Strictly adhering to that maxim leaves you vulnerable to manipulation by malice masquerading as incompetence.
And frankly there comes a point where incompetence just isn't a believable excuse anymore. Being unable to implement an email retention system in 8 whole years is so bad, it doesn't matter whether it's incompetence or malice. The people responsible should be punished either way. +1 Insightful. I don't think this is meant to be an "excuse" but a confirmation of deeply held beliefs; self-fulfilling prophecy almost. The Administration, like many here at/., assume that the Government can't do anything effectively so why bother? For seven years they haven't even been trying to make the government work. Competence can only prove the conservative philosophy wrong.
It isn't Flamebait. The black album has a lot of highly listenable tracks, sure. That they are played on radio stations claiming "the best mix of the 80s, 90s and today" is an indicator that this was not the same Metallica that we listened to before that time, though. There was a very real shift in their style at or about the time of that album.
If it's a federal election, voting for a federal office, then there should be federal rules as to how the voting is conducted.
...snip...And everybody votes on exactly 1 thing.
But Americans don't really vote in federal elections. We elect local electors who vote in the federal election (electoral college). I'm pretty sure this system was set up specifically (for good or ill) to keep separation of local governments from federal control over the process. It does seem like time to look at that more closely.
And as to your second point, three or more pages of ballot items is a feature that's probably not going to go away any time soon. The town where my parents live (and I grew up) still votes for town animal control officer (dog-catcher) every two years and last year the whole town voted on the purchase of a new fire truck. If they had to come back on a different day for all the other stuff, voter turnout would go way down.
How did Balmer get to Negroponte? Does he have his mother tied up in a basement? That wouldn't be smart. She's also the mother of the Deputy Sec of State & former Director of National Intelligence. Ballmer would be on the next rendition flight to Gitmo.
I still have not been told why Creation and Evolution can't both be true.
You aren't going to be told why they can't both be true. That you can't be told that is the whole point of the debate, and exactly what ID-proponents are failing to accept. The "Truth" of God is irrelevant. If it can't be proven one way or another it's not science, it's theology.
It wasn't really a backup drive. They actually put the file in the Thing That Your Aunt Gave You That You Don't Know What It Is and lost it, but it just turned up again.
I'd call this +1 Insightful if I could. I think this charge would stick. Or at the very least come close enough to scare the living bejeezus out of the cities that are engaged in this practice.
Actually, the "breakage" reductions predate vinyl. The old shellac records would frbreak in transit and the record companies accounted for that with a flat average. Vinyl records are much more rugged and CDs even more so, but the percentage for breakage doesn't reflect that.
You can call it "wrong" all you want, if you ignore the "holes" in human behavior you will fail in the marketplace. Those holes are what we are as an organism. Most people don't think like engineers (and most engineers probably don't think that way most of the time, either).
For example, humans seem to like cars that resemble human faces (or at least we dislike cars that are highly dissimilar to human faces). Is that optimal design? Maybe not, but regardless of their actual merits, the Edsel and Pontiac Aztek didn't do very well.
The point of advertising is to get me to want something I don't need (because if I needed it, I could not wait around for an advertiser to "educate me about his valuable product/service"). That is, by definition, a waste of my time.
When I do want to buy something, I go looking for it. To find what I want, I use a wonderful invention called the Yellow Pages, and if I want to get high-tech then there's Google. These are more than adequate for me to find what I want without much effort. When I don't want to buy something, I think it's reasonable to ask the sellers to stay out of my face.
Not all advertising is for wasteful consumer crap (it makes julienne fries!!! Apply directly to the forehead!). Quite a bit of advertising is for things that people need, but not right now. When the time comes that one does need a new car/mortgage/personal injury attorney/etc., the knowledge of where to get one is saturated in prior experiences. When we do go to Google or the Yellow Pages, we're drawn to the already familiar items and tune out those that are unfamiliar.
They could have purchased hundreds or thousands of off-the-shelf PDAs and had a company develop a basic piece of census-tracking software for a mere fraction of what this project costs. Instead they'll argue they need some elaborate, over-priced piece of hardware under the pretense that only something so fancy can reliably handle the government's needs.
I was an enumerator 8 years ago and a basic PalmOS device with a custom frontend would have done the job even then. (I actually bought a Handspring with my Census money). I suppose software reliability and security would be essential, and and hardening the device against rough handling would be nice, but $2B for that???
I don't know what "massive amounts of data" they are talking about. One enumerator can't gather more than a few kilobytes of data in one outing even on a good day. Sure, the central office needed massive bandwidth for uploading to Washington DC, but the individual census taker isn't going to have to move that much data.
I enumerated in the projects. Our entire team went out as a big group and we did whole blocks all at once.
The trick is to find the nosiest elderly neighbor (there's always one) and use her or him as your informant.
It was a great job. I was a senior in college saving up for grad school last Census. Up to that point, it was the highest paying job I'd ever had. I learned a lot about statistics and real estate; knowledge that has come in handy since.
