In the US, conservatives believe in a conservative interpretation of the Constitution, and liberals believe in a liberal interpretation of the Constitution.
A conservative interpretation of the constitution would limit jurisdiction of the federal government to those areas explicitly outlined and leave the rest to the states. How many so-called conservatives are coming out against proposals at the federal level to regulate same-sex marriages, something that is clearly the purview of the states?
I think the confusion is economic conservatives are often socially liberal (in terms of what hand they would have the government play in day-to-day affairs of the populous), and economic liberals are often very conservative when it comes to the government dictating social policy.
When you register to vote and register a car in the US, you have to provide an address. Even your taxes have to go somewhere. Or are you a tax evader?
Actually, until I started doing my own tax returns recently, all my tax-related stuff from the guv'ment went to my accountant.
I gave my address to register to vote. I gave my address on my tax returns. I even gave my address to register my car.
But 1) I didn't have to do any of those things. (If I didn't have any income, I wouldn't need to file a return (See IRS Topic 351 - Who Must File?))
And 2) Each of those addresses could be different. Yes, in almost all cases they should be same. And yes, that allows a lot of room for shenanigans, but such is a price of freedom. I'll take the freedom and risk someone might be using a bogus address for cheaper car insurance.
In conclusion, I still don't get the deal with the 'registered address,' and everyone who is legally entitled to vote in the US of A should. Registration is easy; just do it. (And folks outside the USA who can vote whereever they are, should probably do that, too.)
I think voting is important, but I think it's more important that you have an informed vote.
I have nothing against an informed vote. I'm highly in favor. But it's become a bit of a cart/house type issue.
You'd like community involvement, a sense of civic duty, perhaps patriotism, to be the horses pulling the voting cart. And that's good, but it isn't working that way for a lot of people these days.
I say, let that cart go from the top of the hill, and you'll see those ponies move. The old just isn't working--maybe never did. Voter turn-out has been pretty steady, and steadily bad, since we stopped same-day registration.
Look at Rock The Vote. It sucked. Is it still around? Does it matter? 'We're gonna get kids involved with the issues.' Man, kids don't want to know about issues.
But they can tell you who Brittany's married to this week, or what each of AI's tattoos mean. People can grasp complex issues. Get people into the habit of voting, and the interest will follow. It gets the cart moving.
The vagueness of informed gives me the willies. I know where every representative stands on the issue of P2P file sharing, but nothing about any of the other issues. Am I informed?
I vote the way I'm told the pope wants me to vote. Am I informed?
I vote for the guy with the hot girls-gone-wild daughters. Am I informed?
Everyone eligible person should vote. I'd hope they have a good reason for voting they way they do. But my hopes or opinions don't change the fact they should vote.
If my guess about the demographic is right, and the organizers aren't Democrats, then they're fools.
I'd guess you're not as right as you think you are. Old Republicans come form somewhere. Sometimes it's young Republicans. Computer access...possibly more well-off...probably financially above-average...very likely Republican.
And don't let the subject matter through you off. Just because the Republicans don't want you to see dirty pictures and have fun in the privacy of your own bedroom, doesn't mean they're not the party of adulterers and dirty old men.
And what if Jim and James go for Party A, VoteOrNot leads to a bunch of votes for Party B? How does that make them fools? Maybe they're just trying to get more people registered and voting.
To bring my above rant a little more on topic in response to JonBoy X (not JonBoy from the village, by any chance?) and further respond to his points...
By encouraging people who really don't care about anything but a free iPod to vote, you effectively dilute the votes of people who genuinely do care about issues that affect them, or are at least willing to put forth the effort required to become an informed voter.
Wanting an iPod is, unfortunately, a political issue. Anyone who frequents/. should know that (INDUCE, RIAA, MPAA, broadcast flags, etc.).
I wouldn't recommend casting your vote based on that single issue, but the iPod has become a political issue.
1. Unless you run a focused campaign, voter registration drives most likely have no short term effects on election outcome.
Across the US of A, non-voter demographics and party/candidate affiliations are pretty darn close to those of voters. Hopefully, there is a long term effect of more people getting involved in the process and continuing to vote, but something as unfocused as VoteOrNot is highly unlikely to turn the election to one side or the other.
2. Without dropping down to the level of personal attack and troll, attitudes like those expressed by the parent poster make me want to puke. "_______ is better off not voting." (blacks\women\lazy\whomever we don't like this week) F' you, ya F'in fascist.
