it or else everyone will forget a child and an adult are different?
this shows a poor consideration for your fellow man. not of the general snobbish "i am superior to joe blow" variety of poor consideration, but more like the "i am the only sentient being" variety of poor consideration. sorry, other people can think and recognize the obvious too, and so no, there is no slippery slope because the boundaries are clear and the context is clear about how this is being applied. no, there will be no gradual acceptance of gps trackers in adults simply because they are in kids, just like there is no gradual acceptance of governments changing our underwear or turning off our tvs. and no, sorry, i already see the counterargument coming, so let me head it off right now: if you do find some policy that sounds like the government is treating adults like children, this is a failure of logic in its own right, NOT some consequence of how some child somewhere was treated by his parents
we're talking about a CHILD here. no creeping big brother implied
it is perfectly ok to track a child by GPS. how can i say such a horrible thing? because we are talking about... yes, you guessed it, a CHILD. it makes a difference. there is no slippery slope: your average intelligence human being can tell the difference between an adult and a child when it comes to accountability and responsibility. as such THERE IS NO SLIPPERY SLOPE. you do not have a monopoly on perceiving common sense obvious differences
if a kid kills your prized rose bushes, who do you go after? the parents. why? because, legally, morally, and logically, a child's actions are the responsibility and accountability of their parents, because a child is not mentally mature enough to be responsible or accountable. sure there are rare moral savants, 8 year olds who are more accountable and responsible than some 28 year olds, and all children display moments of clarity and lucidity that are adult-level. but on the average, they tend to royally fuck up and make huge mistakes, especially in regard to peer pressure, panic, etc. thus the parent's role in this whole accountability and responsibility thing
but i await the typical fear-addled slippery slope arguments anyways
who switched from myspace to facebook, why they did it, the answer wouldn't be "because it boringly replicates the featureset of what myspace already does"
i'm talking about the sexy hook. the one little must have. yes, facebook does exactly what you say it does, but that's not what made people adopt facebook in the first place. consider the full range of functionality in facebook: 90% of the people who started using facebook did so because of only 1% of that full range functionality. the rest just fell into use later. that's my whole point: identify what that must have 1% functionality is, and you have a successful product
and what i am saying isn't an original or obscure comment. cars do a thousand different things, but they are basically all the same. the primary functionality of a car: getting from here to there, isn't even the prime motivator for picking one car or another. so why does someone pick car A over car B? "oh because i can plug my iPod into it". and so you see that prominently featured in the car's ad. not its transmission or fuel injection system
see my point? the sexy hook. the tiny little almost unimportant and obscure must-have. thats what wave needs to be successful, and that's what google should trumpet to the media. not "it does everything facebook does better and more!"
you're talking about what makes sense. i'm talking about what's sexy and makes people flock to something new. if google does what facebook does, but better, nobody won't migrate. simply out of inertia. which of course is a shame, but better products die in the face of worse products all the time, simply because they don't get adapted out of simple human inertia
i'm talking about the hook, the sexy cool thing, what makes users salivate and want to switch to wave. so google really needs to talk up that one little sexy cool thing, not the whole boring redundancy with facebook. that will just fall into place later, after you've hooked them with a wow factor
"1. Everyone already has a voter registration number, make sure they know it."
didja happen to notice the hoopla over a national id card over the last few years? no one's going to oppose a new national id system, naaah
"2. Decentralize the vote. Each "polling station" creates a flat file that has the voter id and what they voted for. Make it available for anyone to download."
oh ok, so now i can see who my neighbor voted for? oh, i can't, it hides identity? ok then, where's the protection against dirty tricks in this scheme again?
"3. Next have a regional/district "polling station" where the flat file is uploaded. The flat file is audited again here. Also the aggregate file is also made available to the public."
oh ok, because we all know underpaid, borderline capable "uncorruptible" government bureaucrats are paragons of integrity and virtue. if they say "trust me" i should trust them. pfffffffffft
"4. Continue the pooling of votes to whatever level is needed, national, global, whatever."
yeah, and how about we do this with paper, and make it therefore CHEAPER and MORE SECURE
Slashdot Mirror
but i was told not to trust comrade putin ;-)
all of their 404 errors ;-)
ie9 and firefox5
they're way ahead of the curve man
my solution was
div.blah{
-moz-border-radius: 3em;
-webkit-border-radius: 3em;
}
how do i handle ie6,7,8? i don't. its called gracefully degrading. the site is uglier in ie than firefox/ safari/ chrome (and ugly in opera too: opera has no border-radius yet)
oh well
and there are other issues where the shoe is on the other foot. for some reason, ie, safari, chrome, and opera all render border-style:groove correctly, while mozilla seems to do some funky ugly thing with the style. then other bugs only effect the webkit browsers safari and chrome. its pretty much a given that every rendering directive i put in html or css or javascript, one of the 5 browsers i design for (opera, ie, chrome, safari, firefox) will render it wrong. well, not wrong, just different. but here's the key: if the "alternative" style is not truly heinous or interferes with UI, i just let it slide. so every site looks different in every browser
oh well
what i don't understand are these anal retentive developers who are so insistent on every pixel being exactly the same in every browser. just let some browsers look a little goofy, just let it slide, move on, no big deal
that keep the expensive guys in business
if all data loss were just a matter of awesome software, then wonderful. but frequently you are dealing with mechanical failures like the write head crashing onto the platters, death of the controller, failing motor, etc.
