Are they going to check on the American Indian registration issues that impacted the 2002 Senatorial election in South Dakota and are sure to rise up again in the Thune/Daschle election this fall?
The system isn't flawed because people don't vote.
If people don't vote, then they don't vote. Do you really think that George W. Bush and John F. Kerry would be the candidates if say 80% of people that could vote would vote?
Hell no.
The system is the system, it works fine, except for say 1876 and 2000, from 1789 on. The system isn't the cause of low voter turnout or a lack of viable third candidate. Look at the third candidates we've had since 1988 in the US.
Any of them capable of gathering enough support to really be President of the United States from the voters or the members of the Senate and House? One, Ross Perot and in the middle of his run in 1992, he quit, then came back and was still able to get 18.87% of the Popular vote, but no states, what might have been if he'd not quit and then come back?
No one came over to monitor the 1880 election after the 1876 election so why are they "monitoring" the Presidental Election this time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_e le ction%2C_1876
http://www.michaellorenzen.com/1876.html
"In 1876 the election for the President of the United States ended in a dispute. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden received 184 electoral votes, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes received 165, and 20 electoral votes were uncertain, two different sets of returns being certified. The Electoral Commission was formed to settle the result. The disputed results involved 19 electors from Florida, Louisana, and South Carolina as well as one from Oregon. In those states, the official returns favored the Democrats, but the elections were marked by fraud and threats of violence against Republican voters and the Republican dominated electoral commissions were able to throw out enough votes to allow the Republicans to win those states. The result was two sets of returns, one certified by the governor favoring the Republicans and one certified by the state legislatures favoring the Democrats.
In the case of Oregon, the votes were clearly in favor of the Republicans. However, one of the Republican electors was a postmaster. The Democratic governor claimed that the elector was constitutionally disqualified on the grounds of holding a Federal office and therefore substituted a Democratic elector in his place."
Because people who post to Wikipedia are totally without any political opinion. Some supernatural Neutral peoples. Maybe from the Futurama world of the Neutrals. "Tell my wife...eh."
The George Bush page is locked against editiing because well, perhaps there's been some tainted data. Or something.
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"The Bush daughters have serious problems with drugs, not minor teenage experimentation problems."
You have proof that George W. Bush's daughters have serious drug problems?
Where is it?
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"DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a conviction for a very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder."
A DUI isn't a felony in the United States, and back when W and Cheney got them, they were mild misdemeanors. Now saying that a DUI means the driver felt a strong need to be drunk is bullshit.
A DUI means someone had some drinks and they were stopped and either ticketed or arrested because the officer thought they were drunk. Back in the 70s it was the cop's word against yours and since it was a minor crime, people plead guilty.
Saying that "A DUI conviction means that the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder" is flamebait and inaccurate.
Everytime someone gets into a vehicle there is a chance of murder. And remeber, where W and Cheney got thier tickets in the 70s, one could drink while driving.
"Ask yourself, why do these teenage women feel they need a drug like alcohol so badly that they are willing to break the law?"
Ask yourself, why didn't you read the fuckin' article?
"Both women are 19. Texas law prohibits anyone under 21 from buying or drinking alcohol."
When I was 19 I was buying all the time, because I wanted a beer or some rum, it's no big deal.
The mystery of Grissom's hatch was never solved to everyone's satisfaction. Among the favorite hypotheses were that the exterior lanyard might have become entangled with the landing bag straps; that the ring seal might have been omitted on the detonation plunger, reducing the pressure necessary to actuate it; or that static electricity generated by the helicopter had fired the hatch cover. But with the spacecraft and its onboard evidence lying 15,000 feet down on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it was impossible to determine the true cause. The only solution was to draft a procedure that would preclude a recurrence: henceforth the astronaut would not touch the plunger pin until the helicopter hooked on and the line was taut. As it turned out, Liberty Bell 7 was the last manned flight in Project Mercury in which helicopter retrieval of the spacecraft was planned. In addition, Grissom would be the only astronaut who used the hatch without receiving a slight hand injury. As he later reminded Glenn, Schirra, and Cooper, this helped prove he had not touched his hatch plunger."
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/li be rty_bell_000617.html
If the average car built in the United States or Japan has at least one problem, why should you think spacecraft which are much more complex and having to deal with increadable stresses would be free of problems?
Yep. XM has great DJs. I listen to Hank's Place quite a bit, along with Boneyard and all the other rock stations and the kitchy Honky Tonk bar atmosphere of Hank's Place's DJs really works. Plus alot of the stations take email requests or phone requests during the day and you feel like it's a real hometown station, more than any of the stations here in Portland feel.
