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Comment Re:I wouldn't want to row (Score 2) 400

by kaan on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:05PM (#51542725) Attached to: Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics

I get yout point, I wouldn't want to be a part of that scene either, but for most (all?) of these athletes, this is their livelihood, their passion, their years-long focus. Putting myself in their shoes, to say I might get sick is probably not what I want to hear but I bet I'd still participate.

Comment Whoa... (Score 4, Funny) 504

by kaan on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @02:37AM (#26635251) Attached to: How many phones do you have? Count wired phone extensions, cell phones, smartphones, and installed VoIP apps on all computers th

No phone and 3-digit userid. Sweet.

Submission + - NY rejects e-voting, DOJ trying to force it anyway

Submitted by CompaniaHill on Thursday November 08, 2007 @07:41PM

CompaniaHill writes: Hastily passed in the wake of the 2000 election mess, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) supposedly offered funding to help states "update" their voting systems, while in reality using short deadlines to push the sale of untested and uncertified new e-voting systems. Many states continue to demonstrate that the new e-voting machines are not reliable. The New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) took the time to pass their own voting legislation with additional testing and certification standards including a voter verified paper trail, then more time to craft agency rules and procedures, all of which far exceed the HAVA standards. Of course they missed the HAVA deadlines. In March 2006, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued New York to comply with HAVA. Now, the DOJ is serving a motion to try to take away New York's right to select and acquire their own voting machine systems — in effect, to force e-voting machines on New York anyway. Too soon to say how the NYSBOE will respond yet. Hard to find good links on this developing story, but there are bits more on the DOJ motion here here and here, civil group responses here here and here.

Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of Free Will 867

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 22, 2006 @01:25PM from the good-to-know-i've-never-offended-anyone dept.

pragueexpat writes "Do we have free will? Possibly not, according to an article in the new issue of the Economist. Entitled 'Free to choose?', the piece examines new discoveries in the fields of neuroscience and psychology that may be forcing us to re-examine the concept of free will. The specifically cite a man with paedophilic tendencies who was cured when his brain tumor was removed. 'Who then was the child abuser?', they ask. The predictable conclusion of this train of thought, of course, leads us to efforts by Britain: 'At the moment, the criminal law--in the West, at least--is based on the idea that the criminal exercised a choice: no choice, no criminal. The British government, though, is seeking to change the law in order to lock up people with personality disorders that are thought to make them likely to commit crimes, before any crime is committed.'"

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