Closed Poll: Do no evil
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Sometimes technology just doesn't help...Of the following companies and technology items which has stymied growth/innovation, productivity, and technological advancement over all?
- Microsoft and Internet Explorer
- Apple and iTunes App store
- Al Gore and the Internet (dark ages 2.0)
- IBM and ...whatever it is they do
- IBM and their magical blinking powered cabinets
- The Roman Catholic Church and torture chambers (dark ages 1.0)
- Microsoft and the iPod
- Yahoo and Geocities
- The Wayback Machine and broken porn pic links
- Sirius Cybernetics Corporation and Genuine People Personalities
- Google Adwords
Did I miss one that brought you personal pain? There, there...let me know what 'technology' hurt you...
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Genius troll. 9.7/10
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Isn't Apple a marketing company?
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Agreed, but probably wasted here as we don't need much of an excuse to start a flame war.
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Polls, don't talk to me about polls. Loathe them or ignore them, you can't like them.
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The ninth circle of
Troll...Poll...
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You know your 'stuff' sir...
Filed under: Forty two
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I had to display my capabilities.
(actually I was test creating a poll, I was hesitant to submit because I didn't think I did it right).
Filed under: partially functional death star
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Polls, don't talk to me about polls. Loathe them or ignore them, you can't like them.
Right or wrong...
Filed under: Too lazy to check the memes wiki, we got that one, right?
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Sadly, misquoting Marvin is not part of the Wiki. I suspect Marvin will not be impressed.
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Sadly, misquoting Marvin is not part of the Wiki. I suspect Marvin will not be impressed.
Filed under: Looks like it actually already is in the memes wiki., Sorry, let me try that again: Actually...
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Oh God I'm so depressed. And I have a pain in the diodes down my left side. I've asked for them to be replaced but do you think they listen?
What do you do if you are a manically depressed android? No, don't answer that, I'm fifty-thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer.
Filed under: no, not that Marvin snigger
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Here is a good version of Marvin, The Paranoid Android...
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I accidentally clicked on the poll and now my (random) vote is in the system. Is there a way to remove your vote from the poll (I can change my vote just fine, so it seems like unvoting should be a piece of cake!)
Maybe a Button that I don't know of?Filed Under: This is totally the right topic to ask this! | Maybe I am using polls wrong, too
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I wasn't a fan of the movie version. I much prefer the BBC TV series version.
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@Eddie said:
Guys, I'm delighted to tell you there are two thermonuclear missiles headed right for us.
(some text because a quote isn't enough to post)
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The movie was bad, but the android's design was spot on for me...
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The original radio series were better.
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I was only comparing the TV show to the film, where I personally think the TV series' take on Marvin did a better job of it. Stephen Moore did the voice in both the radio and TV series, as well as for the 'Hitchhiker's Live!' performances where Simon Jones (Arthur), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod), Susan Sheridan (Trillian) and Moore (Marvin) ably assisted by several others perform a short revue of the tales in a 2-hour live performance. There is a different visual design for Marvin in the show.
Each of the different media has its own particular unique selling points, even the Infocom computer game has its interesting quirks, as does the never-finished sequel computer game.
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I finally have my wife reading the books.
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Just avoid the 'sixth' book by Eoin Colfer. It feels like bad fan fiction.
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I have the five major books with the Zaphod short packaged as one.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/0345453743
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Ah yes, Young Zaphod Plays It Safe. Also part of The Salmon of Doubt. That's always a handy book to have about, just to dip in and out of.
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Just avoid the 'sixth' book by Eoin Colfer. It feels like bad fan fiction.
I saw that thing in a book store once. I then decided that photons it bounced at probably aren't worth processing.
I have the same thing as @chubertdev. Well, slightly different art, but same otherwise. I once did catch a glance of a leather-bound copy with metallized page edges once, but couldn't pick it up at that moment, and next time I managed to return to that store it was gone :(
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Is there a way to remove your vote from the poll
No.
(some text because a quote isn't enough to post)
Bug filed a while back about this. In the meantime
seems to suffice. I'd link to the post(s) concerned but my search-fu on here isn't that finely tuned to locate them yet.
