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# All this talk of AV made me think of Neville Shute's book In The Wet.
They have a form of PR where everyone has a vote, but you can earn extra votes by improving the country. The list he has is a little old-fashioned these days:

1) Basic - everyone gets this at 21
2) Education - finishing a course of higher education
3) Foreign experience - earning a living outside the country for two yers or more
4) Family vote - raising two or more children to the age of 14 without divorcing
5) Earning achievment - If you earn over a certain amount a year
6) Religous officials
7) The Queen's vote - only awarded in recognition of something pretty spectacular

That would mix things up a bit. It'd certianly need updating.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 4 May 2011, 11:22, archived)
# i'd vote for this
it's a splendid thing.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:23, archived)
# as long as your second vote is voting against it
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:25, archived)
# what's the third choice again?
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:29, archived)
# Chips.
I got another paper out today:

pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2011/DT/C1DT10251F
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 4 May 2011, 11:34, archived)
# Yay!
based on the abstract, are we talking about sedimentation through a viscous medium/ centrifugation/ field flow fractionation sort of things?
(I helped save b3ta! RedHouse over yonder, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:42, archived)
# Flow separation (based on particle morphology)
sonication, sieving, froth flotation, density flotation and separation of particles from silica gels.
Rejected by two out of three referees and accepted without change by the journal as well as made into a Frontier Article, of which they only published two last year.
Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 4 May 2011, 12:18, archived)
# Mmmm, froth
Congrats!
(I helped save b3ta! RedHouse over yonder, Wed 4 May 2011, 12:56, archived)
# *bookmarks*
*saves for sexytime bedtime*
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Wed 4 May 2011, 12:01, archived)
# Don't call me stupid!
(I helped save b3ta! RedHouse over yonder, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:38, archived)
# religious officials?
the special paedo vote?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:30, archived)
# I did say it needed updating...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 4 May 2011, 11:31, archived)
# THE POPE!
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 4 May 2011, 11:40, archived)