Yeah, I saw the story also on rte where I get most of my irish news anyway (cos they don't have nasty registration and such) but decided to post the link as they have to link to related earlier stories on the subject that might prove useful.
This was my favorite part of the story: "The Fine Gael Spokesman on the Environment, Bernard Allen, claimed Minister Cullen had tampered with the very essence of democracy and had wasted taxpayers' money. Mr Cullen rejected the claims but said today had not been a great day for him. "
so what do you do when the time on electronic timecard is wrong? i.e. purported to be based on the atomic clock, but never in sync with it, not even consistantly late or early?
I'm from jacksonville, and I don't know about you, but should this actually get off the ground, Jacksonville will be the last large Florida city it will come to for one simple reason: it's up in the Northeast corner of the state, and all the other big cities are in the South. Just because it's the capital, Tallahassee might even get it before Jax..considering the whole monorail fiasco, and the fact that Disney's not terribly close, I don't think Jacksonville voters were what got this one passed.
I was going to moderate this story, but I hate it when folks living in south Florida think they are the whole state. There are some people left that live north of I-4 and the turnpike and see money taken out of their pocket for a project only benefiting those that live on or south of it. If you don't live south of Ocala, naturally I'll eat my own shorts, but big money didn't have to buy the signatures- there are plenty enough ignorant people living here to naively think a high-speed rail would benefit them despite their living in say, Tallahassee.
I will say, you are certainly correct in your second paragraph, I just don't think you can convince me that because it was introduced via petition that certain mouse-eared companies had nothing to do with sponsoring said petition.
Jacksonville has a monorail system that is not used becuase it currently only benefits one small portion of a very spread-out city, and the voters won't throw any more money at it to expand the service because of the perception that it won't benefit them- I guess I just don't want to see that happen in this case. Traveling in south florida is a pain, what with all the tolls and everything, anything to relieve that would be nice.
It's true in the US as well, at least here in gainesville.. being a college town, we have about ten pizza franchises, all describing their sizes differently...so they usually have to put diameter in inches on the ads so that people won't hog the delivery lines to find out how big an "extra-large" is.
Or maybe they they think their fluids have some special magnetic property and so by being near magnetic north they could get them to move faster- like those monorail trains that operate by electromagnetism...or something
I absolutely hate the whole redneck=dumb thing. Seriously, someone who watches NASCAR probably has a better understanding of physics than someone who watches OPRAH or whatever. Besides, the original poster who was complaing about the physics in the show probably knows that Star Trek (in any incarnation) is where kids get most of their information about physics and thus annoyed that these poor deprived children will learn things that are horribly wrong...On the other hand, the interest is the important part, so that when these kids grow up, they'll become physicists.
That's exactly how it works where I attend- only very few of the rooms, to my knowledge- are connected to the net. I do remember the entry level astronomy course that I took awhile back having hookups only in the back row, so there was a guy who brought his laptop in and played solitaire during lecture, although I thought that was a terrible waste of resources.. Anyway, almost any net use in our classes consists of the professor having a website, and linking various things to it, perhaps hooking his laptop up to a projector but usually saying, go to the website and check the links at home.
heh, great flamebait title- seriously, i usually gloss over katz articles, especially given the usual amount of anti-katz comments which dangle below. this time, beyond anything else katz said, or has ever said, one thing stuck out in my mind about this article, and i quote:
Mayor Guiliani of New York clearly rose to the tragedy. President Bush, sticking to his cautious sing-song monotone, fled to various bunkers and seemed to shrink throughout the day. Guiliani got bigger by the hour. Defying advice that he hide out until the shooting stopped, he rushed to the scene, was nearly killed, calmed the city down and took charge of the clean-up and rescue. Bush got on his best suit and stuck to the prompter. At least that was the image that TV brought of us of these two very different leaders.
my god, so katz says guiliani was near a place where there was "shooting"? he might as well have said guiliani=god, bush=dogpoo for all the maturity of that statement. A time when more consideration should be shown towards safety, especially of public officials, and patriotism than there has been need for in what, sixty years, is not the time or place for denigrating the president of the country. i'm a lifetime democrat for pete's sake, and even i recognize when the safety of the president is a wee bit more important than some cavorting around the rubble of a mass grave for the PR boost it gets from irrational touchy-feely types who will be the ones cowering should this turn out to be more than what already has happened. I'm going to spend the next few minutes trying not to be sick.
sure, property taxes pay for common services, the point is that in some places, none of those services exist, but the taxes always have to be paid. the land is never fully "paid for", because it is still paid per use (each year). especially down here in the south, we have no snow removal; and in the rural areas, there certainly arent sidewalks or garbage pickup or parks maintained locally which would necessitate yearly taxes.
jamie said: " If you have a lead on something to help prove or disprove it, please let me know. "
what i want to add in (my two cents) is that i seem to remember something about later radio, 50s radio, in which elvis and a few other rockabilly artists could NOT get on the air because they sounded "too black". did people become more discerning listeners as radio tech improved or was it something else? given that i have heard much 20s and 30s radio type music, i would say it was something else. i'n not sure how to put that though. it's almost like once people got accustomed to the radio, the barriers of the "real world" entered into radio as well.
later on, the comment about popular music being shaped by the primary digesters, i defintely agree with that. it also reminded me instantly of frontline's little documentary thing "the merchants of cool", only thing missing is a mention of the feedback loop that marker research
generates.
