I'm Australian and I like it. I think compulsory voting is a good idea; we'd get as lazy and indifferent as anyone else, otherwise. (We're not the most passionate people in the world about our politics.) And our vote, like U.S. citizens' votes, is our strongest weapon against dictatorship -- not our guns.We tightened our gun controls (finally) after the Port Arthur gun massacre. We haven't had a horror like that since, and strangely enough, we aren't living under a dictatorship. Yet. I guess gun-humpers are nodding grimly and saying, "Wait until tomorrow."
It should be configured it so that the cursor actually has to roll over the top of the window, like a windows toolbar configured to auto hide. I also find it presently a problem.
And please, if you can, get trained to work the polls as a clerk or judge. I clerked for the first time during the primaries, and as I live in a deep red area, I felt I needed to help make sure people from both parties were on hand. Even from my first experience in a small precinct, there were several instances of people who couldn't vote due to some obscure reason or another. Luckily our judges did make sure provisional ballots were offered. We have to make sure that the rules are followed and the process works.
Would they be wrong to think that the tech changes the equation?But agreed their savvy is questionable and a cause for hope.Another cause for hope, there is a tendency for the moneyed classes (at whatever breakpoint you choose, 30%, 10%, 1%, 0.1%) to fall to bickering about sharing out the looted or hoarded spoils. Sometimes that generates wars, even world wars, which tend to re-set the wealth machine. It's messy if you're caught up in the middle of it, but the (few) generations immediately afterwards benefit greatly (and think they are living in the best of all possible worlds).
Seriously? As in not The Onion seriously? Why would anyone want to delay that? What am I missing?
They are about to recreate Stalinism, let alone Marxism. Do they know what happened to the Czars of Russia?
I'm Australian and I like it. I think compulsory voting is a good idea; we'd get as lazy and indifferent as anyone else, otherwise. (We're not the most passionate people in the world about our politics.) And our vote, like U.S. citizens' votes, is our strongest weapon against dictatorship -- not our guns.We tightened our gun controls (finally) after the Port Arthur gun massacre. We haven't had a horror like that since, and strangely enough, we aren't living under a dictatorship. Yet. I guess gun-humpers are nodding grimly and saying, "Wait until tomorrow."
It should be configured it so that the cursor actually has to roll over the top of the window, like a windows toolbar configured to auto hide. I also find it presently a problem.
I wouldn't mind it being shrunk like the old one was- this one it definitely too large. Maybe just the black banner...
Also sausages, which I think is a great idea, because a lot of people like food.
And please, if you can, get trained to work the polls as a clerk or judge. I clerked for the first time during the primaries, and as I live in a deep red area, I felt I needed to help make sure people from both parties were on hand. Even from my first experience in a small precinct, there were several instances of people who couldn't vote due to some obscure reason or another. Luckily our judges did make sure provisional ballots were offered. We have to make sure that the rules are followed and the process works.
I spent my teen years in New Jersey, and I approve this message.
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But what about the Vanderquacks?
How do you spell "traitor"?
T R U M P
Would they be wrong to think that the tech changes the equation?But agreed their savvy is questionable and a cause for hope.Another cause for hope, there is a tendency for the moneyed classes (at whatever breakpoint you choose, 30%, 10%, 1%, 0.1%) to fall to bickering about sharing out the looted or hoarded spoils. Sometimes that generates wars, even world wars, which tend to re-set the wealth machine. It's messy if you're caught up in the middle of it, but the (few) generations immediately afterwards benefit greatly (and think they are living in the best of all possible worlds).
Upfist for "original Caucasian inhabitants".
I didn't know "Ukes" were a thing. Perhaps I wuz too busy being a "dot-head"
oh, I thought those were the Rosenbergs/sn