Even easier: you drive on in, offer everyone $20 if they come to you with a vote stub showing they voted a particular way. Not all of them can do it, but then the local criminal group does the hard work and takes all the risk, and a guy turns up with a couple hundred after closing time.
This makes no sense. Voting anonymity is to protect against the very real and possible threat that you can intimidate people into voting a particular way, by confirming how they voted after the fact.
Whereas all the problems you outlined have exactly two causes: the weird American commitment to not doing overseen, hand-counts of voting and the weird American commitment to thinking that "freedom" means non-mandatory electoral participation (which means, in turn, you've no way to establish whether disenfranchisement is or isn't happening - and creating it is a big electoral strategy currently).
I can confirm as of like, yesterday that this is not the case. iTunes dutifully demanded my Apple ID, then demanded my credit card details to download a free app. At the very least it's well hidden.
Having just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get a photo on an iPad to my Android phone (both devices having wi-fi, bluetooth, internet connectivity) I cannot agree with this enough.
I mean sure, yeah, it's possible but the solution I landed on was "download BitTorrent Sync app and use that" - which did just work in the end. Of course the iPad was the real problem in this chain - hand over your credit card details to iTunes to download anything, and then are you going to get to use Samba or FTP? Haha, of course not!
For the first 3 years of my undergrad degree program I used one of the convertible laptops from Toshiba back when Microsoft was pushing pen computing. Taking notes in maths lectures with that thing and a stylus worked fantastically because of the simple "easy erase" functionality which meant I could scribble things out, then erase them and leave my notes in a more comprehensible form.
It wasn't a great platform by any stretch (underpowered hardware, and ultimately the screen was way too fragile - even under warranty you can't depend on something like that then spend 2 weeks without it while it's repaired) but even just with the very basic hand-writing system it was a great way to work.
So the candidate is what, every anti-government idiot in America who owns guns and posts a lot about it on the internet?
It's the talk of organized platoons and squads which is absurd, because - get this - organizing things involves a lot of communications and is quite hard to do secretly for exactly that reason!
I would say they almost certainly had thought of them, and were all waiting to see if it was commercially successful elsewhere.
Which is why most of these patents get shot down - because the US is about date of invention, not date of filing, and so if you had the concept thought up then hey, you did in fact get their first.
Frankly, the Apple patents on the look of the iPhone are stupid - because it comes down to arguments over the precise curvature of corners, whether the screen has to be flat or not and any number of other stupid things. PDAs and actual phones (WinCE phones) were converging on the iPhone design for a long time - so then you get to "if the technology wouldn't allowed it..." considerations and all that other stuff. It's a god damn mess.
This is where the money in this idea lies. If you had an effective way to completely deaden low-end bass, then you'd dominate the market. Being able to build a whisper quiet nightclub or listening room would be incredible.
I'm about to embark on some deadening and sound proofing in my basement theatre, and I'm now thinking I really need to look into the metamaterial research to see if it can offer anything there.
Electricity prices in NSW are a direct result of an idiot subsidy scheme which encouraged the utilities to overbuild, and get overpaid, for long-distance delivery lines. Which means we have a ton of underutilized infrastructure for delivery we pay more then full price for. [i]That's[/i] where the cost of electricity increases, at least in my state, have been coming from.
The net effect of this is that while we still get brown outs and black outs in the middle of Sydney from transmission lines failing, we're overpaying by a huge factor for a delivery network we don't need, since energy efficiency measures have been consistently staving off the need for extra power plants and solar installations cut the summer A/C problem down a fair chunk.
The other issue is that power prices do not, cannot and should not operate as a totally free market. Lots of things are predicated that the price of electricity moves in predictable ways, and scales according to individual and not aggregate usage yet this is not the natural state of the electricity market. Reducing the rate of power consumption growth means you can better optimize how you layout and upgrade transmission lines and power plants. Society as a whole might generally need to use more power year to year, but there's no particular reason this should be true for residential households when most of the used electricity is currently wasted as unneeded heat.
