Oct
28
guest chef Jean Bonner Drinkwine at The Farm for the MIR benefit
CQ2: Ed Murphy
snippets
“The older the stonework, the larger the pieces and the better the fit.”
LacusCurtius • Viae (Smith’s Dictionary, 1875)
Oct
24
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Computers should count votes
(Score:4, Insightful) by symbolset (646467) on Friday October 23, @10:45PM (#29853869)
Once they’ve been granted suffrage. Not before.
I post this same post every time we have a computerized vote counting thread. My objection to this has nothing to do with whether it’s a secret proprietary process or a totally open FOSS solution. With each generation of computer technology we gain the opportunity to go wrong with greater speed than ever before. Yes, proprietary solutions are horrid and there’s some evidence that they’ve been used to steal votes and they’re truly evil. Unfortunately, FOSS tools can be abused too.
I guess my point is that the process of counting votes using humans is an important part of representative democracy because it doesn’t just achieve the goal of “counting the vote”. It also impresses on the participants the importance of sanity and trust and impartiality in the process, without which constant reinforcement we can expect democracy to rapidly go off the rails. Compared to that social good, the importance of getting same-day results fades in importance.
” Slashdot Politics Story | Open Source Voting Software Concept Released
Oct
23
“Sir Iain was considered somewhat eccentric (e.g. he had a trick of moving his dentures up and down while speaking, which he preferred to play on young women).”
Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet, CVO, QC (9 April 1919–27 February 1985)
“In 1894 he was severely mauled by an attacking lion, and was only saved when his Somali gunbearer Abdullah Ashur leaped on the lion, giving Delamere time to retrieve his rifle. As a result of the attack, Lord Delamere limped for the rest of his life; he also developed a healthy respect for Somalis.”
Lord Delamere
Oct
22
Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm (Khiva), full-length portrait, in uniform, seated on chair, outdoors; between 1910 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
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