Historical note: James Garfield was shot by a fellow Republican that was against his policy of civil service reform, saying that he was the stalwart of stalwarts, and proclaiming Arthur president now. Luckily, Chester A. Arthur felt he had to implement the policy of the president he served under after taking the oath of office, and at the end even Mark Twain admitted that one would be hard-pressed to improve upon the Arthur presidency.
Is there a formal name for a classification of balls used in sports activity that might exclude bowling and footballs, and bowling balls while including only balls similar to tennis balls, softballs, and baseballs?
How about names for colors that indicate shades of red and green, but not yellow or purple?
The last time the Speaker of the House was of the opposite political party when there was the prospect of both the president and the vice president being tossed out, he said in such a situation, he would resign after handing the reigns to a Republican vice president.
I would hope that Nancy Pelosi would do the same.
What I meant was that if you're paying for high speed Internet, like the corporation advertises, you are probably doing it to download movies, TV shows, music, and video game data faster, not to save a measly eight seconds downloading a web page.
Even if webpages took a minute to load each, if I were just using the Internet for browsing, I could at least open up a few news articles from an RSS feed and switch to reading them while I wait.
just to go through all that research just to find a way to switch all Windows Vista cursors with the "busy" rotating wheel to confuse their users, come April Fool's Day.
Oh, I have an idea. They can call them "the London Eyes," which will conjure up fond memories of the giant Ferris wheel they have there when the appropriate imagery is used. That way they can run 'public service' ads once every commercial break.
Each of them will start with a child riding on the London Eye, and beneath him large explosions rock the city beneath him while a loud, intimidating voice reminds the audience of the consequences of losing the War on Terrorism. The ad raises the question of just how much the privacy proponents are being warped by terrorist propaganda by warping their talking points to look similar.
The focus zooms into the child's frightened eyes as the first explosion happens, and the child's joyous face where everything changes into rainbows and butterflies when the ad changes to "if you prevent this atrocity from happening by supporting the Terrorism and Radicalization Prevention Act."
There could also be an "if you don't" part where they show the child carrying an AK-47 and wearing a turban. It ends with the image of the child on the Ferris wheel beneath a rainbow transposed onto another Ferris wheel with the eye in the center, with the first image fading away.
It ends with "The London Eye is watching out for you." I really don't think anyone that says it resembles Big Brother would stand a chance with the imagery from before, even with the 5 second message at the end.
If an alien world were encountered with a Bliznorp claiming to receive instruction from Q'thalis Almighty, would the Pope claim to be God's infallible messenger on Earth, or for everywhere outside heaven? For his followers, then, wouldn't the Pope need to confirm the Bliznorp's authority on the homeworld of the sentient grey blobs of Shronos, lest a new "Space Catholicism" denomination be created believing in individual Popes for each inhabited world?
A dwarf planet is not a planet. Yeah, try wrapping your head around that one. They used some scientific formula that takes its mass compared to the mass of all the objects around it and how far away those objects are, and all the other planets have results thousands of times bigger than the dwarf planets'. For instance, about everything in the vicinity of Jupiter has either crashed into it, become a satellite, or was ejected far away from it.
As for Google Earth, I hear it's worse than the programs already out there. Want to see the sky from your location? Use Google Earth. Want to view the sky from locations other than Earth? Use Celestia. Want to explore the geography of other planets? Use NASA World Wind. Want precise measurements in arcseconds of how objects would appear to surface-dwellers of other planets? NASA has a tool for that, too. On Mercury, the Sun appears 32 times bigger than the Moon or Sun look from Earth. It has the planets and all their biggest moons, plus Pluto, but Ceres and Eris aren't included yet.
You have to take into account the Earth wobbling slightly about the Earth-Moon barycenter, the Earth orbiting the Sun, the Sun orbiting the barycenter of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy orbiting the barycenter of the Local Group while it is drawn to the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Local Group being drawn to the Virgo Cluster while it's probably moving about the Virgo Supercluster.
Physicists, say the ever reliable Wikipeda (it's okay to use it while mocking it if I check it's sources, right?) are still debating on a step-up from superclusters called a galaxy filament. It makes me think that making sure Earth would be in the exact same space relative to everything else that influences its parent bodies' orbits would be almost as difficult as tracking the location of every object in the universe in the first place.
Since the Earth is moving at 30 km/s relative to the Sun, the Sun is moving at 240 km/s in a nearly circular orbit, and the Milky Way is moving at 100 km/s relative to the center of mass of the Local Group, maybe if you went back a day, you'd be 230 times the distance between Earth and the Moon, or half an AU, and since Warp Factor One in the original Star Trek series' inconsistent ship manual for the writers said that equals the speed of light, accounting for the location discrepancy would only take about 5 minutes, not taking into account the Virgo Supercluster, right?
