you're being paranoid. If you haven't done anything illegal, you have nothing to hide
In that case, you will support open ballots for all future elections? We can have everybody sign, date and address their ballot, then, if there is any question as to their intent, we can just call them up and ask them how they voted. And anyone who wants to know how anyone else voted can just request copies of the ballots through the freedom of information act.
To say that someone's vote doesn't count because they screwed it up because they are old and have poor eyesight, is no less than saying that their votes shouldn't count because they are old
No, its to say that their vote counts the way they cast it because any mistake they made was because they didn't care enough to be absolutely sure they they were punching the correct hole.
Regardless of why the votes were cast for Buchanan, I think that the ballot was clear to anyone with decent eyesight who took care enough to actually examine what they were doing.
Anyone with any doubts (or bad eyesight, or who was unable to read for whatever reason) should have asked for help instead of guessing and then whining about it later.
This isn't high school, if you screw it up because you weren't paying attention, thats just too bad. Now, if the ballot really HAD been confusing I MIGHT support a revote, but while the ballot could have been layed out more clearly, I don't think it was confusing.
Letting Florida revote knowing that they alone are making the final decision for president is unfair to them and to the rest of the states.
IMO, they cannot count the Buchanan votes for anyone else, and they cannot revote.
I disagree. I don't have a problem with the use of the company LAN or computers for personal use, as long as the employee is performing well (and not doing anything that would put the company into legal risk).
I think the same thing should apply to government connections. If Ms. Intern wants to take a break and go check cigar prices online for a bit, I don't have a problem. If her performance (on the job) suffers, then her supervisor needs to do something about it.
My info on this might not be completely accurate, but, what I heard on NPR was that the recount is taking so long because the judge that has to be present for the recount had to do his normal work yesterday, so they couldn't start the recount until this (thursday) morning.
Now, I can see the value in not rushing things, but it seems to me that this is a little more important than whatever his normal judge work is.
I dunno if that was the full story or not, but I didn't see this posted yet, so I figured I'd throw it out, maybe someone else knows more.
NPR mentioned that that county had the 3rd highest number of votes for Buchanan in the last election. The guest speculated that many of those people may simply still be Buchanan supporters.
IMO, voting should be like the olympics, if you screw it up the first time, thats just too bad.
I agree that the ballot was just fine, and that only someone seriously incompetent or mostly blind could have messed it up. And for those that were mostly blind, they should have had help anyway.
"I would have dismissed it as immature ranting from someone who didn't understand the service aspects of the organization."
Service aspects? I always saw it as a way to teach kids that they should do nice stuff so that they could prove to everybody else how good they were.
"National Honor Society is not supposed to be something you're in just to add to your resume (although it often is) "
I'd go so far as to replace "often" with "almost without exception".
I couldn't care less if anyone knows what I do to help other people, its not something I advertise, or care to be recognized for. I don't expect nor desire reward for doing what I believe is demanded of my ethics. Frankly I find advertising ones 'good deeds' thorugh things like the NHS to be repugnant.
It didn't say what the max radiated power would be, but even with a high-gain antenna it sounds like these things would be difficult to activeate and read from very far away
As for tagging stuff at the store and cash cards, bring it on.
I just wonder how long it will be between mostly-unattented stores and small devices that you carry into the store with you to overpower and burn out the chips before you get charged.
Perhaps, if we had anonymous cash-card devices, they would include little readers to debit the card, credit the store via bluetooth-like receivers, and then burn out the tag in the product. Then, anyone attempting to leave with an active tag would set of an alarm.
Hmm, but I want to stand there and have a cute chick put my groceries into a little plastic bag, so I dont' have to take an extra 5 minutes using a nice, reusable basket to carry things around.
According to what I read, the coax connection to the data connection to the houses will be 10 Mbit, not that much faster than ADSL downstream. Apparently it is symetric though.
I think it also said that after things are established, they might be allowing people to pay for running fiber directly to the home.
WinFirst is supposed to be working in my neighborhood soon, the went around and stuck flyers on everybodys doors.
I know of a guy that worked at a bank, taking customer calls. He worked in a cube-farm, with 4-foot walls. Internet access was prohibited, obviously because you can't have computers with access to the customers account and credit card info on the 'net.
This guy was so board/stupid/desperate that he figured out how to get around the network setup to get himself internet access, then used customer credit cards to sign up for the highly illegal, genuine kiddy porn sites, which he then browsed as he sat at his computer, which his coworkers could see.
What a winner. Yes, the police escorted him away from the building, dunno what happend to him after that.
Sure seems like it would be safer to drop this thing on the far side of the moon, with a big, obvious bullseye drawn a few acres around it.
