Now, what would be the point of having two days a year to do this, when we already have one day for it. It's not that hard to vote for a few more items on the same day. The state I'm in specifically tries to minimize the number of things to vote on during a year there is a federal election. Also, remember, the local governments run and pay for the elections. The federal government does not pay for them nor does the state in most places.
Well, apparently it's too hard to have proper counting methods; whenever anybody mentions the (world renowned) Canadian system, the two rebuttals invariably brought up by Americans are 'We have ten times the population you do!' and 'we vote for all sorts of things at once!'
Oh, we have all sorts of reps that we vote for. We just make a point of staggering it all out. We also tend to divide them up into different classes; we have federal elections, provincial elections, municipal elections, and so on.
Your first example, buy five XP copies, install one, clone it off, is fine. NT is specifically designed to allow you to do this in various ways.
Your second example probably not so much, if the OS and software are OEM copies, specifically licensed to the exact machine that they were sold on. If you've purchased X number of CALs, actual licenses independent of hardware, you're fine.
We have what's called a 'representative' system. The idea is that we vote for our 'representatives,' who then 'represent' our wishes and desires in Parliament. If our 'elected' 'representative' isn't doing what we 'voters' want them to do, we 'elect' one who will.
But I'll also give you the stock answer; number of people counting scales proportionately to number of ballots cast, really easy like.
Xenosaga? Philistine. Go play XenoGEARS. Why be forced to *watch* an unskipable cutscene when you can be forced to READ it! Yes! Slap a model of a main character sitting in a chair, start flapping it's little virtual mouth, and start scrolling TEXT! PAGES AND PAGES OF GLORIOUS TEXT! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Law-abiding people don't feel the need to out anonymous people for legal statements.
I could have sworn that 'the right to face your accusor' was still somewhere in the American common law, if not the Constitution itself (one of the amendments, I think, but don't have time to look it up.)
Or am I missing part of the story here? Admittedly, DNRTFA.
Dosbox is an x86 emulator that's specifically designed to run old games properly; clocks them down, provides a virtual soundblaster card (amoung others) and so on. Works great.
2) The 64-bit version of Vista removes backwards compatability for 16-bit applications. I dunno about you, but sometimes I get nostalgic for the games I grew up with... and some of those games are good enough that horrible dated graphics don't matter.
Amazing ideas these MS boys have these days. Imagine an operating system with a small, even micro, kernel. To this the user can add the operating system toys that he needs around that kernel, resulting in a lean, mean operating system that does what he needs and nothing more.
That's extra funny, given that Windows NT acutally is a microkernel architecture. As opposed to, say, Linux, where Monolithic kernel was a specfically made design choice.
More money than the electronic voting machines? Also, and don't take this the wrong way, but aren't there volunteers?
As to the other, yes, I think you have the idea. Condorcet, Instant Runoff Voting, there's all sorts of methods. Probably any one of them would have resulted in a far and away victory for Gore in 2000, say, as most of the Nader votes would have gone to Gore after Nader was eliminated.
That, and hard term limits on Congress and Senate will solve quite a few problems with the American electoral system. In, of course, my most "humble" opinion.:-)
I think it reads as 'you-mean-due-on', as in, they haven't declared a 'release' date, they've declared an intended release date. We won't know the actual release date until it's actually been released.
According to wiki Canada's population is just over 33 million. The USA's population is 10 tymes that. If it were possible to have all votes counted by hand like that town in New Hampshire, which had less than 100 voters, that would be okay. However look at the hand counts in Palm Beach County. Republicans took it all the way to the US Supreme Court to stop the hand counting.
Oh gods, I was waiting for somebody to trot out this argument.
Look, America has ten times the votes to count, maybe it should just employ ten times the vote counters?
Republicans took it all the way to the US Supreme Court to stop the hand counting.
Well, we can branch this off into another discussion if you'd like, but mayhaps part of the problem here is that the judical branch just asserted more power over the voting system than the electorate?
While I believe the official tallies should be held until all polling stations are closed, to bar the press from reporting exit poll results would be an abridgment of free speech.
Arguable; there are tons of examples I can trot out of this very thing. Can't report the name of a young offender, for example.
Reporting exit poll results are one thing, however; deriving future winners from those polls are something else, and 'calling' the election is a third thing. I seem to recall, for example, Gore giving his initial concession speech based on a reporter 'calling' the election for Bush; forget waiting for the acutal votes to be counted...
In other words, maybe the unconstitutionality of the Press choosing the President, rather than the Electoral Colleges as determined by the Several States, trumps the unconstitutionality of telling the press that they have to wait until the next day to report something.
