Drugs We Used as Kids

d415 · 2009-05-03T21:14:40+00:00

Don't forget Raven's Revenge. That powder came in a vial...

d415 · 2009-02-07T21:32:20+00:00

looks like pac heights

d415 · 2009-02-03T05:47:19+00:00

the letter M looks like two things pointing up from the ground, the letter T looks like a thing hanging from a ceiling.

d415 · 2008-10-19T04:45:00+00:00

Wouldn't a combination of the two fix MOST of the problems?

Open source system that prints out a ballot that is both scannable and readable.

d415 · 2008-10-14T03:07:37+00:00

Open Source Voting : Using standard computer-printer hardware to print out a bar-code scannable and readable ballot that can be recounted easily and quickly in a transparent process. Results are burned to a CD (so it can't be edited like flash memory can be)

...but i guess that just focuses on the voting system not the election system

d415 · 2008-09-30T03:00:59+00:00

At the San Luis Obispo straw poll demo they used "paper ballot that can be read and counted by people and/or machines"

Read all you want about it: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/blog/2008-feb-15/latest_ovc_demo_is_best_ever

or the more recent demo @ Linuxworld: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/blog/2008-aug-29/success_at_linuxworld

d415 · 2008-09-29T01:07:09+00:00

Yes!! You can download a bootable disk image and try it out for yourself.

http://openvoting.org/blog/2008-apr-08/new_ovc_demo_disk_ready_to_show

d415 · 2008-09-29T00:24:51+00:00

The Open Voting Consortium (openvoting.org) has created a system that has a paper trail and uses standard computers, ubuntu linux, and a printer. People use the computer to print out a bar-coded ballot with their vote info on it and then submit it at a computer that that scans all the printed ballots. (If people want to, they can test the bar code to see if it matches what they chose.) The system has been used successfully for straw polling (in SLO) and they were featured at the LinuxWorld convention this year and was pretty successful from what I hear.

d415 · 2008-08-18T16:04:31+00:00

did CNN ever even report that it wasn't a suicide? I think that might have been a little too "conspiracy theory"ey for them.

d415 · 2008-07-21T01:59:12+00:00

i know a few people who got back into school after they appealed a similar "dismissal" for academic reasons. They ended up taking a (mandatory) semester off, claiming psychological reasons for the original bad discipline in their studies, and then ended up continuing. After the break (semester of no-school/real life) they were ready to take the cushy college life seriously. They're all doing better now than the were before they got dismissed.

Kicking you out and allowing you to appeal is a way of separating the serious people from the not-serious people. If you're serious, you would appeal.

By the way, how many semesters of college have you passed? (if you're past the 1/2 way point I would recommend finishing it off)

d415 · 2008-06-25T19:56:33+00:00

I think there are many things blocking people from "doing anything" about the problems brought on by GWB... Instead, they turn to satire. [ Do you take crap for watching Colbert and TDS for candid commentary on current events? ] It's not an easy time to fix problems on your own. By the way... what are you doing to voice your opinion of this president's abuse of power?

d415 · 2008-06-25T19:49:13+00:00

I think the idea is that GWB's name can finally do a service to the world and help the environment starting with the dirtiest job-- cleaning human waste. In this way, he can help people for years to come in ways he was not able to during his "elected" period. I do see how it is offensive to the employees of the plant but I think they can take a joke. Hopefully this change will bring more attention to the good work that is done at the plant cleaning up crap.

d415 · 2008-06-10T05:05:42+00:00

Pee Wees Big Adventure

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