Given that most states would not be foolish enough to sign on and the US Congressional approval is required for interstate compacts this will not go anywhere.
It is a rare Presidential election where the winner doesn't get both the electoral and popular vote.
It has happened four times.
Which means that the desire of the population has been accurately captured, and the few times it has not is irrelevant, we do not live in a democracy.
I still don't think that is reason to abolish the electoral college.
It doesn't matter how the election is decided, there will always be areas that candidates focus on and areas that are ignored. It is logistically impossible for presidential candidates to give equal time to every state.
Every states EV count. People like to think that they and the area they live in is the center of the universe. Just because your state is mostly ignored and didn't cast the vote that put a candidate over 270 doesn't mean it didn't count.
Personally, I am glad that my state is not a swing state, what little campaigning we get is way too much.
The failure to ban political parties in the constitution was the biggest blunders of the founders.
It was hotly debated, but reason lost and even those opposed to parties gave in and formed them due to paranoia that those that didn't see everything their way wanted a monarchy. Even then, ignorant conspiracies about "them" flourished.
Between that and giving corporations power and rights like they were a person pretty much has sealed our fate. Two parties that really aren't that different once you tear away the rhetoric have control of the government, from local to federal, and the corporations have control of the two parties.
There are towns in northern Japan that went all solar and this are is very similar to Seattle.
They have been very successful.
It is not just the south and southwest that would benefit by blanket solar.
Partially? LOL
Almost 20 years later and partially is the best they can do?
And yes it is a stupid idea, the fact you need systems "fast enough to support it " show how stupid it is.
That vaporware(and a stupid idea) has been worked on far longer than Duke Nukem 3D, and I bet if it ever does see the light, that game will be better.
Let's see if MS can come up with a file system that doesn't require defragging, that would be a major advance for Windows users. It would put them in the late 80's IIRC.
Ubuntu has always been crap. I first tested them out in 2006 and their dumbed down, almost make MS seem competent, almost, approach meant it lasted 4 days on my machine, Since then every other attempt to try Ubuntu hasn't lasted a day.
Ubuntu has done more damage to Linux that all the millions that MS spent to try and squash it. Makes me wonder if Ubuntu is a shadow MS project. Its love of Gnome is evidence of that since Ballmer's favorite whore Miguel has been running Gnome into the ground, not that Gnome was ever very good, but the direction of Gnome can only be in the direction of suicide.
Put me down as a hater of Debian and all its demented siblings. The best thing that could happen to Linux is for Debian to die, along with all its demon seed distros.
Linux is already mainstream. They own every market except desktops, which is really the only market MS owns. and is in decline.
Their attempts to take over, or even get a foothold in emerging markets have been laughable.
Virtualization on Linux is something that NEVER happens./sarcasm alert
I have an NVidia card and its Linux drivers have never caused a problem. They not only work, I get much better performance running in Linux on a dual boot machine. And network latency? MS has yet to match the rock solid networking stack that Linux provides.
I use VirtualBox every day and yet to have it break because of a kernel update, it will need to be recompiled, but Yast does that automatically without issue.
If you are having these issues you are using a crap distro that is or is closely related to Debian, or you simple don't know what you are doing or are simply spreading FUD. Funny how a non-mainstream OS has caused MS to want to spend hundreds of millions of man hours spreading FUD and they talk about it every chance they get.
You shouldn't bring up MS, their insane attempts to keep older software running(with goofy hacks like loading in the buggy memory behavior if it detects SimCity which stupidly relied on said bug) has resulted in a bloated OS that using significantly more resources, is less stable, far less secure and is a nightmare to maintain it. The smartest thing Steve Jobs did was forget backwards compatibility for OSX and build on a solid foundation, instead of going the MS way, patch what you can of the flimsy foundation and pile more and more crap on top of it.
The ability to mold OS X, while not as flexible as Linux, is the key reason why MS has lost all the new tech markets forever, the bloated pile of fail that MS squeezed out can not be easily converted to other uses.
The fact that Linux runs the world seems to be lost on some of you.
Microsoft breaks API's and ABI's constantly. Try using something simple like a generic keyboard driver written for Windows 95 and try to compile it for Windows 7 or 8. That is called breaking public API's and that is what Microsoft does, not Linux.
You can compile code written in 95 and it will most likely compile and run. Especially if it makes public kernel calls.
The Linux public API's do not change very often. If a driver or some other kernel or user space module breaks because of a kernel update, the "programmers" screwed up and called private API code that will and does change often.
