Testing a failover now must be done very far ahead of Election Day, to avoid any "appearance of impropriety." As. If.
However, the "vote counting" is done at the local precinct level, usually by county elections staff which in some cases are elected, some cases appointed, some cases partisan, some not.
Please keep the facts away from the conspiracy theory!
Add to this, the networks telling you that your candidate lost when the polls weren't even close in the state and you have the sense of confusion that resulted.
And this is why so many people blew a gasket - they went to bed all happy that Gore had won Florida even before the polls had closed there, and had a rude awakening the next morning.
Then comes the second phase of pouting, that Gore won the popular vote. This ignores the fact that many, perhaps a decisive number, of votes were cast "strategically" for third-party candidates.
The third phase of pouting has been the 6-year barrage of prefab news and seditious libel nigh to treason.
They glorify the enemy and denigrate our soldiers. They keep score for the enemy and ignore the hard work of a hundred thousand Americans and millions of Iraqis.
And now the the gangs of Iraq are using chemical weapons. So the debate on how long it would have taken Saddam to manufacture chemical weapons has been ended by the Democrat Party's own allies.
Immature leftist pouting is getting people killed. Every American death in Iraq after the end of major combat is on *their* wooden heads. They dislike Bush, so they called forth their goon squads to attack our soldiers. Every story, and never has that word been more appropriate, is written to cheer the terrorists and help their recruiting.
I think the only reason I used the word "nigh" above, was purely the beauty of the word. Perhaps I do have an "out" to excuse its use. To commit treason against America, they must be Americans, and they are not.
I may be a simple man but a breakdown in Aristotelian logic?
Yeah, that's pushing it. We can still of course use Aristotelian logic and those that follow from it. We will need better quantum logic. As if that's news.
Really, the fields of programming and computer science ought to be separated.
Amen!
Most people studying computer science are doing so because they want to learn programming.
Which is damned unfortunate because it's backwards! You learn programming so you can study the computer science. Your mouth waters at the opportunity to apply - real artists ship! - and thus further explore CS through programming and your life is a high spiral of Sapir-Whorf.
Programming is to computer science what engineering is to physics.
Having worked with many cross-disciplinary engineer-physicists ("enginicists?" "physineers?" Naww - "Diracs!") my ability to distinguish between natural and applied science is permanently damaged, and I find myself in a Lobachevsky-derived space that there is no such thing as natural science;-) (I techne it all into my episteme: dream and day united.)
So I offer a musical metaphor that I used at a jam session, when a non-techie friend noticed that I introduced myself as a "computer programmer" and my younger friend introduced himself as a "software engineer," our mutual non-techie friend asked the difference so here is how I explained,
Way back when, everybody was a computer programmer and before that, people were computers. "Programmer" is a more "traditional" name for what has now grown into different, though intimately related ("intimately" is always an attention-grabber, don't you think?) fields. I said prefer it also because it connotes a progression through time, in analogy with "radio station programmer" etc., and so much of computer programming is time-conscious.
Programming is playing the frackin' instrument. The other parts of CS are composition and music theory. Software Engineering - "would be a good idea";-) is recording engineering and production.
I then went on to note how all of us at the jam session could name a half-dozen recording engineers we would consider virtuosos of the studio, since for real music-heads these people are as important as the stars on stage. Offord, "Caveman" Shirley, Ezrin....
Then the drunk Dancyr-friend on the floor got really loud (superfluous, I know, as anything Dancyr-related is loud) and we gave "Day of the Eagle" another go.
Now I will derive an ought from an is, please read the following at +3dB 'cause that's how I'd speak it:
A well-rounded musician is a good player first, because that opens all the other doors. Even the engineers have instruments to master, from microphones to long Audio Units chains.
If you cannot program, you are worthless for CS. You cannot explore the theory, you can't try things out. You won't experiment with ML just because someone mentioned it at a party. And you'll never dream in Lua.
It's always about the chops. As the academies are dumbed down, they will emit more tokens, effete dilettantes, and other chopless wonders.
In order to protect Computer Science from non-programmers,
Programming must be rescued from Computer Science programs.
Kinda a throw away remark if you listen to it in context. Taken out of context it could be seen as offensive, I guess.
Emphasis added, because context is always the heart of matters like this. Individual words have no meaning outside their context.
