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[quote=harvey][quote=pencilneck]Am I the only one that likes our electoral college system?

Yeah, I get frustrated when it works against what I feel are my best interests or what my view is the best course for the country. But long term, by somewhat balancing the power between states, the electoral college system works pretty well to give each of our states some voice at the table. Long term, this IS in the best interest of our union.[/quote]

It probably has some small influence on presidential decisions as well.[/quote]
Yeah I’d say it had an influence on this last election. I’m not gonna say the system is rigged as everyone knew the rules and Trump won because he ran a better campaign based on those rules. But technically the electoral college system takes us farther away from being a true Democracy. As spdrun said it made perfect sense back then but not now.

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The only real way to get rid of the electoral college would probably involve a national ID system, which I think Trump would be in favor of. However there is the risk of the government carrying it too far and asking for your papers every time you want to cross a state line. I think voting from home will be in the future and would be more efficient, no more dead people getting elected.

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He was elected by a minority of voters (48%) as I predicted.

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Someone needs to tell McDonalds and other commercial businesses because I’m pretty sure they don’t do the low flush thing.

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Deja Vu-
Isn’t this what people did during the last bubble, they bought a house,took out a second/HELOC used that to put down on another house then rinse and repeat. The only thing is you need to do this from the beginning of the housing appreciation period and you need to sell before the crash. Good luck! If you are however trying to pay for 1 house that you will live in then I don’t think you can buy a $250k mortgage (after applying $150k) and only pay $1000/mo.

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http://www.sdlookup.com/Pictures-160058505
How many atrocities can you spot?
tumbleweeds in front yard
old tires
beheaded palm trees

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I always thought of Michael Moore as a Democrat, he is definitely convincing however the middle class is still fucked unfortunately.

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ucodegen I was thinking more short distance like neighbor to neighbor in a cluster type configuration and select houses being like cell towers where maybe they get service for free because they are hubs.

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The big difference between the 2 is with wireless there is no truck roll required hence less labor, ATT management will love this, the union not so much.Sorry I didn’t read the whole topic before responding. There is still one more technology out there that no one is trying as far as I know and it involves lasers and small telescopes, set up just like the internet with redundant paths in case of birds/trees. Granted a snow storm would probably take it out but doesn’t that happen even with today’s tech to some extent. When it is too late supervisors will realize that when they have fewer people to supervise their jobs are also at risk, natural selection I guess.

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flu I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned Qualcomm’s 5G over cellular, suppose to give 1G over the air, coming in 2018.

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I think it is safe to assume Gigs here, I occasionally catch myself saying megs too, my first computer had 20MB hard drive and ran win 3.1 I want to say the processor was also 20MHz. That was 1993!

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stainless and glass, anything else near the beach will probably be toast in no time,spend the big bucks if you want it to last.

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Very interesting! Many geniuses come here to the US to escape persecution, perhaps the tide is turning.

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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to me represent the voice of reason. To be willing to go against your party publicly for what they believe in is a good virtue in my opinion, oh yeah and I’m a registered Democrat too.

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Was out watering trees today, nowhere near the feeder when I got buzzed twice. Guess the hummingbird thinks he owns the entire yard.

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