Heh, good one. Next thing you know, they'll increase sales tax to around 2% minimum and even 10% max without skills, and file tax returns for you. But then again, this would mean the EVE economy must first become a realistically modeled economy (bye bye sinks and faucets) before that even has a chance to fly. I'm looking forward to tax-deductible charitable ISK donations to newbies, and anti-monopoly real-life lawsuits for T2 BPO owners;)
I don't have a problem with virtual jobs for real money, and I don't have a problem with the government taxing that. But then again, if that happends, I do expect the governments to FORCE the MMOG companies to acknowledge in-game property as actual, personal user property, and allow in-game assets "conversion" to real money at any given time (as per supply and demand from other customers, not from the game company). However, the actual value of the goods should be set as "zero" for ownership taxes only, so that simply owning a piece of virtual wealth does NOT mean you have to pay something simply for owning it... just if you try to sell it.
Parazphrasing from TFA, "they're not doing it any time soon, and only because it would be a monumental pain in the ass right now". In other words, it would cost them more to try and enforce it as it would possibly bring them.
Just wait until we all use (almost) exclusively electronic currencies and "paper money" becomes a collector's item, and you WILL see governments taxing everything imaginable... that's what they TRY to do anyway.
As soon as in-game wealth CAN be used as an actual source of income in the real world, I have no problem with it being taxed. But as long as that "wealth" stays online and never gets exchanged for real money coming into my pocket, stay the fuck away from my ISK and T2 blueprint copies:P
Well, to be honest, more of a "In communist education, teacher bullies you"... and that creates a sort of bonding between classmates and even schoolmates that you can otherwise only see in the armed forces. Well, not quite as strong, but the underlying principle is the same: give the kids a "common enemy", one they hate, fear and also respect at the same time, one they are powerless against, so that they might come together in (passive) resistance against.
For space, we have that sensory ability to not only say "about 7m away" but also "due West". For time, right now, assuming time would be three-dimensional too, most/all humans just have the "seconds away" sense, not the "heading" too. In case time is not just unidimensional (so it's not only a "time distance"), then if and only if you could somehow have a "time heading" sense, then you could have a humanly explainable equivalent.
Also true, no (scientifically or otherwise thoroughly) confirmed cases of anything "supernatural", that's why I called it a "far-fetched theory":)
Well, what about a slight point of view shift instead ? Do you ever think of yourself "well, this object is 3m away on the x axis, 4m away of the y axis, and 5 m away on the z axis" ? Or do you just think to yourself "this object is about 7m away" ? And then, your other senses tell you what direction the object is ? So why assume whatever it is we call "time" is actually time, when instead it could be just as well the "time-like total distance", and we just lack the sensory equipment to differentiate (or orientate ourselves) in the 3-dimensional time-like variable ?
Now, we are moving almost in the realm of supernatural here (won't say tinfoilhattery... yet), but what if all "extraordinary abilities" some people pretend they have MIGHT actually be real to a certain degree, and the only thing differentiating a "normal" person from "them" is that they can somehow perceive at least one or both of the other "time-like" dimensions... and even "manipulate" matter independently alongside each of them ? To somebody who lacks the proper senses, it can appear as something impossible, when in fact it's just something unperceivable ?
Well, it's just a far-fetched theory, but who knows ?
Ok, I know I'll get flamed badly for this, but why the hell do you even HAVE bullies in the first place ? Personally, I am a product of a communist regime education system that kept going almost unchanged for almost a decade after "the fall of communism" (winter 1989) in Romania, and to be honest, I *NEVER* actually met a real-life school bully, and none of my (rough) age group have either. Only recently (about 1995 and later) this whole "bully" issue actually started surfacing.
I can't quite put a finger on it, but it seems to me it's the system's fault bullies of ANY kind exist in the first place. Schools are places where kids should go to learn things, from abstract knowledge to social relations, and that includes RESPECT for eachother... but more importantly, their teachers. The whole punishment system for "troublemakers" is even stupider... suspenstion or expulsion ? Who the fuck are you kidding ? That's not PUNISHMENT for a troublemaker, it's punishment for his parents. A troublemaker would love nothing more as getting expelled, even if it means "trouble at home".
