I voted early, but got a call from the Obama campaign saying that the county hadn't received my ballot (which I mailed). I showed up at the county courthouse yesterday and they were right. I filled out another one.
How did the Obama campaign know the county didn't have your vote? How did they know you voted for him? How did they get access to the county voting records? How does the county know not to count your mail-in ballot (since you also voted in person) if they find it on the floor later today?
The US national debt has increased in excess of USD 500 bn per year since 2003 and broke through USD 10 tn on September 30, 2008. That means USD 33 000 of debt per resident of the USA, or some 70% of GDP!!!!
That sounds scary and all, and it sucks for us, but many countries, including Japan and several in the EU, have higher national debts as a proportion of GDP - several higher than 100%.
I don't care a whole lot who wins, if it is a fair election. That said, from what I have been reading, the republicans have pulled out all the stops in suppressing voters in groups that are polling strongly pro-Obama (e.g., active duty military, students, minorities.)
Of course, the other side says the the democrats have pulled out all stops in registering fraudulent voters - just depends which side you look at it from. No one has their hands clean on this issue.
And the active duty military breaks pretty strongly for McCain - something like 70/30.
Not really.
The president can only do what Congress allows. That is what I find so funny about people freaking out over the president.
There are checks and balances in the system one person can not mess it up that bad in just four years.
Unless the same party controls both branches of government, which looks likely to happen.
Has there been any evidence to show that ANYONE knows how the economy works? The world economy is based on emotions and speculation, which are faaar from exact sciences. Find me anyone who can predict the market and knows how it works and I will find you a billionaire keeping a secret. No one knows how it works exactly, there are some that just read it better than others.
The market != the economy, although many people seem to think it is. The economy is not down 40% this year, it is (probably) growing by a less than stellar 1% or so, possibly soon to slip slightly negative.
As a practical matter, nobody is 100% honorable, and somebody who's in charge of building voting machines should not be politically active.
Same should go for people in charge of media outlets then, too? Lots of people who are "involved" in the mechanics of an election are also involved politically - it would be hard to place limits on that activity in a civilian setting - the military does place restrictions on political activity but that's because it is easy for them to enforce it.
I read in Wired magazine that the guy who made his money from SAP is starting a similar scheme in Denmark but actually changing the battery instead of charging 'your' battery. More like swapping so that the burden of owning a battery is gone and you rent batteries fully charged from him. Sounds interesting.
Actually, according to the article, so is this plan. At least for part of it.
Simple answer: abolish it. I lived in Japan for several years and they don't adjust their clocks. Guess what? I didn't notice! Well, except that I didn't have the hassle of changing all my clocks, and throwing off my sleeping rhythm twice a year.
I also lived in Japan, and on the contrary, I think Japan needs more hours of DST. Why on earth should it get light at 4 AM and get dark at 6 PM?
The fact that Americans took the test is kind of irrelevant - the issue is that people tend to vote what is familiar, not Americans. Also, it was pretty clear that the test only applied to people who had no other preference for a candidate, not that people voted purely on looks.
Wow, there's a lot wrong with that rant. Try reading some in-depth analysis of the problem before posting a bunch of bunk - try the Economist, Financial Times, or Wall Street Journal for a start.
Also, for the past two years the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress - has anyone asked Barney Frank or Chris Dodd why their Banking Committees didn't ask any of these questions, if it was so obvious?
Last time I checked the US had two rovers and a science lab on the surface of Mars, along with several Mars orbiters, several around the outer planets, and a couple about the leave the solar system. What part of that is not exploring space?
Also, you can debate the merits of military spending and the trickle down effect, but it supports a lot of scientists and engineers.
We do suck at teaching math and science though.
The Buick thing is easy - it tells you what size engine is inside. The V6's have three holes on each side, and the V8's have four.
And yellow and blue make green, so you can see when it is sealed. I thought that was well covered by the "yellow and blue make green" ad campaign.
That's a great idea, but for it to work you'd need an incentive - and as long as power is the same price all the time there really isn't that incentive. We need electricity pricing like we have telephone pricing - peak and off-peak charges. Of course, that requires all new meters at the house and the infrastructure to support it, so unless the cost of electric generation goes up significantly I guess we weon't be seeing it anytime soon.
This presumes that corporations can't do math. They will quickly calculate whether it is cheaper to outsource the workers and pay the tax, or keep the workers in the US, or whether it's really just better to give up on the lower business taxes and move to another country that might have higher taxes but also has fewer weird laws about outsourcing.
Nice try, but the DCMA was passed under a Democrat President - Bill Clinton. And it received a unanimous vote in the Senate, so it pretty much had bipartisan support.
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I voted early, but got a call from the Obama campaign saying that the county hadn't received my ballot (which I mailed). I showed up at the county courthouse yesterday and they were right. I filled out another one.
