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i) "How serious" people take voting has nothing to do with how the people vote. It has to do with how important they think their vote is, and their knowledge of the candidates. Lets look at California. They didnt vote on the Internet. Enough said. (no disrespect to arnold, but seriously)
ii) Anyone can use a pay-phone or public internet. I know in Ontario every library has 5-500 internet accessable computers, and on election day they could reserve them for elections.
Democracy is based on a large number of people voting, the majority. Lets say 50% of people vote for candidate A and he wins. Now lets say only 50% of people voted. Thats not a true majority, only 25% of the population wanted that person in office.
Id rather see 100% of people vote, and the dude get 50% of the votes.
oh dear god I just fell out of my non-motorized chair laughing at that.
The motorized wheelchairs are a huge seller due to laziness, not handicap. You dont have to advertise for the handicap, they come looking for you! (no soviet russia comments please)
But seriously, just the old and the lazy buy those wheelchairs off of the commercials. I saw some perfectly abled person actually lift one of those out of a rut (yes, like seinfeld with george running with his)
Massive advertising, and few people actually using the free songs that they recieve. I cant imagine my grandparents using iTunes. They would be afraid of anything named iPod.
So...my goal will be to collect as many of these as possible, and donate them to people the RIAA is suing. They can delete their songs, and then redownload them at a better quality, all while avoiding the lawsuits.
Either DARPA UNDERestimated the actual number of teams that actually **applied to compete**, or they OVERestimated the actual number of teams that actually **can actually participate**.
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose pen you use
Now it's time to write in the capsule if you dare
That 80% efficiency simply sounded too good to be true, and it was.
Now its at 44%. Thats not a small drop, thats a MASSIVE drop.
They didnt predict any loss in going from a small subset to the whole system? Or was it a publicity stunt (we can outperform everyone! our names are __________!)
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Answers i) "How serious" people take voting has nothing to do with how the people vote. It has to do with how important they think their vote is, and their knowledge of the candidates. Lets look at California. They didnt vote on the Internet. Enough said. (no disrespect to arnold, but seriously)
ii) Anyone can use a pay-phone or public internet. I know in Ontario every library has 5-500 internet accessable computers, and on election day they could reserve them for elections.
Democracy is based on a large number of people voting, the majority. Lets say 50% of people vote for candidate A and he wins. Now lets say only 50% of people voted. Thats not a true majority, only 25% of the population wanted that person in office.
Id rather see 100% of people vote, and the dude get 50% of the votes.
Who cares about the US?
55% is low for canada, and other countries across the world
And we would like to get these numbers up, even if they are higher than american numbers.
I mean, not all countries want to be like the US, and their lack of voting and other things I dont want to bother getting into.
But lets leave the US out of this. The numbers are low for ontario, so the numbers are low.
oh dear god I just fell out of my non-motorized chair laughing at that.
The motorized wheelchairs are a huge seller due to laziness, not handicap. You dont have to advertise for the handicap, they come looking for you! (no soviet russia comments please)
But seriously, just the old and the lazy buy those wheelchairs off of the commercials. I saw some perfectly abled person actually lift one of those out of a rut (yes, like seinfeld with george running with his)
"Just because wheelchairs are fast doesn't mean you'd benefit from one..."
You know if you could get one under your company health plan, you would have one.
And the fastest, meanest one out there. And beat the real handicapped people to the best parking spots to unload that baby.
Ill tempered bass :)
Good to know in the future we can beat up crips with their own hands still...
Even if we have to hack their implants
I claimed I could beat the smartest man in the world at unreal tourney.
Now they have to go and take that from me.
Now, sharks can control those laser beams on their heads too!
The good part will be for McDonalds.
Massive advertising, and few people actually using the free songs that they recieve. I cant imagine my grandparents using iTunes. They would be afraid of anything named iPod.
So...my goal will be to collect as many of these as possible, and donate them to people the RIAA is suing. They can delete their songs, and then redownload them at a better quality, all while avoiding the lawsuits.
Wow. An idea that makes sense.
Why the hell dont they do that now? ATMS print reciepts!
Touch screen - choose canditate
Print result - was this correct?
If not correct...if so drop it in the box and hit yes
Yay for voting
I cant believe how craptastic my schools servers performed
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Either DARPA UNDERestimated the actual number of teams that actually **applied to compete**, or they OVERestimated the actual number of teams that actually **can actually participate**.
Actually.
Eat BETTER, not neccessarily less, and excercise more.
Eating too little can cause your body's metabolism to go way down and store all extra energy in the body as fat.
Up here in Canada....
We use the bark/pine cone method
If you like the "liberal" you put a piece of bark in the bin, if you like the "conservative" you put a pine cone in the bin.
The only problem is, it tends to get a bit heavy once all 100 people vote, and finding bark and pine cones in all the snow is tricky at best.
We were looking at a new method of voting, and after reading the memos, I think we found the right people.
This is Ground Control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose pen you use Now it's time to write in the capsule if you dare
I like how google toolbar says how many popups blocked. In about a month, mines at 2002 blocked.
Thats a lot of hassle avoided.
That 80% efficiency simply sounded too good to be true, and it was.
Now its at 44%. Thats not a small drop, thats a MASSIVE drop.
They didnt predict any loss in going from a small subset to the whole system? Or was it a publicity stunt (we can outperform everyone! our names are __________!)
You have a technical background?
What did you learn in your ripe old age of 22?
And do you even have any employees?
You obviously dont have a spell checker or a web developer.
He is 22, and doesnt even have a business or network.
What can you expect.
Kirk is 22. Frank doesnt have a phone.
:)
Do they have any employees? Who is the old dude on the website
Do not insult secondary student kids, by comparing his skills to theirs. His level of mastery of the english language is at the Grade 3 level.
Im glad he learned to read last year, so he can post on slashdot.
Frank C. Bailey and Kirk A. Fickert are better known as little Franky and Kirky.
the car has better acceleration than a ferrari.
you do not need that commuting on long island.
Whose average commute is longer than 100 miles?
:P
And when you are sitting in traffic, do you need to go 0-60 in 4.1 seconds?
Why can cars with a relatively low range not be used for commuting to and from work?
No, its not racist.
Its like calling the US the stars and stripes.
Or Canada the maple leaf or something
The description of the flag, a national symbol, is from what I know not racist whatsoever.
Come on now...
you can download britney on these????
AND SHES SINGLE?
sweet.
Yep.
Step 2 is the cost of not cleaning up all the pollution from the current system.
which is 10000-fold higher than the economic/environmental costs of the new system