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Best way to dispose of voting machines?

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  • #32
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    We could turn them on their sides and take the doors off them and use them as allotments! :D:D:D


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Can they not sell them and make a bit of money out of them?
    Technically speaking they are toxic waste

    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Install Pacman in them and shove them in the back of pubs.

    The economy is going back to the 80's - why not our public houses?
    They don't have a display that can handle pacman. Otherwise it's like a stripped down 1984 home computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL and 16KB ram should be enough to run Pac man

    As we
    took it apart, we confirmed that this was indeed a
    system built around a 68000 processor that came
    with 256Kbytes of EPROM, 8 Kbytes of
    EEPROM, 16 Kbytes of RAM, two 6850-based
    serial ports, a printer port, and two screens (e.g. 4
    lines of 40 characters on the voter display, 2 lines
    of 40 characters on the small election official
    console attached to a wire out the back

    even if you took the electronic gubbins out the case would not be as strong as the existing metal ones so can't even use as that


    even a paper trail isn't enough if the machine flips your vote first
    http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6576


  • #34
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    Krusty the Cullen is loved in Waterford.


    This should not be forgotten.


  • #35
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    Could swap them for a few TDs and put them in storage instead


  • #36
    Firefox10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭Firefox10


    prinz wrote: »
    Tie them to certain politicians and bankers like an old-fashioned ball and chain.

    Better yet...Tie them to certain Politicians and bankers and then chuck them into the Irish sea. Not very environmently friendly but hey....;)


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  • #37
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    efla wrote: »
    Krusty the Cullen is loved in Waterford.




    This should not be forgotten.

    yeah, the workers in the glass love him alright, for doing fcuk all to help their plight.


  • #38
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    We could put a picture of the Bolivian President on them and use them for target practice.;)


  • #39
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    niceirishfella wrote: »
    yeah, the workers in the glass love him alright, for doing fcuk all to help their plight.

    He must be shooting some serious s**t on the doorsteps, I cant understand how he gets elected by such a margin every time.

    Although 'de new road' seems to be a common one


  • #40
    dresden8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,291 ✭✭✭dresden8


    Best way to dispose of voting machines?

    Why, stick one up the ass of each minister of course. Cowen would of course need two as he's Taoiseach.

    And he probably wouldn't notice the first.


  • #41
    Dardania
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭Dardania


    I wouldnt mind getting my hands on one to do a bit of reprogramming - 68k processor - common enough

    Agree that they will end up in pubs...


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  • #42
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Paddy Samurai wrote: »
    Each machine should be copiously lubricated with large amounts of KY jelly.Then each machine should be inserted into Martin Cullen's and John Dempsey's asses one at a time.

    And who will pay for this KY jelly? what a waste of money! no lube needed,

    I reckon we should hold a vote to see what we should do with them, and use them in this vote - just to confuse matters!


  • #43
    holly1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭holly1


    Turn them into condom machines and install them in the Dail for the dic****ds that reside there.


  • #44
    shreksaurus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭shreksaurus


    Can they sell them to other countries that would use them.


  • #45
    Blush_01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    I think they should be turned into political policy vending machines, full of slogans like fortune cookies. Can't be any worse than the unadulterated diarrhoea the government is spouting these days anyway.


  • #46
    994
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭994


    Drop them all into Mount Doom


  • #47
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    the irish sea, encased in 3 tonnes of concrete


  • #48
    bronte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Burn them out Biffo's back garden. That'll learn him.


  • #49
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,043 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Crush them and use them to fill in some of the bloody pot holes.


  • #50
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    Apparently Robert Mugabe has this evening made a formal offer for our entire collection of e-voting machines on a "sold as seen" basis.

    We might still be able to flush this transaction out of the system yet lads, there's a sucker born every minute apparently! :D:D:D


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