If enough people didn't participate in the election, a 'wait a minute' realization would take place, and likely, fundamental and deep political change would occur.
Not saying it would necessarily be a good thing, of course.
if you are going to spend time perfecting SPAM cooking techniques, you might as well spend a bit of time figuring out how to cook rats too.
Naw. There are good and valid reasons to keep some SPAM around. Even good 'geek' reasons:
1. Fresh meats spoil if not eaten soon after purchase.
2. A can of SPAM has a long shelf life.
3. SPAM is undoubtedly a better thing to eat than a lot of other 'instant' foods that a geek is likely to stock in the house, i.e. Cheetos, DingDongs, etc.
This is all fine and well, but I smoke cigars and my pipe, not cigarettes.
Sorry. Complex 'nicotine delivery systems' can't replace the pleasure of buying a good cigar after filling up the car with gas and making a big smoky cloud while puffing it. No, I don't inhale.
As long as the 'marketing' for the plan is subsidized with tax dollars, it is fundamentally anti-competetive.
If the Government bought Microsoft Windows XP in huge quantities and got a 'price break' for people who might otherwise run some other Operating System, it would be fundamentally anti-competetive, too.
and ask why people are destroying voter registrations, minority voters are being told they can vote over the phone, and we ALREADY have missing votes in Florida....
1. Because we have a 'news industry' that makes it's money by convincing people there is compelling news they absolutely MUST read about?
2. Because there are political forces so desperate for power (give us anything, ANYTHING to do with this this pol.sci. or social work degree!!) that they'll fabricate whatever sort of hysterical garbage they can?
Those are a few of the answers. There are others. Probably even a small degree of actual voter fraud and disenfranchisement.
Up in Minnesota, all voting is done on paper, with nice clear #2 pencil style forms.
Also, up in Minnesota, pretty much anybody can show up at any polling place and say 'I live here' and vote. If they don't have proof that they live 'here' in the form of a bill with an address, etc., anybody else who is already registered (say, someone of the same political persuasion who hangs around the polling place) can say 'yes, they live here' and they can vote. No pre-registration, no waiting period at all.
For some reason she had drawn her own arrows on the form. Thankfully, the scanning machine worked wonders to detect this spoiled ballot. She was given another ballot and another demonstration on how to vote.
She should have just been given and 'F' and had a note pinned on her shirt and sent home.
Actually, Liberalism essentially died in the 60's and the early 70's, when the 'New Left' radicals took over the Democratic Party and trashed the old Liberal ideals.
The people branded as 'Liberals' today wouldn't have been called 'Liberals' fifty years ago.
They would have been called 'nuts' by the Liberals, and 'commie-red-finks' by some other people. Not that they would have had enough clout for anybody to pay attention to them.
We do agree...and I find it painfully ironic...that I long for the days of grid lock.
As an ideological conservative, I agree with the notion that a congress busy in gridlock is a congress that can't engage in mischief.
There used to be a feeling that was Dubya was about was cutting government bloat to the bone. That's no longer possible to believe. So we hold our noses and vote for Dubya. 'Cuz the alternative is far, far worse.
Back in BBS days we sysops usually had to pay the phone bill. And hard drives weren't cheap. Back in the era of $300 20 meg hard drives and 2400 baud modems, we spent to keep our 'forums' going. It hasn't really changed much. Except it's actually much, much cheaper now, for the volume of traffic per dollar.
Football is the 'crowd draw' for Marching Band halftime shows. It's pretty annoying, though, because sometimes those big stupid jocks score and we have to play the fucking school song again.
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You can't have it both ways.
Correct. So I choose to surrender the term 'Hacker' and the term 'Spam' to the popular usage.
Really, it shouldn't be that big a deal.
If enough people didn't participate in the election, a 'wait a minute' realization would take place, and likely, fundamental and deep political change would occur.
Not saying it would necessarily be a good thing, of course.
Those are the 'parts' that people customarily eat in the form of the Hot Dog. And yet, nobody gets all carried away about it.
The ingredients in Spam are actually much higher in quality. It's made of MEAT, not viscera.
I would bet good money that if you put a slab of SPAM and a slab of Tofu in front of the average person, it's the SPAM that would be eaten first.
if you are going to spend time perfecting SPAM cooking techniques, you might as well spend a bit of time figuring out how to cook rats too.
Naw. There are good and valid reasons to keep some SPAM around. Even good 'geek' reasons:
1. Fresh meats spoil if not eaten soon after purchase.
2. A can of SPAM has a long shelf life.
3. SPAM is undoubtedly a better thing to eat than a lot of other 'instant' foods that a geek is likely to stock in the house, i.e. Cheetos, DingDongs, etc.
