The voters in those states should not be able to run roughshod over the country
If that were the purpose of the electoral college, the number of electors would not be based mostly on the population of the state. There are some federalist bits around the edges of the electoral college, but that's not its main reason for being... its main reason for being is the electors themselves.
You cannot have that simple reason, because it is provably false. Trump lies way more than Clinton. His entire business "empire" is a ponzi lie. He lied about things he was on camera saying just weeks before. He lies so much he's afraid to actually sue anyone because he's afraid of being under oath, so he lies about intending to sue them. The guy is one of the worst liars in human history.
If honesty had really been a primary issue, Trump would have lost badly.
...and you'll care about the constitution up until the first evidence of a violation of the emoluments clause, at which point you will pretend it does not exist.
Also, the electoral college primarily exists to introduce the electors. The power of state governments (as opposed to the actual occupants of the states) was supposed to be preserved in the Senate, but this turned out to be such a bad idea that the people dragged their governments kicking and screaming into letting the people elect the Senate, which still preserves protection of regional concerns -- it just ignores those of state legislators because they proved themselves to be too irresponsible to hold this power. At least the power of state government bodies to determine the apportionment of the electors will suffer the same fate eventually... whether we throw out the safeguard of the electors themselves in the process is another matter.
It's kind of a silly argument to be making at this time, considering how badly the system has backfired... those supposedly too ignorant to be trusted to elect a president voted in majority for a qualified candidate, and only because of this system has an untenable administration been elected. It did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do.
See the ars article for better charts. Note the age-adjusted ones show the impact on the death rate, so they essentially count lifetime lost, not lives. I agree, pills are a big part of this. And probably stress, given the increase in heart disease and strokes.
Considering one of the major contributers is "unintentional injury deaths, such as overdoses and car accidents, increased by 6.7 percent" much of the blame likely sits on the pain pill problem. Cancer deaths actually went down, so health care is working for that disease. Alzheimers deaths rose a lot... but they say this is due to the medical establishment just recategorizing that as a cause of death... woner what those were usually listed under.
What would a signature possibly mean to me as a user if I don't know you?
Funny thing about them signatures. When a powershell script runs another powershell with -Verb RunAs to ask the user to elevate privileges, powershell.exe is "Signed By Microsoft" and tells the user so.
It's hard to imagine, with the way the election turned out, that we're not going to have an environment, from several aspects, that is not going to be more positive for my industry
I could easily imagine how two dozen people, now homeless, huddling over a burning barrel in a Trumpville, all sharing the same cell phone, would cut wireless provider revenues.
If they want revenue they should really get with the times and accept micropayments that grant licenses to individual people to use music as underscore in their videos, as webpage ambiance, and add it to the playlist of online games when they are in the session, or in second-life-like environments, play it in their spaces so other players can hear it. That would create a new revenue stream versus only being able to license it for listening.
Also the built-in firewalling on them often only protects certain services, leaving, for example, SNMPv2 running, the initial negotiation packets of which, even if the password is set, can still be used as a force multiplier for DDoS. Or in some cases, actually putting rules in the firewalling slows things to a crawl. Or in other cases, there is no firewalling facility. And all this can vary among individual models from a single vendor.
...while I would differ with that opinion, I would point out that whether or not you can fix stupid, you can stop telling stupid people that specific real people are part of a giant nefarious conspiracy. If you continue to, you should be held partially liable for their actions.
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The voters in those states should not be able to run roughshod over the country
If that were the purpose of the electoral college, the number of electors would not be based mostly on the population of the state. There are some federalist bits around the edges of the electoral college, but that's not its main reason for being... its main reason for being is the electors themselves.
I prefer the simpler reason.
She's a fucking world-class liar.
You cannot have that simple reason, because it is provably false. Trump lies way more than Clinton. His entire business "empire" is a ponzi lie. He lied about things he was on camera saying just weeks before. He lies so much he's afraid to actually sue anyone because he's afraid of being under oath, so he lies about intending to sue them. The guy is one of the worst liars in human history.
If honesty had really been a primary issue, Trump would have lost badly.
