I seriously think we need to start a grass-roots movement here. The trend to switch to electronic voting is inevitable, but it is imperative that we switch to an open-source model, as the example you have shown above clearly demonstrates. The key to this is demonstrating the need of using open-source software to our elected officials. I recently wrote a blog on convincing the government to give open source software a greater role in the democratic process.
How would limiting the number of hours per week a corporation is permitted to force an individual to work increase unemployment? If anything, this change will force corporations to hire more individual workers, which you think would decrease unemployment?
You could argue that this will negatively affect the national economy, limiting our ability to compete in the global economy. This is madness. For decades, many European nations have enjoyed shorter workweeks. Here in the United States, corporations are squeezing every last drop of efficiency from their workers, in an effort to maximize profits. Rather than switching to the European model, the United States is forcing European nations to increase their workweeks to keep up. This is unnacceptable.
The answer is open source. If the direct democracy tool is developed as a completely transparent open source application, you can be sure that your vote will be untraceable. I just recently wrote a pretty in-depth article on the topic, on my blog, entitled Improving Democracy, on my blog groupThink.
I can guarantee that there would be many open source developers interested in working on this project, and examining the code to make sure it is secure. In fact, I believe this could be the killer open source app which could prove to the general public that open source does indeed work.
I second the nod for Devo. He was a huge part of the World Champion Toronto Blue Jays of the early 90s. I don't really watch baseball anymore, but I will always remember the way Devon made specatular plays look routine.
He actually once initiated an apprent triple play during the world series against Atlanta one year, by making an unbelievable catch at the wall. The play was mis-called by the umpire, but I believe it may have otherwise been the only triple play in world series history.
Unfortunately, the mac notebook still only has one button on the touchpad. Any time I pick up my fiances laptop, that fact alone makes me scream in frustration. Until they switch to a modern mouse by default, I won't even consider a mac.
I have the exact same problem at my workplace. At 12 PM everyday, a Norton Real-Time Virus Scan would kick off, rendering the computer useless for the rest of the day. IMHO, Antivirus software is worse than the actual viruses. After a couple days of that, I realized I could start the problem by restarting the "Symantec Antivirus Client" service. Once restarted, the computer returned to my control.
As far as successful TN applications go, I am 5 for 7, working as a Systems Analyst for 3 seperate companies. Both times my application was rejected, I was able to have the company mail me a revised letter which was accepted. To me, it seems like the INS workers have started to scrutinize the applications quite a bit more during the past year.
Establishing credit history in the US is crucial, and can be quite frustrating. I've now worked in the US for four years. I've been able to purchase a car, and get an apartment, but I have been unable to obtain a credit card.
A friend of mine recently informed me that MBNA Corporation was able to use his Canadian credit history when he applied for a US credit card.
I too work in the United States as a Candian citizen under TN Status. The best source of information about the process for me was the Grasmick message boards:
http://grasmick.com/board/?topic=topic1
This site also offers an entire 500 page book on the subject, although I haven't personally looked at it:
http://www.grasmick.com/handbook.htm
(Grasmick's TN Handbook for Canadians)
I'm originally from Sault Ste Marie, and it is indeed "Northern Ontario". Toronto gets about a foot of snow per year. Sault Ste. Marie is about 350 miles north of Toronto. We would routinely get temperatures around -30 Celcius (-22 F). We once had six feet of snowfall in 48 hours.
.NET is smarter about library versioning...
I worked for a company developing a 3rd party add-on to one of Microsoft's flagship.NET projects (Microsoft CRM). Microsoft CRM was written for the 1.0 Framework. After a few months, the 1.1 Framework came out. After installed the new framework on our server, CRM completely quit working. We contacted CRM Support on this issue, and they commanded us to immediately uninstall the 1.1 framework. This was frustrating because we were in the process of developing another app on the same server that required 1.1.
Microsoft has all this literature on how the 1.0 and 1.1 framework will run side-by-side, and how you can easily instruct your application on which version of the framework it should use, but their own product couldn't get around this issue. We waited for 8 months for them to release some sort of patch to get around this issue, but it was never solved.
According to this article....
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/30Jan2004_news29.h tml...some variants of MyDoom.B will execute without opening the attachment. This may become a big problem with the built-in preview panes in Otulook/Outlook Express.
