Amen. I've lived in Syracuse all my life, and and the worst time I've ever had driving in snow has been in Ohio and Pennsylvania. I once drove to Columbus 3 days after a snowstorm, the highways were a sheet of washborard ice for a good 30 miles into town and after getting off the highway the world was slush over frozen Ice, and the storm was only like 10 inches. When I arrived at my destination, I jokingly asked "what are they waiting for it to melt?" and was kind of frightened by the answer of yes. The Syracuse airport is typically closed for about 24 hours total each winter and rarely for more than an hour at a time (the airport being home to the world's largest snowplow helps). During northeast storms, planes are routinely diverted to Syracuse when other airports close. And if you're flying out, you never have to be concerned with the local weather, it's always the airport at the other end of the trip that you need to worry about.
I agree totally, when I got "Straight Outta Lynwood", it made me feel kind of old when I only recognized 1/2 the songs from Polkarama! (The traditional polka medley). I felt even older when I read the liner notes and found out that like 3 songs that I thought were originals were parodies.
Those fault lines are fairly large areas (the San Andreas covers a distance that's most of the state of California), New Orleans is a comparatively small area. Plus, technology allows for modern building techniques allow for buildings to be built that are reasonably resistant to earthquake damage, and typically building codes require it. After an earthquake, usually the buildings that suffer the most damage are the ones that are old enough to predate modern building codes, and are replaced with buildings that are built to modern standards. On the other hand, after Katrina, the buildings that have been rebuilt are still underwater, and at this point are likely more vulnerable to damage than their predecessors, since no major improvements have been made to a levy system that was heavily damaged.
At the same time, you could easily use this argument for places like Tokyo and other areas that are and will be struck by tremendous earthquakes.
I get real tired of hearing the earthquake or {Insert misc. disaster here} argument. It's generally rather large areas that are vulnerable to earthquakes, the same can be said for tornadoes and hurricanes. The difference is that while there is a wide coastal area that is vulnerable to destruction from hurricanes, New Orleans is the one that's frigging underwater.
I'd imagine about the same way that it works out now. I've never listened to O&A (They were the scabs Citadel communications brought in when when they decided to dump Howard in their 4 markets, so in my mind they'll always be scabs.) But from Howard's side of things, O&A almost never come up. And when they do come up, it's basically they really don't matter to me, good luck to them. If they somehow manage to make it up to closer to Howard's level, that might change, but I don't see that happen (at least within the time frame of Howard's current contract).
In SAT form, Howard is to O&A as the President is to the Mayor of Tuttle, OK.
The dark side?? I think you've got that backwards, I'd say it's Microsoft that most resembles the empire. Welcome to the rebellion, may the force be with you sounds a bit more logical to me.
TDMA causes a lot more interferenc. Try putting a cell phone next to a computer speaker sometime; phones using TDMA signalling, such as GSM, will often cause a pulsing buzz, particularly when receiving an incoming call or text message I never realized that, I thought I just had a shitty phone. I've got a (work provided) Nextel Motorola I710. When sitting near my computer or TV, I'll hear the interference start about a second before the phone rings for an incoming call. My brain interprets the cell phone interference and the cell phone ringing in pretty much the same way.
The point I was trying to make, and re-reading my post, I'll admit I didn't make well. Was that the re-branding to AT&T occurred separately from the accusation.
Cingular bought AT&T wireless in October 2004. The re-branding efforts started in 2007 ("Cingular is now The new AT&T").
So while your billing problems might have occurred on the first bill where the logo on the top changed, the behind the scenes stuff happened well before that, so whatever overcharges you had were made by the same company as the months before, they just put a new coat of paint on the building.
Unless perhaps, putting the string "AT&T" onto the bill kicked on an "evil flag" in some old mainframe that had been dormant for years:)
AT&T Didn't buy Cingular. Cingular was owned by SBC and Bell South. SBC acquired the original AT&T. And decided to re-brand themselves as AT&T, presumably because of the name's strong history.
As a matter of fact, I did read what you wrote, and re-read it a couple of times now. You stated there was a
"discrepancy", this would imply that either Gore won the popular vote and lost the EC vote, or lost the popular vote and won the EC vote.
As I looked at it, there is no question as to who won the EC vote, Bush did, there were big questions on if the right Electors were sent to do the voting, but the results of the EC voting itself were pretty clear. Therefore your "(supposed?...)" could be seen to be implying that there might not have been a discrepancy between the EC vote and the popular vote, which I saw as questioning Gore's popular vote win.
I was obviously didn't interpret it as you intended, but I certainly did read what you wrote.
In many office settings, you're not going to understand many jokes if you don't get an Office Space reference, I don't see why/. should be any different. This is "News for Nerds", and Office Space is on the nerds "required reading" list. Go rent it, it's funny.
And seriously, does "pound me in the ass prison" really sound like advocacy for rape?
