No, if that's the case you just steal a number off the website to match the candidate you were told to vote for. You cast your real, true vote and show Mr. Mobster the number associated with his croney.
Or, you could just go to the police. That's what they're there for.
Do you realise that linux desktop users are about 0.4% of all desktop users? Why should the Pentagon have to make their systems support every single browser out for Linux, just to hopefully satisfy the one or two from that 0.4% who will want to vote over the internet?
If you use an obscure OS/browser, you have to be prepared to come across people who don't support you. Let's face it - linux is an obscure desktop OS. Most people use it for servers, and that's it. It's only Linux-oriented IT professionals who don't like Windows or Macs who use it.
All it has to do is give you a unique, random number, and store that along side your vote. Enter your number, and it says how you voted. It doesn't matter if anyone guesses anyone else's number, as there isn't anything tying the vote to any specific person. If the cops start shooting people who voted for Mr. Nader, just eat your number!:-P
I think we know what the real problem here is... old fashioned racism. "That's an American insult if they didn't teach you that in training"?? My god. Do you actually talk like that in public? I hope for your sake you don't, and it was a joke.
Don't you like Indian people? It doesn't seem so from your post. You seem to forget, that most people have had that exact same experience with tech support all over the world. Your sheer blindness to this fact highlights your racial leanings, sorry.
And, for goodness sake - sort out your tech support procedures. We've only got one dell server where I work (25 people), and our tech support is on-site in 4 hours.
Actually, the visas people need to work in the US require them to not undercut US jobs (ie they can't work for less than an American doing the same job, and they can't have a visa if there are already Americans who can do the job - it's for specialists).
He wanted to know the best way to do something, not whether what he wanted to do was the best financial investment. Give the guy some credit - trust he thought of that before.
I usually hate cases from the big PC manufacturers, but I used a compaq for the first (and only) time at a job I had a couple of years back. You could dismantle the whole thing without a screwdriver, which was pretty cool if your job was opening them up and tinkerin' with the innards.
I hate to do this, but multi-display setups in windows are the easiest thing ever. You go to display panel, and it shows you the displays it can detect. You can drag/drop the monitors around to specify how the desktops physically relate to each other. You can switch primary/secondary display for DirectX/overlay performance. It supports as many cards as you can put in your machine, and you can set them all up with 3 clicks of the mouse. No rebooting, no new drivers, nothing.
I've yet to see multi-monitor setup as easy in any other OS I've used, and that's the truth. (i'd give props to linux if I could!:-P)
Because cars, baseball bats and kitchen knives have uses beyond killing. Guns, intrinsically, are for killing. Yes, you can argue "self defense" but guns are more likely to hurt someone you love than someone you don't.
Just because some old guys a couple of hundred years ago thought they were a good idea, doesn't mean they still are. They thought wooden teeth were cool. Sheesh!
Studies have shown that because you can pick up a gun and kill someone/yourself with it in seconds, people are more likely to kill with it. Before their brain has a chance to kick in, they've already pulled the trigger.
Why are so many people killed by guns in the US, compared to other countries? If guns made places safe, there would be no murders in the US.
The kids can't see a breast, but they can watch a bunch of guys beat the shit out of each other on a field? That's ok?
And, by the way, America is one of the few places in the western world where a bare breast would warrant an R rating for a film. In Britain you can have nudity in a 12-certificate film.
What gets me is you can turn on a TV in the states and see a movie that has been edited for TV, except the only thing edited is swearwords and nudity. They'll still show arnie blowing up thousands of commies with a rocket launcher, but if he says "nutsack" while doing it, someone gets fired.
The instant someone starts slinging round terms like "micro$oft" just highlights their lack of objectivity. I agree with the sentiment, but it's so childish!
The original argument was whether the US killed more people than communists in the 20th century. You can leave the fascists out of this - they're not the point. More communists died than everyone else put together, so they're hardly the savage murderers middle America will tell you they are.
The US killed many more people than communists - that's a given. The US techniques of napalming vietnamese towns just shows the pure disregard the US has for civilian life - that's the main reason people around the world vehemently dislike the US.
