Given how much stuff Dayton doesn't know or understand in bills he signed I'm not sure how dry he is, if he isn't drunk then he is very incompetent and should not be holding office. There was the seat license he didn't know about in the stadium bill, the various taxes he didn't know about in the last budget, the whole budget he shut down the state over because he didn't understand and then signed. Also add in that he has been on every side of most of the big issues including the minimum wage one where he believed that we may need to rethink some of the provisions he signed into law. Keep in mind that the Minnesota state governor has line item veto authority so if there are questionable provisions he could just veto them.
I would have preferred any of the other democrats running against him in the 2010 primary as they would have at leas known what the hell was going on but Dayton had the name recognition.
So you are saying that your family places no pressure on you to vote like them? I've never known a family like that.
Not my immediate family but some of my in-laws yes. Of course these are the same people who were fine with venison chops since they were organic, hormone free, antibiotic free, free range, humanly raised meat but were horrified when they found out it was the deer I had shot a few weeks previous. I have also been accused of effectively murdering my children because I happen to own firearms that are properly stored in a very nice secure fireproof safe that is bolted to the poured concrete floor and wall in my basement. So they are a very unique type of special and I usually only have to deal with them for a week either around Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Well in Minnesota there is the concept of voter intent that needs to be determined. In the MN Secretary of State page there is a brief overview of the recount process. There is the election judge and a representative for each candidate and the representatives can challenge the judges decision. As for how to determine voter intent there is Minnesota Statute 204C.22 that defines what may and must be interpreted to determine voter intent as well as the following decisions and rulings to help guide the decision process. So in Minnesota it looks like the best way to ensure that your ballot gets counted correctly in case of recount would be to fill in the correct bubble but then also write in the candidate's name in the write in spot but not fill in the write in bubble.
Fifty bucks, those must be some damn good Sharpies. All kidding aside I like the fill in the bubble with the black Sharpie and feed into the scantron machine that I have been using my entire voting life. It is cheap, easy (everyone knows how to fill out a scantron sheet), pretty reliable, and audible since you have paper ballots. No strange butterfly ballots with hanging chads, illegible hand writing, touch screen calibration issues, etc. Granted there still seems to be some interpretation that is done if a hand recount is done yet it strikes me that since we have to sign in stating that we are competent enough to vote and fill out the ballot a spoiled ballot that cannot be be interpreted clearly by a majority of humans should be thrown out especially since if you screw up your ballot you can bring the spoiled one up and ask for a new one. The election judges will tear up the old ballot and hand you a new one to fill out, I wanted to see what would happen so I said I spoiled my ballot this time.
Well considering that I do entertain most job offers I get and have laughed at most of them I have been doing my part. The worst offer was for a senior level position doing similar work to what I currently doing but was in a higher cost shitty area. The pay offered was $35,000 a year, I laughed at that offer and the recruiter seriously thought it was good until I told her I make over 2.5x that now and live in a lower cost, nicer area. When asked what it would take to get me out there I told her a quarter million a year, and mentioned the 2x cost of living, and that I doubt that I would be able to afford a house comparable to what I have,.5 acre plot that backs up to a 10 acre wooded park in the best school district in the state, on less that that amount. Add in that I would have forfeited half of my 401k because I wasn't vested at that point and that my wife would have been without a job for the rest of the school year and businesses need to make real offers instead of the joke ones.
I always let recruiters and companies know why I turn down offers. Especially when it would be making huge steps backwards.
From what I have heard $17.27/hr to start would be considered to be a livable wage. Add in that the job has health, dental, and pension benefits and it looks pretty good, not to mention that it is a government job so it would be likely that after 20 years you could retire with a full pension.
I do give to Minnesota Public Radio (they carry the BBC world service on 91.1 HD3 FM) but as I live in a area where I can't receive any OTA TV signal I don't give to the local PBS station. I don't watch much video so the little I do watch over netflix (my wife and children watch a substantial amount more) is what I am willing to pay. I listen to about 2 hours a day of radio so there it is worth it.
Probably because it was the military and there was money to spend. The other option was to use what I assume was steel to provide a hardened reinforced structure.
Why put in 3 round gears and a differential when one (precisely manufactured) larger gear is "close enough"? Technology does help, but commoditization is the enemy.
Which is truly sad since commoditization could make good things cheaper if mass produced. I want the future promised where stuff doesn't wear out but most people just want a cheaper one. If Lego can mass produce plastic bits that have tolerances of 2 microns then why can't other manufactures of higher end things do so. I mean people are willing to pay more for quality since for toys Legos aren't cheap but are very well made. Even on the secondary market a major selling point of bulk lots is stating that there are no Mega Blocks.
