Hey. As a college student with no understanding of the real world or knowledge of your financial situation, I say to get the fuck out of there. Go find another job, man.
Is this that important? I know I wrote a Prisoner's Dilemma bot back in 2000 that could consistently beat Tit-for-Tat, and my classmates wrote bots that consistently beat mine. I had thought Tit-for-Tat was just the champion of a particularly famous PD tournament.
This is law. Part of the game is changing the rules. Why should the state elect the President, other than that's how the law currently is? It can be changed if we want, and that's what's under discussion.
I don't care about the states when it comes to Ferderal elections, and I don't think I'm alone. Yes, in the past, people wanted to protect the power of their state from other, larger states, but I don't see how that's relevant to the idea of modern electoral reform. It is, as you say, history, not present reality, and while a knowledge of history is helpful to understand how we arrived at the current situation, there is no reason we need to bound by how people once felt.
Why not just have a lock that requires some external manipulation to release? You walk into the voting box and cast your vote by some electronic means. The system then locks until you exit the box and you or an election official presses the release button. This means only one person can cast one vote at a time, as after they vote, the system is locked until they exit the box.
Ummm...that's certainly not true in New Jersey. In New Jersey you can vote by absentee ballot for any of several reasons, including illness, business trip or being in college in another state.
Since the elections themselves are run by the individual states, I imagine that such procedures vary dratically from state to state.
I'm somewhat confused as to how this makes any legal sense at all. It appears they have been granted a patent which they use for squashing out prior art. Hoe does this even make sense?
Ok...overall, PJ did an awesome job. There were however, a few details that bugged me. First of all, Glamdring didn't glow! It was Gondolin-forged too, it should glow around Orcs. Another annoying thing were the elven-swords in general. They're suppoeosed to be straight, not curved! And Boromir was blond...wtk? Yes, I realize that everyone pictures him that way, but he was Gondorim,and therefore dark-haired. Ah well. Overall, Boromir and Aragorn were really cool. Another thing was the fact that they never mentioned the reforging of Narsil, or where the elven-cloaks came from. And Gimli never met Galadriel. And Galdriel was too new-agey. And FRODO KEPT DYING! And don't even get me started on that stupid Wizard Fight....:-(.
Ok...that's the bad stuff. The good stuff was really good. Legolas kicked so high! Did you see that scene where he ran up the cave troll's LEASH? He tightrope-walked up it! And he walked on snow and shot arrows so fast. I didn't even know it was possible to stab someone with an arrow and then shoot someone else with the same arrow. And I liked his relationship with Gimli: they both acted like racist bigots, which was a good way of doing it. And Pippin and Merry were cool. They acted as comic relief, but they were definitely not helpless. I loved the scene where Frodo left the Fellowship, and they lead the Orcs away. I didn't like the choice of Sean Astin as Sam: that's not at all what I pictured him looking like, but he definitly acted like Sam. And then there was all the detail. Wow. Did anyone else catch the White Tree on Boromir's cuffs? Or the Star of Feanor on the ground at the Council of Elrond? Or the map from the Hobbit in Bilbo's house? Wow again. There were also a few changes PJ made that I liked. Especially I liked the way Frodo opened the Moria-Doors, and connected it to a riddle. And although they cut Bombadill, the escape from the Shire was well-done. Although, they should have explained that Nazgul dislike crossing running water. Finally, two things I loved. I loved Agnorath (sp?), the statues of Elendil and Isildur. And the Balrog. That is SO not how I pictured the Balrog. However, it was
awesome. The horns disconcerted me, but it WAS a balrog. Tho the scene with Gandalf hanging on the ledge was odd, they should have run forwards to rescure him, the rest of that sequence was great. Overall, I give the movie a Yayfor!
The first thing that would happen after creating such a solution would be the FBI showing up at your door without a warrent and arresting you under the DMCA.
So what? Someone is not trying to sell the liscense, they're trying to sell the physical disks. If I go to the store and buy a piece of software, I don't buy the liscense. I buy the physical disks and whatnot, and they're MINE! I won't be bound by the EULA till I actually break the seal on the disk. I can, if I so choose, resell the disks. For all I know, the buyer wants to use them to make pretty sparks in a microwave! It's similar to a book. If I buy a book, I can't copy and sell copies, and I don't own the copyright. I, do however, OWN the actual poaper and ink of which the book is made. When I buy software from the store, I don't sign anything that says that I am actually leasing the physical media and that I can't resell it. I am purchasing the media, and it becomes mine to do with as I please. The software is different story, but that which is sold, is actually and physically sold.
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Hmm...that's very interesting. Do you have documentation on this, or at least the approximate date it happened?
Hey. As a college student with no understanding of the real world or knowledge of your financial situation, I say to get the fuck out of there. Go find another job, man.
Which ones are the Republicans again?
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Is this that important? I know I wrote a Prisoner's Dilemma bot back in 2000 that could consistently beat Tit-for-Tat, and my classmates wrote bots that consistently beat mine. I had thought Tit-for-Tat was just the champion of a particularly famous PD tournament.