Don't program like an idiot(if you do the PHP and.NET worlds will welcome you with open arms) and you will never get your app broken by a Linux kernel update.
If you are going to point out fallacies try to avoid them.
If your host dies, simply move your app somewhere else.
If you are not a total idiot you can use http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/ for $12 a year.
Since they don't perform backups, you will always have a local backup, right?
Yup, I am not sure why Google gets any love at all.
Their main business model depends on collecting as much data on everyone as they can. Everything from search, to map, to docs, to everything in between are nothing more than data mining applications.
People used to yell and scream about crap like gator and other tracking systems and Google is no different than those types of "services". Once Google bought the the spyware doubleclick, complaints about pretty much ceased.
Google is a more dangerous threat than MS could ever be, even back before MS became irrelevant.
Actually I would rather see corporations have to give equal weight to supporting the people and environment in areas they operate with making profit.
That would stem the sociopath nature of corporations a great deal.
Corporations need a strong chain and a whip on their back in order for them to not destroy everything in their path.
What corporatism has brought us, besides millions of lemmings that worship them, is feudalism. Unless you are a high ranking executive in a corporation you are their serf.
So should startups that plan an exit strategy before having a solid idea much less an implementation.
If your goal is to sell out to a bigger company you have already failed as a technologist even if you sell for billions.
Try thinking of a company that started out with the plan to sell out at some point and also produced something of real and lasting value.
Even if Twitter thinks that they are killing off competition, they aren't for more reasons then you mention.
Reason #1: A single person could replicate Posterous and have up and running in a few weeks.
Twitter proved they are morons when they actually used mysql for their message queue(then blamed Rails) and haven't really done anything to disprove that they are amateurs from top to bottom. Moving the back end to Scala is just a matter of a broken clock being right twice a day.
Twitter being a worthless collections of extremely short, inane comments is not a competitor of a real publishing system.
Trailers and Pabst are closer competitors to twitter than any "blog" site.
Dell's immanent failure has everything to do with hitching their wagon to MS.
It is not a coincidence that the only OEM that is currently successful, and has a future in Apple.
Why? They built their own OS from a solid foundation, and while they are not a hardware company, they tightly control what components they use.
Dell and its ilk, use a substandard OS built on sand, and buy the cheapest hardware they can. The punchline is that someone with a little computer knowledge can build a machine that is higher quality, lasts longer, and outperforms a Dell machine that costs twice as much.
I meant in my area. Very few of them are ever justified.
Another egregious case was a cop was trespassing on private property to view alleged suspicious activity across the street in an unmarked car. Owner comes out to investigate and owner gets murdered. No charges filed, cop get a few weeks paid vacation.
A while back the local Sherrif claimed that kids tried to ambush cops by putting a log in the road and calling 911 to report a bunch of kids fighting in the middle of the night. End result a cop car flips over when it allegedly hit the log. Never mind that there were multiple paths to the site of the alleged fight and only one alleged obstacle. AFAIR, the 911 tape was not released, no evidence of a log produced, just weak excuses for get the cop off for speeding. How fast would a cop car have to go that when it hits an obstacle it flips ass to front?
I have no issue with justified shootings, you pull a gun on a cop, you get whats coming. My problem is the unjustified murders, framing innocent people, lying in court, shooting up houses for no reason, reckless driving, taxing unarmed children and adults etc that they get away with every day across the country.
My google search came up with quite a few incidents, here and Chicago to name two.
Cops do outlandish things every single day. A cop killed a kid in NY a logn time ago because he mistook a three musketeer bar for a gun.
There have been incidents of cops tazing elementary kids, like ages 8 and 10.
There is nothing too outlandish for a cop to do.
This is the incident I was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Otto_Zehm#Federal_indictment_and_trial
Yes he was 36 but in no way was he an adult.
tl;dr
autisitic guy goes to ATM
two stupid women report him to the cops for stealing from said ATM.
cops confront him in a stop and rob trying to buy candy
autistic kid doesn't respond to cop orders
cops beat and tazer him repeatedly
cop hog ties him and blaces an oxygen mask on him, said mask is not connected to O2
guy dies
local prosecutor who is owned by the police union refuses to prosecute
feds step in and prosecute
scum sucking judge gives this pig 51 months for murdering a helpless person
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Given that most states would not be foolish enough to sign on and the US Congressional approval is required for interstate compacts this will not go anywhere.
It is a rare Presidential election where the winner doesn't get both the electoral and popular vote. It has happened four times.
