Although Bush won the presidency by winning the vote in the Electoral College 271 to 266, Gore won the national popular vote by 539,947 ballots.
...just to provide actual numbers instead of guess and half-memory. But I can't find numbers (or, I tired of looking before I found them) on what the actual percentage of voters 539,947 ballots represents.
And, see, the way it works is: it's not a matter of whether Gore had an extra 539,947 ballots across the whole country or not. The country is compartmentalized into 50 voting blocks (called states) and unsurprisingly, 539,947 ballots / 50 states is about 10,000 ballots per state. I think my own CITY could recount and find 10,000 ballots to support Bush if we wanted to.
And where was I when Clinton was president? Right here, posting on slashdot, working at my job, not agreeing that Clinton was the best man for the job, but generally supporting the office itself.
My point is, Bush is president. If you are an American, he IS your president. I voted for someone else, but I'm willing to support the office of the presidency and even the president himself as long as I don't think the president is actively defiling the office through his actions. But even then, I support the office. If you think Bush sucks after 4 years, vote him out. That's what happened to the Clinton/Gore legacy. Enough of the country thought they sucked to kick them out. Too bad for Gore if it was Clinton doing all the sucking and making Gore look bad. Like TMBG says, "You can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding." or pick your own fitting phrase.
Gore won the popular vote by such a scant margin that it's statistically a tie. Quit waving that pathetic little "Gore won the popular vote" flag because so the hell what. The US HAS a president now. Support the office and the institution, even if you don't support the person. In case no one had told you: we're trying to run a country here, and we need your help, too.
So is the wife a villian that simply hasn't done anything bad yet? Bruce certainly touches her. Perhaps his sense only works when his emotions don't cloud it? What's your thoughts on Bruce not seeing anything bad that his "villian wife" has done?
Why is everyone saying that Gore won the popular vote? Gore looks like he has a lead in the popular vote, but it's what... 250,000 votes out of millions? And that with 2 states still not reporting. Nobody has the popular vote, nobody has the electoral vote. We are waiting.
Ok, we've been there in an elaborate and intricate manner already. What do you want to do about it NOW, and in the FUTURE? I think the SlashCrew has gotten the message and is taking the proper steps make it all better. Don't be so stingy with the good vibes.
I'd be willing to bet that they have a good handle on how light is refracted by sea water and can compensate for it. Otherwise, all you'd have to do is fire one round, watch how far it misses by, and then compensate with a second round. Easy.
This thing doesn't run high enough off the ground to "run over you"... it'd just bump into you. But even if it DID run over you, so what? Your hair would get messed up. It's all just air under there.
You should have send an email to the BeUserTalk email list. This particular problem happens sometimes and there's several ways to get your mouse working. Some I remember:
Use a BeOS boot diskette
Make sure PnP OS is disabled in BIOS
Avoid USB mice... they generally work with BeOS, but not always. Serial and PS/2 are good bets.
I'm sure there are other things to try if none of these suggestions work (that is... if you are still interested in trying these suggestions out). For more help, check out the BeTips site.
Hmmm, are you subscribed to any BeOS email lists? Do you regularly visit any BeOS websites? Do you know anything about BeOS beyond what you read in the/. comments? Don't answer that, I think I know the answer.
The things the post you replied to addressed are common-knowledge to the BeOS community.
Funny that, I always thought that popular religions usually don't end up having their spritual leaders nailed to trees.
Neither does Christianity. It'd make it a far more interesting religion (in a "news at 6" sense) if Christian spiritual leaders usually get nailed to trees. It happened, what... once? And he was nailed up right next to non-Christian, non-religious, non-leaders. Just because he was crucified and Buddah or Krishna or whoever else wasn't, doesn't lend Christ any significance over them. It's only whatever YOU consider important about Christ that lends him importance.
Saying "Christianity has always been popular" kind of ignores the hundreds of years of persecution, doesn't it?
*yawn* Judaism has been persecuted for longer than Chrisitanity, and more often, and generally with more verocity. You can shake a stick at whatever social category you want and claim persecution and probably be right. It's a pointless and boring argument.
Come up with some interesting arguments. I know, I'm perpetuating an off-topic thread. So mod me.
Oh hush. This interface isn't going to destroy linux, it's just going to put a nicer face on it. Everything that you like about linux you will be able to continue doing... this project is just going to make it friendly for newbies like me.
But if you own (finished paying for) the things you have, then if you want to move house or swap cars at a moment's notice, you still can. AND you'll have some collateral to help you get the new things. Or you can just plain SELL your owned things and have more money to apply towards your new leased lifestyle. Ownership allows you more options, not less.
Why do we have to terraform Mars to live there? It's a waste of effort and time and (in my opinion) a perfectly good planet.
It's perfectly good for looking at, perfectly good for sending probes to. It's great for studying. Just like every other whiff and scrap of thing out there. But when you talk about living there, I think it's suddenly not so perfect.
