Basically no, this is of course only allowed if the voter has some disability and can prove to have such (e.g., doctor's statement).
Of course, a disabled (in a way that makes voting by drawing an X in a circle impossible) person with an abusive spouse may be vulnerable to that, but as I said, a few votes up or down may not matter that much if you have a proportional voting system.
And I guess even taking this into account this system would have much less faked votes than you will have in November with this voting scam you are getting set up for.
In Austria were I lived a while there were also often several votes during one go, and we had, gasp, one piece of paper and one box for each one. I guess in the US there are more votes still, so I don't know if this would be possible
Where I live they can just nominate some other person (relative, friend...) to help them when they know they have problems. Or some of the voluteers that oversee the voting (1 of each party). If they don't do that, tough luck.
Of course it also helps that we have a somewhat sane voting system where 1 vote up or down is exactly that, 1 vote up or down, not flipping in entire fucking state. Therefore the issue of throwing out invalid votes is much less sensitive
Now this is interesting. Is it really true that in the US the media can publish any results before the voting is closed? I can't believe it! People, get your act together!
With people posting false signs in housing projects saying if the weather is bad people can vote another day
I really feel with you Americans on this issue, but LOL. I think you can be happy if people too stupid to know what this "election" thing actually is stay away from it
Haha, very funny. I suggest you take a look at how peoples' lives get ruined by gambling before making smart-ass comments.
To preempt the usual "everybody's free to ruin his own life" comment: I agree, partly. But since society in some way always pays in the end (because you can't let people simply rot in the streets, because expenses for law enforcement rise etc) I do think that it must be debatable to limit certain freedoms in this regard.
Same reason as why I advocate public health insurance and such: Yeah, everybody in theory is free to not have it and live with the consequences. But if they fuck up, their children and other innocents pay the check, so there is grounds to mandate some stuff. (There are many other reasons for publich health insurance too, but I won't get into that now)
In this thread we are talking about casinos, and while they have poker, they have lots of purely chance-based games too. And from an addiction and life-ruining point of view, I'm not sure poker is fairing much better than those.
It's the government's job to protect those that can't protect themselves, like, e.g., the children of the gambling addict whose school money he's going to waste (and if he gets depressed and turns to heavy drinking, there's a good chance he's going to beat the crap out of the child too).
Yes, there are many counter-arguments to this. However when all is said I do think that there are certain services/etc. that are needed in some way (if only because nobody puts up with them not being available), but are dangerous to many people because they can't handle it. This includes gambling and drugs, for example. And I think that giving the state a monopoly on these things (or have the state grant a monopoly in exchange for certain behavior) can be preferable to letting everybody do it as he likes.
At least it takes out the competition which as we all know drives a spiral to bigger-better-faster-more. This spiral is good in many areas, but it is not in stuff like gambling. IMHO
I don't think the poster meant that there's something wrong with shutting down. But if you are shutting down nightly, you can't talk about uptimes, and that was the point
Well, I guess you have no idea about the license either. You assume that copying is not allowed, but that interpretation is not better than any other. In fact, the blurb saying "they plan to model the Darwin and Fedora projects" indicates GPL or BSD license. I concede that it is stupid to draw conclusions from a slashdot blurb, but the parent still has a point as long as seen in the Darwin/Fedora context. Or at least not less than you:)
On a HP nc6000 laptop (Radeon Mobility 9600, run at half the possible clock speed, 250 instead of 500)
With the 3.7 driver I got over 200 fps with fgl_glxgears, and around 1,300 fps with glxgears. With the 3.11.1 I get 180 and 850 respectively. I would like to report that on the ATI feedback page given in the blurb, but they want my full name and email, and in very small print at the bottom of the page they say: "All problem reports, test results and other feedback shall be the property of ATI and may be used by ATI for any purpose. [...] By using the feedback form you grant ATI the right to contact you for more information or to send future email." I don't think so. I instead reported to they guy who makes the.debs
Thanks, that's exactly what I thought. Typical buzzword stuff when consultants want to sell new methodologies to managers who have too little time to think about it. The "hype cycle" is really very obvious, and there are other life cycles that look exactly the same.
Now what I would pay Gartner for is what the/. blurb erroneously said they had done: predicting what it take[s] for a new gadget to be successful on the market. The hype cycle only shows where a product is in the cycle. It does not explain why some products stay in the trough.
What are you talking about? 1. the weekend: you are partly right, but the unions have reestablished it, after it had already been taken away 2. 11 m in Germany is completely nonsense, China and Russia - only if you subsume under "unions" every "communist" political movement, whih cis also nonsens
And you are right, too. The body recognizes that it suddenly went cold inside and reacts with producing more heat. Not the thing you want when it's hot in the first place
I (Europe) always feel ripped off when I get huge amounts of ice. When I order 0.25 l of apple juice and pay for it, I expect 0.25 l apple juice, not 0.125 apple juice filled up with ice (which, while being a rip-off, IMO waters the juice and makes it so cold that the taste vanishes)
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Funnily, the very first sentence in this story is "Though military personnel lean conservative, some vocally support Kerry (...)".
/. that even those submitting articles/giving links don't read them? :-)
Is it new at
Basically no, this is of course only allowed if the voter has some disability and can prove to have such (e.g., doctor's statement).
Of course, a disabled (in a way that makes voting by drawing an X in a circle impossible) person with an abusive spouse may be vulnerable to that, but as I said, a few votes up or down may not matter that much if you have a proportional voting system.