One day I heard about half of a song, sounded like the Cult, wasn't sure, my deck's ID was blank for the song. Emailed them, what time I was listening about, what was the song. Five minutes later, the DJ emailed me the song name, the band, album and he threw the link into it at Amazon, in case I liked it, said it was a good CD.
XM's music channels are commercial-free, stuff like the radio station mirrors, I think there are 4 music stations that way, and the sports and news stations are not commercial free.
The problem with that is, the DPRK could seriously destablize the Pacific Rim economy. Even if there is isolation.
You know. shelling of Seoul, missiles into Japan. commando strikes as far east as Hawaii, maybe missiles into Hawaii, Alaska and the US. Subs in the Pacific, etc.
It's usually illegal to have a static firearm with a trap mechanism.
They used to have things like this all the time in Europe and North America for both setting traps for deer, boar, bears and to keep poachers away, they became illegal a while back I think.
So what you are talking about is always pretty much illegal, with the guns at least.
"The DPRK will seek force ratios of 3-5 to 1 in armor, 6-8 to 1 in artillery, and 4-6 to 1 in infantry forces to mount an attack. In attempting to breach a well-prepared defensive position, the DPRK may be expected to seek even larger ratios. This undoubtedly would be the case in attempting to break through DMZ defenses.
Combined-arms operations constitute the foundation of tactical battle in DPRK doctrine. Utilization of the forward conventional corps, reinforced by the mechanized and armor corps, to fight from the DMZ to Pusan is called the Strike Force concept. This concept embodies how the DPRK is expected to fight, especially south of Seoul or in defense of the DPRK."
"Without moving any of its more than 12,000 artillery pieces, "Pyongyang could sustain up to 500,000 rounds per hour against Combined Forces Command defenses and Seoul for several hours" Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz said in testimony in March 2001 before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Schwartz heads the United Nations and ROK-US Combined Forces Commands and US Forces Korea.
Towards the end of the Korean War fighting in 1953, the Chinese were able to fire approximately 100,000 rounds per day against US forces, and the number of rounds per day was increasing. A 100,000 round day would be a light day in a new war.
In 1993 and 1994, when the North Korean nuclear question emerged as an international issue, the North deployed large numbers of improved 170mm self-propelled guns and 240mm multiple rocket launchers to forward positions close to the DMZ. This was apparently meant to threaten South Korea's security while calling for nuclear negotiations with the US."
"A major air campaign against northern forces would be required before the counteroffensive could begin. A US Marine Expeditionary Force (in division strength) and the 82nd Air Assault Division, along with ROK divisions, would launch an overland offensive north toward Wonsan from the east coast. Soon thereafter, a combined US-ROK force would likely stage an amphibious landing near Wonsan, and advance to Pyongyang. Subsequently, a combined US-ROK force would execute a major counteroffensive from north of Seoul aimed at seizing Pyongyang. This would be achieved either by linking up with the force at Wonsan, or meeting it at Pyongyang."
It is, because a conventional war in the Koreas would be bad.
Terrible bad.
World War Two bad.
All of the US forces are not in Iraq, but for a war with the DPRK, the mobilization of the Guards and Reserves would make OIF look like a camping trip.
All the Guards and Reserve units in the western states of the US at a minium would be called up, as well as the Japanese Defense Self-Defense Force.
And flash suppressors are still out there, they just look different and in many cases they work better.
As for high-cap magazines, I've never seen them go away, they just cost more, like the poster said. In 1995 Glock 9mm high-caps were going for 90-100 dollars, but in the last two years I've seen them back down at 19.95.
Yea, that's true, but I think it's important that people stop calling everything censorship.
It bothers me, on my MU* when we've had to editorialize or establish standards of decency and communication, I was called a Censor and people cried censorship when it wasn't.
So, I've got to say, it was editorializing. Now the Web is allowing us to see around this editorializing and suppression of the truth, like the Swift Boats or the folks who translate Arab language media to show what is really being said about people by the Saudis and AQ.
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Are they going to check on the American Indian registration issues that impacted the 2002 Senatorial election in South Dakota and are sure to rise up again in the Thune/Daschle election this fall?
The system isn't flawed because people don't vote.
If people don't vote, then they don't vote. Do you really think that George W. Bush and John F. Kerry would be the candidates if say 80% of people that could vote would vote?
Hell no.
The system is the system, it works fine, except for say 1876 and 2000, from 1789 on. The system isn't the cause of low voter turnout or a lack of viable third candidate. Look at the third candidates we've had since 1988 in the US.
Any of them capable of gathering enough support to really be President of the United States from the voters or the members of the Senate and House? One, Ross Perot and in the middle of his run in 1992, he quit, then came back and was still able to get 18.87% of the Popular vote, but no states, what might have been if he'd not quit and then come back?