English is hard to learn to spell, but it isn't that hard to learn to speak. It's almost stupidly oversimplified in many ways compared to other languages. For example, case agreement has been dropped in exchange for a fairly rigid word order (subject-verb-object). Most of the important words are one or two syllables (compare to Japanese, where the pronoun "I" is four syllables, no wonder it is optional in many contexts).
What was the article about again? Oh, right. Boo hiss MSFT. Or something.
furthermore has declared that earmarks need to be eliminated
Did anyone hear Ron Paul's comments on earmarks on the House floor? (Yay for CSPAN) He had an interesting defense of the earmark.
An earmark is just Congress telling the government how to spend money, which, if you read the Constitution, is what they are supposed to do. Eliminating earmarks altogether gives control of spending to the Executive Branch. If you want to cut spending, cut spending, but don't further deteriorate the balance of powers by giving more Congressional power away.
"Chords" are in music. The structures in the larynx are "cords" as in rope.
That was how I learned it too. "Cord" referring to the vocal ligament attached to the thyroarytenoid muscle, but replaced by "fold" referring to the whole muscle and its mucosal tissue. I'm not going to correct anyone on this anymore, though. Common usage always wins out in the end.
I've played with lots of new players and I maintain a house rule that no one touches the PHB or DM guide while play is ongoing. You write the stats and info you need on the character sheet next to the relevant spell/feat or in the DM notes, but if something comes up that isn't available on notes, character sheets, or the DM screen, we make up the rule and move on.
Over time we all memorized most of the important stuff, but I figure if it wasn't important enough to stick in anyone's memory, it can't matter that much anyway.
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It isn't Flamebait. The black album has a lot of highly listenable tracks, sure. That they are played on radio stations claiming "the best mix of the 80s, 90s and today" is an indicator that this was not the same Metallica that we listened to before that time, though. There was a very real shift in their style at or about the time of that album.
...snip...And everybody votes on exactly 1 thing.
But Americans don't really vote in federal elections. We elect local electors who vote in the federal election (electoral college). I'm pretty sure this system was set up specifically (for good or ill) to keep separation of local governments from federal control over the process. It does seem like time to look at that more closely.And as to your second point, three or more pages of ballot items is a feature that's probably not going to go away any time soon. The town where my parents live (and I grew up) still votes for town animal control officer (dog-catcher) every two years and last year the whole town voted on the purchase of a new fire truck. If they had to come back on a different day for all the other stuff, voter turnout would go way down.
You aren't going to be told why they can't both be true. That you can't be told that is the whole point of the debate, and exactly what ID-proponents are failing to accept. The "Truth" of God is irrelevant. If it can't be proven one way or another it's not science, it's theology.
My potted plants are going to be so drunk now.
It wasn't really a backup drive. They actually put the file in the Thing That Your Aunt Gave You That You Don't Know What It Is and lost it, but it just turned up again.
I'd call this +1 Insightful if I could. I think this charge would stick. Or at the very least come close enough to scare the living bejeezus out of the cities that are engaged in this practice.
Actually, the "breakage" reductions predate vinyl. The old shellac records would frbreak in transit and the record companies accounted for that with a flat average. Vinyl records are much more rugged and CDs even more so, but the percentage for breakage doesn't reflect that.
For example, humans seem to like cars that resemble human faces (or at least we dislike cars that are highly dissimilar to human faces). Is that optimal design? Maybe not, but regardless of their actual merits, the Edsel and Pontiac Aztek didn't do very well.
It is still obnoxious, though.
I don't know what "massive amounts of data" they are talking about. One enumerator can't gather more than a few kilobytes of data in one outing even on a good day. Sure, the central office needed massive bandwidth for uploading to Washington DC, but the individual census taker isn't going to have to move that much data.
The trick is to find the nosiest elderly neighbor (there's always one) and use her or him as your informant.
It was a great job. I was a senior in college saving up for grad school last Census. Up to that point, it was the highest paying job I'd ever had. I learned a lot about statistics and real estate; knowledge that has come in handy since.
(twenty) seven years of power, the corporation claw. The rich control the government, the media, the law.
What was the article about again? Oh, right. Boo hiss MSFT. Or something.
Only if money is the only unit of measurement for value you use. There is such a thing as non-economic cost.
Is that what you got from that speech? Because that was totally not the speech that I heard.
Did anyone hear Ron Paul's comments on earmarks on the House floor? (Yay for CSPAN) He had an interesting defense of the earmark.
An earmark is just Congress telling the government how to spend money, which, if you read the Constitution, is what they are supposed to do. Eliminating earmarks altogether gives control of spending to the Executive Branch. If you want to cut spending, cut spending, but don't further deteriorate the balance of powers by giving more Congressional power away.
And that 68% of statistics are made up on the spot. Or was it 89%?
How the heck did I get modded up?
Over time we all memorized most of the important stuff, but I figure if it wasn't important enough to stick in anyone's memory, it can't matter that much anyway.