Physical punishment, one of the big "no-noes" of "modern western civilisation" is also a stupid concept, beyond belief. I got spanked and slapped around for stupid things I did, and I din't end up a murderer, nor have I hated my parents or my teachers for doing that. If anything, it made me comprehend faster that I did a bad thing, and that I will HAVE to do whatever I was supposed to be doing afterwards, after being punished. Teachers should not be stopped from administering non-harmful physical punishment, they should even be encouraged to have THAT as PRIMARY means of discipline.
You hurt a classmate on school grounds, you disrupt the class, or you're just not paying attention in class... hell yes, you deserve a fucking slap on your cheek, a ruler slammed into your palm, or even a boot up your ass. And then, you DON'T go to detention, you're not getting suspended, you don't get to go home or stay home for a few days... oh no, you get to go back to your seat, pay attention to the class, or even get to the blackboard and get a GRADE for what you know (or rather said, prove you don't know) from whatever was just thought. And you get the same treatment over and over again until you comply: stop being disruptive, and LEARN something for a change.
But no, I guess "western public school system" is nothing about teaching the kids anything (let alone proper respect for their fellow students, or god forbid their teachers), it's just about getting them out of their parent's hair for the duration of the day, teaching them jackshit and grinding out endless rows of drones primed for manual labor and with an archaic, downright primitive mindset.
I have this feeling you would not have bosses with glowing weak spots when exposed. Now, that's boss material....wait, we're not talking consoles here are we, Jake ?
1992, ??? : Dune 2, the FIRST actual RTS. Annoying to play because you had to move one unit at a time. Still, a major success in '92. I know I couldn't stop playing. Drawback ? Single-player only.
1994, January 15 : Warcraft (I), the first MULTIPLAYER RTS. The only big improvement over Dune 2 was the fact that you could select a whooping 4 units at the same time and move them together. Oh, and it was a lot heavier on the comedic effect, and set in a fantasy world. Meh.
1995, August 31 : Command & Conquer, the first DECENT multiplayer RTS. The gameplay much more intense and diverse as Warcraft, the singleplayer campaigns were engaging, cinematics were downright cool, and the multiplayer mode was also very well handled. Not only that, but it featured a major improvement that not even most of today's RTSs have: you could select and group a HUGE number of units, and control them at the same time. That alone provided the diversity, I can recall winning countless single and multiplayer scenarios by sheer numbers of infantry focused fire alone.
1995, December 9 : Warcraft II While this game was a big leap from the first Warcraft in terms of visual eyecandy and comedic effect, it still persisted in the limited "squad" selection (max 9 units) that even Starcraft would use much later on (12 units). Personally, I was seriously dissapointed by Warcraft 2, and played C&C almost exclusively.
No matter how you put it, Warcraft does not deserve the "title". It's either Dune 2, or it's Command and Conquer.
The Romanian term for "checkmate" is pronounced almost exactly like "shah maat" would be pronounced (written "ah-mat"). It was always the common understanding this means "the king is disabled" or "king is incapacitated", or at worst "king is captured"... and never "king is dead" or anything like that.
EVE-Online Have been playing it since early this year, never looked back to any other graphical MMOG. I still casually play some browser/text-mainly not-so-massively multiplayer online games, but that's about it.
Or, you know, you could try to get your hands on some "vintage" oscilloscopes (should be dirt-cheap) and use THEM as basis for your "machine". As a kid, I had more than my fair share of fun with some pretty old ('70s or so) osci's at my dad's workplace (electrical engineering).
Why REPLACE a drive when you can ADD a drive ? Besides, whoever already said "the older a drive is, the least likely it is to get broken" got it pretty right.
And, as for "permanent storage"... why would you EVER trust your HDD and your HDD only to "keep data safe" ? Everything that's critical (and not so secret) goes as soon as possible on a backup CD/DVD (the more the merrier), on other home/office computers, even on memory sticks or whatever other removable media you might have at hand... and if possible, also some remote (and remotely accessible) location.
