What's wrong with calling an object of terror "the ball"? Cubes are our companions, balls our terror, and pyramids somehow related to mysterious or secret groups or aliens with strange powers.
I'm not sure where a robot blob fits on the scale though. I guess it depends on whether it decides to server or destroy humanity. Then it should squeeze in nicely next to either flubber or skynet.
Went around the helpdesk where I work a couple months ago. Admin rights are required on all the computers for access to active directory and such. Only successfully infected about 2 machines before even the more clueless figured out what it was. It was easily removed with malwarebytes. Symantec had some issues with it though.
Well, out of warranty it is costing me $85 dollars to get my wii repaired by nintendo, after it stopped reading disks. Though they are adding an additional 1 year warranty for the repair.
It the wii ever gets down to $100 it will be cheaper to buy a used wii than to get a broken one repaired.
Also... when did people stop understanding the word "please"?
Apparently some people decided that "please" makes it sound like its optional. Thus if you put please in it less people listen. Stupid I know, but true nonetheless.
Actually, politicians tend to say "EVERYONE deserves all the schooling they can get, even if we have to bleed every working man and woman dry to subsidize it."
In a way that's actually part of the problem here in Colorado. K-12 education keeps getting more funding without figuring out where that money is going to come from. So when it comes time for a mandatory increase, it comes straight out of university funding. It is good that they are attempting to improve the condition of K-12 schools, but it is causing a bunch of increases in university tuition.
Also maybe this lady should consider taking an econ course to find out how the job market actually works.
"deus ex machina" is latin for "machine from god" and used to describe an ending where an event or "machine" inexplicably comes in and solves all the pending problems such as the germs killing off the invaders in war of the worlds suddenly saving humanity.
Well today thanks to popular initiatives the the Colorado legislature is not allowed to raise spending by more than the inflation rate + 1%, but required to raise spending on k-12 education by the inflation rate + 6% iirc(might be 3%). So they just decide cut university funding. Some of the k-12 districts actually have some of the highest salaries for teachers though.
Been in Colorado for 8 years and in Boulder for 2 and I faintly remember seeing one of those, but not in years.
Ok, I'll admit that I horribly described the debate there by saying overturn that phrase since its not binding law, but it was the basis for the arguement about the legality of slaves and why the constitution so closely tiptoes around and avoid the issue. Since nothing actually states the legality directly of slavery we can look to both the Federalist papers and Declaration of Independence as a reference of interpretation and context. And yes they do address representation for slaves, but not the explicit legality since states never would have come to agreement at the constitutional convention if it was decided one way or the other, which indirectly leads to the civil war later.
And yes, states rights were dramatically decreased by the large interpretation of the interstate commerce clause, but the states still retain plenty of rights. Perhaps the most overstepping parts being the feds ability to enforce illegal drug laws and the issue now with how much influence the government can give to states with regard to abortion. However, most of that has absolutely nothing to do with the civil war.
As for the 17th Amendment, it means that the people need a say in choosing their senators. Sure this does take power from state legislatures, but it is still up to the state to decide how the senators are chosen. As long there is some form of election by the people the rest of the decision is left up to the states, from how the election takes place, to what decides it to who makes it on the ballot. Besides, it was the states who initially gave voting power to the people and many states already had senatorial elections before that amendment was passed. That amendment was the result of states influencing the national government. Washington is an interesting study in election type, which recently had upheld in the Supreme Court that they can put only the two top candidates from the primary on the ballot even if they are from the same party.
This would essentially take the votes of Iowa away as much as all the other states that adopt the measure. Its an effort at the state level to disband the electoral college and elect the president by popular vote. The vote of each Iowan would count the same as each vote from a Californian.
Granted this means areas with more people have more influence so small and rural areas have less of a say. That's one of the reasons we have two houses in Congress and the reason the electoral college is setup the way it is. A popular vote will always mean the minority can be oppressed by the majority.
However, in this case we can only elect one man as president. So if the vote is split 49% to 51% the votes of the 49% are all meaningless. If Iowa was really that concerned about making it a popular vote without being so concerned with making sure their state has more influence they could follow Nebraska, who divides their delegates to the electoral college based on the vote percentage (usually 50-50 and Nebraska only has 2 delegates so one goes to each candidate and makes Nebraska worthless). Also, if Iowa was concerned about fairness they'd move their primary back before Feb 5th, and remove the law saying their primary automatically moves up before any other state.
