And all of that terrain is claimed by a state, and if they catch you, they probably would have a few issues with you. If you just sneak in and live in the wild, they could get you for at least immigration violations.
Ok, now let's Godwin this thread and say you have been forced to choose between A, Hitler, and Stalin. A has 2%, Hitler has 49% and Stalin has 49%. Do you really want to cast a ballot for either of them? I'll vote A and campaign for A. This is an extreme example, but if you view both candidates as terrible, it can become impossible to see one as less evil than the other.
A write-in for the presidency doesn't count because you are voting for a slate of electors (who have pledged to vote in a certain way). For Congress, I believe whether they count or not depends on state law.
If Christine O'Donnel can get a major party nomination, I think anyone can. Whether they are crazy or not (and I doubt they are) doesn't matter; they don't have that magic R or D by their name.
As a result of Bush I and Clinton being elected, hundreds of thousands died as well. Same with Bush II, and I predict Obama may squeeze in a nice 100K or so before he gets out of office too, and he's supposed to be anti-war.
The electoral system in this country is rigged so that you essentially have only two choices: D or R. You cast your vote for your electoral (for the Presidential election), and then that party's slate casts the electoral ballots. Because of that system, a majority can vote for one candidate, but end up with a totally different candidate in office. It's happened once or twice. For the midterms, the incumbent has a variety of protections. First, the franking privilege; he can send his mail for free. Certain types of ads against him become illegal before election day (unless that law was struck down as unconstitutional; I can't see how that one could remain); IIRC you can't mention the incumbents name in certain circumstances. His party has also more than likely rigged the district so that he has a pretty outrageous shot at victory; because of that, there are plenty of uncontested races, and parties have been know to gerrymander districts jointly to maintain a balance of power. 3rd parties are shut out.
Not all of us want to study literature and music. I especially hate it when the prof looks down on what you like to read/listen to as "not music/literature".
Exactly. It's not like when I apply to an IT position they'll quiz me on the deeper meanings of The Great Gatsby. All of my English and composition classes have focused around this type of analysis, which is highly specialized and irrelevant for most everyone.
The OSI model has been implemented, if you can call it that. It's more of a descriptive model of how networking works than anything else. Now, OSI protocols, that's another story. IS-IS has been deployed in ISPs, but stuff like CLNP has never been widely used. I believe there was some talk about moving to it though.
Where is most of the US government's power in the Constitution? Nowhere, really. Just a twisting of the commerce clause to mean do anything. Heck, we can go to war without Congress....
DARPA could be construed as necessary and proper for the constitutional power of Congress to maintain an army. The other stuff, not always so much. The Constitution is a whitelist; only those actions specifically made allowed (or that can reasonably be called necessary and proper to use those powers) are allowed. Otherwise, there's no point.
IIRC, you can use a bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone, so that fixes one problem. If you must have a bigger screen, then you can SSH into the phone itself and run the commands on a bigger screen, but that sort of defeats the purpose.
Or, with this mod, for configuring the real IOS: Cisco'- IOS. That's exactly what I thought of. Get a foldup bluetooth keyboard, a jailbroken iPhone with this connector, and you've got a very mobile setup that can charge off of simple USB.
C can have just as large amounts of well-tested library code as Java or any VM or interpreted language can. A better point would be that these languages have features that make it easier to write code, such as garbage collection.
Some areas have a local cable/telco monopoly that is enforced by a franchise agreement with the town or county. Sometimes there is a huge fight to let someone lay fiber (My local county took a year or more to allow Verizon to lay fiber in some areas. Grrr...) Other times you're so far in the sticks that no one thinks you're big enough to be worth laying cable to. Makes me wish we were more densely populated
IIRC, you can just leave that blank and only choose what you want to choose. So, if you wanted to vote on any local referendums, you can do that. I recall skipping voting for some local positions in 2008. YMMV.
They already do. Voter turnout here in the states is very low, especially going into midterm elections. I'm not showing up; I don't like Cantor, nor anyone else on the ballot.
I saw the same thing while flying across the US. The entertainment system crashed, and I was treated to Linux booting up. It was running a 2.4.X series kernel.
It depends. Some of them were good, some bad, just like in any system. Having never been outside the US educational system, I have no idea if the ratio
of good to bad professors is outside the norm.
In general, I've found that the IT/Comp sci./etc. professors are the best, on average. There is a lesser chance that they will just regurgitate textbook material, considering the number of free sources of information competing with them.
They also tend to have (in my experience) the cheapest textbooks. My best professor was actually a grad student who taught (for the most part) with a blackboard, and a blackboard alone. No calculators for his class (it was calculus 1).
You're lucky. Every one of my profs has required the book and taken problems out of the book, readings, etc. Get the wrong edition? Too bad that the material is almost word for word the same; the problems are different. Oh textbook publisher, how do I hate thee.
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And all of that terrain is claimed by a state, and if they catch you, they probably would have a few issues with you. If you just sneak in and live in the wild, they could get you for at least immigration violations.
