If there are more than two candidates running, it's important to fully capture voters preferences. The current single vote, plurality-takes-all vote-counting system works for the two major parties, and against everyone else.
The Condorcet criterion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) is a good way to decide who won a multi-party, single-seat election. It doesn't always provide an answer, though. Instant Runoff voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) is also popular.
Our government's authority is only limited by the ability of people to organize opposition to the government. If a few people, acting as agents of the government, ask companies to violate the law and enable the government to violate the constitution, and those companies say yes, then where is the people's protection? And then newspaper reporters discover this illegal espionage, and the paper's editors choose to suppress the story for a year because "there's a war".
And then five years later, Congress passes a law saying that the companies that did the snooping on the government's behalf get away with it scot free.
The Constitution is only as good as the people enforcing it. If the President can create an emergency that enables him to do what he wants, then the Constitution is irrelavent.
It's up now. I just dowloaded all four packages (my current Mac is PPC, though, so I probably won't be able to run Crossover Mac), but getting Crossover for my Linux box is worth my while. And I put in for the registration code.
Arthroscopic knee surgery may be a placebo for Osteoarthritis, but it is effective for treating injuries.
I tore my meniscus (skiing accident; binding didn't release) last February. Had the surgery in early May. In March and April, I was only barely mobile; walking very carefully so as to not twist my knee at all. Six weeks after surgery, I was again running. Still am. Surgeon warned that I would be at increased risk for osteoarthritis later (compared to an uninjured knee? Or my torn meniscus? Not clear...)
Anyway, my dilemma is whether or not to buy my own skiis and a season pass at the slopes this winter.
I am being completely serious here. Any materials that last that long are more than safe enough. Heck, anything with a nuclear lifetime that long is safer than the Potassium stored in your body*.
Think about it. Radiation is a process whereby mass is converted into energetic particles. Thus the mass itself is the fuel for the radioactivity. The more radiation produced, the faster the mass is converted into that radiation. In result, the mass will burn itself out in a short period of time. Materials with 10,000 year lifespans convert their mass to radiation so slowly that you can count each particle as it is produced. Compared to cosmic radiation, that's a zero risk.
The fallacy in your reasoning is that if you have enough stuff with a 10,000 year half-life, even though its radioactivity-per-gram is low, total radioactivity can be high enough to cause health risks to nearby living creatures.
Use alcohol in a well-ventilated area. Denatured alcohol has methanol in it. You don't want to drink methanol; you don't want to breathe very much of it for the same reason.
My wife tossed her sweatpants into the wash one day, about a year ago. Trouble was, her cell phone was in the pocket. I'm not sure how much of the wash cycle it went through.
As soon as I found out about it, I popped the battery off, and immersed it in water, to get the detergent out. Poured the water out, filled the bucket with tap water again, and gave it another rinse. Then we set the phone aside.
Her phone is a flip phone, with two displays, one outside and a larger one inside. After drying for a few days, there were still bubbles inside the displays. But I could power-on the phone, connect it to a computer, and download the address book.
After about two weeks, all the bubbles were gone. The phone is still in service (I'm too cheap to replace a phone that works perfectly well).
So yeah, wash out the electronics. I don't know whether I'd go with distilled water or very dilute bleach. Dry it off thoroughly. 110 packs a lot more punch than a cell phone battery, so get it good and dry. Maybe put them all in a (big?) box with desiccant and a fan recirculating the air? The fan moves air and moisture from the electronics to the desiccant, which removes the moisture.
Old Apple variable-speed floppies. 400K single-sided, 800K double-sided. Vs. 360K and 720K for single-speed PC floppies.
The original 1984 Mac and the slightly later 1985 Mac 512 used 400K drives. With the 1986 introduction of the Mac Plus, the drives went to 800K. 1.44 Meg floppies were probably around 1988, introduced in the Mac IIx.
Two file-system possibilities: the original MFS (Macintosh File System) and the later HFS (Hierarchical File System). It is likely that HFS was not supported on the 400K drives.
