Around here, we have early voting where polls are opened up for a couple of weekends before the election. I believe they also have them in hospitals and such as well as embassies. Not perfect as it means the ballots are stored until after the election though in most elections they're never counted as the margin of victory is larger then the absentee ballots. Last Provincial election, they did matter and instead of taking a couple of hours to decide the winner, it took a month as the house was close to tied and a couple of ridings were very close. Seemed honest as the government ended up being replaced with no election results being changed by the absentee ballots. We also have an independent elections commission to look after the elections, no gerrymandering, no only putting polling locations in the good side of town and such. We also split our elections so the Federal election is only about voting in a Federal government and Provinces have their elections on various different days. This allows different parties on the Federal and Provincial levels along with more parties.
What do you do, use something like Thunderbrowse to load gmail.com in a tab? In this case I believe by online, the poster means using a web interface rather then downloading mail like I do with pop. With the mail downloaded, it is available even without a network connection.
Applied Engineering built Apple II add on cards. MS also built a Z80 card for the Apple II, which was actually not a bad piece of engineering. I owned one and at the time MS was known mostly for BASIC and I was happy with the card and MS labeled CP/M. It wasn't until I moved to the PC that I learned to hate MS.
Trees do most of their growth in the spring. Lately, at least where I live, the springs have been pretty warm and wet. It's one of the causes of all the fires, lots of undergrowth in the spring then hot summer turns it into dry tinder just waiting for a lightning stroke or cigarette butt to ignite it.
What about in the extreme north where people haven't been doing anything? Not sure about this year but the last few have seen quite a few fires in the North West Territories and the radio reports that a lot of the smoke around here is blowing in from Siberia.
Most of the fires here in BC are being started by lightning and many of them are in places where there are very few people and in the north, there hasn't been much forestry to change things. Not everywhere is highly populated like the USA. Two things have been happening, moist springs causing lots of undergrowth and dry summers turning all that undergrowth into tinder. Now whether it is weather or climate, only time will tell.
China is not communist, even if they call themselves that. Closer to State owned capitalism. By definition, communism means no government and in practice doesn't seem to be be able to scale up much over a population of about a hundred. Most of what are called communist is plain old authoritarianism.
Venezuela is a good example of corruption. At that, S. America (and central America) also has good examples of corrupt capitalist societies that are crap as well.
You signed treaties for the land you're living on. The American Constitution puts treaties as the second highest law in the land and here you are wanting to renege.
Well 20th century diseases such as radiation plus heavy metal poisoning. The early uranium mining on Navajo land was pretty gruesome, what without realizing how bad radiation was yet and the 50's technology. I know of tribes up here in Canada who's water is full of mercury (ex-pulp mill up stream) that most of the people have mercury poisoning. The natives have been treated like shit. The American Constitution puts Treaties as the second highest law in the land but the history is lots of broken treaties, right up to the last year or so. Many of those treaties included ongoing payments of some type or other for the land as well.
Isn't it Trump who keeps attacking the press and various other forms of speech? As well as salivating over any dictator, whether left (if you can call N. Korea left) or extreme right wing Muslims. Really it is authoritarians that hate free speech, authoritarianism is bad whether coming from the left or the right.
I'm in Canada, stuck on dial-up until last year, now I have an LTE connection, 10-25 down 1-3 up depending on time of day, with a 250GB limit. Does cost close to a hundred a month.
Where I am, I'm allowed to copy copyrighted music for personal use and the maximum civil punishment for pirating a movie is the price of a DVD and a max of a couple of thousand dollars for distributing. Works also go into the public domain after 50 years so lots of stuff is out of copyright here unlike other countries. Most countries might have copyright laws but in America, they're taken up to 11 and getting sued means perhaps 100's of thousands in damages rather then a couple of hundred bucks.
Yes, but ext4 is kind of broken in the EA department with a 4KB limit on them. Other then that, most file systems that support EAs are similar in support or more extended, eg file forks on Mac and streams on NTFS which don't have the usual 64KB limit.
Any alien intelligence's that are technological advanced enough to cross interstellar space are advanced enough to sit out at Saturn and throw rocks at us.
The other important thing is that the voting system is easily understood by the average person. Doesn't help having a secure system if people don't understand it enough to trust it.
