Alarm systems are no surprise. That part of the industry is full of proprietary one-vendor solutions. Want your Honeywell device to integrate into your building SCADA? Someone's going to pay a lot of money to make that happen.
spauldo
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Not in my experience. It's all just "go out and vote!"
It's just one letter away from "wang"...
Funny choice as marijuana was never Alice's drug of choice (and he's been sober nearly 40 years now).
I'm not arguing against people being informed. I'm arguing against uninformed people being encouraged to vote.
High voter turnout does change the results in many cases, but generally that's simple negative feedback. Average Americans didn't have to be well informed to vote against Trump in 2020, for instance - Trump saw to that when he made an ass of himself publicly on a regular basis. And people notice things like wars and recessions and whatnot. That's not the same as an informed voter base.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating tests or anything for voting. We've seen what that leads to.
I'm thinking more along the lines of self-determination. If someone has no interest or knowledge of politics, they should refrain from voting.
Now, continue that train of thought. Imagine that the person not voting is one of the politically ignorant mentioned in the quote.
What are they going to do at the polls? Are they going to add signal or noise? What is accomplished by them choosing a candidate at random?
Letting people who are informed make decisions for you happens all the time. Engineers and safety officers determine speed limits. Architects determine how the buildings you enter are constructed. Panels of electricians, firemen, and manufacturers determine the electrical codes that keep your house from randomly catching fire or electrocuting you. Interested people organize community events you attend. What makes politics any different?
My personal ideal would be that only the informed vote. Anyone has the right to become involved, as well as the right to abstain and accept the choice of their peers. Unfortunately, many people form their political opinions in echo chambers and are less informed than they think.
I think your sentence trailed off down those stairs and into the water :) Personal what?
(nice picture, BTW)
It's just little girls that will try to eat those. There seems to be no gender barrier to toddlers trying to eat little plastic pieces like this.
Edit: bah, I meant it's not just little girls.
Turns out being an idiot isn't a barrier to home ownership.
As long as they don't vote, who cares? It's the imbeciles that vote that cause the problems.
Bah, I was mostly just tired from the long day.