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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
- 1 for Snowden and how the hell did the supreme court both do the right and wrong thing in the same day?
edited 17th Jun '13 3:16:43 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Report: Pentagon to open SEALs, Army Rangers to women
Bitcoin transactions taxable, says GAO
edited 17th Jun '13 5:33:20 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I kind of support the voter ID requirement personally, but that's something that could have its own thread.
Anyhow, as to blocking state department funds to Afghanistan, I agree. There needs to be a very high intensity investigation as to how those funds are being used, there is a ridiculous amount of waste and honestly, I feel like half of it just ends up in the hands of our enemies anyway.
Islamic extremists and Christian extremists: Not So Different.
Requiring ID to vote is only acceptable if 100% of voters have an ID.
edited 17th Jun '13 5:49:00 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Iran’s Supreme Leader Mocks U.S. Electoral College With Infographic
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I don't mean to be ignorant or anything, but why is getting an acceptable ID a problem? In Ontario at least you can go to the closest ServiceOntario office and get an ID card as long as you have some mail or a bank statement or something to prove you live at a certain address.
edited 17th Jun '13 7:05:31 PM by Zendervai
Yeah, because we're sensible about giving citizens their ID when they need it and don't have an entire political party who is dependent on outright voter disenfranchisement to win national elections (the Tories aren't there yet, they depend on apathy).
In other news, are you shitting me?
The key issue concerns the standard practice for large homeowner’s insurance claims. As laid out in the fine print of mortgage and insurance contracts, the insurance company will make out the check jointly to the homeowner and the homeowner’s mortgage servicer. If the homeowner has a second mortgage on the home with a different servicer, the insurer writes a three-party check. This is intended to protect the lender if the house simply cannot be rebuilt, at which point the proceeds from the insurance claim can get used to pay off the loan. But in all other cases, it means that the homeowner must secure the endorsement of the check from the servicer(s) before they can get the money to pay for repairs.
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Oh, you have no idea. It's... very location dependent whether you have convenient ID services in the U.S., and it almost always has a fee.
edited 17th Jun '13 7:12:40 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@zendervai: because conveniently, a lot of DM Vs and other places you can get an ID card in the US tend to be open during hours where its far more likely a middle or upper class person can ask off work to go get one than a poor person.
In short, its far easier to get an id card if you're a WASP.
getting an ID card should be something easy. Instead, its yet another convenient way to shut out the poor and the brown-skinned.
edited 17th Jun '13 7:42:43 PM by midgetsnowman
I still don't understand why the government doesn't just issue mandatory ID cards. It would be a lot simpler than having to go and get one and would easily put to rest any disputes of whether or not someone is illegal.
In other news fuck you Rick Scott.
In an ideal world you'd be voted out for this but I know that won't happen. And people wonder why we need unions.
edited 17th Jun '13 8:24:56 PM by Kostya
Checking Scalia's decision on shitcanning the Arizona voter-registration law, it looks like he wanted to keep it, but he was hamstrung by having to obey the Literal Word of the Constitution.
So, "federal law trumps state, sorry Arizona."
On another subject, this
I can just imagine how it'd go over at a Tea Party meeting, though.
edited 18th Jun '13 12:49:43 AM by Ramidel
...Your supreme court seriously ruled that Miranda rights don't exist until they're read to you (or you say you already know they do)? O_o
How is that not an incentive to withhold reading them?
On the Iran side, to be fair with the supreme leader, his infographic is right: Your indirect voting is a joke. We got rid of most of itnote fifty-plus years ago.
edited 18th Jun '13 2:51:07 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."The thing is, theoretically, a candidate could just barely win in the states they do win and tank hard everywhere else and come out the winner in the Electoral college with something like 30% of the popular vote.
*Looks back a page* Wow, I think Dred Scott may have a competitor for "Worst Supreme Court ruling ever made".
edited 18th Jun '13 3:42:00 AM by Balmung
Actually, the state boundaries were already gerrymandered. We got several states out of the whole Wyoming/Utah/Colorado/etc. area because the Republicans actually did that so they'd get more electoral votes, according to what I've read in the book How the States got their Shapes.
Also, that James Altucher guy has some interesting observations — such as that primary elections are won by turnout, and turnout is driven by consistent voters who likely have little else to do with their time, such as people in their retirement. And such people have a higher-than-par probability to be in nursing homes, and thus be available for voter outreach contact in high density.
On the other hand, he's also got some crazy-as-hell ideas, such as his idea of simply selling off everything that the government does. No, economics doesn't work like that. These are public goods provided by the government because the market, working on an every-entity-for-itself basis, underprovides public goods. Plus, private companies aim to profit from an enterprise, and that means that the return on the service (be it a bridge or the post office or whatever) has to exceed the operating costs, rather than just break even — which means it would need to charge people more than it ought to.
edited 18th Jun '13 6:00:08 AM by GlennMagusHarvey
The reason we have an electoral college is a states' rights issue. It's a compromise between giving all states equal standing in presidential elections, which would make the "popular vote vs electoral college" thing a thousand times worse, and doing a straight popular vote, which would mean that small states get completely screwed despite every state having equal standing on the federal level in a lot of ways.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Why the states should have "equal voice" in electing the President is a bit of a mystery to me; it means that a vote in a heavily populated state counts less than a vote in a lightly populated state, just because we assign arbitrary value to some lines drawn on a map.
I know that the Founding Fathers didn't really like the idea of Quality by Popular Vote when they drew up the Constitution, but the idea that we could elect the leader of our country with anything less than a majority vote is extremely strange.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