Also, the electoral college primarily exists to introduce the electors. The power of state governments (as opposed to the actual occupants of the states) was supposed to be preserved in the Senate, but this turned out to be such a bad idea that the people dragged their governments kicking and screaming into letting the people elect the Senate, which still preserves protection of regional concerns -- it just ignores those of state legislators because they proved themselves to be too irresponsible to hold this power. At least the power of state government bodies to determine the apportionment of the electors will suffer the same fate eventually... whether we throw out the safeguard of the electors themselves in the process is another matter.
It's kind of a silly argument to be making at this time, considering how badly the system has backfired... those supposedly too ignorant to be trusted to elect a president voted in majority for a qualified candidate, and only because of this system has an untenable administration been elected. It did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to do.
OK Ivan, crawl back to momma bear now.
Do you propose redrawing their borders?
No, but it would be a good thing for state governments to actually represent the will of their voters and stop the winner-take-all bullshit.
http://www.nber.org/digest/dec...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
See the ars article for better charts. Note the age-adjusted ones show the impact on the death rate, so they essentially count lifetime lost, not lives. I agree, pills are a big part of this. And probably stress, given the increase in heart disease and strokes.
Trump's in violation of the Emolument clause
Not yet. He has to be sworn in first to be in violation. It probably will not take more than 24 hours before a transaction that violates it occurs.
Considering one of the major contributers is "unintentional injury deaths, such as overdoses and car accidents, increased by 6.7 percent" much of the blame likely sits on the pain pill problem. Cancer deaths actually went down, so health care is working for that disease. Alzheimers deaths rose a lot... but they say this is due to the medical establishment just recategorizing that as a cause of death... woner what those were usually listed under.
The ars article has some useful charts, if, unlike 3 out of 5 of trump supporters, you know how to read them.
On the bright side, the deaths due to depression due to overbearing election coverage will tail off.
What would a signature possibly mean to me as a user if I don't know you?
Funny thing about them signatures. When a powershell script runs another powershell with -Verb RunAs to ask the user to elevate privileges, powershell.exe is "Signed By Microsoft" and tells the user so.
Since Trump lied more than even Hillary, we can cancel out the terms:
Consider the alternative, a woman whose only way to stop lying was to stop speaking.
This leaves:
Consider the alternative, a woman
...and thus, the mask is removed.
They could just ride a bike if they wanted. Or walk.
Except for the ones that medically cannot do either of those two things. Or have cargo. Or need to get there faster. Or have prohibitively far to go.
We did it because he promised
Let me stop you right there. Meditate on that. A guy that conned people out of their life savings promised you something so you elected him.
It's hard to imagine, with the way the election turned out, that we're not going to have an environment, from several aspects, that is not going to be more positive for my industry
I could easily imagine how two dozen people, now homeless, huddling over a burning barrel in a Trumpville, all sharing the same cell phone, would cut wireless provider revenues.
Obviously this is just a hippie AGW plot to sequester carbon.
If they want revenue they should really get with the times and accept micropayments that grant licenses to individual people to use music as underscore in their videos, as webpage ambiance, and add it to the playlist of online games when they are in the session, or in second-life-like environments, play it in their spaces so other players can hear it. That would create a new revenue stream versus only being able to license it for listening.
Also the built-in firewalling on them often only protects certain services, leaving, for example, SNMPv2 running, the initial negotiation packets of which, even if the password is set, can still be used as a force multiplier for DDoS. Or in some cases, actually putting rules in the firewalling slows things to a crawl. Or in other cases, there is no firewalling facility. And all this can vary among individual models from a single vendor.
Dec 2nd: CPP hires security
Because they were getting death threats, moron
traffic camera facing CPP is turned away fromCPP for no apparent reason (who turns traffic cameras?)
Cops who've been asked to to protect patrons from insane alt-righters, idiot.
you can't fix stupid
...while I would differ with that opinion, I would point out that whether or not you can fix stupid, you can stop telling stupid people that specific real people are part of a giant nefarious conspiracy. If you continue to, you should be held partially liable for their actions.
Too late. Putin is already preparing net year's dictionary.
Where were you guys for Jeff Gannon? Oh right, you don't care unless you can smear someone on the left.
(*+1)^2 lol