I don't think it's really large enough to cause a dramatic turnaround in the election, but it is big enough to increase the margin of error in the polls.
(Officially) Less than 600 votes in the state of Florida separated Bush and Gore in 2000. Those votes do matter.
I'll get bold and predict that with a Kerry landslide, telephone polling will all but die.
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Ok, now you have the essentials correct (veto power), lets move into the high school understanding, spending bills are introducted where? oh yea, the House of Representives! Before the government can do anything they need to fund it. There are times that the House and Senate will work together on a bill, but that usually only happens when they come to an impass on a bill that both chambers think is important.
Senators do have the ability to introduce other types of legislation, and can 'push' for certain bills. Kerry has introduced legislation, for example (even Bush's example) he proposed a 50 cent tax increase on gasoline to discorage consumption and to fund road repair (to make them more effecient). Ever single member of congress has legistation tied to their names (a least as a co-signer), and I find it hard to believe that anyone who considers themselves well informed can believe that Kerry hasn't done so. Kerry like every other member of Congress has introduced (and championed) a number of legistative inititives, but, again, I am not going to spoon feed you the info.
Besides, the real power of the President is his ability to use the money funded by Congress to run the day to day operations of our government. Including such things as stem-cell research.
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I'm "for" better tasting beer, however, I have no clue how I am going to go about that anymore than how Kerry is going to go about implementing his policies.
Welcome to the wonderful world of politics! First you need to bone up on the essentials, and realize that the (U.S.) President only has the ability to sign stuff into law (including budgets). One of his top jobs is Cheerleader-in-Chief, a guy who pushes congress to make a bill that he want to sign.
Universal Healthcare is done by most other wealthy countries. In fact on of the biggest out of control healthcare expenses is the growing cost of administration, including increasing numbers of uninsured people who cannot pay thier bills and the costs of dealing with literally thousands of different plans and forms. Persciption Drugs prices suck because they prohibit the International free market from working. There are a number of reasons why our health care needs a major overhaul, but it will take a lot of guts to stand up and demand it.
Of course web polls are self-selective, and this poll even asks where you live, so someone living in Iowa could vote 20 times as a Frenchman just because, it'd be funny to see Bush 'winning' in France. Hell, I even gave it a thought, (and I support Kerry!). With so few people voting you can make some intersting results and completely dominate some smaller countries. Of course the posting on Slashdot has probally doubled the results (a least), but it's still kinda fun.
Oddly enough most of the U.S. election poll are based on result from interviews with less than 1,000 people.
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But Kerry has focused on a single main issue: that he's not George Bush.
No, that's what you have focused on, perhaps becuase that what the news outlets you view focus on. Have you ever heard him speak, almost always he goes over a number of issues, and in fact took great pains not to even mention Bush in the Democratic Convention. On the other hand Bush has been running very negitive ads against Kerry for months now, in fact a Bush ad on FoxNews.com was worded "Keep Kerry Out [give Bush $50]", and he was negitively mentioned many, many times by every Republican speaker.
Do some research, go to Kerry's Website and find out what he stands for, rather than waiting for it to be spoon feed to you by some poster on a tech forum.
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Much of the rest of the world will go against Bush in a heartbeat based on one or two issues because the rest doesn't affect them. Americans though are the ones that have judge based on not only all of the issues, but also how they want to be represented.
Yes, the rest of the world are focused on only one one or two issues, but so do most Americans. Few people look at the big picture. That's why there is much talk about Kerry's need to focus on a single main issue.
Yes a 'voting reciept' would be a bad idea; I don't believe that under any circumstance a voter would be allowed to leave the polling station with the paper. However a 'paper trail' is needed to hedge potential (eventual) problems with an electronic vote. The idea is usually to have them drop it back into a ballot box.
I think that this box should accept the ballot kinda like a vending machine accepts a dollar bill. This way both the touchscreen system and the ballot box will keep a tally, if the results are different then the poll workers will 'flag' those results and note the difference for that race. If a recount is done then what's in the hopper of the ballot box would be considered offical.
