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    Voting USA 2012?

    >_> Let me say it this way. "Meaningful" is not a boolean (true/ false) value. It's a floating-point (decimal). How can you put such a complex concept in a binary box? It deserves to be treated as a more complicated entity. When does "Affection" cross over to "Love"? What's the threshold for...
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    Voting USA 2012?

    I think, at least colloquially, "no meaning" and "practically no meaning" are pretty interchangeable. The fact that my vote has less than .0001% meaning, but that's still meaning!, is not really going to convince me my vote is meaningful. Because it's closer to meaningless.
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    Voting USA 2012?

    From lots of .0001%'s. If you collect lots of aluminum particles floating around in the air, you can, in theory, build a robot.
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    Voting USA 2012?

    If there are 1,000,000 votes, then 1,000,000 votes are 100% meaningful, 999,999 votes are 99.9999% meaningful, 999,998 votes are 99.9998% meaningful . . . 450 votes are .045% meaningful . . . and then my vote is only .0001% meaningful. That's awfully close to meaningless.
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    Voting USA 2012?

    I dunno, I'm not an economist, but I have some intuitive sense that the national debt increasing by a trillion dollars over the last four years singly because of Obama's bailout is a bad thing. The government is spending more than it can afford to spend, and that right there is bad economics...
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    Voting USA 2012?

    Actually, after all the exorbitant spending Barack did, I think a fiscal conservative would do good to put all that obese government expenditure on a diet and help the economy get in better shape. And Romney's not stupid enough to screw up on the social issues: Wikipedia I'm not voting...
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