Filling out a ballot, photographing, getting a second ballot and filling it out is a lot of work for the piddling amount a vote purchase is likely to pay. The person who'd sell his vote is immoral, and is also likely lazy (being moral takes extra effort.) Making vote buying more difficult is a worthwhile goal.
Kelly Ayotte is not a deep thinker. She has already sacrificed many of the values and positions on which she was first elected. If she is re-elected, it's only because her opponent is a vicious flaming turd.
Succumbing to voter intimidation is a one-way crime; only the intimidator is a criminal. But in voting for money, both the person buying the vote and the person selling the vote are voluntarily engaging in a criminal activity, subverting a free election.
It's difficult to prove vote buying. It's also difficult for the buyer to have a method to enforce his "contract". By prohibiting ballot-selfies, one enforcement method is being removed. Remember, the primary goal is not to punish vote buyers, but to prevent vote buying.
Don't be silly. That's what elections are all about.
It's illegal to offer certain varieties of inducements to vote in a certain way, such as threats of violence or firing, or promises of individual payments. Removing mechanisms that make vote-buying and voter intimidation possible is a good thing.
The pity is, it's not illegal to say "If elected, I'll take every penny from people who earn over $10,000 a year and give it to people who don't earn that much."
There are many things that can be said that do not have 1st amendment protection. Military secrets, death threats, among many others.
There is only one fundamental right, the right of an innocent person not to be killed, and it applies only against those who would kill him. Everything else derives from that in a reasoned hierarchy.
Protecting the secrecy of voting in every practical way is important. Some people who win elections are capable of doing immense damage, and protecting voters from such people is far more important than allowing some shallow fool to boast "Hey looky who I voted for!"
It's a lot more difficult to photograph something and alter it later in an undetectable manner than it is to just photograph something. People who allow their vote to be bought are not all that likely to be skilled at making fakes.
Also note that calomel is mercurous chloride. It's not as poisonous as it sounds, but you don't want to have a jar of it sitting around if you don't really have a use for it.
According to wikipedia, the NiFe self-discharge rate is 20% to 30% a month. That is fairly high, but not so bad as to be unusable. For reference, good NiCd batteries are about 10% a month.
Secret telescopes tend to be military satellites in low earth orbit. To get militarily useful details, they have to be fairly large (Rayleigh Criterion). They are large enough that they can be (and are) tracked by amateur astronomers. Tracking launches is also a popular amateur activity.
I suppose it's possible to use stealth technology on a satellite, and satellites do get lost occasionally. It just doesn't seen likely that they'd go to the trouble because everyone knows there are surveillance satellites.
You apparently haven't heard of the War Powers Resolution (a.k.a. the War Powers Act.) Essentially, the President can run hog wild for 60 days.
Budget restrictions have little affect on a President (like Obama) who has no intention of following the law. Just recently, he's been shoveling dollars for a program explicitly prohibited by Congress from "surplusses" within the same department.
Budget control in recent years has been a crude and ineffectual tool. All the President's proposed budgets have been rejected outright, and despite the Constitutional requirement the government has been running on continuing resolutions instead of a true budget. It's a mess.
Unfortunately, our economic system is not able to solve this distribution problem.
Gee, our sanitation system can't solve the problem either. Nor the hospital system.. Let's blame them.
It's a the political system within starving countries that is the problem, not the economic system here.
Razor blades are mostly made from stainless steel, and chromium is what makes stainless steel stainless. Expensive platinum has the same harness as steel, and its use in razor blades would be pointless. FWIW, titanium doesn't hold an edge well; it makes a poor razor blade.
Wrong. The total cost is the cost of production including what it takes to make it acceptably clean and the cost of paying for the damage is causes. Nothing can be made perfectly clean; it is simply not possible.
Your statement is just plain dishonest. The Democratic Party is the party of unions, forever blocking the ending of pointless jobs (featherbedding, for instance). The Democratic party is the party of that most static of all societies, slavery. The Republican Party is the party of freedom, which goes hand-in-hand with progress. The worst element to be found in a portion of the GOP is primitivism, in the form of religion.
given that mines are natural resources why the *bleep* do we let so few people claim ownership of them?
How is it that you aren't considered a natural resource? What is your defense against the claim that the government can do anything with you that it wishes?
Volume, mostly. UPS usually delivers one package at a time and drives past several buildings before delivering another package. The USPS delivers multiple items per house at every house, and some of those items aren't even addressed to a particular house. It's economies of scale.
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Filling out a ballot, photographing, getting a second ballot and filling it out is a lot of work for the piddling amount a vote purchase is likely to pay. The person who'd sell his vote is immoral, and is also likely lazy (being moral takes extra effort.) Making vote buying more difficult is a worthwhile goal.
Kelly Ayotte is not a deep thinker. She has already sacrificed many of the values and positions on which she was first elected. If she is re-elected, it's only because her opponent is a vicious flaming turd.