Do you meet the constitutional legal requirements to vote? (Age/residency/ whatever) If yes, then register and vote. Get all your news from GameSpot? Fine, vote. Can't be any worse than someone who gets all their news from the 700 club. Lazy? We need your vote. Do you really want the fate of the nation decided by the freaks who actually went to morning classes in college?
By encouraging people who really don't care about anything but a free iPod to vote, you effectively dilute the votes of people who genuinely do care about issues that affect them, or are at least willing to put forth the effort required to become an informed voter.
I watch Fox news every day. And nothing else. Am I an informed voter?
I watch The Daily Show. When there isn't a good re-run of Family Guy on 'toon. Am I an informed voter?
Saddam tried to kill my daddy. WMD? Look at this monkey! Am I an informed voter?
Bottom line, voting, and encouraging others to vote, is just about the most patriotic thing a USA citizen can do. Discouraging anyone meeting the legal requirements from voting borders on treason. Who the hell are you, who is anyone, to decide how much someone needs to care, or what they need to care about to vote? If someone registers and votes, what other effort is required? Instead of 'informed voter' why don't you just come out and say 'literacy test' aka recite this passage from the new testament in latin, oh fine! Let's not beat around the bush, Rich White Men! Cause no one else knows enough, or cares enough, right? So we'll just let ole whitey take care of everything.
oh man...that's not gonna help the karma.
How is registering to vote a bad idea?
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I play a little game whenever stuff like this comes up. I call it 'spot the fascist.'
It's easy. Whatever else someone else says, whatever party they say they're with, whatever point of view they say they are supporting, you know you've found one when they come out against folks getting registered and voting.
In the USA, most places, you have to register before you can vote. If you don't register, you can't vote. Folks (when meeting the legal requirements of age, residency, etc.) should vote; therefor they should register to vote.
It doesn't matter why they register. It doesn't matter why they vote. It matters that they do register and vote.
I'm reminded of a discussion on NPR about prisoner voting. The 'against' side brought up some of the same arguments we hear is the student voting discussions. Dorms/prisons are temporary residence; students/prisoners don't have a stake in the community; have the option of absentee ballet, the usual.
I found myself starting seeing the logic on the side against, when the guy come out with (paraphrasing) 'large prison populations dominate small communities, and we don't like who prisoners might vote for.'
Did you spot the fascist?
In conclusion, I support rules governing the voting process and who gets to vote. I'm not coming out for anarchy. However, someone's motivation for registering or voting, or who they might vote (or not vote) for should have no bearing on their legal status as a voter and should not be used by others as encouragement to not vote.
Vote early, vote often.
BTW, where is it illegal for poll workers to ask for ID?
In Norway, you get your voter card (the one that says where to go and vote and when) automatically sent to your registered address (more or less your tax residency).
o/~ it takes different strokes to rule the world o/~
As a USAian, I find the idea of the Norwegian registered address very offensive. I am free to travel and move around the country with no need to register my location with the government at any time.
Sure, there are specific registration I have no objection to. I register to vote; I register my car. But to be tracked for no specific reason, even if it does have the benefit of making voting easier, creeps me out big time.
If I got something in the mail, unprovoked, from the government letting me know they knew where I was and how long I'd been there, I would not think it very nice.
Anyway, getting registered to vote is sooooo easy and only needs to be done when there's a change in status (reaching voting age, change of residence) so it's not really a major issue.
Anyway, to get back on topic, I think VoteOrNot is great. I especially like they way more referrals give you a better chance to win. faq5 We absolutely need more people registering and more people voting.
We all know what 'issues' the/. crowd is concerned with...
This is just an excuse to run more stories on Georgy Russell. (How long does any discussion of SciFi characters go before it turns to Scully or some tart running after Dr Who in go-go boots and a short skirt?)
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You could have just as easily said "no bigger than a block of cheese the size of a pile of matchsticks the size of an asteroid the size of a VW".
Well, that's just silly. A block of cheese the size of a pile of matchsticks the size of an asteroid the size of a VW is smaller than an asteroid the size of a VW. After all, which would you rather have to eat?
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And fans draw practically no power at all, maybe one or two [Watts], so I don't see why you drag them into the discussion...
I think the point is not that the fans themselves draw a lot of power, but the various system components are wasting a lot of power expressed by heat which necessitates all the fans.
It'll keep track of your sleep cycle, gently bringing up the room lights at precisely the right time so that you'll feel rested, not cardiac arrested, as you awake.
