How do you have any confidence at all that central counting place hasn't been corrupted?
Where are the Canadian ballots counted? At some central locations. How do they know that they haven't been compromised? There's not much difference from that point on between Canadian paper ballots and mail in ballots. It would be pretty simple to add public scrutiny to a mail in ballot count.
The duration of the voting process is there to satisfy the needs of our media machines. Expenditures for political advertising are directly related to the length of the campaign season. And the profits go right into the pockets of media owners.
The result of this is that a campaign in the USA is far more expensive than one in your (or other) countries with shorter seasons. And this drives the need of our politicians to raise large amounts of cash in order to sustain their next run for office. Cash that just goes into media's pockets. This preoccupies our leadership to a greater extent than the campaign itself. One other side effect is that this cash (also called 'free speech') in our country keeps politicians beholding to the special interests that raise it to support them.
p>Shorter campaign seasons, less money needed from contributions, less influence over politics by moneyed (and not always domestic) special interests, better decision making for the good of the country rather than the few. Good things all around. So it will never happen
The Canadian descriptions of voting procedures are nice. But now we'd have to modify them to account for our (Washington State) and other states 100% vote by mail process. Don't get me wrong, I think it can be done. But the whole mail-in process opens up other cans of worms.
One thing vote by mail does is to eliminate the whole electronic voting machine fraud issue. There is a paper trail. It can be re-counted. I fear the day we switch to Internet voting. This is the home of Microsoft and I don't want some Russian script kiddie elected as our governor.
More on this idea: Your odds of finding a commercial unit for which some certification paperwork exists are better. Its possible that someone has gotten approval to install something like this in a private or charter aircraft. See what others are doing on some of the aviation bulletin boards.
The files included two compressed and encrypted malicious PDF files linked to Contagio blog posts from 2010.
So, how did LeakID determine these were copyright violations? They'd have to be breaking encryption on servers' contents and that would be a DMCA violation as well.
If an unauthorized download can cost someone from $20,000 to as high as $80,000 per song, lets make the false takedown requests cost the requester the same thing.
Have Google/YouTube and others require requestors to post a bond for the amount prior to honoring it. If the request proves to be in error, the poster or actual copyright holder gets the proceeds. If not, the requestor gets the bond back.
"Williams and Hoshide reporting in commander. We have good news and bad news. We managed to clear the threads on this power unit and complete installation. That's the good news. The bad news is that the only toothbrush we could find was yours."
If I want three bedrooms all to myself, there's nothing wrong with that.
10 miles from anything else. So you have to drive everywhere. But when you are no longer capable, don't come crying to us when your license gets pulled.
Maybe we need 'magic crosswalks' that sense when a driver just doesn't have what it takes anymore.
Because we have to have some means of tracking all those guns out there committing crimes. Do you know where your guns is when you are asleep at night? Perhaps it sneaks out and holds up a few all night markets on its own.
I don't give a damn about fully automatic weapons. The primary issue that printing (or CNC manufacturing) guns is the impact that has on registering and controlling guns. Not the people holding the guns, but the guns themselves.
Lets worry more about who is carrying a gun, some guns, many guns rather than what shape or quantity is involved. A nut case with one pistol can do more damage than a sane person who likes to plink with an AK-47.
except possibly for conceal and carry
I have no idea what this means. I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. But I don't have to identify (by serial number or anything else) which weapon I am permitted to carry.
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How do you have any confidence at all that central counting place hasn't been corrupted?
Where are the Canadian ballots counted? At some central locations. How do they know that they haven't been compromised? There's not much difference from that point on between Canadian paper ballots and mail in ballots. It would be pretty simple to add public scrutiny to a mail in ballot count.
The duration of the voting process is there to satisfy the needs of our media machines. Expenditures for political advertising are directly related to the length of the campaign season. And the profits go right into the pockets of media owners.
