OK then I'm going to vote for an imaginary number. The number of Buffistas needed is the square root of minus one.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
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John H - Mar 13, 2003 4:44:40 pm PST #7496 of 10001
Gandalfe - Mar 13, 2003 4:48:13 pm PST #7497 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Well, yeah. I voted for a large, negative imaginary number.
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2003 4:52:34 pm PST #7498 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I vote for 6AF3.
I mean, we haven't specified base 10 yet, have we?
John H - Mar 13, 2003 4:53:15 pm PST #7499 of 10001
Sorry. Missed the i on the end.
I now vote for a fractal number of Buffistas.
It wriggles around forever between zero and one, and no matter how much you ask it for more detail, keeps wriggling for ever.
Vote for Fractal MVT! Join the Mandelbrot Set!
§ ita § - Mar 13, 2003 4:54:17 pm PST #7500 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Give it to us raw and wriggling!
Wolfram - Mar 13, 2003 4:59:14 pm PST #7501 of 10001
Visilurking
I think we need an irrational number. That's all I'm going to say.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2003 5:09:38 pm PST #7502 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
dying laughing
supporting the fractal suggestion
Cindy - Mar 13, 2003 5:29:43 pm PST #7503 of 10001
Nobody
Should we change "abstain" to "present"?
It seems fair to me that abstentions should count toward "I can see that this is something that should be decided one way or the other but I personally don't care."
If the ballot form can handle the difference between a vote of (shall we change the language from "abstain" to "present") present, and no vote at all, then I agree with the above.
John H - Mar 13, 2003 5:33:05 pm PST #7504 of 10001
shall we change the language from "abstain" to "present"
How about "no preference" or something like that.
Present, but no preference?
John H - Mar 13, 2003 5:39:48 pm PST #7505 of 10001
After a moment to think --
Does someone want to produce a new version of the vote thing with different wording, not including the A-word?
Should Buffistas who vote, but vote "no preference either way" be counted toward Minimum Voter Turnout?
or something?
I realise now that "abstain" is just as bad a word as "quorum" because as people have pointed out, it means being present but not voting, and the idea of "presence" is meaningless. That's why we need to stop using it.