Or you could do it the "really tough guy way"... you know, the way of "I don't make backups, I put it online and let everybody else mirror it".
Actually, extending your reason, you can prove why PHYSICAL presence, completely "secret", one-day-only VOTING IN GENERAL can't work at all. Or heck, that VOTING itself is useless. Here's how you can infer that.
First of all, either in a "pencil-and-paper only" ballot counting process or in an electronic type of voting, you still have to rely on the fact that the actual physical papers you have there ARE the papers the voters have placed in the box... or in the other case, that the individual vote count is the actual vote count. The tampering is probably harder to pull off in the physical ballot form, but it's still there. As long as the vote is SECRET (as in, not even you can verify WHAT you were recorded to have voted), you have to place your trust in a "tamperable with" system. If you do NOT have a secret vote, you can end up with vote sales or even worse, vote cohercion. Which of the alternatives is worse (trusting but not knowing if your vote was correctly registered vs being able to verify but therefore also not having the safety secrecy offers), now that's up to you to decide. IMHO, both options are lacking, badly. And I can't possibly conceive a system in which both conditions are met (absolutrely no trust needed, always able to verify personal vote, secrecy preserved).
You also have to rely on the fact nobody voted in two (or more) places at the same time, in other words only accept a certain name on a certain list, where people HAVE to be physically present there and only there and identify themselves. This means two things: you have a huge line-up of people that WANT to vote in certain precints but are physically incapable to (due to long waiting lines, exhaustion or just not enough patience), as opposed to places where people just don't care about voting and precints are nearly empty. Extending the voting period could mean ample time to allow tampering, allowing voting out of precint can lead to double/multiple votes. Allowing "mail-in" (or simply internet-based) voting could be as easily tampered with as any other method, just in different ways.
All in all, you reach the conclusion that no matter HOW you vote, your votes CAN be tampered with, no matter how hard you try. It's only a problem of how willing are you to spend exponentially more money to increase the security of the vote just a little bit (and not even guaranteed to increase the security/accuracy of it).
You're equally better/worse off by simply having representatives (and even the president) elected via a lottery system instead.
I guess it works as a metric, but it's more a measurement of popularity, not "interestingness".
What ? You mean that the measuringness of the popularityness of the interestingness of a something has a truthiness value of accuracyness that's not relevantlynessy enough for you ?
Google Video Files (.gvi), and latterly its.avi files, are modified Audio Video Interleave (.avi) files that have an extra list containing the FourCC "goog" immediately following the header. The video is encoded in DivX4 alongside an MP3 audio stream. DivX video players can render.gvi Google Video Files without format conversion (after changing the extension from.gvi to.avi, although this method of just renaming the file extension does not work with videos purchased with DRM to protect it from piracy). Among other software VirtualDub is able to read.gvi files and allows the user to convert them into different formats of choice. There are also privately developed software solutions, such as GVideo Fix, that can convert them to.avi format without recompression. MEncoder with "-oac copy -ovc copy" as parameters also suffices.
Very simple conversion with no program
It is Simple to convert a GVI or GVP file. 1st download file, then open file with notepad. There will be a URL address. You copythe URL into your browser then you get a download window from google server for files real format AVI mpep wmv ect.
Well, see, you probably COULDN'T "borrow a book on NPR theory at the library", because there was only ONE book ever published on the subject (by the same person who wrote the majority of edits on the "to be deleted" Wikipedia entry), a book published in 1985 and long-since out of print.
Now still think there's anything wrong with deleting that article ?
[...]allows voters to take a piece of the ballot home with them as a receipt. This receipt does not allow voters to prove how they voted to others, but it does permit them to: Verify that they have properly indicated their votes to election officials (cast-as-intended). Verify with extremely high assurance that all votes were counted properly (counted-as-cast).
You were saying what about "bring receit or find another job" ?
* Main question * Try to explain to us, why an electronic voting machine would ever be safer, less tamper-proof or in any way superior to an equally expensive internet-based voting alternative ?
