The EC was created as a balance of Power. I am glad that we do not use a popular vote to elect the president. Lets say for instance that we threw out the EC and just used the popular vote. If I was campaigning for president I would spend 100% of my campaign money split between California and New York and I would win the election.
That is why we have the EC. It is no more a throwback to the Colonial Days then our own Constitution. Yes the larger states still have more power in our elections but if I spent 100% of my dollars today on California and New York I would not win the election. However I could if we used a popular voting system. This is why it's a balance of power. Many modern Democracies use a EC system including Burundi, Estonia, India, France (for the Senate), Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Balancing the power between our states is very important. We are still just a group of United States with a federal government designed to represent the states. Do you think that larger states should get more Senate seats? They have more population? Why does Utah get the same amount of say in matters of the Senate as California?
I totally agree with the unique identifier plan. I would like to use a touch screen, place my votes and have it print off a result sheet with the unique identifier on it. Then I would either give my print off to my party of choice to have them verify it was counted properly or go on the internet and verify it myself (or both).
However the electoral college is not BS. It is a balance of power. A direct vote count would give too much power to the states with a higher population. Pretty soon all of our tax dollars would go to California and the rest of us would be screwed.
Two words Customer Service. Have you ever tried calling them? The call center is somewhere in India, I tried for 20 mins to fix an order for a product that cost over $2000. I had placed an 'older' version of the software in my cart and they canceled my order. I wanted the new version, but the customer service person did not know what I was talking about and was not able to fix the order. I gave up and called CDW who has an American call center. I had the same version problem on their web site, but the American operator was able to straighten it out.
You teach kids that ID is science and you get crappy scientists
What the heck? How many years have we taught ID in school?!? oh yeah 0! Private 'religious' schools turn out better students any day over crappy public schools that think even recognizing ID as a theory is evil. (While evolution is still a faith based science!)
You ignore the science of economics and you end up with a huge current account deficit which will take a decade to repay
As a % of the GDP our debt is no where close to where it was in WWII. Economy is in an upswing and the defect is shrinking. Get over it.
You ignore the *fact* that human produced carbon dioxide is warming the earth and you wreck your environment just in time for your grandchildren
The only fact is that the pot is going to your head. While You wine about global warming it is a FACT that Antarctica is cooling, so I would be more worried about global warming then global cooling. Global warming is just a buzz word scientist use to get funding.
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The EC was created as a balance of Power. I am glad that we do not use a popular vote to elect the president. Lets say for instance that we threw out the EC and just used the popular vote. If I was campaigning for president I would spend 100% of my campaign money split between California and New York and I would win the election.
That is why we have the EC. It is no more a throwback to the Colonial Days then our own Constitution. Yes the larger states still have more power in our elections but if I spent 100% of my dollars today on California and New York I would not win the election. However I could if we used a popular voting system. This is why it's a balance of power. Many modern Democracies use a EC system including Burundi, Estonia, India, France (for the Senate), Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Balancing the power between our states is very important. We are still just a group of United States with a federal government designed to represent the states. Do you think that larger states should get more Senate seats? They have more population? Why does Utah get the same amount of say in matters of the Senate as California?
I totally agree with the unique identifier plan. I would like to use a touch screen, place my votes and have it print off a result sheet with the unique identifier on it. Then I would either give my print off to my party of choice to have them verify it was counted properly or go on the internet and verify it myself (or both). However the electoral college is not BS. It is a balance of power. A direct vote count would give too much power to the states with a higher population. Pretty soon all of our tax dollars would go to California and the rest of us would be screwed.
That small huh?
Two words Customer Service. Have you ever tried calling them? The call center is somewhere in India, I tried for 20 mins to fix an order for a product that cost over $2000. I had placed an 'older' version of the software in my cart and they canceled my order. I wanted the new version, but the customer service person did not know what I was talking about and was not able to fix the order. I gave up and called CDW who has an American call center. I had the same version problem on their web site, but the American operator was able to straighten it out.
You must have been an only child. When I was 6 my brother was 8 and nothing seemed to be fair at all.
You teach kids that ID is science and you get crappy scientists
What the heck? How many years have we taught ID in school?!? oh yeah 0! Private 'religious' schools turn out better students any day over crappy public schools that think even recognizing ID as a theory is evil. (While evolution is still a faith based science!)
You ignore the science of economics and you end up with a huge current account deficit which will take a decade to repay
As a % of the GDP our debt is no where close to where it was in WWII. Economy is in an upswing and the defect is shrinking. Get over it.
You ignore the *fact* that human produced carbon dioxide is warming the earth and you wreck your environment just in time for your grandchildren
The only fact is that the pot is going to your head. While You wine about global warming it is a FACT that Antarctica is cooling, so I would be more worried about global warming then global cooling. Global warming is just a buzz word scientist use to get funding.
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I don't need to travel in time, I just need to transmit winning lotto numbers to myself.
Ok so I don't know how this thing works, but could we use it in combination with a Nuke power plant? Nukes heat up water and spin a turbine, why can't we also use that heat with some of these crystals and increase the power output of a nuke power plant?