I belong to a local email list about Linux. A while back there was a question going around about ISPs. One user posted a note about a DSL company that not only allows servers, but has a method to share your wireless network with your neighbors. They call it Netshare. You set a rate for your neighbors to get online via a wireless hub connected to DSL. Speakeasy bills your neighbors. Speakeasy cuts your DSL bill. You are the local admin for your neighbors, setting up the wireless on their computers.
Voting is different here in Colorado than it was back on the East Coast. In New Jersey, and I remember it was the same basic things when my parents voted in New York, the voting was in a mechanical voting booth. You would go to a desk and sign the big book. The would give you a sheet of paper. You would take the paper over to a voting machine. An assistant would take the paper and put it somewhere on the side of the machine. You would pull a big mechanical handle that would close the curtain behind you. Then you would flip the levers to indicate your vote. After, you would push the big handle, which would record your vote, reset the levers and open the curtain.
Here in Colorado, the beginning of the process is the same. You wait on line and sign the big book. I went with my wife, as she dropped her car off for service. At first she was going to vote before she dropped off her car. But she called me to tell me the line was an hour long. After I picked her up at the shop,...
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