Are they talking about type 1 diabetes (lack of insulin production) or type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance)? I suspect it's type 2 because fixing a pancreas that's not producing insulin would be quite difficult if not impossible.
Of course "sand" is a pretty generic term for a lot of stuff that is quite different when you look at it in detail. It is certainly possible for a specific type of sand to be in short supply while sand in general is not.
The accuracy of an individual measurement is one thing. When you combine the results of many measurements it's reasonable to state the result to a far greater accuracy than the individual measurement. The most straight forward example of this that is know is baseball batting averages. The measurements are either 1 (a hit) or 0 (an out) yet baseball batting averages are reported to 3 decimal places.
Yes, the GPS satellites have to take relativity in to account. But the adjustment is built in, automatic and constant. Even being off by 1 microsecond would introduce a massive error. GPS timing operates on the nanosecond scale.
Of course chicken, at least the chicken that is sold commercially is regulated too for quality and food safety reasons. By your definition there is practically nothing that is fully legalized.
In Oregon (unlike Washington and I'm not sure about Colorado) and individual is allowed to grow up to 4 plants for personal use. That's going to be pretty cheap even if they have to pay the $35/ounce tax.
Certainly the way you are raised and your experiences growing up influence the way you vote. But once I attained voting age (around the same time the voting age was changed to 18) they never put any pressure on me to vote one way or another. My mother is a Fox News watching Republican and I lean left. We occasionally express disgust with each other for voting the way we do but she's never tried to tell me how to vote in any way that made me feel pressure.
I have never felt any pressure from my family to vote in a particular way. It wouldn't make any sense anyway because they have no way to tell if I'm telling the truth or lying since my ballot is secret. We have arguments about politics and I've been called an idiot by some of them but that's as far as it goes.
My boss doesn't need to tell me how to vote. He just needs to know how I voted. If he doesn't like it he can start giving me shit assignments and reduce my chances for promotion and pay raises. It would be nearly impossible for me to have a case against him unless he just straight up told me.
Theoretically I like the idea of open voting but it presumes everyone who knows how you voted will not hold it against you in some way or another.
The most Oregon counties do use optical scan machines to count ballots and there's software involved in that. But we always have the original ballots to fall back on.
The big problem seems to be a lack of understanding of the technology and security issues on the part of the folks who selected "approved" voting machine systems?
As a computer professional I understand the technology and security issues very well. It's just to easy to play around with anything in a computer and it's always possible to do it without a trace. Even things like checksums can be manipulated.
In order for voters to really trust the voting system it needs to be done in a way that everyone can understand. That's paper ballots. I wouldn't be against using a computer touch-screen system to print out the voters official ballot that they can then verify for correctness before putting it in the ballot box but that's as far as I'm willing to go with electronic voting.
Yes, paper ballots can have their issues but it's a lot more work to deliberately manipulate them than it is an electronic voting record.
The difference is committing fraud with paper ballots is a high labor endevour that has to be committed in each precinct. With electronic balloting all it takes is one computer nerd like me to change many ballots.
The secret ballot is not something I'd be willing to give up easily. If everyone knows how you voted it's possible for your employer or your family to pressure you over your vote.
Back in the day when we had polling place elections here in Oregon the ballots were numbered too. But the numbers were on a tear off tab that was removed before the ballot was dropped in the ballot box. The number were there for auditing purposes because then they could take the torn off tabs and the unused ballots and account for every ballot that was printed.
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Of course in /. tradition I didn't read TFA. It's information that should have been in the summary post.
Thanks. Zothecula should have put it in the post.
It comes from the law of large numbers. The more measurements involved the more accurate your results will be.
Are they talking about type 1 diabetes (lack of insulin production) or type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance)? I suspect it's type 2 because fixing a pancreas that's not producing insulin would be quite difficult if not impossible.
I wonder what is special about Oregon.
No sales tax.
Does Tony Abbott have anything to do with that?
