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Random question.  Is it illegal to sell my presidential vote for $1000?

Like, declaring I'll vote for whoever the person giving me $1k wants me to?

I looked into it a bit but I can't seem to get a clear distinction.

"electoral treating" is illegal, like offering to buy someone's vote, but offering to sell?

Well I'm sure the sale itself would be illegal but I don't know if the offer itself is.  I may or may not have declared in a public space my vote for sale for a specific amount, though it was intended in jest.

I dunno, a good 90% of it is me writing emails.

If the other 10% is Jason Bourne shit, it's still a winner.

In other news, Windows 10 has recently decided to minimize any software I'm using to tell me I need updates or that I need to buy the newest Office.

I don't know anything about Windows 10, but Windows 7 does the exact thing you describe, and it can be turned off.  Somewhere in the Automatic Updates config is an option to turn off the notifications.

Also, if you look at your services (type "services.msc" in the Run menu if there is one somewhere), you can disable any with the word "office" in the name.

My gf uses Windows 7 to play League of Legends (has an annoying bug in Linux) and the same thing you talk about used to interrupt her game right in the middle all the time and get her character killed.

Stupid behaviour that should not be default!

Rogers radiator CLEARLY KNOWS HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TIME!

*hic*

It's....

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...COOL LIKE THAT.

 




about the best I could find to convey my utter WTFism and disappointment in my good friend.

I may just have to stop hanging out with people until after this election.

The number of people losing their shit because I won't let them proselytize about Bernie on my FB Wall is amazing and hilarious. I am apparently a bad, bad woman, myopic, uninformed, racist, ageist, and sexist, combative, self-righteous, AND totally unconcerned with truth, dialogue, or the health of our democracy. I've been blocked by at least one person, and have either unfriended or been unfriended by at least a dozen.

I should have done this ages ago.

I FINALLY got my usually-pretty-bright friend to see the light and drop the Bernie-or-die stupidity.

Unfortunately he immediately replaced it with VOTE JILL STEIN crap and is now pushing that really hard.


I can't find a proper emote so just imagine a very bearded guy slamming his head into his desk so hard my head pops and blood goes everywhere and my desk collapses into a pile of rubble on the floor.

THAT emote.

Have you thrown your friend at Our Revolution? It's the Bernie-branded "vote for progressive candidates down ballot" group.

No?  Is that a facebook thing?

The number of people losing their shit because I won't let them proselytize about Bernie on my FB Wall is amazing and hilarious. I am apparently a bad, bad woman, myopic, uninformed, racist, ageist, and sexist, combative, self-righteous, AND totally unconcerned with truth, dialogue, or the health of our democracy. I've been blocked by at least one person, and have either unfriended or been unfriended by at least a dozen.

I should have done this ages ago.

I FINALLY got my usually-pretty-bright friend to see the light and drop the Bernie-or-die stupidity.

Unfortunately he immediately replaced it with VOTE JILL STEIN crap and is now pushing that really hard.


I can't find a proper emote so just imagine a very bearded guy slamming his head into his desk so hard my head pops and blood goes everywhere and my desk collapses into a pile of rubble on the floor.

THAT emote.

Rogers radiator CLEARLY KNOWS HOW TO HAVE A GOOD TIME!

*hic*

Empire!?

Damnit, I thought I was joining a cult.

We multitask well.  This both the Horrible Empire of Tucson AND the world's laziest death cult.  We just can't be arsed to spike the Koolaid.

Lies!  YOU CANT LIE TO ME, I'VE BEEN DRINKING IT FOR AWHILE NOW AND I'VE DISCOVERED ITS NOT EVEN KOOLAID!!!

It's kind of spicy, and goes down hard as hell.  KOOLAID DOESN'T FEEL LIKE DAGGERS IN THE BELLY

maybe I drank from the wrong bowl.  I don't feel so good.

Bowl?

Dude, that was the anti-freeze I dumped out of my radiator.

Well I tried to contact the poison control hotline but when I got to the part about drinking from the wrong bowl at the cult meeting of Discordians the uncharitable person on the line laughed at me and hung up.

To which I can only infer that this means I am either quite safe or incurably fucked.  Likely both.

Also, the poison control rep clearly is not interested in joining our cult.  I don't see why not, we even supposedly have KOOL-AID somewhere.

Unfortunately however, said koolaid has apparently not been spiked, so it's far less appealing anyway.  Personally I find I prefer this nice bowl of anti-freeze I got here.  *GULP*GULP*GULP*

Also did the new person just WOMP Pennyworth's tentacle-face? 

Empire!?

Damnit, I thought I was joining a cult.

We multitask well.  This both the Horrible Empire of Tucson AND the world's laziest death cult.  We just can't be arsed to spike the Koolaid.

Lies!  YOU CANT LIE TO ME, I'VE BEEN DRINKING IT FOR AWHILE NOW AND I'VE DISCOVERED ITS NOT EVEN KOOLAID!!!

It's kind of spicy, and goes down hard as hell.  KOOLAID DOESN'T FEEL LIKE DAGGERS IN THE BELLY

maybe I drank from the wrong bowl.  I don't feel so good.

Empire!?

Damnit, I thought I was joining a cult.

A medieval fantasy about a child recruited into the mysterious Wizard Isle where Wizards are trained, one or two at a time.  Wizards are rare and only the absolute brightest children, practically genius level, are accepted.

The catch is that all the Wizardry is recognizable to the reader as realistic science, with some prestidigitation applied.  Not so much machines, as chemistry and physics taken to certain really far levels through intense study over thousands of years by the advanced thinkers of the Wizard Isle and put into practical use by the Wizards that leave to serve various kingdoms they believe to be righteous.  Could even tie in a Merlin / Arthur story from this.

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Lately the idea of wizardry being science has been stuck in my head.  If there's a book with this idea already please tell me, I want to read it!

I just want to add, on the topic of not being Roger, that a while back I spent some time looking into the whole "all the crazies come looking for Roger" meme and, well, holy fucking shit.  Seriously, that's messed up.  I mean there have been one or two over the years that seemed to get set off by something else but, the amount of Roger-attracted crazies over the years is fucking unreal.

And then I remember I first signed up here to post a huge stupid rant about something Roger said.

The world of commerce is a strange and terrifying thing, and not for the likes of us to question.

Balls.  Everything is for the likes of us to question.

You're turning into me, you know.   

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

The world of commerce is a strange and terrifying thing, and not for the likes of us to question.

Balls.  Everything is for the likes of us to question.

Clearly it's time to watch "Do you poop enough?".

...until you turn it on and discover it's just a title for the Presidential Debate.