The bottom half is an exact visual copy of the top, which is for your
own record. It contains your e-voting number assigned by the system and the list of candidates you chose....
Third, you have a visually verifiable record of the manaul count ballot for yourself that you can
A) take home
B) submit to 3rd party independent vote trackers
C) give to your boss/union leader/vote buyer/abusive spouse/etc to prove
who you voted for so that you can be paid or keep your job, etc.
When you walk out that door, you shouldn't have anything with you that shows who you voted for. A private vote MUST be exactly that- private. It's only one step away from the government goon at the door asking to see your paper... "to verify that your vote was properly registered" and see whether you voted for his boss or the other guy.
It can only lead to intimidation, coercion, and vote selling. Sorry, but it's just not a good idea.
Does nobody care that this is just a pointer to a story that is three months old? No new information, no added insight, just a "hey, look, someone wrote an article a while back".
Not sure if GSM is different, but at least one mobile phone provider here (in the US) had a plan where you could get two phones that worked on the same phone number. It was a cheaper way to have multiple phones if you didn't mind having both phones ring when you got a call.
Since I didn't look into it further, I'm not sure how they handled talking from one to the other (did you just call your own number?) or even if person 2 could take a call that person 1 answered first.
Still, you could have multiple phones on the same phone number.
Ahhhh, but if you will notice, the 4ppm rate was for a TWO year period. If it has consistently been at or near 2%/yr and just happens to be at or slightly above 2%/yr for two straight years, that's not statistically significant.
...one of those Universal Convertors that IBM touts in their commercial?
They sound like they would work, unless you're trying to do this in Europe, I suppose.
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I actually thought about this since my computer has been warming the room and there is a central vac opening very close to the computer. What you need to do is to have a flapper valve that requires a greater amount of pressure to operate than the computer fan creates. When you aren't using the central vac, the flap stays out of the way and the PC air goes into the vacuum system. In my case, out into the garage. When the vacuum kicks on, the increased pressure differential causes the flap to close so you don't suck the computer's guts into the vacuum canister. The key is to have a properly sized hole in the flap so that you get the same amount of airflow with the flap closed and the vacuum running as you do with it open and the vacuum turned off.
It never got important enough to me to mess with it, especially since I can fairly easily vent my air out into a part of the attic and still leave the vacuum port available for actual vacuuming.
If one reads both the preamble to the Bill of Rights and the full 2nd Amendment (especially without the comma after the word "militia" as it is in the original copy) it becomes VERY obvious that the whole reason for including the amendment was so that the average citizen could have a means of protecting him/herself from an oppressive government.
This gets even more blatantly clear when you read such things as the Federalist Papers and other remarks made by the guys that wrote and included this amendment in the Bill of Rights in the first place.
Basically, if you want to put the amendment into modern terms, it says something like:
"Since we need a military in order to protect our country from attack by another country, the citizens must be allowed to have guns to protect themselves against the possibility of the military being used by an oppressive leader."
For those that don't have a handy copy of the Preamble to the Bill of Rights (not the Preamble to the Constitution itself that you had to memorize back in 8th grade), it says:
"THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution."
See what it says? The whole reason we even have the BoR is to restrict the GOVERNMENT, not the people!
Decisions of the most overturned circuit court in the nation notwithstanding, the 2nd Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with arming the military.
From my own experience (and everyone else that I've shared this with) taking Manganese works better than anything else out there.
The medical logic behind it is that it will strengthen the ligaments, which will then hold the tunnel in a more open and rounded position, relieving the pressure that causes the problem. You know, solve the problem not the symptoms and all that.
My personal (and definitely non-medical-professional, after all I don't even play a doctor on television) suggestion is that you go out and get a bottle of Manganese (NOT Magnesium, Manganese is a little harder to find but any health food/vitamin store should have it) and take twice whatever they say is the suggested dosage for the first week or so and than just take the regular dose every day after that.
It'll probably cost you less than $10 to give this a shot.
"This document points out something important: OSHA does NOT have a standing (read: enforcable) ruling or standard for computer operation environments. Your employer can simply tell you to take a hike and get away with it."
Well, the Federal OSHA may not have enforcable rules on this, but your state version of OSHA might. Many states do have rules on this sort of thing.
If you look in the contract you signed, I'll bet that they've got a clause that nullifies any crossing out you may do. Lawyers figured this one a long time ago. Feel free to cross out whatever you want, the contract says that it doesn't count.