* Context/argument * Today, internet banking is a wide-spread practice, and generally accepted as reasonably tamper-proof. A similar internet-based vote validation system should offer the same (or even better) reliability levels as any electronic voting machine could. The problem of tampering could be even further reduced by a single, nation-wide centralised "registered users" database, updated with birth/death and even criminal records. If perfected, such a system could actually allow "the people" to take a part in all of the State's public decision-making processes, in real-time. It would be infinitely more useful as a simple "voting machine", so the total costs could be much lower.
But most people ARE ignorant and lazy if not COERCED to behave otherwise. "Why The World is Not Ready for Linux" ?
Well, for once, because there's already enough people that can mess up something as simple as a Windows installation, and if you tell them the words "command prompt" they'll look at you and go "what command and why in such a hurry?". And because most people with a salary are having massive problems even getting used to the most intuitive and simplest of "new toys"... take for example the "oh noes how do I set my VCR clock" syndrome ?
In other words, the "World" isn't ready for Linux just BECAUSE people ARE lazy, ignorant and (I dare say) downright stupid, as a general rule.
Serve coffee as soon after brewing as possible. Coffee loses flavor and aroma quickly. If brewed coffee must be "held" on a direct heat source, it should be held at 185F, and for no longer than 20 minutes. Higher temperatures cause coffee to break down quickly, producing a bitter and flat taste. Lower temperatures make the brew too cold and consumers will be dissatisfied. Reheating brewed coffee breaks down the components of the coffee and results in an undesirable flavor.
Thermal servers are the best way to hold brewed coffee at the proper serving temperature because they are insulated, airtight, and no direct heat is applied to the coffee. Sealed containers prevent evaporation and retain aromatic compounds. The best insulated and sealed servers, if preheated with hot water, may hold coffee at acceptable serving temperatures for several hours.
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Is *anybody* taking SCO seriously nowadays anymore ? /. readers, I mean the "average Joe that heard of SCO once, in passing".
And I don't mean
Human greed and stupidity (or, in some cases, guillability). That properly explains just about everything.
Heh, good one. Next thing you know, they'll increase sales tax to around 2% minimum and even 10% max without skills, and file tax returns for you. But then again, this would mean the EVE economy must first become a realistically modeled economy (bye bye sinks and faucets) before that even has a chance to fly. ;)
I'm looking forward to tax-deductible charitable ISK donations to newbies, and anti-monopoly real-life lawsuits for T2 BPO owners
I don't have a problem with virtual jobs for real money, and I don't have a problem with the government taxing that.
But then again, if that happends, I do expect the governments to FORCE the MMOG companies to acknowledge in-game property as actual, personal user property, and allow in-game assets "conversion" to real money at any given time (as per supply and demand from other customers, not from the game company).
However, the actual value of the goods should be set as "zero" for ownership taxes only, so that simply owning a piece of virtual wealth does NOT mean you have to pay something simply for owning it... just if you try to sell it.
Parazphrasing from TFA, "they're not doing it any time soon, and only because it would be a monumental pain in the ass right now".
In other words, it would cost them more to try and enforce it as it would possibly bring them.
Just wait until we all use (almost) exclusively electronic currencies and "paper money" becomes a collector's item, and you WILL see governments taxing everything imaginable... that's what they TRY to do anyway.
As soon as in-game wealth CAN be used as an actual source of income in the real world, I have no problem with it being taxed. :P
But as long as that "wealth" stays online and never gets exchanged for real money coming into my pocket, stay the fuck away from my ISK and T2 blueprint copies
Well, to be honest, more of a "In communist education, teacher bullies you"... and that creates a sort of bonding between classmates and even schoolmates that you can otherwise only see in the armed forces.
Well, not quite as strong, but the underlying principle is the same: give the kids a "common enemy", one they hate, fear and also respect at the same time, one they are powerless against, so that they might come together in (passive) resistance against.
For space, we have that sensory ability to not only say "about 7m away" but also "due West".
