Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to
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Legal Beagle: 14 Pages of Democracy, in reply to
Lines? I did not insufflate...
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to
What language is that Steve? PL-1?
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to
Ah doh, yeah. Windows Mobile used to make you touch three points after a cold start. It then uses some sort of least-squaresy thing to calculate the position based on the raw data.
I'm not sure how modern touch screens deal with this, but my Nexus often gets completely out of kilter and needs a power-cycle to reset. Static buildup?
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the voting machine that switched a person's vote from Obama to Romney has been recalibrated
What, it's an analogue computer or something? Calibration?
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to
That could happen in NZ: buy a farm in Waikekemukau, ship hundreds of supporters in, adulterate the beer in the local pub right before election day (the Tui/Lion they sell in most rural pubs is pretty adulterated anyway when it leaves the factory), elect some kind of wierd cult leader as mayor.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to
If horseraces were organised like the US election, all horses whose name didn't start with T would be let go into the infield to eat oats.
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Who won the Melbourne Cup?
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Hard News: The Watching World, in reply to
Uk local authorities (counties, districts, cities) have roughly the same amount of autonomy as NZ ones. I believe that some/all of them are education providers, but health is run nationally, for instance. They don't have the kind of independent competence that US municipalities do.
Scotland and Wales have devolved assemblies, which can legislate in certain areas and in the case of Scotland, levy taxes.
All of those bodies, down to parish councils, operate almost entirely on a representative model. There have been very few referenda in the UK, and (I think) all have been on constitutional arrangements, not policy.