"although the electoral college was originally meant to normalize minority and majority power (majority power is dampened, minority power is boosted)"
Actually, I believe the electoral college was NOT created for increasing minority power (i.e. minority of the population) but minority power as pertains to the states (i.e. small states). If I'm not mistaken, the general population did not start voting for anything more than the most local of government positions until much later.
I guess you've never watched election coverage before, eh? Hardly ever do they wait on even 50% of precincts reporting. The reason Florida's "call" got switched back to undecided is because west florida's votes hadn't come in at all yet. We won't know 100% for a few days probably, what with absentee ballots and all, and people are just hungry for something, anything- and that's exactly what they get.
I thought haikus needed a seasonal reference? At any rate, information is information, and if these security holes aren't fixed by the admins, they deserve what they get.
I find this idea extremely amusing in light of the fact that I dislike current imac mice for only having a single button- I'm a musician and I like it that my fingers work kinda independent of each other- one button is boring. But no buttons, wow! Either it would be the most annoying mouse in the world or the best, hell, I might actually buy a product from apple if they are spiffy enough.
I seriously doubt that most Metallica/Dr. Dre fans even know what Napster is.
What, becuase they are black? Nice racial slur there buddy...
Now just a simple poll, who else thinks all metallica fans are black? what kind of racial comment is this one...dr dre is included in a comment about ignorant people-it must be because they are black, right???
Nope, not those downloading; I think it has been already stated that downloading the songs is not practical to prosecute, thus those offering their cd collection for downloads are those in violation of "the law".
At any rate, I would like to point out that as a college student, with a big ol' pipe with which to grab all the intellectual content I can, I have played with Napster and Knapster and good ol' warez sites and search engines etc. etc. and fully admit to having several hundred hours of music- but nowhere near as much music as I already owned-legally purchased mind you. I gave all of this mp3 hubbub alot of thought, realized that none of the music I purchased before I got to college sent neither the artists nor the labels any money anyway. Almost everything I own is vinyl , purchased second-hand or CDs purchased second hand or bought from a store-but nearly all of those were artists that are long dead. MP3s made me give contemporary music a second chance- but as the recording industry's practice of silly lawsuits sickens me, I laugh at the RIAA on behalf of the money they continue to miss from my pockets.
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Didn't Clark Kent grow up in Indiana?
This was my favorite part of the story: "The Fine Gael Spokesman on the Environment, Bernard Allen, claimed Minister Cullen had tampered with the very essence of democracy and had wasted taxpayers' money.
Mr Cullen rejected the claims but said today had not been a great day for him. "
so what do you do when the time on electronic timecard is wrong? i.e. purported to be based on the atomic clock, but never in sync with it, not even consistantly late or early?
I'm from jacksonville, and I don't know about you, but should this actually get off the ground, Jacksonville will be the last large Florida city it will come to for one simple reason: it's up in the Northeast corner of the state, and all the other big cities are in the South. Just because it's the capital, Tallahassee might even get it before Jax..considering the whole monorail fiasco, and the fact that Disney's not terribly close, I don't think Jacksonville voters were what got this one passed.
us college students in Orlando
sounds like a UCF moron to me-get your morons straight
but what about the lightening?
What is wrong with you, dude? Oh, must be an FSU grad :) I won't bother eating my shorts for a 'nole
I was going to moderate this story, but I hate it when folks living in south Florida think they are the whole state. There are some people left that live north of I-4 and the turnpike and see money taken out of their pocket for a project only benefiting those that live on or south of it. If you don't live south of Ocala, naturally I'll eat my own shorts, but big money didn't have to buy the signatures- there are plenty enough ignorant people living here to naively think a high-speed rail would benefit them despite their living in say, Tallahassee.
I will say, you are certainly correct in your second paragraph, I just don't think you can convince me that because it was introduced via petition that certain mouse-eared companies had nothing to do with sponsoring said petition.
Jacksonville has a monorail system that is not used becuase it currently only benefits one small portion of a very spread-out city, and the voters won't throw any more money at it to expand the service because of the perception that it won't benefit them- I guess I just don't want to see that happen in this case. Traveling in south florida is a pain, what with all the tolls and everything, anything to relieve that would be nice.
It's true in the US as well, at least here in gainesville.. being a college town, we have about ten pizza franchises, all describing their sizes differently...so they usually have to put diameter in inches on the ads so that people won't hog the delivery lines to find out how big an "extra-large" is.
peace,
laura
In Florida a learner's permit is a driver's liscence with an extra restriction code letter on it. You'd never know unless you had one.
peace,
laura
Or maybe they they think their fluids have some special magnetic property and so by being near magnetic north they could get them to move faster- like those monorail trains that operate by electromagnetism...or something
This is probably offtopic but....