Today, fortunes are made and lives are ruined by intentional context dropping. The whole enemedia is nothing but SNL's "Fun With Real Audio" taken to the extreme. "Gotcha" politics depends on context dropping. Pressure groups are vessels empty of context.
The unfortunate first victim of context dropping is humor. By itself, the punch line of any joke is often unfunny or even offensive. "...they thought the bowling balls were nigger eggs!" But in context, the joke is about how some Houstonians and other east Texans are still racists. That the racists are so stupid and so extreme they threw bowling balls into the ocean.
Usually, the context droppers will then insert their own sick interpretations. "He wouldn't have said that if he wasn't a racist/sexist/homophobe deep down inside." Thus they commit projection in public.
The next victim of context dropping is civil discourse. For example, the debate about illegal immigration to the United States. The context droppers always, always, always call it a debate about "immigration," and call their opponents "anti-immigration" and "racist." When the truth is, everybody (except a nut club in Idaho) is in favor of immigration. The only debate is how to treat illegal immigrants without spitting upon the legal immigrants.
Context dropping is such a habit of some it is hard to ascribe any intentionality. It is a form of lying but they do it like they breathe, easily and unconsciously.
Indeed, context droppers can hardly be called "conscious" in any true sense of the word. They have voluntarily become dumb animals, well below the intelligence of a dog who knows what "go for a walk" means.
[The intentional killing of civilians in order to promote a political agenda] could cover just about any form of violence whether perpetrated by governments or terrorists/freedom fighters, east or west.
Bull-fucking-shit.
It matters who you target. If you target civilians, you are a terrorist. If you target the military asset next to the civilians, and some civilians get hurt, that is an unavoidable fact of war. Indeed, those who would site assets next to civilians are drawing a big target on the citizens, and are terrorists.
It is amazing, that six years in, such obvious things must be repeated, but so many people are actually in favor of terrorism they try their damnedest to obscure the nature of terror and make it glorious.
To repeat the simple test: if they target civilians, they are a terrorists.
The point all of you have missed is that Wolf's footage never included vandalism of the police car
According to Wolf and his attorney.
From the AP article,
The footage Wolf posted online Tuesday does not capture the alleged crimes authorities are investigating, defense lawyer David Greene said.
Please, people. A little skepticism. His lawyer said it.
Or further, CNN is attributing to the AP a story that says his lawyer said it. Even shakier!
We do not know if Wolf put everything on his web site. Only Wolf, his lawyer, and the Court know. Two of them can be counted on to say what they're saying regardless of the truth, and the third may never tell.
AP + CNN + lawyer = reason for skepticism
So have all of you decided that you're now aligned with dossiers and profiling of people who exercise their Constitutional rights?
The Constitutional right to damage property and break skulls? I missed that one!
Or is it the Constitutional right of journalists to do whatever they want?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The best part is that he is hiding behind the First Amendment to protect people who refuse to work within its provisions.
How is the Freedom of the Press being abridged here? Wolf was and is able to publish whatever he wants. A Court orders him to habeas some of his corpus of work because it may be evidence of a crime.
The relationship between a reporter and subject is not privileged, the way lawyer-client communication is. A client *needs* to be able to speak freely with his lawyer or doctor. Nobody *needs* to speak freely to a reporter. And certainly, nobody *needs* to be able to riot freely in their presence. Neither do reporters *need* to speak freely with their subjects. The only Constitutional *need* here is that the press be able to publish.
It is the nature of the doctor or lawyer's job to keep things in confidence. It is the nature of a journalist's job to do the opposite.
A shield law is a barely-concealed attempt to protect bad journalists who become part of the story.
Or as in this case, become the story.
"Dude takes pictures of friends doing something dumb - film at 11!"
Reasons which may or may not apply to the company you applied to,
1) AppleScript 2) QuickTime 3) Quartz 4) They like Aqua better than KDE/Gnome/whatever. 5) Macs are some 3-5x cheaper to maintain and last twice as long.
The good news for you is, the world is filled with people who only think of purchase price and are incapable of long-range thinking.
You will find a job with them.
Now, I'm going to install SAMBA on this Windozer so I can share files....
This is why shifting as much transportation to solar and wind as possible makes much more sense that biofuels.
Your scheme means we would need to raise every overpass by three meters so as to allow the masts to pass under. So far, so good.
Imagine the convenience of replacing automatic transmissions with automatic rigging managers to hoist the proper sails and set them for efficient travel. This will create jobs somehow. Great!
