No president has ever voluntarily relinquished powers taken on by previous administrations. If you expect any president, Obama or otherwise, to do so in the future, you clearly still have some hard lessons to learn about the nature of man and power.
There will be no investigation initiated from the executive branch into the Bush administration. Congressional investigations will be a sideshow at best. The Obama administration will not undertake any actions that would potentially lead to a reduction in executive powers. He didn't even promise to do so, but had he you would have found his view changed when he reached the top.
Regardless, for political reasons he isn't going to want to be distracted from the task at hand by a media circus.
He's kept the press at arms length for his entire campaign. On NPR today, I heard the LA Times correspondent that traveled with the Obama campaign describe him as the "most continuously on-message candidate in memorable history". He described how uncomfortable (or suddenly unavailable) Obama became whenever reporters tried to talk to him in a casual manner, or about off-topic subjects...
Integrity starts with candid, honest communications. You elected a carefully packaged product. It's going to be fun when people start learning what's behind the wrapper.
Because if the rest of the world likes you, they might stop thinking up ways to blow you up. When you say please don't build any Nuclear missiles they might actually listen. Hell there's a chance that people won't take the whole 'giving people democracy thing' as such a bad joke if you actually came across as well meaning and decent.
I wasn't passing judgment. I was describing reality.
What is wrong is making decisions about your own future based on what other think, rather than based on your own morals and beliefs. This is especially true when it turns out you're wrong about how your decision is going to effect other's opinions of you.
This is one of the biggest reasons that fewer and fewer people use that particular criteria when choosing a candidate to vote for as they get older.
Exactly. In Boston, New York, or the San Francisco areas, a young couple who both work are probably pulling in $100k right out of school... And struggling to get by since they're up to their necks in debt (student loans), and priced out of even a down housing market.
But if they move somewhere cheaper, they're probably unemployed.
I'm willing to bet you that despite Obama's campaign promises, taxes get raised on the top three brackets, and not just the top one. That's $78k/year and up. It's the platform of the congressional Democrats and it has been for years. The $250k number that Obama kept spouting was purely campaign bullshit. He doesn't pass or write the laws, he just signs them. So he has cover from being called a liar when it goes down.
In some areas of the country, $100k is lower middle class. That means that at $100k you can afford a house, and your bills, and your insurance, but not much else.
You think you wouldn't mind, but if you lived in an area of the US where you could have a six figure salary, you would mind if the government took half of it.
You won't even have to leave this thread to see that people outside the US who looked upon us poorly will simply start harping on the next way we should change to suit them rather than giving us any respect for our new decision.
In any case, making any fuel from food stock is a bad idea. I don't think anyone really considers doing that on the truly large scale other than to make fuel in the short term as a proof of concept.
Iowa corn farmers would beg to disagree. They'd also love to be as rich as Saudis.
This error cannot be recovered from without restarting Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit:
The program 'npviewer.bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 179 error_code 9 request_code 55 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
The issues with nspluginwrapper are well documented, and widely discussed, even in Slashdot comments. Given the attitudes around here, and using Occam's Razor, you being a linux zealot (and I say this as a professional Linux device driver developer) stretching the truth is the more likely option over a new user who had a good experience they want to gloat about.
If I was wrong about your intentions, I apologize.
Sorry, even in Ubuntu 8.10, it only "just works for a little while" and then you have to restart Firefox to get it working again.
Yes, I consider 3-5 days to be a "little while".
No sense in lying to people. It'll probably work eventually, but if anybody installed 64-bit 8.10 based on what you just said, they'd be pretty pissed when they found out you were lying.
Cogent customers are buying access to users on Sprint.
Nobody buys a Sprint or Cogent connection to get to Sprint or Cogent. They want the page views from the end users. Therefore Cogent is really profiting on Sprint's customers desire to get to sites inside Cogent. If they get cut off those users, sites will drop them and get somebody else who provides the access.
What did suspension mounting do to your seek performance though? Most drives (high end - expensive - drives with vibration compensation software excepted) take a serious performance hit on random IO with regular vibration. When you suspend a drive, the movement of the heads causes exactly this type of vibration. Did you run any benchmarks?
Like I said. It's hard for people to trust things they don't understand. It's pretty clear at this point that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Except that the makers of the computer chips shouldn't even know that the chips they're making are to be used in a voting machine, much less how they would be used in a voting machine.