How did the Obama campaign know the county didn't have your vote? How did they know you voted for him? How did they get access to the county voting records? How does the county know not to count your mail-in ballot (since you also voted in person) if they find it on the floor later today?
That comment raises a lot of questions for me.
The US national debt has increased in excess of USD 500 bn per year since 2003 and broke through USD 10 tn on September 30, 2008. That means USD 33 000 of debt per resident of the USA, or some 70% of GDP!!!!
That sounds scary and all, and it sucks for us, but many countries, including Japan and several in the EU, have higher national debts as a proportion of GDP - several higher than 100%.
I don't care a whole lot who wins, if it is a fair election. That said, from what I have been reading, the republicans have pulled out all the stops in suppressing voters in groups that are polling strongly pro-Obama (e.g., active duty military, students, minorities.)
Of course, the other side says the the democrats have pulled out all stops in registering fraudulent voters - just depends which side you look at it from. No one has their hands clean on this issue. And the active duty military breaks pretty strongly for McCain - something like 70/30.
Not really. The president can only do what Congress allows. That is what I find so funny about people freaking out over the president. There are checks and balances in the system one person can not mess it up that bad in just four years.
Unless the same party controls both branches of government, which looks likely to happen.
Has there been any evidence to show that ANYONE knows how the economy works? The world economy is based on emotions and speculation, which are faaar from exact sciences. Find me anyone who can predict the market and knows how it works and I will find you a billionaire keeping a secret. No one knows how it works exactly, there are some that just read it better than others.
The market != the economy, although many people seem to think it is. The economy is not down 40% this year, it is (probably) growing by a less than stellar 1% or so, possibly soon to slip slightly negative.
Well, in the case of McCain it seems to be (among others) Kevin Hassett, author of "Dow 36000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market", published in 1999. http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/2008/06/other-list-mccains-economists.html [blogspot.com]
I'm not sure that is an impartial assessment, given the web address.
As a practical matter, nobody is 100% honorable, and somebody who's in charge of building voting machines should not be politically active.
Same should go for people in charge of media outlets then, too? Lots of people who are "involved" in the mechanics of an election are also involved politically - it would be hard to place limits on that activity in a civilian setting - the military does place restrictions on political activity but that's because it is easy for them to enforce it.
I read in Wired magazine that the guy who made his money from SAP is starting a similar scheme in Denmark but actually changing the battery instead of charging 'your' battery. More like swapping so that the burden of owning a battery is gone and you rent batteries fully charged from him. Sounds interesting.
Actually, according to the article, so is this plan. At least for part of it.
Simple answer: abolish it. I lived in Japan for several years and they don't adjust their clocks. Guess what? I didn't notice! Well, except that I didn't have the hassle of changing all my clocks, and throwing off my sleeping rhythm twice a year.
I also lived in Japan, and on the contrary, I think Japan needs more hours of DST. Why on earth should it get light at 4 AM and get dark at 6 PM?
STOP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!,
It's actually Daylight Saving Time, no plural.
The fact that Americans took the test is kind of irrelevant - the issue is that people tend to vote what is familiar, not Americans. Also, it was pretty clear that the test only applied to people who had no other preference for a candidate, not that people voted purely on looks.
Don't the sails on the buses get in the way?
Wow, there's a lot wrong with that rant. Try reading some in-depth analysis of the problem before posting a bunch of bunk - try the Economist, Financial Times, or Wall Street Journal for a start. Also, for the past two years the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress - has anyone asked Barney Frank or Chris Dodd why their Banking Committees didn't ask any of these questions, if it was so obvious?
Last time I checked the US had two rovers and a science lab on the surface of Mars, along with several Mars orbiters, several around the outer planets, and a couple about the leave the solar system. What part of that is not exploring space? Also, you can debate the merits of military spending and the trickle down effect, but it supports a lot of scientists and engineers. We do suck at teaching math and science though.
The Buick thing is easy - it tells you what size engine is inside. The V6's have three holes on each side, and the V8's have four. And yellow and blue make green, so you can see when it is sealed. I thought that was well covered by the "yellow and blue make green" ad campaign.
That's a great idea, but for it to work you'd need an incentive - and as long as power is the same price all the time there really isn't that incentive. We need electricity pricing like we have telephone pricing - peak and off-peak charges. Of course, that requires all new meters at the house and the infrastructure to support it, so unless the cost of electric generation goes up significantly I guess we weon't be seeing it anytime soon.
This presumes that corporations can't do math. They will quickly calculate whether it is cheaper to outsource the workers and pay the tax, or keep the workers in the US, or whether it's really just better to give up on the lower business taxes and move to another country that might have higher taxes but also has fewer weird laws about outsourcing.
Nice try, but the DCMA was passed under a Democrat President - Bill Clinton. And it received a unanimous vote in the Senate, so it pretty much had bipartisan support.
The E2xxx series should be substantially cheaper than that E4500 - the E2180 at 2.0 Ghz is only $80 here in the US.