Right, like your boss is going to let you waltz in at 10:30 because your brain-wave monitor didn't deem you rested until after 9. (And if you've had enough rest, don't you wake up naturally? Why use a device to do it for you?)
+1 Spot On. I realize this sort of article is pure fantasy and has as much (or less) scientific value as a slashdot poll, but this guy isn't really trying. This is really somebody's 7th grade social studies project, isn' it?
Moore's law tells us that computing power doubles every 18 months.
That's as far as I needed to read. Apparently in 2014 people will still mis-state common axioms (Moore's law), mis-quote famous sayings (come up and see me sometime, play it again Sam, etc), mis-pronounce common words (nuclear), and generally mis-use language (irregardless).
Of course, all this misses the point. What we really want to know is, in 2014, does Han shoot first?
Due to a high-density atmosphere, it has severe variations in temperature...
Actually, due to the amount of liquid water on the surface, Sol3 has very slight variations in temperature. Prevailing currents carry heat from the equatorial regions to the poles.
Retention of heat by large bodies of water and the 'high-density atmosphere also severely reduce the variation in daytime and nighttime surface temperatures. In contrast, temperatures on Mars, with its this atmosphere, vary from about 27 C daytime to -73 C nighttime.
I know WEP isn't perfect, but seriously, if WEP is too complicated for you, it's not 'well, I'm not l33t and it should just work like my DVD player,' it's 'get the box, pack up your computer, and ship it back, cause you're just too stupid.'
First, you don't need to remember any-number-digit hex key. It's called get a pen and paper and write it down, numbnuts. Second, most consumer networking gear (linksys, netgear) will accept a plain language pass phrase which is then converted to a hex key, so you can use some word or phrase you'll easily remember.
Third, if WEP is like a cheap bike chain that is easily broken, MAC white listing is tissue paper. WEP can be cracked, but your average home wireless network takes weeks to produce enough interesting packets to crack a 128-bit key. MACs on the other hand, well, if your router only accepts connections from MACs on the white list, what do you think is one of the first things your computer sends out when establishing a connection? Right, its MAC, which are very easily changed/forged.
As far as 'it should just work,' people are not THAT stupid. (They're stupid, don't get me wrong, but not that stupid.) Folks know in the world of computers, some things need configuration. Outlook needs their POP account info to get their email, even if they don't know what 'POP' means. They know they enter their password to get their hotmail.
WEP is the same way. The router has this password. Whether it's a plain english passphrase or a 26-digit hex key, anything that wants to make a wireless connection needs that password. You set up each device once, and it's all set. WEP ain't that hard.
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It always works in the movies.
Can't be any worse than all the kids names 'Espn'
Can you type slower please? I cannot read that fast.
Doesn't every device on the net already have a unique (unless customized otherwise) address? Can't we use MAC addresses?
A conservative interpretation of the constitution would limit jurisdiction of the federal government to those areas explicitly outlined and leave the rest to the states. How many so-called conservatives are coming out against proposals at the federal level to regulate same-sex marriages, something that is clearly the purview of the states?
I think the confusion is economic conservatives are often socially liberal (in terms of what hand they would have the government play in day-to-day affairs of the populous), and economic liberals are often very conservative when it comes to the government dictating social policy.
Where have the real conservatives gone?
Actually, until I started doing my own tax returns recently, all my tax-related stuff from the guv'ment went to my accountant.
I gave my address to register to vote. I gave my address on my tax returns. I even gave my address to register my car.
But 1) I didn't have to do any of those things. (If I didn't have any income, I wouldn't need to file a return (See IRS Topic 351 - Who Must File?))
And 2) Each of those addresses could be different. Yes, in almost all cases they should be same. And yes, that allows a lot of room for shenanigans, but such is a price of freedom. I'll take the freedom and risk someone might be using a bogus address for cheaper car insurance.
In conclusion, I still don't get the deal with the 'registered address,' and everyone who is legally entitled to vote in the US of A should. Registration is easy; just do it. (And folks outside the USA who can vote whereever they are, should probably do that, too.)
I have nothing against an informed vote. I'm highly in favor. But it's become a bit of a cart/house type issue.
You'd like community involvement, a sense of civic duty, perhaps patriotism, to be the horses pulling the voting cart. And that's good, but it isn't working that way for a lot of people these days.
I say, let that cart go from the top of the hill, and you'll see those ponies move. The old just isn't working--maybe never did. Voter turn-out has been pretty steady, and steadily bad, since we stopped same-day registration.
