The nearest US Hospital is 45 Minutes away, as compared to an hour and fifteen minutes for the Canadian hospital. When you Heart is acting up? You don't screw around w/ lines on a map.
No, you sit at a border waiting for an underpaid border guard to check your passport, search the car, ask you questions, etc.
I smell astroturfing.
Looks like astroturfing to me also. No other comments or any record of history on this site from Kaldesh (1363017). And quite a large User ID. Is there anyway to tell when someone joined slashdot?
Asshole or not, it's not his fault if some married guy can't keep his dick in his pants.
Exactly. It's the damn pants' manufactures fault. Stupid things open up a hole right in the groin region, and now I'm flopping around like a fish out of water.
How many people I wonder switched to Qwest because of this issue? I know my household did. As soon as news broke, we switched from (I think) MCI to Qwest, and every person we talked to at each company we told them precisely why we were doing it, and asked them to make sure their superiors new the reason.
I believe that the votes we make with our dollars are more significant than the votes we make at the polling place. Imagine if after the news came out, all the customers of these other companies that could switched to Qwest did. That would be a bigger blow to the other telecoms than any court cases that could have arisen.
There are a couple of questions at hand. What 'experience' is helpful for a president? How important is it? And does Obama have it?
First, let me talk about the experience Obama does have. Obviously a 72 year old has more experience than a 47 year old, but if age was the deciding factor, we'd just always elect the oldest guy running for president and be done with it. Obama, despite his relatively young age, has a lot of experience that is relevant. By the time he takes his oath of office, he'd have 12yrs of legislative experience serving in elected office. During that time he worked across the aisle with Republicans to find issues that they could agree on, and get legislature passed.
But let me start a bit earlier. After earning a degree in political science from Columbia University, Obama took a job earning only $13,000 a year as the Director of the Developing Communities Project, a faith-based community-organizing agency. After 5 years, he concluded that he could help people more through politics, so he went to Harvard were he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review (an extremely prestigious position) and graduated magna cum laude.
Obama could have gotten a great-paying job at this point, but again he returned to grass-roots democracy and ran a voter-registration drive that added more than 150,000 voters. After that successful voter registration drive, Obama returned to teach constitutional law for another 11 years before being elected to the Illinois state senate.
So what does Obama's early history tell us? He's interested in American democracy and grass-roots democracy in particular. He's extremely intelligent. And he's sacrificed to help people less fortunate then himself.
Having studied or participated in it his entire adult life, Obama probably knows more about the way American government runs than most presidents did when elected.
Some people when they say 'experience' are talking about foreign relations. But all three candidates are senators, not Vice Presidents, and none have served as cabinet members. The only committee in the senate that deals with Foreign Relations (as far as I know) is the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The only candidate for the presidency serving on this committee is Barack Obama. (Admittedly, he hasn't been there long).
I could also give you some quotes from some military guys that support Obama:
Clifford Alexander, former Secretary of the Army "I've known Barack since the mid-90s. I've seen him in lots of positions, and I compare his leadership skills, most favorably, with the civilian and military leaders that I've seen throughout my professional life."
Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy "I think people recognize, anybody who deals with Sen. Barack Obama, what an extraordinary Commander-In-Chief he would be. And I think it's difficult for others to effectively deny that. ⦠The reality is, as Secretary Alexander said right at the outset, and Secretary Peters seconded it, it's character, and it's judgment."
In fact when we look back at previous presidents, experience has had no correlation with how good a president they were. Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum (famous computer science guy you've probably never heard of), has done a statistical analysis that shows this: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Info/experience.html
I'll let you examine the details in the link above, or you can take my word that experience does not correlate with being a good president.
I think Toni Morrison said it best: "[Obama has a] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom" Obama has shown that creative imagination in his ability to find consensus and progress where others only see division and roadblocks. His raw intelligence is
I recently set up ubuntu/windows dual boots for several computers in my house. The ubuntu CD made it easy to setup the dual boot, but I did run into a few issues here and there that took a bit of work to solve.
