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It's less surprising than you'd think... it's pretty easy to miss folks, especially if you frequent different parts of the forum.

I thought those overseas mexicans were to blame for that?sweet hell this is a joke

... yeah, immediately and significantly violent enough in regards to any torment that folks just kinda' left me alone in that sort of way. Fortunately(?) in a small enough school(s), in a stable enough town (not much in the way of kids coming and going) it only took a few goes fairly early (the need mostly tapered off during the early parts of middle school *shrugs*) for the general effect of "Not worth messing with" to kinda' sink in. Kinda' quiet, fairly friendly, if a bit stand-offish, a bit odd, and known for hitting back at least as hard as being hit. Not something that would work as well in a larger school or more unstable community. Also not what I'd recommend. I'm not proud of stuff like breaking someone's nose with a pair of sunglasses. If I could go back, that sort of thing is definitely part of what I'd do differently

Still, the fact that you can't do recounts means that I'm pretty sure, it can't be deployed in some countries. And the system might be as secure as you want, people's computers aren't.

... couldn't you just, y'know, have people vote again? With a digital system, that wouldn't exactly take long. Why do you need to recount when it takes seconds to minutes (instead of hours) to re-vote?

No, no, see, the province was named by a great prophet from before the time of the Pantokrator. For millennium, its people had no idea why the place was called Green Waters -- the water itself was a nice, clear blue, and quite healthy to live in. Now we know why it was named Green Waters.

It's not as if libraries are going to reject books for donation that don't meet some quota of checkouts at other libraries[...]

... actually. Well. It's not quite that, but checkout history was one of the things checked to decide to keep a book around, when I was working with a library -- and, no doubt, if the system they were using was more sophisticated, it would have been tied into a wider range of libraries beyond the immediate.

But. Yeah, I mean, the library will probably take the book from you. Kinda' regardless, from what I saw. It's just... some of them never make it to the shelves. Admittedly, sometimes it's because they're being shifted off to libraries that have more open space, but. Sometimes they just get taken away. Limited shelf space, less limited book number, only so many places to put things. And when something hasn't been checked out in like twenty years...

But yeah, libraries don't really advertise or incentivize specific sorts of donations, or at least none of the ones I've been around have. They'll take pretty much anything, but they don't really ask for anything specific. Just doing that nets many more books than they can actually store. So I wouldn't worry too much about borrowing books having any likelihood of increasing sales for wozzname.