Of course "sand" is a pretty generic term for a lot of stuff that is quite different when you look at it in detail. It is certainly possible for a specific type of sand to be in short supply while sand in general is not.
How the hell am I supposed to get a drink?!?
Straight from the teat?
Unlike California those property owners can't deny access to the beach in front of their property by the general public.
The accuracy of an individual measurement is one thing. When you combine the results of many measurements it's reasonable to state the result to a far greater accuracy than the individual measurement. The most straight forward example of this that is know is baseball batting averages. The measurements are either 1 (a hit) or 0 (an out) yet baseball batting averages are reported to 3 decimal places.
Yes, the GPS satellites have to take relativity in to account. But the adjustment is built in, automatic and constant. Even being off by 1 microsecond would introduce a massive error. GPS timing operates on the nanosecond scale.
Of course chicken, at least the chicken that is sold commercially is regulated too for quality and food safety reasons. By your definition there is practically nothing that is fully legalized.
In Oregon (unlike Washington and I'm not sure about Colorado) and individual is allowed to grow up to 4 plants for personal use. That's going to be pretty cheap even if they have to pay the $35/ounce tax.
Alaska is the most socialist state in the United States. They tax the oil and distribute the proceeds to their citizens. Everybody likes free money.
Just like we in Oregon welcomed Washington to the club when they approved vote by mail ;)
And yet California still manages to bumble along with an economy that's bigger than most countries in the world.
B) We now have fewer laws.
Umm ... It doesn't really work that way. We (here in Oregon) now move from the realm of criminal law to regulatory law.
Whatever. The "pressure" I get from within the family is no different than the pressure I get from outside the family.
Certainly the way you are raised and your experiences growing up influence the way you vote. But once I attained voting age (around the same time the voting age was changed to 18) they never put any pressure on me to vote one way or another. My mother is a Fox News watching Republican and I lean left. We occasionally express disgust with each other for voting the way we do but she's never tried to tell me how to vote in any way that made me feel pressure.
I have never felt any pressure from my family to vote in a particular way. It wouldn't make any sense anyway because they have no way to tell if I'm telling the truth or lying since my ballot is secret. We have arguments about politics and I've been called an idiot by some of them but that's as far as it goes.
My boss doesn't need to tell me how to vote. He just needs to know how I voted. If he doesn't like it he can start giving me shit assignments and reduce my chances for promotion and pay raises. It would be nearly impossible for me to have a case against him unless he just straight up told me.
Theoretically I like the idea of open voting but it presumes everyone who knows how you voted will not hold it against you in some way or another.
The most Oregon counties do use optical scan machines to count ballots and there's software involved in that. But we always have the original ballots to fall back on.
The big problem seems to be a lack of understanding of the technology and security issues on the part of the folks who selected "approved" voting machine systems?
As a computer professional I understand the technology and security issues very well. It's just to easy to play around with anything in a computer and it's always possible to do it without a trace. Even things like checksums can be manipulated.
In order for voters to really trust the voting system it needs to be done in a way that everyone can understand. That's paper ballots. I wouldn't be against using a computer touch-screen system to print out the voters official ballot that they can then verify for correctness before putting it in the ballot box but that's as far as I'm willing to go with electronic voting.
Yes, paper ballots can have their issues but it's a lot more work to deliberately manipulate them than it is an electronic voting record.
The difference is committing fraud with paper ballots is a high labor endevour that has to be committed in each precinct. With electronic balloting all it takes is one computer nerd like me to change many ballots.
The secret ballot is not something I'd be willing to give up easily. If everyone knows how you voted it's possible for your employer or your family to pressure you over your vote.
Back in the day when we had polling place elections here in Oregon the ballots were numbered too. But the numbers were on a tear off tab that was removed before the ballot was dropped in the ballot box. The number were there for auditing purposes because then they could take the torn off tabs and the unused ballots and account for every ballot that was printed.