You seem to have the idea that criticising war, or the US Gov't is criticising America. That's a common misconception present in right-wing America. The goverment isn't the same as the country, and you can stand up to it without being Un-American. Unfortunately, people like you see it as an easy way to come back against those who are talking smack about the US. You think it's a valid argument. It's not. The real americans are those who are standing up to the man, not those bent over (like you). You're happy to sign away your rights because it's convenient for you. You can stay there, waving your little flag, secure in the knowledge you're a Patriotic American. If everyone did that, there'd be no America left. Bush has removed swathes of the constitution, and you're letting him. If you were a real American, you'd stand up to him. You'd rebel.
In the civilised world, people aren't even executed for killing people. Please don't drag the rest of the modern world down with your barbarian practices. Sheesh - it's the 21st century.
Your last point about nazis and communists doesn't even make sense. I'm not bunching the US together with the West - the US is on its own when it comes to insularity, barbarity and ruthlessness.
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Or, you could just go to the police. That's what they're there for.
If you use an obscure OS/browser, you have to be prepared to come across people who don't support you. Let's face it - linux is an obscure desktop OS. Most people use it for servers, and that's it. It's only Linux-oriented IT professionals who don't like Windows or Macs who use it.
The floridians somehow couldn't cope with making a small hole in a bit of paper. I think creating a PGP key could be problematic ;)
Anonymous, and voter-auditable.
Don't you like Indian people? It doesn't seem so from your post. You seem to forget, that most people have had that exact same experience with tech support all over the world. Your sheer blindness to this fact highlights your racial leanings, sorry.
And, for goodness sake - sort out your tech support procedures. We've only got one dell server where I work (25 people), and our tech support is on-site in 4 hours.
Actually, the visas people need to work in the US require them to not undercut US jobs (ie they can't work for less than an American doing the same job, and they can't have a visa if there are already Americans who can do the job - it's for specialists).
Mac OSX has v6 running out of the box :)
I usually hate cases from the big PC manufacturers, but I used a compaq for the first (and only) time at a job I had a couple of years back. You could dismantle the whole thing without a screwdriver, which was pretty cool if your job was opening them up and tinkerin' with the innards.
I've yet to see multi-monitor setup as easy in any other OS I've used, and that's the truth. (i'd give props to linux if I could! :-P)
Just because some old guys a couple of hundred years ago thought they were a good idea, doesn't mean they still are. They thought wooden teeth were cool. Sheesh!
Studies have shown that because you can pick up a gun and kill someone/yourself with it in seconds, people are more likely to kill with it. Before their brain has a chance to kick in, they've already pulled the trigger.
Why are so many people killed by guns in the US, compared to other countries? If guns made places safe, there would be no murders in the US.
And, by the way, America is one of the few places in the western world where a bare breast would warrant an R rating for a film. In Britain you can have nudity in a 12-certificate film.
What gets me is you can turn on a TV in the states and see a movie that has been edited for TV, except the only thing edited is swearwords and nudity. They'll still show arnie blowing up thousands of commies with a rocket launcher, but if he says "nutsack" while doing it, someone gets fired.
It only takes one gun-toting whacko to ruin a lot of people's lives. That's the point.
You can get a dual-head graphics card... most nvidias are, out of the box.
The instant someone starts slinging round terms like "micro$oft" just highlights their lack of objectivity. I agree with the sentiment, but it's so childish!
The US killed many more people than communists - that's a given. The US techniques of napalming vietnamese towns just shows the pure disregard the US has for civilian life - that's the main reason people around the world vehemently dislike the US.
You seem to have the idea that criticising war, or the US Gov't is criticising America. That's a common misconception present in right-wing America. The goverment isn't the same as the country, and you can stand up to it without being Un-American. Unfortunately, people like you see it as an easy way to come back against those who are talking smack about the US. You think it's a valid argument. It's not. The real americans are those who are standing up to the man, not those bent over (like you). You're happy to sign away your rights because it's convenient for you. You can stay there, waving your little flag, secure in the knowledge you're a Patriotic American. If everyone did that, there'd be no America left. Bush has removed swathes of the constitution, and you're letting him. If you were a real American, you'd stand up to him. You'd rebel.
In the civilised world, people aren't even executed for killing people. Please don't drag the rest of the modern world down with your barbarian practices. Sheesh - it's the 21st century.
Your last point about nazis and communists doesn't even make sense. I'm not bunching the US together with the West - the US is on its own when it comes to insularity, barbarity and ruthlessness.