I work in a leading financial company and we use extensive open source software.
Any code that goes into production goes through a security code review in addition to the regular QA and security QA phases. Then it's tested for penetration.
Yes, the DoD will review, other countries, other companies, other individuals, that's the great thing about open source; any interested party can easily view the software, easily and without the fear of a non-disclosure agreement. Many capiable developers will avoid signing an NDA, at the very least because it could limit their career. Another important factor is the public accountability for the individual developer, or at least the person who commits the code to CVS. The DoD will (if they haven't already) develop bios and threat assessments for every committer on important projects like Linux and use those assesments to target audits on code changes.
Would you like your taxes low or would you like NASA funded properly? It doesn't seem like you can have both.
Yes, there is a way to spend more and tax less; Borrow it!, why pay today when your children can pay tomorrow!
The Hubble has been great, but I believe that we need to focus on observations from the l2 point. Execution of Bush's 'plan' to go back to the moon first would push the technology for that mission, but somehow I don't think that he will ever come across with the money; too busy give contracts to Haliburton. Really all we need to do is focus on getting a spending bill through congress , because Bush hasn't vetoed a spending bill his entire time in office.
Sometimes I think that the world forgets what drove the U.S. to the moon, competition. If our European (and Asian) friends want to see progress on space issues, I suggest that you pressure your own government for the funding, not your 'rich' Uncle Sam (he's a little strapped for cash right now). A little competition always get America going.
Ok, your right, it is weak, but then again, it wasn't my basic point. To a certain extent I did misread my orginal post's grandparent post, but upon getting a good night sleep, I see that post and yours with a greater bias, which allows for a more direct response...
I consider myself very good with computers (some people have even called me a Guru; but I wouldn't go that far). I don't spell very well, I am slightly dyslexic so spelling sometimes is a real challenge, does this make me stupid? According to you I should even be allowed to use a computer (or at least send email). I use the auto complete funtion in my email (in particular at work) almost every time I use it and I only have about a dozen people I regualarlly contact. I can only imagine the number of contact someone who is in charge of a $100 million dollar research budget would need on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, if I had an assistant whos job it was to make my job easier, I would tell them to be sure that I am able to quickly access these contact, why would I want to spend large amounts of time seaching though a contact database?
Quite frankly, I don't like this particular posting of mine very well, honestly way to many 'I's, it doesn't 'sit' well with me, but I do believe that my basic point is complete. I find it hard to justify spending any more time on a repley to a one line post, in particular, one with such (I believe) an obvious bias (you see I'm not even running this though an spell checker; I am sure my spelling of 'obvious' is wrong;).
My trouble is that I put a fair amount of effort into finding my voice in a particular statement. I am not a particularlly good sepllar in the first place, but I do nake an effort nat it. Combind that with a fat fiinger, and sometomes, I set my self up for spelling Nazis, who (I believe) disagree with my posts but are too lazy to actually write something to add to the discussion... The literary equivalent of a hit-and-run, and after a quick look at you past postings seem to be the "master of it". Go craw back under your bridge, and leave the postings to those of us who actually try to add to the discussion, rather than ones who try to prove their superiority at ever turn.
Actually that has been one of Nokia's best points for customer loyality, the durability of the units. I think that the biggest reason why Nokia didn't use the clam shell form factor was because of weakness of the hinge.
Your 7650 phone as a 100-150 hour standby, that's roughly 4 to 6 days(without using it), no wonder your having problems after 5 days. My 6820 phone has a listed standby of "up to 10 days", my backup phone 3100 phone has a standby of 170 to 410 hours.
I love Nokia phones, never had a problem with one of them, my old phone (8260) still works, and I was hard on it.
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America is not the centre of the world. Diversity is ok. Multi-culturalism is ok.
America is not the centre of the world. Diversity is ok. Multi-culturalism is ok.