With open software sufficiently abstracted from the hardware, hacking an election by compromising the chips themselves would be so difficult that it is orders of magnitude harder than what our current technology is capable of. Your electron microscope theory is just plain bogus.
Electronic voting could produce paper records that could be verified and left behind by the voter anyway. Nobody should ever have to physically count them unless there is reason to suspect a problem though.
How many magicians does it take to change an election? If the margin is a few hundred or a few thousand votes (happens all the time in congressional seats), all you would have to do is make one box full of ballots disappear. Or successfully mis-count/lose/destroy 1 in 200 ballots. How hard are you watching that counter? There's a reason why recounts of paper ballots typically don't result in the same tally twice.
As I said. People just have a harder time trusting things they don't understand.
Now... Since you can watch somebody count without missing any funny business, I have some questions for you. I've always wanted to know how people cheat at cards... And there's this magician I saw the other day... I'd really like to know how he did this trick... And you're not glancing away at all, right?
And we haven't even gotten to the fact that manually counting tens of millions of votes by hand is massively labor intensive... And people aren't exactly lining up to volunteer. And even if they did, other people have a very large interest in who is chosen to do the counting...
Because recounting by hand defeats the purpose of electronic voting in the first place, negates the benefits, and should be astronomically less accurate.
And they do fine in the same sentence. It just depends on what input method you use for your electronic voting computers.... They might have a touch screen, or buttons, or be optical-scan style equipment.
Even though I'm a big fan of the Elder Scrolls series, the voice actors weren't the only bone I had to pick. The team had a large dynamic engine that they could have taken more advantage of and didn't.
[...stuff about combat...]
Man that would have improved the game a lot.
You couldn't be more wrong. I actually have a hard time believing that you would have enjoyed the game more if they did those things, and they're your ideas.
These games are (in this order):
- Role Playing Games - Adventure Games - Cutting edge graphical demos - Fighting games
The problem with Oblivion wasn't combat related, and was only a little bit graphical... The problem was that they focused on the graphics and combat at the expense of the role playing and adventure.
Nobody would be upset if a game like Oblivion was a crappy tactical fighter if they nailed the RPG and Adventure aspects of it. (See Morrowind, Sands of Time, Ico, etc... For examples of this)
Any game that tries to make up for deficiencies in its core genre by improving the combat is going to come up lacking. The people who say that "the combat should be improved" (re: you) aren't going to be satisfied no matter what changes they make to the combat system. They need to get back to working on the core. Want to improve Oblivion a lot? Get rid of the dynamic difficulty. Put back the rich item crafting system. Reduce the utilization of dynamically generated content. Add additional branches to the story line. Don't punish players for straying from the linear plot. Stop rewarding players for gameplay skill in combat. (It's an RPG. You should win mostly because the character in the role you're playing is good enough. Not because you can time the button press/mouse drag correctly. You should lose if you take on opponents that exceed your character's abilities, no matter how good the player is. Oblivion failed both of those tests.)
The majority of computer professionals think using a computer to replace/augment paper ballots is just fine. The experts also agreed that these particular computers and the software they ran were improperly designed for the job.
Electronic voting done properly should result in fewer errors and less fraud than paper ballots and human counting.
Try that on any '90s/early 2000s Cadillac. You can probably successfully break the window motor or wires, but you won't be getting the door open. The lock mechanism is low, and forward in the doors, slides horizontally, and is behind a metal bar. It's not like the typical car lock which is an actuated metal rod near the top back corner of the door. You would have to know exactly what the inside of the door looked like, and have bends in exactly the right spots on the tool to get the door open, and you'd have to get lucky that you don't short something.
It only takes a couple minutes to file some notches in brass. Probably less time than it takes to slim jim a Cadillac. And I know if I had the skills to eyeball something like that I'd show it off every chance I got.
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If you're not going to go back 50 years and not count Truman, Kennedy, or Johnson, you'd have to go back 89 years, actually.
No president has ever voluntarily relinquished powers taken on by previous administrations. If you expect any president, Obama or otherwise, to do so in the future, you clearly still have some hard lessons to learn about the nature of man and power.