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I accidentally clicked on the poll and now my (random) vote is in the system.
You can change it to make it less random.Good feature actually, you can modify your vote after casting it and seeing how other people have voted.
Filed under: It's not as if there wouldn't be a reason for publicising exit polls only after polling stations have closed
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It's not as if there wouldn't be a reason for publicising exit polls only after polling stations have closed
Why would anyone want to do that? It's not like CBS, NBC, CNN, et al. do.
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Why would anyone want to do that? It's not like CBS, NBC, CNN, et al. do.
Pretty common in the EU, though. The idea behind it is to ensure a vote that is not influenced by how others have voted. There are people who are swayed by such news.Funny fact: at the last election for the European Parliament, the elections were stretched over 4 days. Most countries had set the election date to sunday but one or two started as early as thursday (Britain among them). Now, the official result of the British vote for the European Parliament had to be held back until the last polling station closed at 23:00 on sunday. But exit polls were broadcast on thursday after the last british polling station closed.
And usually exit polls measure the voter sentiment quite well...
Filed under: Then again, Eric Cantor can probably tell you a story or two about polls as well
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The idea behind it is to ensure a vote that is not influenced by how others have voted. There are people who are swayed by such news.
This is now common practice in the US, too, especially after the 200 and 2004 presidential elections. There's evidence that in 2000, vote turnout was influenced in parts of the Florida panhandle (a timezone behind the rest of the state and heavily Republican areas) by news agencies calling the election when the first polls started closing. That likely turned a decisive victory for Bush into a squeaker victory, plus other drama.
There was also some controversy IIRC in 2004 regarding early exit polls in Ohio.
Why would anyone want to do that? It's not like CBS, NBC, CNN, et al. do.
I'm assuming @faoileag read you correctly. I couldn't figure out what this was supposed to mean in relation to his previous post.
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I couldn't figure out what this was supposed to mean in relation to his previous post.
Sorry, I forgot to include the
sarcasm tag⸮irony punctuationUnicode character that renders as a square, indistinguishable from any other unsupported character. It's a common complaint that US news networks declare victory for candidates before West Coast (never mind AK or HI) polls close. Edit: It may be better since 2004, but the West Coast still seems to be, if not disregarded, under-regarded.
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Sorry, I forgot to include the sarcasm tag ⸮ irony punctuation Unicode character that renders as a square, indistinguishable from any other unsupported character.
It looked like sarcasm, but I couldn't make sense of it enough to get the meaning from what you said. I think I got confused going from @faoileag's "wouldn't be a reason to" and your "Why would anyone want to."
the West Coast still seems to be, if not disregarded, under-regarded.
I agree. OTOH, I can't stay up to see who won Monday Night Football, but it would be nice to be able to see election returns from my state before I conk out.
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There's evidence that in 2000, vote turnout was influenced in parts of the Florida panhandle (a timezone behind the rest of the state and heavily Republican areas) by news agencies calling the election when the first polls started closing.
There was some weird stuff going on in the recent European elections with regard to this. Or more specifically, in the UK.
Background: UK had their (local council and European) election on (only) Thursday 22nd May.
European elections were being held throughout Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th in various countries.
In the UK it was illegal to report UK exit polls before the end of voting in other countries on the Sunday. (Normally, as it was for the local elections, it would have been close of voting in the UK - i.e. on that Thursday.)
But this seems to have been a British peculiarity - it certainly didn't constrain other EU countries.
I'm guessing someone decided to (mis)interpret UK election law, and read 'close of voting' to read 'close of EU voting' rather than 'close of EU voting in the UK.'
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Were they allowed to disclose the results of the local elections? I could see withholding the results of the EU voting, because that could potentially influence voters in the rest of the EU, but if they were also required to withhold local results, that would be stoopid.
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Were they allowed to disclose the results of the local elections?
Allowed to - yes.
It's an expensive way of polling however (see the ukpollingreport.co.uk link), and generally only reserved for General Elections (central rather than local governmental elections.)
As a result, there were no exit polls taken to actually report, making the point moot.