There are you happy now? The one thing that most people don't *get* is that America is the most multicultural country in the world. More than any other county in the world, America has been built on immigration from every other country on this planet. Sure we are well more than half "white" but that represents Germans, Italians, Irish, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, etc. America was filled by people who looked around their particular 'old country' and said "Fuck this Shit, I can't get ahead" and left.
Our culture is truely a melting pot of ideas, and values from all over the world, primarily northern European but not exclusively. For example most every school child in American knows what a Pinata is, and some even know how to use chop sticks. Perhaps that's why our culture is so 'exportable', because there are parts of it that are familiar to every part of the world. Even in most minor cities you can find what ever religion you follow. We speak English, not because there is any law saying you have to, but because most other people here do, immigrants learn that 'to get ahead' it's best to communicate in the 'local' language. However, unlike some courtries which will remain nameless there are no laws saying that you have to (excepting for a couple of closed-minded municipalities), large sections of our country speak Spanish, in fact all major cable companies have multiple Spanish language TV stations. You don't have to look hard in any big city to see business signs in any one of a dozen different languages.
America is not the center (or centre if you like) of the world, but we do currently have the market cornered and English (in particular American English) is 'the lowest common denominator' for the Internet, this I believe will remain. If Brazilian's want to communicate in Portuguese fine, but I believe that this will seperate them from the largest part of the Internet communitity.
Well, frankly I *would* consider that as a measure of intelligence (at least to some degree).
I wouldn't, a plumber uses a pickup truck everyday, but he might not know how to fix it, but he's not talking about a blue collar guy, but a manager, probably a bureaucrat. Chances are if he ever did anything 'geeky', it's been at least 10 years since he did it.
still can't use it properly (and won't take the time to actually *learn* to use it properly - eg, basic typing/clicking skills), I consider that an intellectual defect.
I kinda agree, but what's not in question is the 'pointy haired guy's' clicking or typing, but his ability to use mail aliases, most likely because there are two separate mail systems, one internal and one external and due to regulations the two are not connected ($100 million reasearch budget sounds like a gov't agency). Which would make it a little more complicated than the 'normal' setup, but of course, I am mearly guessing and may be completely off base.
I...aced the LSAT, have... lawyers in my family, and know a fair amount about how civil rights law operates (having been an activist about it when the need actually arises). As truckloads of case law will tell you, we give up our rights to varying degrees in countless situations. You'll hear some libertarians assert otherwise, but they're arguing ideology, not law.
You aced the LSAT, then you should know about providing examples, not 'truckloads'. However you are correct, I was overly broad in my description of rights. Let me rephrase, "there is no custom of losing your rights, except when it's in the "public good" (such as you can't yell 'fire' in a otherwise safe theater, or removing certain rights from convicted felons- like Martha Stewart). If you have an example other than 'the public good' where we 'traditionally' give up our rights, I'd love to see it, please.
I find it interesting that while you took the time to throw a further insult at me about my mother (like some kind of street hood), you didn't provide an answer to what I believe is the most "damning" argument... "why do photographers need air-tight model releases for professional models, but not for average guests at a private event" (or something like that).
You know, you could have given me that point as being at least 'interesting', but most likely you know that I have strong points, hence, your need for the otherwise useless extreme examples of the signs at the birth canal, on every curbside, and just outside of every front door. Personally, I believe that you fear the signage, I say take your fears in hand, don't assume that cars are closer than they appear. walk when they say 'don't walk', and stand on the top rung of the ladder! Perhaps there are a few too many signs, but the balance between safety and convenience is one that society is constantly adjusting, perhaps well get to the absured levels which you have suggested, but I doubt it.
In the end, and this most likely is the end for my response on this subject, the copyrights on photographs of most people at a wedding are shared (I believe) by both the photographer and his (unsigned) subjects. Otherwise old wedding photographs would be the best source for pictures of celeberties before they became famous and while your at it, can you point me to any photographer who did weddings in the 80's in Houston, which Bush may have attended! Hell I'd love to get a photograph of Bush #43 with a drink, cigar and looking a little tipsy (bonus points if it appears that he is looking down some woman's dress). QED
Anyone who goes to a wedding oblivious to the fact that they'll be subject to being photographed by a professional photographer is either attending their first wedding ever, or willfully stupid.
