Today I’m going to be looking at some free useful Android Apps.
First off here I have Dildroid which can actually control the vibration on your phone, by placing your hand on a little android icon and adjusting his length. It’s perfect for keeping your girlfriend happy on the bus or the train.
For those interested in urban nature, I can recommend Google Pigeon®, by being able to detect pigeons that have been electronically tagged by twitchers or have just been given an ASBO, Google Pigeon is able to show you where all the local groups of pigeons are, so it is really useful for that. However we can’t really think of any actual use for this application, unless of course you’re looking to feed them or make a pie.
The third application is called WhoreDroid®. Now this basically lists where the nearest brothels are to you, it uses your phone’s GPS to see where you are and gives you a list of the nearest brothels, together with their ratings and distances, very nice. Once you have selected the establishment you want to go to, it shows you how to get there using Google maps.
Another great feature of WhoreDroid® is Nearest-Prostitute®, if there is a prostitute in the area with a WhoreDroid® enabled iPhone or Android phone, it can give you their rating, tell you what they will do for what price and if they’re busy and of course show you where they are. The application should be coming to Windows mobile sometime this spring. However we cannot really recommend this feature, as the second time we used it all it found was a pigeon which attacked me, obviously not the sort of bird we were looking for.
Lastly on the list is iTwat for Android, now by holding up your phone’s camera to a crowd of people this application is able point out any twats in the local vicinity by pointing arrows at them, we’re not entirely sure how this works, but we think it just points arrows at anybody the application detects has an iPhone, if you’re a woman with an iPhone I seriously suggest you don’t keep it in your trouser pocket as anybody with this application will seemingly see an big arrow pointing at your privates saying 'twat'!
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Thursday, 22 July 2010
On the alternative vote.
I’m tired of all the nonsense about the alternative vote. The fairest result of any election is for the Condorcet candidate to get elected, neither First past the post or the alternative vote guarantees that the Cordorcet winner will be elected, however under A-V it is more likely.
Another name for AV is IRV, Instant Run-off voting. The Alternative vote does not give anybody a second vote, the vote is redistributed because a candidate has been eliminated, they’re gone, they cannot win, kaput, and the vote is redistributed more than likely to the same person they would have voted for had the person they originally voted for not have ran in the election. Or to put it another way, in a normal multiple round run-off election people change their vote once their favourite is eliminated, no run-off election says, "If you voted for the person who came last in the last round your vote will be worth less this time round".
The vote is redistributed in the same way it would be in any run-off election only the election isn't a separate day, so their second choice automatically becomes their first choice.
Some people argue that AV is wrong because second choice votes from the candidate in last place can decide the election, this can happen but is unlikely. If the candidate in last place’s second choice vote is able to decide the election by tipping the person in first place over the 50% mark , then they must have been very close to it, and almost certainly would have won anyway.
On the contrary when the race is close under a first past the post election can be decided because just a small percentage of people vote for someone who obviously cannot win, who has similar views to the person who would have won had their votes not gone to them.
So inadvertently somebody who has similar views to the would-be-winner helps get someone with entirely different views elected, in 1997 for example the Referendum Party who won no seats stopped at least four Tories getting elected, the same happened in 2010 with UKIP candidates helping get Labour and Lib-Dem MPs elected despite the Tories being the most Euro sceptic of the three main parties.
Also Under the Alternative vote it is much less likely that someone could be elected by such an arbitrary amount the result could have been different had the election been a different day or even if the weather had been slightly different, a few MPs have majorities of less than 100 votes and have exactly the same power for up to 5 years as an MP elected with a majority of thousands.
People keep coming up with more and more elaborately unlikely scenarios to argue against the case for AV, these unlikely scenarios are a sign of desperation.
Another name for AV is IRV, Instant Run-off voting. The Alternative vote does not give anybody a second vote, the vote is redistributed because a candidate has been eliminated, they’re gone, they cannot win, kaput, and the vote is redistributed more than likely to the same person they would have voted for had the person they originally voted for not have ran in the election. Or to put it another way, in a normal multiple round run-off election people change their vote once their favourite is eliminated, no run-off election says, "If you voted for the person who came last in the last round your vote will be worth less this time round".
The vote is redistributed in the same way it would be in any run-off election only the election isn't a separate day, so their second choice automatically becomes their first choice.
Some people argue that AV is wrong because second choice votes from the candidate in last place can decide the election, this can happen but is unlikely. If the candidate in last place’s second choice vote is able to decide the election by tipping the person in first place over the 50% mark , then they must have been very close to it, and almost certainly would have won anyway.
On the contrary when the race is close under a first past the post election can be decided because just a small percentage of people vote for someone who obviously cannot win, who has similar views to the person who would have won had their votes not gone to them.
So inadvertently somebody who has similar views to the would-be-winner helps get someone with entirely different views elected, in 1997 for example the Referendum Party who won no seats stopped at least four Tories getting elected, the same happened in 2010 with UKIP candidates helping get Labour and Lib-Dem MPs elected despite the Tories being the most Euro sceptic of the three main parties.
Also Under the Alternative vote it is much less likely that someone could be elected by such an arbitrary amount the result could have been different had the election been a different day or even if the weather had been slightly different, a few MPs have majorities of less than 100 votes and have exactly the same power for up to 5 years as an MP elected with a majority of thousands.
People keep coming up with more and more elaborately unlikely scenarios to argue against the case for AV, these unlikely scenarios are a sign of desperation.
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