But getting back to exit polls; why report them? I'd say that one shouldn't be reporting them during the election lest it sway undecided voters, who should be voting the issues and their consiences, rather than 'gaming' the polls. Of course, this is only a problem in the 'winner takes all' and defacto 'two party' system America has; institute some sort of preference voting, and the problem goes right away, and suddenly the best plan for one side is to run, in addition to their own guy, a moderate on the other side to split their vote. Ref. Ross Perot. Or Nader.
But that's what confuses me. Much like light and sound travel at different speeds, but nobody claims a causality violation when you see something before you hear it (a distant explosion, say) why would my example violate causality?
The sequence of events isn't a) somebody notes a change in gravity, b) somebody turned on the gravity generator; it's a) somebody turned on the generator, b) somebody noted that the generator had been turned on, c) somebody noticed the attached flashlight had also been turned on.
I've always been confused about why 'c' and 'causality' are considered one in the same.
Lets say you create a gravity generator. You put it 1 light year away from a gravity receiver. You also put a big honkin' flashlight on that gravity generator.
Now, lets say that gravity is instant. You turn on the gravity generator and the big honkin' flashlight. The receiver instantly notes the increase in gravity, and one year later sees the flashlight. How is causality violated? The receiver did not see the effect until the generator was activated. But it did see it faster than light.
Honest question; I'm sure there's an explanation that makes perfect sense, and I just don't know it.
Some of the problems are in *how* common tags are handled, rather than *if* uncommon tags are recognized.
In other words, if IE8's 'strict' mode handles, say, a table tag differently than IE7, you'll want to be able to indicate how you're expecting the tag to be interpreted.
Not a bad solution, really. Even gives control to *gasp* the developers (who can choose to set or not set the tag) and the end user (who can, presumably, force modes if they so choose.)
Who needs speed? Up here in Canada, where each and every ballot is hand counted, sometimes twice, we still often need to withold east coast results until the west coast's polls have closed.
Hell, far as I'm concerned, it should be flat-out illegal for any sort of 'results' to be advertised before the final, approved counts are in. "We here at Fox news are calling Florida for Bush." Who the FUCK are you, Fox News, to be 'calling' the election? I could have sworn that, oh, you know, THE PEOPLE call the election? You know, by VOTING?
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Well, apparently it's too hard to have proper counting methods; whenever anybody mentions the (world renowned) Canadian system, the two rebuttals invariably brought up by Americans are 'We have ten times the population you do!' and 'we vote for all sorts of things at once!'
Oh, we have all sorts of reps that we vote for. We just make a point of staggering it all out. We also tend to divide them up into different classes; we have federal elections, provincial elections, municipal elections, and so on.
Your first example, buy five XP copies, install one, clone it off, is fine. NT is specifically designed to allow you to do this in various ways.
Your second example probably not so much, if the OS and software are OEM copies, specifically licensed to the exact machine that they were sold on. If you've purchased X number of CALs, actual licenses independent of hardware, you're fine.
We have what's called a 'representative' system. The idea is that we vote for our 'representatives,' who then 'represent' our wishes and desires in Parliament. If our 'elected' 'representative' isn't doing what we 'voters' want them to do, we 'elect' one who will.
But I'll also give you the stock answer; number of people counting scales proportionately to number of ballots cast, really easy like.
Xenosaga? Philistine. Go play XenoGEARS. Why be forced to *watch* an unskipable cutscene when you can be forced to READ it! Yes! Slap a model of a main character sitting in a chair, start flapping it's little virtual mouth, and start scrolling TEXT! PAGES AND PAGES OF GLORIOUS TEXT! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ahem.
The computer has determined that you were 'killed' in the latest 'attack.' Please report to the nearest disintegration booth immediately.
Star Trek called it forty years ago; I'm sure other Sci-Fi has nailed it too.
I could have sworn that 'the right to face your accusor' was still somewhere in the American common law, if not the Constitution itself (one of the amendments, I think, but don't have time to look it up.)
Or am I missing part of the story here? Admittedly, DNRTFA.
Dosbox is an x86 emulator that's specifically designed to run old games properly; clocks them down, provides a virtual soundblaster card (amoung others) and so on. Works great.
That's what Dosbox is for.
That's extra funny, given that Windows NT acutally is a microkernel architecture. As opposed to, say, Linux, where Monolithic kernel was a specfically made design choice.
No, it wasn't explicit, it was surprisingly subtle in a movie that likes to slap things in your face.
Brent Spiner's scientist character makes some comments about the technologies and research avenues that the crashed fighter unlocks.