I would seriously consider making the small investment and getting "Practical Ubuntu". I wish it had come out before I started my installs instead of once I was almost done. I still bought it, because it seems like a great reference.
Yeah... Fucking Nader. I saw him on television talking about how he was running to stand up for third parties. Saying that Europe has strong third parties, and so should we. (Ignoring the fact that their parliamentary system is very different from ours).
If he really wanted to support 3rd parties, he'd run for an office he has a chance of winning and/or focus on changing our voting system to Condorcet.
Obama's preacher is a racist, a white person voting for him would be like a black person voting for a white man whose preacher is a Klansman.
I think that's a bit of a stretch. Rev. Wright clearly is angry and has some non-mainstream beliefs (the weirdest being that the government created AIDS as an attack on blacks), and (as Obama noted and condemned) some of his rhetoric is divisive and unhelpful, but he is not comparable to a Klansman. I've never heard Wright make any claims about the superiority of any race over any other. I never heard him advocate violence against anyone. In fact, the only quote of his I've seen that mentions race is when he says the country is run by 'rich white people'. Hard to argue with that.
I use yahoo mail, and usually have a ton of spam in my bulk mail folder, so I went to check and see how it compared to your number. Lo and behold, my email only says Spam (52). What the hell happened? Anyone else notice a huge decrease in the spam reaching their yahoo box. It makes me think the spam is somehow being stopped upstream from my mailbox, and it makes me wonder if I'm missing anything important.
Just in case you've never heard of it, emusic.com does most of what you're asking. I'll be the first to admit their collection is nowhere near the size of iTunes, but if you listen to music outside the top40 (or are willing to), you'll find 100s of albums worth checking out. They've got the ability for users to vote on albums and leave comments, forums, etc. and they have editors who write up features and reviews every month, so it's easy to find new music.
Let me go down your list: - No DRM *at all*. YES - Previews as MP3. Say, the first 30 secs of every track. The first 50% would be better. Should be "kind of good quality", say >= 128kbit. Samples of most tracks longer than 30 secs - not sure of the quality because I've never used them - All tracks in at least the following formats:
- MP3 "good quality", say >= 256 kbit 192K VBR mp3s - which is pretty damn good
- Lossless in a free, open format. Flac in other words. I don't think this is available yet - The ability to use the store from the web. YES - The ability to put multiple tracks in a "cart" and download the whole cart as a zip would be a big plus. They have a download manager, that handles this pretty nicely/seemlessly - An open API for different clients would be a huge plus. I think this is true, because their is a Emusic/J download manager that is community developed in Java - And, last but not least, the ability to have some sort of "account" and to re-download tracks I already purchased, whenever, wherever and how many times I want to. YES - this is a great part of emusic. I've been a member for years, and have literally 1000s of songs purchased, and if for any reason I need to, I can download them all again free of charge.
It would be ok if the tracks are somehow watermarked, i.e. if they can tell from a file which user downloaded a track and block his or her account I don't think they do this
How is someone's "civil liberties" encroached by using a paper ballot?
That's not what this is about. It's about the votes being counted in a central location vs. being counted at the precincts. Fraud is a lot easier to perpetrate if the votes are all counted in one place.
Some data is already available for students. The organization I work for (National Center for Atmospheric Research), has almost 8 TB of data freely available to anyone that isn't trying to make a profit off of it: http://cdp.ucar.edu/home/home.htm
I imagine other public domain data is already available if you just know where to look. Google might help by providing a consistent interface, and more well known portal, but we've put a lot of effort into organizing and making available this data in its present form, and I doubt anyone is going to put in the time to move it to google's system.
There is some regulation to carbon credits. The CDM Executive Board awards a 'Gold Standard' to carbon offset programs that meet their stringent criterion. Details
Where is network TV's version of All Things Considered, Science Friday, Talk of the Nation, or any of NPR's other news-type programs. They are on PBS. Check out 'The News Hour' with Jim Lehrer.
