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Uncle Bill's Canadian blog: Alternative vote
http://williamsticker.blogspot.com/2011/05/alternative-vote.html
Uncle Bill's Canadian blog. Links are fine, but the words are mine. Tuesday, 3 May 2011. After the recent Canadian Federal General Election, I was surprised to find out that the Alternative Vote system of election has been tried and discarded in British Columbia, Canada. In the early 1950's no less. Back in the UK, the Alternative Vote system is being touted as a 'fairer' system of apportioning the popular mandate, but is it really? So how is that 'fairer' than the first past the post system? My reading ...
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More thoughts on Integration and Cohesion | Not Saussure
https://notsaussure.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/more-thoughts-on-integration-and-cohesion
June 17, 2007. More thoughts on Integration and Cohesion. 8212; notsaussure @ 12:36 am. Having become engrossed in Second Life (see below), I haven’t yet had the opportunity to read through Our shared future. The report by the Commission on Integration and Cohesion about which I was rather rude the other day. Of Italian society — so that’s where they came in. The. The trouble with this, of course, is that it doesn’t work. As this blog’s intellectual hero, Michael Oakeshott, put it,. 9 Comments ». 8212; J...
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Two Years To An EU Referendum | The Boiling Frog
https://thefrogsalittlehot.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/two-years-to-an-eu-referendum
Skip to primary content. Two Years To An EU Referendum. May 8, 2015. The Tories have won an outright majority. The real significance is with a Tory majority Cameron will have to come good on his promise of an EU referendum in 2017. With a tiny majority which give his backbenchers a lot of power there can be no question of him reneging on this promise. We have two years to prepare, the real hard work starts now. This entry was posted in Cameron. 10 thoughts on “ Two Years To An EU Referendum. Once the leg...
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The Failure of US-VISIT - Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/the_failure_of_1.html
The Failure of US-VISIT. US-VISIT is the program to program to fingerprint and otherwise keep tabs on foriegn visitors to the U.S. This article. Talks about how the program is being rolled out, but the last paragraph is the most interesting:. Since January 2004, US-VISIT has processed more than 44 million visitors. It has spotted and apprehended nearly 1,000 people with criminal or immigration violations, according to a DHS press release. Surely there's a more cost-effective way to catch bad guys? I susp...
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Mitigating Identity Theft - Schneier on Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/mitigating_iden.html
Unfortunately, the solutions being proposed in Congress won't help. To see why, we need to start with the basics. The very term "identity theft" is an oxymoron. Identity is not a possession that can be acquired or lost; it's not a thing at all. Someone's identity is the one thing about a person that cannot be stolen. They can't claim that the user must keep his password secure or his machine virus free. They can't require the user to monitor his accounts for fraudulent activity, or his credit reports...
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Greece’s Debt Is Sustainable | International Liberty
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/greeces-debt-is-sustainable
Bureaucrat Hall of Fame. Center for Freedom and Prosperity Videos. Five Things About Me. Moocher Hall of Fame. Restraining Government in America and Around the World. Laquo; Estonia Demonstrates that Business Taxation Can Be Simple, Fair, and Conducive to Growth. The Willful Blindness of an IRS Sycophant. Greece’s Debt Is Sustainable. July 23, 2015 by Dan Mitchell. I wouldn’t be surprised if Greece has a full or partial default. And that actually might not be a bad result. Was Greece doomed at that point?