Who's talking M-16s? I'm talking Springfields, Garands, and the like.
Also, just rename the .zip files to .cbz files and fire them up in your favourite reader.
I told her, but she's petrified, and can't. On the upside, she's also naked, so at least makes for a Better Lawn Gnome(tm).
And back when semi-auto rifles were introduced, soliders didn't think it was worth the extra weight and hassle over their good old bolt-action rifles.
And back when muskets were introduced, soldiers didn't think it was worth the extra weight and hassle over their good old lances and calvary sabres.
And back when long swords were introduced, soldiers didn't think it was worth the extra weight and hassle over their good old gladiums and scutums.
More money than the electronic voting machines? Also, and don't take this the wrong way, but aren't there volunteers?
As to the other, yes, I think you have the idea. Condorcet, Instant Runoff Voting, there's all sorts of methods. Probably any one of them would have resulted in a far and away victory for Gore in 2000, say, as most of the Nader votes would have gone to Gore after Nader was eliminated.
That, and hard term limits on Congress and Senate will solve quite a few problems with the American electoral system. In, of course, my most "humble" opinion. :-)
What, black people can't be idiots or Republicans?
I think it reads as 'you-mean-due-on', as in, they haven't declared a 'release' date, they've declared an intended release date. We won't know the actual release date until it's actually been released.
Oh gods, I was waiting for somebody to trot out this argument.
Look, America has ten times the votes to count, maybe it should just employ ten times the vote counters?
Well, we can branch this off into another discussion if you'd like, but mayhaps part of the problem here is that the judical branch just asserted more power over the voting system than the electorate?
Arguable; there are tons of examples I can trot out of this very thing. Can't report the name of a young offender, for example.
Reporting exit poll results are one thing, however; deriving future winners from those polls are something else, and 'calling' the election is a third thing. I seem to recall, for example, Gore giving his initial concession speech based on a reporter 'calling' the election for Bush; forget waiting for the acutal votes to be counted...
In other words, maybe the unconstitutionality of the Press choosing the President, rather than the Electoral Colleges as determined by the Several States, trumps the unconstitutionality of telling the press that they have to wait until the next day to report something.
But getting back to exit polls; why report them? I'd say that one shouldn't be reporting them during the election lest it sway undecided voters, who should be voting the issues and their consiences, rather than 'gaming' the polls. Of course, this is only a problem in the 'winner takes all' and defacto 'two party' system America has; institute some sort of preference voting, and the problem goes right away, and suddenly the best plan for one side is to run, in addition to their own guy, a moderate on the other side to split their vote. Ref. Ross Perot. Or Nader.
But that's what confuses me. Much like light and sound travel at different speeds, but nobody claims a causality violation when you see something before you hear it (a distant explosion, say) why would my example violate causality?
The sequence of events isn't a) somebody notes a change in gravity, b) somebody turned on the gravity generator; it's a) somebody turned on the generator, b) somebody noted that the generator had been turned on, c) somebody noticed the attached flashlight had also been turned on.
I've always been confused about why 'c' and 'causality' are considered one in the same.
Lets say you create a gravity generator. You put it 1 light year away from a gravity receiver. You also put a big honkin' flashlight on that gravity generator.
Now, lets say that gravity is instant. You turn on the gravity generator and the big honkin' flashlight. The receiver instantly notes the increase in gravity, and one year later sees the flashlight. How is causality violated? The receiver did not see the effect until the generator was activated. But it did see it faster than light.
Honest question; I'm sure there's an explanation that makes perfect sense, and I just don't know it.
Heat's not much of a problem, once you get the Clan heatsinks. Just don't get your myomer formulas from anybody named Justin.
Some of the problems are in *how* common tags are handled, rather than *if* uncommon tags are recognized.
In other words, if IE8's 'strict' mode handles, say, a table tag differently than IE7, you'll want to be able to indicate how you're expecting the tag to be interpreted.
Not a bad solution, really. Even gives control to *gasp* the developers (who can choose to set or not set the tag) and the end user (who can, presumably, force modes if they so choose.)
Who needs speed? Up here in Canada, where each and every ballot is hand counted, sometimes twice, we still often need to withold east coast results until the west coast's polls have closed.
Hell, far as I'm concerned, it should be flat-out illegal for any sort of 'results' to be advertised before the final, approved counts are in. "We here at Fox news are calling Florida for Bush." Who the FUCK are you, Fox News, to be 'calling' the election? I could have sworn that, oh, you know, THE PEOPLE call the election? You know, by VOTING?
Ok. By definition, there's question. So why bother to scan?