a large enougth object of any density would become a blackhole
what? like the universe?
I think u've skipped a step somewhere
I suppose that given that everything is made up of everything else, and there are some blackholes in this universe, then you could argue we are part of a huge black hole, just outside of it's event horizon?
Seriousy though the predicatbility of attack given certain scanning pattersn should be usable... (except i suppose the buggers would change their patterns, maybe weekly updates would be in order)
What you're forgetting is that it's a legislature being voted for, not a presidency.
Now in parliamentary democracies (since a ruckus 400 years ago in O. Cromwell v. Charles Rex) the legislature is supreme and the executive is derived from the command of the Legislature.
It's not perfect and it's very different from the US approach, both have strengths and weaknesses.
But the point is that the people elect the parliament, and the parlaiment appioints the executive.
So the plurality of the ACT legislative Assembly (which at the last election was made up of 6 Liberal Party (loosely analogous to the Republicans), five Labor Party (ditto for the democrats), One Green, Two Catholic conservative former policemen (one of which scored the winning points for the Canberra Raiders Rugby League team Premiership win in the mid 90's) and one social liberal independent.
I might have missed someone there but it's a reasonably representative group of the wider society.
The elected members then determine Executive power.
As it happens right wingers were more pragmatic in their dealings with the independents and have had a stable government, but only by advancing the issues of greens and social liberals to ensure their support.
Compare that to the winner-takes-all results in single member electorates and i think u'd be pleasantly suprised.
People go to prison because they refuse to pay the fine.
the upshot of the system tho is that everyone lines up on saturday morning to vote (and avoid the hassle)
Local charities run sausage sizzles at the polling booths ($1 for a sausage in a pice of bread with sauce, u get the drift) and sell drinks and the whole thing can be quite festive.
while we're small by australian standards the ACT is still 90km by 30km, bigger than a lot of (admittedly small) countries.
I hit 140 on my bike this morning on the way into work I'll have you know...
But the Australian Capital Territory is more famous for snow in winter and the finest provincial rugby team in the world than the Northern Territory's lack of speed limits and howling desert.
The difference is pretty Minor, the ACT is a bit more independent than the District of Columbia, but it's close.
States get 12 Senators under the Constitution where territories get 2.
A crucial but rarely significant difference is that where States are empowered to make laws under the constitution, Territories power is delegated from the Federal Government.
The upshot of this is that if a territory law really pisses off the Federal government they can overturn it by an Act of Parliament. Whereas State 's that make laws that upset the Federal Parliament must be beaten into submission with threats to their funding.
In short, the Territory is divided into 3 districts, each with around six seats in the assembly available.
As 100/6 is 16.666% thats how much of the vote you need to win a seat in the Assembly. It means strong voices like the greens aren't excluded and tends to produce minority government's that have to gather broad support for their policies.
The preferential stuff cascades votes for candidates that already have their "quota". The math is a little complex but the system gives solid results and responsible governments.
The downside in the past has been it takes a couple of weeks to figure out the bottom of the piles where preferences are all over the shop (I for instance start by numbering those i hate most last and work my way up the ballot to gove a "1" to my least hated candidate, or a fruitloop want to encourage, safe in the knowledge that my real vote will end up going to someone else.)
In the time i spent in Russia i saw cute girls, and BIG women. Nothing in between
At some point around age 20 there'a a process like what caterpillars and butterflies do (only backwards).
Ms Kournikova would be starting the transition now if she were still on the steppe, as it is with a personal trainer and a dietician she might just stave it off for a few more years.
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One is a woman who does nothing being played by liv tyler, the other is the hero of the Gondolin Pass.
But having tits gets you in the movie it would seem
Afganistan is mostly just people living in rubble anyway.
I guess you could kill lots of people, I don't think they'll hate america any less for that.
what? like the universe?
I think u've skipped a step somewhere
I suppose that given that everything is made up of everything else, and there are some blackholes in this universe, then you could argue we are part of a huge black hole, just outside of it's event horizon?
Really tho it's the event horizon that counts.
Unless it causes harm it's hard to do, but the threat of harm may still cause damage.
But this way they can get it dealt with quickly.
did you read the article?