There was a bill here in Tennessee that would have banned discussion of homsexuality from all classrooms, and it overwhelmingly failed on the basis that it'd have to come up sometime. One example given was a student asking if Ernest Hemingway wrote those poems for a girlfriend, then the teacher answers, then the teacher gets fired. So maybe it'd come up...somewhere...
I'm not talking about the 2000 general election. I'm talking about the 2008 California primary that the Green Party holds. You know, like the ones that Democrats and Republicans have. Here's where I got the idea - from the Green Party website's press release section. Here's the article. The other person that replied to my post is right, though.
Also, I'm sorry my last post got bunched together without spacing; I forgot I had to do HTML. By the way, the Draft Nader Committee guy who's probably going to give all his delegates to Nader is named Howie Hawkins, which isn't a pseudonym, despite the alliteration.
whether he likes it or not. He won in California, the state with the most delegates, by 60%. They have over 100 while all other states have 4 to 16. In states where he can't be on the ballot in the Green primaries, they have someone from the Draft Nader committee, who will presumably tell his delegates to all vote for Nader. What happens if he wins, but doesn't run? He essentially gets to single-handedly pick the Green nominee.
In second place is Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat member of the House of Representative and the Green running with the most political experience, but nearly all media attention she's received is for striking a security guard with her first after being caught running through the halls without the badge identifying her as a Congresswoman, and also saying "Al Gore's Negro tolerance level isn't very high. He only has one Negro around him at maximum at all times."
As someone earlier mentioned, the Green Party weirdly doesn't seem fond of Al Gore. In third place is Kat Swift, whose main political experience is being co-chair of the Texas Green Party and coming in 2nd place for city council. Get this---while running for president, she's also running for city council! Just because it's a third party, doesn't mean it's better than the two in power.
The Green Party seems to be the only third party tracking how many delegates each candidate has, but I saw while researching third parties that in Minnesota, all Constitution Party candidates available in their caucuses were Republicans or Democrats, minus one guy I'd never heard of with 2.5% of the vote, and Ron Paul won with over 80%, despite saying he would not run on a third party ticket. The Constitution Party, from their website, looks like the Republican Party without support for the Iraq War or warrantless wiretapping or anti-drug laws, but they mention Jesus in the preamble of their platform.
It's pitiful that 2 out of 3 of the third parties the media ever talks about seem to be in favor of people that are not running. Also, I'm new here, so be nice.
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Historical note: James Garfield was shot by a fellow Republican that was against his policy of civil service reform, saying that he was the stalwart of stalwarts, and proclaiming Arthur president now. Luckily, Chester A. Arthur felt he had to implement the policy of the president he served under after taking the oath of office, and at the end even Mark Twain admitted that one would be hard-pressed to improve upon the Arthur presidency.
Hey, Herbert Hoover may have been a terrible president, but at least he was a humanitarian!
How about names for colors that indicate shades of red and green, but not yellow or purple?
That's only if a new Vice President isn't appointed and confirmed by the Speaker of the House-turned-President before she resigns.
Technically, even the Sun orbits a point 7% outside its surface, because of the gravitational effect of Jupiter
The last time the Speaker of the House was of the opposite political party when there was the prospect of both the president and the vice president being tossed out, he said in such a situation, he would resign after handing the reigns to a Republican vice president. I would hope that Nancy Pelosi would do the same.
Actually, Answers.com and all the other sites of Wikipedia are just taking advantage of the GNU Document License.
Even if webpages took a minute to load each, if I were just using the Internet for browsing, I could at least open up a few news articles from an RSS feed and switch to reading them while I wait.
I know that I'm not paying for a faster Internet connection to get Internet pages to load in two seconds instead of ten.
just to go through all that research just to find a way to switch all Windows Vista cursors with the "busy" rotating wheel to confuse their users, come April Fool's Day.
Each of them will start with a child riding on the London Eye, and beneath him large explosions rock the city beneath him while a loud, intimidating voice reminds the audience of the consequences of losing the War on Terrorism. The ad raises the question of just how much the privacy proponents are being warped by terrorist propaganda by warping their talking points to look similar.
The focus zooms into the child's frightened eyes as the first explosion happens, and the child's joyous face where everything changes into rainbows and butterflies when the ad changes to "if you prevent this atrocity from happening by supporting the Terrorism and Radicalization Prevention Act."
There could also be an "if you don't" part where they show the child carrying an AK-47 and wearing a turban. It ends with the image of the child on the Ferris wheel beneath a rainbow transposed onto another Ferris wheel with the eye in the center, with the first image fading away.