All of this is from memory, and I'm too lazy to double-check. Correct me if I'm wrong....
What color is the sky in your world? It's blue here.
In the 1960s and the 1970s, conservatism stood for segregation. Preservation of a privileged role in society for white males. They opposed workers rights, civil rights, voting by non-whites, and protecting the environment. Conservatives opposed Medicare, calling it "socialism" and using that label as an epithet.
To add to this, 24 of the top 25 sub-prime loan originators were not subject to regulation under the CRA. Therefore, the CRA did not cause problematic sub-prime loans.
That's the mystery. The Republican Party has been the party of fiscal irresponsibility for the last 28 years.
I'm fiscally a conservative (pay the bills on time; live below your means) and for family values, like not dumping your wife because she was disfigured in a car wreck. I'm pro-science.
Six days of creation. Then the generations from Adam to Moses, all spelled out. This spells it out. I don't believe it. But it's literally in the bible.
I don't think President Gore would have ignored Richard Clark and the others who were telling the Bush team that Al Qaeda would turn out to be their biggest threat. President Gore's administration would not have been as fixated on Anti-Ballistic Missiles before 9/11 as the Bush team was.
I don't think President Gore would have responded with "You've covered your ass now" when told "Bin Laden Determined to Attack within the US".
Iraq's invasion was going to happen since Serbia was seen as a victory.
The US never invaded Serbia.
anybody that has any war history under their belts knows there will always be an insurgency to put down after a nation goes down - see also the Werewolves in post WWII Germany.
The "Werewolves" failed to kill any US soldiers. The insurgency in Iraq has killed circa 3,500.
Evolutionists don't go to court to get science taught in Sunday School. Creationists go to court to get their Sunday School taught in Science classes. That's pretty assholish...
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Fox News isn't neutral at all. It was run by Roger Ailes, and frequently acts as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party.
If there are more than two candidates running, it's important to fully capture voters preferences. The current single vote, plurality-takes-all vote-counting system works for the two major parties, and against everyone else.
The Condorcet criterion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) is a good way to decide who won a multi-party, single-seat election. It doesn't always provide an answer, though. Instant Runoff voting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) is also popular.
Our government's authority is only limited by the ability of people to organize opposition to the government. If a few people, acting as agents of the government, ask companies to violate the law and enable the government to violate the constitution, and those companies say yes, then where is the people's protection? And then newspaper reporters discover this illegal espionage, and the paper's editors choose to suppress the story for a year because "there's a war".
And then five years later, Congress passes a law saying that the companies that did the snooping on the government's behalf get away with it scot free.
The Constitution is only as good as the people enforcing it. If the President can create an emergency that enables him to do what he wants, then the Constitution is irrelavent.
Five to Four. The Supreme Court decided the last one Five to Four.
Those 40% may not pay Federal Income Taxes. But they do pay Federal Payroll Taxes, 7.65% of income (matched by their employer), with nothing exempt.
The economy has done better when the President is a Democrat than when the President is a Republican.
http://www.slate.com/id/2199810/
http://www.coba.unr.edu/econ/wp/papers/UNRECONWP06008.pdf
http://www.boom2bust.com/2008/09/10/are-democrats-or-republicans-better-for-the-us-economy/
What wasteful federal spending did you have in mind? How big is it relative to the deficit?
Where does paying down the $10,000,000,000,000 in federal debt fit into your picture?
Start here: http://www.cbo.gov/
It's up now. I just dowloaded all four packages (my current Mac is PPC, though, so I probably won't be able to run Crossover Mac), but getting Crossover for my Linux box is worth my while. And I put in for the registration code.
Arthroscopic knee surgery may be a placebo for Osteoarthritis, but it is effective for treating injuries.
I tore my meniscus (skiing accident; binding didn't release) last February. Had the surgery in early May. In March and April, I was only barely mobile; walking very carefully so as to not twist my knee at all. Six weeks after surgery, I was again running. Still am. Surgeon warned that I would be at increased risk for osteoarthritis later (compared to an uninjured knee? Or my torn meniscus? Not clear...)
