Re: Vote!
Re: Vote!
- Subject: Re: Vote!
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:20:54 +0100
on 17/8/05 22:22, deivy petrescu at email@hidden wrote:
> I do not really care for the counting process itself, everyone can
> create one. However, I was able to create a script (application
> really) that can change itself.
Perhaps more thought should be given to the counting process?
As others have mentioned, counting is something that is relatively easy for
humans to do - you don't really need a computer to do it!
We don't have fancy computer systems to count our votes in the UK. We have
bits of paper, pencilled crosses, big tables and dedicated people who work
very hard with little or no compensation to ensure that everything is
counted accurately and fairly. And, if we distrust the result, we can send
in more people to recount those bits of paper.
For some reason, the US* is driven to commercialise at *every* opportunity.
The simple process of casting and counting a vote must be turned into some
kind of profit angle for some corporation. Nobody is happy with it until
some kind of technology is incorporated.
I don't understand this need to use machines to achieve something that you
are better off using ordinary people to do.
Obviously this is out of the scope of this list, but this seems to be a
recurring theme in US history. Take capital punishment as an example. In the
UK you needed nothing more than some basic woodwork, a rope and one person
to kill somebody on behalf of the state.
In the US you needed high technology. You needed Edison; you needed
corporations; masses of equipment; lots of power; lots of science and loads
of technicians to carry out the same job. Then you need competing
technologies; gas, poison whatever and their competing corporations and
technologies...
People can count. A single person can tie a noose - why do we need all this
technology? Is it to negate responsibility, to turn social needs into profit
or what?
Anyhow, back to scripting...
*Just an observation - not a attempt to start a flame war.
--
Martin Orpen
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