And I guess even taking this into account this system would have much less faked votes than you will have in November with this voting scam you are getting set up for.
I did mean "stupid" somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and agree with you.
Mods on crack again ... sure, a comment about e-voting in other countries sure is offtopic in a story about e-voting in the US. sheesh
In Austria were I lived a while there were also often several votes during one go, and we had, gasp, one piece of paper and one box for each one.
I guess in the US there are more votes still, so I don't know if this would be possible
Where I live they can just nominate some other person (relative, friend ...) to help them when they know they have problems. Or some of the voluteers that oversee the voting (1 of each party). If they don't do that, tough luck.
Of course it also helps that we have a somewhat sane voting system where 1 vote up or down is exactly that, 1 vote up or down, not flipping in entire fucking state. Therefore the issue of throwing out invalid votes is much less sensitive
Now this is interesting. Is it really true that in the US the media can publish any results before the voting is closed? I can't believe it! People, get your act together!
With people posting false signs in housing projects saying if the weather is bad people can vote another day
I really feel with you Americans on this issue, but LOL. I think you can be happy if people too stupid to know what this "election" thing actually is stay away from it
Haha, very funny. I suggest you take a look at how peoples' lives get ruined by gambling before making smart-ass comments.
To preempt the usual "everybody's free to ruin his own life" comment: I agree, partly. But since society in some way always pays in the end (because you can't let people simply rot in the streets, because expenses for law enforcement rise etc) I do think that it must be debatable to limit certain freedoms in this regard.
Same reason as why I advocate public health insurance and such: Yeah, everybody in theory is free to not have it and live with the consequences. But if they fuck up, their children and other innocents pay the check, so there is grounds to mandate some stuff. (There are many other reasons for publich health insurance too, but I won't get into that now)
In this thread we are talking about casinos, and while they have poker, they have lots of purely chance-based games too.
And from an addiction and life-ruining point of view, I'm not sure poker is fairing much better than those.
I see your point, but ...
It's the government's job to protect those that can't protect themselves, like, e.g., the children of the gambling addict whose school money he's going to waste (and if he gets depressed and turns to heavy drinking, there's a good chance he's going to beat the crap out of the child too).
Yes, there are many counter-arguments to this. However when all is said I do think that there are certain services/etc. that are needed in some way (if only because nobody puts up with them not being available), but are dangerous to many people because they can't handle it. This includes gambling and drugs, for example. And I think that giving the state a monopoly on these things (or have the state grant a monopoly in exchange for certain behavior) can be preferable to letting everybody do it as he likes.
At least it takes out the competition which as we all know drives a spiral to bigger-better-faster-more. This spiral is good in many areas, but it is not in stuff like gambling. IMHO
I don't think the poster meant that there's something wrong with shutting down. But if you are shutting down nightly, you can't talk about uptimes, and that was the point
Well, I guess you have no idea about the license either. You assume that copying is not allowed, but that interpretation is not better than any other. In fact, the blurb saying "they plan to model the Darwin and Fedora projects" indicates GPL or BSD license. I concede that it is stupid to draw conclusions from a slashdot blurb, but the parent still has a point as long as seen in the Darwin/Fedora context. Or at least not less than you :)
No spam would make the internet a place were more people would consider to spend time -> bigger market
Hmmm. You could consider that he maybe just has made a typo?
On a HP nc6000 laptop (Radeon Mobility 9600, run at half the possible clock speed, 250 instead of 500)
.debs
With the 3.7 driver I got over 200 fps with fgl_glxgears, and around 1,300 fps with glxgears.
With the 3.11.1 I get 180 and 850 respectively. I would like to report that on the ATI feedback page given in the blurb, but they want my full name and email, and in very small print at the bottom of the page they say: "All problem reports, test results and other feedback shall be the property of ATI and may be used by ATI for any purpose. [...] By using the feedback form you grant ATI the right to contact you for more information or to send future email."
I don't think so. I instead reported to they guy who makes the
+1 interesting observation. Thanks
You are right, my bad. Seems my sources.list gets too crowded.
evolution-1.5 (the dev version) has been in unstable for a long time and works ok
Thanks, that's exactly what I thought. Typical buzzword stuff when consultants want to sell new methodologies to managers who have too little time to think about it. The "hype cycle" is really very obvious, and there are other life cycles that look exactly the same.
/. blurb erroneously said they had done: predicting what it take[s] for a new gadget to be successful on the market. The hype cycle only shows where a product is in the cycle. It does not explain why some products stay in the trough.
Now what I would pay Gartner for is what the
Right, this violence by soft white powder against concrete has to stop
(...) people's definitions of "open source" (...)
There is on true definition
What are you talking about? 1. the weekend: you are partly right, but the unions have reestablished it, after it had already been taken away 2. 11 m in Germany is completely nonsense, China and Russia - only if you subsume under "unions" every "communist" political movement, whih cis also nonsens
And you are right, too. The body recognizes that it suddenly went cold inside and reacts with producing more heat. Not the thing you want when it's hot in the first place
I (Europe) always feel ripped off when I get huge amounts of ice. When I order 0.25 l of apple juice and pay for it, I expect 0.25 l apple juice, not 0.125 apple juice filled up with ice (which, while being a rip-off, IMO waters the juice and makes it so cold that the taste vanishes)