The electoral college only shifts the break downs differently. Personally one should have 65% of the electoral college instead of the 51% now required. Heck even 55% would ensure ones has to have both popular and electoral.
I hope you realize that in doing that you would actually be moving the vote away from a popular vote and out of the hands of the citizens. Neither candidate would make the 65% or even the 55% in most presidential elections. I believe Obama only got 52.9% of the popular vote. As far as percentage of the electoral college, even Obama just got over that bridge at 67% with such a dominating victory. Anything closer would be cause for the vote to be thrown to the senate. It would also farther eliminate the the already low power of 3rd parties, unless their goal is to throw the vote to the senate.
From GP
Maybe originally, but the Civil War put an end to any pretensions of state's rights. That being the case, everyone should have an equal say on the election of a chief executive.
ahahahaha. Seriously though, rights not granted in the constitution are left to the states first and people second. States still make most of the policy that effects your daily life from the speed limit to the drinking age. (Though government highway funds is what keeps them from changing). The civil war only more dealt with the right for states to secede from the union and sieze federal forts after seceding(something never dealt with previously or thought of so there was nothing written up about a state being able to secede or whether it should be able to). That and the issue of slavery and the ability to overturn the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence. The only other thing was enforcing one states law in another, but that's between states not states and the federal government.
There is a Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access program that can be setup with an exchange server so that users can get to their email from a webpage.
And just to confirm I have the webmail pulled up in both firefox 3.06 and IE 7 and I can hardly tell I'm logged into the same page. Most of the features appear to be there, but there are a few missing. The one that jumps out being the message preview without needing a new window.
I once found somebody who bothered to write down all the myspace code and actually figure out how to make it look decent. I was so stunned that I felt out of my chair when I viewed a myspace page and no music started playing, nothing flashed, the color scheme was readable, and the page was easy on the eyes. Of course, the guy did it just for the challenge and happens to be Mike Davidson the creator of newsvine. http://www.myspace.com/mikeindustries
So it actually can be done. Just not without spending way too much time trying to figure out what things like this mean and how to change it:
I can understand the constant barrage of commercials on most channels, but there is no reason to have it as a commercial on the 'On Demand' menu-a function which requires digital cable to get to.
I believe its more than just Time Warner too. Almost every company has been trying to push their digital cable packages before ever informing people that they just need a converter box. Usually with a deceptive line like "On Feb 17th (previously) your tv will stop working. If you want to ensure that your tv continues working buy our [generic expensive cable plan] where you'll also get these other [insert more expensive additional options: tivo, hbo, on demand]. Not saying that people won't want the package, but they wouldn't miss the opportunity for more subscribers even those who don't want all of it.
While an interesting idea, you seem to be overlooking the fact that foreign companies with websites hosted in a different nation are under no obligation to comply with the requests. They would have no reason to block access since there would be no consequences for not blocking access. It would fall to the country and ISPs to block it without even a response from the website thus laying the blame still on the government.
I haven't looked to far into how its all setup, but if they are indeed 'single use codes,' it can cause problems for legitimate customers. If their xbox breaks or they bring the game to play at a friend's house or the data gets erased ect. they would be unable to access that content.
It takes away legitimate resale rights of the consumer as you have purchased those maps, but have no way to sell them. As mentioned before it also hurts those without online capability.
In addition, if this were a pc game I suspect there would already be a download up for the extra content entirely bypassing the code.
The modding communities for most rts games always seem to be great as many of the games mentioned are from that genre. My favorite has been the Shockwave mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour which made the game into what EA should have. It was very well done for the graphics too compared to most mods I've seen.
I was wondering the same thing though I'm an avid Star Wars fan. Not much is written about the time period, but this is supposed to occur around 4,000 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin or episode 4). The old or Galactic Republic is supposed to have been established in 25,000 BBY.
The first kotor had the Republic led by Jedi leading a war against the Mandalorians (Boba Fett's culture) IIRC. The second had a Jedi turned Sith leading a war against the Republic. I'm not really sure where an Empire comes in unless Bioware came up with some change of government in the 300 years in between.
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Scratch that. Went to the official game site. It's the Sith Empire against the Galactic Republic. So it is a typo of one side facing itself in the summary.
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What's wrong with calling an object of terror "the ball"? Cubes are our companions, balls our terror, and pyramids somehow related to mysterious or secret groups or aliens with strange powers.
