13 internets to you, sir. Congratulations, enjoy your prize.

Sure, but can you imagine the eBay listing fee, commission, and worse - the paypal fees?

Just imagine having 2 billion dollars frozen in your paypal account when the buyer files a dispute.

Sheeeeeeeesh.

I thought about moderating your comments, but instead I'll post my analysis of your "analysis":

For an article that was about things your kids may never know about, that was a heck of a lot of blather about how the article was wrong because you do all this stuff.

Lucky for you, I didn't need to post two enormous, useless comments just to point this out.

Fabulous, even.

Wait...

D'oh!

it is cool to start a thought in the subject field, and finish it in the body field.

Good grief how I hate that. It can completely change the meaning of a post.

This may come as a surprise to you... but if you can put the number into a webpage... so can that person in authority. Whether it's a receipt you keep with the vote readable, or a number you put into a webpage.

Any time that you can verify after you leave the polling place which way your vote was recorded ... so can someone else. And that can lead to very serious consequences. Loss of job, family, the stakes are endless.

All that is required for you to verify your vote is a human-readable paper record that will be kept separate from the electronic record, but doesn't leave the polling place. That way you can verify it after you vote electronically, and if a recount is done, the paper trail box can be unlocked and counted.

It aint trekkie unless it's CleverNickname insisting they have to reverse the polarity of the main deflector dish ;)

Well, it's not to some of us, I guess.

Mr. Shenanigans is calling from Soviet Russia on line 1.

Damn. Out of mod points.

-1 Troll - that'll have to do.

Although... if there was a "-1 Really, REALLY Boring" then I think I'd be tempted use that one first :)