The sled, sledge, sleigh or whatever you call it is due for a revamping. Introducing the Slayboard (misspelled for coolness sakes). It better resembles a knee board then a sled, but the idea is to cruise down ski and snowboard style runs on your knees - pro style. Noting the past trends of this kind of sport equipment (bikes, scooters, etc.), it seems clear the time has come for the sled to see the spotlight and become the new extreme sport.
Electronic voting. Yea, even internet voting. Really shouldn't be impossible. Tom Scott says this is a terrible idea, but I don't think it's so unsolvable. The ways to cheat are: - stuffing the ballot box with bogus votes - counting or recording the votes bogusly - voting more than once or voting for someone else Voter confidentiality must be preserved. Here's my solution. - every voter must authenticate with some non-government system that 1) ensures user ID uniqueness 2) contains a method for contacting the voter (can be a form obscuring contact details) 3) creates a random code which is not retained by the system. This is easily done by Google, Facebook, or any tiny NGO. They would need to register and be subject to audit. - when a user votes, the data is logged in two public registers. 1) a voters register showing the person's user ID (or a unique variant from the authenticator) 2) a vote register showing the random code and how they voted
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