Internet voting sounds good in theory. But at the same time, I really feel that at least some effort should be made on behalf of the voter to actually cast a vote.
Honestly, there are many time periods to vote (early polls as well as voting day.) If people cannot be bothered to do this, do you really think that they will investigate any issues before voting? Heck, I still don't like that you can just check one box to vote a party in for all seats on the ballot.
We are already seeing the system rigged by busing voter blocks to the polls while offering food and other incentives. Why make it easier by not even requiring a physical presence?
That said, I think I'd be more in favor of electronic voting if we had more than two viable parties as it would be harder to game.
I were an American citizen I would file a complaint as instructed in the Tony Ortega post. That's the right way to do it.
Posting as AC, because I already moderated the thread.
Why do you think we care the reason you are posting as AC? Do you think that providing an unprovable reason makes your post seem more trustworthy or authentic?
Actually, hell would not exactly freeze over if you block Google. In fact, if they did, people would just use another search engine (IXquick, DuckDuckGo or others)
If it's that easy for consumers to use another search engine, then what is the reason for the antitrust charges?
Note that while we learn the trail of tears in explicitly negative terms, we don't apologize nor give back the land.
We have apologized and have tried to financially compensate for the land taken.
We are really strange winners that we continue to feel guilt for winning. It was a war for territory and we won. If the Native Americans want to wage a war to try to take back the land, they are welcome to try.
Had this taken place in the US at a USian university he would have found a reason to arrest him under the USSR^h^hA Patriot Act and/or permanently expelled from uni with no job prospects other than "Do you want fries with that" if he is lucky enough to get one at all..
Pretty much the type of off-topic post I'd expect from someone that uses the word USian. Why that anyways? Why not USish? USAish? USAn? Well, I guess when you try to copy and use a made up word enough to get people to think it's a real word, you can use whatever you want to.
You get both sides on that. "Arrived 1 date late. Christmas ruined! - 1 star." "My PS4 will not play my xbox games - 1 star."
I usually filter reviews that have the most comments and reviews in the 2-4 range. If it's a tech product and you can tell the product description was translated online from Chinese to English (like you see for a lot of lower end Android stuff), I ignore any review that looks like it also went through the same online translator..
My final filter (before actually reading the comments) is to ignore any positive or negative reviews that were written in all caps. Too much raw emotion screaming at me.
There is a situation where this sort of this is worth, and the base concept is sound (cheaper premiums to verifiably safer drivers).
You'd need a not for profit organisation to actually collect the data. The insurance industry should fund it but have no direct control over it. The organisation would then set out stringent privacy controls and only give the insurance companies a score and no real data.
That sounds like asking for a non-profit (because they are not corruptible?) version of google.
This is the equivalent to the periodic scenario where HR accidentally emails the spreadsheet with everyone's salary numbers to the Everyone list.
And yes, back in the days I was an email administrator, I had to try and do damage control on someone who had actually done that. Twice.
Yep - happened at my job as well. Someone in HR attached a wrong spreadsheet to an email about the company picnic. The spreadsheet had our salary, address, dob, and social security number.
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You mean sending their kids by themselves through the desert to come to America?
Yeah, I can blame them for that.
Also, at the end of the day, trespassing is trespassing.
Yes.
Laid off workers are not usually any happier losing their job than fired workers (even if there is a payout.)
Not all businesses are doing well enough or have enough capital to have everything broken for a while due to an upgrade.
Also, nowadays, there are so many online stores that if one goes down, people move on to the next.
In any case, in order to have sustainability, you need to survive the day-to-day stuff
Mailwise as well. It lets you bypass the security restrictions and updates my calander
The President was dragged out and an international incident started...a fake Popehat twitter account
Twitter, Youtube, etc. Our president seems to take a lot of face value on these services (The Benghazi incident comes to mind.)
What companies would you say innocent people can work at?
I'd agree if we didn't have early voting
Agreed. It looks very similar to previous versions. Nice thing with KDE is you can usually customize it to however you want it to look
https://www.kde.org/announceme...