It ends with "The London Eye is watching out for you." I really don't think anyone that says it resembles Big Brother would stand a chance with the imagery from before, even with the 5 second message at the end.
If an alien world were encountered with a Bliznorp claiming to receive instruction from Q'thalis Almighty, would the Pope claim to be God's infallible messenger on Earth, or for everywhere outside heaven? For his followers, then, wouldn't the Pope need to confirm the Bliznorp's authority on the homeworld of the sentient grey blobs of Shronos, lest a new "Space Catholicism" denomination be created believing in individual Popes for each inhabited world?
A dwarf planet is not a planet. Yeah, try wrapping your head around that one. They used some scientific formula that takes its mass compared to the mass of all the objects around it and how far away those objects are, and all the other planets have results thousands of times bigger than the dwarf planets'. For instance, about everything in the vicinity of Jupiter has either crashed into it, become a satellite, or was ejected far away from it. As for Google Earth, I hear it's worse than the programs already out there. Want to see the sky from your location? Use Google Earth. Want to view the sky from locations other than Earth? Use Celestia. Want to explore the geography of other planets? Use NASA World Wind. Want precise measurements in arcseconds of how objects would appear to surface-dwellers of other planets? NASA has a tool for that, too. On Mercury, the Sun appears 32 times bigger than the Moon or Sun look from Earth. It has the planets and all their biggest moons, plus Pluto, but Ceres and Eris aren't included yet.
You have to take into account the Earth wobbling slightly about the Earth-Moon barycenter, the Earth orbiting the Sun, the Sun orbiting the barycenter of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy orbiting the barycenter of the Local Group while it is drawn to the Andromeda Galaxy, and the Local Group being drawn to the Virgo Cluster while it's probably moving about the Virgo Supercluster.
Physicists, say the ever reliable Wikipeda (it's okay to use it while mocking it if I check it's sources, right?) are still debating on a step-up from superclusters called a galaxy filament. It makes me think that making sure Earth would be in the exact same space relative to everything else that influences its parent bodies' orbits would be almost as difficult as tracking the location of every object in the universe in the first place.
Since the Earth is moving at 30 km/s relative to the Sun, the Sun is moving at 240 km/s in a nearly circular orbit, and the Milky Way is moving at 100 km/s relative to the center of mass of the Local Group, maybe if you went back a day, you'd be 230 times the distance between Earth and the Moon, or half an AU, and since Warp Factor One in the original Star Trek series' inconsistent ship manual for the writers said that equals the speed of light, accounting for the location discrepancy would only take about 5 minutes, not taking into account the Virgo Supercluster, right?
There was a bill here in Tennessee that would have banned discussion of homsexuality from all classrooms, and it overwhelmingly failed on the basis that it'd have to come up sometime. One example given was a student asking if Ernest Hemingway wrote those poems for a girlfriend, then the teacher answers, then the teacher gets fired. So maybe it'd come up...somewhere...
Also, I'm sorry my last post got bunched together without spacing; I forgot I had to do HTML. By the way, the Draft Nader Committee guy who's probably going to give all his delegates to Nader is named Howie Hawkins, which isn't a pseudonym, despite the alliteration.
whether he likes it or not. He won in California, the state with the most delegates, by 60%. They have over 100 while all other states have 4 to 16. In states where he can't be on the ballot in the Green primaries, they have someone from the Draft Nader committee, who will presumably tell his delegates to all vote for Nader. What happens if he wins, but doesn't run? He essentially gets to single-handedly pick the Green nominee. In second place is Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat member of the House of Representative and the Green running with the most political experience, but nearly all media attention she's received is for striking a security guard with her first after being caught running through the halls without the badge identifying her as a Congresswoman, and also saying "Al Gore's Negro tolerance level isn't very high. He only has one Negro around him at maximum at all times." As someone earlier mentioned, the Green Party weirdly doesn't seem fond of Al Gore. In third place is Kat Swift, whose main political experience is being co-chair of the Texas Green Party and coming in 2nd place for city council. Get this---while running for president, she's also running for city council! Just because it's a third party, doesn't mean it's better than the two in power. The Green Party seems to be the only third party tracking how many delegates each candidate has, but I saw while researching third parties that in Minnesota, all Constitution Party candidates available in their caucuses were Republicans or Democrats, minus one guy I'd never heard of with 2.5% of the vote, and Ron Paul won with over 80%, despite saying he would not run on a third party ticket. The Constitution Party, from their website, looks like the Republican Party without support for the Iraq War or warrantless wiretapping or anti-drug laws, but they mention Jesus in the preamble of their platform. It's pitiful that 2 out of 3 of the third parties the media ever talks about seem to be in favor of people that are not running. Also, I'm new here, so be nice.