:)
For time, right now, assuming time would be three-dimensional too, most/all humans just have the "seconds away" sense, not the "heading" too.
In case time is not just unidimensional (so it's not only a "time distance"), then if and only if you could somehow have a "time heading" sense, then you could have a humanly explainable equivalent.
Also true, no (scientifically or otherwise thoroughly) confirmed cases of anything "supernatural", that's why I called it a "far-fetched theory"
Well, what about a slight point of view shift instead ?
Do you ever think of yourself "well, this object is 3m away on the x axis, 4m away of the y axis, and 5 m away on the z axis" ? Or do you just think to yourself "this object is about 7m away" ? And then, your other senses tell you what direction the object is ?
So why assume whatever it is we call "time" is actually time, when instead it could be just as well the "time-like total distance", and we just lack the sensory equipment to differentiate (or orientate ourselves) in the 3-dimensional time-like variable ?
Now, we are moving almost in the realm of supernatural here (won't say tinfoilhattery... yet), but what if all "extraordinary abilities" some people pretend they have MIGHT actually be real to a certain degree, and the only thing differentiating a "normal" person from "them" is that they can somehow perceive at least one or both of the other "time-like" dimensions... and even "manipulate" matter independently alongside each of them ? To somebody who lacks the proper senses, it can appear as something impossible, when in fact it's just something unperceivable ?
Well, it's just a far-fetched theory, but who knows ?
Ok, I know I'll get flamed badly for this, but why the hell do you even HAVE bullies in the first place ?
Personally, I am a product of a communist regime education system that kept going almost unchanged for almost a decade after "the fall of communism" (winter 1989) in Romania, and to be honest, I *NEVER* actually met a real-life school bully, and none of my (rough) age group have either. Only recently (about 1995 and later) this whole "bully" issue actually started surfacing.
I can't quite put a finger on it, but it seems to me it's the system's fault bullies of ANY kind exist in the first place. Schools are places where kids should go to learn things, from abstract knowledge to social relations, and that includes RESPECT for eachother... but more importantly, their teachers.
The whole punishment system for "troublemakers" is even stupider... suspenstion or expulsion ? Who the fuck are you kidding ? That's not PUNISHMENT for a troublemaker, it's punishment for his parents. A troublemaker would love nothing more as getting expelled, even if it means "trouble at home".
Physical punishment, one of the big "no-noes" of "modern western civilisation" is also a stupid concept, beyond belief. I got spanked and slapped around for stupid things I did, and I din't end up a murderer, nor have I hated my parents or my teachers for doing that.
If anything, it made me comprehend faster that I did a bad thing, and that I will HAVE to do whatever I was supposed to be doing afterwards, after being punished. Teachers should not be stopped from administering non-harmful physical punishment, they should even be encouraged to have THAT as PRIMARY means of discipline.
You hurt a classmate on school grounds, you disrupt the class, or you're just not paying attention in class... hell yes, you deserve a fucking slap on your cheek, a ruler slammed into your palm, or even a boot up your ass. And then, you DON'T go to detention, you're not getting suspended, you don't get to go home or stay home for a few days... oh no, you get to go back to your seat, pay attention to the class, or even get to the blackboard and get a GRADE for what you know (or rather said, prove you don't know) from whatever was just thought. And you get the same treatment over and over again until you comply: stop being disruptive, and LEARN something for a change.
But no, I guess "western public school system" is nothing about teaching the kids anything (let alone proper respect for their fellow students, or god forbid their teachers), it's just about getting them out of their parent's hair for the duration of the day, teaching them jackshit and grinding out endless rows of drones primed for manual labor and with an archaic, downright primitive mindset.
I have this feeling you would not have bosses with glowing weak spots when exposed. Now, that's boss material. ...wait, we're not talking consoles here are we, Jake ?
1992, ??? : Dune 2, the FIRST actual RTS.
Annoying to play because you had to move one unit at a time. Still, a major success in '92. I know I couldn't stop playing. Drawback ? Single-player only.
1994, January 15 : Warcraft (I), the first MULTIPLAYER RTS.
