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Nagy Vilmos wrote: and I am an active participant in political life
Does DD know?
He could probably use a spin doctor...
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There has been something of a campaign for a "none of the above" box.
This would send a clear message of how many spoiled ballots are due to a concious decision to not select a candidate on the list, rather than a mistake on the part of the voter.
However it doesn't look like this will be happening any time soon.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Probably because it would encourage people to use it - and politicians wouldn't want that.
Mind you, it'd be fun to work out what would happen...
Joe Smith (conservative) 177
Mike Hunt (labour) 176
Fred Blogs (liberal democrat) 175
None of the above 23,456 I hearby declare that..um...erm...
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Ah yes, Mike Hunt from Radio Active.
Although I noticed that Hugh Jarce is not present for the Green party.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I thought it was Hugh Janus that was standing for the greens?
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There's a suggestion that the 'None of the above box' should be worded 'Re-open nominations'.
If that wins then that is what you do, start again and keep going until someone comes up with a candidate or policy people are prepared to buy into.
Of course the country would then probably bankrupt itself paying for endless elections.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'd be fine with that, provided an overall "none of the above" vote banned all the previous candidates from standing again.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If for no other reason than you have no right to complain if you don't - you got the government you deserved. That is udder bullshit.
Unelected "technocratic" democracies, or elected, the results appear to be the same. Does it matter who is in the government?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That's the point: in a democracy it should matter who is in government!
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's the point: in a democracy it should matter who is in government! The fact that "it should" does not mean it does.
In which case pretending that it does is more harmfull than accepting the reality.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: As the young vote has diminished
Sure I read recently that there has been an upturn in younger people registering this year, hopefully enough of them will actually use their vote now they have registered. Social media campaigns seem to be getting most of the credit for the increase.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Aren't all the world's problems Britain's fault? All the world needs is a political party that finally stops us doing it - whatever it actually is
And free everything for everyone! Yay!
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Kelvin?
That would be about as hot as my interest in supporting those loonies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They're going for world domination?
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Member 9082365 wrote: a new Ice Age
How are they going to do this? By creating a nuclear winter?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Now THIS is freaking AMAZING![^]
How did that tiny robot do that?!?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Perhaps, they emulated ants[^].
Of course, amplified.
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Ant-hill inside[^]?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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V-e-e-e-e-e-r-y s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w-l-y. That's how!
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So I took heed of a few CPians idea and put the HDD from my old computer and put it in another I am now using.
Tried to boot in to Safe Mode so I could start Outlook 2013 and copy my contacts to a PST file from the OST.
Bastard things blue screens and reboots. HDD has tested fine using Seatools for DOS 2.23. So base Windows drivers must be very different to not allow Safe Mode to boot.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I ended up locating this program[^] using Google. I have never used (or heard of) it before, but it has a free version that might do what you want.
To get the OST file off of the bad drive, you may want to live-boot into a Linux distro (I would recommend Fedora Workstation) and copy it to a USB flash drive, then copy it to a working Windows computer and use the program I linked to (or some other program, incl. Outlook) and convert it from there.
NOTE: I do not intend this to be spam, I just linked to a program that may help with the issue.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I ended up locating this program[^] using Google. I have never used (or heard of) it before, but it has a free version that might do what you want.
I'll give it a go. From memory it will show you what you have but not actually convert it. I'm currently using FREE Outlook OST File Viewer to access the Contacts details one at a time manually.
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: To get the OST file off of the bad drive, you may want to live-boot into a Linux distro (I would recommend Fedora Workstation) and copy it to a USB flash drive, then copy it to a working Windows computer and use the program I linked to (or some other program, incl. Outlook) and convert it from there.
There's nothing wrong with the HDD, I think my old computer is completely stuffed due to the avalanche of Blue Screens it now gets. Put the HDD in another completely different computer in the hopes I could get in to Safe Mode and run Outlook to then copy contacts out. It Blue Screened, but I think this was definitley a driver issue.
For stuffed HDD or ones that can't boot, I use Hiren's Boot CD - Mini XP or Parted Magic.
Brisingr Aerowing wrote: NOTE: I do not intend this to be spam, I just linked to a program that may help with the issue.
It's not Spam, it is what I was looking for, something someone has found or used that maybe able to help me.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Just warning the trigger-happy members about the spam thing.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Michael Martin wrote: There's nothing wrong with the HDD, I think my old computer is completely stuffed due to the avalanche of Blue Screens it now gets. Put the HDD in another completely different computer in the hopes I could get in to Safe Mode and run Outlook to then copy contacts out. It Blue Screened, but I think this was definitley a driver issue.
If it's a driver issue and you're willing to spend a bit of money, the current version of Acronis's backup/imaging tools has a feature to inject drivers into an image while loading it on a new PC. YMMV but it worked well enough for me to get a Win7 image from my old i7-920 box to boot on my new i7-4790k system; although I did need to install more drivers manually to get it usable. I've seen a lot of people badmouthing the newest version of it; but when I asked what was the issue a few weeks ago the only thing I got was their free support was useless, and they'd demand more money if you needed help.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: If it's a driver issue and you're willing to spend a bit of money, the current version of Acronis's backup/imaging tools has a feature to inject drivers into an image while loading it on a new PC. YMMV but it worked well enough for me to get a Win7 image from my old i7-920 box to boot on my new i7-4790k system; although I did need to install more drivers manually to get it usable. I've seen a lot of people badmouthing the newest version of it; but when I asked what was the issue a few weeks ago the only thing I got was their free support was useless, and they'd demand more money if you needed help.
I've been using Acronis True Image Home since about version 9 back in 2006/7. Bought with the Add-on Pack to enable Universal Restore (what it's called) with it. Been upgrading every year since.
Moved several customers machines across to slightly newer hardware over the past year where they couldn't move to new hardware and Windows versions.
Could do this here for me, but I want to build the installation from the ground up, cause I actually think that a combination of hardware, drivers and software installed might actually be the problem.
Last week I sold off the hardware I was using for my CentOS box to one of the customers mentioned above. I currently have the HDD from the CentOS box in my old computer. When my weekend starts tomorrow afternoon I will connect it to a monitor and run it over the weekend to see if I have any crashes. If I don't then the hardware is not the issue.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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