Wow, all of a sudden perfectly reasonable replies (pointing out an unwarranted assumption) from me are being modded "flamebait" and my IP has been banned from anonymous posting.
Guess I touched a nerve somewhere.
Ah, well. I'm outta here for good. If I feel the need to read partisan conspiracy theories, I'll go over to digg.
At least they don't dupe the same ones over and over and over again.
Because rather than voting for an MP along with maybe one or two other issues, a typical US ballot has DOZENS of candidates and issues on it, and the issues that appear on your personal ballot can vary according to which school district you live in, what part of town you live in (for things like roads), what LIBRARY district you live in, and so on.
It's orders of magnitude more complicated.
Here's the slate from San Francisco County for the upcoming election. The one from another city or county in California will have the same state and federal positions on it, but will have completely different local questions. One from a different state will be almost unrecognizable, as it will even have different federal officials (except in a presidential election year).
Every time this subject comes up, someone from a country with a parliamentary system posts something like this.
Hint: we have a completely different system of government in this country. Really!
Funny, over in this world Nixon was elected in a 49-state landslide in 1972, with McGovern winning only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
What else is different over there on your alternate time line?
You don't throwaway software written in an old language because some fancy new language come out.
Actually, yes, you do.
Unless you want to wind up with a repeat of the Y2K problem or (on a less grand scale) getting your lunch eaten by a company that uses a faster, more modern, and more productive language.
no human life has ever been lost due to embryonic stem cells being harvested.
And your "agnostic" beliefs tell you this?
Someday, son, when you grow up, you're going to realize that you don't get to decide the moral views of other people.
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Wow, all of a sudden perfectly reasonable replies (pointing out an unwarranted assumption) from me are being modded "flamebait" and my IP has been banned from anonymous posting. Guess I touched a nerve somewhere. Ah, well. I'm outta here for good. If I feel the need to read partisan conspiracy theories, I'll go over to digg. At least they don't dupe the same ones over and over and over again.
It's orders of magnitude more complicated.
Here's the slate from San Francisco County for the upcoming election. The one from another city or county in California will have the same state and federal positions on it, but will have completely different local questions. One from a different state will be almost unrecognizable, as it will even have different federal officials (except in a presidential election year).
Now, compare that to this sample ballot from Canada or this one from Scotland and the problem should be obvious.
Every time this subject comes up, someone from a country with a parliamentary system posts something like this. Hint: we have a completely different system of government in this country. Really!
Funny, over in this world Nixon was elected in a 49-state landslide in 1972, with McGovern winning only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. What else is different over there on your alternate time line?
You could always set up another account that's used only for random web surfing or (even better) use a virtual machine, as others have suggested.
I realize this was a joke, but there have been remote exploits for terminal programs in the past.
Google on "ansi bomb" for some classic examples.
You don't throwaway software written in an old language because some fancy new language come out. Actually, yes, you do. Unless you want to wind up with a repeat of the Y2K problem or (on a less grand scale) getting your lunch eaten by a company that uses a faster, more modern, and more productive language.
I just want it to have continuations and first-class functions. One is about as likely as the other, I suppose. :-)
There is a reason why Java has withstood the test of time (for 11 years anyways) That kind of thinking is why COBOL stuck around so long....(shudder).
So you're admitting that the grill is MORE toxic than the cigarette? Umm... okay. You're not too good at this "rational argument" thing, are you?
no human life has ever been lost due to embryonic stem cells being harvested. And your "agnostic" beliefs tell you this? Someday, son, when you grow up, you're going to realize that you don't get to decide the moral views of other people.
I am an agnostic. As am I. Nice unwarranted assumption about my beliefs there. Is that what you call keeping an open mind?
Good thing nobody is using them for science though thanks to the friendly Govt.
Hint: you don't know what you're talking about. At all. There's lots of ESC research going on in the United States.
Translation: he destroyed your position and you have no rational response.
Thanks for playing, though.