but it is cumbersome, slow, small in scale, and hard to hide
on the other hand with electronic voting (and to a lesser extent mechanical voting), you have an order of magnitude more attack vectors. you can also do a lot more damage with the slightest of effort, quickly, with a lot of volatility and potential for permanent obfuscation, destruction, or scrambling and outright manipulation. you can cover your tracks well too, and you can quickly survey the landscape and tweak votes in ways that are hard to sniff out later
paper voting is totally transparent to everyone involved. electronic voting is opaque. there is no verification, nothing of substance. nothing to see or touch
electronic voting is probably one of the greatest threats to faith in democracy in the 21st century. not a joke in the least
they found a biblical city called ubar in oman this way, by tracing the minute traces left by ancient caravan roads only visible by certain radars on a huge scale
no lost ark, but apparently this is where all that weird stuff called frankincense came from
just as the price of diamonds are threatened by artificial sources, questions about funding evil regimes, and anger at diehard debeers monopolies, promising that men can give women what they want for only $10 someday, this mathematician a**hole comes along with a totally new need-to-have impossible-to-obtain subtance that guys must fork over big bucks for
as a romance novel written from the point of view of the ridiculously sensitive male leads in the story:
"your tits are huge, let's shag"
yeah, that's going to sell romance novels
impossible proportioned female superheroes exist to satisfy the id of prepubescent boys. there is no female pov to these characters that has any meaning. they are stereotypical characters meant to satisfy male views about solving problems by fighting. women have their own fantasy fiction with impossible male characters meant to satisfy female views about the glory of courtship with a great guy
why mess with these shallow fantasies? nothing is improved, the value of the characters are just negated for their intended audiences
sometimes, more tech thrown at a problem makes it worse, not better
there is no compelling argument, NO COMPELLING ARGUMENT to use anything more than
1. pencil 2. paper 3. optical scanner
there is however, with electronic voting, AND mechanical voting something else:
1. increased number of attack vectors 2. loss of transparency in the voting process, and therefore mistrust in democratic results, and lingering lack of faith in government
the only arguments for electornic voting are:
1. kickbacks to officials 2. increased business for a business that shouldn't exist
no electronic voting. ever. anywhere
accepting it means that people will begin to erode their fatih in democracy
if they can't see it, smell it touch it, they won't trust it
once again:
1. pencil 2. paper 3. optical scanner
anything else represents an eroding faith in democracy
they could have built their own portals in 1999. they didn't. they filed lawsuits against soccer moms and college kids instead
apple came, gave college kids what they wanted many years later, and so the big publishers, by denying reality of the changing business they were in, effectively handed apple all of the power they previously had, and could have retained
not your useless hyperbole, the wikipedia article would still deserve to rank higher than your scientific paper or expert description of the bacteria, because it summarizes the issue in plain english, in a few paragraphs, which is all 99% of searchers are interested in
parasites don't suddenly appear out of thin air and reduce their hosts to extinction
they gradually evolve in tandem with their hosts, and they make sure they always leach off the host's resources, and never kill their host
a parasite is not interested in killing its host. because then the parasite dies too
and a parasite is evolved to infect its host very carefully and specifically. dinosaurs did not suddenly get worms that no other creature ever got before. the worms evolved as the dinosaurs evolved
as for biting insects, this was a major new change. but again, it's not like mosquitoes materialized out of thin air and vampirically drained all the blood in the world. they slowly and gradually evolved to the job they do better and better, but never THAT good a job. never, never, did they kill their hosts. because this would then kill the mosquitoes
so frankly, this story is braindead on some fundamentals of evolution and parasites
and if you think that depiction of myself requires as much venom as your response to my previous dumb joke, you should try to understand that bizarre alien concept some of us know as "humor"
"countries that have more liberal rules about drug usage than we do haven't seen these epidemics occur. Do they have drug addicts? Sure... on parlance with us, or even less"
because the 0 rating suggests an antisocial finality to the pointlessness of talking to me directly
yet you continue to banter your stupidity at me like you want me to convince me of something
jxg rates me 0 all the time, and doesn't talk to me. makes sense: he has no respect for me whatsoever. that's fine. now i see a 0 rating of his as a sort of validation
but you're not jxg. you babble at me AND 0 rate me
well: rate me 0 all you want dude, call me a troll all you want. hate me, despise me, have no respect for me. no problem
but then you don't get to talk to me, if you wish to present yourself to me as a someone worthy of interaction
just wondering at your defense of your behavior of modbombing, why that's ok, when you continue to talk to me
either you hold me in absolute contempt, or you consider me redeemable
modbombing someone and engaging them in discussion is a form of what kind of behavior in your judgment?
