Seems to me these two things are different. I was not aware (and feel free to correct me if I am wrong) that the voting program is a website with a friendly frontend.
If this is the case, then the entire thing needs to be re-thought.

How hard is it to make a voting program?
How easy would it be to "skew" results of said voting program one way, or the other? I'm not a conspiracy nutter, but it does make me wonder from time to time...

I grew up in Denmark. Tax was 60% flat, right off the top. There is a reason he makes 20$/hour...

they are as bad as PETA. Lego are children's toys, leave your goddamn petty politics out of them.

I'd argue that this one (from your link) is patently wrong:

"6. Batch processing through automated actions is far superior in GIMP. Because photographers often need to do repeatable actions to large groups of images, this feature alone is worth its weight in gold."

I am a photographer and although I use LightRoom heavily, I use the batch rules in PS for my concert work, I can get very detailed with little trouble in PS. I did try to switch to gimp (or more accurately, tried it out) and found this to be sorely lacking. Not to mention the batch actions in PS merge/link nicely with the plug-ins (specifically the Nik software for B/W work) so if I wanted to, and on occasion I have, I can do some *serious* transformations on a shot in PS with one click of a button.

The NSA, with apparent approval from our gov't, spies on its own citizens with impunity, and let seem to be caught flat-footed by events unfolding the Middle East and Ukraine (at least from what I have heard on the radio)
The president twiddles his thumbs while our allies cry out for help.
What in three hells happened to our country?

I quit (albeit accidentally) caffeine over 20 years ago, and I've never thought about the effects like you describe before, until you brought it up.
Yes, going to sleep quickly is a piece of cake, and instantly awake is the norm for me.
I'd like think there are health benefits from giving up caffeine as well, but overall I'm just glad to be done with the caffeine-related headaches.

I have a small photography journal, free to go to, and while I know it's hosted on Google's blogspot, I don't run any kind of revenue generating ads on it. I know Google has their own monitoring crap built in to blogspot, but I do not think there is anything I can do about that.
My main site is hosted and paid for fully by me, no ads, nothing, just content. If my hosting costs go up because of increased bandwidth, then I pay the costs. I am happy to see increased traffic, means I must be doing something right.
But ultimately I'm providing content because I want to, not because I want anything back.
This is the way it should be.

Perhaps the person who wrote it does not have English as his(her?) first language, but it does not parse at all. Go read the story the summary is based on if you want to make heads or tails of this.

Peter Bright has been sucking the MS cock since he first started posting on Ars Technica's forum back in the late 90s. His posts were always full of vemon and hate towards anyone who dared criticize MS (and therefore extension, himself) When AT was making new positions for editors, he whined and screamed for one, and if he didn't get it, threatened to leave AT. I am so glad AT implemented the "ignore" function. Now him, and Evil_Merlin are never seen by me. If only I could filter out his stories as well...

Alien asteroid mining.

'nuff said.

That NBC has broadcast (ahem) their intentions loud and clear. It is now up to you (the person wishing to watch the Olympics) do decide what you are going to do about it.
When your choices are systematically taken away, yours options become much easier to make.

As I wrote here: http://slashdot.org/comments.p... I used Seagates exclusively, because they never failed on me, and every time a client came in with a bad hard drive, it was either a WD or Hitachi. It's also worth mentioning that Seagate were the *only* ones for a while to offer a 5 year warranty on their drives. If they sucked so badly, why stand behind them for so long? In short, your experience and mine agree, and I used a *lot* of Seagate drives...

I'd like to know who you deal with then... IBM lied about their DeskStars WD lied about their (ancient, admittedly) 6.4 MB drives that had near 100% failure rates Maxtor lied about their 100 gig drives Hitachi bought out the DeskStars and initially, made no changes whatsoever, causing the trend to continue. So I ask you, who is left to buy from?

Or as I mentioned in my last line, YMMV, I've had *great* luck with Seagates, from 1999 until I changed careers 11 years later, and I had large numbers of people come in with failing drives (typically WD and Hitachi DeathStars) that I replaced with Seagates and no one ever complained. Seagate were at one time the only company with a 5 year warranty on their drives. Says something about their product to stand behind it for that long.