The 9th circuit is all but in revolt over the very kind of constraints of fredeom that /. gets worked up about
They are certainly gong to all be far more aware of the issues once this is all over.
well he specifically said at the time that the reason for the "jedi" name switch was to screw with the unauthorised merchandise
and he's only had Phantom Menace since then... (which he didn't screw around with but I think he did get burned by the dodgy merchandise)
It's just a hypothesis.
He did it with Jedi
Imagine the t-shirt presses of Shenzen are whirrin up right now with "Attack of the Clones".
Be a bit of a blow to them if he changed the name a month before it opened.
anyone know how to turn that on?
i've actually got a java runtime environment on and configurerd on this machine.
try tracerouting or pinging bloody anywhere
of course the F***ing morons have left port 80 open.............. in most places, maybe not for El Reg
But it would appear to be a fact
And they are powerful advocates and if MS ever fixed everything they'd be gone.
See this way everyone is happy and employed.
And the user takes it up the Khyber Pass
1/3 is only infinite in its recurrence
If infinity contains all finite things then surely it has to contain them in equal proportion?
Granted this approach isn't as useful as theirs for other things.
but anything infinite already contains everything finite.
It's just the signal to noise ratio get completely ludicrous.
Seriousy though the predicatbility of attack given certain scanning pattersn should be usable... (except i suppose the buggers would change their patterns, maybe weekly updates would be in order)
Now in parliamentary democracies (since a ruckus 400 years ago in O. Cromwell v. Charles Rex) the legislature is supreme and the executive is derived from the command of the Legislature.
It's not perfect and it's very different from the US approach, both have strengths and weaknesses.
But the point is that the people elect the parliament, and the parlaiment appioints the executive.
So the plurality of the ACT legislative Assembly (which at the last election was made up of 6 Liberal Party (loosely analogous to the Republicans), five Labor Party (ditto for the democrats), One Green, Two Catholic conservative former policemen (one of which scored the winning points for the Canberra Raiders Rugby League team Premiership win in the mid 90's) and one social liberal independent.
I might have missed someone there but it's a reasonably representative group of the wider society.
The elected members then determine Executive power.
As it happens right wingers were more pragmatic in their dealings with the independents and have had a stable government, but only by advancing the issues of greens and social liberals to ensure their support.
Compare that to the winner-takes-all results in single member electorates and i think u'd be pleasantly suprised.
the upshot of the system tho is that everyone lines up on saturday morning to vote (and avoid the hassle)
Local charities run sausage sizzles at the polling booths ($1 for a sausage in a pice of bread with sauce, u get the drift) and sell drinks and the whole thing can be quite festive.
while we're small by australian standards the ACT is still 90km by 30km, bigger than a lot of (admittedly small) countries.
I hit 140 on my bike this morning on the way into work I'll have you know...
But the Australian Capital Territory is more famous for snow in winter and the finest provincial rugby team in the world than the Northern Territory's lack of speed limits and howling desert.
States get 12 Senators under the Constitution where territories get 2.
A crucial but rarely significant difference is that where States are empowered to make laws under the constitution, Territories power is delegated from the Federal Government.
The upshot of this is that if a territory law really pisses off the Federal government they can overturn it by an Act of Parliament. Whereas State 's that make laws that upset the Federal Parliament must be beaten into submission with threats to their funding.
In short, the Territory is divided into 3 districts, each with around six seats in the assembly available.
As 100/6 is 16.666% thats how much of the vote you need to win a seat in the Assembly. It means strong voices like the greens aren't excluded and tends to produce minority government's that have to gather broad support for their policies.
The preferential stuff cascades votes for candidates that already have their "quota". The math is a little complex but the system gives solid results and responsible governments.
The downside in the past has been it takes a couple of weeks to figure out the bottom of the piles where preferences are all over the shop (I for instance start by numbering those i hate most last and work my way up the ballot to gove a "1" to my least hated candidate, or a fruitloop want to encourage, safe in the knowledge that my real vote will end up going to someone else.)
In the time i spent in Russia i saw cute girls, and BIG women. Nothing in between
At some point around age 20 there'a a process like what caterpillars and butterflies do (only backwards).
Ms Kournikova would be starting the transition now if she were still on the steppe, as it is with a personal trainer and a dietician she might just stave it off for a few more years.
But my unerstanding is the County wants to assess the assets as they would other movable assests.
That seems a more level-headed understanding of space than saying "ooh its in space we can't tax it"
If it's an asset it's an asset surely?