this is an epidemic where the drug is free, prescribed, purified, price standardized, and controlled
and yet still it gets out and addicts people and creates a black market
relaxing some of those controls would do what?
it would simply result in more addicts, not less
so how is this possible?
because simple exposure to a vampire like heroin leads to addiction
heroin + natural organic moments of weakness we all feel -> addiction, in every single human being. in me. in you. everyone. no matter the education, no matter naything else
no other observation overpowers that observation: more exposure = more addicts
it's an ironclad observation
therefore, the most effective harm reduction policy is exposure reduction
make it illegal, and you increase the harm from impure product, crime to get money to buy it, a growing mafia, all of that prohibition ugliness
and yet you still do the least overall harm to people, addicts, society, any overall measurement you want to make on harm
addiction is a state of perfect rational choice, no compulsion or coercion about it
zzz
it's tired man, you're tired. watching you calling the sky green and calling the desert the ocean with a straight face is fun at first, but then you get pretty boring...
yawn
hey, btw, isn't a shame you can't 0 rate my comments here?
Slashdot Mirror
DROOL
but it is cumbersome, slow, small in scale, and hard to hide
on the other hand with electronic voting (and to a lesser extent mechanical voting), you have an order of magnitude more attack vectors. you can also do a lot more damage with the slightest of effort, quickly, with a lot of volatility and potential for permanent obfuscation, destruction, or scrambling and outright manipulation. you can cover your tracks well too, and you can quickly survey the landscape and tweak votes in ways that are hard to sniff out later
paper voting is totally transparent to everyone involved. electronic voting is opaque. there is no verification, nothing of substance. nothing to see or touch
electronic voting is probably one of the greatest threats to faith in democracy in the 21st century. not a joke in the least
we need to lose this really bad idea asap
The Porntropolis 832 (tm)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar//ubar1.html
they found a biblical city called ubar in oman this way, by tracing the minute traces left by ancient caravan roads only visible by certain radars on a huge scale
no lost ark, but apparently this is where all that weird stuff called frankincense came from
does vin diesel role play as half-drow or half-orc?
just as the price of diamonds are threatened by artificial sources, questions about funding evil regimes, and anger at diehard debeers monopolies, promising that men can give women what they want for only $10 someday, this mathematician a**hole comes along with a totally new need-to-have impossible-to-obtain subtance that guys must fork over big bucks for
curse you, mathematics!
as a romance novel written from the point of view of the ridiculously sensitive male leads in the story:
"your tits are huge, let's shag"
yeah, that's going to sell romance novels
impossible proportioned female superheroes exist to satisfy the id of prepubescent boys. there is no female pov to these characters that has any meaning. they are stereotypical characters meant to satisfy male views about solving problems by fighting. women have their own fantasy fiction with impossible male characters meant to satisfy female views about the glory of courtship with a great guy
why mess with these shallow fantasies? nothing is improved, the value of the characters are just negated for their intended audiences
i am also no technofetishist
sometimes, more tech thrown at a problem makes it worse, not better
there is no compelling argument, NO COMPELLING ARGUMENT to use anything more than
1. pencil
2. paper
3. optical scanner
there is however, with electronic voting, AND mechanical voting something else:
1. increased number of attack vectors
2. loss of transparency in the voting process, and therefore mistrust in democratic results, and lingering lack of faith in government
the only arguments for electornic voting are:
1. kickbacks to officials
2. increased business for a business that shouldn't exist
no electronic voting. ever. anywhere
accepting it means that people will begin to erode their fatih in democracy
if they can't see it, smell it touch it, they won't trust it
once again:
1. pencil
2. paper
3. optical scanner
anything else represents an eroding faith in democracy
they could have built their own portals in 1999. they didn't. they filed lawsuits against soccer moms and college kids instead
apple came, gave college kids what they wanted many years later, and so the big publishers, by denying reality of the changing business they were in, effectively handed apple all of the power they previously had, and could have retained
they screwed themselves
no sympathy
not your useless hyperbole, the wikipedia article would still deserve to rank higher than your scientific paper or expert description of the bacteria, because it summarizes the issue in plain english, in a few paragraphs, which is all 99% of searchers are interested in
take meth and post on slashdot
yer a little high strung there kiddo
that parasitic wasps are going to wipe out their hosts?
