Your primary residence is where you reside when you aren’t in school for 9 months. If the first thing you do when a school year is over is to leave the area until the next year begins, and if you graduate or leave school and then leave the area because you were only in the area to attend school, then it is not your primary residence.

Also, you bring up a very good point about why it is important to vote where you actually reside. I am not from Texas, and I don’t live in Texas. Many, many students attending the university I attended, in Texas, had guns. Many had at least a few. This doesn’t typically bother people in Texas. The campus actually had a “no guns” policy, but everyone ignored it. Now, some out of state students may have felt that this was wrong (I didn’t hear this directly, but as many were Leftists, it can be presumed that some didn’t like the idea). They don’t have the right to change that on behalf of Texas. Now, if they decide to live there outside of their time in school, have at it.

The same goes for urban owners of second homes in rural areas. Living in a house a couple of weekends per month, and maybe for a couple of months in the summer does not mean you primarily reside in that area, no matter what has been “allowed”. Yet there have been successful efforts to convert seats in rural areas by changing primary residence from a “Democrat-safe” (90% Dem registration) area to a rural area with a 40% dem registration. Again, to help those poor, ignorant hicks to make the right choices.

Except that you don’t have to have an in-state Driver’s license to use it for obtaining a Student ID. Also, State Schools? Are you under the impression that only residents of Texas go to UT schools?

As for being able to change residency, that has nothing to do with needing to use a Student ID. If someone is intending to live in an area for the near term, there is no moral issue with claiming residency and voting. However, if one is attending college for 4 years, living in a small town on a college campus, and has no intention of staying, then voting in that area to “assist” the locals in making the right choice, then that is repugnant. The idea of a Representative Republic is that the person elected should represent the interests of the people living in that region, as their needs may be different from the needs of others in a different region.

This is not hypothetical. Leftists have invested serious effort into these strategies to take advantage of a large, concentrated, dependent population (like a little city, really) in a rural area, to influence local and regional elections, in order to get policies implement that run counter to the interests of the people that actually live in that area. NPR actually did a very interesting story on it about 15 years ago.

Anyway, Student ID is obtainable by every student, whether or not they primarily reside in the state the school is located, and thus is not an acceptable form of ID for voting.

That’s easy. Handgun licenses are more secure than Student ID cards. Additionally, they show official state of residency. I attended school in a state halfway across the country - Texas. However, I voted in the state of my primary residence, rather than where my dorm room was located.

I am now permanently in that same state, and have never voted in a Texas election. However, in many college towns there are recruitment efforts by Leftists to get “out of state“ students to register, in an attempt to “help” the “ignorant and uninformed and uneducated” locals make the right choice.

Disgusting behavior.

You mean the software that came bundled with adware/spyware?

A bunch of goofy nonsense. The percentage of people using ftp with login is paltry, and of those anything critical is probably unavailable in that fashion. However, huge tech concerns still link firmware, drivers, etc, using FTP, from their websites. Just the other day, I noticed that HP was delivering a file to me via FTP, when I requested a printer driver from their main support site. Anonymous FTP for software/file distribution is the use case for 99.9% of people’s use of FTP. They do it from the browser, and wouldn’t have a clue as to how to install an FTP client, not would having a dedicated client benefit them.

These geniuses at Mozilla are going to create support issues where they don’t currently exist, and cause time, effort, and money to be spent where it yields no benefit. It’s like the removal of Gopher was a trial run. That wasn’t hurting anyone, either. I feel like I’m watching a group of engineers from the NYS Department of Transportation. They’re solving problems that don’t exist, creating problems that didn’t exist, and patting themselves on the back while doing it.

How many deaths resulting from heart disease were “preventable”? I have a feeling it was a good deal more than 40%. Before anyone jumps in and posits that heart disease is not transmissible, let’s remind ourselves that a family of four is often served the same dinner, and that children often adopt the fitness habits (or lack thereof) of their parents.

Won’t somebody please think of the children?!!111onewon

Ah, yes, the historic revisionism of a “switch”. Like Robert “KKK” Byrd, right?

Man, the sad attempts at propaganda never cease with Leftists. Point out the history of their evils, and repetition of their behavior (now that illegal immigrants have become the new slave labor for their modern plantations), and they try to flip it as if Republicans were actually the party of slavery. “The labels switched, and actually the Democrats like black people now.“

They even come with their own Ministry of Truth...

Pathetic.

This post is useless without detailing the brand and variety of the habanero sauce.

Can't read this without thinking of this - doesn't get more applicable:

http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...

07:26 for the direct reference, but the whole episode was a truly fantastic piece of comedy...

You know, other people who are disagreeing are at least attempting to make an intelligent argument. You are posting little "quips" that you must think are very clever barbs. The first is this accurate predictor of the quality of your future posts,

"You see the difference between here and Ars on the climate threads. Slashdot is full of spastics like you who can't face reality and take comfort in spouting meaningless shit like this. Beyond pathetic."

That's actually hilarious, since Ars is kind of known for being an echo chamber, full of armchair scientists. The difference is that Slashdot is full of armchair scientists of a more varied and diverse background. The next is this well-sourced, point by point refutal of the parent's argument,

"The fact that you think that any of that is evidence against AGW speaks volumes."

And the amazingly awesome straw man,

"Yeah congrats you're playing the role of the creationist, but in the climate arena. Take a bow son."

Next, a challenge,

"Make your own prediction, let's see what happens. Put your money where your mouth is."

Then, an apology,

"Sorry, your disingenuous characterization of people who accept the overwhelming evidence is fucking pathetic. Nobody wants this to be true. There are people who accept it, and people who immaturely and childishly talk shit because they're too fucking cowardly to face up to it, and you are clearly of the latter."

Aren't you the big man? Spend a few more years out of high school, and perhaps you can join the rest of us immature adults here in some vitriolic discourse of a more elevated sort.

I make a legal and permitted link to some content. Then, the content at that URI is changed to something I am no longer legally allowed to link to. Am I committing a crime? I don't control what a URI points to. The owner of the server does.

In years gone by, this would have been more accurately described as severe mental retardation. Unfortunately, society has decided to abandon the term "retarded" due to perceived stigma. I feel this is unfortunate, as the term is actually quite accurate. Any term can, and in fact historically has been, co-opted to become a pejorative describing people who don't actually fall under the classification of some disability.

Many parents, faced with having a child with a severe mental deficiency, leap to "autism" as a way of internally mitigating the greater negative internal emotions that would follow a diagnosis of mental retardation. Medical professionals accommodate this psychological need of the parents, or buy into the classification themselves due to modern conditioning.

I think that as time goes on, and more knowledge is gained, diagnoses of "autism" or "Asperger's" will eventually be more limited. A huge portion currently diagnosed will be seen as just being socially awkward as youth. Anecdotally, many children in my school environment in the 70's and 80's would today be characterized as being "on the scale". They were shy, didn't make friends, and didn't know how to "get into a group". Due to the demographic nature of my town (few leave), I can say that I cannot think of one of those people who would consider themselves to be "on the scale". At different times in their lives, they got over most of their shyness, and they participate very effectively in local businesses, charity organizations, and social clubs. They may not be boisterous, but they carry on conversations and speak up when they have something to say.

The ones who have a true mental disability will be classified in ways that reflect the actual reason for their deficits. This will increase our ability to mitigate the risks of children being born with or developing a disability. It will also give us a better chance at treating such people. Sweeping everyone under one grand carpet will do less to address the individual issues of each person.