I'm not sure where a robot blob fits on the scale though. I guess it depends on whether it decides to server or destroy humanity. Then it should squeeze in nicely next to either flubber or skynet.
Went around the helpdesk where I work a couple months ago. Admin rights are required on all the computers for access to active directory and such. Only successfully infected about 2 machines before even the more clueless figured out what it was. It was easily removed with malwarebytes. Symantec had some issues with it though.
Well, out of warranty it is costing me $85 dollars to get my wii repaired by nintendo, after it stopped reading disks. Though they are adding an additional 1 year warranty for the repair.
It the wii ever gets down to $100 it will be cheaper to buy a used wii than to get a broken one repaired.
Also... when did people stop understanding the word "please"?
Apparently some people decided that "please" makes it sound like its optional. Thus if you put please in it less people listen. Stupid I know, but true nonetheless.
Actually, politicians tend to say "EVERYONE deserves all the schooling they can get, even if we have to bleed every working man and woman dry to subsidize it."
In a way that's actually part of the problem here in Colorado. K-12 education keeps getting more funding without figuring out where that money is going to come from. So when it comes time for a mandatory increase, it comes straight out of university funding. It is good that they are attempting to improve the condition of K-12 schools, but it is causing a bunch of increases in university tuition.
Also maybe this lady should consider taking an econ course to find out how the job market actually works.
"deus ex machina" is latin for "machine from god" and used to describe an ending where an event or "machine" inexplicably comes in and solves all the pending problems such as the germs killing off the invaders in war of the worlds suddenly saving humanity.
Well today thanks to popular initiatives the the Colorado legislature is not allowed to raise spending by more than the inflation rate + 1%, but required to raise spending on k-12 education by the inflation rate + 6% iirc(might be 3%). So they just decide cut university funding. Some of the k-12 districts actually have some of the highest salaries for teachers though.
Been in Colorado for 8 years and in Boulder for 2 and I faintly remember seeing one of those, but not in years.
Ok, I'll admit that I horribly described the debate there by saying overturn that phrase since its not binding law, but it was the basis for the arguement about the legality of slaves and why the constitution so closely tiptoes around and avoid the issue. Since nothing actually states the legality directly of slavery we can look to both the Federalist papers and Declaration of Independence as a reference of interpretation and context. And yes they do address representation for slaves, but not the explicit legality since states never would have come to agreement at the constitutional convention if it was decided one way or the other, which indirectly leads to the civil war later.
And yes, states rights were dramatically decreased by the large interpretation of the interstate commerce clause, but the states still retain plenty of rights. Perhaps the most overstepping parts being the feds ability to enforce illegal drug laws and the issue now with how much influence the government can give to states with regard to abortion. However, most of that has absolutely nothing to do with the civil war.
As for the 17th Amendment, it means that the people need a say in choosing their senators. Sure this does take power from state legislatures, but it is still up to the state to decide how the senators are chosen. As long there is some form of election by the people the rest of the decision is left up to the states, from how the election takes place, to what decides it to who makes it on the ballot. Besides, it was the states who initially gave voting power to the people and many states already had senatorial elections before that amendment was passed. That amendment was the result of states influencing the national government. Washington is an interesting study in election type, which recently had upheld in the Supreme Court that they can put only the two top candidates from the primary on the ballot even if they are from the same party.
This would essentially take the votes of Iowa away as much as all the other states that adopt the measure. Its an effort at the state level to disband the electoral college and elect the president by popular vote. The vote of each Iowan would count the same as each vote from a Californian.
Granted this means areas with more people have more influence so small and rural areas have less of a say. That's one of the reasons we have two houses in Congress and the reason the electoral college is setup the way it is. A popular vote will always mean the minority can be oppressed by the majority.
However, in this case we can only elect one man as president. So if the vote is split 49% to 51% the votes of the 49% are all meaningless. If Iowa was really that concerned about making it a popular vote without being so concerned with making sure their state has more influence they could follow Nebraska, who divides their delegates to the electoral college based on the vote percentage (usually 50-50 and Nebraska only has 2 delegates so one goes to each candidate and makes Nebraska worthless). Also, if Iowa was concerned about fairness they'd move their primary back before Feb 5th, and remove the law saying their primary automatically moves up before any other state.