It would be safe from orbital debris, woudn't need any moving parts, and could have hundreds of pounds of stuff included.
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>Obviously you don't get diversity if you make a thousand animals off the same sample, but cloning one sample once, another sample once, etc... you end up with a DIVERSE population
Yes, if we had hundreds of samples we could restore some level of diversity, but from the article, I gather that there are only a few samples available.
And you still have the problem of learned behavour, most 'complex' animals (ie, large mammals) learn how to act from their parents. If you raise these cloaned animals with, say, wolves, they will act more like wolves than than Thylacines.
With some training you might be able to get them to kind of fit into whats left of their biological nitch, but they'd never be the same.
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>I believe that I've read that all the cheetahs in the wild are genetically identical.
No, they aren't identical, but they do have far less genetic diversity than than most other species.
>Nature appears to have run the experiment of having a genetically identical species with some success
It is theorized that the cheeta population was decimated by some event in the distant past and that the few remaining animals interbreed to return to current population levels.
The current population does suffer from some genetic diseses due to interbreeding, and the entire population is at risk of communicable diseases.
I'd call it more of a lucky gamble than a successful experiment.
Well, they coulda mixed tons of nuclear waste with concrete and filled up that big-ass toroidal hole they dug.
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The problem with reintroducing them into the wild was pointed out quite clearly in Jurassic Park. Many behaviours of a species are learned from the parents, once a species has gone extinct, these behaviours are lost, and any cloned animals are simply NOT going to be the same.
You can make a bunch and release them in the wild, but their genetic diversity will be destroyed, and their learned hunting skills and social structure will be gone. The best we could hope for would be a bad copy of the original.
what AOL wants to do is basically create a set-top box. All of these arguments about badly configured Linux-boxen are absolutely null & void.
Ok, so we have an operating system that is well known by hackers runing historicly easy-to-hack software that allows server-push updates. And presumably as little user interaction with the operating system as possable. The company introducing the product is likely going to push for a wideband capabilities (cable, dsl) for the box, meaning it may be open to the internet.
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In that case, you will support open ballots for all future elections? We can have everybody sign, date and address their ballot, then, if there is any question as to their intent, we can just call them up and ask them how they voted. And anyone who wants to know how anyone else voted can just request copies of the ballots through the freedom of information act.
Isn't that why meetings are schedualed in the first place? If you like having unschedualed meetings, flex time can be a problem.
No, its to say that their vote counts the way they cast it because any mistake they made was because they didn't care enough to be absolutely sure they they were punching the correct hole.
Regardless of why the votes were cast for Buchanan, I think that the ballot was clear to anyone with decent eyesight who took care enough to actually examine what they were doing.
Anyone with any doubts (or bad eyesight, or who was unable to read for whatever reason) should have asked for help instead of guessing and then whining about it later.
This isn't high school, if you screw it up because you weren't paying attention, thats just too bad. Now, if the ballot really HAD been confusing I MIGHT support a revote, but while the ballot could have been layed out more clearly, I don't think it was confusing.
Letting Florida revote knowing that they alone are making the final decision for president is unfair to them and to the rest of the states.
IMO, they cannot count the Buchanan votes for anyone else, and they cannot revote.
I disagree. I don't have a problem with the use of the company LAN or computers for personal use, as long as the employee is performing well (and not doing anything that would put the company into legal risk).
I think the same thing should apply to government connections. If Ms. Intern wants to take a break and go check cigar prices online for a bit, I don't have a problem. If her performance (on the job) suffers, then her supervisor needs to do something about it.
Because if someone tries to climb over such a fence to rob your house and they hurt themselves, they can sue you and are likely to win.
My info on this might not be completely accurate, but, what I heard on NPR was that the recount is taking so long because the judge that has to be present for the recount had to do his normal work yesterday, so they couldn't start the recount until this (thursday) morning.
Now, I can see the value in not rushing things, but it seems to me that this is a little more important than whatever his normal judge work is.
I dunno if that was the full story or not, but I didn't see this posted yet, so I figured I'd throw it out, maybe someone else knows more.
NPR mentioned that that county had the 3rd highest number of votes for Buchanan in the last election. The guest speculated that many of those people may simply still be Buchanan supporters.
IMO, voting should be like the olympics, if you screw it up the first time, thats just too bad.
I agree that the ballot was just fine, and that only someone seriously incompetent or mostly blind could have messed it up. And for those that were mostly blind, they should have had help anyway.
"I would have dismissed it as immature ranting from someone who didn't understand the service aspects of the organization."
Service aspects? I always saw it as a way to teach kids that they should do nice stuff so that they could prove to everybody else how good they were.
