My take on this method is that the ballot should allow a voter to rate each choice (on a scale of 1..10, 1..100, -1.0.. 1.0, whatever) and then behind the scenes the rating is normalized so that everyone has the same amount of vote (there's some debate over whether a L1 normalization or L2 normalization is more fair).
The next stage beyond that is a system I like to call Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings which I think really encourages people to vote honestly and put their true rating on each of the choices.
My short-short version of Condorcet's Method: A virtual round robin tournament. Choice A is considered to have beat choice B in their match if more voters ranked A higher than B than voters ranked B higher than A.
A is the first choice of 8 and second choice of 5. B is the first choice of 5 and second choice of 4.
I think statements like that show that A has more support than B. Sometimes it does matter which voters rank A and B first and second, but this time I think that simplification is not invalid.
I think your fitting of real world names to this example is weak and effectively irrelevant. How many Bush voters do you know with Nader as their second choice? I find that R partisans are more likely to go Libertarian when they defect. The Nader,Kerry vote is reasonable, but I expect the Kerry,Bush crowd ought to be miniscule.
Here's a model that might more accurately represent this year's voting populace. Uninterestingly enough, everything but Approval agrees.
The REAL reason is that because "throwing your vote away" is a very real phenomenon. It doesn't have to be. Ranked or Rated Ballots mean you can express your conscience on the ballot, no compromises, no throwing your vote away. Ballot access is a wink and a nod to say "good luck, chump" until the ballot enables better recording and enacting of the will of the people.
The "best" private school in my town is a diploma mill. It gives rich kids easy classes and transcripts and awards that look good to the next layer of private schools which will wink and nod and continue on the progression of the rich kids.
How about high resolution physical simulation (whether that be climate modeling or plasmas)? One great thing of a Supercomputer is that you can hold so much data at once in the active set. One node can only hold so much data, so the full simulation has to be distributed across the whole supercomputer. It is definitely not RC5 keys, the opposing end of the spectrum in this data/compute tradeoff.
Congratulations, you have found that they made the correct solution to the wrong problem. Everyone knows that the real problem is the lack of paper ballot as the primary recording medium.
There's a long list of what's wrong with our democracy: campaign finance, voting machines, ballot access, the media, and so on. But my biggest issue is: One vote reinforces the Two Parties. Ranked or Rated ballots make voters matter again and make elections fair for any number of candidates. I think that'd revive democracy.
Why don't you just go observe the election yourself? Take the day off work and do it, if it matters that much to you. Of course one precinct isn't enough. Do what I'm doing and tell everyone everywhere to do the same and we'll cover all the precincts and we'll count every vote three times and the election will be clean and the result will be clear.
It should be very simple, If this election matters to you, get the day off work and go sit in your precinct's polling place. Better yet, sign up to actually work it. If your precinct would otherwise be electronic only then: first, demand paper ballots accompany the electronic vote; and second, if your call is not answered, get some people together to pay the printing costs and make enough ballots for your precinct. Everyone voting on an electronic-only machine should ALSO fill out a plain paper ballot that goes into a good old ballot box. Then, after the polls close, since we have a profusion of volunteers hanging out at every polling place, COUNT EVERY BALLOT BY HAND. No doubts, everybody wins.
... than one of us who have been working here for a while who might otherwise be promoted?
Openly or covertly, the boss will eventually have to answer this question to people potentially bitter that they have been unfairly denied the opportunity for promotion.
A scene can be a pretty large and complicated piece of data, although I suppose it might be comparable to SETI@Home data. And once you ship the whole scene out, there's the risk that someone could capture it and start rendering it from every angle to get their own private sneak preview. And then the return image is also a pretty large bit of data. So, while there is no inter-node communication which makes this a good distributed problem, the node-server communication is still pretty intense. GigE in your render farm is still the way to go.
...in 1997, and haven't touched the language since. My C, C++, Java, perl, etc. haven't been hurt by the experience. If two months from now, Java isn't the right language for students who just took the test, then they'll use something else. No tradgedy.