Depends on whether things are set up to make it hard for certain segments of society to get ID. Though it usually targets neighbourhoods rather then race. Just put all the ID producing offices in the rich neighbourhoods with no transit there and short hours, and bang, you've made it hard for certain people to get ID. Of course you can also get creative, minor typos on the ID or voter list of undesirables so that ID isn't good enough to use for voting. The racism comes in when the people designing the ID requirements are racist.
Well, for example, here in Canada, where we've had voter ID requirements for a long time had a Conservative government, who took advice from the Republicans. They claimed that the ID laws weren't strict enough and greatly reduced the types of ID that were valid. Then they did some other trickery. My wife has always voted under her maiden name, and all her ID is in her maiden name, and she is also of the wrong race. Last election, she was still registered under her maiden name according to the official voters registration web site, but upon showing up to vote, she was suddenly registered in her married name, with no ID under that name. That's one example of strict ID laws disenfranchising people. Another is my Son, he's ID wasn't good enough and didn't have time to travel the 50+ mile round trip to get better ID, which cost $75, so couldn't vote. Then there were all the natives on reservations who don't have numbered addresses as required on the ID, the university students who hadn't bothered changing the address on their ID while attending university who were also disenfranchised. Voter ID laws are good until someone decides to use them to disenfranchise people who can vote.
You don't reduce heat energy, you move it by radiating it to space and/or block it before it arrives from the Sun. The Earth is not a closed system. In theory it is quite possible, in practice, well there's a lot of inertia in something as large as the Earth's climate and the odds of screwing up seem high.
Interesting, part of having swung so far right I guess. I understand Alberta also has some subsidies that they can't afford. It's the problem of figuring out subsidies in federal systems, whether Provinces, States or in the case of the EU, countries. In the case of Saskatchewan, seems those subsidies should be gone as they're unneeded. In the general case, food security is important for any sovereign country.
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Around here, we have early voting where polls are opened up for a couple of weekends before the election. I believe they also have them in hospitals and such as well as embassies. Not perfect as it means the ballots are stored until after the election though in most elections they're never counted as the margin of victory is larger then the absentee ballots. Last Provincial election, they did matter and instead of taking a couple of hours to decide the winner, it took a month as the house was close to tied and a couple of ridings were very close.
Seemed honest as the government ended up being replaced with no election results being changed by the absentee ballots.
We also have an independent elections commission to look after the elections, no gerrymandering, no only putting polling locations in the good side of town and such.
We also split our elections so the Federal election is only about voting in a Federal government and Provinces have their elections on various different days. This allows different parties on the Federal and Provincial levels along with more parties.
What do you do, use something like Thunderbrowse to load gmail.com in a tab?
In this case I believe by online, the poster means using a web interface rather then downloading mail like I do with pop. With the mail downloaded, it is available even without a network connection.
Form History Control, https://formhistory.blogspot.c... is one way to preserve comment composition forms when FF crashes or is accidentally closed.
Applied Engineering built Apple II add on cards. MS also built a Z80 card for the Apple II, which was actually not a bad piece of engineering. I owned one and at the time MS was known mostly for BASIC and I was happy with the card and MS labeled CP/M.
It wasn't until I moved to the PC that I learned to hate MS.
The advantage is if you live in a rainy climate where motorbikes only make sense a few months out of the year.
Trees do most of their growth in the spring. Lately, at least where I live, the springs have been pretty warm and wet. It's one of the causes of all the fires, lots of undergrowth in the spring then hot summer turns it into dry tinder just waiting for a lightning stroke or cigarette butt to ignite it.
What about in the extreme north where people haven't been doing anything? Not sure about this year but the last few have seen quite a few fires in the North West Territories and the radio reports that a lot of the smoke around here is blowing in from Siberia.
Most of the fires here in BC are being started by lightning and many of them are in places where there are very few people and in the north, there hasn't been much forestry to change things. Not everywhere is highly populated like the USA.
Two things have been happening, moist springs causing lots of undergrowth and dry summers turning all that undergrowth into tinder.
Now whether it is weather or climate, only time will tell.
Canada is pretty diverse.
China is not communist, even if they call themselves that. Closer to State owned capitalism.