We'll need to do something with the Rockies and other mountain ranges. Large windmills at the top can drive pull-chains to which landsailors can attach their sailcars for an assisted portage.
Cities draped over God's Hills will use huge solar collectors to power their pull-chains.
Eventually, we will replace the metal and fiberglass and oil-derived platics in cars with natural alternatives made from hemp. Fiberweed is the future! Hemp rope will replace the evil refined metals in the pull chains.
And the hemp tops will help us forget what civilization was like.
* where the money is going instead? To different NASA projects or to other state projects outside [stable economy]
NASA will spend it on other things. If NASA does not spend it, Congress will decide they didn't need it in the first place, and NASA's budget will shrink. Es verdad, that's how it works: spending is the only way to keep a budget!
* is there less money overall? [shrinking economy]
The United States economy has been growing well since the end of the dotcom bust/Clinton Recession.
* is the budget determined by the President or the Senate?
The Congress determines the budget, per Constitution Article I Section 8. The President submits a budget request to Congress, and can thus influence its contents to a limited extent.
* how frequently are these budgets determined? - how soon could all this budget shrinking really be turned around?
Every year.
* is there consensus on the role of NASA, or is there variation between Democrats and Republicans?
There has been no concensus among the American people on the role of NASA since Armstrong set foot on the Moon. Both major political parties reflect this. Some Libertarians would get rid of NASA through privatization and/or folding its functions into the Department of Defense. I have no idea what the Green view of NASA is - do they like it because it teaches us about Earth, or do they hate it because they hate technology?
* if there had been less spent on Defense [say Iraq war], would that have been allocatable to NASA? Sometimes budgets are drawn from several pools... e.g. Road Tax in Australia is only spent on roads.
Nothing in the federal budget ever takes money away from anything else. While this may seem to violate physical laws, it is nevertheless true. The budget always grows. New programs get new funding. If something's funding is reduced, that money is simply gone from the (next) budget and taxes and debt are not allocated to it.
I try to keep my code very neat and clean. Because it is easier to work with that way and the modern tools help keep it that way.
Similarly, when I work on equipment or car, I'm lining up the screws in the order I remove them, there's nothing near the soldering iron holder, the iron's cord is routed where it won't get stepped on or pulled, and so on.
I like to think I'm exceptionally neat when it counts.
And my "clutter" is actually fairly organized: it *is* a stack and *I know FORTH!*
The problem is when neat people and messy people insist on inflicting *their* workstyle on others, as if it was a universal law.
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
--Dan Quayle
Let's check his facts.
"Essentially the same orbit." True enough, and only Venus is in a more Earth-like orbit. Mars's orbital radius is greater (~1.5AU vs. 1AU), but where Dan really nailed it was in the orbital inclination, which is only 1.85 degrees from Earth's.
"We have seen pictures where there are canals...." It's a surpise to me, but the English language has been retconned to make Schaparelli correct: American Heritage Dictionary has a definition of "canal" that includes, "One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars."
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Testing a failover now must be done very far ahead of Election Day, to avoid any "appearance of impropriety." As. If. Please keep the facts away from the conspiracy theory!
What is a "real band?"
Spinal Tap should be taken more seriously than the Gorons putting together this concert.
Hell, Spinal Tap should *headline* Goraid:
"Stinkin' Up the Great Outdoors" addresses the amazing hypocrisy of environmentalist entertainers who think they can do the planet a favor,
"Sex Farm" is all about Albert Jr. and Tipper Gore just like "Love Story,"
and "Big Bottoms" will be the Hillary Clinton campaign song.
Is Goraid a "real concert?" Or a parody to show how stupid musicians are?
Then comes the second phase of pouting, that Gore won the popular vote. This ignores the fact that many, perhaps a decisive number, of votes were cast "strategically" for third-party candidates.
The third phase of pouting has been the 6-year barrage of prefab news and seditious libel nigh to treason.
They glorify the enemy and denigrate our soldiers. They keep score for the enemy and ignore the hard work of a hundred thousand Americans and millions of Iraqis.
And now the the gangs of Iraq are using chemical weapons. So the debate on how long it would have taken Saddam to manufacture chemical weapons has been ended by the Democrat Party's own allies.
Immature leftist pouting is getting people killed. Every American death in Iraq after the end of major combat is on *their* wooden heads. They dislike Bush, so they called forth their goon squads to attack our soldiers. Every story, and never has that word been more appropriate, is written to cheer the terrorists and help their recruiting.
