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  1. What they should do is offer free rides from bars. That's where most of the voters will be.

    This is a relatively recent development in parts of the US. Used to be, lots of states had laws that bars had to close on Election Day. Now, it's just Kentucky and South Carolina, where it really doesn't matter because everyone there has a still cooking 'shine out behind the meth lab.

  2. I feel sorry for you guys, you're fucked either way.

    Nah, we'll be fine. We'll still be ready to come save your ass the next time you're attacked.

  3. Re:Will only help in non-West part of US on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Half of the people I know are voting for Bernie as a write in or for Jill Stein.

    So, your mom is voting for Jill Stein?

  4. Re:Curiously on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Curiously, the total money bet favors Clinton, while the total number of bets favors Trump.

    As something of a gambler myself, I think I can explain.

    The payout on the Trump bet is greater because he's going off at long odds due to his underdog status. People who bet long-shots tend to do so with smaller amounts, whereas people making big bets are more likely to play the chalk. Hedges are always smaller than the primary wager.

    In a situation where everyone has exactly one vote, it's not clear which measure has predictive power.

    Given the small number of people who bet on elections, I would caution against reading anything into the total number of wagers on either candidate. It would be like picking a winner based on the number of people at their rallies.

  5. Re:Daddy needs a new pair of shoes on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    John Stossel is a gambler?

    He is a democrat reporter.

    John Stossel is not a Democrat. He's been a far-Right libertarian-type Republican for as long as I can remember. Not only was he a reporter for Fox, but he still has a blog over at Townhall.com, one of the largest Republican websites.

  6. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The gamblers have already called the election:

    https://electionbettingodds.co...

  7. Re:Will only help in non-West part of US on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is zero chance that Washington state tips the election one way or the other. It's a pretty safe bet.

  8. Re:Honestly on Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd prefer Google to stop meddling with the elections altogether.

    How do you feel about Russia meddling with the elections?

  9. Re:white supremacy on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    To be honest, I just put that last pic in to give the ACs nightmares tonight.

  10. Re:white supremacy on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 0

    shout "oh look a squirrel!" and completely ignore the argument being offered

    Let's remember, the "argument being offered" is this:

    "white women are just better looking than nonwhite women"

    Exhibits A thru C:

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

    http://vuthasurf.com/wp-conten...

    http://www.fashionlady.in/wp-c...

    Exhibit D:

    http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/con...

    Now which ones wouldja?

  11. Re:white supremacy on Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1, Funny

    white women are just better looking than nonwhite women

    Welcome to Slashdot's Countdown to Election Day. I'm your host, David Duke. In our first segment, we're going to ask the question, "Are mud people ugly or nah?" and we'll be joined by our special correspondents Kellyanne Conway and Rudy Giuliani. But first, this word from Credit Repair dot Com.

  12. Re:Why are we so well paid? on Ask Slashdot: Why Are American Tech Workers Paid So Well? · · Score: 0

    Because slavery is illegal.

    Let's see what happens Tuesday.

  13. Re: Gawker was garbage on Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got all the Ray Tomlinson sex tapes as animated gifs.

  14. Re:Gawker was garbage on Gawker Pays $750,000 To That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    They posted sex tapes and called out people's sexuality just for clicks.

    I don't get it. Who wants to see a sex tape of the guy who didn't invent email?

    No wonder they went bankrupt.

  15. I find women that flaunt large diamonds as superficial and something to avoid.

    Do you also avoid men who flaunt expensive women, or do you vote for them?

  16. Re: 650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously suggesting that the entire FBI dropped everything else it was doing to handle this?

    It wouldn't have to. It could easily identify any of Hillary's emails, or emails that were from or on her server and just review those. It might have been 10, it might have been 1000. Either way, a week was more than enough for a huge enterprise like the FBI, with all their technological tools, to figure this thing out.

    And I'm sure there was plenty of incentive to do it and get it right because of the way their shop has been leaking (see Giuliani FBI leaks).

  17. Re:Are you mental? on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You get a much better idea of the composition of slashdot readers by actually reading their comments

    But for god's sake, don't read the ACs. It's for your own sanity.

    You've been warned.

  18. Re:Of course on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    genocide, etc.

    The alt-Right has been accusing Hillary Clinton of genocide for some time.

    Go ahead, take them seriously. I dare you.

  19. Re: 650k emails in 9 days on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are 35,000 people who work for the FBI and 13,000 of them are special agents.

  20. Re:It was a guy with a sign on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Source?

    Actually, I got that wrong. Now the news is reporting the first photographs of the woman who shouted "gun" at the Trump Reno rally last night:

    http://www.photoshoppix.com/mo...

  21. Re:The summary forgot to mention something... on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    A Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement that an "unidentified individual" shouted "gun" in the audience, though no weapon was found after a "thorough search."

    We now have photographs of the person who shouted "gun".

    https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media...

  22. Re:It was a guy with a sign on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Need to find whoever it was that started shouting about the gun.

    It was Chris Christie.

  23. It was a guy with a sign on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    So, this would-be Dietrich Bonhoeffer turned out to be just a Republican with a sign. He has been released by the Secret Service. There was never a threat to Mr Trump.

    But I did notice that when Trump minced off the stage with the Secret Service the bone spurs that kept him out of the draft didn't seem to be bothering him.

  24. Re: Hillary for Prison 2016 on The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mr Thiel, this is not the time nor place.

  25. Re: Republican Would Benefit? on Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Number of prosecutions = 0

    Since voter rolls are public information, and anyone can see if anyone else voted, a prosecution would be the easiest thing in the world. Every year there are inquiries in blue states and red states and prosecutions aren't brought.

    Number of prosecutions for students voting twice = 0