Since when do incandescents tolerate switching well?
CFL fluorescents don't because they blast the hell out of the filaments to get instant on capability (which is you know, identical to the behaviour of incandescents). If you need a light which tolerates being cycled, LEDs are it.
The problem is the term is complete BS. "A" players are whoever a management type likes at the time, usually because whatever they do is suddenly at the fore of the focus. Are users complaining about the web design? Quick find a CSS person you can call your "A" player. Because that's a business critical experience right there and let's face it, no one see's the sysadmins work...
Perhaps more importantly, there was never this level of push back against bluetooth headsets, nor mobile phones which can be recording in your pocket constantly. The things you might be slightly embarrassed to be seen doing are nothing compared to how important the things you say about people are if widely distributed or just kept in confidence until you need them.
Yet we don't worry about either of these things to a large degree.
What about people are having problems with demencia? With a lot of people not wanting their names on the list, the demincia person will have trouble identify their friends, fellow workers, asociates or relatives and etc.
These people with dementia are somehow going to remember to put on their Google Glass?
Dementia takes away functionality piecemeal. For example my grandma can't remember she needs to wipe when she goes to the bathroom, but does remember she needs to wash her hands. It's a condition of gradual impairment and frustration for everyone involved, and anything which can ease that (say, a habit of putting on a headset each morning) would be welcomed by just about anyone.
I'd go so far to say that in 30 years time, it'll be weird to see nursing home bound people who do not have some form of heads up display online - keeping them up-to-date and reminded of what they need to do, in a manner they'll accept, is very important.
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Even easier: you drive on in, offer everyone $20 if they come to you with a vote stub showing they voted a particular way. Not all of them can do it, but then the local criminal group does the hard work and takes all the risk, and a guy turns up with a couple hundred after closing time.
This makes no sense. Voting anonymity is to protect against the very real and possible threat that you can intimidate people into voting a particular way, by confirming how they voted after the fact.
Whereas all the problems you outlined have exactly two causes: the weird American commitment to not doing overseen, hand-counts of voting and the weird American commitment to thinking that "freedom" means non-mandatory electoral participation (which means, in turn, you've no way to establish whether disenfranchisement is or isn't happening - and creating it is a big electoral strategy currently).
Neither does USPS - you know, seeing as how there was a UPS store. Yet oddly you didn't go there in your story.
Yeah it just sucks you couldn't get postal service outside of normal business hours. You'll be so glad when no one can get postal service!
Well hence "anti-government" - which McVeigh definitely was.
I can confirm as of like, yesterday that this is not the case. iTunes dutifully demanded my Apple ID, then demanded my credit card details to download a free app. At the very least it's well hidden.
Having just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get a photo on an iPad to my Android phone (both devices having wi-fi, bluetooth, internet connectivity) I cannot agree with this enough.
I mean sure, yeah, it's possible but the solution I landed on was "download BitTorrent Sync app and use that" - which did just work in the end. Of course the iPad was the real problem in this chain - hand over your credit card details to iTunes to download anything, and then are you going to get to use Samba or FTP? Haha, of course not!
For the first 3 years of my undergrad degree program I used one of the convertible laptops from Toshiba back when Microsoft was pushing pen computing. Taking notes in maths lectures with that thing and a stylus worked fantastically because of the simple "easy erase" functionality which meant I could scribble things out, then erase them and leave my notes in a more comprehensible form.
It wasn't a great platform by any stretch (underpowered hardware, and ultimately the screen was way too fragile - even under warranty you can't depend on something like that then spend 2 weeks without it while it's repaired) but even just with the very basic hand-writing system it was a great way to work.
The thing is you're not going to get cancer from that anyway. Dead (due to being burned alive) but not cancer.
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It was what, two guys with guns?
So the candidate is what, every anti-government idiot in America who owns guns and posts a lot about it on the internet?
It's the talk of organized platoons and squads which is absurd, because - get this - organizing things involves a lot of communications and is quite hard to do secretly for exactly that reason!
