The scantron style sheets we used to vote in Indianapolis yesterday were a little different than you might be used to. All you do is take the sheet over to a private area, take a pen and fill in the circles next to the candidates name you want. The advantage is that they circles are spaced incredibly far apart compared to what is normally used, and there is only one circle per horizontal row (2 column on the page though).
Also, if you over-voted a particular race, the machine immediately will inform you and give you the option to remove the ballot, and then receive a new one to vote with. Otherwise, it will give you confirmation that you filled everything out correctly and you can go on your way.
What will you do when they require you to come in to vote absentee on the same machine, or upon receiving your absentee ballot, push some buttons on a computer and shred your ballot?
We have to be willing to accept a certain amount of corruption in our elections, or things would never get done.
Do you honestly think that in any election in the history of any nation that every single vote was properly counted? I also would argue that there are many people who have taken office in the past who probably were not actually chosen by any sort of majority, but due to counting problems or corruption, they ended up there anyway.
For the most part we have survived, and will continue to survive.
Here in Marion County, Indiana (Indianapolis) the new system consists of Scantron-style sheets that you fill in circles and then feed into a machine which instantly checks to see if you screwed up and lets you know. Everything went very smoothly yesterday, with all votes cast yesterday being officially counted by around 9 pm or so (polls close at 6). Right now we are still waiting, because the device used to count the absentee ballots was not approved properly so they all are being hand-counted.
Except in the states when votes are counted by hand there has to be one person from each political party present to verify each ballot, as well as other observers.
How are the hand counts that you speak of verified in anyway? Are they double-counted by separate people? Otherwise, what is to prevent certain people who are counting from pushing their own agendas?
If the sun blows up, dies, goes away, or does anything else catastrophic, by the time it happens you won't have the chance to worry about it, so who cares?
I have no problem with the US Government creating their own search engine for the Internet, but they have no business acquiring privately or publicly owned companies.
Besides, anything they do would be so wrapped up in red tape and bureaucracy that adaptability (something essential to survival in such a fast paced area) would be impossible.
Even large corporations have trouble adapting to changes in technology; how do you possibly expect the government to be able to do so better?
Also, what benefits are given to the public from having the government taking over a business rather than starting their own service?
See that key on your keyboard just left of 'Z' and just below 'Caps Lock'? Learn to use it, and your posts will be more readable and taken more seriously.
Because the state of Indiana is likely going to freeze all higher education funding for the next 10 years, which means that Purdue will be receiving the exact same amount of money every year for the next 10 years that they got this year. So while their costs go up, their budget does not.
Indiana wants to improve their economy, but refuses to support higher education, and therefore will not get better anytime soon since it is still very heavily reliant on manufacturing and farming.
Stop confusing entertainment with life and liberty.
Life, liberty, and happiness (property), are the three inalienable rights according to the Declaration of Independence (which they got from John Locke, et al.)
Therefore, when you are holding a cd in your hand; while you only hold a license to that property, you are entitled to the fair use of it. The person who owns that property retains their right to it.
This is very much indeed an issue of life, liberty, and happiness (property).
I do agree with you that many people have the wrong approach to this issue. I think that the copyright laws are too skewed towards people with a lot of money and big lawyers; when they should exist to protect all original works, regardless of how much money the person who made it makes. Read the US Code on copyright law sometimes and you'll see what I mean.
I also feel that fair use laws should not be restricted in anyway (DMCA bad). While I do not own the property on a cd when I am listening to it; I sure as hell have the right to make myself copies of it in any form I like. Restricting the consumers ability to enjoy that which they are licensing will only exist to hurt those we are licensing from.
Imagine leasing a car and then being told you can't drive into certain parts of town.
The sun has been around a long time; so any models we do have are based upon a very small set of information that is a subset of a huge amount of information we do not have.
For that reason alone, I doubt that this is as rare an event as some may make it out to be.
I recall reading a story awhile ago about a Coke employee who was fired for drinking Pepsi while working. This is along similar lines for justification of firing someone; however, in this case it is a little more iffy if they could actually fire him for this depending on what sort of contracts he signed when agreeing to employment with Microsoft.
In the Coke/Pepsi deal the worker had to sign something saying he wouldn't publicly endorse another product (by drinking it) while working. I imagine MS might have a similar deal.
It's a lot harder for the person in the next room to figure out what you are typing than it is for them to stick their ear to the wall and hear what you are saying.
Not only will we have people giving out loads of private information public while talking on their celphones; we'll now get the priveledge of going even further into their private lives! Imagine listening to someone write a personal e-mail while on the train, or writing a report regarding something your boss did that cost the company a million dollar while in the company of strangers!