From what I have read about the MIL-3818B watches they are pretty good for accuracy I don't know if mine is exceptional as you point out it is just one data point. In this case it would be best to assume that it represents an average one since it was basically chosen randomly when purchased at the PX. It may very well be an exceptional example given that it has lasted but these were inexpensive (probably government subsidized) but accurate watches for airmen of that era. The original spec stated the maximum error at +-30 seconds a day but unless something is wrong internally they do much better. My biggest issue with mine is that the tritium on the face has decayed (~12 year half life) so much that they really only glow for a brief time after being exposed to light instead of glowing continuously.
If you need precise timing better than 1.5 minutes/month there are better solutions but for regular life that is close enough. Also I travel for work enough that when adjusting it to new time zones I can snap the time to a stratum 1 time server. The watch is very consistent with it's error as well, like I said it runs 3 seconds (+-1 second) fast per day, and since it has the hack function I could manually compensate by stopping the watch for a few seconds each day.
And that is why I don't shop at Wal*Mart. Not being a watch guy (I do find the mechanical aspects fascinating though) I didn't know that a reasonable watch would be called a chronometer. I have a number of older nice pocket watches I am going to get repaired but I don't expect them to be as accurate because they are much older and while higher end still have a higher mass and fewer jewels.
I find it surprising that as you put it a "modern mechanical (non-chronometer)" watch would be off 5-10 seconds per day given that I own a 49 year old MIL-3818B wrist watch that I had cleaned and repaired a little while ago and from what I can tell it runs pretty consistently 3 seconds (+-1) fast a day when checked against a stratum 1 time source. Granted it is a very good 17 jewel watch (Benrus) but it is almost 50 years old and was my uncle's service watch while in Vietnam so it isn't like it wasn't exposed and probably abused during it's life. I would have thought that watch making would have improved with modern lower friction, lighter weight, and more thermally stable materials. Although given what I see for men's wrist watches it seems they are more jewelry and "look at me" than functional devices.
Except that was the tax paid to support the BBC and was only paid by those who have a TV (assumed to be everyone). Personally I wouldn't mind that situation if we could produce shows of that quality. I like watching the BBC series on Netflix since while there may not be lots of special effects they are well written.
The other nice thing about not having commercials is not being nagged to buy the latest fad toy that will get used a couple of times and then ignored. Also the kids get less gender stereotyping such as kitchen toys are only for girls and don't get the pressure to not be themselves. Both of my boys like playing kitchen, doing crafts, playing with cars and trucks, and being outside. I did have a good laugh on the first day of kindergarten when my oldest went and started playing with the huge kitchen set the class had and made "breakfast" for all the girls playing house in the class.
I don't know if that was an enforced rule or not but I didn't follow it (60/40 blend t-shirts). That was a long time ago and when little I didn't know what most of those things were. As I got older I started thinking for my self and the whole religious thing just didn't make sense to me. After starting to question some things and realizing that it was pretty shitty to think like that I rapidly fell away from it. It was really strange too when I went to church with my grandparents on my father's side (Presbyterian) on the rare occasion I was at their house for the weekend and while their god and Jesus had the same names they were very different from what I was hearing in my regular church. This new Jesus seemed more like a guy who wanted you to not be a dick to other people and help out to make people's lot in life better, not someone who wants you to carry out a crusade for him.
Do you know how much you could sell virgin primordial untouched by humans without any terrestrial pollutants water for? This seems like something that you could dupe people into paying at least $10 a liter for.
Isn't there available LIDAR information available for your area?
I while back I was looking at some for one of the areas that I hunt and it was accurate enough where you could see the ruts in the road where vehicles regularly drove down gravel roads. I can't find it at the moment but it was available in an interactive form online.
From my experience (being raised in a fundamentalist baptist church that was probably different only in actions to the Westboro Baptist Church) it goes deeper than that. These people are so invested in their belief system that if any portion is proven to be wrong it means that it is all wrong. The bible for them is the gold standard of truth and everything in it is of divine origin that speaks with one voice (never understood this). For them religion is their reason for existence and provides all the meaning in their life and they don't want that to be a lie. Unfortunately they use religion to justify all sorts of strange belief like the gays need to die, black people carry the mark of Cain and as such are sub human, the universe is only ~6000 years old, a women must submit to their husband, etc.
Given the age of the stories there may have actually been a flood of almost biblical proportion. Go back to the end of the last ice age and if you had lakes like Lake Missoula emptying it would seem to fit. It isn't like dumping 500 cubic miles of water would go unnoticed if there was a human population near by that happened to survive. It wouldn't surprise me if there were similar events that got passed down by oral tradition to various people in Eurasia. Give the story ~8000 years to morph and for people to hear similar stories from all other tribes and it becomes a global flood.
