Read the constitution. While it doesn't say "you can't tell them how to vote" it does say that the electors annouce their decision. So the implication is that you can't tell them how to vote. You can appoint them any way you like, though, so there's no constitutional demand to hold an election for president. The govenor of Ohio can simply appoint a bunch of Republicans as electors, if the Ohio constitution/legislature allows it. But the govenor of Ohio shouldn't be able to tell them how to vote. But he does. Which is probably unconstitutional.

NO.

Dems want to tax the poor and give to the rich.

Republicans want to tax the poor and give it to the rich.

Dems SAY the want to help the poor to get elected, then, once elected, their actual behavior is indistinguishable from Republicans.

No, we're all stuck over on the right. That's the problem.

So we need a new song.

Most Slashdot polls have an "OTHER" option. Here's it's missing. Congratulations! You just excluded third parties AGAIN! Thanks, guys.

Justice party (not on your list) and Rocky Anderson, is clearly the way to go.

You are right to keep your child away from computers and TV. Yes, you could get your child to be good at video games like your pal, but it turns out that's not really a skill you need to be a successful and happy person.

Buy more books and keep him away from computers for another 8 years or so.

"Hell its Coke VS Pepsi!"

This is so wrong it's offensive. You need to get your facts in order before you say such absurd things.

The manufacturers of Coke and Pepsi are in competition.

We're never goig to get anywhere with them through voting. I think we should apply anti-trust legislation to them. Did you know that they own the debates? Together (yes, they work together on it) they manage and own the "presidential debates" we see on TV. It used to be run by the league of women voters, but the two parties, who share power and whose only real enemy is a third party, leveraged it away from them. You cannot have another voice in the discussion. Hell, you cannot even have a discussion.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/debate3.htm

The reason you're wrong is this isn't Coke vs. Pepsi at all. It's Coke vs. Coke in a collectable can.

I suspect they do, but the real dirty secrets in Japan and Korea (and perhaps China) are that

1. a. It's not what you learn in college, it's what college you go to. There's much less incentive to do well once you get into the best college you can. So for many kids education really stops at the end of high school.
   b. This means that they cram what's done in the States in ten years (from first grade to about sophmore in college) into roughly eight. They do this by cramming after school, on weekends, etc.
   c. Children in Korea and Japan are horribly overstressed and generally very unhappy.
   d. Some of the cliches you hear about creative work, thinking as opposed to cramming, etc. are true.

Confucianism has oriented these societies towards test taking and fact memorization as a culture for 1500 years. Societally, they're good at it. But it takes toll on their kids, and it delivers high quality goods on a multiple-choice test, but not fantasically well when you're trying to create something. (Note that many Koreans and Japanese then go on to do well in colloge, learn lots there, learn to write, learn to create, etc. But they do this is spite of the system, not because of it.)

Another dirty secret is that acheivement comparisons between Eastern (or some Eastern anyhow) systems and the US education system compare apples to oranges. US advanced ed. is not about making kids that test well, it's about making thinkers and writers. It's still doing a great job of that, if you ignore all the people going to college now who wouldn't have 50 years ago. Those peope now go to college to learn a trade and get rooked. That's not what US higher Ed. is about.

US public primary ed. (and virtually all Western primary Ed) is aimed at making workers and always has been. It's doing a great job of that, assuming all our jobs include the ability to say "want fries with that?" Truely it is. When something keeps "failing" so consistently, you need to take a step back and realize it's not failing in the eyes of everyone, or there'd be general concensus to fix the problem. Western public primary ed. is succeeding, as far as many people are concerned. They don't use it directly, and they like the current outcome, though they'd like the same outcome cheaper, thank you very much.

They can hire the top 5% from US colleges as the real thinkers and the top 30% of Asian schools (more H1B's, please) to be the semi-clever layer, but they'll always need people to offer to supersize their meal, and the more of those people competing with each other there are in the pool, the cheaper such workers will be.

It all works just fine, thank you.

Bizarre, because the now dominiant language of Turkey, Turkish, isn't Indo-European. So it spread everywhere, but was pushed out of it's own back yard.

The iPad is terrible.

It's really, really bad. I have one. I use it to watch PBS -- the PBS app isn't very good. Crashes now and then, video flips back in time and then catches up confusingly, doesn't provide good search tools. But it's portable, and I can use it in the can.

I keep trying to do other stuff with the iPad. Everything I try which claims to make the thing do something well turns out to make it do a crappy job of that task.

Art. SSH. Cheap games. Writing. Note management. Fail, fail, fail, fail, fail.

It's all really bad. Badly designed. Impossible to copy and paste. Impossible to select text quickly. Pointing at things doesn't work all that well (your finger is big). So you can get a stylus and a bluetooth keyboard, but you're still left with a crappy MODEL. It's not a good system for actually doing anything.

People keep telling me they love the iPad. That it works for this or that. But I try what they recommend and what the app always does is make the iPad less horrible. But not less horrible enough.

The iPad is light. It's really portable. But it needs a complete overhaul to do anything well.

Android ain't fantastic either, but it's realy not as bad as the iPad.

DHCP questions are a great way to screen. Huge numbers of applicants will ascribe magic abilities to DHCP and leave massive "here a miracle occurs" balloons in their descriptions of how it works.

It's really not that hard, but somehow manages to frighten unskilled people.

If you recall, they were trying to sell about 10,000 to early adopters, to get software written and bugs knocked out. The general public went crazy over the idea and the price, and we basically forced them to change Beta into Release.

Did they test enough? Yeah -- we're the testers.

That was the advertised PLAN.

The VIA board, at $179, is simply not in the same class. It's not an alternative.
It's for completely different projects.

We just recently saw a study which shows that the TSA isn't an issue -- Americans don't hate them that much.

But the study didn't control for whether you'd flown or not in the past few years.

Obviously, I'd like to see the study redone with whether you've flown. I suspect people who've flown HATE the TSA and people who haven't think they're grand.

But I'd also like another variable added. People who vote.

I suspect the people who don't hate the TSA are a complacent bunch who don't read, don't think, and don't vote. I further suspect people who don't fly don't vote. But it could go the other way. I want to see those numbers. The TSA may be a much, MUCH bigger issue than the administration thinks it is, or they may be completely right -- ignore it, because it's not something the real people who vote crare about.

In 15 years, more than half will be electric. In 20, virtually all cars will be. Musk is predicting a smooth growth curve for something which will have an outrageous knee.

Come back to this post in 15 years. Either I'll be right, or Musk and I will both be outrageously wrong.