Look at Rock The Vote. It sucked. Is it still around? Does it matter? 'We're gonna get kids involved with the issues.' Man, kids don't want to know about issues.
But they can tell you who Brittany's married to this week, or what each of AI's tattoos mean. People can grasp complex issues. Get people into the habit of voting, and the interest will follow. It gets the cart moving.
The vagueness of informed gives me the willies. I know where every representative stands on the issue of P2P file sharing, but nothing about any of the other issues. Am I informed?
I vote the way I'm told the pope wants me to vote. Am I informed?
I vote for the guy with the hot girls-gone-wild daughters. Am I informed?
Everyone eligible person should vote. I'd hope they have a good reason for voting they way they do. But my hopes or opinions don't change the fact they should vote.
I'd guess you're not as right as you think you are. Old Republicans come form somewhere. Sometimes it's young Republicans. Computer access...possibly more well-off...probably financially above-average...very likely Republican.
And don't let the subject matter through you off. Just because the Republicans don't want you to see dirty pictures and have fun in the privacy of your own bedroom, doesn't mean they're not the party of adulterers and dirty old men.
And what if Jim and James go for Party A, VoteOrNot leads to a bunch of votes for Party B? How does that make them fools? Maybe they're just trying to get more people registered and voting.
By encouraging people who really don't care about anything but a free iPod to vote, you effectively dilute the votes of people who genuinely do care about issues that affect them, or are at least willing to put forth the effort required to become an informed voter.
Wanting an iPod is, unfortunately, a political issue. Anyone who frequents /. should know that (INDUCE, RIAA, MPAA, broadcast flags, etc.).
I wouldn't recommend casting your vote based on that single issue, but the iPod has become a political issue.
1. Unless you run a focused campaign, voter registration drives most likely have no short term effects on election outcome.
Across the US of A, non-voter demographics and party/candidate affiliations are pretty darn close to those of voters. Hopefully, there is a long term effect of more people getting involved in the process and continuing to vote, but something as unfocused as VoteOrNot is highly unlikely to turn the election to one side or the other.
2. Without dropping down to the level of personal attack and troll, attitudes like those expressed by the parent poster make me want to puke. "_______ is better off not voting." (blacks\women\lazy\whomever we don't like this week) F' you, ya F'in fascist.
Do you meet the constitutional legal requirements to vote? (Age/residency/ whatever) If yes, then register and vote. Get all your news from GameSpot? Fine, vote. Can't be any worse than someone who gets all their news from the 700 club. Lazy? We need your vote. Do you really want the fate of the nation decided by the freaks who actually went to morning classes in college?
By encouraging people who really don't care about anything but a free iPod to vote, you effectively dilute the votes of people who genuinely do care about issues that affect them, or are at least willing to put forth the effort required to become an informed voter.
I watch Fox news every day. And nothing else. Am I an informed voter?
I watch The Daily Show. When there isn't a good re-run of Family Guy on 'toon. Am I an informed voter?
Saddam tried to kill my daddy. WMD? Look at this monkey! Am I an informed voter?
Bottom line, voting, and encouraging others to vote, is just about the most patriotic thing a USA citizen can do. Discouraging anyone meeting the legal requirements from voting borders on treason. Who the hell are you, who is anyone, to decide how much someone needs to care, or what they need to care about to vote? If someone registers and votes, what other effort is required? Instead of 'informed voter' why don't you just come out and say 'literacy test' aka recite this passage from the new testament in latin, oh fine! Let's not beat around the bush, Rich White Men! Cause no one else knows enough, or cares enough, right? So we'll just let ole whitey take care of everything.
oh man...that's not gonna help the karma.
I play a little game whenever stuff like this comes up. I call it 'spot the fascist.'
It's easy. Whatever else someone else says, whatever party they say they're with, whatever point of view they say they are supporting, you know you've found one when they come out against folks getting registered and voting.
In the USA, most places, you have to register before you can vote. If you don't register, you can't vote. Folks (when meeting the legal requirements of age, residency, etc.) should vote; therefor they should register to vote.
It doesn't matter why they register. It doesn't matter why they vote. It matters that they do register and vote.
I'm reminded of a discussion on NPR about prisoner voting. The 'against' side brought up some of the same arguments we hear is the student voting discussions. Dorms/prisons are temporary residence; students/prisoners don't have a stake in the community; have the option of absentee ballet, the usual.