Because people sure aren't learning them from Java. C hackers are getting harder to find.
I just had a thought. It seems to me that the old dichotomy of CS, Systems and Theory, have spawned a bastard child: Vocational Programming. It's probably a natural progression as the field matures. This third class of people in the CS world don't understand either end of the old spectrum well enough to fit in. Java might just be the perfect language for Vocational Programmers.
Now the questions are: Do we like this direction? Is it the right direction? What's broken, what would be better?
...from selling voting equipment in the State of California. They have violated the public trust. The ban should be in effect for a time not less than five years.
It took them over a month to connect my DSL. It's a long story. They are incompetant. They are probably breaking a handfull of FCC rules. I want very much to never do business with them again and I encourage others to avoid doing business with them.
What kind of democracy do you want? The kind where a non-representative skewed-random sample of people are given the power of declaring what the people think? Disregard all media polls! The only polls that matter are the ones where you put your ballot in the box.
Read Nader's book on the 2000 election, "Crashing the Party". He didn't claim there is no difference. He did claim there are too many similarities and too much non-debate on some issues we should seriously be debating.
Also, if you're going to try and influence a likely winner, don't jump behind them too early. Your leverage over Dean is in that you might endorse someone else, like Kucinich. There's still at least 2 months till a primary. If you haven't committed your mind already, really look at the candidates and find out which one most represents the issues you care about or is the kind of person you like to support. Remember, not a single vote has been cast yet. Democracy is still about voting. Fight pre-election lock in. Ignore the polls. Ignore the hype. Go find the truth.
In his issue position statement brings up many tried and true points the/. crowd are well aware of, including H.R. 2239, otherwise known as the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accountability Act of 2003"
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My take on this method is that the ballot should allow a voter to rate each choice (on a scale of 1..10, 1..100, -1.0 .. 1.0, whatever) and then behind the scenes the rating is normalized so that everyone has the same amount of vote (there's some debate over whether a L1 normalization or L2 normalization is more fair).
The next stage beyond that is a system I like to call Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings which I think really encourages people to vote honestly and put their true rating on each of the choices.
My short-short version of Condorcet's Method:
A virtual round robin tournament. Choice A is considered to have beat choice B in their match if more voters ranked A higher than B than voters ranked B higher than A.
A is the first choice of 8 and second choice of 5.
B is the first choice of 5 and second choice of 4.
I think statements like that show that A has more support than B. Sometimes it does matter which voters rank A and B first and second, but this time I think that simplification is not invalid.
I think your fitting of real world names to this example is weak and effectively irrelevant. How many Bush voters do you know with Nader as their second choice? I find that R partisans are more likely to go Libertarian when they defect. The Nader,Kerry vote is reasonable, but I expect the Kerry,Bush crowd ought to be miniscule.
Here's a model that might more accurately represent this year's voting populace. Uninterestingly enough, everything but Approval agrees.
Non-voters (except those disqualified by some misc law) should get their asses to the polls.
Not voting is worse than draft dodging.
The REAL reason is that because "throwing your vote away" is a very real phenomenon. It doesn't have to be. Ranked or Rated Ballots mean you can express your conscience on the ballot, no compromises, no throwing your vote away. Ballot access is a wink and a nod to say "good luck, chump" until the ballot enables better recording and enacting of the will of the people.
The "best" private school in my town is a diploma mill. It gives rich kids easy classes and transcripts and awards that look good to the next layer of private schools which will wink and nod and continue on the progression of the rich kids.
How about high resolution physical simulation (whether that be climate modeling or plasmas)? One great thing of a Supercomputer is that you can hold so much data at once in the active set. One node can only hold so much data, so the full simulation has to be distributed across the whole supercomputer. It is definitely not RC5 keys, the opposing end of the spectrum in this data/compute tradeoff.
Congratulations, you have found that they made the correct solution to the wrong problem. Everyone knows that the real problem is the lack of paper ballot as the primary recording medium.