There will be no investigation initiated from the executive branch into the Bush administration. Congressional investigations will be a sideshow at best. The Obama administration will not undertake any actions that would potentially lead to a reduction in executive powers. He didn't even promise to do so, but had he you would have found his view changed when he reached the top.
Regardless, for political reasons he isn't going to want to be distracted from the task at hand by a media circus.
He's kept the press at arms length for his entire campaign. On NPR today, I heard the LA Times correspondent that traveled with the Obama campaign describe him as the "most continuously on-message candidate in memorable history". He described how uncomfortable (or suddenly unavailable) Obama became whenever reporters tried to talk to him in a casual manner, or about off-topic subjects...
Integrity starts with candid, honest communications. You elected a carefully packaged product. It's going to be fun when people start learning what's behind the wrapper.
Because if the rest of the world likes you, they might stop thinking up ways to blow you up. When you say please don't build any Nuclear missiles they might actually listen. Hell there's a chance that people won't take the whole 'giving people democracy thing' as such a bad joke if you actually came across as well meaning and decent.
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Translation: You're fooling yourself.
I wasn't passing judgment. I was describing reality.
What is wrong is making decisions about your own future based on what other think, rather than based on your own morals and beliefs. This is especially true when it turns out you're wrong about how your decision is going to effect other's opinions of you.
This is one of the biggest reasons that fewer and fewer people use that particular criteria when choosing a candidate to vote for as they get older.
Exactly. In Boston, New York, or the San Francisco areas, a young couple who both work are probably pulling in $100k right out of school... And struggling to get by since they're up to their necks in debt (student loans), and priced out of even a down housing market.
But if they move somewhere cheaper, they're probably unemployed.
I'm willing to bet you that despite Obama's campaign promises, taxes get raised on the top three brackets, and not just the top one. That's $78k/year and up. It's the platform of the congressional Democrats and it has been for years. The $250k number that Obama kept spouting was purely campaign bullshit. He doesn't pass or write the laws, he just signs them. So he has cover from being called a liar when it goes down.
In some areas of the country, $100k is lower middle class. That means that at $100k you can afford a house, and your bills, and your insurance, but not much else.
You think you wouldn't mind, but if you lived in an area of the US where you could have a six figure salary, you would mind if the government took half of it.
Prepare to have your bubble burst. Swiftly.
You won't even have to leave this thread to see that people outside the US who looked upon us poorly will simply start harping on the next way we should change to suit them rather than giving us any respect for our new decision.
...there's probably a lot of diesel under the Patagonian rain forests.
In any case, making any fuel from food stock is a bad idea. I don't think anyone really considers doing that on the truly large scale other than to make fuel in the short term as a proof of concept.
Iowa corn farmers would beg to disagree. They'd also love to be as rich as Saudis.
This error cannot be recovered from without restarting Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit:
The program 'npviewer.bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 179 error_code 9 request_code 55 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
(firefox:10507): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_NewStream() invoke: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() invoke: Connection closed
The issues with nspluginwrapper are well documented, and widely discussed, even in Slashdot comments. Given the attitudes around here, and using Occam's Razor, you being a linux zealot (and I say this as a professional Linux device driver developer) stretching the truth is the more likely option over a new user who had a good experience they want to gloat about.
If I was wrong about your intentions, I apologize.
Sorry, even in Ubuntu 8.10, it only "just works for a little while" and then you have to restart Firefox to get it working again.
Yes, I consider 3-5 days to be a "little while".
No sense in lying to people. It'll probably work eventually, but if anybody installed 64-bit 8.10 based on what you just said, they'd be pretty pissed when they found out you were lying.
Cogent customers are buying access to users on Sprint.
Nobody buys a Sprint or Cogent connection to get to Sprint or Cogent. They want the page views from the end users.
Therefore Cogent is really profiting on Sprint's customers desire to get to sites inside Cogent. If they get cut off those users, sites will drop them and get somebody else who provides the access.
What did suspension mounting do to your seek performance though? Most drives (high end - expensive - drives with vibration compensation software excepted) take a serious performance hit on random IO with regular vibration. When you suspend a drive, the movement of the heads causes exactly this type of vibration. Did you run any benchmarks?
Like I said. It's hard for people to trust things they don't understand. It's pretty clear at this point that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Except that the makers of the computer chips shouldn't even know that the chips they're making are to be used in a voting machine, much less how they would be used in a voting machine.
