Archives for May 2009
I’m Talking About the End of the World
I’m about 50 years old. It doesn’t seem that old, but only 20 times my age ago (2009 – 20*50 = 1009AD) it was the middle ages! The Pope was handing out indulgences to get Knights to stop killing Christians in Europe and go kill Muslims in the Middle East. A little over 40 times [...]
BC-STV Explained
Its election time in British Columbia and this year we have the usual exciting choices for the provincial strata-council. What’s really exciting is that this year we have the choice of changing our electoral system from the current FPP (First Person Pleasure) system to the new STV (Sexually Transmitted Vote) system. These systems are quite [...]