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Given how much stuff Dayton doesn't know or understand in bills he signed I'm not sure how dry he is, if he isn't drunk then he is very incompetent and should not be holding office. There was the seat license he didn't know about in the stadium bill, the various taxes he didn't know about in the last budget, the whole budget he shut down the state over because he didn't understand and then signed. Also add in that he has been on every side of most of the big issues including the minimum wage one where he believed that we may need to rethink some of the provisions he signed into law. Keep in mind that the Minnesota state governor has line item veto authority so if there are questionable provisions he could just veto them.
I would have preferred any of the other democrats running against him in the 2010 primary as they would have at leas known what the hell was going on but Dayton had the name recognition.
Yes. There was this guy who is a real nut job.
I might suggest upgrading to paper and pen or paper and permanent marker technology.
So you are saying that your family places no pressure on you to vote like them? I've never known a family like that.
Not my immediate family but some of my in-laws yes. Of course these are the same people who were fine with venison chops since they were organic, hormone free, antibiotic free, free range, humanly raised meat but were horrified when they found out it was the deer I had shot a few weeks previous. I have also been accused of effectively murdering my children because I happen to own firearms that are properly stored in a very nice secure fireproof safe that is bolted to the poured concrete floor and wall in my basement. So they are a very unique type of special and I usually only have to deal with them for a week either around Christmas or Thanksgiving.
Well in Minnesota there is the concept of voter intent that needs to be determined. In the MN Secretary of State page there is a brief overview of the recount process. There is the election judge and a representative for each candidate and the representatives can challenge the judges decision. As for how to determine voter intent there is Minnesota Statute 204C.22 that defines what may and must be interpreted to determine voter intent as well as the following decisions and rulings to help guide the decision process. So in Minnesota it looks like the best way to ensure that your ballot gets counted correctly in case of recount would be to fill in the correct bubble but then also write in the candidate's name in the write in spot but not fill in the write in bubble.
Fifty bucks, those must be some damn good Sharpies. All kidding aside I like the fill in the bubble with the black Sharpie and feed into the scantron machine that I have been using my entire voting life. It is cheap, easy (everyone knows how to fill out a scantron sheet), pretty reliable, and audible since you have paper ballots. No strange butterfly ballots with hanging chads, illegible hand writing, touch screen calibration issues, etc. Granted there still seems to be some interpretation that is done if a hand recount is done yet it strikes me that since we have to sign in stating that we are competent enough to vote and fill out the ballot a spoiled ballot that cannot be be interpreted clearly by a majority of humans should be thrown out especially since if you screw up your ballot you can bring the spoiled one up and ask for a new one. The election judges will tear up the old ballot and hand you a new one to fill out, I wanted to see what would happen so I said I spoiled my ballot this time.
Well considering that I do entertain most job offers I get and have laughed at most of them I have been doing my part. The worst offer was for a senior level position doing similar work to what I currently doing but was in a higher cost shitty area. The pay offered was $35,000 a year, I laughed at that offer and the recruiter seriously thought it was good until I told her I make over 2.5x that now and live in a lower cost, nicer area. When asked what it would take to get me out there I told her a quarter million a year, and mentioned the 2x cost of living, and that I doubt that I would be able to afford a house comparable to what I have, .5 acre plot that backs up to a 10 acre wooded park in the best school district in the state, on less that that amount. Add in that I would have forfeited half of my 401k because I wasn't vested at that point and that my wife would have been without a job for the rest of the school year and businesses need to make real offers instead of the joke ones.
I always let recruiters and companies know why I turn down offers. Especially when it would be making huge steps backwards.
From what I have heard $17.27/hr to start would be considered to be a livable wage. Add in that the job has health, dental, and pension benefits and it looks pretty good, not to mention that it is a government job so it would be likely that after 20 years you could retire with a full pension.
Doesn't that require a priest or shaman of some sorts?
I do give to Minnesota Public Radio (they carry the BBC world service on 91.1 HD3 FM) but as I live in a area where I can't receive any OTA TV signal I don't give to the local PBS station. I don't watch much video so the little I do watch over netflix (my wife and children watch a substantial amount more) is what I am willing to pay. I listen to about 2 hours a day of radio so there it is worth it.
Would an isolated ground outlet work to eliminate that? This is a real question I don't know but if so at this point it is a non issue.
Probably because it was the military and there was money to spend. The other option was to use what I assume was steel to provide a hardened reinforced structure.
Why put in 3 round gears and a differential when one (precisely manufactured) larger gear is "close enough"? Technology does help, but commoditization is the enemy.
Which is truly sad since commoditization could make good things cheaper if mass produced. I want the future promised where stuff doesn't wear out but most people just want a cheaper one. If Lego can mass produce plastic bits that have tolerances of 2 microns then why can't other manufactures of higher end things do so. I mean people are willing to pay more for quality since for toys Legos aren't cheap but are very well made. Even on the secondary market a major selling point of bulk lots is stating that there are no Mega Blocks.
