I'm likely to be eaten by a grue!

I have similar habbits: Left hand at 6 o'clock and my right hand on the stick-shift when I drive standard/manual.

Maybe we should get rid of the Gregorian calendar in favour of the French Revolution / Republican calendar. Today it's the "16 Ventôse de l'an 220"!

Why don't you try Debian since Ubuntu is a derivative of that distro. Mint would be another good Debian/Ubuntu alternative!

Have you checked the following: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ ?

By law, employees are entitled to receive paid "time off" to take a portion of their day to go out and vote!

How about Nader? :P

Did you really watch the Address to the Nation? The approach proposed by the President seems quite fair. On one hand he wants to cut expenditure while making sure that the rich few pay the fair share of taxes. Heck, he even said that he, as President, would be prepared to pay higher taxes and so should the other Congresspersons and Senators. He didn't put blame solely on Republicans, he also blamed the Democrates for this impass. But what do I know righ? I'm just a Canadian interested by the crisis and the repercussions it might have on our economy or the economy or other nations!

Yeah, you're right. They vote on various issues (i.e.: Congresspersons, Senators, Governors, President, Judges, Sheriffs, Referendums). Maybe it would be time to simplify the US political and judicial systems...

It's funny that you say that. Here in Canada, we still use the good old pen and paper technique! Sure, it might seem antiquated, but it works. We have one system through all provinces and territories as to exclude result seen in Florida where certain counties would have older voting machines that produce an unbelievable amount of discarted votes. Also, it would be nice to see, in the US, a government arm-length agency that would be responsible to oversee the election, just like Election Canada, as to prevent what happen in Florida and/or in other States.