The only big improvement over Dune 2 was the fact that you could select a whooping 4 units at the same time and move them together.
Oh, and it was a lot heavier on the comedic effect, and set in a fantasy world. Meh.
1995, August 31 : Command & Conquer, the first DECENT multiplayer RTS.
The gameplay much more intense and diverse as Warcraft, the singleplayer campaigns were engaging, cinematics were downright cool, and the multiplayer mode was also very well handled.
Not only that, but it featured a major improvement that not even most of today's RTSs have: you could select and group a HUGE number of units, and control them at the same time. That alone provided the diversity, I can recall winning countless single and multiplayer scenarios by sheer numbers of infantry focused fire alone.
1995, December 9 : Warcraft II
While this game was a big leap from the first Warcraft in terms of visual eyecandy and comedic effect, it still persisted in the limited "squad" selection (max 9 units) that even Starcraft would use much later on (12 units).
Personally, I was seriously dissapointed by Warcraft 2, and played C&C almost exclusively.
No matter how you put it, Warcraft does not deserve the "title".
It's either Dune 2, or it's Command and Conquer.
The Romanian term for "checkmate" is pronounced almost exactly like "shah maat" would be pronounced (written "ah-mat").
It was always the common understanding this means "the king is disabled" or "king is incapacitated", or at worst "king is captured"... and never "king is dead" or anything like that.
EVE-Online
Have been playing it since early this year, never looked back to any other graphical MMOG.
I still casually play some browser/text-mainly not-so-massively multiplayer online games, but that's about it.
Or, you know, you could try to get your hands on some "vintage" oscilloscopes (should be dirt-cheap) and use THEM as basis for your "machine".
As a kid, I had more than my fair share of fun with some pretty old ('70s or so) osci's at my dad's workplace (electrical engineering).
Why REPLACE a drive when you can ADD a drive ?
Besides, whoever already said "the older a drive is, the least likely it is to get broken" got it pretty right.
And, as for "permanent storage"... why would you EVER trust your HDD and your HDD only to "keep data safe" ?
Everything that's critical (and not so secret) goes as soon as possible on a backup CD/DVD (the more the merrier), on other home/office computers, even on memory sticks or whatever other removable media you might have at hand... and if possible, also some remote (and remotely accessible) location.
Or you could do it the "really tough guy way"... you know, the way of "I don't make backups, I put it online and let everybody else mirror it".
But... put back slashdot how it used to be a few days ago.
It's almost completely unusable now !
I want back NESTED comments !!!
Actually, extending your reason, you can prove why PHYSICAL presence, completely "secret", one-day-only VOTING IN GENERAL can't work at all.
Or heck, that VOTING itself is useless. Here's how you can infer that.
First of all, either in a "pencil-and-paper only" ballot counting process or in an electronic type of voting, you still have to rely on the fact that the actual physical papers you have there ARE the papers the voters have placed in the box... or in the other case, that the individual vote count is the actual vote count. The tampering is probably harder to pull off in the physical ballot form, but it's still there.
As long as the vote is SECRET (as in, not even you can verify WHAT you were recorded to have voted), you have to place your trust in a "tamperable with" system.
If you do NOT have a secret vote, you can end up with vote sales or even worse, vote cohercion.
Which of the alternatives is worse (trusting but not knowing if your vote was correctly registered vs being able to verify but therefore also not having the safety secrecy offers), now that's up to you to decide. IMHO, both options are lacking, badly. And I can't possibly conceive a system in which both conditions are met (absolutrely no trust needed, always able to verify personal vote, secrecy preserved).
You also have to rely on the fact nobody voted in two (or more) places at the same time, in other words only accept a certain name on a certain list, where people HAVE to be physically present there and only there and identify themselves.
This means two things: you have a huge line-up of people that WANT to vote in certain precints but are physically incapable to (due to long waiting lines, exhaustion or just not enough patience), as opposed to places where people just don't care about voting and precints are nearly empty.
Extending the voting period could mean ample time to allow tampering, allowing voting out of precint can lead to double/multiple votes.
