No one has mentioned Lite Bright yet. I absolutely loved that toy when I got it for Christmas and I've seen them on the market.
I wonder if they have made them safer since, when I got curious as to how hot lightbulbs got, the toy enabled me to test this out and get a giant blister on my finger.
In the US, on the other hand, there's been a great deal of corporate lobbying to introduce *complex* machines running a complete *OS* (for Chrissakes!) with some machines even sporting a connection to the Intarweb. Their main argument for these "features" seems to be that they can be used easily by disabled people.
It seems fairly obvious that the more complex you make the voting procedure, the more problems you are going to run into. Thanks for the article link, I read it back then and was really impressed with their system.
Does anyone remember how India had elections several months ago and managed to do this with a simple system that can be used by people who can't even read? A billion people all voted using the same system countrywide?
How everyone turns out to vote, and the poor people were the ones who decided the outcome of the election?
We've been doing this democracy thing for a while, you'd think we'd have it figured out.
Naw, to detect outside drinks and snacks, they will use RFID tags. Your paranoia is justified, yes, but don't discount use of multiple privacy-violating technologies at once.
How can you say that his policies work?
Before he came along, the economy was going gangbusters and we weren't fighting a war in the desert. It seemed to me things were working.
I just want to know what you think improved under the Bush administration.
Would this article have been posted? I doubt it. This to me seems like a great example of the Old Media guys gloating, "HA! Those bloggers really f*cked it up this time! We are still relevant!" Too bad standard media fell for the exit polls last time around themselves.
These polls occur in the realm of statistics and probability. They require PhD-style expertise to understand.
While I personally don't have a PhD in statistics, I understood exactly what I was getting when I hit reload at Wonkette all day long, I was getting results that may or may not have any bearing on reality. Turned out that they didn't. Every site that I read exit poll results on had a disclaimer stating that I should take these numbers with a huge grain of salt. It's inexact information but why shouldn't I have access to that information if I want it?
Upon graduating with our Computer Science degrees my boy and I moved out to San Diego. We really didn't know anyone out here which made personal networking a little harder. Craigslist hooked him up, and I got my position via Monster. They may not be the "best" way, but we had luck with them.
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No one has mentioned Lite Bright yet. I absolutely loved that toy when I got it for Christmas and I've seen them on the market. I wonder if they have made them safer since, when I got curious as to how hot lightbulbs got, the toy enabled me to test this out and get a giant blister on my finger.
In the US, on the other hand, there's been a great deal of corporate lobbying to introduce *complex* machines running a complete *OS* (for Chrissakes!) with some machines even sporting a connection to the Intarweb. Their main argument for these "features" seems to be that they can be used easily by disabled people.
It seems fairly obvious that the more complex you make the voting procedure, the more problems you are going to run into. Thanks for the article link, I read it back then and was really impressed with their system.
Does anyone remember how India had elections several months ago and managed to do this with a simple system that can be used by people who can't even read? A billion people all voted using the same system countrywide? How everyone turns out to vote, and the poor people were the ones who decided the outcome of the election? We've been doing this democracy thing for a while, you'd think we'd have it figured out.
Naw, to detect outside drinks and snacks, they will use RFID tags. Your paranoia is justified, yes, but don't discount use of multiple privacy-violating technologies at once.
How can you say that his policies work? Before he came along, the economy was going gangbusters and we weren't fighting a war in the desert. It seemed to me things were working. I just want to know what you think improved under the Bush administration.
Would this article have been posted? I doubt it. This to me seems like a great example of the Old Media guys gloating, "HA! Those bloggers really f*cked it up this time! We are still relevant!" Too bad standard media fell for the exit polls last time around themselves. These polls occur in the realm of statistics and probability. They require PhD-style expertise to understand. While I personally don't have a PhD in statistics, I understood exactly what I was getting when I hit reload at Wonkette all day long, I was getting results that may or may not have any bearing on reality. Turned out that they didn't. Every site that I read exit poll results on had a disclaimer stating that I should take these numbers with a huge grain of salt. It's inexact information but why shouldn't I have access to that information if I want it?
Upon graduating with our Computer Science degrees my boy and I moved out to San Diego. We really didn't know anyone out here which made personal networking a little harder. Craigslist hooked him up, and I got my position via Monster. They may not be the "best" way, but we had luck with them.