And what if it is their '1st' wedding? evar. Also, not everybody is familiar with the 'customs' of the wedding photographer, it doesn't make them willfully stupid. I don't know about whatever country your from, but here in the U.S. we do not ever lose our rights*. *(excepting the patriot act, of course) There no such thing as a custom of giving up any right, refer to
Miranda vs. Arizona. It amazes me that these artists who so strenuously protect 'their' copyrights, are so willing to violate my rights as a private citizen. When a photographer uses a paid model, they take great care in getting a signed model release from their subject. The release is needed even if the photographer can clearly show payment, intention of the model or that the 'scene' was a public place, but for some reason, mearly 'showing up' at a wedding (apparently) gives the photographer right to your (or my) image they would not normally be able to obtain. Trust me this is an issue which will be visited by the courts eventually (if it hasn't already), and I don't think that you are going to like the outcome. Most likely, it'll be a yellow cone, saying 'caution, professional photographer at work!', perhaps a brightly colored vest, like the ones the guys who work on the highway use (:
Then you get to sue them for violating your rights of personal publicity and perhaps defamation.
The "you get to sue them" attitude is the reason why there are so many lawsuits, most people don't sue, they don't have the money to afford it. However you are right that there is little chance that my image will be used, but there is even less of a chance that if they did use it 'in a offensive manner' that I would ever know of it. That still wouldn't make it right.
Would you have like a warning sign on your mother's birth canal that there's a 1 in a googol chance of this happening?
You don't have a right in this case. Most wedding photographs are usually covered under a blanket release signed by the contracting party
You forgot to say... IANAL. I was not aware that other people could sign away my rights in any situation. Of course it could be said that I was aware that someone would be taking publishable photographs, but there should be a sign at the entrance of the event warning me. Hell, there are warnings on ladders, mattress tags, and amusment park rides, I don't see why these artists shouldn't warn people that thier images are subject to public sale (and modification).
. By maintaining the copyrights to their work, they can sell the images to magazines, advertising companies, and others who might use wedding images.
So they can 'photo shop' my image in any way they like, because they clearly 'own the copyright' and thus the right to modify the image. What if they want to use it for an offensive advertisement. Considering the fact that I never signed anything allowing them to use my image for any purpose, they certainly shouldn't be allowed to misrepresent me (or my image), but apparently they can.
I was always kinda amazed about the "wedding photo" scam, you pay a guy thousands of dollars to show up at your wedding and take photos he intends to sell to your relative. Shouldn't they be paying you, also, as a guest I have never signed a model release, a wedding reception is not a public event, I do have a reasonable right to expect that my image wouldn't be sold without my permission, yet somehow, it's 'tradional'.
On a related note (but not quite as 'bitchy'), at my brother's wedding the photographer set up a black backdrop in front of an portrat B/W camera, everyone was able to make a "special' pose, and there wasn't any of the 'over the table scraps' shots.
That's what I use, best thing going, heck, get a plan with something like Plesk and be a hosting "reseller". Now, I hav individual hosting for all four of my domains, set up was easy, and I still have the power of root for anything I want to do. I'll even throw in a plug for my hosting provider (maybe now they'll get the new site up!).
Returning a message when a server bounces a email is the expected result, unfortunately, those lying bastards have made it unwise in practice.
If correctly implementing an outdated standard is the "stupidist thing" you have every heard of, well then that's great! I've seen a lot of actions far worse than that!
...[needing a valve for life support]Bigelow went shopping. American aerospace giants were willing to sell him the valve at costs that ranged from $300,000 to $1 million. Bigelow found and purchased the same valve from a European company. The cost for the identical valve? A mere $5,000.
