[Internetics]

Floridaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Governer Crist is extending the polling hour (we can vote early in this state) to 12 hours a day on weekdays. 7am to 7pm. It's a nightmare, let me tell you. There are reports of waiting 2-3 hours on average and 4 hours in some Miami places. So far, 1.2 million votes have been cast (majority Obama) and if these early vote numbers are any indication, heads will roll tuesday and chaos-

CHAOS WILL BREAK OUT!!! Roving bands of disenfranchised voters that waited 6 hours in line will take to the streets turning over cars and demanding their vote be taken. Everybody panic!!
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[CubaLibre]

[negativedge]

I'd rather the enthusiasm be for teaching than for the subject at hand, and my experiences in school bore that out. Kids don't care about the subjects being taught. Seriously. They don't give a fuck. Sure, each class will have one or two people that might care about any given subject, but that's really about it. That care might go away in a month, because they're kids. A teacher that only really, truly cares about his subject matter is simply out of touch and will only affect those rare students that are already primed and ready to be affected. And you know what? Those kids will be fine no matter who is teaching them. They're going to have a 4.0 GPA, they're going to spend their free time delving into the subject matter regardless. The only thing High School can do to them is fuck them up.

For the rest of us, Mr. Mathy McMatherson's feverish hardon for polynumerals isn't going to translate to anything if he's not bringing other, more pertinent skillsets to the table.

[CubaLibre]

[negativedge]

Yeah, that's true, I'd rather education be more individualized, non compulsory and all that stuff, but we well know both my feelings and yours on that subject. We're mainly in agreement. The argument is how to go about dealing with the terrible system we've got. I think you do what you can to provide kids with a broader skillset that sets them up for critical success later on. This obviously doesn't mean Mr. Math here is going to stop teaching math. That's not practical or even useful. I just think he should tailor his style to emphasize the subject less than the thought process. The means rather than the end. He shouldn't be teaching if he's more interested in the subject than in the advancement of his students, because they are not going to advance themselves by proxy of his specialized expertise. This changes as you move up the educational ladder and school becomes more akin to work. The professor is not a caretaker, and he does and should assume both a certain skillset and an interest in the subject matter, which allows for actual learning. High School is simply a different world.

[GcDiaz]

Anyone else catch the infomercial? I liked what I saw, but then that's the whole point. George Washington could still decide in the booth.
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[Felix]

I saw Gene Glass give a talk today in which he pretty much said that we have no option but to carry on exactly as we have been doing with public education, and throw money at charter schools.

[BalbanesBeoulve]

[CubaLibre]

[108]

already voted over here

voted like a week ago
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[negativedge]

probably not voting, honestly

[Lestrade]

I wish all my American brethren a happy voting day. I hope to hell it goes well!
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[Family Computer]

I predict riots in all major American cities.
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[GcDiaz]

If Obama wins? If he loses? If he doesn't live to see the day?
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[extrabastardformula]

i really don't think it matters what the result is, except if what the people rioting look like matters to you.
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[DonMarco]

[negativedge]

I'm "not bothering with that" for a variety of reasons. I've probably thought about this election more than 90% of the people that actual are voting. I don't like our system, I don't like our parties, I don't like either candidate enough, and I don't feel massively informed enough to cast an intelligent ballot despite those hangups. I don't buy the hype about this being an "important election." I don't enjoy how inanely polarizing politics has become, despite, or maybe even because of, the vast similarities between our two parties. I don't like the way campaigns are run. I think both of these men would quietly murder my family if it gave them the white house. I believe my non vote means more than an actual vote would.

Most of all, I don't feel like I have to explain or validate myself to anyone. It's a fucking farce. A joke of a system. Get it out of my face.

[Felix]

That still doesn't justify not voting for the guy who has a really great chance of beating McCain and being a black G8 leader, dude.

[Predator Goose]

Show extralife the don't vote commercial. That'll change his tune, won't it.
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[Lurky]

In Canada we count the number of spoiled ballots, I assume the U.S does the same thing. If you feel the system sucks, doodle a penis on a ballot. A non vote means nothing, it's assumed to be apathy. It's assumed you didn't bother to show up. A spoiled ballot shows you were willing to show up, but not to vote.

[Isfet]

i would do this if we wrote on ballots.

[psiga]

[CubaLibre]

[CubaLibre]

[Dracko]

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[psiga]

[extrabastardformula]

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[negativedge]

[DonMarco]

I voted today. Grabbed some $4.50 worth of Taco Bell goodness and sat down with a Bachman book, The Regulators, around 10:27am. The line inched forward and the weather was damn near perfect. Cool, cloudy with no wind. Great Florida weather in the winter, I tell you what. Spoke to some people in fron and behind me and got damn near 60 pages in to the book.

I verified myself with a picture ID to the poll workers and started inking in my answers at 1:35pm. I left the library at 1:40 and was home by 2:00.

I don't know how long lines will be election day, but I have a class at 10 in the morning. So even if it was only 2 hours, I would have to be standing in line at 7 to be out safely with enough time to bike to the college (which is less that 3 miles from the poling place, so that's cool. But! That's assuming they will only be 2 hours. One hour seems mighty optimistic at this point, and there are a fuck ton of old people in the city that wake up at 4am and have nothing better to do with their time than go vote.

BAH! It's over. I don't have to watch CNN or read the news sites or keep up to date on what who said where at the when time. Nothing but C homework and Fallout 3.

Had some plum wine, half a bottle.
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[DonMarco]

[psiga]

That was so patriotic, Marco. It conjured images of strapping bottlerockets to eagles. God bless America.
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[Talbain]

I used to think my vote just killed trees, but now since it's online I realize that it just wastes electricity.
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[psiga]

Oh man, they made a sequel to the Don't Vote ad. It's almost five minutes long, the new one. At first I found it funny, but then they got serious, and it went downhill again.
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[Dracko]

[psiga]

Didn't want to; it was so bad.

Fine, though.



Bleh.
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[gambrinus]

My view on the voting thing is that I do so because I want my demographic represented. People aren't going to bother to try and win your vote if you're part of a demographic that doesn't vote - which pretty much means young people. The frickin AARP members are the ones determining our leaders most of the time. If you're young and you think your views on politics aren't quite the same as your grandmother's, even if you happen to support the same candidate, you need to go vote to show that you're worth being in the discussion. Fuck the soccer moms and fuck the retirees.

[evnvnv]

[CubaLibre]

GET OFF MY BOOTH
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[Dracko]

"I'm voting because I want a voice."

Hey, next time someone comes up to you and threatens you with a protection racket, how about you just do what everyone else does what they tell you to do and jot along a fucking survey form? I mean, you've already had it banged into your head repeatedly that this is making a difference. And everyone else is doing it! Look at all these cool kids telling you what to do! Don't you want to be just like them? Don't you want to have that kind of authority and power?

Don't be surprised if you still get regularly beaten, coerced into doing shit you don't believe in, oh, and have your money still taken from you.

The more I look at it, the more convinced I grow that this system isn't the one we actually want: It's the one we so fucking deserve for being so ridiculously short-sighted and willingly castrated.
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[spinach]

I love you Dracko