OT: Open source voting machines and other gizmos (was Re: Comcast and SORBS)

[gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:31:27 -0500, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> Recall from reading info from http://www.freethepike.com/ back before
> Back before the big dig even started the Pike was pending 10 times the
> amount per mile to run the pike than the Mass highway spends to maintain
> a mile of all the other highways in the state.

Great. How much of that is spent on toll collection? How much would be
saved by switching to some hypothetical open-source system? Point me
to a problem, and THEN let's come up with a solution.

> And most of the people who use the pike, seldom (or never) travel on any
> part of the BigDig project roads, so the people who are being made to
> pay for Mass. part of the cost for the BigDig, basically never use it.

Duh....what? Maybe I'm slow, but I don't see your point.

> Other reasons, reduce commute times, reduce pollution, increase safety,
> reduce road aggravation, increase quality of life, reduce practice of
> patronage in Mass Government.

...reverse balding as if by magic, and improve your sex life!

Go ahead and find statistics that indicate that doing something like
this will ACTUALLY improve a problem that exists. Then let's talk.

Gordon
sorry to be a bubble-burster, but Open Source doesn't cure all ills.

-- 
Gordon Marx
gcmarx at alumni.virginia.edu