Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 259
Well, if your district doesn't turn out enough votes for a certain party in power, and there is a fire/flood/tornado/whatever, you might not see a response as prompt as other areas. Just sayin'.
Comment Re:"plan" (Score 1) 138
I really don't feel much about President Obama as a man.
What I feel is a great sadness/contempt for a people who have permitted a sad state of affairs to drag on for far too long.
Had Obama balked or whatever, a similar piece of work should have been trotted out.
What I feel is a great sadness/contempt for a people who have permitted a sad state of affairs to drag on for far too long.
Had Obama balked or whatever, a similar piece of work should have been trotted out.
Comment Re:What "Secret Ballot" Actually Means (Score 1) 26
What you say is true, but the intent is still to separate the information about the vote from the person who cast the ballot, while ensuring that the vote, itself, is not compromised.
Also, the submission version made the front page. Which means I'm almost sort of nearly kind of cool like damn_registrars, now.
Also, the submission version made the front page. Which means I'm almost sort of nearly kind of cool like damn_registrars, now.
Comment Re:Wait What? (Score 1) 190
So you're saying "as a whole" = "a large percentage"? Yeah, maybe cancer would've been a better example.
Comment Re:"plan" (Score 1) 138
I have no choice but to forgive you both the accusations, and the inability to own up to the fact you've made them. I forgive you. You cannot halt the forgiveness. You can certainly ignore it; that's your choice. Your purpose for this behavior remains inscrutable. But this IS your behavior, both with me and Pudge.
Comment Re:Wait What? (Score 0) 190
for the best medical system for your population as a whole
Medical needs occur individually. We do no show up at the clinic "as a whole" for a flu shot. Socialized medicine is the ecological fallacy writ large & tragic.
Submission + - Pssst: You Want A Secret Ballot
smitty_one_each writes: Per the Daily Caller
A Clemson University professor is developing a new electronic voting system that will allow voters to cast their ballots from home computers, tablets and smartphones.
As Clemson’s chair of human-centered computing, Juan Gilbert has lead teams of students over the last 10 years to create an online voting system accessible at home or on the go that will be more accurate, have increased verification and make voting more accessible to people with disabilities by offering mobile and voice-command options.
It is laudable to improve accessibility for all voters. If you're getting mugged for taxes, you really should be casting a ballot.
At the same time, retaining anonymity is key. That's why, in the polling location where I've served in the last couple of elections, verifying voter eligibility is separate from the part where the ballot is cast. Information Technology professionals would tend to want to engineer all of the ambiguity out of the system. However, the easier it is to correlate a specific person to an election outcome, the more likely abuses become.
You really don't want Checkov's Gun showing up at election time.
Journal Journal: Pssst: You Want A Secret Ballot 26
Per the Daily Caller
Comment Re:"plan" (Score 1) 138
You've shown nothing but a propensity for accusation. It sounds as though you've succeeded in convincing yourself. Sad.
Comment Re:Also (Score 1) 27
So, skepticism is a box, then?
Comment "plan" (Score 1) 138
The important thing to recall here is that I'M the tinfoil hat nutjob here. Me. No one else. And for a certainty, not you, Tomás de Torquemada.
Comment Re:But yet you won't commit to it (Score 1) 138
You have been calling for removal of the POTUS for quite some time now. I presume that you wouldn't call for it without some plan in mind for what you would want to see happen next - regardless of whether or not the reality of the situation conforms to it.
The dumbest thing that could possibly occur would be to permit any literal or metaphorical martyring to occur.
This is probably among the reasons the Vichy GOP has been so silent; the thing that threatens Obama the most is his record, i.e. ObamaCare.
Comment Re:But yet you won't commit to it (Score 1) 138
You are at the point of Making Stuff Up out of whole cloth. It's not clear why you need any further external input.
Comment Re:Hackers are the new Rock Stars (Score 1) 195
I was thinking of Ace of Spades over on Twitter.
Comment Re:But yet you won't commit to it (Score 1) 138
What's become clear of late is that there are many voices in your head holding all manner of discussions.