I found myself starting seeing the logic on the side against, when the guy come out with (paraphrasing) 'large prison populations dominate small communities, and we don't like who prisoners might vote for.'
Did you spot the fascist?
In conclusion, I support rules governing the voting process and who gets to vote. I'm not coming out for anarchy. However, someone's motivation for registering or voting, or who they might vote (or not vote) for should have no bearing on their legal status as a voter and should not be used by others as encouragement to not vote.
Vote early, vote often.
BTW, where is it illegal for poll workers to ask for ID?
o/~ it takes different strokes to rule the world o/~
As a USAian, I find the idea of the Norwegian registered address very offensive. I am free to travel and move around the country with no need to register my location with the government at any time.
Sure, there are specific registration I have no objection to. I register to vote; I register my car. But to be tracked for no specific reason, even if it does have the benefit of making voting easier, creeps me out big time.
If I got something in the mail, unprovoked, from the government letting me know they knew where I was and how long I'd been there, I would not think it very nice.
Anyway, getting registered to vote is sooooo easy and only needs to be done when there's a change in status (reaching voting age, change of residence) so it's not really a major issue.
Anyway, to get back on topic, I think VoteOrNot is great. I especially like they way more referrals give you a better chance to win. faq5 We absolutely need more people registering and more people voting.
This is just an excuse to run more stories on Georgy Russell. (How long does any discussion of SciFi characters go before it turns to Scully or some tart running after Dr Who in go-go boots and a short skirt?)
Well, that's just silly. A block of cheese the size of a pile of matchsticks the size of an asteroid the size of a VW is smaller than an asteroid the size of a VW. After all, which would you rather have to eat?
I think the point is not that the fans themselves draw a lot of power, but the various system components are wasting a lot of power expressed by heat which necessitates all the fans.
The fans are symptoms, not the disease.
Girl robots. This is going to be the best space program ever.
oh man...that's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
Them: Argh! A cyclist in a necktie - run!
Yes, go to class! The rest of us need someone to get the notes from.
WFT? OMG! LOL.
/. poll--most notable ommisions in Playboy's video game layout:
Though it sets up a potential
[ ] Kya
[ ] Samus
[ ] Ulala
[ ] The Princess
[ ] Ms. Pac-Man
Reply hazy, ask again later.
Actually this guy is a /. reader and the alarm clock idea is the new in Soviet Russia joke. In 2014, you tell the alarm when to wake up!
That's as far as I needed to read. Apparently in 2014 people will still mis-state common axioms (Moore's law), mis-quote famous sayings (come up and see me sometime, play it again Sam, etc), mis-pronounce common words (nuclear), and generally mis-use language (irregardless).
Of course, all this misses the point. What we really want to know is, in 2014, does Han shoot first?
Actually, due to the amount of liquid water on the surface, Sol3 has very slight variations in temperature. Prevailing currents carry heat from the equatorial regions to the poles.
Retention of heat by large bodies of water and the 'high-density atmosphere also severely reduce the variation in daytime and nighttime surface temperatures. In contrast, temperatures on Mars, with its this atmosphere, vary from about 27 C daytime to -73 C nighttime.
I know WEP isn't perfect, but seriously, if WEP is too complicated for you, it's not 'well, I'm not l33t and it should just work like my DVD player,' it's 'get the box, pack up your computer, and ship it back, cause you're just too stupid.'
First, you don't need to remember any-number-digit hex key. It's called get a pen and paper and write it down, numbnuts. Second, most consumer networking gear (linksys, netgear) will accept a plain language pass phrase which is then converted to a hex key, so you can use some word or phrase you'll easily remember.
Third, if WEP is like a cheap bike chain that is easily broken, MAC white listing is tissue paper. WEP can be cracked, but your average home wireless network takes weeks to produce enough interesting packets to crack a 128-bit key. MACs on the other hand, well, if your router only accepts connections from MACs on the white list, what do you think is one of the first things your computer sends out when establishing a connection? Right, its MAC, which are very easily changed/forged.
As far as 'it should just work,' people are not THAT stupid. (They're stupid, don't get me wrong, but not that stupid.) Folks know in the world of computers, some things need configuration. Outlook needs their POP account info to get their email, even if they don't know what 'POP' means. They know they enter their password to get their hotmail.
WEP is the same way. The router has this password. Whether it's a plain english passphrase or a 26-digit hex key, anything that wants to make a wireless connection needs that password. You set up each device once, and it's all set. WEP ain't that hard.