Succumbing to voter intimidation is a one-way crime; only the intimidator is a criminal. But in voting for money, both the person buying the vote and the person selling the vote are voluntarily engaging in a criminal activity, subverting a free election.
It's difficult to prove vote buying. It's also difficult for the buyer to have a method to enforce his "contract". By prohibiting ballot-selfies, one enforcement method is being removed. Remember, the primary goal is not to punish vote buyers, but to prevent vote buying.
Don't be silly. That's what elections are all about.
It's illegal to offer certain varieties of inducements to vote in a certain way, such as threats of violence or firing, or promises of individual payments. Removing mechanisms that make vote-buying and voter intimidation possible is a good thing.
The pity is, it's not illegal to say "If elected, I'll take every penny from people who earn over $10,000 a year and give it to people who don't earn that much."
There are many things that can be said that do not have 1st amendment protection. Military secrets, death threats, among many others.
There is only one fundamental right, the right of an innocent person not to be killed, and it applies only against those who would kill him. Everything else derives from that in a reasoned hierarchy.
Protecting the secrecy of voting in every practical way is important. Some people who win elections are capable of doing immense damage, and protecting voters from such people is far more important than allowing some shallow fool to boast "Hey looky who I voted for!"
Great. We already have to guard the ballot box, now we have to guard the trash can outside the polling place where most people will drop their stubs.
It's a lot more difficult to photograph something and alter it later in an undetectable manner than it is to just photograph something. People who allow their vote to be bought are not all that likely to be skilled at making fakes.
Do you think before you post, or do you just copy lines from the Democratic Party phrase book?
There is no possible way that forbidding a person from photographing his ballot prevents him from voting.
It's no surprise that you support the anti-freedom position of mandatory voting; it fits quite well with your other leftist views.
Also note that calomel is mercurous chloride. It's not as poisonous as it sounds, but you don't want to have a jar of it sitting around if you don't really have a use for it.
According to wikipedia, the NiFe self-discharge rate is 20% to 30% a month. That is fairly high, but not so bad as to be unusable. For reference, good NiCd batteries are about 10% a month.
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Jitters
Secret telescopes tend to be military satellites in low earth orbit. To get militarily useful details, they have to be fairly large (Rayleigh Criterion). They are large enough that they can be (and are) tracked by amateur astronomers. Tracking launches is also a popular amateur activity.
I suppose it's possible to use stealth technology on a satellite, and satellites do get lost occasionally. It just doesn't seen likely that they'd go to the trouble because everyone knows there are surveillance satellites.
Gold is a good infrared reflector. The usual mirror coating for telescopes is aluminum, which is not as good in the IR as gold.
You apparently haven't heard of the War Powers Resolution (a.k.a. the War Powers Act.) Essentially, the President can run hog wild for 60 days.
Budget restrictions have little affect on a President (like Obama) who has no intention of following the law. Just recently, he's been shoveling dollars for a program explicitly prohibited by Congress from "surplusses" within the same department.
Budget control in recent years has been a crude and ineffectual tool. All the President's proposed budgets have been rejected outright, and despite the Constitutional requirement the government has been running on continuing resolutions instead of a true budget. It's a mess.
The US Treasury has been having a great deal of trouble unloading bonds recently. It buys up the surplus by itself. Smoke and mirrors.
In my world, QE2 stands for Queen Elizabeth 2, an ocean liner.
Gee, our sanitation system can't solve the problem either. Nor the hospital system.. Let's blame them.
It's a the political system within starving countries that is the problem, not the economic system here.
It is not true that "Every conductor is a superconducting material at cold enough temperatures".
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Razor blades are mostly made from stainless steel, and chromium is what makes stainless steel stainless. Expensive platinum has the same harness as steel, and its use in razor blades would be pointless. FWIW, titanium doesn't hold an edge well; it makes a poor razor blade.
Stupidity will be at a premium, so you'll be rich.
Wrong. The total cost is the cost of production including what it takes to make it acceptably clean and the cost of paying for the damage is causes. Nothing can be made perfectly clean; it is simply not possible.
You are suffering from Progressive education; you don't know how to spell "suffrage."
Abolition's home is the Republican party, racist Progressives like President Wilson are the opposite. Learn some history.
Progressivism 's central beliefs include eugenics and genocide.
That statement is just delusional. Leadership by government is very rare.
Your statement is just plain dishonest. The Democratic Party is the party of unions, forever blocking the ending of pointless jobs (featherbedding, for instance). The Democratic party is the party of that most static of all societies, slavery. The Republican Party is the party of freedom, which goes hand-in-hand with progress. The worst element to be found in a portion of the GOP is primitivism, in the form of religion.
How is it that you aren't considered a natural resource? What is your defense against the claim that the government can do anything with you that it wishes?
Volume, mostly. UPS usually delivers one package at a time and drives past several buildings before delivering another package. The USPS delivers multiple items per house at every house, and some of those items aren't even addressed to a particular house. It's economies of scale.