no software is going to fix these things. then its to the $100/hr guys in the clean room
if(window.XMLHttpRequest){
}
else
{
if(window.ActiveXObject){
document.write "Error 404 Page Not Found"
}
}
i haven't had any problems with ie6 since i implemented this holistic approach
i don't know who:
"ideas are like assholes, everyone has one, but most of them stink"
99% of the people in your life are full of shit ideas. 99% of what you yourself say is incomplete and ill thought out
the whole point is, only through communication do we develop better ideas. in this sense, the internet is not a step backwards, but a step forwards. that it exposes exactly how awful people's ideas are, this is nothing new or different, its always been this way, probably worse, the quality of people's ideas. what's new and different is that so many people can now work through their philosophical shortcomings on the internet and, if they have an open mind and are not a brain dead partisan hack, they can grow ideologically into a better person
don't lament that so much of humanity, including yourself, is so unenlightened. rejoice that so many strive to be better. how do i know they strive to be better?
because they go online, and communicate. this is the first step towards becoming a better person
if i were 100% certain of my beliefs, i would sit in smug condescension and talk to no one. what would be the point? i already supposedly know everything. only by venturing forth and exposing my beliefs to others are they challenged, and made stronger
as long as people are talking and arguing and being challenged by others, they are becoming better people
so, to paraphrase someone else: welcome to the intarwebs. let a thousand assholes bloom
putting gps on kids
has
nothing
to
do
with
putting
it
anywhere
else
understand, you ignorant twatstain?
its obvious to me now that panty twisted hysteria always wins in your mind's eye
i apologize for trying to argue with you with some logic and reason. that gps in situatian A has nothing to do with gps in situation B. no, obviously wrong
the truth of course is: we put gps on kids. OMFG ITS AN UNSTOPPABLE SLIDE TO FASCISM
pfffffft
fucking fear addled moron
its the regurgitated nra playbook
do you have something to offer besides the usual stilted lying "numbers"?
do you mix your own propaganda or do you merely regurgitate what's fed to you gimp?
its a wonderful lesson in half-truths, dubious interpretations, partial context, creative conclusions, preconceptions...
asshole: more undeserving people are killed by guns in accidents incidents heated arguments and confusion than saved by guns in your boy scout fantasy life of red dawn and dirty harry
you really want to spin that rock of gibraltar truth you lying sack of shit?
maybe you are actually deluded and don't believe that. power to you, you paranoid schizophrenic little man. must be quite serene, living on lies and ejecting your human consccience
MORE PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY GUNS THAN SAVED BY GUNS
BY AT LEAST A FUCKING ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
understand that ironclad truth you lying turd?
i swear you guys are as brainwashed as the fucking church of scientology. its like arguing with a committed creationist retard about evolution, such is your blind deathgrip on lies
or do you really need me to go down the blind alley of battling statistics with your moronic propaganda?
ok
HOW MANY VIOLENT CRIMES WERE COMMITTED LAST YEAR
HOW MANY WERE DONE WITH FIREARMS
HOW MANY MURDERS WERE COMMITTED LAST YEAR
HOW MANY WERE DONE WITH FIREARMS
look it up you propagandized asshole
look it the fuck up and get back to me with your serene motherfucking lies. i'm sure the nra playbook addresses this on page 23. please regurgitate the play. why think for once, right?
blood is on your hands. obviously, not on your conscience, as it is doubtful you have one
but don't worry about it. the sun is setting on your reactionary retarded little world
your days are numbered you fucking dinosaur. its all inevitable demographic change from here
i look forward to the more progressive opinions of your enlightened urban children, as they will inevitably be. see what they see. see what they think the gun represents in their civilian lives, what it inhabits in the landscape: nothing but a threat, even and especially in their own hands
its sad really, to live as a bitter dead end
but you're almost reassuring dear nra zombie, to see history come alive, like visiting dodge city or davey crockett's home or seeing a pirate ship: thank fucking god we live in civil society, look how far we've come. even though some retards amongst us still cling to antiquated modes of living, thinking walking around as their own judge jury and executioner makes any fucking sense in the modern western world
go move to somalia if you want to be fucking relevant, you blind asshole
how you can change the subject and think you have a point
sing with me
"one of these things is not like the other..."