Anyway, my dilemma is whether or not to buy my own skiis and a season pass at the slopes this winter.
Context: stuff with a half life of 10,000 years
The fallacy in your reasoning is that if you have enough stuff with a 10,000 year half-life, even though its radioactivity-per-gram is low, total radioactivity can be high enough to cause health risks to nearby living creatures.
Use alcohol in a well-ventilated area. Denatured alcohol has methanol in it. You don't want to drink methanol; you don't want to breathe very much of it for the same reason.
My wife tossed her sweatpants into the wash one day, about a year ago. Trouble was, her cell phone was in the pocket. I'm not sure how much of the wash cycle it went through.
As soon as I found out about it, I popped the battery off, and immersed it in water, to get the detergent out. Poured the water out, filled the bucket with tap water again, and gave it another rinse. Then we set the phone aside.
Her phone is a flip phone, with two displays, one outside and a larger one inside. After drying for a few days, there were still bubbles inside the displays. But I could power-on the phone, connect it to a computer, and download the address book.
After about two weeks, all the bubbles were gone. The phone is still in service (I'm too cheap to replace a phone that works perfectly well).
So yeah, wash out the electronics. I don't know whether I'd go with distilled water or very dilute bleach. Dry it off thoroughly. 110 packs a lot more punch than a cell phone battery, so get it good and dry. Maybe put them all in a (big?) box with desiccant and a fan recirculating the air? The fan moves air and moisture from the electronics to the desiccant, which removes the moisture.
Old Apple variable-speed floppies. 400K single-sided, 800K double-sided. Vs. 360K and 720K for single-speed PC floppies.
The original 1984 Mac and the slightly later 1985 Mac 512 used 400K drives. With the 1986 introduction of the Mac Plus, the drives went to 800K. 1.44 Meg floppies were probably around 1988, introduced in the Mac IIx.
Two file-system possibilities: the original MFS (Macintosh File System) and the later HFS (Hierarchical File System). It is likely that HFS was not supported on the 400K drives.
All of this is from memory, and I'm too lazy to double-check. Correct me if I'm wrong....
If interstellar travel is practical. If it isn't, then no; everyone stays around their own star.
In 2003, I stood about 8 feet away from both John Glenn and Neil Armstrong.
What color is the sky in your world? It's blue here.
In the 1960s and the 1970s, conservatism stood for segregation. Preservation of a privileged role in society for white males. They opposed workers rights, civil rights, voting by non-whites, and protecting the environment. Conservatives opposed Medicare, calling it "socialism" and using that label as an epithet.
To add to this, 24 of the top 25 sub-prime loan originators were not subject to regulation under the CRA. Therefore, the CRA did not cause problematic sub-prime loans.
That's the mystery. The Republican Party has been the party of fiscal irresponsibility for the last 28 years.
I'm fiscally a conservative (pay the bills on time; live below your means) and for family values, like not dumping your wife because she was disfigured in a car wreck. I'm pro-science.
Six days of creation. Then the generations from Adam to Moses, all spelled out. This spells it out. I don't believe it. But it's literally in the bible.
The US was not actively involved in the war in 1940.
I don't think President Gore would have ignored Richard Clark and the others who were telling the Bush team that Al Qaeda would turn out to be their biggest threat. President Gore's administration would not have been as fixated on Anti-Ballistic Missiles before 9/11 as the Bush team was.
I don't think President Gore would have responded with "You've covered your ass now" when told "Bin Laden Determined to Attack within the US".
The US never invaded Serbia.
The "Werewolves" failed to kill any US soldiers. The insurgency in Iraq has killed circa 3,500.
Actually, just counting all of the votes in Florida would have given us President Gore.
The end of an error.
You don't know Jack Chick
Evolutionists don't go to court to get science taught in Sunday School. Creationists go to court to get their Sunday School taught in Science classes. That's pretty assholish...
The problem is that Genesis 1 gets the order wrong. The second and third days before there are stars. land animals before fish.