of course not
therefore, you understand my point of the supidity of saying parasites wiped out the dinosaurs
parasites don't suddenly appear out of thin air and reduce their hosts to extinction
they gradually evolve in tandem with their hosts, and they make sure they always leach off the host's resources, and never kill their host
a parasite is not interested in killing its host. because then the parasite dies too
and a parasite is evolved to infect its host very carefully and specifically. dinosaurs did not suddenly get worms that no other creature ever got before. the worms evolved as the dinosaurs evolved
as for biting insects, this was a major new change. but again, it's not like mosquitoes materialized out of thin air and vampirically drained all the blood in the world. they slowly and gradually evolved to the job they do better and better, but never THAT good a job. never, never, did they kill their hosts. because this would then kill the mosquitoes
so frankly, this story is braindead on some fundamentals of evolution and parasites
and if you think that depiction of myself requires as much venom as your response to my previous dumb joke, you should try to understand that bizarre alien concept some of us know as "humor"
it's called paranoid schizophrenia
okay dude. make sure to pack some sardines with the crackers. and install an air filter, it gets moldy in the bunkers
if someone wants to think like a paranoid schizophrenic, no amount of reality will sway them from their task
cameras everywhere will not create a big brother society
it will in fact bolster people's freedoms like never before
because the government doesn't have a monopoly on technology
poor sad little man
;-)
you really have no idea what you are dealing with do you
teeheehee
joy oh joys
(whistling
"countries that have more liberal rules about drug usage than we do haven't seen these epidemics occur. Do they have drug addicts? Sure... on parlance with us, or even less"
hmmm
switzerland is pretty liberal on drug policy
and will ya look at that...
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_dru_off-crime-drug-offences
why do you bother arguing with me?
am i beneath you? or redeemable in your eyes?
because the 0 rating suggests an antisocial finality to the pointlessness of talking to me directly
yet you continue to banter your stupidity at me like you want me to convince me of something
jxg rates me 0 all the time, and doesn't talk to me. makes sense: he has no respect for me whatsoever. that's fine. now i see a 0 rating of his as a sort of validation
but you're not jxg. you babble at me AND 0 rate me
well: rate me 0 all you want dude, call me a troll all you want. hate me, despise me, have no respect for me. no problem
but then you don't get to talk to me, if you wish to present yourself to me as a someone worthy of interaction
just wondering at your defense of your behavior of modbombing, why that's ok, when you continue to talk to me
either you hold me in absolute contempt, or you consider me redeemable
modbombing someone and engaging them in discussion is a form of what kind of behavior in your judgment?
how would you characterize that?
yes, tired old drivel
boring, old, done
zzz
so anyways, what exactly compels you to 0 rate all of my comments?
please don't stop, it fills me with glee to bother you so much
i'm just wondering at the psychology of the sycophant
i somehow seem to understand the world better than you
moron: how much does it cost to make and distribute a song, worldwide, nowadays?
oh, somewhere around NOTHING
i leave it to your exalted genius to realize the real driving force behind the collapse of copyright: no economic model behind it to prop it up
and i reserve my contempt for you, whose mind seems to be 15 years behind the technology
yours in derision
xoxoxoxoxoxox
ok, how about hillbilly heroin?
this is an epidemic where the drug is free, prescribed, purified, price standardized, and controlled
and yet still it gets out and addicts people and creates a black market
relaxing some of those controls would do what?
it would simply result in more addicts, not less
so how is this possible?
because simple exposure to a vampire like heroin leads to addiction
heroin + natural organic moments of weakness we all feel -> addiction, in every single human being. in me. in you. everyone. no matter the education, no matter naything else
no other observation overpowers that observation: more exposure = more addicts
it's an ironclad observation
therefore, the most effective harm reduction policy is exposure reduction
make it illegal, and you increase the harm from impure product, crime to get money to buy it, a growing mafia, all of that prohibition ugliness
and yet you still do the least overall harm to people, addicts, society, any overall measurement you want to make on harm
prohibition is evil, and it sucks
and yet wider access to heroin is still worse
addiction is a state of perfect rational choice, no compulsion or coercion about it
zzz
it's tired man, you're tired. watching you calling the sky green and calling the desert the ocean with a straight face is fun at first, but then you get pretty boring...
yawn
hey, btw, isn't a shame you can't 0 rate my comments here?
i miss that validation
(snicker)
ps:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=addiction+slavery