This is a level of tin-foil hattery I am not going to touch with even a ten-foot pole.

He's allowed to say anything he wants. That does not mean other people can't just point out that self-declaration is not proof of anything.

I suggest you do some self-examination on why you so vehemently protest the bloody obvious.

First of all, Aaron Clarey himself says he's not an MRA

Yes, and East Germany was a democracy.

Convert to your choice of XML and store that

Use pandoc to convert to whatever format is requested. If a document is requested and edited, use pandoc to read in the edited version and store that.

Once you've trained everyone to accept the lowest common denominator, it'll work.

For bonus points you could go straight to MediaWiki markup and put everything into a wiki.

Agreed.

Paper ballot --- if need be a scanning machine, but there _has_ to be a physical audit trail verifiable w/o the use of a machine.

Available here:

http://docs.shapeoko.com/

Some awkward aspects are imposed by the source being Markdown on Github, so lowest common denominator for special characters such as what should be em-dashes.

Interesting footnote to the project is that the note explaining how to use the interactive diagrams was deleted by a person who thought it was unnecessary --- less than half of the people who responded to a poll figured out the interactivity and almost all those who did find it were surprised by it.

Part of the reason it's hard to write good documentation is that it's hard to get people to make use of it --- similarly we've tried to get everything about this CNC router onto the wiki, but there are still an awful lot of forum posts which I answer w/:

``That's on the wiki:

AOL will allow one to convert a paid account to a free one when one cancels --- one keeps all one's old e-mail addresses, and they've increased the number of free ones allowed per account so one doesn't have to delete any.

I had a paid dial-up for a long, long while and would probably still have it if they hadn't cancelled the members.aol.com webhosting --- if they'd charged for that separately and maintained it, I'd still have it.

1+1 == 2 --- the rear seat looks to be downright claustrophobic though.

I don't get it. If they're so incompetent that they can't be kept as workers, how can they be competent enough to be training their replacements?

Why don't all the workers collectively agree to not impart their obviously flawed work skills and knowledge to their replacements?

If my boss came to me and said that he was replacing me, I'd say fine. Documentation is on the wiki, the source for everything is written up as literate programs, the only things out-of-date are and --- if you want me to up-date those, call me tomorrow and we'll work up rates.

Here's to hoping that they actually go into production:

http://www.eliomotors.com/

Of course, the first article talks about the first time the Mauna Loa location hit 400ppm, while the article, as specifically pointed out in the Slashdot summary is about the global average hitting 400ppm.

Why don't you go fuck off and shut up until you've learned to read?

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It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

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And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

There is precedent for them though:

http://westphillytools.org/