"National Honor Society is not supposed to be something you're in just to add to your resume (although it often is) "
I'd go so far as to replace "often" with "almost without exception".
I couldn't care less if anyone knows what I do to help other people, its not something I advertise, or care to be recognized for. I don't expect nor desire reward for doing what I believe is demanded of my ethics. Frankly I find advertising ones 'good deeds' thorugh things like the NHS to be repugnant.
Did you read the article?
These new ones are capacitive, not inductive.
It didn't say what the max radiated power would be, but even with a high-gain antenna it sounds like these things would be difficult to activeate and read from very far away
As for tagging stuff at the store and cash cards, bring it on.
I just wonder how long it will be between mostly-unattented stores and small devices that you carry into the store with you to overpower and burn out the chips before you get charged.
Perhaps, if we had anonymous cash-card devices, they would include little readers to debit the card, credit the store via bluetooth-like receivers, and then burn out the tag in the product. Then, anyone attempting to leave with an active tag would set of an alarm.
Heck yeah! I don't know how many times I've turned around from the console to try to find something and wanted to grep the living room...
Hmm, but I want to stand there and have a cute chick put my groceries into a little plastic bag, so I dont' have to take an extra 5 minutes using a nice, reusable basket to carry things around.
According to what I read, the coax connection to the data connection to the houses will be 10 Mbit, not that much faster than ADSL downstream. Apparently it is symetric though.
I think it also said that after things are established, they might be allowing people to pay for running fiber directly to the home.
WinFirst is supposed to be working in my neighborhood soon, the went around and stuck flyers on everybodys doors.
Now thats recycling :)
Covertly redirect his pron sites to kiddy pron sites and give them those logs :)
I know of a guy that worked at a bank, taking customer calls. He worked in a cube-farm, with 4-foot walls. Internet access was prohibited, obviously because you can't have computers with access to the customers account and credit card info on the 'net.
This guy was so board/stupid/desperate that he figured out how to get around the network setup to get himself internet access, then used customer credit cards to sign up for the highly illegal, genuine kiddy porn sites, which he then browsed as he sat at his computer, which his coworkers could see.
What a winner. Yes, the police escorted him away from the building, dunno what happend to him after that.
Absolutely true story.
Sure seems like it would be safer to drop this thing on the far side of the moon, with a big, obvious bullseye drawn a few acres around it.
It would be safe from orbital debris, woudn't need any moving parts, and could have hundreds of pounds of stuff included.
>Obviously you don't get diversity if you make a thousand animals off the same sample, but cloning one sample once, another sample once, etc... you end up with a DIVERSE population Yes, if we had hundreds of samples we could restore some level of diversity, but from the article, I gather that there are only a few samples available. And you still have the problem of learned behavour, most 'complex' animals (ie, large mammals) learn how to act from their parents. If you raise these cloaned animals with, say, wolves, they will act more like wolves than than Thylacines. With some training you might be able to get them to kind of fit into whats left of their biological nitch, but they'd never be the same.
>I believe that I've read that all the cheetahs in the wild are genetically identical.
No, they aren't identical, but they do have far less genetic diversity than than most other species.
>Nature appears to have run the experiment of having a genetically identical species with some success
It is theorized that the cheeta population was decimated by some event in the distant past and that the few remaining animals interbreed to return to current population levels.
The current population does suffer from some genetic diseses due to interbreeding, and the entire population is at risk of communicable diseases.
I'd call it more of a lucky gamble than a successful experiment.
>Build the thing, and people will use it
Thats what they said about Iridium.
The frog, floating in a 16 Tesla field.
http://www.sci.kun.nl/hfml/froglev.html
Well, they coulda mixed tons of nuclear waste with concrete and filled up that big-ass toroidal hole they dug.
The problem with reintroducing them into the wild was pointed out quite clearly in Jurassic Park. Many behaviours of a species are learned from the parents, once a species has gone extinct, these behaviours are lost, and any cloned animals are simply NOT going to be the same.
You can make a bunch and release them in the wild, but their genetic diversity will be destroyed, and their learned hunting skills and social structure will be gone. The best we could hope for would be a bad copy of the original.
A 9mm projectile moving at 18,000 miles an hour would make a hole significantly larger than its own diameter.
A direct hit would likely obliterate a significant portion of a module.
Ok, so we have an operating system that is well known by hackers runing historicly easy-to-hack software that allows server-push updates. And presumably as little user interaction with the operating system as possable. The company introducing the product is likely going to push for a wideband capabilities (cable, dsl) for the box, meaning it may be open to the internet.
Yeah, this sounds like a good idea :)