=== cypher is now known as czajkowski | ||
czajkowski | Aloha | 11:31 |
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tdr112 | morning czajkowski | 11:32 |
ebel | happy election day all! | 11:32 |
* tdr112 is going to vote in an hour or so | 11:32 | |
ebel | i'm going after work | 11:33 |
ebel | still registered to vote at my mammy's | 11:33 |
* ebel shall be voting based on the parties social policies. | 11:34 | |
ebel | So essentially, labour. :P | 11:34 |
tdr112 | slashtom: is this your first time voting in Ireland ? | 11:34 |
slashtom | yep | 11:36 |
* slashtom may vote Sinn Féin - got to keep the brits out! | 11:37 | |
czajkowski | :o | 11:38 |
tdr112 | :) | 11:40 |
ebel | ;) | 11:40 |
tdr112 | poor czajkowski no voting for her | 11:46 |
czajkowski | :( | 11:46 |
slashtom | the funny thing is, i'm entitled to vote in british elections too | 11:47 |
czajkowski | I am too | 11:47 |
ebel | Tis a shame | 11:47 |
czajkowski | the funny this is because I'm not in Limerick today I cant vote | 11:47 |
ebel | they should let people vote from abroad, the UK does it | 11:47 |
slashtom | however i don't use that right | 11:49 |
czajkowski | why not ? | 11:49 |
slashtom | i don't live in UK, I don't want to live in UK, so why should I vote in UK? | 11:49 |
czajkowski | you may want to at some point | 11:52 |
slashtom | maybe, but i would rather not | 11:52 |
slashtom | :) | 11:52 |
czajkowski | fair enough | 11:53 |
tdr112 | i dont think people should vote if they are not living in the county | 11:53 |
czajkowski | tdr112: tell that to the 50K people who have had to leave and not by choice | 11:53 |
czajkowski | tdr112: 100 counteries world wide let people not living there vote | 11:53 |
slashtom | some countries (eg. USA) tax their ex-pats | 11:54 |
czajkowski | I find it annoying I've lived in ireland for 31 years and not able to vote in this election yet slashtom is there over a year and is, no offence | 11:54 |
tdr112 | czajkowski: they had a choice | 11:54 |
czajkowski | tdr112: no they didn, many of my mates are in construction those who left got work those who've stayed are on the dole. | 11:54 |
slashtom | czajkowski: that's only an irish/british thing | 11:55 |
ebel | Most FF voters are older. Most people who emigrate are young. Ergo prevent postal votes and you increase FF's share of the vote! | 11:55 |
tdr112 | czajkowski: it is there choice to leave and try and find a job or a better live , they could have stayed , did some training/ school/ moving job type | 11:56 |
czajkowski | tdr112: so thats kinda annoying to hear, seeing as I tried to find a job for 7 months and did a course and still no work, others I know have stayed tried to do courses on fas and fas arent even handing out the certs. | 11:57 |
slashtom | i thought fás was a joke | 11:58 |
slashtom | most of the people my company hired last year are immigrants | 11:59 |
slashtom | we struggle to find the local talent | 11:59 |
czajkowski | slashtom: you're an imigrant | 11:59 |
slashtom | aye | 11:59 |
slashtom | i counted myself | 11:59 |
tdr112 | what i find is annoying is after the state , ireland has provided all thexe people free college course , that they just get up and leave cause a brain drain | 12:00 |
ebel | The state values the old more than the young. More benefit cuts for the young, much less for the old. | 12:03 |
tdr112 | ebel: thats true , the old have a lot of power | 12:03 |
ebel | cf. state pension vs. jobseekers allowance for <25sz | 12:04 |
ebel | that's mostly cause elderly people vote more, right? | 12:06 |
ebel | I would support compulsary voting, and a none-of-the-above option | 12:08 |
tdr112 | ebel: na , i would not like that | 12:10 |
moylan | if there were cumpulsory voting they would have to have voting which allowed more college students to vote. like voting on sundays when students are at home rather than at college. | 12:43 |
ebel | yeah, the current 'election on a weekday' disproportionally affects young people. | 12:45 |
ebel | saturday voting for all. | 12:45 |
moylan | sunday would be better | 12:45 |
ebel | Another option: no compulsary voting, but rather than using the votes cast, use the number of people who could have voted. | 12:46 |
ebel | e.g. if there's a 4 seater constituancy, and 50% turn out, then only 2 seats are elected. | 12:46 |
moylan | many people aren't registered to vote. | 12:46 |
ebel | TDs would then be incentivised to increase the turn out as much as possible. | 12:47 |
moylan | the only flaw with that is that tds would have to pass a law which would require them to work harder. what are the odds? :-) | 12:55 |
daxroc | have a good weekend all | 17:53 |
Tigerplug292 | evening all | 19:41 |
=== ShaneM_ is now known as ShaneM | ||
moylan | belated hu | 20:22 |
moylan | whoops, belated hi | 20:23 |
ShaneM | Hey where do the latin translator meet? https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+lang/la | 23:27 |
ShaneM | mailing list? | 23:28 |
ShaneM | Because there doesn't seem to be an irc room | 23:28 |
ShaneM | czajkowski: You know where I could check? | 23:28 |
czajkowski | well latn is spoken by lots of people | 23:32 |
czajkowski | it's an old language | 23:32 |
czajkowski | so not sure tbh | 23:32 |
ShaneM | czajkowski: I know someone who wants to help do some translations | 23:42 |
ShaneM | But they don't know where to find info. | 23:42 |
czajkowski | mail david plannela directly | 23:46 |
czajkowski | he leads the translations team | 23:46 |
czajkowski | https://launchpad.net/~dpm | 23:46 |
ShaneM | ok! :) | 23:46 |
ShaneM | Thanks | 23:46 |
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