"No voter can verify that his vote was properly handled, kept anonymous, and counted accurately in any electronic voting system."

You say this like its something unique to e-voting. There is really no guarantee that once you stuff your ballot in that box that it will be properly handled, kept anonymous and counted properly. If you believe that, then that is your first mistake.

"The chance that Brasil reverts to some form of dictatorship is quite a bit greater than the same thing happening in the US, or most western european states."
LOL How would you even know if it happened in the US or not? By listening to Fox news? LOL
Believe me, if such a thing was possible, no one in the US would even notice. **That's my "ignorance of the day" **

This "example" of online voting has got to be one of the dumbest ever conceived. Don't let this be the rule by which you judge online voting. You don't need to spread your ignorance. There's already enough out there!

Why do people think that paper ballots are automatically better than any form of electronic voting? "Because thats the way we've done it for years and years" And how has that worked out for ya? I'm sure you've never heard of stuffing the ballot box or of mishandling of the ballot boxes, losing ballots, miss-reading of the ballots. Paper ballots have just as many problems as you can cite "e-voting" supposedly has. You can't judge "e-voting" by these buffoons using PDF's as a secure ballot. Must have been bought and paid for by Adobe. Go out and educate yourself on what is actually out there and available with regards to "e-voting", try it out, have your government, PTA, Union whatever, try it out. How many of you guys out there spewing how bad e-voting is do online banking, or have bought something from eBay? Do you use bank machines, how secure are they? Everyday just about everyone with a bank card uses it in some way or another either online or in some flakey ATM or a bank machine somewhere. Your (supposed) money is nothing but a few binary 1's and 0's somewhere in some banks' mainframes. If "e-banking" is good enough for ya then why isn't "e-voting"? Its got, or at least should have at least the same security banking has, if done correctly. Ignorance. Not in the rude-sense. Just pure "I don't know anything about it, so I am going to piss on it with all my heart and I can't stand change, its new so I don't like it" ignorance. All I can say is that I've at least tried "e-voting". It seemed fine to me. "Well how do you know your vote was actually cast for the person you chose?" I don't know. Do we ever really know with paper ballots that the ballot actually got counted, correctly? We may stuff that paper ballot into the ballot box but there is still no guarantee that it actually got counted, ever. You shouldn't fool yourself into thinking that the people working the elections don't necessarily have their own agenda's with regards to voting and the outcome of the election. Every bad thing you can imagine has already been done with regards to paper ballots and counting them etc. It was great sitting at home in my nice comfy chair during a late October storm. The wind and rain blustering about. Me with my laptop sitting on my lap and me voting for Mayor, online. Done in minutes. Didn't have to go out, didn't get wet, didn't miss my Grand daughters first steps. I'm just happy that I live in a fairly progressive city where doing "e-voting" is just one of the perks. Anybody know how many Municipalities in Ontario Canada are doing "e-voting" this October? Many. Guess how many are using PDF's as secure ballots? Zero (AFAIK!)

As I understand it, the ESRB exists to warn consumers of potentially offensive material and allow them to make a more informed purchase. This rating is based on the content of said purchase. I assert that this content includes multimedia assets and game code/instructions. I do not believe you can separate the two and rate the game based on one or the other, but instead must judge the product as a whole, as it is available to the end consumer.

Through modification of the code, nudity is available. This is a modification of the content, and must be downloaded after market, or explicitly written by the user. I don't believe the ESRB has the right to change the rating of a product based on what people in the market can do after the product's release, but should stick to rating what the product actual does do. Otherwise, they are no longer of use to anyone.

The only way I can see a justification for the action they have taken (and this is a slim chance) is if they are including the construction kit in the rating evaluation. Because with that, any user can modify the game's content, using software (more content) that shipped with the product. But this still would not justify the rating change on the xbox 360 version. I see no reason for that change other than fear of Hilary Clinton and her political agenda. I don't own Oblivion, so I am not aware if the construction set is a separate download or not on the PC version.

According to http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid= 16600, the BBFC sees it this way as well.

All hail Red Green! He is the duct-tape god!

Do you actually have any idea at all about what OEone is building? It's not just some light shell slapped over a command line. It's an entire integrated operating environment designed from the ground up to be usable and understandable by the very masses who do buy their boxes from Dell and/or Best Buy. In fact it's also intended for the huge mass of people who haven't bought a computer at all because they find them to difficult to use.

AOL should be climbing all over OEone. It's the perfect vehicle for providing easy computer/internet access to the majority of people out there who still think Windows is to hard to use.