CoH is, however, built around NVidia to the detriment of those of us that have ATI cards. I've seen more people (myself included) with new ATI cards bought for this game, that can't get this card to work with downloading several different beta drivers and trying each of them. This game is good enough to warrant spending the time to do it. But its a damn bit frustrating when I went out and bought a video card specifically for this game (an ATI) that was recommended on the box, only to have to run around to find beta drivers, and come to find out that what they REALLY meant when they said "NVidia and ATI" was just "NVidia (and ATI if you have patience, time, and luck.)" As a Joe Sixpack, I can tell you that this SUCKED, and that this game is written to exclude cards other than NVidia.
Humans go though puberty at about 11-13, yet we are not suppose to be attracted to people in this age group since 500,000 years of evolution is simply wrong, very wrong, and evil.
Worked for NAMBLA recently?
See, God, or Goddess, or the Great Platupus or Simply Random Chance gave us these things called BRAINS! There is NO moral equivalency for wanting to fuck kids. Period. There is no debate. You claim 'evolution' is on your side. If sex is purely for procreation, then why pray tell do some of these sick fucks want to rape children as young as 3? Or children the same sex as them?
Perhaps I can understand the arguments against this type system, but arguments for the moral equivancy of child rape astound me.
Okay, thanks for the info. How many positions are we talking, though? We have (almost) dozens of positions to vote in, along with amendments, ordinances and propositions. How many items are on a typical ballot in those areas? (This isn't a rhetorical question, BTW, my ignorance is showing.)
So no excuses - you could fix it with a system that works if you wanted to!
While I would never go quite as far and say that 'our system works well', I would also disagree with your generalization that the problem is a simple fix, i.e., the 'British Example'. One of the main sticking points with our system is the number of items we vote for within our Federalist system (dog catcher, State Supreme Court Judge, Mayor, trustee, the list goes on and on.) In essence we have AT LEAST three complete, distinct, and seperate layers of government to vote for [not including counties, which exist at the behest of state governments, but typically act independently]. Additionally, election laws in each municipality and state were influnced by the progressive era, a time in our history when we wished to 'run out political bosses and corruption.' The laws themselves dictate common sense, but also make local elections that much harder to maintain. Now, I will never claim to know the inner workings of your political system better than a citizen of the UK (yourself), but from what I understand (from a single intro poli sci class I took so like I said, I'm no expert) your system is much more centralized, even with the push for what we call 'local rule'.
So, what the hell is my point? Well, nothing easy is ever simple. Our government, by design, was created to be inefficient (cliche: Moussolini made the trains run on time). Our voting system's complexity cannot be explained away easily by pointing to population density, or sweeping generalizations, rather, it has become the miasma that it is because of history, politics, competing/independent entities and inertia. I assert that it would be much more difficult to 'fix' our current system than many (including and especially companies such as Diebold) simply because there is no other system in the world like ours.
Of course, what the hell do I know, I'm just a Joe Sixpack.
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CoH is, however, built around NVidia to the detriment of those of us that have ATI cards. I've seen more people (myself included) with new ATI cards bought for this game, that can't get this card to work with downloading several different beta drivers and trying each of them. This game is good enough to warrant spending the time to do it. But its a damn bit frustrating when I went out and bought a video card specifically for this game (an ATI) that was recommended on the box, only to have to run around to find beta drivers, and come to find out that what they REALLY meant when they said "NVidia and ATI" was just "NVidia (and ATI if you have patience, time, and luck.)" As a Joe Sixpack, I can tell you that this SUCKED, and that this game is written to exclude cards other than NVidia.
Humans go though puberty at about 11-13, yet we are not suppose to be attracted to people in this age group since 500,000 years of evolution is simply wrong, very wrong, and evil.
Worked for NAMBLA recently?
See, God, or Goddess, or the Great Platupus or Simply Random Chance gave us these things called BRAINS! There is NO moral equivalency for wanting to fuck kids. Period. There is no debate. You claim 'evolution' is on your side. If sex is purely for procreation, then why pray tell do some of these sick fucks want to rape children as young as 3? Or children the same sex as them?
Perhaps I can understand the arguments against this type system, but arguments for the moral equivancy of child rape astound me.
Okay, thanks for the info. How many positions are we talking, though? We have (almost) dozens of positions to vote in, along with amendments, ordinances and propositions. How many items are on a typical ballot in those areas? (This isn't a rhetorical question, BTW, my ignorance is showing.)
While I would never go quite as far and say that 'our system works well', I would also disagree with your generalization that the problem is a simple fix, i.e., the 'British Example'. One of the main sticking points with our system is the number of items we vote for within our Federalist system (dog catcher, State Supreme Court Judge, Mayor, trustee, the list goes on and on.) In essence we have AT LEAST three complete, distinct, and seperate layers of government to vote for [not including counties, which exist at the behest of state governments, but typically act independently]. Additionally, election laws in each municipality and state were influnced by the progressive era, a time in our history when we wished to 'run out political bosses and corruption.' The laws themselves dictate common sense, but also make local elections that much harder to maintain. Now, I will never claim to know the inner workings of your political system better than a citizen of the UK (yourself), but from what I understand (from a single intro poli sci class I took so like I said, I'm no expert) your system is much more centralized, even with the push for what we call 'local rule'.
So, what the hell is my point? Well, nothing easy is ever simple. Our government, by design, was created to be inefficient (cliche: Moussolini made the trains run on time). Our voting system's complexity cannot be explained away easily by pointing to population density, or sweeping generalizations, rather, it has become the miasma that it is because of history, politics, competing/independent entities and inertia. I assert that it would be much more difficult to 'fix' our current system than many (including and especially companies such as Diebold) simply because there is no other system in the world like ours.
Of course, what the hell do I know, I'm just a Joe Sixpack.
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