I think the only reason I used the word "nigh" above, was purely the beauty of the word. Perhaps I do have an "out" to excuse its use. To commit treason against America, they must be Americans, and they are not.
The problem is, it starts with a "u."
"U" is a recent interloper in the alphabet. It wasn't in the alphabet of the Roman Empire.
Therefore, "u" was not in the English that Jesus spoke. "U" is denied by God.
So: the "u" is the forked ears of the devil.
Uranium is Satanic!
So I offer a musical metaphor that I used at a jam session, when a non-techie friend noticed that I introduced myself as a "computer programmer" and my younger friend introduced himself as a "software engineer," our mutual non-techie friend asked the difference so here is how I explained,
Way back when, everybody was a computer programmer and before that, people were computers. "Programmer" is a more "traditional" name for what has now grown into different, though intimately related ("intimately" is always an attention-grabber, don't you think?) fields. I said prefer it also because it connotes a progression through time, in analogy with "radio station programmer" etc., and so much of computer programming is time-conscious.
Programming is playing the frackin' instrument. The other parts of CS are composition and music theory. Software Engineering - "would be a good idea"
I then went on to note how all of us at the jam session could name a half-dozen recording engineers we would consider virtuosos of the studio, since for real music-heads these people are as important as the stars on stage. Offord, "Caveman" Shirley, Ezrin....
Then the drunk Dancyr-friend on the floor got really loud (superfluous, I know, as anything Dancyr-related is loud) and we gave "Day of the Eagle" another go.
Now I will derive an ought from an is, please read the following at +3dB 'cause that's how I'd speak it:
A well-rounded musician is a good player first, because that opens all the other doors. Even the engineers have instruments to master, from microphones to long Audio Units chains.
If you cannot program, you are worthless for CS. You cannot explore the theory, you can't try things out. You won't experiment with ML just because someone mentioned it at a party. And you'll never dream in Lua.
It's always about the chops. As the academies are dumbed down, they will emit more tokens, effete dilettantes, and other chopless wonders.
In order to protect Computer Science from non-programmers,
Programming must be rescued from Computer Science programs.
Today, fortunes are made and lives are ruined by intentional context dropping. The whole enemedia is nothing but SNL's "Fun With Real Audio" taken to the extreme. "Gotcha" politics depends on context dropping. Pressure groups are vessels empty of context.
The unfortunate first victim of context dropping is humor. By itself, the punch line of any joke is often unfunny or even offensive. "...they thought the bowling balls were nigger eggs!" But in context, the joke is about how some Houstonians and other east Texans are still racists. That the racists are so stupid and so extreme they threw bowling balls into the ocean.
Usually, the context droppers will then insert their own sick interpretations. "He wouldn't have said that if he wasn't a racist/sexist/homophobe deep down inside." Thus they commit projection in public.
The next victim of context dropping is civil discourse. For example, the debate about illegal immigration to the United States. The context droppers always, always, always call it a debate about "immigration," and call their opponents "anti-immigration" and "racist." When the truth is, everybody (except a nut club in Idaho) is in favor of immigration. The only debate is how to treat illegal immigrants without spitting upon the legal immigrants.
Context dropping is such a habit of some it is hard to ascribe any intentionality. It is a form of lying but they do it like they breathe, easily and unconsciously.
Indeed, context droppers can hardly be called "conscious" in any true sense of the word. They have voluntarily become dumb animals, well below the intelligence of a dog who knows what "go for a walk" means.
And they vote.
It matters who you target. If you target civilians, you are a terrorist. If you target the military asset next to the civilians, and some civilians get hurt, that is an unavoidable fact of war. Indeed, those who would site assets next to civilians are drawing a big target on the citizens, and are terrorists.
It is amazing, that six years in, such obvious things must be repeated, but so many people are actually in favor of terrorism they try their damnedest to obscure the nature of terror and make it glorious.
To repeat the simple test: if they target civilians, they are a terrorists.
From the AP article,Please, people. A little skepticism. His lawyer said it.
Or further, CNN is attributing to the AP a story that says his lawyer said it. Even shakier!
We do not know if Wolf put everything on his web site. Only Wolf, his lawyer, and the Court know. Two of them can be counted on to say what they're saying regardless of the truth, and the third may never tell.
