If I can be put on the sex offender list for pissing in public, I think that it's only fair that women get put on the sex offender list for breastfeeding in public.
You do realize that Steam is little more than an advertising platform for games, right?
Hell, I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store, between the games, Valve Store, Steam Mobile, Gifting on Steam, and, of course, Big Picture.
I started off being declared as a business major, but after sophomore year, I had stopped taking business courses altogether and in Junior year I started my college's BA/MA mathematics program where students earn their MA as part of a four year program.
Technically, I never declared myself a mathematics major, but the school automatically declared me one when I was sent my graduation audit halfway through my last semester.
I remember when I first got a Palm Pilot back in the day, one was required to, when setting up the device, touch the center of about a half dozen targets to test calibration.
Perhaps it would make sense for the voting machines to perform a similar calibration for each voter.
Why does Tesla need to do something that other cars that were considered don't have to do?
Porsche has been selling around 2000 Boxsters per year for the last few years in the US, while Tesla has shipped 1000 Model Ss since they started making deliveries in June.
This argument comes up often, but how many people actually have boats, trailers, or other "toys" that they need to pull?
Personally, I ask a friend or family member with a van if they can help me move, or I rent a truck from U-Haul. Also, I've never had the need to pull anything, so perhaps a truck from Home Depot would be perfect.
Obviously if your job involves a lot of hauling, then you are going to get the right tool for the job. But why would I need to buy a pickup truck for the rare instances when I buy something bigger than the inside of my car? It's not like I'm going to buy a new couch, bed, or refrigerator every few months.
To steal from the comments section under TFA, a hell of a lot of people 10-20 years ago were hooked on Solitaire, Free Cell, Tetris, Minesweeper, Snood, etc. Easily these few incredibly simple games accounted for more gaming hours than ANYTHING released on a console during the 90's.
However, nobody (that I'm aware of) called for the death of the video game console, since they understood that there is a huge difference between playing Solitaire and playing Sonic 2 or Half-Life.
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of a proportional system.
However, I disagree that IRV is pointless if there are only two parties. There are already more than two parties, as is the basis of this entire thread. IRV simply makes is easier for "third parties" to get elected.
But in my last point, I think that it is incredibly important to not only specify the minimum population of a congressional district (which is at least 30,000), but to specify a maximum population as well. This, to a certain degree, would place the importance on local elections, and it would reduce the extent of gerrymandering. Just look at the 28th Congressional District of New York, if you want to see a clear case where district lines are drawn to specifically reduce the number of Democrats making it to the House.
You seem to be mixing two very different situations.
You can't have a proportional system when voting for one person, for president.
Also, you can't have a proportional system when voting for two people per state, for the Senate.
Perhaps a proportional system might work in the House, but even then, I think that IRV would work well. The bigger issue there is that the number of Representatives was capped at 435 in 1911. So while each Rep in 1789 represented around 30,000 people, a Rep in 2012 represents around 716,000 people. Of course, in order for each Rep to represent 30,000 people again, it would mean that the House would have over 10,000 members. Sure, that's a lot, but that's half the seating capacity of Madison Square Garden, and it would allow for local politicians to accurately represent their constituency.
From Wikipedia, The Penn State system has 18,370 acres spread over 24 campuses across the state (including Special-mission campuses), or about 1.2 square miles per campus.
Mining companies would be interested because it could make them money.
Also, according to TFA, this isn't a new idea. There are already colleges in Ohio, Indiana, and Texas that are or are considering allowing mining on campus.
Obviously the headline is misleading, this is Slashdot.
The basic point of TFA is that many of the practices of Vietnamese fishermen have the potential to spread disease to Americans. Also, while the FDA inspects only 2.7% of imported food, 1380 loads of seafood from Vietnam have been rejected for "filth and salmonella" in the last five years.
I think that you're just bad at picking restaurants.
I've been to Australia (Victoria and the NT), and I've been to Argentina (Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata), Canada (Ontario, New Brunswick and PEI), and I'm from the US, where I've visited (NY, ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, NJ, PA, DE, MD, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, NM, CO, UT, AZ, CA, NV, OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, NE, IA, IL, IN, and OH).
I've had a good meal in practically every city I've been to. Smaller towns are a bit more hit-or-miss. If it's a hamlet or smaller with just one restaurant, then maybe you'll get lucky.
However, as a rule of thumb, it is best to stay away from a place that has an expensive menu (such as a $25 burger), but is empty. Instead, look for the seedy-looking place that has a line coming round the back and where the waiters make you point at the menu because they can't understand you.
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If I can be put on the sex offender list for pissing in public, I think that it's only fair that women get put on the sex offender list for breastfeeding in public.
Also, even with government issued guns, Switzerland has half the guns per capita of the US.
You do realize that Steam is little more than an advertising platform for games, right?
Hell, I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store, between the games, Valve Store, Steam Mobile, Gifting on Steam, and, of course, Big Picture.
And since they can blame the Union for the company going under, they will do well on their next job interview as an executive somewhere else.
That was my thought.
I started off being declared as a business major, but after sophomore year, I had stopped taking business courses altogether and in Junior year I started my college's BA/MA mathematics program where students earn their MA as part of a four year program.
Technically, I never declared myself a mathematics major, but the school automatically declared me one when I was sent my graduation audit halfway through my last semester.
