In the US, minorities do have the final word and disenfranchise everyone else. That's the point of the article, really. As it stands, gerrymandering creates a huge number of "safe" zones where the vote is decided in the primary by roughly half of the dominant party, which will be a minority of the total population.
I would LOVE to. Hell, I'm a libertarian too. I fully agree that competition would help immensely.
But where is this free market? The only way to get high speed Internet in most of the US is to go through the cable monopoly or the telephone monopoly. It's not the best solution, but let's see how this Utah experiment turns out.
...bureaucrats who have ruined education, who have done nothing but porked their budgets out of control...
Do you really think that Comcast and Verizon [adjust as appropriate to your location] are NOT bureaucrats who have ruined service and have out of control budgets? Please allow me to laugh!
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No, you're think of Ray Bourke.
Nope. It's just an alternate pronunciation of giga.
/jiga/, /giga/
giga-:
Then may I suggest the Naked News?
Surely a bolt of lightning has the power of 1.21 GW.
Well that explains why he always keeps that blanket around.
In the US, minorities do have the final word and disenfranchise everyone else. That's the point of the article, really. As it stands, gerrymandering creates a huge number of "safe" zones where the vote is decided in the primary by roughly half of the dominant party, which will be a minority of the total population.
I think something new is worth a shot.
Basically yes.
Not perfect circles, but as close as possible.
And now you know... the rest of the story.
</Paul Harvey>
Alice: What's the integral of (1/Cabin)dCabin ?
Bob: Log Cabin!
Alice: Wrong! It's a houseboat - Log Cabin plus Sea.
The variant I heard:
Q: How many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two, but how did they get inside?
Do it even better with a partner link that scares people :)
that's bloody hilarious :)
Ooh. That's a good one.
Tie it in with IBM's "Linux is a little boy" campaign...
What did you teach him??
Doesn't Slashdot link to them several times each week? I would think they'd be used to it by now :)
May I suggest you check out his other work?
Wasn't this the opening sequence to one of the Alien movies?
#3 gives me a Bergkvist.
At least it's not Simson Garfinkel.
A fat cat? TUBCAT!
[No relation to Tubgirl.]
If you believe Heinlein, that might not be such a bad thing.
Yep.
What, isn't Red Flag a cute enough Communist pun for ya?
I would LOVE to. Hell, I'm a libertarian too. I fully agree that competition would help immensely.
But where is this free market? The only way to get high speed Internet in most of the US is to go through the cable monopoly or the telephone monopoly. It's not the best solution, but let's see how this Utah experiment turns out.
Do you really think that Comcast and Verizon [adjust as appropriate to your location] are NOT bureaucrats who have ruined service and have out of control budgets? Please allow me to laugh!
Utahns. Yeah, spelled like that.
Someone should tell this Schwartz fellow that Canada is still an independent nation.