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  1. Voting helps your district on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    I agree with all the folks who say that in an ideal world, one would make intelligent voting decisions and that we can start small.

    For my neighbors, however, I encourage everyone to get out to the polls, even if they do nothing but write in a few nonsense candidates. The reason? I live in an inner city neighborhood. Politicians ignore us partially because they don't think they can get many votes out of us.

    The theory is that once politicians see that we're a significant voting body, they'll start spending money on us to help keep our streets clean and safe... in order to win our vote.

    I suppose the corollary to that is if everyone else stopped voting, our votes would count for more. So... if you live in a middle-to-upper class neighborhood, don't vote! (Just kidding, of course.)

  2. Re:Fun with Rubik's Cube geeks... on Rubik's Cube World Championships · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you simply put together the cube randomly (without peeling off stickers) then actually most moves of most "cube geeks" will work. In the end you'll get to a state where the entire cube is solved except for one or two pieces which have the wrong parity.

    Of course because it's parity based, if you make several random switches, it's decently likely that you'll put the cube back into a solvable position.

    If you do take the stickers off, then most "cube geeks" can probably tell you that straightaway because that makes the cube make no sense at all.

  3. Re:Been A While on Both Tea And No Tea - Updated Hitchhiker's Game · · Score: 1

    Agrajag will be voiced by Douglas Adams in the new radio series, not in the text adventure game. A text adventure with voiceovers? The horror.

    But, incidentally, Agrajag DOES show up briefly in the game, though perhaps not recognizable as such. You/Arthur kill/s one of his incarnations while on the Heart of Gold, though it IS a highly improbable event.

  4. Article on Thermoacoustics on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Thought this article might provide some interesting background on thermoacoustics.

  5. Google Translation on Transrapid (MagLev) Test Successful In China: 405 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Successful test for Transrapid

    The Transrapid existed an important speed test successfully in Schanghai. As the "Shanghai DAILY one" reports, the magnetic levitation transport system with 405 kilometers per hour drove for the first time the entire distance, which was to bring the passengers from the southern outskirts of a town to the international airport in Pudong.

    "this proves that the Transrapid will be as planned in the coming year for the public accessible", said a speaker of the Shanghai Maglev Transportation development CO Ltd., which coordinates the project. With the building approximately 30 kilometers long distance in March yearly passed had been begun.

    Everyone of of ThyssenKrupp of built courses can up to 959 passengers carry and is the distance with 430 kilometers per hour in eight minutes put back. For the 31. December be the the official travel the of the Transrapid with Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and China Prime Minister Zhu Rongji plan.