There's a long list of what's wrong with our democracy: campaign finance, voting machines, ballot access, the media, and so on. But my biggest issue is: One vote reinforces the Two Parties. Ranked or Rated ballots make voters matter again and make elections fair for any number of candidates. I think that'd revive democracy.
Why don't you just go observe the election yourself? Take the day off work and do it, if it matters that much to you. Of course one precinct isn't enough. Do what I'm doing and tell everyone everywhere to do the same and we'll cover all the precincts and we'll count every vote three times and the election will be clean and the result will be clear.
It should be very simple, If this election matters to you, get the day off work and go sit in your precinct's polling place. Better yet, sign up to actually work it. If your precinct would otherwise be electronic only then: first, demand paper ballots accompany the electronic vote; and second, if your call is not answered, get some people together to pay the printing costs and make enough ballots for your precinct. Everyone voting on an electronic-only machine should ALSO fill out a plain paper ballot that goes into a good old ballot box. Then, after the polls close, since we have a profusion of volunteers hanging out at every polling place, COUNT EVERY BALLOT BY HAND. No doubts, everybody wins.
As a ST:TNG and B5 geek, I instantly jizz and convulse in orgiastic writhing on the floor at the thought of JMS-driven Star Trek. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... than one of us who have been working here for a while who might otherwise be promoted?
Openly or covertly, the boss will eventually have to answer this question to people potentially bitter that they have been unfairly denied the opportunity for promotion.
A scene can be a pretty large and complicated piece of data, although I suppose it might be comparable to SETI@Home data. And once you ship the whole scene out, there's the risk that someone could capture it and start rendering it from every angle to get their own private sneak preview. And then the return image is also a pretty large bit of data. So, while there is no inter-node communication which makes this a good distributed problem, the node-server communication is still pretty intense. GigE in your render farm is still the way to go.
...in 1997, and haven't touched the language since. My C, C++, Java, perl, etc. haven't been hurt by the experience. If two months from now, Java isn't the right language for students who just took the test, then they'll use something else. No tradgedy.
Because people sure aren't learning them from Java. C hackers are getting harder to find.
I just had a thought. It seems to me that the old dichotomy of CS, Systems and Theory, have spawned a bastard child: Vocational Programming. It's probably a natural progression as the field matures. This third class of people in the CS world don't understand either end of the old spectrum well enough to fit in. Java might just be the perfect language for Vocational Programmers.
Now the questions are: Do we like this direction? Is it the right direction? What's broken, what would be better?
...from selling voting equipment in the State of California. They have violated the public trust. The ban should be in effect for a time not less than five years.
It took them over a month to connect my DSL. It's a long story. They are incompetant. They are probably breaking a handfull of FCC rules. I want very much to never do business with them again and I encourage others to avoid doing business with them.
Because now I have to buy an iPod since I can't use iTunes on my PowerBook for driving music anymore.
What kind of democracy do you want? The kind where a non-representative skewed-random sample of people are given the power of declaring what the people think? Disregard all media polls! The only polls that matter are the ones where you put your ballot in the box.
The ironic part of this is that they'd have to build a large mockup of the minipod so that it'd be hobbit sized.
Read Nader's book on the 2000 election, "Crashing the Party". He didn't claim there is no difference. He did claim there are too many similarities and too much non-debate on some issues we should seriously be debating.
Also, if you're going to try and influence a likely winner, don't jump behind them too early. Your leverage over Dean is in that you might endorse someone else, like Kucinich. There's still at least 2 months till a primary. If you haven't committed your mind already, really look at the candidates and find out which one most represents the issues you care about or is the kind of person you like to support. Remember, not a single vote has been cast yet. Democracy is still about voting. Fight pre-election lock in. Ignore the polls. Ignore the hype. Go find the truth.
In his issue position statement brings up many tried and true points the /. crowd are well aware of, including H.R. 2239, otherwise known as the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accountability Act of 2003"