Which means that the desire of the population has been accurately captured, and the few times it has not is irrelevant, we do not live in a democracy.
I still don't think that is reason to abolish the electoral college.
It doesn't matter how the election is decided, there will always be areas that candidates focus on and areas that are ignored. It is logistically impossible for presidential candidates to give equal time to every state.
Every states EV count. People like to think that they and the area they live in is the center of the universe. Just because your state is mostly ignored and didn't cast the vote that put a candidate over 270 doesn't mean it didn't count.
Personally, I am glad that my state is not a swing state, what little campaigning we get is way too much.
The failure to ban political parties in the constitution was the biggest blunders of the founders. It was hotly debated, but reason lost and even those opposed to parties gave in and formed them due to paranoia that those that didn't see everything their way wanted a monarchy. Even then, ignorant conspiracies about "them" flourished. Between that and giving corporations power and rights like they were a person pretty much has sealed our fate. Two parties that really aren't that different once you tear away the rhetoric have control of the government, from local to federal, and the corporations have control of the two parties.
Nice english, geez
There are towns in northern Japan that went all solar and this are is very similar to Seattle. They have been very successful. It is not just the south and southwest that would benefit by blanket solar.
Come out to Washington State and camp out around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Partially? LOL Almost 20 years later and partially is the best they can do? And yes it is a stupid idea, the fact you need systems "fast enough to support it " show how stupid it is.
You seriously brought up point B?
That vaporware(and a stupid idea) has been worked on far longer than Duke Nukem 3D, and I bet if it ever does see the light, that game will be better.
Let's see if MS can come up with a file system that doesn't require defragging, that would be a major advance for Windows users. It would put them in the late 80's IIRC.
Ubuntu has always been crap. I first tested them out in 2006 and their dumbed down, almost make MS seem competent, almost, approach meant it lasted 4 days on my machine, Since then every other attempt to try Ubuntu hasn't lasted a day.
Ubuntu has done more damage to Linux that all the millions that MS spent to try and squash it. Makes me wonder if Ubuntu is a shadow MS project. Its love of Gnome is evidence of that since Ballmer's favorite whore Miguel has been running Gnome into the ground, not that Gnome was ever very good, but the direction of Gnome can only be in the direction of suicide.
Put me down as a hater of Debian and all its demented siblings. The best thing that could happen to Linux is for Debian to die, along with all its demon seed distros.
Linux is already mainstream. They own every market except desktops, which is really the only market MS owns. and is in decline.
/sarcasm alert
Their attempts to take over, or even get a foothold in emerging markets have been laughable.
Virtualization on Linux is something that NEVER happens.
I have an NVidia card and its Linux drivers have never caused a problem. They not only work, I get much better performance running in Linux on a dual boot machine. And network latency? MS has yet to match the rock solid networking stack that Linux provides.
I use VirtualBox every day and yet to have it break because of a kernel update, it will need to be recompiled, but Yast does that automatically without issue.
If you are having these issues you are using a crap distro that is or is closely related to Debian, or you simple don't know what you are doing or are simply spreading FUD. Funny how a non-mainstream OS has caused MS to want to spend hundreds of millions of man hours spreading FUD and they talk about it every chance they get.
You shouldn't bring up MS, their insane attempts to keep older software running(with goofy hacks like loading in the buggy memory behavior if it detects SimCity which stupidly relied on said bug) has resulted in a bloated OS that using significantly more resources, is less stable, far less secure and is a nightmare to maintain it. The smartest thing Steve Jobs did was forget backwards compatibility for OSX and build on a solid foundation, instead of going the MS way, patch what you can of the flimsy foundation and pile more and more crap on top of it.
The ability to mold OS X, while not as flexible as Linux, is the key reason why MS has lost all the new tech markets forever, the bloated pile of fail that MS squeezed out can not be easily converted to other uses.
The fact that Linux runs the world seems to be lost on some of you.
Microsoft breaks API's and ABI's constantly. Try using something simple like a generic keyboard driver written for Windows 95 and try to compile it for Windows 7 or 8. That is called breaking public API's and that is what Microsoft does, not Linux. You can compile code written in 95 and it will most likely compile and run. Especially if it makes public kernel calls. The Linux public API's do not change very often. If a driver or some other kernel or user space module breaks because of a kernel update, the "programmers" screwed up and called private API code that will and does change often. Don't program like an idiot(if you do the PHP and .NET worlds will welcome you with open arms) and you will never get your app broken by a Linux kernel update.
LOL That wasn't even a good troll, try again.