Sounds like the legendary $500 hammer, you know the one where they put all the design and fixed costs into the price of the first run of products. It generally get really expensive if you are only doing one. For example if they only built one Ford Focus it would be a Billion dollar car. Most likely the german company has invested in a computerized milling machine, which greatly reduces costs for single items.
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Seriously, the amount of FUD that's comming from the (so called) right is amazing.
I'll get bold and predict that with a Kerry landslide, telephone polling will all but die.
Senators do have the ability to introduce other types of legislation, and can 'push' for certain bills. Kerry has introduced legislation, for example (even Bush's example) he proposed a 50 cent tax increase on gasoline to discorage consumption and to fund road repair (to make them more effecient). Ever single member of congress has legistation tied to their names (a least as a co-signer), and I find it hard to believe that anyone who considers themselves well informed can believe that Kerry hasn't done so. Kerry like every other member of Congress has introduced (and championed) a number of legistative inititives, but, again, I am not going to spoon feed you the info.
Besides, the real power of the President is his ability to use the money funded by Congress to run the day to day operations of our government. Including such things as stem-cell research.
Universal Healthcare is done by most other wealthy countries. In fact on of the biggest out of control healthcare expenses is the growing cost of administration, including increasing numbers of uninsured people who cannot pay thier bills and the costs of dealing with literally thousands of different plans and forms. Persciption Drugs prices suck because they prohibit the International free market from working. There are a number of reasons why our health care needs a major overhaul, but it will take a lot of guts to stand up and demand it.
Oddly enough most of the U.S. election poll are based on result from interviews with less than 1,000 people.
Do some research, go to Kerry's Website and find out what he stands for, rather than waiting for it to be spoon feed to you by some poster on a tech forum.
4th Corollary: One must make a declaritive statement in a Corollary, for it to be effectively chained to the previous one.
I think that this box should accept the ballot kinda like a vending machine accepts a dollar bill. This way both the touchscreen system and the ballot box will keep a tally, if the results are different then the poll workers will 'flag' those results and note the difference for that race. If a recount is done then what's in the hopper of the ballot box would be considered offical.
The Hubble has been great, but I believe that we need to focus on observations from the l2 point. Execution of Bush's 'plan' to go back to the moon first would push the technology for that mission, but somehow I don't think that he will ever come across with the money; too busy give contracts to Haliburton. Really all we need to do is focus on getting a spending bill through congress , because Bush hasn't vetoed a spending bill his entire time in office.
Sometimes I think that the world forgets what drove the U.S. to the moon, competition. If our European (and Asian) friends want to see progress on space issues, I suggest that you pressure your own government for the funding, not your 'rich' Uncle Sam (he's a little strapped for cash right now). A little competition always get America going.
I consider myself very good with computers (some people have even called me a Guru; but I wouldn't go that far). I don't spell very well, I am slightly dyslexic so spelling sometimes is a real challenge, does this make me stupid? According to you I should even be allowed to use a computer (or at least send email). I use the auto complete funtion in my email (in particular at work) almost every time I use it and I only have about a dozen people I regualarlly contact. I can only imagine the number of contact someone who is in charge of a $100 million dollar research budget would need on a daily, weekly, monthly basis, if I had an assistant whos job it was to make my job easier, I would tell them to be sure that I am able to quickly access these contact, why would I want to spend large amounts of time seaching though a contact database?
Quite frankly, I don't like this particular posting of mine very well, honestly way to many 'I's, it doesn't 'sit' well with me, but I do believe that my basic point is complete. I find it hard to justify spending any more time on a repley to a one line post, in particular, one with such (I believe) an obvious bias (you see I'm not even running this though an spell checker; I am sure my spelling of 'obvious' is wrong;).
My trouble is that I put a fair amount of effort into finding my voice in a particular statement. I am not a particularlly good sepllar in the first place, but I do nake an effort nat it. Combind that with a fat fiinger, and sometomes, I set my self up for spelling Nazis, who (I believe) disagree with my posts but are too lazy to actually write something to add to the discussion... The literary equivalent of a hit-and-run, and after a quick look at you past postings seem to be the "master of it". Go craw back under your bridge, and leave the postings to those of us who actually try to add to the discussion, rather than ones who try to prove their superiority at ever turn.