The only use it *might* serve is to let the company know that you don't like it. Of course, since you signed it anyway (and, like I said, it doesn't matter that you crossed it out) and nobody at a level that would have any kind of decision making power will ever see or know that you crossed it out... it's just a "feel good" kind of thing to do.
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When you walk out that door, you shouldn't have anything with you that shows who you voted for. A private vote MUST be exactly that- private. It's only one step away from the government goon at the door asking to see your paper... "to verify that your vote was properly registered" and see whether you voted for his boss or the other guy.
It can only lead to intimidation, coercion, and vote selling. Sorry, but it's just not a good idea.
Whoop-dee-doo.
Not sure if GSM is different, but at least one mobile phone provider here (in the US) had a plan where you could get two phones that worked on the same phone number. It was a cheaper way to have multiple phones if you didn't mind having both phones ring when you got a call.
Since I didn't look into it further, I'm not sure how they handled talking from one to the other (did you just call your own number?) or even if person 2 could take a call that person 1 answered first.
Still, you could have multiple phones on the same phone number.
Ahhhh, but if you will notice, the 4ppm rate was for a TWO year period. If it has consistently been at or near 2%/yr and just happens to be at or slightly above 2%/yr for two straight years, that's not statistically significant.
...one of those Universal Convertors that IBM touts in their commercial? They sound like they would work, unless you're trying to do this in Europe, I suppose.
I actually thought about this since my computer has been warming the room and there is a central vac opening very close to the computer. What you need to do is to have a flapper valve that requires a greater amount of pressure to operate than the computer fan creates. When you aren't using the central vac, the flap stays out of the way and the PC air goes into the vacuum system. In my case, out into the garage. When the vacuum kicks on, the increased pressure differential causes the flap to close so you don't suck the computer's guts into the vacuum canister. The key is to have a properly sized hole in the flap so that you get the same amount of airflow with the flap closed and the vacuum running as you do with it open and the vacuum turned off.
It never got important enough to me to mess with it, especially since I can fairly easily vent my air out into a part of the attic and still leave the vacuum port available for actual vacuuming.
If one reads both the preamble to the Bill of Rights and the full 2nd Amendment (especially without the comma after the word "militia" as it is in the original copy) it becomes VERY obvious that the whole reason for including the amendment was so that the average citizen could have a means of protecting him/herself from an oppressive government.
This gets even more blatantly clear when you read such things as the Federalist Papers and other remarks made by the guys that wrote and included this amendment in the Bill of Rights in the first place.
Basically, if you want to put the amendment into modern terms, it says something like:
"Since we need a military in order to protect our country from attack by another country, the citizens must be allowed to have guns to protect themselves against the possibility of the military being used by an oppressive leader."
For those that don't have a handy copy of the Preamble to the Bill of Rights (not the Preamble to the Constitution itself that you had to memorize back in 8th grade), it says:
"THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution."
See what it says? The whole reason we even have the BoR is to restrict the GOVERNMENT, not the people!
Decisions of the most overturned circuit court in the nation notwithstanding, the 2nd Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with arming the military.
From my own experience (and everyone else that I've shared this with) taking Manganese works better than anything else out there. The medical logic behind it is that it will strengthen the ligaments, which will then hold the tunnel in a more open and rounded position, relieving the pressure that causes the problem. You know, solve the problem not the symptoms and all that. My personal (and definitely non-medical-professional, after all I don't even play a doctor on television) suggestion is that you go out and get a bottle of Manganese (NOT Magnesium, Manganese is a little harder to find but any health food/vitamin store should have it) and take twice whatever they say is the suggested dosage for the first week or so and than just take the regular dose every day after that. It'll probably cost you less than $10 to give this a shot.
Well, the Federal OSHA may not have enforcable rules on this, but your state version of OSHA might. Many states do have rules on this sort of thing.
States Rights!!
If you look in the contract you signed, I'll bet that they've got a clause that nullifies any crossing out you may do. Lawyers figured this one a long time ago. Feel free to cross out whatever you want, the contract says that it doesn't count. The only use it *might* serve is to let the company know that you don't like it. Of course, since you signed it anyway (and, like I said, it doesn't matter that you crossed it out) and nobody at a level that would have any kind of decision making power will ever see or know that you crossed it out... it's just a "feel good" kind of thing to do.