you can stop yourself or someone else from becoming a victim of a crime. this happens all the time, probably every day
its just that for everyone of these virtuous uses, 10 other people get shot because of mistakes, overheated situations, knuckleheads, etc
so overall, guns just aren't worth the collateral damage. the collateral damage is greater than any benefit guns convey
from hatred for rural assholes who don't understand how their maladjusted view of the real value of guns in civil society results in hundreds of needless urban deaths every year, or don't care
and it is venom. and it is hatred. and it based on the inability to get the blind to see how their incoherent opinions lead to unnecessary deaths
and what makes you think that has any implications whatsoever as to them being put in my car?
ah, because you there is a slippery slope. that legislators and average folk don't know the difference between a parolee and a nonparolee's car, and don't care. that gps's are sentient beings that are out to take away your freedoms, propelled in an unstoppable force that proceeds without any human cognition involved. or, no: it is done by human beings. but they have no ability to tell the difference between a parolee and a nonparolee's car, and if the police put a gps on my car, i won't care, no fellow citizen will care, no legislator will care, no judge will care. or know the difference
please get your head out of your ass
no one has used a rocket launcher to rob a bank
therefore, drunk rednecks should get rocket launchers
pfffft
oh i'm sorry if "drunk redneck" offends your cultural sensitivities
the only truth about uncontrolled gun ownership is that rural folk benefit from them (police are far away) while urban people suffer for them (in urban settings they are the provenance of thugs)
hundreds die every year in urban settings for the sake of a legal framework which only serves rural assholes. a MINORITY enjoy a legal status quo to the detriment of a MAJORITY. not very democratic
it would be nice if guns could be made legal in the countryside, illegal in the cities, but of course this is impossible
well, guess what? the usa is not an agrarian society anymore when these anachronistic laws were set. it is mostly urban already, and this will only accelerate. in places where urban dominance is well-established, like europe, guns are seen as vile, not beneficial
so its only a matter of demographic inevitability in a democracy before the nostalgic antiquated rural gun owners are finally trumped, and guns are rounded up
and then rural folk will suffer for the sake of urban folk, killed by illegal firearms in home invasions, with no gun of their own and the police far away. you find that injust? what of the hundreds killed in urban settings by gun toting thugs you blind selfish asshole
instead of rural assholes holding urban folk hostage and allowing hundreds of urban folks to die every year at the hands of urban gun toting thugs, the reverse will hold true. welcome to fucking democracy, you fucking red neck
fuck you rural twatstains. i hope you understand how your quaint nostalgia results in hundreds of urban deaths in your country. if you do understand that, congratulations on not caring, asswipe
but don't worry about it. critical mass is not there yet. your gun will NOT be taken from you
but it will be taken from your children
or rather, your children will be urban, and recognize the wisdom you do not
tick tock tick tock
or just ego stroking your knowledge without examining if it applies here
read his original comment about gps tracking and children... presto chango... gps tracking in speeders
now tell me his wording does not match the narrow qualifications you describe
but if they DID put gps on a child, it does not follow that that opens the door to putting them on speeders, as the parent post implied. but thanks for the threadjack. pfffft
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SLIPPERY SLOPE
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html
if someone uses gps tracking devices in adults in the future, it will have absolutely nothing to with their use in children now. if you use them in children, there are no implications whatsoever as to their future use in future groups. to believe so is to think other people are unable to understand the difference between children and adults. therefore, your previous bloviating about gps tracking in children leading to gps devices in SPEEDERS for fuck sake is an example of fear-addled thinking on your part of the highest retarded order
examine how you think about the issue. retract your statement about speeders. otherwise, your thinking is EXACTLY the thought processes of morons who think gays marrying leads to legalized necrophilia and evolution taught in our schools leads to atheism
just admit you fucked up, and moved on, and drop the slippery slope bullshit in all future arguments, for the sake of your own lucidity
some people believe if we allow gays to marry, we also have to accept pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, polygamy...
or howabout: if we try to control assault weapons in the usa, the government is inevitably going to take away all guns in the usa
or: if we teach evolution in schools, soon everyone will be a godless atheist
no: all of this is retarded hysteria. but some people actually believe this. because they are letting their irrational fears overpower their logical thought
as you are:
you believe if we accept child tracking by gps, we're on an unstoppable slippery slope into a black hole of everyone being tracked by gps
uh... how about no? how about you are irrational and fear addled?
there is no such thing as slippery slope. your fears are unfounded. why? because people understand the concepts and can think about the differences between children and others. you don't hold a monopoly on that ability
really
please lose your irrational fears and develop the ability for coherent logical thought. the idea of the slippery slope is a tool for propaganda, nothing more
"Well my parents changed my diapers for me as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government change my underwear"
"Well my parents turned my television off at 10 pm as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government control our televisions"
"Well my parents spanked me as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government deliver corporal punishment"
etc., etc.
