There are about a dozen Wikipedia editors who have had admin status removed involuntarily, most by the arbcom, a few by Jimbo. Either way, it is a rather infrequent event. A larger number have given it up voluntarily or simply become inactive. There are about 714 active admins currently (I am one). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_ad ministrators%5D.
When my Minnesota, my state, was created as a territory it inherited all of Wisconsin law at the time (because it was carved out of Wisconsin territory). So Minnesota still uses an ancient British definition of not guilty by reason of insanity, the M'Naughton Rule, which is very narrow and no longer used in Britain. The legislature could rewrite this old common law rule but never has, though it often gets discussed when there is a new famous case. In many American states, ancient originally British common law affects many everyday things quite often: inheritance and other transfer of property, marriage and family law, etc.
"Pedantically focussing on the mechanics behind this is just as silly as claiming that the President is elected by the people because of the mechanics of the electoral college."
You probably intended to include the word "not" in this sentence, but then, given the results of a couple of elections back, perhaps you didn't. Sometimes those pedantic details matter a great deal.
Squidoo, where are you? Maybe you didn't miss, since we deleted the 999,999th article, which was a self-referential piece on one million articles. Hmmm.
From Wikipedia: "Across the Southern tier and Mid-western regions of North America there are multiple highly tenacious populations" of feral pigs "descendant from escapees, mixed in places with released wild European swine. They have been hunted, shot on sight, tracked with dogs, trapped and even poisoned. Likewise in Europe, the French harvest about 10,000 swine per year as wild game (also possibly mixed wild-feral), and recently a large city park within urban Paris was disrupted and closed for months while wildlife officials struggled to evict, shoot or trap a boar that had claimed the refuge for his own."
The other thing to keep in mind is that Homo sapiens is a "mature technology"; we haven't undergone any large changes in 100,000 years except for the software upgrades.
Posting from a help desk, I can tell you most of the software "upgrades" are pretty damn buggy.
The possibility? He'd call it apologetics, not propaganda, but it's more than a possibility that nearly all of his fiction promotes Christianity; it's no secret at all.
Some of his most Christian books are so well written, though, that some serious doubters like myself can really enjoy them, particularly Narnia, but also Screwtape. I would really recommend Till We Have Faces, which unfortionately is often overlooked. Lewis thought it was his best novel, and I agree. Interestingly, it is set in a pre-Christian world.
I seem to recall that there's some little technicality in the armistice we signed with North Korea that says that we're still at war, but not openly hostile anymore. If anyone can shed some light on this hazy recollection of mine, please do...
This is true whenever armed conflict ends with an armistice but isn't followed by a full peace treaty. A number of wars technically never fully concluded, though the states which fought them may have peaceful or sometimes even friendly relationships. Some examples:
-- The Soviet Union and Japan technically never ended WWII. They were never able to agree on the ownership of a number of islands. Russia and Japan still discuss this, and have moved closer to agreement, but are not yet fully there.
-- Israel is still, technically at least, at war with many Arab states. This doesn't seem likely to end soon.
-- Most strangely, Sweden and the tiny republic of San Marino discovered a few years ago that they had technically been "at war" for about 400 years. (They rectified this.)
Absentee ballots by mail certainly can be anonymous. The "double envelope" method commonly used is very simple.
The absentee ballot is marked privately by the voter and placed in a provided plain envelope. That plain envelope is placed inside another envelope that has the voter's and witnesses' signatures, plus everything else the law requires for ensuring it is valid.
The election judges validate the absentee ballot by looking at the outer envelope. Once that is done, it is opened and the inner envelopes are put together and shuffled. Since they all look the same, the ballots are anonymous when the inner envelopes are opened and the ballots are counted.
That's how it works in my state, Minnesota, where I serve as an election judge.
The double envelope method is quite common, and is even described in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, where it is recommended for organizations that allow voting by mail.
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It's a standard part of the contract to get a book published, in most cases, that the publisher decides the title. The author can suggest a title, but most of the time the publisher's marketing department has much more say in what the title will be.
If an author doesn't like that, he or she could self-publish. But self published works are rarely successful.
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There are about a dozen Wikipedia editors who have had admin status removed involuntarily, most by the arbcom, a few by Jimbo. Either way, it is a rather infrequent event. A larger number have given it up voluntarily or simply become inactive. There are about 714 active admins currently (I am one). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_ad ministrators%5D.
When my Minnesota, my state, was created as a territory it inherited all of Wisconsin law at the time (because it was carved out of Wisconsin territory). So Minnesota still uses an ancient British definition of not guilty by reason of insanity, the M'Naughton Rule, which is very narrow and no longer used in Britain. The legislature could rewrite this old common law rule but never has, though it often gets discussed when there is a new famous case. In many American states, ancient originally British common law affects many everyday things quite often: inheritance and other transfer of property, marriage and family law, etc.
"Pedantically focussing on the mechanics behind this is just as silly as claiming that the President is elected by the people because of the mechanics of the electoral college."
You probably intended to include the word "not" in this sentence, but then, given the results of a couple of elections back, perhaps you didn't. Sometimes those pedantic details matter a great deal.
Squidoo, where are you? Maybe you didn't miss, since we deleted the 999,999th article, which was a self-referential piece on one million articles. Hmmm.
"If the ham is green, how are we supposed to spot this stuff?"