Actually that has been one of Nokia's best points for customer loyality, the durability of the units. I think that the biggest reason why Nokia didn't use the clam shell form factor was because of weakness of the hinge.
I love Nokia phones, never had a problem with one of them, my old phone (8260) still works, and I was hard on it.
There are you happy now? The one thing that most people don't *get* is that America is the most multicultural country in the world. More than any other county in the world, America has been built on immigration from every other country on this planet. Sure we are well more than half "white" but that represents Germans, Italians, Irish, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Polish, etc. America was filled by people who looked around their particular 'old country' and said "Fuck this Shit, I can't get ahead" and left.
Our culture is truely a melting pot of ideas, and values from all over the world, primarily northern European but not exclusively. For example most every school child in American knows what a Pinata is, and some even know how to use chop sticks. Perhaps that's why our culture is so 'exportable', because there are parts of it that are familiar to every part of the world. Even in most minor cities you can find what ever religion you follow. We speak English, not because there is any law saying you have to, but because most other people here do, immigrants learn that 'to get ahead' it's best to communicate in the 'local' language. However, unlike some courtries which will remain nameless there are no laws saying that you have to (excepting for a couple of closed-minded municipalities), large sections of our country speak Spanish, in fact all major cable companies have multiple Spanish language TV stations. You don't have to look hard in any big city to see business signs in any one of a dozen different languages.
America is not the center (or centre if you like) of the world, but we do currently have the market cornered and English (in particular American English) is 'the lowest common denominator' for the Internet, this I believe will remain. If Brazilian's want to communicate in Portuguese fine, but I believe that this will seperate them from the largest part of the Internet communitity.
I kinda agree, but what's not in question is the 'pointy haired guy's' clicking or typing, but his ability to use mail aliases, most likely because there are two separate mail systems, one internal and one external and due to regulations the two are not connected ($100 million reasearch budget sounds like a gov't agency). Which would make it a little more complicated than the 'normal' setup, but of course, I am mearly guessing and may be completely off base.
I find it interesting that while you took the time to throw a further insult at me about my mother (like some kind of street hood), you didn't provide an answer to what I believe is the most "damning" argument... "why do photographers need air-tight model releases for professional models, but not for average guests at a private event" (or something like that). You know, you could have given me that point as being at least 'interesting', but most likely you know that I have strong points, hence, your need for the otherwise useless extreme examples of the signs at the birth canal, on every curbside, and just outside of every front door. Personally, I believe that you fear the signage, I say take your fears in hand, don't assume that cars are closer than they appear. walk when they say 'don't walk', and stand on the top rung of the ladder! Perhaps there are a few too many signs, but the balance between safety and convenience is one that society is constantly adjusting, perhaps well get to the absured levels which you have suggested, but I doubt it.
In the end, and this most likely is the end for my response on this subject, the copyrights on photographs of most people at a wedding are shared (I believe) by both the photographer and his (unsigned) subjects. Otherwise old wedding photographs would be the best source for pictures of celeberties before they became famous and while your at it, can you point me to any photographer who did weddings in the 80's in Houston, which Bush may have attended! Hell I'd love to get a photograph of Bush #43 with a drink, cigar and looking a little tipsy (bonus points if it appears that he is looking down some woman's dress). QED
On a related note (but not quite as 'bitchy'), at my brother's wedding the photographer set up a black backdrop in front of an portrat B/W camera, everyone was able to make a "special' pose, and there wasn't any of the 'over the table scraps' shots.
That's what I use, best thing going, heck, get a plan with something like Plesk and be a hosting "reseller". Now, I hav individual hosting for all four of my domains, set up was easy, and I still have the power of root for anything I want to do. I'll even throw in a plug for my hosting provider (maybe now they'll get the new site up!).