If you are going to point out fallacies try to avoid them. If your host dies, simply move your app somewhere else. If you are not a total idiot you can use http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/ for $12 a year. Since they don't perform backups, you will always have a local backup, right?
Yup, I am not sure why Google gets any love at all.
Their main business model depends on collecting as much data on everyone as they can. Everything from search, to map, to docs, to everything in between are nothing more than data mining applications.
People used to yell and scream about crap like gator and other tracking systems and Google is no different than those types of "services". Once Google bought the the spyware doubleclick, complaints about pretty much ceased.
Google is a more dangerous threat than MS could ever be, even back before MS became irrelevant.
+1 if I could good sir.
Actually I would rather see corporations have to give equal weight to supporting the people and environment in areas they operate with making profit.
That would stem the sociopath nature of corporations a great deal.
Corporations need a strong chain and a whip on their back in order for them to not destroy everything in their path.
What corporatism has brought us, besides millions of lemmings that worship them, is feudalism. Unless you are a high ranking executive in a corporation you are their serf.
So should startups that plan an exit strategy before having a solid idea much less an implementation.
If your goal is to sell out to a bigger company you have already failed as a technologist even if you sell for billions. Try thinking of a company that started out with the plan to sell out at some point and also produced something of real and lasting value.
Even if Twitter thinks that they are killing off competition, they aren't for more reasons then you mention.
Reason #1: A single person could replicate Posterous and have up and running in a few weeks.
Twitter proved they are morons when they actually used mysql for their message queue(then blamed Rails) and haven't really done anything to disprove that they are amateurs from top to bottom. Moving the back end to Scala is just a matter of a broken clock being right twice a day.
Twitter being a worthless collections of extremely short, inane comments is not a competitor of a real publishing system. Trailers and Pabst are closer competitors to twitter than any "blog" site.
Dell's immanent failure has everything to do with hitching their wagon to MS.
.
It is not a coincidence that the only OEM that is currently successful, and has a future in Apple.
Why? They built their own OS from a solid foundation, and while they are not a hardware company, they tightly control what components they use.
Dell and its ilk, use a substandard OS built on sand, and buy the cheapest hardware they can. The punchline is that someone with a little computer knowledge can build a machine that is higher quality, lasts longer, and outperforms a Dell machine that costs twice as much
Ubuntu sucks, has always sucked and is not in any way representative of Linux.
Just so they can shut it down?
I meant in my area. Very few of them are ever justified. Another egregious case was a cop was trespassing on private property to view alleged suspicious activity across the street in an unmarked car. Owner comes out to investigate and owner gets murdered. No charges filed, cop get a few weeks paid vacation.
A while back the local Sherrif claimed that kids tried to ambush cops by putting a log in the road and calling 911 to report a bunch of kids fighting in the middle of the night. End result a cop car flips over when it allegedly hit the log. Never mind that there were multiple paths to the site of the alleged fight and only one alleged obstacle. AFAIR, the 911 tape was not released, no evidence of a log produced, just weak excuses for get the cop off for speeding. How fast would a cop car have to go that when it hits an obstacle it flips ass to front?
I have no issue with justified shootings, you pull a gun on a cop, you get whats coming. My problem is the unjustified murders, framing innocent people, lying in court, shooting up houses for no reason, reckless driving, taxing unarmed children and adults etc that they get away with every day across the country.
I see you do not understand how the web works.
For anyone to actually see the images you post, they have to download them onto their machine. Hence it is not stealing.
Even if, someone like a photo well enough to use it elsewhere, it is still not stealing: it is copyright infringement.
Perhaps you should have done some thinking before posting your amazingly ignorant drivel.
My google search came up with quite a few incidents, here and Chicago to name two. Cops do outlandish things every single day. A cop killed a kid in NY a logn time ago because he mistook a three musketeer bar for a gun. There have been incidents of cops tazing elementary kids, like ages 8 and 10. There is nothing too outlandish for a cop to do. This is the incident I was talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Otto_Zehm#Federal_indictment_and_trial Yes he was 36 but in no way was he an adult. tl;dr autisitic guy goes to ATM two stupid women report him to the cops for stealing from said ATM. cops confront him in a stop and rob trying to buy candy autistic kid doesn't respond to cop orders cops beat and tazer him repeatedly cop hog ties him and blaces an oxygen mask on him, said mask is not connected to O2 guy dies local prosecutor who is owned by the police union refuses to prosecute feds step in and prosecute scum sucking judge gives this pig 51 months for murdering a helpless person
That is a very good point. +1 if i could sir.