We have to genetically modify the little green worms to be bright red, of course.
From Wikipedia: "Across the Southern tier and Mid-western regions of North America there are multiple highly tenacious populations" of feral pigs "descendant from escapees, mixed in places with released wild European swine. They have been hunted, shot on sight, tracked with dogs, trapped and even poisoned. Likewise in Europe, the French harvest about 10,000 swine per year as wild game (also possibly mixed wild-feral), and recently a large city park within urban Paris was disrupted and closed for months while wildlife officials struggled to evict, shoot or trap a boar that had claimed the refuge for his own."
3. ...
4. I can count 'absent' things too!
5. Profit!
Mmmmm, twin cakes.
The other thing to keep in mind is that Homo sapiens is a "mature technology"; we haven't undergone any large changes in 100,000 years except for the software upgrades.
Posting from a help desk, I can tell you most of the software "upgrades" are pretty damn buggy.
The possibility? He'd call it apologetics, not propaganda, but it's more than a possibility that nearly all of his fiction promotes Christianity; it's no secret at all.
Some of his most Christian books are so well written, though, that some serious doubters like myself can really enjoy them, particularly Narnia, but also Screwtape. I would really recommend Till We Have Faces, which unfortionately is often overlooked. Lewis thought it was his best novel, and I agree. Interestingly, it is set in a pre-Christian world.
So fix it. Be bold.
The formula you refer to also works for binary, as well as hex, but not in decimal digits.
Both Larry Sanger and James Wales have wikipedia articles which anyone can edit. You can even edit Jimbo's user page.
Unless of course you're an agent of the Temporal Cold War and know something about the next 65 seasons that we don't!
The odd numbered ones suck, but fans still watch them.
The ones divisible by five mess up the preceeding four, but fans still watch them.
The Wikipedia article on Fortine, Montana calls it a "census designated place".
I seem to recall that there's some little technicality in the armistice we signed with North Korea that says that we're still at war, but not openly hostile anymore. If anyone can shed some light on this hazy recollection of mine, please do...
This is true whenever armed conflict ends with an armistice but isn't followed by a full peace treaty. A number of wars technically never fully concluded, though the states which fought them may have peaceful or sometimes even friendly relationships. Some examples:
-- The Soviet Union and Japan technically never ended WWII. They were never able to agree on the ownership of a number of islands. Russia and Japan still discuss this, and have moved closer to agreement, but are not yet fully there.
-- Israel is still, technically at least, at war with many Arab states. This doesn't seem likely to end soon.
-- Most strangely, Sweden and the tiny republic of San Marino discovered a few years ago that they had technically been "at war" for about 400 years. (They rectified this.)
I believe the parent post you refer to was counting candiates who are in the ballot in enough states to theoretically win the electoral college vote.
Here are those candidates, in alphabetical order:
Michael Badnarik and Richard Campagna
Party: LIBERTARIAN
Ballot Access: 49 states and DC
Potential Electoral Votes: 527
George W Bush and Richard Cheney
Party: REPUBLICAN
Ballot Access: 50 states and DC
Potential Electoral Votes: 538
David Cobb and Patricia LaMarche
Party: GREEN
Ballot Access: 27 states and DC
Potential Electoral Votes: 286
John Kerry and John Edwards
Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Kerry - MA; Edwards - NC
Ballot Access: 50 states and DC
Potential Electoral Votes: 538
Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo
Party: Independent / REFORM
Ballot Access: 36 states and DC
Potential Electoral Votes: 314
Michael Peroutka and Chuck Baldwin
Party: CONSTITUTION
Ballot Access: 37 states
Potential Electoral Votes: 363
(From http://www.presidentelect.org/e2004.html)
Wouldn't it be easier to say 6 to 12 Km?
Absentee ballots by mail certainly can be anonymous. The "double envelope" method commonly used is very simple.
The absentee ballot is marked privately by the voter and placed in a provided plain envelope. That plain envelope is placed inside another envelope that has the voter's and witnesses' signatures, plus everything else the law requires for ensuring it is valid.
The election judges validate the absentee ballot by looking at the outer envelope. Once that is done, it is opened and the inner envelopes are put together and shuffled. Since they all look the same, the ballots are anonymous when the inner envelopes are opened and the ballots are counted.
That's how it works in my state, Minnesota, where I serve as an election judge.
The double envelope method is quite common, and is even described in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, where it is recommended for organizations that allow voting by mail.
Jupiter's mass is about 1.9 x 10 ^ 27 kg.
The classic 1974 VW Beetle had a mass of 870 kg.
So a Jupiter-sized planet is about 2183908045977011494252873 VW Beetles.
I was unable to find the mass of the LOC. Sorry.
($820/mo on Market Street, woohoo!!)
;-)
Wow! Do you need a roommate? Or a boyfriend?
It's a standard part of the contract to get a book published, in most cases, that the publisher decides the title. The author can suggest a title, but most of the time the publisher's marketing department has much more say in what the title will be.
If an author doesn't like that, he or she could self-publish. But self published works are rarely successful.
On Earth, the mean solar day is (almost, but not quite exactly) 24 hours.
The Earth sidereal day is 23:56:04.
A Martian sol is a Martian solar day.
Someone who has mastered the shift key, perhaps?
Why the name Gravity B? Was there a probe called Gravity A?