No one came over to monitor the 1880 election after the 1876 election so why are they "monitoring" the Presidental Election this time?
e le ction%2C_1876
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_
http://www.michaellorenzen.com/1876.html
"In 1876 the election for the President of the United States ended in a dispute. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden received 184 electoral votes, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes received 165, and 20 electoral votes were uncertain, two different sets of returns being certified. The Electoral Commission was formed to settle the result. The disputed results involved 19 electors from Florida, Louisana, and South Carolina as well as one from Oregon. In those states, the official returns favored the Democrats, but the elections were marked by fraud and threats of violence against Republican voters and the Republican dominated electoral commissions were able to throw out enough votes to allow the Republicans to win those states. The result was two sets of returns, one certified by the governor favoring the Republicans and one certified by the state legislatures favoring the Democrats.
In the case of Oregon, the votes were clearly in favor of the Republicans. However, one of the Republican electors was a postmaster. The Democratic governor claimed that the elector was constitutionally disqualified on the grounds of holding a Federal office and therefore substituted a Democratic elector in his place."
If you are going to put up a datacenter for something that's to run 24/7/365.25 why would you put them somewhere like Florida or in a Tornado Alley?
Why not in Utah or Minnesota or Sioux Falls South Dakota where the violent storms or floods are less likely?
Because people who post to Wikipedia are totally without any political opinion. Some supernatural Neutral peoples. Maybe from the Futurama world of the Neutrals. "Tell my wife...eh."
The George Bush page is locked against editiing because well, perhaps there's been some tainted data. Or something.
"The Bush daughters have serious problems with drugs, not minor teenage experimentation problems."
You have proof that George W. Bush's daughters have serious drug problems?
Where is it?
"DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a conviction for a very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder."
A DUI isn't a felony in the United States, and back when W and Cheney got them, they were mild misdemeanors. Now saying that a DUI means the driver felt a strong need to be drunk is bullshit.
A DUI means someone had some drinks and they were stopped and either ticketed or arrested because the officer thought they were drunk. Back in the 70s it was the cop's word against yours and since it was a minor crime, people plead guilty.
Saying that "A DUI conviction means that the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder" is flamebait and inaccurate.
Everytime someone gets into a vehicle there is a chance of murder. And remeber, where W and Cheney got thier tickets in the 70s, one could drink while driving.
"Ask yourself, why do these teenage women feel they need a drug like alcohol so badly that they are willing to break the law?"
Ask yourself, why didn't you read the fuckin' article?
"Both women are 19. Texas law prohibits anyone under 21 from buying or drinking alcohol."
When I was 19 I was buying all the time, because I wanted a beer or some rum, it's no big deal.
What do you mean it doesn't make the headlines?
Shuttle flights almost always spash on the front of CNN.com or the top of the news on CNN/Foxnews.
It's thought that he didn't blow the hatch.
i be rty_bell_000617.html
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/merrymr4.htm
The mystery of Grissom's hatch was never solved to everyone's satisfaction. Among the favorite hypotheses were that the exterior lanyard might have become entangled with the landing bag straps; that the ring seal might have been omitted on the detonation plunger, reducing the pressure necessary to actuate it; or that static electricity generated by the helicopter had fired the hatch cover. But with the spacecraft and its onboard evidence lying 15,000 feet down on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, it was impossible to determine the true cause. The only solution was to draft a procedure that would preclude a recurrence: henceforth the astronaut would not touch the plunger pin until the helicopter hooked on and the line was taut. As it turned out, Liberty Bell 7 was the last manned flight in Project Mercury in which helicopter retrieval of the spacecraft was planned. In addition, Grissom would be the only astronaut who used the hatch without receiving a slight hand injury. As he later reminded Glenn, Schirra, and Cooper, this helped prove he had not touched his hatch plunger."
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/l
If the average car built in the United States or Japan has at least one problem, why should you think spacecraft which are much more complex and having to deal with increadable stresses would be free of problems?
Yep. XM has great DJs. I listen to Hank's Place quite a bit, along with Boneyard and all the other rock stations and the kitchy Honky Tonk bar atmosphere of Hank's Place's DJs really works. Plus alot of the stations take email requests or phone requests during the day and you feel like it's a real hometown station, more than any of the stations here in Portland feel.
One day I heard about half of a song, sounded like the Cult, wasn't sure, my deck's ID was blank for the song. Emailed them, what time I was listening about, what was the song. Five minutes later, the DJ emailed me the song name, the band, album and he threw the link into it at Amazon, in case I liked it, said it was a good CD.
Three songs that haven't been on Classic Rock FM since two weeks after thier singles came out.
