2. Certainly the criminals can get out earlier with good behaviour.
Nope. This is VA, where we have a truth in sentencing law. For any crime committed after Jan. 1st, 1995 there is no parole, no time off for good behavior.
Of your requirements, really only the last one is important.
All voting machine should produce a paper ballot which is human readable. The machine should print the paper ballot and the voter deposits the paper ballot in a locked ballot box.
If there is any question about the vote as recorded by the machine, the paper ballots can be counted. This paper count always overrides the electronic count.
Since the paper ballot is human readable the voter can verify that the ballot is correct before depositing it in the ballot box.
The only potential disadvantages to this are: 1) Cost of paper 2) In ability of the blind to vote without aid. This could be fixed via a special printer to print braille ballots.
It shouldn't be that hard or expensive to make this work. You don't need open source to make this work. Even having open source there would be problems, such as introduction of back door via the compiler ala Thompson.
I live not to far from the Pentagon (about 3mi as the crow flies), and I was at home on 9/11. the emergency alert system wasn't actived here. Of course every media outlet was covering it, so I don't know what good it would have done.
Actually, if you think about what happended (and is happening) in Afghanistan, the US Army is outsourcing a lot of the fighting. That was the whole purpose of sending in large number of special forces troop to liase with the northern aliance and get the to provied the troop on the ground while the US provided fire support from a distance.
The only thing the photographer can ever do with the pictures from your wedding legally without a release is to put them in his book.
Actually, photographers need a model release of any people appearing in their portfolio (aka book). This is because a model release is required for any commerical use and their portfolio is a form of advertising and therefore commerical.
Typically, the wedding contract will contain language which allows it to be used as a model release.
PPP, which has been in use by people with modems to access the internet for more than a decade, and more recently also with DSL and PPPoE, stands for Peer to Peer Protocol.
No it doesn't. PPP stands for Point to Point Protocol.
If you ran four channels at ten times speed, you would have the content of forty channels for four band slots.
Um....not quite. If you run a channel at ten times speed, you will take up ten times the bandwidth, unless you start dropping frames, in which case you can't slow it back down again.
CWRU has had fiber to every dorm room on campus since 1988 (yes, 16 years ago).
I was a student there when they installed it. Most of the academic building where wired in 1987, dorms in 1988 (at least 6 pair to every room) and off campus housing (e.g Fraternities and Sororities) in 1989 and 1990.
In 1988, the campus bookstore would loan you an ethernet card and a fiber transceiver (I believe at that time it was 10Mb/s, a precursor to the 10BaseFL standard).
Apparently, they read in a book that after the body gets used to not having food, it draws the energy from the body itself and doesn't need food anymore.
Although you phrased it rather simply, it is in fact true. When you don't eat food for a while, your body will use parts of itself for energy. Which is how you loose weight, your body is using the fat stores for energy.
Other metabolic changes also occur, so that when you do start to eat food again, your body is much more effiecent at using it for energy. I don't however think that this would be beneficial for sports performance because the more effiecent processes are usually slower. An example of this is aerobic vs. anaerobic energy production in muscles. Anaerobic is less efficent and has toxic and painful by products (lactic acid) but can produce energy quickly and without oxygen.
I have a good friend who works at NASA HQ. According to her, the whole moon/mars idea is basically a boondoogle to shift NASA subcontractor jobs into Ohio and Florida, two very important states for the 2004 elections.
So it makes perfect sense that the dems are going to want to block it.
Problem is that without a public offering it is very difficult to reward the worker bees who created the company by working 20-hour days for the first x years. You can only distribute closely-held shares up to a point, as Microsoft found.
Um...Ever heard of this thing call cash? You can give it to people in exchange for them providing you with goods and services.
Most "worker bees" would prefer cash to stock options.
$1 in govt spending, that was raised via taxes, will increase GDP by $1.
$1 in govt spending, that was raised via borrowing (e.g. deficit spending), will increase GDP by $3.
This is the idea behind the deficit spending in the early 80's, as well as why W is interested in cutting taxes and deficit spending to try and boost the recovery.
Your typical Israeli office has native speakers of at least 5-6 languages.
How is this different from the US? In my department people are native speakers of English, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Romanian, and Hindi, and that isn't counting the various dialects of Chinese and Hindi.