I absolutely hate the whole redneck=dumb thing. Seriously, someone who watches NASCAR probably has a better understanding of physics than someone who watches OPRAH or whatever. Besides, the original poster who was complaing about the physics in the show probably knows that Star Trek (in any incarnation) is where kids get most of their information about physics and thus annoyed that these poor deprived children will learn things that are horribly wrong...On the other hand, the interest is the important part, so that when these kids grow up, they'll become physicists.
That's exactly how it works where I attend- only very few of the rooms, to my knowledge- are connected to the net. I do remember the entry level astronomy course that I took awhile back having hookups only in the back row, so there was a guy who brought his laptop in and played solitaire during lecture, although I thought that was a terrible waste of resources.. Anyway, almost any net use in our classes consists of the professor having a website, and linking various things to it, perhaps hooking his laptop up to a projector but usually saying, go to the website and check the links at home.
Mayor Guiliani of New York clearly rose to the tragedy. President Bush, sticking to his cautious sing-song monotone, fled to various bunkers and seemed to shrink throughout the day. Guiliani got bigger by the hour. Defying advice that he hide out until the shooting stopped, he rushed to the scene, was nearly killed, calmed the city down and took charge of the clean-up and rescue. Bush got on his best suit and stuck to the prompter. At least that was the image that TV brought of us of these two very different leaders.
my god, so katz says guiliani was near a place where there was "shooting"? he might as well have said guiliani=god, bush=dogpoo for all the maturity of that statement. A time when more consideration should be shown towards safety, especially of public officials, and patriotism than there has been need for in what, sixty years, is not the time or place for denigrating the president of the country. i'm a lifetime democrat for pete's sake, and even i recognize when the safety of the president is a wee bit more important than some cavorting around the rubble of a mass grave for the PR boost it gets from irrational touchy-feely types who will be the ones cowering should this turn out to be more than what already has happened. I'm going to spend the next few minutes trying not to be sick.
and that's it, i'm going back to bed.
peace,
laura
sure, property taxes pay for common services, the point is that in some places, none of those services exist, but the taxes always have to be paid. the land is never fully "paid for", because it is still paid per use (each year). especially down here in the south, we have no snow removal; and in the rural areas, there certainly arent sidewalks or garbage pickup or parks maintained locally which would necessitate yearly taxes.
what i want to add in (my two cents) is that i seem to remember something about later radio, 50s radio, in which elvis and a few other rockabilly artists could NOT get on the air because they sounded "too black". did people become more discerning listeners as radio tech improved or was it something else? given that i have heard much 20s and 30s radio type music, i would say it was something else. i'n not sure how to put that though. it's almost like once people got accustomed to the radio, the barriers of the "real world" entered into radio as well.
later on, the comment about popular music being shaped by the primary digesters, i defintely agree with that. it also reminded me instantly of frontline's little documentary thing "the merchants of cool", only thing missing is a mention of the feedback loop that marker research generates.
"although the electoral college was originally meant to normalize minority and majority power (majority power is dampened, minority power is boosted)"
Actually, I believe the electoral college was NOT created for increasing minority power (i.e. minority of the population) but minority power as pertains to the states (i.e. small states). If I'm not mistaken, the general population did not start voting for anything more than the most local of government positions until much later.
where do you live?
i'm using netscape 4.7 on a mac...maybe my mac's on crack but i see no content on that page.
Bush did NOT lose Texas- Gore lost HIS home state of Tennessee!
I guess you've never watched election coverage before, eh? Hardly ever do they wait on even 50% of precincts reporting. The reason Florida's "call" got switched back to undecided is because west florida's votes hadn't come in at all yet. We won't know 100% for a few days probably, what with absentee ballots and all, and people are just hungry for something, anything- and that's exactly what they get.
I thought haikus needed a seasonal reference? At any rate, information is information, and if these security holes aren't fixed by the admins, they deserve what they get.
I find this idea extremely amusing in light of the fact that I dislike current imac mice for only having a single button- I'm a musician and I like it that my fingers work kinda independent of each other- one button is boring. But no buttons, wow! Either it would be the most annoying mouse in the world or the best, hell, I might actually buy a product from apple if they are spiffy enough.
I seriously doubt that most Metallica/Dr. Dre fans even know what Napster is.
What, becuase they are black? Nice racial slur there buddy...
Now just a simple poll, who else thinks all metallica fans are black? what kind of racial comment is this one...dr dre is included in a comment about ignorant people-it must be because they are black, right???
At any rate, I would like to point out that as a college student, with a big ol' pipe with which to grab all the intellectual content I can, I have played with Napster and Knapster and good ol' warez sites and search engines etc. etc. and fully admit to having several hundred hours of music- but nowhere near as much music as I already owned-legally purchased mind you. I gave all of this mp3 hubbub alot of thought, realized that none of the music I purchased before I got to college sent neither the artists nor the labels any money anyway. Almost everything I own is vinyl , purchased second-hand or CDs purchased second hand or bought from a store-but nearly all of those were artists that are long dead. MP3s made me give contemporary music a second chance- but as the recording industry's practice of silly lawsuits sickens me, I laugh at the RIAA on behalf of the money they continue to miss from my pockets.