Awarding electors proportionally doesn't work because to be fair, every state would have to do it. To take your example of Texas and California, if one of those states went proportional and the other stayed winner takes all, that would be unfair to the D's or R's.
What does work is the National Popular Vote, and it's not a huge overhaul of the electoral process. It's an interstate agreement to assign all their electors to the winner of the national popular vote. Once enough states sign on (enough to make a majority of electoral votes), the law goes into effect. It's simple and fair.
Sure, he had plausible deniability with Iran/Contra, but the fact remains that the Reagan administration negotiated with terrorists to secure the release of hostages in Lebanon after vowing not to negotiate with terrorists. Then there was the part about breaking their own arms embargo to sell weapons to Iran then giving the money to the Contras. Best case scenario: Reagan was asleep at the wheel while his Cabinet ran amok.
Small states have a small advantage in the power of their vote, but overall they don't matter much in Presidential elections either. Most of them are safe red or blue states, and usually it's not worth fighting over three votes. The real power and influence is the battleground states with a lot of electoral votes and a close red/blue split. Small states get more power from their two Senators than from their three electoral votes.
I still have the first CD player I bought in the late 80's. It's a full size audio component style. I was amazed when I finally opened it to see how it was built: a giant through-hole circuit board with lots of discrete components and a few DIP chips. It still works, but I haven't used it much lately. Otherwise the laser might have worn out by now.
That's such a ripoff. Gateway probably paid 45 bucks for the XP Home OEM license. Since your computer is already licensed, the CD is just a spare part. Next time lie and say the CD won't read.
Bare PCs are a pretty small market. Most people computer-literate enough to install Windows could probably build a PC from parts too. It's pretty easy these days with so many devices integrated on the motherboard.
It's a prisoner's dilemma. An SUV feels safer psychologically, but it actually is safer in just one scenario: if you crash into a smaller car, at the expense of the car. In every other type of crash they're the same or more dangerous than a car. If everybody defects (in the context of the prisoner's dilemma), it leads to an arms race of ever escalating size. When two big SUVs crash into each other, they're no safer than before, and you're still stuck with poor braking and cornering compared to a car which doesn't help safety either.
Well, the holier than thou types have a ways to go because right now light trucks are subsidized over cars. They have a lower CAFE standard, they don't pay the gas guzzler tax, and until recently, we had the Hummer loophole where trucks over 6500lbs were fully deductible as a business expense. Let's get them competing on a level playing field before we rail about Communism and command economies.
I understand about the outdoors and cowboy image being a marketing tool, but those are the marketing tools of a cult brand with exclusivity. SUVs have gone way beyond that to being a mass-market item. Everybody and their mom has one.
No, what they're saying is they want to be left alone. US foreign policy especially with regard to oil, is anything but that. Granted, Afghanistan doesn't have oil, but as a remote backwater, it was (and still is) a safe haven for radicals from the countries that have oil, hence its strategic significance.
Hey, I think railing against SUVs out of eco-purity is pretty silly too, but face it. SUVs are a profligate waste when marketed as mass-market family sedans. It's one thing for a few offroaders and trailer-towers to buy them. A regular car won't do the job, and a few enthusiasts don't make a huge dent in total energy consumption. It's another thing to surrender the car market to the Japanese and push offroad trucks as passenger vehicles to people who will never see a dirt road or trailer hitch in their lives.
If you're an offroad or SUV enthusiast you should be mad about them diluting the brand. Congratulations, you now drive a soccer-mom-mobile. Not feeling like such a rugged outdoorsman any more, are you?
What this means is that they're not wiretapping specific suspects. They're trolling through the phone calls placed between foreign countries but are routed through the US. Spying on foreign phone calls of foreign citizens is legal without a warrant. Spying on them while they're being routed through the US was questionable, but now it's legal.
The big problem is, the phone switches that route foreign calls route US calls too. With no oversight, we won't know if how often they accidentally or deliberately intercept the phone calls of US citizens too, not counting the US targets who have a warrant.
The point isn't to help Windows to Linux switchers. It's to make ext2 a viable cross-platform filesystem for removable storage devices. Big difference.
Personally, I am very skeptical that any pay arrangement would make the teaching of tutorials at a conference legal without an H1-B or some other visa that expressly allows the holder to work.