The Constitution is a hard fast guideline for government.
And while the Constitution came out of 'politics' it isn't 'politics' which makes it great.
Compromise is the heart of politics, and politics is a pantload. As little as possible should be controlled by politics. People should just be free.
The Economist is an extremely liberal publication.
It has been, forever. It seems like a 'moderate' publication if you're far-left.
I can't help but make the estimation that you're farther than far-left.
And yet somebody still ends up winning the lottery anyway
And millions of other people waste their time and money hoping to win it.
This is all fine and well, but I smoke cigars and my pipe, not cigarettes.
Sorry. Complex 'nicotine delivery systems' can't replace the pleasure of buying a good cigar after filling up the car with gas and making a big smoky cloud while puffing it. No, I don't inhale.
As long as the 'marketing' for the plan is subsidized with tax dollars, it is fundamentally anti-competetive.
If the Government bought Microsoft Windows XP in huge quantities and got a 'price break' for people who might otherwise run some other Operating System, it would be fundamentally anti-competetive, too.
and ask why people are destroying voter registrations, minority voters are being told they can vote over the phone, and we ALREADY have missing votes in Florida....
1. Because we have a 'news industry' that makes it's money by convincing people there is compelling news they absolutely MUST read about?
2. Because there are political forces so desperate for power (give us anything, ANYTHING to do with this this pol.sci. or social work degree!!) that they'll fabricate whatever sort of hysterical garbage they can?
Those are a few of the answers. There are others. Probably even a small degree of actual voter fraud and disenfranchisement.
Up in Minnesota, all voting is done on paper, with nice clear #2 pencil style forms.
Also, up in Minnesota, pretty much anybody can show up at any polling place and say 'I live here' and vote. If they don't have proof that they live 'here' in the form of a bill with an address, etc., anybody else who is already registered (say, someone of the same political persuasion who hangs around the polling place) can say 'yes, they live here' and they can vote. No pre-registration, no waiting period at all.
It's just-add-water voter fraud.
Times change, and the stuff that the Education Establishment decides to censor out of the curriculum changes with the times.
There's plenty that the current folks in charge cover up.
The New York Times needs thousands of eyeballs watching what it is doing, too.
And thankfully there are folks doing a pretty good job of that.
For some reason she had drawn her own arrows on the form. Thankfully, the scanning machine worked wonders to detect this spoiled ballot. She was given another ballot and another demonstration on how to vote.
She should have just been given and 'F' and had a note pinned on her shirt and sent home.
Actually, Liberalism essentially died in the 60's and the early 70's, when the 'New Left' radicals took over the Democratic Party and trashed the old Liberal ideals.
The people branded as 'Liberals' today wouldn't have been called 'Liberals' fifty years ago.
They would have been called 'nuts' by the Liberals, and 'commie-red-finks' by some other people. Not that they would have had enough clout for anybody to pay attention to them.
Why is it going to be such a good deal? Because we're going to pool our purchasing power.
That sounds fundamentally uncompetetive. Why should a big government monopoly be established to compete in a market that at present is private?
Godwin's Law applies to USENET threads. Threads that often go on for days and weeks and weeks.
It is irrelevant to Slashdot threads, which by design last at most a day or two.
We do agree...and I find it painfully ironic...that I long for the days of grid lock.
As an ideological conservative, I agree with the notion that a congress busy in gridlock is a congress that can't engage in mischief.
There used to be a feeling that was Dubya was about was cutting government bloat to the bone. That's no longer possible to believe. So we hold our noses and vote for Dubya. 'Cuz the alternative is far, far worse.
Last time around, you could get free cigarettes in Milwaukee (at least, for voting for Algore).
Any good deals like that this time?
Back in BBS days we sysops usually had to pay the phone bill. And hard drives weren't cheap. Back in the era of $300 20 meg hard drives and 2400 baud modems, we spent to keep our 'forums' going. It hasn't really changed much. Except it's actually much, much cheaper now, for the volume of traffic per dollar.
People talk all the time about getting Operating System ISOs from BitTorrent and other means, where compromised drivers could be included.
Sure, there are security measures that could be taken, but many people are lax about that kind of thing.
The same can be said about non-Free software acquired through dubious or third-party means, and often is.
There were/are(?) a whole lot of aftermarket stuff for VW Beetles in the J.C. Whitney catalog.
And I have a whole box of 'Beetle custom' magazines stuck away somewhere here...
Scares the hell out of me that someone else thinks like me, too.
Football is the 'crowd draw' for Marching Band halftime shows. It's pretty annoying, though, because sometimes those big stupid jocks score and we have to play the fucking school song again.