Speech may be the best way to communicate with another human being when they're standing in front of you; but writing is much more effective and allows for much greater clarity than speech does. It could almost be considered a regression to go from writing everything back to speaking everything.
This is one of those technologies that I wish would die. Or at least stick to where it is useful: Giving directions to a cab driver; ordering food; commanding your replicator, etc. Anywhere that simple instructions are usually given to people but direct spoken communication is difficult. (Translation devices, for example.)
Yes, actually, we should. Read some Rousseau or other similar works (Rousseau might have some specifics wrong with regards to Anthropology, but he had the right idea.). A more recent author to speak on the subject would be Daniel Quinn.
The bill requiring the higher mpg standards was opposed by most of the major auto manufacturers on the following grounds:
1. It would cost so much to implement what was wanted in the time that it was wanted; that it would result in having to cut a large number of production vehicles.
2. Since rather than redesigning the engines, the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to make a car more fuel efficient is to make it lighter, and thus less safe.
And a few other reasons too.
Think about it though, it's the same thing with the government passing laws with regards to other technology. They have a clue what they're doing and how it will affect what really goes on. In this case, they would be forcing companies to do something that is in their long-range plans to do, but that they could not possibly do within the constraints requested in a reasonable time without pumping millions into those companies.
These automobile manufacturers know that efficiency is a great concern of the public, and are working on it as best as they can; but it is a long and difficult process to rework all of that to make a car that is truly more fuel efficient (say, 50-60MPG)
Documents created in Word 2003, and saved as a Word 2003 document, can be open, read modified, and used in Word XP with no problems at all. I've tested and verified this.
It really bothers me when clocks are synchronized to the atomic clock in other places I go. 1-2 minutes is forgivable, but there are some places on my campus where the lab computers are off 15 minutes! That's just horrible.
There is no excuse anymore for not having your clocks synchronized properly. If not with an external source, at least with each other within an organization.
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The scantron style sheets we used to vote in Indianapolis yesterday were a little different than you might be used to. All you do is take the sheet over to a private area, take a pen and fill in the circles next to the candidates name you want. The advantage is that they circles are spaced incredibly far apart compared to what is normally used, and there is only one circle per horizontal row (2 column on the page though).
Also, if you over-voted a particular race, the machine immediately will inform you and give you the option to remove the ballot, and then receive a new one to vote with. Otherwise, it will give you confirmation that you filled everything out correctly and you can go on your way.
What will you do when they require you to come in to vote absentee on the same machine, or upon receiving your absentee ballot, push some buttons on a computer and shred your ballot?
We have to be willing to accept a certain amount of corruption in our elections, or things would never get done.
Do you honestly think that in any election in the history of any nation that every single vote was properly counted? I also would argue that there are many people who have taken office in the past who probably were not actually chosen by any sort of majority, but due to counting problems or corruption, they ended up there anyway.
For the most part we have survived, and will continue to survive.
Here in Marion County, Indiana (Indianapolis) the new system consists of Scantron-style sheets that you fill in circles and then feed into a machine which instantly checks to see if you screwed up and lets you know. Everything went very smoothly yesterday, with all votes cast yesterday being officially counted by around 9 pm or so (polls close at 6). Right now we are still waiting, because the device used to count the absentee ballots was not approved properly so they all are being hand-counted.
Except in the states when votes are counted by hand there has to be one person from each political party present to verify each ballot, as well as other observers.
How are the hand counts that you speak of verified in anyway? Are they double-counted by separate people? Otherwise, what is to prevent certain people who are counting from pushing their own agendas?
It is in all journalist's genes to make horrible puns in as many headlines as possible.
If the sun blows up, dies, goes away, or does anything else catastrophic, by the time it happens you won't have the chance to worry about it, so who cares?
I have no problem with the US Government creating their own search engine for the Internet, but they have no business acquiring privately or publicly owned companies.
Besides, anything they do would be so wrapped up in red tape and bureaucracy that adaptability (something essential to survival in such a fast paced area) would be impossible.
Even large corporations have trouble adapting to changes in technology; how do you possibly expect the government to be able to do so better?
Also, what benefits are given to the public from having the government taking over a business rather than starting their own service?
See that key on your keyboard just left of 'Z' and just below 'Caps Lock'? Learn to use it, and your posts will be more readable and taken more seriously.
The NRA is a great source for firearm education and are supporters of making sure that everyone who owns firearms knows what they're doing with them.
If they're going to block the NRA under weapons, they had better also block the DNR and any hunting group or association.