This is law. Part of the game is changing the rules. Why should the state elect the President, other than that's how the law currently is? It can be changed if we want, and that's what's under discussion.
I don't care about the states when it comes to Ferderal elections, and I don't think I'm alone. Yes, in the past, people wanted to protect the power of their state from other, larger states, but I don't see how that's relevant to the idea of modern electoral reform. It is, as you say, history, not present reality, and while a knowledge of history is helpful to understand how we arrived at the current situation, there is no reason we need to bound by how people once felt.
According to a recent NYT article, teenage pregnancy is at an all time low. As in, a low for as long as they've been keeping such statistics.
So, apparently you didn't have the fudge brownies or the brie. The food was pretty damn good, just not filling.
Why not just have a lock that requires some external manipulation to release? You walk into the voting box and cast your vote by some electronic means. The system then locks until you exit the box and you or an election official presses the release button. This means only one person can cast one vote at a time, as after they vote, the system is locked until they exit the box.
Ummm...that's certainly not true in New Jersey. In New Jersey you can vote by absentee ballot for any of several reasons, including illness, business trip or being in college in another state.
Since the elections themselves are run by the individual states, I imagine that such procedures vary dratically from state to state.
I'm somewhat confused as to how this makes any legal sense at all. It appears they have been granted a patent which they use for squashing out prior art. Hoe does this even make sense?
Actually, that's true. My very limited knoweldge of Sindarin, and much smaller knowledge of Quenya made certain aspects of LotR more interesting.
Also, in the Lord of the Rings movies, there's at least one pun in Sindarin.
Quite the movie. Not only was it done entirely on Linux, it stars (err...horridly villainizes) Eris.
Ok...overall, PJ did an awesome job. There were however, a few details that bugged me. First of all, Glamdring didn't glow! It was Gondolin-forged too, it should glow around Orcs. Another annoying thing were the elven-swords in general. They're suppoeosed to be straight, not curved! And Boromir was blond...wtk? Yes, I realize that everyone pictures him that way, but he was Gondorim,and therefore dark-haired. Ah well. Overall, Boromir and Aragorn were really cool. Another thing was the fact that they never mentioned the reforging of Narsil, or where the elven-cloaks came from. And Gimli never met Galadriel. And Galdriel was too new-agey. And FRODO KEPT DYING! And don't even get me started on that stupid Wizard Fight....:-(.
Ok...that's the bad stuff. The good stuff was really good. Legolas kicked so high! Did you see that scene where he ran up the cave troll's LEASH? He tightrope-walked up it! And he walked on snow and shot arrows so fast. I didn't even know it was possible to stab someone with an arrow and then shoot someone else with the same arrow. And I liked his relationship with Gimli: they both acted like racist bigots, which was a good way of doing it. And Pippin and Merry were cool. They acted as comic relief, but they were definitely not helpless. I loved the scene where Frodo left the Fellowship, and they lead the Orcs away. I didn't like the choice of Sean Astin as Sam: that's not at all what I pictured him looking like, but he definitly acted like Sam. And then there was all the detail. Wow. Did anyone else catch the White Tree on Boromir's cuffs? Or the Star of Feanor on the ground at the Council of Elrond? Or the map from the Hobbit in Bilbo's house? Wow again. There were also a few changes PJ made that I liked. Especially I liked the way Frodo opened the Moria-Doors, and connected it to a riddle. And although they cut Bombadill, the escape from the Shire was well-done. Although, they should have explained that Nazgul dislike crossing running water. Finally, two things I loved. I loved Agnorath (sp?), the statues of Elendil and Isildur. And the Balrog. That is SO not how I pictured the Balrog. However, it was
awesome. The horns disconcerted me, but it WAS a balrog. Tho the scene with Gandalf hanging on the ledge was odd, they should have run forwards to rescure him, the rest of that sequence was great. Overall, I give the movie a Yayfor!
The first thing that would happen after creating such a solution would be the FBI showing up at your door without a warrent and arresting you under the DMCA.
gah...I see someone already said this...:-!
So what? Someone is not trying to sell the liscense, they're trying to sell the physical disks. If I go to the store and buy a piece of software, I don't buy the liscense. I buy the physical disks and whatnot, and they're MINE! I won't be bound by the EULA till I actually break the seal on the disk. I can, if I so choose, resell the disks. For all I know, the buyer wants to use them to make pretty sparks in a microwave! It's similar to a book. If I buy a book, I can't copy and sell copies, and I don't own the copyright. I, do however, OWN the actual poaper and ink of which the book is made. When I buy software from the store, I don't sign anything that says that I am actually leasing the physical media and that I can't resell it. I am purchasing the media, and it becomes mine to do with as I please. The software is different story, but that which is sold, is actually and physically sold.
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MEDIA!! Ok...ok...sorry. Damn...I'll never be a moderator this way.