{"id":349,"date":"2004-10-22T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-10-29T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T02:53:22","slug":"orgasms-and-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/349","title":{"rendered":"Orgasms and votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VOTERGASM: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3762028.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Our goal is to have 100,000 young voters catalyse 250,000 orgasms by November 3<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Humans are weird.<\/p>\n<p>If ever a certain programmer\/mathematician (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/260\" target=\"_blank\">real problem solver<\/a>) is brave enough to enter politics, he or she will have my <font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">512<\/font>-bit support.<\/p>\n<p>That is if logic does not prevent him from diving in.<\/p>\n<p>Let me post the title again: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3762028.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Sex pledges to boost US vote turnout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come on&#8230; what&#8217;s the problem here? <\/p>\n<p>Possible low voting turnout. (or &#8216;turn on&#8217; if you prefer seeing it that way).<\/p>\n<p>Is that the real problem? If it is&#8230; then why?<\/p>\n<p>Because of lack of sex?<\/p>\n<p>Beep. <\/p>\n<p>Let me re-phrase that:<\/p>\n<pre><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">   If ConvertToLogical(nAmountofSex) == lRare<br \/>\r\n        NUMTOSTREQ(nVoterTurnout) = 'Low'<br \/>\r\n   EndIf<\/font><\/pre>\n<p>That line of code sounds very illogical to me.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t humans identify the &#8216;real&#8217; problem, find the &#8216;real&#8217; root\/cause of the &#8216;real&#8217; problem and give &#8216;real&#8217; solutions?<\/p>\n<p>But then again&#8230; what if&#8230; considering that human beings, being the epitome of irony, have always preferred the approach that defies logic&#8230; realize that:<\/p>\n<pre><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\">   IsNOTAlways(REALSolutions == EffectiveSolutions) == .T.<\/font><\/pre>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ll be having more goals and solutions similar to the first line above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOTERGASM: &#8220;Our goal is to have 100,000 young voters catalyse 250,000 orgasms by November 3.&#8221; Humans are weird. If ever a certain programmer\/mathematician (aka real problem solver) is brave enough to enter politics, he or she will have my 512-bit support. That is if logic does not prevent him from diving in. Let me post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomlinks","category-randomscribbles","category-workblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}