The question posed, then, is what do we do with all the people who will soon be unemployed by robots? Aside from forming labor unions and legislating inefficiency, what is the solution? I cannot picture any true capitalism managing to care for people displaced by robots, which will only happen with increasing regularity as robotics becomes a better-solved problem.
The cost of labor in other areas will drop as the labor force is retrained to work in these other areas. For example, maybe they'll be retrained and work in the security industry, inspected luggage for airlines.
Maybe services currently very expensive due to high skilled labor costs will drop in price.
I don't understand why everytime India advances technologically, people immediately think "oh they have nuclear weapons".
Because many people believe that India has something to prove.
The US has undisputed military and nuclear capabilities. India doesn't. India needs/wants to prove it's technical capabilities to the world in this area.
Things become declassified some time after it no longer serves any purpose to keep those things secret. There is no magical automatic expiration date on sensitive information.
Not exactly true. In the US, there is a time limit on classification. I believe it is current 25 years for documents classified secret. If at the end of this time period a document will be automattically declassified, unless certain steps are taken to prevent this declassification.
Basically, at the 25 year mark it goes from a default of classified until to explicitly declassified, to a default of declassified, unless explicitly classified.
Of course, you must still go through a FOIA request to get access to the documents.
Actually, I've been out of school(both undergrad and grad) for a number of years, and I have been quite successful in business, and have had several "Real jobs", including running very successful consulting business.
I can write much better than this, but I don't bother to spend the time to do so. I usually don't even proofread posts to slashdot, so my spelling, grammar, and general sentence construction are terrible in my posts here.
If you are able to capture more information in the field, you then increase your option to make decisions at printing time.
Although this is true, it is not true that adams have wanted to wait to do everything in post processing.
Often he would expose and develope the negatives to make it easy to get a good print. If he always wanted as much info captured in the field, he would have shot and developed N-2 all the time.
I'm the son of a professor of organic chemistry, former winner to the NJ state award in chemistry, which helped paid for my first semester of college. I never had to spell anything, we talk entirely in equations and diagram, with a few ball and spring models thrown in for comic relief.:)
One of Adams's favorite developers was Kodak HC-110. This is a liquid concentrate used at very high dilutions (Adams actually favored it at dilutions much higher than Kodak recommends) with an extremely long shelf life. I've heard it was intentionally developed as an environmentally friendly developer (I believe it's free of metol, pyrogallol, and Paraphenylene Diamine, the more toxic developing agents). Nowadays there are even developers based on vitamin-C (XTOL, maybe? I've never used it).
Yes, XTOL is based on vitamin-C as a developing agent.
The reason Adams like HC-110 at very high dilutions is that it reduces the solvent effect during development resulting in high acutance and therefore very sharp negatives. This will also increase grain, but since he was shooting large format, the grain isn't much of an issue.
pyro is really nasty stuff, but can produce wonderful negatives. Edward Weston was a big user of pyro developers and it is believe that they contributed significant to his parkinson's disease.
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The same way that Ashcroft can say that he has eliminated terrorism and crime.
Nope. This is VA, where we have a truth in sentencing law. For any crime committed after Jan. 1st, 1995 there is no parole, no time off for good behavior.
No such thing as parole in Virginia for any crime committed after Jan. 1st, 1995. Virginia has a truth in sentencing act that eliminates parole.
Of your requirements, really only the last one is important.
All voting machine should produce a paper ballot which is human readable. The machine should print the paper ballot and the voter deposits the paper ballot in a locked ballot box.
If there is any question about the vote as recorded by the machine, the paper ballots can be counted. This paper count always overrides the electronic count.
Since the paper ballot is human readable the voter can verify that the ballot is correct before depositing it in the ballot box.
The only potential disadvantages to this are:
1) Cost of paper
2) In ability of the blind to vote without aid. This could be fixed via a special printer to print braille ballots.
It shouldn't be that hard or expensive to make this work. You don't need open source to make this work. Even having open source there would be problems, such as introduction of back door via the compiler ala Thompson.
I live not to far from the Pentagon (about 3mi as the crow flies), and I was at home on 9/11. the emergency alert system wasn't actived here. Of course every media outlet was covering it, so I don't know what good it would have done.
Actually, if you think about what happended (and is happening) in Afghanistan, the US Army is outsourcing a lot of the fighting. That was the whole purpose of sending in large number of special forces troop to liase with the northern aliance and get the to provied the troop on the ground while the US provided fire support from a distance.