From what I have read about the MIL-3818B watches they are pretty good for accuracy I don't know if mine is exceptional as you point out it is just one data point. In this case it would be best to assume that it represents an average one since it was basically chosen randomly when purchased at the PX. It may very well be an exceptional example given that it has lasted but these were inexpensive (probably government subsidized) but accurate watches for airmen of that era. The original spec stated the maximum error at +-30 seconds a day but unless something is wrong internally they do much better. My biggest issue with mine is that the tritium on the face has decayed (~12 year half life) so much that they really only glow for a brief time after being exposed to light instead of glowing continuously.
If you need precise timing better than 1.5 minutes/month there are better solutions but for regular life that is close enough. Also I travel for work enough that when adjusting it to new time zones I can snap the time to a stratum 1 time server. The watch is very consistent with it's error as well, like I said it runs 3 seconds (+-1 second) fast per day, and since it has the hack function I could manually compensate by stopping the watch for a few seconds each day.
And that is why I don't shop at Wal*Mart. Not being a watch guy (I do find the mechanical aspects fascinating though) I didn't know that a reasonable watch would be called a chronometer. I have a number of older nice pocket watches I am going to get repaired but I don't expect them to be as accurate because they are much older and while higher end still have a higher mass and fewer jewels.
I find it surprising that as you put it a "modern mechanical (non-chronometer)" watch would be off 5-10 seconds per day given that I own a 49 year old MIL-3818B wrist watch that I had cleaned and repaired a little while ago and from what I can tell it runs pretty consistently 3 seconds (+-1) fast a day when checked against a stratum 1 time source. Granted it is a very good 17 jewel watch (Benrus) but it is almost 50 years old and was my uncle's service watch while in Vietnam so it isn't like it wasn't exposed and probably abused during it's life. I would have thought that watch making would have improved with modern lower friction, lighter weight, and more thermally stable materials. Although given what I see for men's wrist watches it seems they are more jewelry and "look at me" than functional devices.
Except that was the tax paid to support the BBC and was only paid by those who have a TV (assumed to be everyone). Personally I wouldn't mind that situation if we could produce shows of that quality. I like watching the BBC series on Netflix since while there may not be lots of special effects they are well written.
The other nice thing about not having commercials is not being nagged to buy the latest fad toy that will get used a couple of times and then ignored. Also the kids get less gender stereotyping such as kitchen toys are only for girls and don't get the pressure to not be themselves. Both of my boys like playing kitchen, doing crafts, playing with cars and trucks, and being outside. I did have a good laugh on the first day of kindergarten when my oldest went and started playing with the huge kitchen set the class had and made "breakfast" for all the girls playing house in the class.
I don't know if that was an enforced rule or not but I didn't follow it (60/40 blend t-shirts). That was a long time ago and when little I didn't know what most of those things were. As I got older I started thinking for my self and the whole religious thing just didn't make sense to me. After starting to question some things and realizing that it was pretty shitty to think like that I rapidly fell away from it. It was really strange too when I went to church with my grandparents on my father's side (Presbyterian) on the rare occasion I was at their house for the weekend and while their god and Jesus had the same names they were very different from what I was hearing in my regular church. This new Jesus seemed more like a guy who wanted you to not be a dick to other people and help out to make people's lot in life better, not someone who wants you to carry out a crusade for him.
Do you know how much you could sell virgin primordial untouched by humans without any terrestrial pollutants water for? This seems like something that you could dupe people into paying at least $10 a liter for.
Isn't there available LIDAR information available for your area?
I while back I was looking at some for one of the areas that I hunt and it was accurate enough where you could see the ruts in the road where vehicles regularly drove down gravel roads. I can't find it at the moment but it was available in an interactive form online.
But how deep would it have to be to have the volume of a barn megaparsec?
Well that is only after the flood. I mean it takes a lot of wood to build a boat that big so where do you think it all went.
From my experience (being raised in a fundamentalist baptist church that was probably different only in actions to the Westboro Baptist Church) it goes deeper than that. These people are so invested in their belief system that if any portion is proven to be wrong it means that it is all wrong. The bible for them is the gold standard of truth and everything in it is of divine origin that speaks with one voice (never understood this). For them religion is their reason for existence and provides all the meaning in their life and they don't want that to be a lie. Unfortunately they use religion to justify all sorts of strange belief like the gays need to die, black people carry the mark of Cain and as such are sub human, the universe is only ~6000 years old, a women must submit to their husband, etc.
Given the age of the stories there may have actually been a flood of almost biblical proportion. Go back to the end of the last ice age and if you had lakes like Lake Missoula emptying it would seem to fit. It isn't like dumping 500 cubic miles of water would go unnoticed if there was a human population near by that happened to survive. It wouldn't surprise me if there were similar events that got passed down by oral tradition to various people in Eurasia. Give the story ~8000 years to morph and for people to hear similar stories from all other tribes and it becomes a global flood.