You could always adopt the "mostly" secret voting system we have in the UK. ALl our ballot papers have a number on them that's recorded against the name of a voter. This means that your voting record can be discovered, but in reality it only happens (for instance) if you're applying for a sensitive government job. The number of people with the ability to do this is very small, so the vote selling and coercion arguments don't apply.
The main problem is, though, that people lie about how they voted. The best example of this was after our 1992 election when the Tories (who won with a 29 majority) would have been returned with a majority of well over 100 if people had really voted the way they claimed they had. If we'd had any kind of check on the ballot papers it would have looked like there had been huge ballot-stuffing by the opposition.
You seem to have missed the concept of public service. The fact that you don't, say, listen to digital radio is offset by the other people who do listen to it, but don't watch very much TV because they travel a lot.
Personally, I don't watch any of the makeover shows, but I'm grateful to the people who do, whose license fees pay for Radio 4.
It really doesn't matter who plays whom. What's more worrying is that Adams' script is being rewritten. HHGTTG is probably the finest comedy written thus far in human history and the idea that somebody could do better than DNA is tantamount to heresy.
The main reason the film has never been made is that Adams was never happy with what Hollywod was offering. Do we really thing he'd be happy with some droid scriptwriter massacring his work?
If The Powers That Be didn't like DNA's script, they don't deserve to benefit from it.
I keep fit by smoking as many cigarettes as possible as fast as possible.
It doesn't keep you slim, but if you smoke 'em *really* fast, you get these pretty sparkling lights that really take your mind off being fat.
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The main problem is, though, that people lie about how they voted. The best example of this was after our 1992 election when the Tories (who won with a 29 majority) would have been returned with a majority of well over 100 if people had really voted the way they claimed they had. If we'd had any kind of check on the ballot papers it would have looked like there had been huge ballot-stuffing by the opposition.
You seem to have missed the concept of public service. The fact that you don't, say, listen to digital radio is offset by the other people who do listen to it, but don't watch very much TV because they travel a lot. Personally, I don't watch any of the makeover shows, but I'm grateful to the people who do, whose license fees pay for Radio 4.
Just in time for Gates' Law to be maintained with the next version of Windows...
Damn. And the first "477" should have been "411" too. I guess these script kiddies are just too clever for me!
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It really doesn't matter who plays whom. What's more worrying is that Adams' script is being rewritten. HHGTTG is probably the finest comedy written thus far in human history and the idea that somebody could do better than DNA is tantamount to heresy.
The main reason the film has never been made is that Adams was never happy with what Hollywod was offering. Do we really thing he'd be happy with some droid scriptwriter massacring his work?
If The Powers That Be didn't like DNA's script, they don't deserve to benefit from it.
I keep fit by smoking as many cigarettes as possible as fast as possible. It doesn't keep you slim, but if you smoke 'em *really* fast, you get these pretty sparkling lights that really take your mind off being fat.