Good point.
I only used the Boxster, since it was mentioned in TFA.
I remember when I first got a Palm Pilot back in the day, one was required to, when setting up the device, touch the center of about a half dozen targets to test calibration.
Perhaps it would make sense for the voting machines to perform a similar calibration for each voter.
Why does Tesla need to do something that other cars that were considered don't have to do?
Porsche has been selling around 2000 Boxsters per year for the last few years in the US, while Tesla has shipped 1000 Model Ss since they started making deliveries in June.
Those numbers seem pretty comparable to me.
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-celebrates-building-of-1000th-model-s-frame-51201.html
This argument comes up often, but how many people actually have boats, trailers, or other "toys" that they need to pull?
Personally, I ask a friend or family member with a van if they can help me move, or I rent a truck from U-Haul. Also, I've never had the need to pull anything, so perhaps a truck from Home Depot would be perfect.
Obviously if your job involves a lot of hauling, then you are going to get the right tool for the job. But why would I need to buy a pickup truck for the rare instances when I buy something bigger than the inside of my car? It's not like I'm going to buy a new couch, bed, or refrigerator every few months.
On top of that, I rent an apartment.
Does this mean that nothing in my apartment is mine?
It is up against cars in the same price category.
The $61k Porche Boxster isn't exactly something that your average American will buy either.
Personally, I would LOVE if Top Gear (UK) brought in this team to test how quickly they can make the Reasonably Priced Car go around the track.
To steal from the comments section under TFA, a hell of a lot of people 10-20 years ago were hooked on Solitaire, Free Cell, Tetris, Minesweeper, Snood, etc. Easily these few incredibly simple games accounted for more gaming hours than ANYTHING released on a console during the 90's.
However, nobody (that I'm aware of) called for the death of the video game console, since they understood that there is a huge difference between playing Solitaire and playing Sonic 2 or Half-Life.
There was a video a few years ago, where the police were continuously yelling at a person to stop resisting while he was being tazed.
The entire point of a tazer is to make it impossible for a person to control their actions.
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of a proportional system.
However, I disagree that IRV is pointless if there are only two parties. There are already more than two parties, as is the basis of this entire thread. IRV simply makes is easier for "third parties" to get elected.
But in my last point, I think that it is incredibly important to not only specify the minimum population of a congressional district (which is at least 30,000), but to specify a maximum population as well. This, to a certain degree, would place the importance on local elections, and it would reduce the extent of gerrymandering. Just look at the 28th Congressional District of New York, if you want to see a clear case where district lines are drawn to specifically reduce the number of Democrats making it to the House.
You seem to be mixing two very different situations.
You can't have a proportional system when voting for one person, for president.
Also, you can't have a proportional system when voting for two people per state, for the Senate.
Perhaps a proportional system might work in the House, but even then, I think that IRV would work well. The bigger issue there is that the number of Representatives was capped at 435 in 1911. So while each Rep in 1789 represented around 30,000 people, a Rep in 2012 represents around 716,000 people. Of course, in order for each Rep to represent 30,000 people again, it would mean that the House would have over 10,000 members. Sure, that's a lot, but that's half the seating capacity of Madison Square Garden, and it would allow for local politicians to accurately represent their constituency.
Rule of thumb:
If someone talks to you when you're using public transit, and you don't know them, then you need to walk away.
At least when corporations do it, it's illegal.
The same can't be said for those running for public office.
Mine could have too.
He would have been wrong.
From Wikipedia, The Penn State system has 18,370 acres spread over 24 campuses across the state (including Special-mission campuses), or about 1.2 square miles per campus.
Mining companies would be interested because it could make them money.
Also, according to TFA, this isn't a new idea. There are already colleges in Ohio, Indiana, and Texas that are or are considering allowing mining on campus.
Obviously the headline is misleading, this is Slashdot.
The basic point of TFA is that many of the practices of Vietnamese fishermen have the potential to spread disease to Americans. Also, while the FDA inspects only 2.7% of imported food, 1380 loads of seafood from Vietnam have been rejected for "filth and salmonella" in the last five years.
Changing your telecom company is a lot like changing your choice of president.
There isn't much of a difference.
This makes me glad that I live in a state where we have smoker protection laws, and above that, my state's law covers all lawful activities.
29 states actually do ensure that workplaces can't discriminate against employees using tobacco products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoker_Protection_Law
Where I live, I have two main options:
1) Verizon DSL at 768kbps
3) Time Warner at 3Mbps, 10Mbps, 20Mbps or 50Mbps
You can see why I'm happy that Verizon has the fastest internet in my region.
I think that you're just bad at picking restaurants.
I've been to Australia (Victoria and the NT), and I've been to Argentina (Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata), Canada (Ontario, New Brunswick and PEI), and I'm from the US, where I've visited (NY, ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, NJ, PA, DE, MD, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX, NM, CO, UT, AZ, CA, NV, OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, NE, IA, IL, IN, and OH).
I've had a good meal in practically every city I've been to. Smaller towns are a bit more hit-or-miss. If it's a hamlet or smaller with just one restaurant, then maybe you'll get lucky.
However, as a rule of thumb, it is best to stay away from a place that has an expensive menu (such as a $25 burger), but is empty. Instead, look for the seedy-looking place that has a line coming round the back and where the waiters make you point at the menu because they can't understand you.