Allowing "mail-in" (or simply internet-based) voting could be as easily tampered with as any other method, just in different ways.
All in all, you reach the conclusion that no matter HOW you vote, your votes CAN be tampered with, no matter how hard you try.
It's only a problem of how willing are you to spend exponentially more money to increase the security of the vote just a little bit (and not even guaranteed to increase the security/accuracy of it).
You're equally better/worse off by simply having representatives (and even the president) elected via a lottery system instead.
What ?
You mean that the measuringness of the popularityness of the interestingness of a something has a truthiness value of accuracyness that's not relevantlynessy enough for you ?
GVI format and conversion
.avi files, are modified Audio Video Interleave (.avi) files that have an extra list containing the FourCC "goog" immediately following the header. The video is encoded in DivX4 alongside an MP3 audio stream. DivX video players can render .gvi Google Video Files without format conversion (after changing the extension from .gvi to .avi, although this method of just renaming the file extension does not work with videos purchased with DRM to protect it from piracy). Among other software VirtualDub is able to read .gvi files and allows the user to convert them into different formats of choice. There are also privately developed software solutions, such as GVideo Fix, that can convert them to .avi format without recompression. MEncoder with "-oac copy -ovc copy" as parameters also suffices.
Google Video Files (.gvi), and latterly its
Very simple conversion with no program
It is Simple to convert a GVI or GVP file. 1st download file, then open file with notepad. There will be a URL address. You copythe URL into your browser then you get a download window from google server for files real format AVI mpep wmv ect.
Well, see, you probably COULDN'T "borrow a book on NPR theory at the library", because there was only ONE book ever published on the subject (by the same person who wrote the majority of edits on the "to be deleted" Wikipedia entry), a book published in 1985 and long-since out of print.
Now still think there's anything wrong with deleting that article ?
You were saying what about "bring receit or find another job" ?
* Main question *
Try to explain to us, why an electronic voting machine would ever be safer, less tamper-proof or in any way superior to an equally expensive internet-based voting alternative ?
* Context/argument *
Today, internet banking is a wide-spread practice, and generally accepted as reasonably tamper-proof.
A similar internet-based vote validation system should offer the same (or even better) reliability levels as any electronic voting machine could.
The problem of tampering could be even further reduced by a single, nation-wide centralised "registered users" database, updated with birth/death and even criminal records.
If perfected, such a system could actually allow "the people" to take a part in all of the State's public decision-making processes, in real-time. It would be infinitely more useful as a simple "voting machine", so the total costs could be much lower.
But most people ARE ignorant and lazy if not COERCED to behave otherwise.
"Why The World is Not Ready for Linux" ?
Well, for once, because there's already enough people that can mess up something as simple as a Windows installation, and if you tell them the words "command prompt" they'll look at you and go "what command and why in such a hurry?".
And because most people with a salary are having massive problems even getting used to the most intuitive and simplest of "new toys"... take for example the "oh noes how do I set my VCR clock" syndrome ?
In other words, the "World" isn't ready for Linux just BECAUSE people ARE lazy, ignorant and (I dare say) downright stupid, as a general rule.
Well, off-topic enough already... but... I don't think that's "as MacDonalds say", it's the PROPER way.
http://www.boyds.com/coffee/brewingguide.html
Serving
Serve coffee as soon after brewing as possible. Coffee loses flavor and aroma quickly. If brewed coffee must be "held" on a direct heat source, it should be held at 185F, and for no longer than 20 minutes. Higher temperatures cause coffee to break down quickly, producing a bitter and flat taste. Lower temperatures make the brew too cold and consumers will be dissatisfied. Reheating brewed coffee breaks down the components of the coffee and results in an undesirable flavor.
Thermal servers are the best way to hold brewed coffee at the proper serving temperature because they are insulated, airtight, and no direct heat is applied to the coffee. Sealed containers prevent evaporation and retain aromatic compounds. The best insulated and sealed servers, if preheated with hot water, may hold coffee at acceptable serving temperatures for several hours.