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 requires the Postal Rate Commission to set rates so as to break even over time. 39 U.S.C. section 3622(b)(3) further requires that each class of mail or type of mail service bear the direct and indirect postal costs attributable to that class or type plus that portion of all other costs of the Postal Service reasonably assignable to such class or type.
I think the federal government gave them some money for homeland security (i.e. anthrax detecting machines), but overall I think they pretty much break even.
Wikipedia is so concerned lately about deleting any material that is unworthy. It has greatly reduced the site's utility to me, and is the reason I use it less and less, and will refuse to contribute to its fund raisers until their deletion policy is substantially revised.
I completely agree with this. I have contributed to Wikipedia in the past, but will no longer do so until they stop being so delete happy. But if I want this to mean anything, I need to convey my thoughts to someone with the power to affect policies at wikipedia. Any idea on how to do this?
Now watch the moderations and you will see that there is a greater chance of getting down modded early on then there would be later in the game after a lot of other comments are made. I'm not talking small change either, it isn't like the first 30 or anything. Get in on the first day and your likely to be hit. Post the exact same message a day or two later after the organized people have exhausted their points and watch it either not get moderated or modded up.
Post Early: If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already, yours is less likely to be moderated. This is less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)
Sorry I don't have the time to read the article, but do you know if they control for poverty levels? I would think that poor people would be more likely to be exposed to lead, and poor people generally have higher crime rates.
Why does the trivia section bother you so much? It's at the bottom of the article, so it's not like you even have to scroll past it to get to the good stuff. Plus it's just text (usually less than 1k), it's not like it's taking the page much longer to load because of it.
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The nearest US Hospital is 45 Minutes away, as compared to an hour and fifteen minutes for the Canadian hospital. When you Heart is acting up? You don't screw around w/ lines on a map.
No, you sit at a border waiting for an underpaid border guard to check your passport, search the car, ask you questions, etc.
I smell astroturfing.
Looks like astroturfing to me also. No other comments or any record of history on this site from Kaldesh (1363017). And quite a large User ID. Is there anyway to tell when someone joined slashdot?
Is this an online resource where you can check if your food storage containers contain BPA?
Thanks!
Asshole or not, it's not his fault if some married guy can't keep his dick in his pants.
Exactly. It's the damn pants' manufactures fault. Stupid things open up a hole right in the groin region, and now I'm flopping around like a fish out of water.
How many people I wonder switched to Qwest because of this issue? I know my household did. As soon as news broke, we switched from (I think) MCI to Qwest, and every person we talked to at each company we told them precisely why we were doing it, and asked them to make sure their superiors new the reason.
I believe that the votes we make with our dollars are more significant than the votes we make at the polling place. Imagine if after the news came out, all the customers of these other companies that could switched to Qwest did. That would be a bigger blow to the other telecoms than any court cases that could have arisen.
There are a couple of questions at hand. What 'experience' is helpful for a president? How important is it? And does Obama have it?
First, let me talk about the experience Obama does have. Obviously a 72 year old has more experience than a 47 year old, but if age was the deciding factor, we'd just always elect the oldest guy running for president and be done with it. Obama, despite his relatively young age, has a lot of experience that is relevant. By the time he takes his oath of office, he'd have 12yrs of legislative experience serving in elected office. During that time he worked across the aisle with Republicans to find issues that they could agree on, and get legislature passed.
But let me start a bit earlier. After earning a degree in political science from Columbia University, Obama took a job earning only $13,000 a year as the Director of the Developing Communities Project, a faith-based community-organizing agency. After 5 years, he concluded that he could help people more through politics, so he went to Harvard were he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review (an extremely prestigious position) and graduated magna cum laude.
Obama could have gotten a great-paying job at this point, but again he returned to grass-roots democracy and ran a voter-registration drive that added more than 150,000 voters. After that successful voter registration drive, Obama returned to teach constitutional law for another 11 years before being elected to the Illinois state senate.
