Same in my town, and its fun to have a bit of a chat with the ladies, whjo don't get paid for sitting there all evening...at least not much.

There will always be errors. Paper ballots minimize them.

My town uses paper ballots. Make your marks heavy and black, fill in the bubble completely...just like in grade school. Automatically counted, but the voter marked originals can still be counted manually. Voting machines are fixing a non existent problem. Just like voter ID laws.

This is going to come as a shock to those who believe that "God said it. It's in the Boble. I believe it. End of discussion."

On one hand, Religion, with its [many versions of the] One True Book of Divine Origin (which may not be questioned, even a little bit, on pain of death), filled with many tales of dubious historical accuracy and many internallly inconsistent moral pronouncements (you should NOT immediately kill all witches, homosexuals, and people who don't believe the same as us, even though the book says the Lord clearly instructed you to do this).

On the other hand, Science. Trying to come up with a logical explanation for how we got here and why those lights in the sky keep moving around. Also, why we get sick and die and how do we stop doing that?

And the guy who is in charge of [one brand of] the fairy tales, whose job it is to interpret them...is saying the fairy tales aren't all there is in life. Science and rational thinking, questions which can't yet be answered, and fairy tales are all important, but you have to figure out for yourself how important each one of them is to you. And while you're doing that, be nice to each other and help those who are less fortunate.

Maybe there is hope for this world after all.

If we can only ignore those guys who are convinced their brand of the fairy tales tells them to kill everyone who doesn't think the way they do... [sigh]...

Jordan is operating on a shoestring, paying in advance (with his customers' money) for units he intends to modify with his own code, then ship to customers. The results are not surprising.

We're using it to do a web page-based UI for a commercial product. The RasPi people are looking for commercial users, so we decided to try it out. It's far less expensive than other commercial SBCs, and being Linux based, it's a known quantity (no nasty proprietary OS or API to deal with), and the RasPi has a large user base, so hopefully, no unannounced obsolescence. Only drawback is that we need a HDMI converter board between the RasPi and the bare TFT panel. We still come in at around $200 for the entire display subsystem.

His huge testicals.
Soviet or US, those space pioneers deserve a lot of credit for taking those risks.

Not as long as fools keep giving him money. :-)

Oh, no...you see you don't understand...it's not a crime when *we* do it!

Most kids are required to have school IDs now. Write the information on a card of the same size as the ID, laminate it, and attach it to the lanyard that holds the ID.

They can carry jet fuel, too.

If the buyer is not able to meet in person (I don't care why), a US Postal Money order is available anywhere, up to $100 per m.o. If the buyer or his agent) wants to pick up in person, cold cash. If they can't or won't agree to either of the above payment methods, sorry, but I won't sell to them. I've never had a legitimate buyer unable to pay in one of those two ways, and everyone I've bought from on Ebay will accept a Postal MO.

This is important: terrorists who claim to be fighting for Islam...are criminals using religion as an excuse and justification for their crimes.

I've had Comcast cable since it was Cablevision (then MediaOne, then AT&T), and it has been pretty much trouble free, except when they try to reconfigure their network. I find their internet acceptable but would never rely on their telephone service(friends in town have had month-long outages when amplifiers on their trunk line fail and there's no one competent to troubleshoot the problem) .