The electoral college only shifts the break downs differently. Personally one should have 65% of the electoral college instead of the 51% now required. Heck even 55% would ensure ones has to have both popular and electoral.
I hope you realize that in doing that you would actually be moving the vote away from a popular vote and out of the hands of the citizens. Neither candidate would make the 65% or even the 55% in most presidential elections. I believe Obama only got 52.9% of the popular vote. As far as percentage of the electoral college, even Obama just got over that bridge at 67% with such a dominating victory. Anything closer would be cause for the vote to be thrown to the senate. It would also farther eliminate the the already low power of 3rd parties, unless their goal is to throw the vote to the senate.
From GP
Maybe originally, but the Civil War put an end to any pretensions of state's rights. That being the case, everyone should have an equal say on the election of a chief executive.
ahahahaha. Seriously though, rights not granted in the constitution are left to the states first and people second. States still make most of the policy that effects your daily life from the speed limit to the drinking age. (Though government highway funds is what keeps them from changing). The civil war only more dealt with the right for states to secede from the union and sieze federal forts after seceding(something never dealt with previously or thought of so there was nothing written up about a state being able to secede or whether it should be able to). That and the issue of slavery and the ability to overturn the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence. The only other thing was enforcing one states law in another, but that's between states not states and the federal government.
/poli sci major
There is a Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access program that can be setup with an exchange server so that users can get to their email from a webpage.
And just to confirm I have the webmail pulled up in both firefox 3.06 and IE 7 and I can hardly tell I'm logged into the same page. Most of the features appear to be there, but there are a few missing. The one that jumps out being the message preview without needing a new window.
I once found somebody who bothered to write down all the myspace code and actually figure out how to make it look decent. I was so stunned that I felt out of my chair when I viewed a myspace page and no music started playing, nothing flashed, the color scheme was readable, and the page was easy on the eyes. Of course, the guy did it just for the challenge and happens to be Mike Davidson the creator of newsvine. http://www.myspace.com/mikeindustries
So it actually can be done. Just not without spending way too much time trying to figure out what things like this mean and how to change it:
table table table table td, table table table table tbody td { background-color: transparent !important; padding: 15px !important; }
I can understand the constant barrage of commercials on most channels, but there is no reason to have it as a commercial on the 'On Demand' menu-a function which requires digital cable to get to.
I believe its more than just Time Warner too. Almost every company has been trying to push their digital cable packages before ever informing people that they just need a converter box. Usually with a deceptive line like "On Feb 17th (previously) your tv will stop working. If you want to ensure that your tv continues working buy our [generic expensive cable plan] where you'll also get these other [insert more expensive additional options: tivo, hbo, on demand]. Not saying that people won't want the package, but they wouldn't miss the opportunity for more subscribers even those who don't want all of it.
While an interesting idea, you seem to be overlooking the fact that foreign companies with websites hosted in a different nation are under no obligation to comply with the requests. They would have no reason to block access since there would be no consequences for not blocking access. It would fall to the country and ISPs to block it without even a response from the website thus laying the blame still on the government.
I haven't looked to far into how its all setup, but if they are indeed 'single use codes,' it can cause problems for legitimate customers. If their xbox breaks or they bring the game to play at a friend's house or the data gets erased ect. they would be unable to access that content.
It takes away legitimate resale rights of the consumer as you have purchased those maps, but have no way to sell them. As mentioned before it also hurts those without online capability.
In addition, if this were a pc game I suspect there would already be a download up for the extra content entirely bypassing the code.
I dare you not to offend the all the genderless of the world with your depictions of the Pats, you insensitive clods!
The modding communities for most rts games always seem to be great as many of the games mentioned are from that genre. My favorite has been the Shockwave mod for C&C Generals Zero Hour which made the game into what EA should have. It was very well done for the graphics too compared to most mods I've seen.
I was wondering the same thing though I'm an avid Star Wars fan. Not much is written about the time period, but this is supposed to occur around 4,000 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin or episode 4). The old or Galactic Republic is supposed to have been established in 25,000 BBY.
The first kotor had the Republic led by Jedi leading a war against the Mandalorians (Boba Fett's culture) IIRC. The second had a Jedi turned Sith leading a war against the Republic. I'm not really sure where an Empire comes in unless Bioware came up with some change of government in the 300 years in between.
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Scratch that. Went to the official game site. It's the Sith Empire against the Galactic Republic. So it is a typo of one side facing itself in the summary.