Why don't we have a text, and spoken confirmation of each choice? "You have selected John Clusoe for the position of: Vice Chancellor, Are you sure [Yes] [No]". Seems like every other piece of computer software we use does this.
I also think we should have some system of voting receipts, such as a confirmation code. You can vote, get your confirmation code receipt, and then check a website to see if your vote got recorded properly. This would retain the anonymity, but also provide SOME level of transparency. The way we have right now, and the way it has always been, we cast our vote and have NO idea if it's ever counted in the total or not.
It saddens me that the debate is over small percentages. Won't anyone speak up and say that the existence of income tax goes against the American ideas of freedom? The assumption that the government owns a piece of everything you make or own, and then out of the good of their own hearts allow you to have some of it is seriously wrong.
Everyone likes to say that "oh, but then the government won't have any money", but that's already happening. Not all tax revenue comes from the income tax, and not all money spent by the government these days comes from taxes.
My laptop suspends to disk around the same time as it suspends to ram, so if it was sleeping and you yanked my battery it would just mean an extra 10 or so seconds to wake it up.
A few things to know....
These codes being released will not allow you to be able to program your car, you're not gonna have a GNUHonda, it's just gonna allow you to see what the problems are.
It also does not mean that youre gonna be able to just go to a webpage and download a program and just be able to work on your car in your garage.
what it does mean is still great though.
take the Porsche Boxter for example,
normally when one comes into the shop you need the Porsche diagnostic tool to be able to reset the computer, which costs $14,000 and only works on a specific model.
The availability of these codes means that other companies will be making these tools, so instead of paying Porsche $14,000 you would pay Snap-On around $1,000-3.000.
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For me the debates ended when FISA and then the bailouts passed. What do we have to look forward to when we're told to pick the lesser of two evils?
Makes me think of Douglas Adams' "But why do they vote for the lizards?" "Because otherwise the wrong lizard might get in."
Why don't we have a text, and spoken confirmation of each choice? "You have selected John Clusoe for the position of: Vice Chancellor, Are you sure [Yes] [No]". Seems like every other piece of computer software we use does this.
I also think we should have some system of voting receipts, such as a confirmation code. You can vote, get your confirmation code receipt, and then check a website to see if your vote got recorded properly. This would retain the anonymity, but also provide SOME level of transparency. The way we have right now, and the way it has always been, we cast our vote and have NO idea if it's ever counted in the total or not.
It saddens me that the debate is over small percentages. Won't anyone speak up and say that the existence of income tax goes against the American ideas of freedom? The assumption that the government owns a piece of everything you make or own, and then out of the good of their own hearts allow you to have some of it is seriously wrong. Everyone likes to say that "oh, but then the government won't have any money", but that's already happening. Not all tax revenue comes from the income tax, and not all money spent by the government these days comes from taxes.
My laptop suspends to disk around the same time as it suspends to ram, so if it was sleeping and you yanked my battery it would just mean an extra 10 or so seconds to wake it up.
I dont mean to be a jerk, however anyone notice this was posted on April Fools? Wouldn't it be on every news station around the country?
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A few things to know.... These codes being released will not allow you to be able to program your car, you're not gonna have a GNUHonda, it's just gonna allow you to see what the problems are. It also does not mean that youre gonna be able to just go to a webpage and download a program and just be able to work on your car in your garage. what it does mean is still great though. take the Porsche Boxter for example, normally when one comes into the shop you need the Porsche diagnostic tool to be able to reset the computer, which costs $14,000 and only works on a specific model. The availability of these codes means that other companies will be making these tools, so instead of paying Porsche $14,000 you would pay Snap-On around $1,000-3.000.