If we can't live on Mars without terraforming it, what makes you think we can terraform it?
I don't follow your logic here. I see 4 possibilities to living on Mars:
We try to terraform Mars and succeed in making it a planet that humans can stroll around on in their tank tops and shorts.
We try to terraform Mars and fail, turning into a "super dense, poison filled, CO2 atmosphere because we made some mistake" and we keep trying. Just because we didn't get it right the first time doesn't mean we give up. Whatever poisonous CO2 we create, we can continue to fiddle with until we get it right. Which would lead us back to point one.
We could bioform the colonists to be able to survive the existant Mars environment in their tank tops and shorts... but that would mean they couldn't visit Earth without various apparatuses to help them breath and such.
We could leave everything pretty much as is and send people to Mars in big boxes (or bubbles or whatever) and have them live on Mars in a big boxes life. But, if I'm going to LIVE somewhere, I want to be able to walk around OUTSIDE and feel the wind in my hair, dirt in my toes, etc. Perhaps growing up on Earth has spoiled me, but it just seems like a natural thing to want to live somewhere without having to strap on a pressure suit and air tank.
It's a much better concept to make Mars a home before we begin to re-decorate.
See, I see that as the bad and dangerous way of doing it. If you screw up the terraforming with people already living there, well then you suddenly don't have people living there anymore.
It's quite possible teraforming Mars could be the most dangerous thing we can do with Mars.
Dangerous to who? Terraform it first, and THEN send colonists. Not use colonists to terraform. That way if Project Terraform v1.0 has some bugs, then you fix them and launch v2.0. If it takes till v28.45a to get it right, that's when you send the colonists.
I can see the value in sending scientific missions to Mars for analyzing Mars in its current state, but I wouldn't want to live there, and that's what I'm talking about.
At some point I would like to see us accept a planet for what it is and try to live there without bending it to our will.
Because we've done such a poor job with all the other planets we've terraformed? Get over your masochism. Despite the best efforts of handwringers and browknitters to tell us otherwise, we still haven't screwed up Earth, and this is after centuries of concentrated ecological ineptitude. We (as a species) are getting much better at working and playing well with nature while continuing to evolve (as a species).
I think terraforming Mars is a GOOD first step in our interplanetary expansions. I think it's a very GOOD idea to allow our first interplanetary colonists all the possible advantages we can give them. Once we get better at this whole space-travel/new environment setting thing, THEN we can start to think about making a smaller and smaller footprints on the native soils. And since Mars SEEMS to be uninhabited, yet inhabitable, I think it's an excellent candidate for our first cosmic natal experience.
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Are you saying that rapid republicans are worthy of emulation?
Although Bush won the presidency by winning the vote in the Electoral College 271 to 266, Gore won the national popular vote by 539,947 ballots.
And, see, the way it works is: it's not a matter of whether Gore had an extra 539,947 ballots across the whole country or not. The country is compartmentalized into 50 voting blocks (called states) and unsurprisingly, 539,947 ballots / 50 states is about 10,000 ballots per state. I think my own CITY could recount and find 10,000 ballots to support Bush if we wanted to.
And where was I when Clinton was president? Right here, posting on slashdot, working at my job, not agreeing that Clinton was the best man for the job, but generally supporting the office itself.
My point is, Bush is president. If you are an American, he IS your president. I voted for someone else, but I'm willing to support the office of the presidency and even the president himself as long as I don't think the president is actively defiling the office through his actions. But even then, I support the office. If you think Bush sucks after 4 years, vote him out. That's what happened to the Clinton/Gore legacy. Enough of the country thought they sucked to kick them out. Too bad for Gore if it was Clinton doing all the sucking and making Gore look bad. Like TMBG says, "You can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding." or pick your own fitting phrase.
The IP problem is going away. IPv6.
Gore won the popular vote by such a scant margin that it's statistically a tie. Quit waving that pathetic little "Gore won the popular vote" flag because so the hell what. The US HAS a president now. Support the office and the institution, even if you don't support the person. In case no one had told you: we're trying to run a country here, and we need your help, too.
Me Jon. Big tree.
Ever surfed the web using your cell phone as a modem?
Anne Marie? Is that you?
nice post. good points.
So is the wife a villian that simply hasn't done anything bad yet? Bruce certainly touches her. Perhaps his sense only works when his emotions don't cloud it? What's your thoughts on Bruce not seeing anything bad that his "villian wife" has done?
It was kind of fun, but NOT what I would consider even good, much less one of Bruce Willis's better movies.
I agree with one of the other posters in this thread about 5th Element. That movie is excellent.
Sad to see that your smile has died, sir.
Perhaps you'll get another one next time around.
Why is everyone saying that Gore won the popular vote? Gore looks like he has a lead in the popular vote, but it's what... 250,000 votes out of millions? And that with 2 states still not reporting. Nobody has the popular vote, nobody has the electoral vote. We are waiting.