Actually, photographers need a model release of any people appearing in their portfolio (aka book). This is because a model release is required for any commerical use and their portfolio is a form of advertising and therefore commerical.
Typically, the wedding contract will contain language which allows it to be used as a model release.
No it doesn't. PPP stands for Point to Point Protocol.
Um....not quite. If you run a channel at ten times speed, you will take up ten times the bandwidth, unless you start dropping frames, in which case you can't slow it back down again.
CWRU has had fiber to every dorm room on campus since 1988 (yes, 16 years ago).
I was a student there when they installed it. Most of the academic building where wired in 1987, dorms in 1988 (at least 6 pair to every room) and off campus housing (e.g Fraternities and Sororities) in 1989 and 1990.
In 1988, the campus bookstore would loan you an ethernet card and a fiber transceiver (I believe at that time it was 10Mb/s, a precursor to the 10BaseFL standard).
Barnes & Noble isn't a Seattle-area based MegaCorp.
The B&N HQ is in NYC and the first store was in IL.
Although you phrased it rather simply, it is in fact true. When you don't eat food for a while, your body will use parts of itself for energy. Which is how you loose weight, your body is using the fat stores for energy.
Other metabolic changes also occur, so that when you do start to eat food again, your body is much more effiecent at using it for energy. I don't however think that this would be beneficial for sports performance because the more effiecent processes are usually slower. An example of this is aerobic vs. anaerobic energy production in muscles. Anaerobic is less efficent and has toxic and painful by products (lactic acid) but can produce energy quickly and without oxygen.
I have a good friend who works at NASA HQ. According to her, the whole moon/mars idea is basically a boondoogle to shift NASA subcontractor jobs into Ohio and Florida, two very important states for the 2004 elections.
So it makes perfect sense that the dems are going to want to block it.
You can actually get most of that info from a credit report. No need for a special database.
I always thought that respect was something that needed to be earned. Maybe no other countries have earn our respect. :)
Um...Ever heard of this thing call cash? You can give it to people in exchange for them providing you with goods and services.
Most "worker bees" would prefer cash to stock options.
The rule I learned in Macro Econ many years ago.
$1 in govt spending, that was raised via taxes, will increase GDP by $1.
$1 in govt spending, that was raised via borrowing (e.g. deficit spending), will increase GDP by $3.
This is the idea behind the deficit spending in the early 80's, as well as why W is interested in cutting taxes and deficit spending to try and boost the recovery.
How is this different from the US? In my department people are native speakers of English, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Romanian, and Hindi, and that isn't counting the various dialects of Chinese and Hindi.
The cost of labor in other areas will drop as the labor force is retrained to work in these other areas. For example, maybe they'll be retrained and work in the security industry, inspected luggage for airlines.
Maybe services currently very expensive due to high skilled labor costs will drop in price.
Because many people believe that India has something to prove.
The US has undisputed military and nuclear capabilities. India doesn't. India needs/wants to prove it's technical capabilities to the world in this area.
Not exactly true. In the US, there is a time limit on classification. I believe it is current 25 years for documents classified secret. If at the end of this time period a document will be automattically declassified, unless certain steps are taken to prevent this declassification.
Basically, at the 25 year mark it goes from a default of classified until to explicitly declassified, to a default of declassified, unless explicitly classified.
Of course, you must still go through a FOIA request to get access to the documents.
I can write much better than this, but I don't bother to spend the time to do so. I usually don't even proofread posts to slashdot, so my spelling, grammar, and general sentence construction are terrible in my posts here.
Although this is true, it is not true that adams have wanted to wait to do everything in post processing.
Often he would expose and develope the negatives to make it easy to get a good print. If he always wanted as much info captured in the field, he would have shot and developed N-2 all the time.
I'm the son of a professor of organic chemistry, former winner to the NJ state award in chemistry, which helped paid for my first semester of college. I never had to spell anything, we talk entirely in equations and diagram, with a few ball and spring models thrown in for comic relief. :)
Yes, XTOL is based on vitamin-C as a developing agent.
The reason Adams like HC-110 at very high dilutions is that it reduces the solvent effect during development resulting in high acutance and therefore very sharp negatives. This will also increase grain, but since he was shooting large format, the grain isn't much of an issue.
pyro is really nasty stuff, but can produce wonderful negatives. Edward Weston was a big user of pyro developers and it is believe that they contributed significant to his parkinson's disease.