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Not a lot to talk about today. It was local election day. Yet they held an entire election for thse single purpose of electing a new
mayor. That seemed like a monumental waste of taxpayer money to me. Sure all of the people that they staff during the voting are
volunteers, but to print out all of the ballots and to rent (I assume) all of the equipment that they use for the
vote is really just depressing. If they were only going to have a single thing on the ballot, couldn't they have instead just
got us all in an auditorium for two minutes and then just done a quick show of hands? It certainly would have
been infinitely easier, but that would have made the ballot pretty public as opposed to 'secret'. Why can't they work out an internet
voting thing that runs by your social security number? You log in with the number and some personal information, make a quick vote
and log out. Faster, easier better all around. If you are concerned about the possibility of cheating, keep in mind that the person
who gave me a ballot didn't even check my ID, and I didn't give her my full name, I just said 'B,U,R' to get her to the correct page, after that I could have
picked from quite a few different names. At least with the internet idea I would have to know someones social, as well as having other information
about them. Pointless speculating though.
• This is just something that I have been a tad curios about for the last few days.
Let's say that you are a budding programmer, you aren't able to get the job that you really want and so you
decide to go ahead and code a malicious virus. How do you test that? Sure you have now written the ultimate malicious
program and all, but if there were typos it wouldn't work, right? Do you have to run the thing on your own machine first
to make sure that it infects the boot sector just how you had planned? How about one of the viruses that spreads through
email, do you just go ahead and send it to your friends and family and make sure that it goes to their friends? Just a curious
thought.
• Now for possibly the least believable news story of all time! That is of
course not counting all of the stuff that you see in things like the 'Enquirer' and 'Sun'. This one, I think,
is trying to be serious and quite matter-of-fact. It is also complete and total bullshit.
Graphic, Violent Images Can Curb Kids' Aggression. Now that is a hell of a headline. That is also a headline that is going to take
a hell of a convincing argument to back up. I must mention that the headline itself seems out of context considering what the story talks about
but still it is a damn bold headline. For the sake of brevity I will just quote a single paragraph from the story, then add my spin.
To put a different light on the same idea, let us say that we start showing horny teen-aged boys porno videos.
Sure they are going to be less likely to have sex in the very immediate future (like the next ten minutes), but then they will begin to crave it.
I suppose that it is a little bit different but I can't really see how. Show them people being killed and they won't kill, show them people having sex and they won't
have sex. I don't think either of those ideas are sound enough to even try to do a comprehensive study on.
Perhaps if there were more shows that showed the actual results from your decision to kill, like the shows on A&E that show the
one time killer spending his life in prison for a few furious seconds that he would really like to have
back. That would probably be a better premise to use than showing horrible photos. Or how about having the parents of the person
that he killed being let alone with him in a room, with a board, with a nail in it, while he is tied up, and they have
an hour of 'No questions asked' interrogation. The parents would not be prosecuted if he somehow died. That might slow it down.
I don't like where I am going with this and I have even deleted a few parapraphs that I thought were
a bit too harsh. I hope you were able to see my actual point, whether you saw the point or not, my email address is below and I welcome your
comments.
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