They never did give it back to Bush. Bush called them on the fact that the popular vote in Florida had him winning by 10%, and they backed down, saying it was "Too close to call". That is how it stayed, and is going to, since it really was "Too close to call" (thought not at the time).
What I couldn't understand was why they gave it to Gore in the first place! After only 20% of the returns, they said that Gore took Florida, WHILE THE RETURNS HAD BUSH LEADING BY 10%! How in the world does the math come out of that? I was doing all sorts of checking on the various sites to find out what the real polls were showing, and there were at least five states that were declared as winning someone (Bush OR Gore) when the popular vote was going a completely different way.
As far as I'm concerned, the media was playing us the whole time. They were rigging the "called" states so that it was a dead heat. Sure, it's kind of turning out that way (260-240, with one state left), but all throughout they were keeping it close on purpose. Oh, and while Gore was "Leading" (something like 160-120), the popular vote showed Bush leading by nearly 1.1 million votes!
Finally, I've been thinking about the electoral college, and I've realized that they way that the electoral and popular votes get out of sync is because of low voter turnout. At an extreme, say only 2 people showed up in Florida, and they voted Bush. Sure, the popular vote in the nation is for Gore, but because of the majority of Florida's voters voted Bush, nearly 10% of the national EC vote would go towards him.
I think that this makes sense, though I believe that it should be based on congressional district, rather than by state. The president should be the person that the majority wants in office, and I feel that the EC meets that need. Ideally, though, we'd have many-votes-per-person/one-vote-per-candidate (Can't find the link, karma whores reply).
Bagger Vance was a novel before it was a movie (published in '95). This site was registered three years after the book was published. Sounds like someone read the book, then got the URL. I think that true squatters should be gotten rid of, but all too often valid sites are taken down (and lost in the noise of all the other "Hey! This (real squatter) site was taken down!!").
It's my honest opinion! It's much easier to just ask for them to do the audit themselves, than to get the police involved. You all know how fast they get your HW back to you.
Do you guys really want the alternative of getting the gestapo involved?
I haven't seen much against my current opinion of Bush being smaller government. I'd LOVE to see a link regarding that. But as for civil rights, the thing that Gore said that freaked me out was "And I would appoint people who have a philosophy that I think..." (indicating that he wanted supreme court judges that would interpret the constitution "his way"), and "And, in my view, the Constitution ought to be interpreted as a document that grows with our country and our history."
That last one freaks me out massively. I mean, come one, it's our foundation. Sure, you can change it through amendments, but NOT through the courts. The courts interpret the law, not change it.
Seriously. Isn't this crowd against government expansion? I mean, don't we want less government control over our lives? And less government beuracracy? I'm voting for Bush mainly because I don't want Gore's inflated government. If the economy tanks, you can always just not give out a tax cut. How often has the government just killed the 40,000 new jobs they created because the economy "dipped" for a bit? Never... they end up increasing debt to cover the new jobs.
Just my bit. This isn't a flame/troll/whatever. I just want to know why everyone is for big government. They're both bad, but I'd rather Bush than Gore.
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I just got a.08, without cheeting. No need to time (it's random, anyways, 1-30 seconds). Just hold down the spacebar on the stop button, and let up when it changes.
Hah! I have you all beat. I got a.08 once playing with those stupid stopwatches, and I was 23! I think the real reaction time should be halved, since you were both starting AND stopping the watch.
Of course, I could only get to a.09 on this page. I only dinked with it a few minutes.
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Yes, but as a professional consultant, it is your duty to insure that the best possible advice is given to the client. I don't think that I've ever been with a client that has had real experience getting a project out the door. Too many of them tackle the development process in a very wierd way, almost insuring failure. As a consultant, you need to offer as much "guidance" as you can to make sure that the project reaches a successful outcome. Who wants to spend a year or two of their lives on something that no one wants?
Possibly. You never know on the Internet. Making $70/hr usually isn't a good judge of expertise. Neither is being published in my field of work, or being a recognized leader in what I do. Of course, I'm sure that responding to a troll in a public forum doesn't help any.
Have you seen the kids these days? Even though I'm 25, I'm starting to feel old. I've seen one that was as good as I was after I mentored him for 6 months.. and he was still in high school!
Just a side note: The crop circles are definitely wierd. The crops that are man made are quite different from the "normal" ones. The man made crops, when looked at from an electron microscope, show tearing and breaking of the stalk. The "normally made" crop circles show none of the damage that people cannot help but cause.
While IEEE 1394 is an open standard, the trademark "Firewire" is held by a company (I think it's Apple). That company requires you to pay a licensing fee for each use of "Firewire", and it's not cheap (something like $1/use). Ah, here it is. As shown on this Slashdot newsbit.
Of course Microsoft can sue. SQL Server is justplainbetter than Oracle. Has anyone actually tried to use Oracle? It's a nightmare compared to SQL Server.
At any rate, thank goodness for competition. Have you seen those numbers? Without compteition, we'd probably still be in the dark ages of 100,000 tpmC. Hah.
What about airbags for the falling personal transporter? Not dinky ones like in your car, but the big ones NASA used to pop the Pathfinder mission down on. Could be done, no? And it wouldn't matter if you broke a few ribs, as long as the odds of living we significantly improved.
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They never did give it back to Bush. Bush called them on the fact that the popular vote in Florida had him winning by 10%, and they backed down, saying it was "Too close to call". That is how it stayed, and is going to, since it really was "Too close to call" (thought not at the time).
What I couldn't understand was why they gave it to Gore in the first place! After only 20% of the returns, they said that Gore took Florida, WHILE THE RETURNS HAD BUSH LEADING BY 10%! How in the world does the math come out of that? I was doing all sorts of checking on the various sites to find out what the real polls were showing, and there were at least five states that were declared as winning someone (Bush OR Gore) when the popular vote was going a completely different way.