So what does Obama's early history tell us? He's interested in American democracy and grass-roots democracy in particular. He's extremely intelligent. And he's sacrificed to help people less fortunate then himself.
Having studied or participated in it his entire adult life, Obama probably knows more about the way American government runs than most presidents did when elected.
Some people when they say 'experience' are talking about foreign relations. But all three candidates are senators, not Vice Presidents, and none have served as cabinet members. The only committee in the senate that deals with Foreign Relations (as far as I know) is the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The only candidate for the presidency serving on this committee is Barack Obama. (Admittedly, he hasn't been there long).
I could also give you some quotes from some military guys that support Obama:
Clifford Alexander, former Secretary of the Army
"I've known Barack since the mid-90s. I've seen him in lots of positions, and I compare his leadership skills, most favorably, with the civilian and military leaders that I've seen throughout my professional life."
Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy
"I think people recognize, anybody who deals with Sen. Barack Obama, what an extraordinary Commander-In-Chief he would be. And I think it's difficult for others to effectively deny that. ⦠The reality is, as Secretary Alexander said right at the outset, and Secretary Peters seconded it, it's character, and it's judgment."
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/10/751685.aspx
In fact when we look back at previous presidents, experience has had no correlation with how good a president they were. Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum (famous computer science guy you've probably never heard of), has done a statistical analysis that shows this:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Info/experience.html
I'll let you examine the details in the link above, or you can take my word that experience does not correlate with being a good president.
I think Toni Morrison said it best: "[Obama has a] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom" Obama has shown that creative imagination in his ability to find consensus and progress where others only see division and roadblocks. His raw intelligence is
Right before the 2004 election, electoral-vote.com called the election for Kerry. Oops!
nope. Here's the page from the day of the election:
http://electoral-vote.com/evp2004/nov/nov02.html
He gives Kerry 262 electoral votes. Since you need 270 to win, you can't really say he called it for Kerry.
I recently set up ubuntu/windows dual boots for several computers in my house. The ubuntu CD made it easy to setup the dual boot, but I did run into a few issues here and there that took a bit of work to solve.
I would seriously consider making the small investment and getting "Practical Ubuntu". I wish it had come out before I started my installs instead of once I was almost done. I still bought it, because it seems like a great reference.
Slashdot reviewed this book recently:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/02/1319237
Yeah... Fucking Nader. I saw him on television talking about how he was running to stand up for third parties. Saying that Europe has strong third parties, and so should we. (Ignoring the fact that their parliamentary system is very different from ours).
If he really wanted to support 3rd parties, he'd run for an office he has a chance of winning and/or focus on changing our voting system to Condorcet.
Obama's preacher is a racist, a white person voting for him would be like a black person voting for a white man whose preacher is a Klansman.
I think that's a bit of a stretch. Rev. Wright clearly is angry and has some non-mainstream beliefs (the weirdest being that the government created AIDS as an attack on blacks), and (as Obama noted and condemned) some of his rhetoric is divisive and unhelpful, but he is not comparable to a Klansman. I've never heard Wright make any claims about the superiority of any race over any other. I never heard him advocate violence against anyone. In fact, the only quote of his I've seen that mentions race is when he says the country is run by 'rich white people'. Hard to argue with that.
I use yahoo mail, and usually have a ton of spam in my bulk mail folder, so I went to check and see how it compared to your number. Lo and behold, my email only says Spam (52). What the hell happened? Anyone else notice a huge decrease in the spam reaching their yahoo box. It makes me think the spam is somehow being stopped upstream from my mailbox, and it makes me wonder if I'm missing anything important.
Just in case you've never heard of it, emusic.com does most of what you're asking. I'll be the first to admit their collection is nowhere near the size of iTunes, but if you listen to music outside the top40 (or are willing to), you'll find 100s of albums worth checking out. They've got the ability for users to vote on albums and leave comments, forums, etc. and they have editors who write up features and reviews every month, so it's easy to find new music.