Ok, now let's Godwin this thread and say you have been forced to choose between A, Hitler, and Stalin. A has 2%, Hitler has 49% and Stalin has 49%. Do you really want to cast a ballot for either of them? I'll vote A and campaign for A. This is an extreme example, but if you view both candidates as terrible, it can become impossible to see one as less evil than the other.
A write-in for the presidency doesn't count because you are voting for a slate of electors (who have pledged to vote in a certain way). For Congress, I believe whether they count or not depends on state law.
If Christine O'Donnel can get a major party nomination, I think anyone can. Whether they are crazy or not (and I doubt they are) doesn't matter; they don't have that magic R or D by their name.
As a result of Bush I and Clinton being elected, hundreds of thousands died as well. Same with Bush II, and I predict Obama may squeeze in a nice 100K or so before he gets out of office too, and he's supposed to be anti-war.
Sounds like a libertarian to me
The electoral system in this country is rigged so that you essentially have only two choices: D or R. You cast your vote for your electoral (for the Presidential election), and then that party's slate casts the electoral ballots. Because of that system, a majority can vote for one candidate, but end up with a totally different candidate in office. It's happened once or twice. For the midterms, the incumbent has a variety of protections. First, the franking privilege; he can send his mail for free. Certain types of ads against him become illegal before election day (unless that law was struck down as unconstitutional; I can't see how that one could remain); IIRC you can't mention the incumbents name in certain circumstances. His party has also more than likely rigged the district so that he has a pretty outrageous shot at victory; because of that, there are plenty of uncontested races, and parties have been know to gerrymander districts jointly to maintain a balance of power. 3rd parties are shut out.
Not all of us want to study literature and music. I especially hate it when the prof looks down on what you like to read/listen to as "not music/literature".
Exactly. It's not like when I apply to an IT position they'll quiz me on the deeper meanings of The Great Gatsby. All of my English and composition classes have focused around this type of analysis, which is highly specialized and irrelevant for most everyone.
The OSI model has been implemented, if you can call it that. It's more of a descriptive model of how networking works than anything else. Now, OSI protocols, that's another story. IS-IS has been deployed in ISPs, but stuff like CLNP has never been widely used. I believe there was some talk about moving to it though.
Where is most of the US government's power in the Constitution? Nowhere, really. Just a twisting of the commerce clause to mean do anything. Heck, we can go to war without Congress....
DARPA could be construed as necessary and proper for the constitutional power of Congress to maintain an army. The other stuff, not always so much. The Constitution is a whitelist; only those actions specifically made allowed (or that can reasonably be called necessary and proper to use those powers) are allowed. Otherwise, there's no point.
IIRC, you can use a bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone, so that fixes one problem. If you must have a bigger screen, then you can SSH into the phone itself and run the commands on a bigger screen, but that sort of defeats the purpose.
Or, with this mod, for configuring the real IOS: Cisco'- IOS. That's exactly what I thought of. Get a foldup bluetooth keyboard, a jailbroken iPhone with this connector, and you've got a very mobile setup that can charge off of simple USB.
C can have just as large amounts of well-tested library code as Java or any VM or interpreted language can. A better point would be that these languages have features that make it easier to write code, such as garbage collection.
Some areas have a local cable/telco monopoly that is enforced by a franchise agreement with the town or county. Sometimes there is a huge fight to let someone lay fiber (My local county took a year or more to allow Verizon to lay fiber in some areas. Grrr...) Other times you're so far in the sticks that no one thinks you're big enough to be worth laying cable to. Makes me wish we were more densely populated
Yes! My CLNP connection is still good. Thanks OSI protocols!
IIRC, you can just leave that blank and only choose what you want to choose. So, if you wanted to vote on any local referendums, you can do that. I recall skipping voting for some local positions in 2008. YMMV.
You know who else was able to estimate the number of German tanks?
They already do. Voter turnout here in the states is very low, especially going into midterm elections. I'm not showing up; I don't like Cantor, nor anyone else on the ballot.
I saw the same thing while flying across the US. The entertainment system crashed, and I was treated to Linux booting up. It was running a 2.4.X series kernel.
of good to bad professors is outside the norm.
In general, I've found that the IT/Comp sci./etc. professors are the best, on average. There is a lesser chance that they will just regurgitate textbook material, considering the number of free sources of information competing with them.
They also tend to have (in my experience) the cheapest textbooks. My best professor was actually a grad student who taught (for the most part) with a blackboard, and a blackboard alone. No calculators for his class (it was calculus 1).
My calc I book was written by a guy named Stewart, and I took that in 09.
Once the problems are written the first time, however, they can be reused each semester.
You're lucky. Every one of my profs has required the book and taken problems out of the book, readings, etc. Get the wrong edition? Too bad that the material is almost word for word the same; the problems are different. Oh textbook publisher, how do I hate thee.