It would seem to me that a cellphone would be an incredibly useful thing to have in an emergency situation... Especially so loved ones could contact you and see if you are in said situation...
Right? I was thinking they were implying they could genetically alter a human so that when given this antibiotic said person would contract a fatal disease.
It's funny you say things and don't back them up at all...
"paper voting is still used all over the world because it is the EASIEST and SAFEST"
Hrm... Do you really think that counting votes by hand is easier than having a machine tally them up rapidly?
Also, if it were an open source software used to record and tally votes (as someone earlier in this thread suggested), than we would not need to worry about people pressing "a secret key combo on a computer" and "poof" all those votes going without trace or record... If there were a secret key combo like that in the source, people would notice... Fast.
As long as the voting booths were setup correctly, it wouldn't be a problem. They could be configured to be harder to tamper with than paper voting machines, if this was done right. Maybe attach a keyboard only a few keys... One key for each candidate. Any other keyboard input is received, the software automatically restarts the computer, maybe. That way we don't have to worry about someone plugging in their own keyboard (somehow) and tampering... Upon boot the software automatically runs. Hell, it could be a whole voting open source operating system.
"but hey you carry on, its a great show watching what was a free and democratic society turn into a totalitarian corrupt theocracy, perhaps when the riots start you might ask where you went wrong"
Ah yes, logically, the implimentatin of an electronic voting process will turn this country into a theocracy...
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It would seem to me that a cellphone would be an incredibly useful thing to have in an emergency situation... Especially so loved ones could contact you and see if you are in said situation...
I still have a hard time being convinced that patents don't just limit the potential of human technology...
Right? I was thinking they were implying they could genetically alter a human so that when given this antibiotic said person would contract a fatal disease.
This is a massive generalization at best.
Yeah... As an American, I'm ashamed of the outcome of this election. Fuck America. Here I come, Canada.
It's funny you say things and don't back them up at all... "paper voting is still used all over the world because it is the EASIEST and SAFEST" Hrm... Do you really think that counting votes by hand is easier than having a machine tally them up rapidly? Also, if it were an open source software used to record and tally votes (as someone earlier in this thread suggested), than we would not need to worry about people pressing "a secret key combo on a computer" and "poof" all those votes going without trace or record... If there were a secret key combo like that in the source, people would notice... Fast. As long as the voting booths were setup correctly, it wouldn't be a problem. They could be configured to be harder to tamper with than paper voting machines, if this was done right. Maybe attach a keyboard only a few keys... One key for each candidate. Any other keyboard input is received, the software automatically restarts the computer, maybe. That way we don't have to worry about someone plugging in their own keyboard (somehow) and tampering... Upon boot the software automatically runs. Hell, it could be a whole voting open source operating system. "but hey you carry on, its a great show watching what was a free and democratic society turn into a totalitarian corrupt theocracy, perhaps when the riots start you might ask where you went wrong" Ah yes, logically , the implimentatin of an electronic voting process will turn this country into a theocracy...