By definition, communism means no government and in practice doesn't seem to be be able to scale up much over a population of about a hundred. Most of what are called communist is plain old authoritarianism.
Venezuela is a good example of corruption. At that, S. America (and central America) also has good examples of corrupt capitalist societies that are crap as well.
You signed treaties for the land you're living on. The American Constitution puts treaties as the second highest law in the land and here you are wanting to renege.
Well 20th century diseases such as radiation plus heavy metal poisoning. The early uranium mining on Navajo land was pretty gruesome, what without realizing how bad radiation was yet and the 50's technology.
I know of tribes up here in Canada who's water is full of mercury (ex-pulp mill up stream) that most of the people have mercury poisoning.
The natives have been treated like shit. The American Constitution puts Treaties as the second highest law in the land but the history is lots of broken treaties, right up to the last year or so. Many of those treaties included ongoing payments of some type or other for the land as well.
Isn't it Trump who keeps attacking the press and various other forms of speech? As well as salivating over any dictator, whether left (if you can call N. Korea left) or extreme right wing Muslims.
Really it is authoritarians that hate free speech, authoritarianism is bad whether coming from the left or the right.
I'm in Canada, stuck on dial-up until last year, now I have an LTE connection, 10-25 down 1-3 up depending on time of day, with a 250GB limit. Does cost close to a hundred a month.
Where I am, I'm allowed to copy copyrighted music for personal use and the maximum civil punishment for pirating a movie is the price of a DVD and a max of a couple of thousand dollars for distributing. Works also go into the public domain after 50 years so lots of stuff is out of copyright here unlike other countries.
Most countries might have copyright laws but in America, they're taken up to 11 and getting sued means perhaps 100's of thousands in damages rather then a couple of hundred bucks.
They're using American laws and courts.
Yes, but ext4 is kind of broken in the EA department with a 4KB limit on them. Other then that, most file systems that support EAs are similar in support or more extended, eg file forks on Mac and streams on NTFS which don't have the usual 64KB limit.
Unless this time it is America who goes bankrupt.
Any alien intelligence's that are technological advanced enough to cross interstellar space are advanced enough to sit out at Saturn and throw rocks at us.
The other important thing is that the voting system is easily understood by the average person. Doesn't help having a secure system if people don't understand it enough to trust it.
Depends on whether things are set up to make it hard for certain segments of society to get ID. Though it usually targets neighbourhoods rather then race.
Just put all the ID producing offices in the rich neighbourhoods with no transit there and short hours, and bang, you've made it hard for certain people to get ID.
Of course you can also get creative, minor typos on the ID or voter list of undesirables so that ID isn't good enough to use for voting.
The racism comes in when the people designing the ID requirements are racist.
Well, for example, here in Canada, where we've had voter ID requirements for a long time had a Conservative government, who took advice from the Republicans. They claimed that the ID laws weren't strict enough and greatly reduced the types of ID that were valid. Then they did some other trickery.
My wife has always voted under her maiden name, and all her ID is in her maiden name, and she is also of the wrong race. Last election, she was still registered under her maiden name according to the official voters registration web site, but upon showing up to vote, she was suddenly registered in her married name, with no ID under that name.
That's one example of strict ID laws disenfranchising people.
Another is my Son, he's ID wasn't good enough and didn't have time to travel the 50+ mile round trip to get better ID, which cost $75, so couldn't vote.
Then there were all the natives on reservations who don't have numbered addresses as required on the ID, the university students who hadn't bothered changing the address on their ID while attending university who were also disenfranchised.
Voter ID laws are good until someone decides to use them to disenfranchise people who can vote.
You don't reduce heat energy, you move it by radiating it to space and/or block it before it arrives from the Sun. The Earth is not a closed system.
In theory it is quite possible, in practice, well there's a lot of inertia in something as large as the Earth's climate and the odds of screwing up seem high.
Interesting, part of having swung so far right I guess. I understand Alberta also has some subsidies that they can't afford.
It's the problem of figuring out subsidies in federal systems, whether Provinces, States or in the case of the EU, countries.
In the case of Saskatchewan, seems those subsidies should be gone as they're unneeded.
In the general case, food security is important for any sovereign country.