Not to mention the fact that say, a Classic Rock FM station has the same play list, and they have had the same play list for the last 20 years?
2-4 Zeppelin songs.
1-3 Rush songs.
3-5 AC/DC songs.
1 Jethro Tull song.
A Dead block in the middle of the night on a weekend.
5-9 other misc songs.
Repeated over and over since 1984.
XM radio, I've heard classic rock bands I've never heard before, like Sweet, Moot the Hoople, MSG, UFO, etc.
XM's music channels are commercial-free, stuff like the radio station mirrors, I think there are 4 music stations that way, and the sports and news stations are not commercial free.
Everything else is.
Yea, I'm switchin' DNS at the moment. So it might not resolve for some.
Try www.bloodshed.org or just IP it, 216.99.217.128
The problem with that is, the DPRK could seriously destablize the Pacific Rim economy. Even if there is isolation.
You know. shelling of Seoul, missiles into Japan. commando strikes as far east as Hawaii, maybe missiles into Hawaii, Alaska and the US. Subs in the Pacific, etc.
It's usually illegal to have a static firearm with a trap mechanism.
They used to have things like this all the time in Europe and North America for both setting traps for deer, boar, bears and to keep poachers away, they became illegal a while back I think.
So what you are talking about is always pretty much illegal, with the guns at least.
To respond to myself
n -5 027-1.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/opla
"The DPRK will seek force ratios of 3-5 to 1 in armor, 6-8 to 1 in artillery, and 4-6 to 1 in infantry forces to mount an attack. In attempting to breach a well-prepared defensive position, the DPRK may be expected to seek even larger ratios. This undoubtedly would be the case in attempting to break through DMZ defenses.
Combined-arms operations constitute the foundation of tactical battle in DPRK doctrine. Utilization of the forward conventional corps, reinforced by the mechanized and armor corps, to fight from the DMZ to Pusan is called the Strike Force concept. This concept embodies how the DPRK is expected to fight, especially south of Seoul or in defense of the DPRK."
"Without moving any of its more than 12,000 artillery pieces, "Pyongyang could sustain up to 500,000 rounds per hour against Combined Forces Command defenses and Seoul for several hours" Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz said in testimony in March 2001 before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Schwartz heads the United Nations and ROK-US Combined Forces Commands and US Forces Korea.
Towards the end of the Korean War fighting in 1953, the Chinese were able to fire approximately 100,000 rounds per day against US forces, and the number of rounds per day was increasing. A 100,000 round day would be a light day in a new war.
In 1993 and 1994, when the North Korean nuclear question emerged as an international issue, the North deployed large numbers of improved 170mm self-propelled guns and 240mm multiple rocket launchers to forward positions close to the DMZ. This was apparently meant to threaten South Korea's security while calling for nuclear negotiations with the US."
"A major air campaign against northern forces would be required before the counteroffensive could begin. A US Marine Expeditionary Force (in division strength) and the 82nd Air Assault Division, along with ROK divisions, would launch an overland offensive north toward Wonsan from the east coast. Soon thereafter, a combined US-ROK force would likely stage an amphibious landing near Wonsan, and advance to Pyongyang. Subsequently, a combined US-ROK force would execute a major counteroffensive from north of Seoul aimed at seizing Pyongyang. This would be achieved either by linking up with the force at Wonsan, or meeting it at Pyongyang."
Operational Plans with some information on what the US/ROK think a conventional war with the DPRK would be like.
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If that were to happen.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/opla
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/o
It is, because a conventional war in the Koreas would be bad.
Terrible bad.
World War Two bad.
All of the US forces are not in Iraq, but for a war with the DPRK, the mobilization of the Guards and Reserves would make OIF look like a camping trip.
All the Guards and Reserve units in the western states of the US at a minium would be called up, as well as the Japanese Defense Self-Defense Force.
It'd ugly.
A bunch of folks at a party at Pournelle's came up with Star Wars/SDI back in the 80s.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/
And flash suppressors are still out there, they just look different and in many cases they work better.
As for high-cap magazines, I've never seen them go away, they just cost more, like the poster said. In 1995 Glock 9mm high-caps were going for 90-100 dollars, but in the last two years I've seen them back down at 19.95.
I thought we had a new section for this, to get them off the home page.
Yea, that's true, but I think it's important that people stop calling everything censorship.
It bothers me, on my MU* when we've had to editorialize or establish standards of decency and communication, I was called a Censor and people cried censorship when it wasn't.
So, I've got to say, it was editorializing. Now the Web is allowing us to see around this editorializing and suppression of the truth, like the Swift Boats or the folks who translate Arab language media to show what is really being said about people by the Saudis and AQ.