why that was nice

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Ip's don't match deerhunt.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

crap, i'm starting to realize I spend alot of time on this board...the rest of the internet sucks //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

says its not him.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

This kinda sucks

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

It appears one needs $10,000 in cash to open a futures trading account.

 

[osiris999 10+ year member]

**** him

 

[osiris999 10+ year member]

**** him

 

[osiris999 10+ year member]

**** him

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

really?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do.

That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found.

Only 20 percent said they'd exchange their vote for an iPod touch.

But 66 percent said they'd forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU. And half said they'd give up the right to vote forever for $1 million.

But they also overwhelmingly lauded the importance of voting.

Ninety percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for the money also said they consider voting "very important" or "somewhat important"; only 10 percent said it was "not important."

Also, 70.5 percent said they believe that one vote can make a difference — including 70 percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for free tuition.

The class — "Foundations of Journalism," taught by journalism department chairwoman Brooke Kroeger — polled more than 3,000 undergraduates between Oct. 24 and 26 to assess student attitudes toward voting.

"The part that I find amazing is that so many folks think one vote can make a difference," Sociology Department Chairman Dalton Conley said. He added, "If we take them at their word, then perhaps they really think votes matter, and that's why someone might pay a year's tuition to buy theirs."

Sixty percent of the students who said they'd give up their vote for tuition also described their families' income as upper-middle or high.

Their reasons for giving up their votes varied.

"At the moment, no candidate who truly represents my political beliefs has a chance of winning a presidential election," one male junior studying film and television at the Tisch School of the Arts wrote on the survey.

"It is very easy to convince myself that my vote is not essential," wrote a female CAS sophomore. "After all, I'm from New York, which will always be a blue state."

Other students wrote that they were disgusted by the thought.

"I would be reversing history — a lot of people fought so that every citizen could be enfranchised," said a female in her second year at the Stern School of Business.

One CAS junior went even further, writing that "anyone who'd sell his lifelong right to vote should be deported."

No wonder we're going down the toilet.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Fuck that. I'd probably sell my vote for an iPod Touch. Anyone with lots of money want me to vote for someone in particular? I'm taking offers via pm.

 

[twisztdauthorit 10+ year member]

Fuck that. I'd probably sell my vote for an iPod Touch. Anyone with lots of money want me to vote for someone in particular? I'm taking offers via pm.

x2

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

that is because you guys are retarded.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Or maybe because knowing that almost every person gets a vote, the market value of a vote available for purchase would be relatively low. So if someone were to offer me $400+ for my vote, I would recognize this as a very smart economical decision and take it.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

No wonder we're going down the toilet.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html

I bet 1/2 the country would exchange their vote for a Big Mac Combo.