Internet voting sounds good in theory. But at the same time, I really feel that at least some effort should be made on behalf of the voter to actually cast a vote.
Honestly, there are many time periods to vote (early polls as well as voting day.) If people cannot be bothered to do this, do you really think that they will investigate any issues before voting? Heck, I still don't like that you can just check one box to vote a party in for all seats on the ballot.
We are already seeing the system rigged by busing voter blocks to the polls while offering food and other incentives. Why make it easier by not even requiring a physical presence?
That said, I think I'd be more in favor of electronic voting if we had more than two viable parties as it would be harder to game.
I were an American citizen I would file a complaint as instructed in the Tony Ortega post.
That's the right way to do it.
Posting as AC, because I already moderated the thread.
Why do you think we care the reason you are posting as AC? Do you think that providing an unprovable reason makes your post seem more trustworthy or authentic?
Well, the N.F.L., N.H.L., P.G.A. and L.G.P.A are tax exempt
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfor...
Good luck with that
Actually, hell would not exactly freeze over if you block Google. In fact, if they did, people would just use another search engine (IXquick, DuckDuckGo or others)
If it's that easy for consumers to use another search engine, then what is the reason for the antitrust charges?
See, I'm not a big believer of holding the sins of the father against the son or expecting the son to feel guilty for what the father did.
We are a few generations removed from those incidents and have absolutely no control or say over those incidents.
So you do agree with his post with the substitution of that one word?
That's great!
Note that while we learn the trail of tears in explicitly negative terms, we don't apologize nor give back the land.
We have apologized and have tried to financially compensate for the land taken.
We are really strange winners that we continue to feel guilt for winning. It was a war for territory and we won. If the Native Americans want to wage a war to try to take back the land, they are welcome to try.
So if he used the word betrayal instead of mistakes, you would have agreed with his post?
Because it seems you are arguing semantics.
Heard that in school (in multiple classes, not just history) in every grade level from 4th onward.
And this was in Catholic school.
Had this taken place in the US at a USian university he would have found a reason to arrest him under the USSR^h^hA Patriot Act and/or permanently expelled from uni with no job prospects other than "Do you want fries with that" if he is lucky enough to get one at all. .
Pretty much the type of off-topic post I'd expect from someone that uses the word USian. Why that anyways? Why not USish? USAish? USAn?
Well, I guess when you try to copy and use a made up word enough to get people to think it's a real word, you can use whatever you want to.
There are the retarded reviews too:
I just got it! It looks great! - 5 stars.
You get both sides on that. "Arrived 1 date late. Christmas ruined! - 1 star."
"My PS4 will not play my xbox games - 1 star."
I usually filter reviews that have the most comments and reviews in the 2-4 range. If it's a tech product and you can tell the product description was translated online from Chinese to English (like you see for a lot of lower end Android stuff), I ignore any review that looks like it also went through the same online translator..
My final filter (before actually reading the comments) is to ignore any positive or negative reviews that were written in all caps. Too much raw emotion screaming at me.
And Fight Club.
And you're right - those parts in Wanted were awesome.
Wouldn't these things be part of our environment and just newer contributing factors for evolution?
There is a situation where this sort of this is worth, and the base concept is sound (cheaper premiums to verifiably safer drivers).
You'd need a not for profit organisation to actually collect the data. The insurance industry should fund it but have no direct control over it. The organisation would then set out stringent privacy controls and only give the insurance companies a score and no real data.
That sounds like asking for a non-profit (because they are not corruptible?) version of google.
Did you build your own roads to get from your house to other locations
Is that an option we can use now?
I took them both to cover myself either way.
This is the equivalent to the periodic scenario where HR accidentally emails the spreadsheet with everyone's salary numbers to the Everyone list.
And yes, back in the days I was an email administrator, I had to try and do damage control on someone who had actually done that. Twice.
Yep - happened at my job as well. Someone in HR attached a wrong spreadsheet to an email about the company picnic. The spreadsheet had our salary, address, dob, and social security number.