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I understand the frustration but taking it out on 'taxes' all up feels misplaced. Better to channel the rage into demanding our money goes towards the things that have strong positive impacts on society, like education, infrastructure, research, poverty reduction, disaster relief, and public health.

Wow, you beat me to posting this exact quote!

For an improvement on the "1 seat for every 10% of the vote you get" system you mention, take a look at the system Cambridge, MA uses for their at-large city council election [1]. Citizens cast ranked-choice ballots, and through an iterative process each of the 9 councilors are elected if they receive over 10% of the vote. (Excess votes for winners and votes for candidates below a certain threshold are transferred in each iteration.)

[1] http://www.fairvote.org/cambridge-massachusetts-elections-a-...

From article:

> so I made pie charts from the parsed data and traced and colored them in BMF kitchen.

Gmail makes it very easy (via the "Filter messages like these") to filter all messages from a mailing list. You can apply a label and skip the inbox so you just browse the list when you need to.

For the similarly curious -- I assume this is referring to Rock Reef Pass:

http://www.jessstryker.com/national-parks/everglades/rock-re...

Lots of city apartments don't have bicycle storage. Lots of bikes in cities get stolen when left outside.

There's some bug ending games early, so this is pretty much a button mashing contest. Also, when games end early, it doesn't properly declare the winner. I assume something's broken in detecting if the board has no moves: http://i.imgur.com/4XBGCzI.png