With open software sufficiently abstracted from the hardware, hacking an election by compromising the chips themselves would be so difficult that it is orders of magnitude harder than what our current technology is capable of. Your electron microscope theory is just plain bogus.
Electronic voting could produce paper records that could be verified and left behind by the voter anyway. Nobody should ever have to physically count them unless there is reason to suspect a problem though.
How many magicians does it take to change an election? If the margin is a few hundred or a few thousand votes (happens all the time in congressional seats), all you would have to do is make one box full of ballots disappear. Or successfully mis-count/lose/destroy 1 in 200 ballots. How hard are you watching that counter? There's a reason why recounts of paper ballots typically don't result in the same tally twice.
As I said. People just have a harder time trusting things they don't understand.
Now... Since you can watch somebody count without missing any funny business, I have some questions for you. I've always wanted to know how people cheat at cards... And there's this magician I saw the other day... I'd really like to know how he did this trick... And you're not glancing away at all, right?
And we haven't even gotten to the fact that manually counting tens of millions of votes by hand is massively labor intensive... And people aren't exactly lining up to volunteer. And even if they did, other people have a very large interest in who is chosen to do the counting...
How can you trust a number a human counter gives you? Humans make mistakes, have bias, devise schemes...
People just have a harder time trusting things they don't understand.
Because recounting by hand defeats the purpose of electronic voting in the first place, negates the benefits, and should be astronomically less accurate.
And they do fine in the same sentence. It just depends on what input method you use for your electronic voting computers.... They might have a touch screen, or buttons, or be optical-scan style equipment.
Even though I'm a big fan of the Elder Scrolls series, the voice actors weren't the only bone I had to pick. The team had a large dynamic engine that they could have taken more advantage of and didn't.
[...stuff about combat...]
Man that would have improved the game a lot.
You couldn't be more wrong. I actually have a hard time believing that you would have enjoyed the game more if they did those things, and they're your ideas.
These games are (in this order):
- Role Playing Games
- Adventure Games
- Cutting edge graphical demos
- Fighting games
The problem with Oblivion wasn't combat related, and was only a little bit graphical... The problem was that they focused on the graphics and combat at the expense of the role playing and adventure.
Nobody would be upset if a game like Oblivion was a crappy tactical fighter if they nailed the RPG and Adventure aspects of it. (See Morrowind, Sands of Time, Ico, etc... For examples of this)
Any game that tries to make up for deficiencies in its core genre by improving the combat is going to come up lacking. The people who say that "the combat should be improved" (re: you) aren't going to be satisfied no matter what changes they make to the combat system. They need to get back to working on the core. Want to improve Oblivion a lot? Get rid of the dynamic difficulty. Put back the rich item crafting system. Reduce the utilization of dynamically generated content. Add additional branches to the story line. Don't punish players for straying from the linear plot. Stop rewarding players for gameplay skill in combat. (It's an RPG. You should win mostly because the character in the role you're playing is good enough. Not because you can time the button press/mouse drag correctly. You should lose if you take on opponents that exceed your character's abilities, no matter how good the player is. Oblivion failed both of those tests.)
The majority of computer professionals think using a computer to replace/augment paper ballots is just fine. The experts also agreed that these particular computers and the software they ran were improperly designed for the job.
Electronic voting done properly should result in fewer errors and less fraud than paper ballots and human counting.
There should be a simple legal remedy for this. If they can't get all legitimate candidates onto the ballot, they should lose their electoral votes.
A fast way to Tweet "here's what I'm consuming right now".
I can't help but feel that I just made the world a worse place.
Try that on any '90s/early 2000s Cadillac. You can probably successfully break the window motor or wires, but you won't be getting the door open. The lock mechanism is low, and forward in the doors, slides horizontally, and is behind a metal bar. It's not like the typical car lock which is an actuated metal rod near the top back corner of the door. You would have to know exactly what the inside of the door looked like, and have bends in exactly the right spots on the tool to get the door open, and you'd have to get lucky that you don't short something.
It only takes a couple minutes to file some notches in brass. Probably less time than it takes to slim jim a Cadillac. And I know if I had the skills to eyeball something like that I'd show it off every chance I got.