You know you can just install over TouchWiz right? Even without root, Android freely lets you install alternative launchers. I like Nova.
I would say they almost certainly had thought of them, and were all waiting to see if it was commercially successful elsewhere.
Which is why most of these patents get shot down - because the US is about date of invention, not date of filing, and so if you had the concept thought up then hey, you did in fact get their first.
Frankly, the Apple patents on the look of the iPhone are stupid - because it comes down to arguments over the precise curvature of corners, whether the screen has to be flat or not and any number of other stupid things. PDAs and actual phones (WinCE phones) were converging on the iPhone design for a long time - so then you get to "if the technology wouldn't allowed it..." considerations and all that other stuff. It's a god damn mess.
This is where the money in this idea lies. If you had an effective way to completely deaden low-end bass, then you'd dominate the market. Being able to build a whisper quiet nightclub or listening room would be incredible.
I'm about to embark on some deadening and sound proofing in my basement theatre, and I'm now thinking I really need to look into the metamaterial research to see if it can offer anything there.
Electricity prices in NSW are a direct result of an idiot subsidy scheme which encouraged the utilities to overbuild, and get overpaid, for long-distance delivery lines. Which means we have a ton of underutilized infrastructure for delivery we pay more then full price for. [i]That's[/i] where the cost of electricity increases, at least in my state, have been coming from.
The net effect of this is that while we still get brown outs and black outs in the middle of Sydney from transmission lines failing, we're overpaying by a huge factor for a delivery network we don't need, since energy efficiency measures have been consistently staving off the need for extra power plants and solar installations cut the summer A/C problem down a fair chunk.
Which part of the constitution are they violating? Can you cite the passage or amendment?
The other issue is that power prices do not, cannot and should not operate as a totally free market. Lots of things are predicated that the price of electricity moves in predictable ways, and scales according to individual and not aggregate usage yet this is not the natural state of the electricity market. Reducing the rate of power consumption growth means you can better optimize how you layout and upgrade transmission lines and power plants. Society as a whole might generally need to use more power year to year, but there's no particular reason this should be true for residential households when most of the used electricity is currently wasted as unneeded heat.
How much amperage do you think your hard drive draws? (and also you might want to look at your case cooling if your hard disks are running that hot).
Since when do incandescents tolerate switching well?
CFL fluorescents don't because they blast the hell out of the filaments to get instant on capability (which is you know, identical to the behaviour of incandescents). If you need a light which tolerates being cycled, LEDs are it.
Because English needs less words that sound the same in my head and mean different things :)
The problem is the term is complete BS. "A" players are whoever a management type likes at the time, usually because whatever they do is suddenly at the fore of the focus. Are users complaining about the web design? Quick find a CSS person you can call your "A" player. Because that's a business critical experience right there and let's face it, no one see's the sysadmins work...
Perhaps more importantly, there was never this level of push back against bluetooth headsets, nor mobile phones which can be recording in your pocket constantly. The things you might be slightly embarrassed to be seen doing are nothing compared to how important the things you say about people are if widely distributed or just kept in confidence until you need them.
Yet we don't worry about either of these things to a large degree.
Yeah because property destruction has never been a crime...
What about people are having problems with demencia? With a lot of people not wanting their names on the list, the demincia person will have trouble identify their friends, fellow workers, asociates or relatives and etc.
These people with dementia are somehow going to remember to put on their Google Glass?
Dementia takes away functionality piecemeal. For example my grandma can't remember she needs to wipe when she goes to the bathroom, but does remember she needs to wash her hands. It's a condition of gradual impairment and frustration for everyone involved, and anything which can ease that (say, a habit of putting on a headset each morning) would be welcomed by just about anyone.
I'd go so far to say that in 30 years time, it'll be weird to see nursing home bound people who do not have some form of heads up display online - keeping them up-to-date and reminded of what they need to do, in a manner they'll accept, is very important.
Strange Days had this as a theme.
But I would say consider the benefits: ever put something down and completely forgotten where it was in the minute since?
Abuse such as?