At east the voter is required to make a conscious decision to cast an invalid vote. The lack of a decision isn't due to apathy.
Yes true, but it brings up two important questions:
How do you cast an invalid vote with an electronic voting machine?
Can you cast an invalid vote on an electronic voting machine?
Also, it is illegal not to register to vote once you are 18 years old.
I don't believe this is true. In fact I was once unregistered (in 1975) and I didn't reregister for many years. There is no penalty for not being registered. Of course once you are registered you can't unregister yourself. Only the government can do that.
Incidentally, the Australian system requires you by law to vote. Maybe that's something the US ought to consider importing too. Argue if you want about being free to NOT vote, but voting is a duty, not just a right, and you should be compelled to do it. Just like you are to report to training if you get drafted, or filing a tax return--you're not free to refuse either of those without legal consequences, right?
Errr no it doesn't. It requires you to go to a polling booth and take a ballot paper and give it back and only requires that if you're registered to vote.
Based on the idea that "Knoppix is just Debian" I've been trying to install Debian on a PC where Knoppix just plain works. It's driving me nuts. The network install tells me the network card isn't there even though I point it to the right driver (out of 2-3 cryptically-named choices for a RealTek compatible.) I have a slight idea of the appropriate driver options after I boot into Windows and record the interrupts and such Windows sees. Still no luck.
Just like the Asian economic crisis and probably many other bubbles before that, it was created by people (like banks) with huge amounts of money looking for somewhere to put it. This is the real problem. (Well, when they take it back)
The market is probably just starting to get over it's reverse hype of technology after the dotcom bubble burst.
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Yes true, but it brings up two important questions:
Also, it is illegal not to register to vote once you are 18 years old.
I don't believe this is true. In fact I was once unregistered (in 1975) and I didn't reregister for many years. There is no penalty for not being registered. Of course once you are registered you can't unregister yourself. Only the government can do that.
Incidentally, the Australian system requires you by law to vote. Maybe that's something the US ought to consider importing too. Argue if you want about being free to NOT vote, but voting is a duty, not just a right, and you should be compelled to do it. Just like you are to report to training if you get drafted, or filing a tax return--you're not free to refuse either of those without legal consequences, right?
Errr no it doesn't. It requires you to go to a polling booth and take a ballot paper and give it back and only requires that if you're registered to vote.
"hd_install" command in knoppix.
Technically it was a worm but in reality it was a hack. An automated hack. One of the features of Windows is that it allow hacks to be automated.
Just like the Asian economic crisis and probably many other bubbles before that, it was created by people (like banks) with huge amounts of money looking for somewhere to put it. This is the real problem. (Well, when they take it back)
The market is probably just starting to get over it's reverse hype of technology after the dotcom bubble burst.