Because the state of Indiana is likely going to freeze all higher education funding for the next 10 years, which means that Purdue will be receiving the exact same amount of money every year for the next 10 years that they got this year. So while their costs go up, their budget does not.
Indiana wants to improve their economy, but refuses to support higher education, and therefore will not get better anytime soon since it is still very heavily reliant on manufacturing and farming.
You don't need commas between prepositional phrases.
Every keyboard I've seen on a tablet was so small it would cramp a normal adult's hand horribly to use it very long.
Step 4) Loss (Female profits, then you have to take her back to her street corner)
2. Let's just hope that they have good closure on their final episode, or aliens from Omicron-Persei will blow up the earth.
Unless you're being sarcastic; you're wrong.
Stop confusing entertainment with life and liberty.
Life, liberty, and happiness (property), are the three inalienable rights according to the Declaration of Independence (which they got from John Locke, et al.)
Therefore, when you are holding a cd in your hand; while you only hold a license to that property, you are entitled to the fair use of it. The person who owns that property retains their right to it.
This is very much indeed an issue of life, liberty, and happiness (property).
I do agree with you that many people have the wrong approach to this issue. I think that the copyright laws are too skewed towards people with a lot of money and big lawyers; when they should exist to protect all original works, regardless of how much money the person who made it makes. Read the US Code on copyright law sometimes and you'll see what I mean.
I also feel that fair use laws should not be restricted in anyway (DMCA bad). While I do not own the property on a cd when I am listening to it; I sure as hell have the right to make myself copies of it in any form I like. Restricting the consumers ability to enjoy that which they are licensing will only exist to hurt those we are licensing from.
Imagine leasing a car and then being told you can't drive into certain parts of town.
The sun has been around a long time; so any models we do have are based upon a very small set of information that is a subset of a huge amount of information we do not have.
For that reason alone, I doubt that this is as rare an event as some may make it out to be.
I recall reading a story awhile ago about a Coke employee who was fired for drinking Pepsi while working. This is along similar lines for justification of firing someone; however, in this case it is a little more iffy if they could actually fire him for this depending on what sort of contracts he signed when agreeing to employment with Microsoft.
In the Coke/Pepsi deal the worker had to sign something saying he wouldn't publicly endorse another product (by drinking it) while working. I imagine MS might have a similar deal.
It's a lot harder for the person in the next room to figure out what you are typing than it is for them to stick their ear to the wall and hear what you are saying.
Not only will we have people giving out loads of private information public while talking on their celphones; we'll now get the priveledge of going even further into their private lives! Imagine listening to someone write a personal e-mail while on the train, or writing a report regarding something your boss did that cost the company a million dollar while in the company of strangers!
Speech may be the best way to communicate with another human being when they're standing in front of you; but writing is much more effective and allows for much greater clarity than speech does. It could almost be considered a regression to go from writing everything back to speaking everything.
This is one of those technologies that I wish would die. Or at least stick to where it is useful: Giving directions to a cab driver; ordering food; commanding your replicator, etc. Anywhere that simple instructions are usually given to people but direct spoken communication is difficult. (Translation devices, for example.)
We should all be living as hunter/gatherers.
Yes, actually, we should. Read some Rousseau or other similar works (Rousseau might have some specifics wrong with regards to Anthropology, but he had the right idea.). A more recent author to speak on the subject would be Daniel Quinn.
The bill requiring the higher mpg standards was opposed by most of the major auto manufacturers on the following grounds:
1. It would cost so much to implement what was wanted in the time that it was wanted; that it would result in having to cut a large number of production vehicles.
2. Since rather than redesigning the engines, the easiest, fastest, and cheapest way to make a car more fuel efficient is to make it lighter, and thus less safe.
And a few other reasons too.
Think about it though, it's the same thing with the government passing laws with regards to other technology. They have a clue what they're doing and how it will affect what really goes on. In this case, they would be forcing companies to do something that is in their long-range plans to do, but that they could not possibly do within the constraints requested in a reasonable time without pumping millions into those companies.
These automobile manufacturers know that efficiency is a great concern of the public, and are working on it as best as they can; but it is a long and difficult process to rework all of that to make a car that is truly more fuel efficient (say, 50-60MPG)
If only Mother nature had used better heuristics.
Documents created in Word 2003, and saved as a Word 2003 document, can be open, read modified, and used in Word XP with no problems at all. I've tested and verified this.
It really bothers me when clocks are synchronized to the atomic clock in other places I go. 1-2 minutes is forgivable, but there are some places on my campus where the lab computers are off 15 minutes! That's just horrible.
There is no excuse anymore for not having your clocks synchronized properly. If not with an external source, at least with each other within an organization.