Melvil Dewey (or, as he spelled it, "Dui"), inventor of the Dewey Decimal system, tried this. Basically everyone agreed that he was a nutcase and should stick to library science.
It has about as much chance of being adopted as the metric system, of which he was also a big supporter, does in the US.
Quite frankly, anyone who prefers their candidate winning to a fair election is about as un-American as you can get. Why not just support seizing power in a military coup and declaring the Constitution null and void? It'd be a hell of a lot more honest than supporting a system that makes fraudulent elections possible if not likely.
Besides, a smart Republican will see that an electronic election system with no paper trail is as vulnerable to manipulation by left-wing crackers as it is to manipulation by right-wing corporate insiders. Either way, there's no way to verify the result.
Diebold gives money to Bush. 200,000 so far. Not a good idea for a Bush supporter to diss them.
Why not? Do you think they'll stop giving him money if one of his supporters expresses a reasonable opinion about how the election system should be transparent?
Well I don't know about your area, but here we have a Maxisaver theater that shows second-run films for $1 from pretty much the time they leave the real theaters until 2 weeks after their DVD release.
But who says you have a right to view a movie when the owner of it doesn't want you to? How am I supposed to see the original Mona Lisa at 4am on a Sunday if I want to?
People want stuff that they can own, and DRM isn't it.
Neither is buying a CD. If you want to own the music, sign the fucking band to an exclusive contract to write and perform the music for you. Or buy a guitar and make your own.
Your "point," if you can call it that, was about copying from VCR to VCR, and you were completely wrong.
I realize that on Slashdot people can't be expected to read the parent comments of what they're replying to, but you could at least read your own comments before you accuse someone of misrepresenting them.
Dragging the certificate icon to my desktop just gives me a text clipping of it, which the keychain won't import properly.
I also found a tip somewhere that involved using certtool on the actual certificate (which is on my local machine anyway since it's for a locally-running imapd), but Mail.app just keeps asking for the certificate again even though it's in the keychain.
The difference is that Hamlet was actually written to be performed, so performing it as it's written makes sense. LoTR was written to be read, and any dramatic version of it other than having a guy sitting in front of a camera reading the book is going to be missing something.
Ok, are you talking about the products that block radiation with a material that it can't pass through (the same theory as lining walls with lead) or the completely fraudulent products that claim to block EM radiation from your cellphone from giving you brain cancer (the same theory behind tin foil hats)?
Dells aren't PCs, because they're not made by IBM. Please type out "PC-Compatible" instead of PC every time you use the term, or you are lying in whatever claim you are making.
Which is why I say it fuels consumerism, same thing in as many words.;) (I cancelled my cable as there is so little useful information on TV these days)
Then it's probably time to cancel your net access too.
That's a suggestion, not a requirement. You don't think large blocs of voters always vote a straight party line regardless of individual candidate's positions?
And is everyone just supposed to abstain from elections for minor offices where there's no press coverage of the candidates positions because no one could possibly care about every candidate for every office when they're voting for like 20 different positions, most of which have no discernable effect on the voters' lives?
That's right, I voted for the Democratic candidate for Prothonotary last week even though I have no idea what the hell a Prothonotary is supposed to do or who the candidates were.
They were fabricating stories long before the Times. It's just that no one makes a big deal about it since they never believed them in the first place.
Making better food would be a much more brilliant way to boost sales.
It was really amusing a couple of years ago when they pretended they'd just invented the idea of making your food when you order it instead of half an hour before you arrive.
A settlement is not a "solid verdict" and "guilty" is not a judgement in a civil case even when its not settled. Microsoft was not convicted of anything in California.
You have to love a moderation system where a comment that is completely inaccurate in every way can be modded "insightful."
Shipping things from the moon to the earth would be very cheap in comparison to the cost of actually getting mining equipment there in the first place. Once you've spent the huge amounts of money it would take to get set up, the cost of shipping back would be tiny in comparison.
On the other hand, there's pretty much no way the costs of getting the equipment there in the first place would ever be recouped from mining proceeds.
Well, considering there's nothing on the moon that people can eat and it would all have to be imported, it's a pretty good bet that every tourist trip to the moon would add to its mass. So no, it doesn't make one think.
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It has about as much chance of being adopted as the metric system, of which he was also a big supporter, does in the US.
Besides, a smart Republican will see that an electronic election system with no paper trail is as vulnerable to manipulation by left-wing crackers as it is to manipulation by right-wing corporate insiders. Either way, there's no way to verify the result.
Why not? Do you think they'll stop giving him money if one of his supporters expresses a reasonable opinion about how the election system should be transparent?
Ted Turner has not owned a media outlet for years, asshat.
Otherwise, I'd think it's fairly obvious that US law doesn't apply at all in Canada.
But who says you have a right to view a movie when the owner of it doesn't want you to? How am I supposed to see the original Mona Lisa at 4am on a Sunday if I want to?
damn internet.
There are literally an infinite number of sites like www.riaaradar.com, now that VeriSign isn't hijacking NXDOMAIN responses.
Neither is buying a CD. If you want to own the music, sign the fucking band to an exclusive contract to write and perform the music for you. Or buy a guitar and make your own.
I realize that on Slashdot people can't be expected to read the parent comments of what they're replying to, but you could at least read your own comments before you accuse someone of misrepresenting them.
I also found a tip somewhere that involved using certtool on the actual certificate (which is on my local machine anyway since it's for a locally-running imapd), but Mail.app just keeps asking for the certificate again even though it's in the keychain.
The difference is that Hamlet was actually written to be performed, so performing it as it's written makes sense. LoTR was written to be read, and any dramatic version of it other than having a guy sitting in front of a camera reading the book is going to be missing something.
Ok, are you talking about the products that block radiation with a material that it can't pass through (the same theory as lining walls with lead) or the completely fraudulent products that claim to block EM radiation from your cellphone from giving you brain cancer (the same theory behind tin foil hats)?
Dells aren't PCs, because they're not made by IBM. Please type out "PC-Compatible" instead of PC every time you use the term, or you are lying in whatever claim you are making.
Then it's probably time to cancel your net access too.
And is everyone just supposed to abstain from elections for minor offices where there's no press coverage of the candidates positions because no one could possibly care about every candidate for every office when they're voting for like 20 different positions, most of which have no discernable effect on the voters' lives?
That's right, I voted for the Democratic candidate for Prothonotary last week even though I have no idea what the hell a Prothonotary is supposed to do or who the candidates were.
[x] You have greatly misunderstood the purpose of quotation marks.
I liked when they claimed Mario Lemieux was going to sell the Penguins so he could be traded to the Rangers. That was some quality reporting there.
They were fabricating stories long before the Times. It's just that no one makes a big deal about it since they never believed them in the first place.
It was really amusing a couple of years ago when they pretended they'd just invented the idea of making your food when you order it instead of half an hour before you arrive.
You have to love a moderation system where a comment that is completely inaccurate in every way can be modded "insightful."
On the other hand, there's pretty much no way the costs of getting the equipment there in the first place would ever be recouped from mining proceeds.
Well, considering there's nothing on the moon that people can eat and it would all have to be imported, it's a pretty good bet that every tourist trip to the moon would add to its mass. So no, it doesn't make one think.
The vast majority of music on iTMS is available as the entire albums, as they were released on CD.
If you blow a dog whistle in the forest, and there are no dogs around to hear it, does it make a sound?