I know we had Watergate, but before that we had Hearst, and a bunch of other rich assholes using their money to spread propaganda, Murdoch isn't remotely creative, we just got complacent.
In the terminology of law, an assault is the act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in criminal prosecution, civil liability, or both.
Some jurisdictions have the misdemeanor charge of 'menacing' for when contact isn't made.
The founding fathers established the electoral college as a compromise between electing the president in a vote by Congress and a popular vote. I would take an amendment to the constitution to get rid of it.
They established it as a way to launder slave votes into presidential elections, as stated explicitly by the man responsible, James madison:
There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.
The electoral college exists because southerners were spoiled bitches who wanted more power than they deserved, then they threw a tantrum when they lost anyway (the Civil War), now they keep threatening and whining if they can't keep their unfair advantage while gerrymandering to hell.
I'd be fine with the EC, if we also denied the electoral votes of states that don't follow the constitution or ratify all the amendments (Mississippi still refuses to ratify the 24th banning the poll tax).
Having lived in the south, nothing about this is remotely surprising.
100% guarantee most neighborhoods are starting networks that watch local girls to try to monitor if theyre gaining weight and then take a trip, not that they need to be recruited, they're just idle pedophiles anyway.
Now they have something to threaten girls with for their silence...
Cool, bsd works fine for laptops, but the power management is pretty shit.
Also the wifi support too.
Otherwise I love my freebsd thinkpad, works great when plugged in, but again the wifi is painfully slow.