My guess is that it many people do come into the US in similar circumstances, but that does not make it legal. I am not an immigration lawyer, but if it's true that any paid speaker needs a work visa, the people skirting this law aren't exactly low-profile. How is this any different from someone like say, Mikhail Gorbachev or the Dalia Lama coming to the US to give a speech? And I guarantee you those people charge a large speaking fee.
Yeah, this is the local Fox station, and they always run these Special Undercover Reports hyping up the latest thing to fear. They've done the usual stories: biker gangs, street racers, underground raves/after hours clubs, and then my favorite, house parties in the 'hood with underage drinking, fighting, and girls getting wild. Wow, thanks for the newsflash. Pathetic.
There are ext2 drivers for Windows, but they're definitely not ready for production use. There's just not much interest in them compared to NTFS on Linux. If we want to promote ext2/3 as a Free cross platform filesystem, let's throw some support behind a good Windows ext2 driver.
You could build it that way too (and maybe circumvent Apple's patent). However, as described in the blurb, the computer sends a kill signal to the charging circuit which then blows a fuse permanently. Since it's irreversible, Apple better be careful about false positives in the authentication process.
Yeah, and with no tactile feedback because it's a touchscreen. It's one thing to clean up the UI because of too many single-function buttons and displays (look at an old school 747 cockpit). However, I want a few dedicated buttons for important functions like volume, power, and send/hang up.
And the part about each chip having 4 cores and a 2x2 ft circuit board containing 32 chips. 128 CPU cores in the space of an ATX motherboard is pretty impressive even at only 850Mhz each.
Actually, the GP post misquotes TFA. The article links to a PDF of a standard counter-intelligence briefing intended for people with classified access. University officials may have been given this briefing, but you can't apply it verbatim to university students. Here's a reader comment from TFA that explains it:
It looks like this document is totally being taken out of context. This is a dull and standard boilerplate document about how to watch for people who have security clearances but might be selling secrets to the enemy.
For example, people with certain security clearances may be required to report all foreign travel. They also are required to report any sudden changes in their financial situation. So indicators like "unreported foreign travel" and "unexplained affluence" don't make any sense for the vast majority of folks who are not required to report or explain these things in the first place.
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That was Vermont, but don't you remember Larry, Daryl and Daryl from the Newhart show?
All of the sun's energy we harness as electricity ends up as heat anyway, either through electrical resistance or mechanical friction.
Awarding electors proportionally doesn't work because to be fair, every state would have to do it. To take your example of Texas and California, if one of those states went proportional and the other stayed winner takes all, that would be unfair to the D's or R's.
What does work is the National Popular Vote, and it's not a huge overhaul of the electoral process. It's an interstate agreement to assign all their electors to the winner of the national popular vote. Once enough states sign on (enough to make a majority of electoral votes), the law goes into effect. It's simple and fair.
Sure, he had plausible deniability with Iran/Contra, but the fact remains that the Reagan administration negotiated with terrorists to secure the release of hostages in Lebanon after vowing not to negotiate with terrorists. Then there was the part about breaking their own arms embargo to sell weapons to Iran then giving the money to the Contras. Best case scenario: Reagan was asleep at the wheel while his Cabinet ran amok.
Small states have a small advantage in the power of their vote, but overall they don't matter much in Presidential elections either. Most of them are safe red or blue states, and usually it's not worth fighting over three votes. The real power and influence is the battleground states with a lot of electoral votes and a close red/blue split. Small states get more power from their two Senators than from their three electoral votes.
I still have the first CD player I bought in the late 80's. It's a full size audio component style. I was amazed when I finally opened it to see how it was built: a giant through-hole circuit board with lots of discrete components and a few DIP chips. It still works, but I haven't used it much lately. Otherwise the laser might have worn out by now.
OK, I must've remembered wrong. It was actually Jonathan Schwartz.
Yeah, that key will still pass Genuine Advantage too. It's feature-crippled, but it's still a legit key to MS.
That's such a ripoff. Gateway probably paid 45 bucks for the XP Home OEM license. Since your computer is already licensed, the CD is just a spare part. Next time lie and say the CD won't read.
I think Linus had the right idea here. He said, "Linux is free the way a free puppy is free."
Bare PCs are a pretty small market. Most people computer-literate enough to install Windows could probably build a PC from parts too. It's pretty easy these days with so many devices integrated on the motherboard.