Ok, we've been there in an elaborate and intricate manner already. What do you want to do about it NOW, and in the FUTURE? I think the SlashCrew has gotten the message and is taking the proper steps make it all better. Don't be so stingy with the good vibes.
I'd be willing to bet that they have a good handle on how light is refracted by sea water and can compensate for it. Otherwise, all you'd have to do is fire one round, watch how far it misses by, and then compensate with a second round. Easy.
The little pipe twirl and pose after shoving Storm down the elevator shaft.
Gotta have a static IP for freenet, which rules me out.
This thing doesn't run high enough off the ground to "run over you"... it'd just bump into you. But even if it DID run over you, so what? Your hair would get messed up. It's all just air under there.
- Use a BeOS boot diskette
- Make sure PnP OS is disabled in BIOS
- Avoid USB mice... they generally work with BeOS, but not always. Serial and PS/2 are good bets.
I'm sure there are other things to try if none of these suggestions work (that is... if you are still interested in trying these suggestions out). For more help, check out the BeTips site.The things the post you replied to addressed are common-knowledge to the BeOS community.
Neither does Christianity. It'd make it a far more interesting religion (in a "news at 6" sense) if Christian spiritual leaders usually get nailed to trees. It happened, what... once? And he was nailed up right next to non-Christian, non-religious, non-leaders. Just because he was crucified and Buddah or Krishna or whoever else wasn't, doesn't lend Christ any significance over them. It's only whatever YOU consider important about Christ that lends him importance.
Saying "Christianity has always been popular" kind of ignores the hundreds of years of persecution, doesn't it?
*yawn* Judaism has been persecuted for longer than Chrisitanity, and more often, and generally with more verocity. You can shake a stick at whatever social category you want and claim persecution and probably be right. It's a pointless and boring argument.
Come up with some interesting arguments. I know, I'm perpetuating an off-topic thread. So mod me.
Oh hush. This interface isn't going to destroy linux, it's just going to put a nicer face on it. Everything that you like about linux you will be able to continue doing... this project is just going to make it friendly for newbies like me.
too funny.
But if you own (finished paying for) the things you have, then if you want to move house or swap cars at a moment's notice, you still can. AND you'll have some collateral to help you get the new things. Or you can just plain SELL your owned things and have more money to apply towards your new leased lifestyle. Ownership allows you more options, not less.
It's perfectly good for looking at, perfectly good for sending probes to. It's great for studying. Just like every other whiff and scrap of thing out there. But when you talk about living there, I think it's suddenly not so perfect.
If we can't live on Mars without terraforming it, what makes you think we can terraform it?
I don't follow your logic here. I see 4 possibilities to living on Mars:
- We try to terraform Mars and succeed in making it a planet that humans can stroll around on in their tank tops and shorts.
- We try to terraform Mars and fail, turning into a "super dense, poison filled, CO2 atmosphere because we made some mistake" and we keep trying. Just because we didn't get it right the first time doesn't mean we give up. Whatever poisonous CO2 we create, we can continue to fiddle with until we get it right. Which would lead us back to point one.
- We could bioform the colonists to be able to survive the existant Mars environment in their tank tops and shorts... but that would mean they couldn't visit Earth without various apparatuses to help them breath and such.
- We could leave everything pretty much as is and send people to Mars in big boxes (or bubbles or whatever) and have them live on Mars in a big boxes life. But, if I'm going to LIVE somewhere, I want to be able to walk around OUTSIDE and feel the wind in my hair, dirt in my toes, etc. Perhaps growing up on Earth has spoiled me, but it just seems like a natural thing to want to live somewhere without having to strap on a pressure suit and air tank.
It's a much better concept to make Mars a home before we begin to re-decorate.See, I see that as the bad and dangerous way of doing it. If you screw up the terraforming with people already living there, well then you suddenly don't have people living there anymore.
It's quite possible teraforming Mars could be the most dangerous thing we can do with Mars.
Dangerous to who? Terraform it first, and THEN send colonists. Not use colonists to terraform. That way if Project Terraform v1.0 has some bugs, then you fix them and launch v2.0. If it takes till v28.45a to get it right, that's when you send the colonists.
I can see the value in sending scientific missions to Mars for analyzing Mars in its current state, but I wouldn't want to live there, and that's what I'm talking about.
Because we've done such a poor job with all the other planets we've terraformed? Get over your masochism. Despite the best efforts of handwringers and browknitters to tell us otherwise, we still haven't screwed up Earth, and this is after centuries of concentrated ecological ineptitude. We (as a species) are getting much better at working and playing well with nature while continuing to evolve (as a species).
I think terraforming Mars is a GOOD first step in our interplanetary expansions. I think it's a very GOOD idea to allow our first interplanetary colonists all the possible advantages we can give them. Once we get better at this whole space-travel/new environment setting thing, THEN we can start to think about making a smaller and smaller footprints on the native soils. And since Mars SEEMS to be uninhabited, yet inhabitable, I think it's an excellent candidate for our first cosmic natal experience.