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I seriously think we need to start a grass-roots movement here. The trend to switch to electronic voting is inevitable, but it is imperative that we switch to an open-source model, as the example you have shown above clearly demonstrates. The key to this is demonstrating the need of using open-source software to our elected officials. I recently wrote a blog on convincing the government to give open source software a greater role in the democratic process.
How would limiting the number of hours per week a corporation is permitted to force an individual to work increase unemployment? If anything, this change will force corporations to hire more individual workers, which you think would decrease unemployment?
You could argue that this will negatively affect the national economy, limiting our ability to compete in the global economy. This is madness. For decades, many European nations have enjoyed shorter workweeks. Here in the United States, corporations are squeezing every last drop of efficiency from their workers, in an effort to maximize profits. Rather than switching to the European model, the United States is forcing European nations to increase their workweeks to keep up. This is unnacceptable.
The answer is open source. If the direct democracy tool is developed as a completely transparent open source application, you can be sure that your vote will be untraceable. I just recently wrote a pretty in-depth article on the topic, on my blog, entitled Improving Democracy, on my blog groupThink.
I can guarantee that there would be many open source developers interested in working on this project, and examining the code to make sure it is secure. In fact, I believe this could be the killer open source app which could prove to the general public that open source does indeed work.
I second the nod for Devo. He was a huge part of the World Champion Toronto Blue Jays of the early 90s. I don't really watch baseball anymore, but I will always remember the way Devon made specatular plays look routine. He actually once initiated an apprent triple play during the world series against Atlanta one year, by making an unbelievable catch at the wall. The play was mis-called by the umpire, but I believe it may have otherwise been the only triple play in world series history.
Unfortunately, the mac notebook still only has one button on the touchpad. Any time I pick up my fiances laptop, that fact alone makes me scream in frustration. Until they switch to a modern mouse by default, I won't even consider a mac.
I have the exact same problem at my workplace. At 12 PM everyday, a Norton Real-Time Virus Scan would kick off, rendering the computer useless for the rest of the day. IMHO, Antivirus software is worse than the actual viruses. After a couple days of that, I realized I could start the problem by restarting the "Symantec Antivirus Client" service. Once restarted, the computer returned to my control.
As far as successful TN applications go, I am 5 for 7, working as a Systems Analyst for 3 seperate companies. Both times my application was rejected, I was able to have the company mail me a revised letter which was accepted. To me, it seems like the INS workers have started to scrutinize the applications quite a bit more during the past year.
Establishing credit history in the US is crucial, and can be quite frustrating. I've now worked in the US for four years. I've been able to purchase a car, and get an apartment, but I have been unable to obtain a credit card.
A friend of mine recently informed me that MBNA Corporation was able to use his Canadian credit history when he applied for a US credit card.
I too work in the United States as a Candian citizen under TN Status. The best source of information about the process for me was the Grasmick message boards: http://grasmick.com/board/?topic=topic1 This site also offers an entire 500 page book on the subject, although I haven't personally looked at it: http://www.grasmick.com/handbook.htm (Grasmick's TN Handbook for Canadians)
I'm originally from Sault Ste Marie, and it is indeed "Northern Ontario". Toronto gets about a foot of snow per year. Sault Ste. Marie is about 350 miles north of Toronto. We would routinely get temperatures around -30 Celcius (-22 F). We once had six feet of snowfall in 48 hours.
.NET is smarter about library versioning... I worked for a company developing a 3rd party add-on to one of Microsoft's flagship .NET projects (Microsoft CRM). Microsoft CRM was written for the 1.0 Framework. After a few months, the 1.1 Framework came out. After installed the new framework on our server, CRM completely quit working. We contacted CRM Support on this issue, and they commanded us to immediately uninstall the 1.1 framework. This was frustrating because we were in the process of developing another app on the same server that required 1.1.
Microsoft has all this literature on how the 1.0 and 1.1 framework will run side-by-side, and how you can easily instruct your application on which version of the framework it should use, but their own product couldn't get around this issue. We waited for 8 months for them to release some sort of patch to get around this issue, but it was never solved.
I agree that hg2g would be a better acronym. There is, however, a Hitchhiker's website (http://www.h2g2.com) that has been around for a few years.
According to this article.... http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/30Jan2004_news29.h tml ...some variants of MyDoom.B will execute without opening the attachment. This may become a big problem with the built-in preview panes in Otulook/Outlook Express.