It's a prisoner's dilemma. An SUV feels safer psychologically, but it actually is safer in just one scenario: if you crash into a smaller car, at the expense of the car. In every other type of crash they're the same or more dangerous than a car. If everybody defects (in the context of the prisoner's dilemma), it leads to an arms race of ever escalating size. When two big SUVs crash into each other, they're no safer than before, and you're still stuck with poor braking and cornering compared to a car which doesn't help safety either.
Well, the holier than thou types have a ways to go because right now light trucks are subsidized over cars. They have a lower CAFE standard, they don't pay the gas guzzler tax, and until recently, we had the Hummer loophole where trucks over 6500lbs were fully deductible as a business expense. Let's get them competing on a level playing field before we rail about Communism and command economies.
I understand about the outdoors and cowboy image being a marketing tool, but those are the marketing tools of a cult brand with exclusivity. SUVs have gone way beyond that to being a mass-market item. Everybody and their mom has one.
No, what they're saying is they want to be left alone. US foreign policy especially with regard to oil, is anything but that. Granted, Afghanistan doesn't have oil, but as a remote backwater, it was (and still is) a safe haven for radicals from the countries that have oil, hence its strategic significance.
Hey, I think railing against SUVs out of eco-purity is pretty silly too, but face it. SUVs are a profligate waste when marketed as mass-market family sedans. It's one thing for a few offroaders and trailer-towers to buy them. A regular car won't do the job, and a few enthusiasts don't make a huge dent in total energy consumption. It's another thing to surrender the car market to the Japanese and push offroad trucks as passenger vehicles to people who will never see a dirt road or trailer hitch in their lives.
If you're an offroad or SUV enthusiast you should be mad about them diluting the brand. Congratulations, you now drive a soccer-mom-mobile. Not feeling like such a rugged outdoorsman any more, are you?
What this means is that they're not wiretapping specific suspects. They're trolling through the phone calls placed between foreign countries but are routed through the US. Spying on foreign phone calls of foreign citizens is legal without a warrant. Spying on them while they're being routed through the US was questionable, but now it's legal.
The big problem is, the phone switches that route foreign calls route US calls too. With no oversight, we won't know if how often they accidentally or deliberately intercept the phone calls of US citizens too, not counting the US targets who have a warrant.
The point isn't to help Windows to Linux switchers. It's to make ext2 a viable cross-platform filesystem for removable storage devices. Big difference.
My guess is that it many people do come into the US in similar circumstances, but that does not make it legal. I am not an immigration lawyer, but if it's true that any paid speaker needs a work visa, the people skirting this law aren't exactly low-profile. How is this any different from someone like say, Mikhail Gorbachev or the Dalia Lama coming to the US to give a speech? And I guarantee you those people charge a large speaking fee.
Yeah, this is the local Fox station, and they always run these Special Undercover Reports hyping up the latest thing to fear. They've done the usual stories: biker gangs, street racers, underground raves/after hours clubs, and then my favorite, house parties in the 'hood with underage drinking, fighting, and girls getting wild. Wow, thanks for the newsflash. Pathetic.
There are ext2 drivers for Windows, but they're definitely not ready for production use. There's just not much interest in them compared to NTFS on Linux. If we want to promote ext2/3 as a Free cross platform filesystem, let's throw some support behind a good Windows ext2 driver.
You could build it that way too (and maybe circumvent Apple's patent). However, as described in the blurb, the computer sends a kill signal to the charging circuit which then blows a fuse permanently. Since it's irreversible, Apple better be careful about false positives in the authentication process.
Then the thief better hope he likes your music collection. How do you put new songs on it without plugging into a computer?
You're correct that this won't affect AC and car chargers. Only a computer can send the kill signal to the charging circuit.
Yeah, and with no tactile feedback because it's a touchscreen. It's one thing to clean up the UI because of too many single-function buttons and displays (look at an old school 747 cockpit). However, I want a few dedicated buttons for important functions like volume, power, and send/hang up.
And the part about each chip having 4 cores and a 2x2 ft circuit board containing 32 chips. 128 CPU cores in the space of an ATX motherboard is pretty impressive even at only 850Mhz each.
For example, people with certain security clearances may be required to report all foreign travel. They also are required to report any sudden changes in their financial situation. So indicators like "unreported foreign travel" and "unexplained affluence" don't make any sense for the vast majority of folks who are not required to report or explain these things in the first place.