The result of this is that a campaign in the USA is far more expensive than one in your (or other) countries with shorter seasons. And this drives the need of our politicians to raise large amounts of cash in order to sustain their next run for office. Cash that just goes into media's pockets. This preoccupies our leadership to a greater extent than the campaign itself. One other side effect is that this cash (also called 'free speech') in our country keeps politicians beholding to the special interests that raise it to support them. p>Shorter campaign seasons, less money needed from contributions, less influence over politics by moneyed (and not always domestic) special interests, better decision making for the good of the country rather than the few. Good things all around. So it will never happen
The Canadian descriptions of voting procedures are nice. But now we'd have to modify them to account for our (Washington State) and other states 100% vote by mail process. Don't get me wrong, I think it can be done. But the whole mail-in process opens up other cans of worms.
One thing vote by mail does is to eliminate the whole electronic voting machine fraud issue. There is a paper trail. It can be re-counted. I fear the day we switch to Internet voting. This is the home of Microsoft and I don't want some Russian script kiddie elected as our governor.
Interesting fact: In most of the world, 'American' is foreign.
More on this idea: Your odds of finding a commercial unit for which some certification paperwork exists are better. Its possible that someone has gotten approval to install something like this in a private or charter aircraft. See what others are doing on some of the aviation bulletin boards.
So, which format would you choose? Survivor or Wipeout?
But then there's the multi-touch, pinch to zoom Galileo Thermometer (rectangular with rounded corners).
All the way across the country from Dr House.
This was the series pilot subject disease.
Yes. But I own the patent on the Internet-enabled Galileo thermometer.
Oh, oh. You've just touched the third rail of faith and religion as an acceptable subject for psychological study.
Its one thing of my dog talks to me and tells me to do something. If my god does so, its protected speech.
We've descended to the point of addressing political dissent or disagreements over science as some sort of psychological issue.
The files included two compressed and encrypted malicious PDF files linked to Contagio blog posts from 2010.
So, how did LeakID determine these were copyright violations? They'd have to be breaking encryption on servers' contents and that would be a DMCA violation as well.
$25? Too cheap.
If an unauthorized download can cost someone from $20,000 to as high as $80,000 per song, lets make the false takedown requests cost the requester the same thing.
Have Google/YouTube and others require requestors to post a bond for the amount prior to honoring it. If the request proves to be in error, the poster or actual copyright holder gets the proceeds. If not, the requestor gets the bond back.
Airline tickets.
What Google is doing will drive the creation of dozens of startup businesses, all aimed at gaming the Google system.
You get one free with each toilet seat.
Don't ask.
"Williams and Hoshide reporting in commander. We have good news and bad news. We managed to clear the threads on this power unit and complete installation. That's the good news. The bad news is that the only toothbrush we could find was yours."
The carpet can gather a wide range of information about a person's condition; from biomechanical to chemical sensing of body fluids,
Cleanup on aisle 5 .....
Yeah. And those sympathy strokes they keep pulling are getting a bit old as well.
If I want three bedrooms all to myself, there's nothing wrong with that.
10 miles from anything else. So you have to drive everywhere. But when you are no longer capable, don't come crying to us when your license gets pulled.
Maybe we need 'magic crosswalks' that sense when a driver just doesn't have what it takes anymore.
Because we have to have some means of tracking all those guns out there committing crimes. Do you know where your guns is when you are asleep at night? Perhaps it sneaks out and holds up a few all night markets on its own.
I don't give a damn about fully automatic weapons. The primary issue that printing (or CNC manufacturing) guns is the impact that has on registering and controlling guns. Not the people holding the guns, but the guns themselves.
Lets worry more about who is carrying a gun, some guns, many guns rather than what shape or quantity is involved. A nut case with one pistol can do more damage than a sane person who likes to plink with an AK-47.
except possibly for conceal and carry
I have no idea what this means. I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. But I don't have to identify (by serial number or anything else) which weapon I am permitted to carry.
Simper than that: My Lucas Electric auto computer just blew its fuse again.
I welcome our new UK computing overlords.