As far as I'm concerned, the media was playing us the whole time. They were rigging the "called" states so that it was a dead heat. Sure, it's kind of turning out that way (260-240, with one state left), but all throughout they were keeping it close on purpose. Oh, and while Gore was "Leading" (something like 160-120), the popular vote showed Bush leading by nearly 1.1 million votes!
Finally, I've been thinking about the electoral college, and I've realized that they way that the electoral and popular votes get out of sync is because of low voter turnout. At an extreme, say only 2 people showed up in Florida, and they voted Bush. Sure, the popular vote in the nation is for Gore, but because of the majority of Florida's voters voted Bush, nearly 10% of the national EC vote would go towards him.
I think that this makes sense, though I believe that it should be based on congressional district, rather than by state. The president should be the person that the majority wants in office, and I feel that the EC meets that need. Ideally, though, we'd have many-votes-per-person/one-vote-per-candidate (Can't find the link, karma whores reply).
Does he get another check now that they sent him another letter (albiet with a check inside)? :-)
Bagger Vance was a novel before it was a movie (published in '95). This site was registered three years after the book was published. Sounds like someone read the book, then got the URL. I think that true squatters should be gotten rid of, but all too often valid sites are taken down (and lost in the noise of all the other "Hey! This (real squatter) site was taken down!!").
It's my honest opinion! It's much easier to just ask for them to do the audit themselves, than to get the police involved. You all know how fast they get your HW back to you.
Do you guys really want the alternative of getting the gestapo involved?
I haven't seen much against my current opinion of Bush being smaller government. I'd LOVE to see a link regarding that. But as for civil rights, the thing that Gore said that freaked me out was "And I would appoint people who have a philosophy that I think..." (indicating that he wanted supreme court judges that would interpret the constitution "his way"), and "And, in my view, the Constitution ought to be interpreted as a document that grows with our country and our history."
That last one freaks me out massively. I mean, come one, it's our foundation. Sure, you can change it through amendments, but NOT through the courts. The courts interpret the law, not change it.
They BOTH want to ramp up the drug war. That shouldn't be a deciding factor.
Seriously. Isn't this crowd against government expansion? I mean, don't we want less government control over our lives? And less government beuracracy? I'm voting for Bush mainly because I don't want Gore's inflated government. If the economy tanks, you can always just not give out a tax cut. How often has the government just killed the 40,000 new jobs they created because the economy "dipped" for a bit? Never... they end up increasing debt to cover the new jobs.
Just my bit. This isn't a flame/troll/whatever. I just want to know why everyone is for big government. They're both bad, but I'd rather Bush than Gore.
I just got a .08, without cheeting. No need to time (it's random, anyways, 1-30 seconds). Just hold down the spacebar on the stop button, and let up when it changes.
Hah! I have you all beat. I got a .08 once playing with those stupid stopwatches, and I was 23! I think the real reaction time should be halved, since you were both starting AND stopping the watch.
.09 on this page. I only dinked with it a few minutes.
Of course, I could only get to a
Yes, but as a professional consultant, it is your duty to insure that the best possible advice is given to the client. I don't think that I've ever been with a client that has had real experience getting a project out the door. Too many of them tackle the development process in a very wierd way, almost insuring failure. As a consultant, you need to offer as much "guidance" as you can to make sure that the project reaches a successful outcome. Who wants to spend a year or two of their lives on something that no one wants?
I praise God almost every day for what he has provided me. My life truely has been a testament to his power.
Possibly. You never know on the Internet. Making $70/hr usually isn't a good judge of expertise. Neither is being published in my field of work, or being a recognized leader in what I do. Of course, I'm sure that responding to a troll in a public forum doesn't help any.
Reminds me of the poster I put up at my consulting business:
Have you seen the kids these days? Even though I'm 25, I'm starting to feel old. I've seen one that was as good as I was after I mentored him for 6 months.. and he was still in high school!
Just a side note: The crop circles are definitely wierd. The crops that are man made are quite different from the "normal" ones. The man made crops, when looked at from an electron microscope, show tearing and breaking of the stalk. The "normally made" crop circles show none of the damage that people cannot help but cause.
I'm sorry, did anyone know that Signal11 was a guy to begin with? It's not a very gender specific name. Maybe it's Signal's real name?
:)
Wouldn't that be a hoot?
While IEEE 1394 is an open standard, the trademark "Firewire" is held by a company (I think it's Apple). That company requires you to pay a licensing fee for each use of "Firewire", and it's not cheap (something like $1/use).
Ah, here it is. As shown on this Slashdot newsbit.
Of course Microsoft can sue. SQL Server is just plain better than Oracle. Has anyone actually tried to use Oracle? It's a nightmare compared to SQL Server.
At any rate, thank goodness for competition. Have you seen those numbers? Without compteition, we'd probably still be in the dark ages of 100,000 tpmC. Hah.
now THAT would be cool. Computerized etch-a-sketch. Heck, you could convert pictures to etch-a-scketch. wayyy cool.
National Discount Brokers, who's motto is "We take you under our wing", and who's mascot is a mallard.
FYI.
Yeah, what is it? Some kind of pant scam?
Doesn't that violate the laws of entropy? That everything is going towards a more disordered state?
What about airbags for the falling personal transporter? Not dinky ones like in your car, but the big ones NASA used to pop the Pathfinder mission down on. Could be done, no? And it wouldn't matter if you broke a few ribs, as long as the odds of living we significantly improved.
Just and idea.
I mean, hey, they never patented anything that came out of PARC... so they've got to get their money back somehow.
(and yes, I know that they have made a bit of money.. but come on. Ethernet? LEDs? the freaking Mouse?)