none of these things happen, or are widely accepted by the public, simply because, get this: your average person can tell the difference between an adult and a child and that different policies should apply to them. i sound like i am being pedantic, but i have to state the excruciatingly obvious because your entire slippery slope argument depends upon the idea that no one can tell the difference between an adult and a child conceptually except you. why do you think you alone possess some magic perception of the dumbfoundingly obvious and that you need to remind everyone else of it or else everyone will forget a child and an adult are different?
this shows a poor consideration for your fellow man. not of the general snobbish "i am superior to joe blow" variety of poor consideration, but more like the "i am the only sentient being" variety of poor consideration. sorry, other people can think and recognize the obvious too, and so no, there is no slippery slope because the boundaries are clear and the context is clear about how this is being applied. no, there will be no gradual acceptance of gps trackers in adults simply because they are in kids, just like there is no gradual acceptance of governments changing our underwear or turning off our tvs. and no, sorry, i already see the counterargument coming, so let me head it off right now: if you do find some policy that sounds like the government is treating adults like children, this is a failure of logic in its own right, NOT some consequence of how some child somewhere was treated by his parents
we're talking about a CHILD here. no creeping big brother implied
it is perfectly ok to track a child by GPS. how can i say such a horrible thing? because we are talking about... yes, you guessed it, a CHILD. it makes a difference. there is no slippery slope: your average intelligence human being can tell the difference between an adult and a child when it comes to accountability and responsibility. as such THERE IS NO SLIPPERY SLOPE. you do not have a monopoly on perceiving common sense obvious differences
if a kid kills your prized rose bushes, who do you go after? the parents. why? because, legally, morally, and logically, a child's actions are the responsibility and accountability of their parents, because a child is not mentally mature enough to be responsible or accountable. sure there are rare moral savants, 8 year olds who are more accountable and responsible than some 28 year olds, and all children display moments of clarity and lucidity that are adult-level. but on the average, they tend to royally fuck up and make huge mistakes, especially in regard to peer pressure, panic, etc. thus the parent's role in this whole accountability and responsibility thing
but i await the typical fear-addled slippery slope arguments anyways
who switched from myspace to facebook, why they did it, the answer wouldn't be "because it boringly replicates the featureset of what myspace already does"
i'm talking about the sexy hook. the one little must have. yes, facebook does exactly what you say it does, but that's not what made people adopt facebook in the first place. consider the full range of functionality in facebook: 90% of the people who started using facebook did so because of only 1% of that full range functionality. the rest just fell into use later. that's my whole point: identify what that must have 1% functionality is, and you have a successful product
and what i am saying isn't an original or obscure comment. cars do a thousand different things, but they are basically all the same. the primary functionality of a car: getting from here to there, isn't even the prime motivator for picking one car or another. so why does someone pick car A over car B? "oh because i can plug my iPod into it". and so you see that prominently featured in the car's ad. not its transmission or fuel injection system
see my point? the sexy hook. the tiny little almost unimportant and obscure must-have. thats what wave needs to be successful, and that's what google should trumpet to the media. not "it does everything facebook does better and more!"
who cares? not sexy
you're talking about what makes sense. i'm talking about what's sexy and makes people flock to something new. if google does what facebook does, but better, nobody won't migrate. simply out of inertia. which of course is a shame, but better products die in the face of worse products all the time, simply because they don't get adapted out of simple human inertia
i'm talking about the hook, the sexy cool thing, what makes users salivate and want to switch to wave. so google really needs to talk up that one little sexy cool thing, not the whole boring redundancy with facebook. that will just fall into place later, after you've hooked them with a wow factor
"1. Everyone already has a voter registration number, make sure they know it."
didja happen to notice the hoopla over a national id card over the last few years? no one's going to oppose a new national id system, naaah
"2. Decentralize the vote. Each "polling station" creates a flat file that has the voter id and what they voted for. Make it available for anyone to download."
oh ok, so now i can see who my neighbor voted for? oh, i can't, it hides identity? ok then, where's the protection against dirty tricks in this scheme again?
"3. Next have a regional/district "polling station" where the flat file is uploaded. The flat file is audited again here. Also the aggregate file is also made available to the public."
oh ok, because we all know underpaid, borderline capable "uncorruptible" government bureaucrats are paragons of integrity and virtue. if they say "trust me" i should trust them. pfffffffffft
"4. Continue the pooling of votes to whatever level is needed, national, global, whatever."
yeah, and how about we do this with paper, and make it therefore CHEAPER and MORE SECURE
you ARE a paragon of virtue, here on slashdot