Let me go down your list:
- No DRM *at all*. YES
- Previews as MP3. Say, the first 30 secs of every track. The first 50% would be better. Should be "kind of good quality", say >= 128kbit. Samples of most tracks longer than 30 secs - not sure of the quality because I've never used them
- All tracks in at least the following formats:
- MP3 "good quality", say >= 256 kbit 192K VBR mp3s - which is pretty damn good
- Lossless in a free, open format. Flac in other words. I don't think this is available yet
- The ability to use the store from the web. YES
- The ability to put multiple tracks in a "cart" and download the whole cart as a zip would be a big plus. They have a download manager, that handles this pretty nicely/seemlessly
- An open API for different clients would be a huge plus. I think this is true, because their is a Emusic/J download manager that is community developed in Java
- And, last but not least, the ability to have some sort of "account" and to re-download tracks I already purchased, whenever, wherever and how many times I want to. YES - this is a great part of emusic. I've been a member for years, and have literally 1000s of songs purchased, and if for any reason I need to, I can download them all again free of charge.
It would be ok if the tracks are somehow watermarked, i.e. if they can tell from a file which user downloaded a track and block his or her account I don't think they do this
Plus songs are only about $.30 each.
How is someone's "civil liberties" encroached by using a paper ballot?
That's not what this is about. It's about the votes being counted in a central location vs. being counted at the precincts. Fraud is a lot easier to perpetrate if the votes are all counted in one place.
Some data is already available for students. The organization I work for (National Center for Atmospheric Research), has almost 8 TB of data freely available to anyone that isn't trying to make a profit off of it:
http://cdp.ucar.edu/home/home.htm
I imagine other public domain data is already available if you just know where to look. Google might help by providing a consistent interface, and more well known portal, but we've put a lot of effort into organizing and making available this data in its present form, and I doubt anyone is going to put in the time to move it to google's system.
There is some regulation to carbon credits. The CDM Executive Board awards a 'Gold Standard' to carbon offset programs that meet their stringent criterion. Details
Where is network TV's version of All Things Considered, Science Friday, Talk of the Nation, or any of NPR's other news-type programs.
They are on PBS. Check out 'The News Hour' with Jim Lehrer.
It's subsidized by your tax dollars.
I don't think so:
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 requires the Postal Rate Commission to set rates so as to break even over time. 39 U.S.C. section 3622(b)(3) further requires that each class of mail or type of mail service bear the direct and indirect postal costs attributable to that class or type plus that portion of all other costs of the Postal Service reasonably assignable to such class or type.
I think the federal government gave them some money for homeland security (i.e. anthrax detecting machines), but overall I think they pretty much break even.
Wikipedia is so concerned lately about deleting any material that is unworthy. It has greatly reduced the site's utility to me, and is the reason I use it less and less, and will refuse to contribute to its fund raisers until their deletion policy is substantially revised.
I completely agree with this. I have contributed to Wikipedia in the past, but will no longer do so until they stop being so delete happy. But if I want this to mean anything, I need to convey my thoughts to someone with the power to affect policies at wikipedia. Any idea on how to do this?
I found this list of the Board of Trustees, but can't figure out how to contact any of them:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees
Any ideas?
Sorry, looks like you are in the minority:
Moderation +4
100% Funny
That comment is officially 100% funny.
Yeah - I'm curious also. The night pictures came out great - were you using a tripod?
This isn't a conspiracy. Hell, the slashdot faq mentions this effect:
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml
Sorry I don't have the time to read the article, but do you know if they control for poverty levels? I would think that poor people would be more likely to be exposed to lead, and poor people generally have higher crime rates.
Give it time.
If only there was a +1,TryingToBeFunny or a +0.5,KindaFunny mod.
(I'm sure I'd deserve it also).
(sorry)
I think you meant: (Sari).
Why does the trivia section bother you so much? It's at the bottom of the article, so it's not like you even have to scroll past it to get to the good stuff. Plus it's just text (usually less than 1k), it's not like it's taking the page much longer to load because of it.