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Well, $1B later, it's finally over

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    Marc Clifton
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    Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

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      Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

      Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
      How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
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      PaulowniaK
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      Whew! The world is safe...!...? Anyway... According to BBC, Hawaii has 4 votes and called Democrat, but no one voted. Is there something special about Hawaii, or has BBC slipped up?

      Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...

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        Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

        Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
        How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
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        Computational Types in C# and F#

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        That is what i hate about elections. Huge amount of money wasted on printing papers and posters and road signs etc. It would be well utilized other way. Grrrrrrr...... :mad:

        My cUr10U5 w0rlD

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          That is what i hate about elections. Huge amount of money wasted on printing papers and posters and road signs etc. It would be well utilized other way. Grrrrrrr...... :mad:

          My cUr10U5 w0rlD

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          jim lahey
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          You could have easily used the $1 billion for all sorts of good causes and decided the vote with a presidential arm wrestle or something

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            Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

            Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
            How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
            My Blog
            Computational Types in C# and F#

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            My little poll didn't cost anywhere near that much, and reached the same result.

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              Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

              Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
              How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
              My Blog
              Computational Types in C# and F#

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              Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer
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              I forgot about the elections, so I thought, "Hmm, I'll just go peek at the bbc site". Just as I typed bbc into my address bar, up popped this autocomplete url as asuggesstion: www.bbc.co.uk/drwho[^] So I went there instead! Iain.

              I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!

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                Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

                Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                My Blog
                Computational Types in C# and F#

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                Pete OHanlon
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                I give it a couple of weeks before the lounge gets back to normality (whatever that is), and we stop talking about politics in the lounge.

                *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

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                  I forgot about the elections, so I thought, "Hmm, I'll just go peek at the bbc site". Just as I typed bbc into my address bar, up popped this autocomplete url as asuggesstion: www.bbc.co.uk/drwho[^] So I went there instead! Iain.

                  I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!

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                  Probably the only bit if the BBC that hasn't been relocated to the US this week.

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                    Thank God. Now to remove all those campaign signs from everyone's yards that seem not to disappear until a heavy snow. Marc

                    Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                    How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                    My Blog
                    Computational Types in C# and F#

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                    trønderen
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                    On the other hand... is the democracy worth $3.50 from every US citizen every four years? That is less than one dollar a year, per person. I sure agree that it should be possible to do it for a lot less, but I wouldn't be willing to sacrify very much democracy to save, say, fifty cents a year. Actually, if another dollar a year could give me more democracy, I would be willing to spend it. (That is an "if" - I think the "else" part is quite essential here...) Disclaimer: I am not a US citizen.

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                      On the other hand... is the democracy worth $3.50 from every US citizen every four years? That is less than one dollar a year, per person. I sure agree that it should be possible to do it for a lot less, but I wouldn't be willing to sacrify very much democracy to save, say, fifty cents a year. Actually, if another dollar a year could give me more democracy, I would be willing to spend it. (That is an "if" - I think the "else" part is quite essential here...) Disclaimer: I am not a US citizen.

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                      Member 8575121 wrote:

                      is the democracy worth $3.50 from every US citizen every four years?

                      But it's not a democracy - candidates other than the R. and D. candidates simply cannot compete with the levels of money poured into advertising by the candidates themselves and even more so, by the super-PAC's[^]. And then you have the media, that almost completely ignores third party candidates. And then you have the American people, too uneducated to realize that Romney can't do anything about the price of gasoline at the pumps and his promise to do so is absurd, and too sentimental to ask "ok, so what exactly is your spending / taxing plan?" Democracy relies on education, intelligence, and equality, which is something our political system and the voting body simply do not have any measurable amount of. Marc

                      Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                      How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                      My Blog
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