After all, those "volunteers" who check the counting at each station aren't just ordinary citizens like you and me, most of them are people who have been promised jobs if their candidate wins.
Take a close look next time you vote, most of them are retired. Making the promise of a job to someone who no longer works isn't much of a bribe.
4. The machine can also save a record of things like how many people voted in each district, providing another double check to prevent voter fraud. And it could even double check what district you are SUPPOSED to be in, and if you are in the wrong district tell you the proper place to go to.
If you're in the wrong district, you shouldn't be able to get close enough to touch the machine, and even if you could, the machine shouldn't be able to tell you the proper place to go, because it should have no idea who you are.
Identification and voting are and should be two completely separate matters. You go in, identify who you are and are verified as a registered voter, and usually sign a book, you are then given credentials that identifies you as a registered voter in the proper district who has yet to vote, nothing more (often something as simple as a colored card). You then proceed to vote, turning in your credentials in the process, you are identified only as a registered voter not an individual. No one should ever be able to determine how you voted, as this could lead to vote buying, intimidation, etc.
It would be fairly simple if you could have a database of voters, and when you vote, your ballot was tied to a voter id of some sort, then votes not linked to a proper voter id would be invalid, multiple votes linked to the same voter id would also be invalid. Voters could verify after the election that their vote was counted actually what they voted for, the problem is if there is any way for an individual vote to be tracked to an individual voter, then somehow, someway, it will be abused, people are people there's no way around this.
This is why ATM's can be trustworthy but completely electronic voting cannot. With an ATM, there's checks and balances, if there is an error, you have a receipt and a bank statement to verify the ATM's actions. If the ATM thinks it dispensed cash and it didn't this can be verified by reviewing the security camera. But with voting there's no way to fix a mistake (without re-voting which would have even bigger issues). A good vote must be a clear, permanent, highly tamper evident item, there's no way that any electronic/magnetic storage system could fit such a requirement, without adding on checks and balances that would compromise the rest of the process.
Walmart is most certainly not a generic term, it is Walmart, Target is Target, and KMart is KMart (although they like to call themselves Big KMart these days, you could even make an argument for Sears jr.).
And "Cola" most certainly not the same as "Coke". I won't say that you can't call a Pepsi a Coke, but that you sound stupid when you do.
Um, I'm a bit confused by your saying that Americans get this part wrong.
If you start with the position that ISO8601 yyyy-mm-dd is the "chosen one" of date formats (which I personally do), the common American form m/d/yy or m/d/yyyy, merely has the year out of place.
The common "everyone else" form of d/m/yy or d/m/yyyy is far more out of wack.
I know discussing date formats can be as productive, as discussing Jesus vs. Budda vs. The Flying Spaghetti Monster. But I don't think that the common American date form is any less wrong than anything else that isn't ISO8601.
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Amen. I've lived in Syracuse all my life, and and the worst time I've ever had driving in snow has been in Ohio and Pennsylvania. I once drove to Columbus 3 days after a snowstorm, the highways were a sheet of washborard ice for a good 30 miles into town and after getting off the highway the world was slush over frozen Ice, and the storm was only like 10 inches. When I arrived at my destination, I jokingly asked "what are they waiting for it to melt?" and was kind of frightened by the answer of yes. The Syracuse airport is typically closed for about 24 hours total each winter and rarely for more than an hour at a time (the airport being home to the world's largest snowplow helps). During northeast storms, planes are routinely diverted to Syracuse when other airports close. And if you're flying out, you never have to be concerned with the local weather, it's always the airport at the other end of the trip that you need to worry about.
The fridge should at least know when the fridge first encountered the Sour Cream, not exactly "how old are you", but reasonably close.
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I agree totally, when I got "Straight Outta Lynwood", it made me feel kind of old when I only recognized 1/2 the songs from Polkarama! (The traditional polka medley). I felt even older when I read the liner notes and found out that like 3 songs that I thought were originals were parodies.
Here is New Orleans, most of our city is protected by levees.
It's real possible you might be forced to re-evaluate this statement in the next few days. Good luck to you. I hope you're far from home by then.
Those fault lines are fairly large areas (the San Andreas covers a distance that's most of the state of California), New Orleans is a comparatively small area. Plus, technology allows for modern building techniques allow for buildings to be built that are reasonably resistant to earthquake damage, and typically building codes require it. After an earthquake, usually the buildings that suffer the most damage are the ones that are old enough to predate modern building codes, and are replaced with buildings that are built to modern standards. On the other hand, after Katrina, the buildings that have been rebuilt are still underwater, and at this point are likely more vulnerable to damage than their predecessors, since no major improvements have been made to a levy system that was heavily damaged.
At the same time, you could easily use this argument for places like Tokyo and other areas that are and will be struck by tremendous earthquakes.