AP + CNN + lawyer = reason for skepticismThe Constitutional right to damage property and break skulls? I missed that one!
Or is it the Constitutional right of journalists to do whatever they want?The best part is that he is hiding behind the First Amendment to protect people who refuse to work within its provisions.
How is the Freedom of the Press being abridged here? Wolf was and is able to publish whatever he wants. A Court orders him to habeas some of his corpus of work because it may be evidence of a crime.
The relationship between a reporter and subject is not privileged, the way lawyer-client communication is. A client *needs* to be able to speak freely with his lawyer or doctor. Nobody *needs* to speak freely to a reporter. And certainly, nobody *needs* to be able to riot freely in their presence. Neither do reporters *need* to speak freely with their subjects. The only Constitutional *need* here is that the press be able to publish.
It is the nature of the doctor or lawyer's job to keep things in confidence. It is the nature of a journalist's job to do the opposite.
A shield law is a barely-concealed attempt to protect bad journalists who become part of the story.
Or as in this case, become the story.
"Dude takes pictures of friends doing something dumb - film at 11!"
Unless -- the video shows that he damaged the car. In which case his Fifth Amendment right is inviolable.
It happens all too often that journalists are participants. Observation is replaced by activism. And they are too indoctrinated to notice or care.
Treason is the highest form of patriotism.
Or so it would seem.
Reasons which may or may not apply to the company you applied to,
1) AppleScript
2) QuickTime
3) Quartz
4) They like Aqua better than KDE/Gnome/whatever.
5) Macs are some 3-5x cheaper to maintain and last twice as long.
The good news for you is, the world is filled with people who only think of purchase price and are incapable of long-range thinking.
You will find a job with them.
Now, I'm going to install SAMBA on this Windozer so I can share files....
Imagine the convenience of replacing automatic transmissions with automatic rigging managers to hoist the proper sails and set them for efficient travel. This will create jobs somehow. Great!
We'll need to do something with the Rockies and other mountain ranges. Large windmills at the top can drive pull-chains to which landsailors can attach their sailcars for an assisted portage.
Cities draped over God's Hills will use huge solar collectors to power their pull-chains.
Eventually, we will replace the metal and fiberglass and oil-derived platics in cars with natural alternatives made from hemp. Fiberweed is the future! Hemp rope will replace the evil refined metals in the pull chains.
And the hemp tops will help us forget what civilization was like.
Man I hate it when I get a fraction upside-down!
Make that "10 trillion joules" or thereabouts.
I plead lack of coffee.
(Source: Wakypedia)
This, comment #18504355, is the kind of thing that makes me glad I am not an ISP.
It is the kind of thing police at all levels should investigate.
It is the kind of thing that makes ISPs need to keep records of who connected to what when. Ugh. Record-keeping.
Amazing that a discussion which began on such a low note could somehow become even lower, deep into the violently stupid.
I really hope whoever posted #...355 gets a visit from some very serious people.
We need programmers to know assembly.
D'ya think the Rutans skipped over that boring materials science stuff?
I am no slob. (Though I'm culturally half-Slav ;-)
It is a matter of power throttling.
I try to keep my code very neat and clean. Because it is easier to work with that way and the modern tools help keep it that way.
Similarly, when I work on equipment or car, I'm lining up the screws in the order I remove them, there's nothing near the soldering iron holder, the iron's cord is routed where it won't get stepped on or pulled, and so on.
I like to think I'm exceptionally neat when it counts.
And my "clutter" is actually fairly organized: it *is* a stack and *I know FORTH!*
The problem is when neat people and messy people insist on inflicting *their* workstyle on others, as if it was a universal law.
The only person who gets to do that is the boss.
Did the video game cause you to forget the distinction between murder and killing?
Did the video game make your thinking sloppy?
Or do sloppy thinkers gravitate to violent games and leftist politics?
Let's check his facts.
"Essentially the same orbit." True enough, and only Venus is in a more Earth-like orbit. Mars's orbital radius is greater (~1.5AU vs. 1AU), but where Dan really nailed it was in the orbital inclination, which is only 1.85 degrees from Earth's.
"We have seen pictures where there are canals...." It's a surpise to me, but the English language has been retconned to make Schaparelli correct: American Heritage Dictionary has a definition of "canal" that includes, "One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars."
"If there is water there is oxygen." Inarguable.
Dan Quayle really is smarter than his critics.