I get real tired of hearing the earthquake or {Insert misc. disaster here} argument. It's generally rather large areas that are vulnerable to earthquakes, the same can be said for tornadoes and hurricanes. The difference is that while there is a wide coastal area that is vulnerable to destruction from hurricanes, New Orleans is the one that's frigging underwater.
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I'd imagine about the same way that it works out now. I've never listened to O&A (They were the scabs Citadel communications brought in when when they decided to dump Howard in their 4 markets, so in my mind they'll always be scabs.) But from Howard's side of things, O&A almost never come up. And when they do come up, it's basically they really don't matter to me, good luck to them. If they somehow manage to make it up to closer to Howard's level, that might change, but I don't see that happen (at least within the time frame of Howard's current contract). In SAT form, Howard is to O&A as the President is to the Mayor of Tuttle, OK.
The dark side?? I think you've got that backwards, I'd say it's Microsoft that most resembles the empire. Welcome to the rebellion, may the force be with you sounds a bit more logical to me.
I never realized that, I thought I just had a shitty phone. I've got a (work provided) Nextel Motorola I710. When sitting near my computer or TV, I'll hear the interference start about a second before the phone rings for an incoming call. My brain interprets the cell phone interference and the cell phone ringing in pretty much the same way.
The point I was trying to make, and re-reading my post, I'll admit I didn't make well. Was that the re-branding to AT&T occurred separately from the accusation.
Cingular bought AT&T wireless in October 2004. The re-branding efforts started in 2007 ("Cingular is now The new AT&T").
So while your billing problems might have occurred on the first bill where the logo on the top changed, the behind the scenes stuff happened well before that, so whatever overcharges you had were made by the same company as the months before, they just put a new coat of paint on the building.
Unless perhaps, putting the string "AT&T" onto the bill kicked on an "evil flag" in some old mainframe that had been dormant for years :)
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As I looked at it, there is no question as to who won the EC vote, Bush did, there were big questions on if the right Electors were sent to do the voting, but the results of the EC voting itself were pretty clear. Therefore your "(supposed? ...)" could be seen to be implying that there might not have been a discrepancy between the EC vote and the popular vote, which I saw as questioning Gore's popular vote win.
I was obviously didn't interpret it as you intended, but I certainly did read what you wrote.
And seriously, does "pound me in the ass prison" really sound like advocacy for rape?
Gore won the popular vote, I don't think there's anyone that would seriously dispute that.
Take a close look next time you vote, most of them are retired. Making the promise of a job to someone who no longer works isn't much of a bribe.
If you're in the wrong district, you shouldn't be able to get close enough to touch the machine, and even if you could, the machine shouldn't be able to tell you the proper place to go, because it should have no idea who you are.
Identification and voting are and should be two completely separate matters. You go in, identify who you are and are verified as a registered voter, and usually sign a book, you are then given credentials that identifies you as a registered voter in the proper district who has yet to vote, nothing more (often something as simple as a colored card). You then proceed to vote, turning in your credentials in the process, you are identified only as a registered voter not an individual. No one should ever be able to determine how you voted, as this could lead to vote buying, intimidation, etc.
It would be fairly simple if you could have a database of voters, and when you vote, your ballot was tied to a voter id of some sort, then votes not linked to a proper voter id would be invalid, multiple votes linked to the same voter id would also be invalid. Voters could verify after the election that their vote was counted actually what they voted for, the problem is if there is any way for an individual vote to be tracked to an individual voter, then somehow, someway, it will be abused, people are people there's no way around this.
This is why ATM's can be trustworthy but completely electronic voting cannot. With an ATM, there's checks and balances, if there is an error, you have a receipt and a bank statement to verify the ATM's actions. If the ATM thinks it dispensed cash and it didn't this can be verified by reviewing the security camera. But with voting there's no way to fix a mistake (without re-voting which would have even bigger issues). A good vote must be a clear, permanent, highly tamper evident item, there's no way that any electronic/magnetic storage system could fit such a requirement, without adding on checks and balances that would compromise the rest of the process.
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Maybe you could try giving your plants some water?
Walmart is most certainly not a generic term, it is Walmart, Target is Target, and KMart is KMart (although they like to call themselves Big KMart these days, you could even make an argument for Sears jr.).
And "Cola" most certainly not the same as "Coke". I won't say that you can't call a Pepsi a Coke, but that you sound stupid when you do.
Um, I'm a bit confused by your saying that Americans get this part wrong.
If you start with the position that ISO8601 yyyy-mm-dd is the "chosen one" of date formats (which I personally do), the common American form m/d/yy or m/d/yyyy, merely has the year out of place.
The common "everyone else" form of d/m/yy or d/m/yyyy is far more out of wack.
I know discussing date formats can be as productive, as discussing Jesus vs. Budda vs. The Flying Spaghetti Monster. But I don't think that the common American date form is any less wrong than anything else that isn't ISO8601.