The majority of the military still votes Republican, so the Democrats are the ones you will find challenging their absentee ballots. It was a big stink in Florida in 2000, where Bush won largely on those absentee ballots. The Democrats were trying to throw out as many of them as possible.
If there was any effort to prevent your aunt from voting, it would have been by the Democrats in order to hinder that Republican voting bloc.
But it's hard to jump right on, get a clearance and go to a war zone.
Better to find a local job that requires a SECRET clearance, get it and they get you your clearance. Then get another local job that requires upgrading to TS. Then put yourself in clearancejobs.com and go for the $$$.
Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3 depends on your definition of "Acceptable." Definitely not acceptable for me, Gnome 3 is acceptable, if I don't mind grinding my teeth a bit. But I'd rather not do even that.
OpenOffice/etc may be technically acceptable by feature list, but regardless of actual feature count it still sucks. I used it for quite a while before I finally gave in and got MS Office, not for features that OO didn't have, but for plain old usability.
Cisco has one, the one they got from Infogear. Timeline:
The trademark was awarded to Infogear in 1999, Cisco bought them in 2000, and sold its last "iPhone" product before this matter in 2001.
The trademark was up for renewal on 11/16/2005, and Cisco didn't bother, having abandoned the mark. But there is a six month grace period.
Then in mid 2006 Apple came to Cisco asking about using it with an Apple phone that was to be announced in early 2007.
Cisco immediately used the grace period to renew the trademark twelve days before its absolute expiration in order to get leverage on Apple for a higher license fee.
But to do that, Cisco had to show that it had been using "iPhone" in commerce, and submit a photo showing the mark in use. Cisco slapped an "iPhone" label on a Linksys VOIP phone and swore under penalty of perjury that it was in use. Cisco was so hurried that the label was placed on top of the shrinkwrap on the box for the photo. Cisco wouldn't rebrand and sell that as an iPhone until months later, after the trademark would have expired.
That is perjury. That is fraud.
Apple apparently pointed this out to Cisco after Cisco's talk about suing, and Cisco quietly dropped the issue, talking about some "interoperability promise" over its use that never happened. My bet is Apple said "Go ahead, take us to court, and we'll show your fraud," but Apple wanted the issue resolved before the January launch of Apple's phone.
Perjury, fraud upon the USPTO. ILLEGAL. Cisco hadn't used the trademark for years until Apple showed up asking about using the name (yes, Apple asked first), then Cisco swore upon penalty of perjury to the USPTO that it had been using it in order to renew it, and even slapped an iPhone sticker on a Linksys VOIP phone retail box as their the required evidence that a Cisco iPhone product was out in the market (which it wasn't). Cisco's lucky their trademark attorney wasn't disbarred.
Apple iOS is not an operating system for routers and other networking devices, so technically Apple would have had an arguable case for non-infringement. There is no way in hell this consumer OS could be confused with the networking OS, and the purpose of trademark is the prevention of consumer confusion ("I want a phone with iOS, hey this Apple iPhone doesn't have Cisco IOS on it!") or fraud (like Apple selling iOS as a Cisco IOS fake for a networking device, not gonna happen).
But that doesn't matter since Apple LICENSED the iOS trademark from Cisco before the name change for undisclosed considerations.
What lame, baseless complaints are you going to try now?
In 2000 Cisco acquired a company that had used it, and quickly dropped the line. Then Cisco fraudulently tried to resurrect the trademark after Apple came asking about iPhone.
In those cases, the parameters are set by the armed forces ordering the simulations, including penalties for simulated Geneva Convention violations if desired.
Regardless of where the data was from and what agreements covered its release, the stated purpose of the people in the emails was to keep the data out of the hands of their opponents regardless of open freedom of information requests, and Phil Jones himself said he would be "hiding behind" the agreements in order to keep the data from being released. There was quite literally a conspiracy not only to avoid normal scientific sharing of information, but legal freedom of information requests.
As scientists, they should be discredited and shamed.
As public employees, they should be fired or put in jail.
Then the law would simply require everyone to be immunized.
That they take this backdoor route shows that either they don't think they could survive a challenge by the rich, or that they don't think their constitution would allow for a straightforward mandate.
Neither is good. The first shows they don't mind trampling the poor as long as they don't piss off the rich. The second shows they don't mind violating their constitution by backdoor means.
You want an SLR to change lenses, get high quality lenses, and be able to screw on filters. You also get a standard hot shoe with these, so you can attach larger offset flashes.
You want the time between pressing the button and the shutter snapping to be as short as possible. Film cameras are instant, digital cameras often have some lag. Some cheapo and phone cameras have over a second of lag, totally unacceptable.
You want an all-manual mode. You'll need that if you're actually interested in what F-stops and shutter speeds do, and what they can do to give you exactly what you want in your photo (control over depth of field for example).
Don't go just by pixel count for digitals. All else being equal, a larger CCD means a higher image quality, higher pixel count on the same size CCD means lower quality.
The poor who don't want to immunize will be forced to due to financial considerations.
The rich who don't want to immunize simply won't.
This doesn't target those who already believe immunization is a smart move, because obviously they will already immunize. This only affects those who don't want to, and among them, it will only affect the poor.
The rich get to do what they want, the poor have to do what they're told.
Poor people who rely on the money are effectively required to get immunizations for their children, while rich people have no real increased incentive to immunize their children.
I could look at the thinking behind this many different ways, and none of them are good.
But this does give good visibility to the concept of alternative fuels. It's not just some hippie in his diesel VW bus anymore, it's a truck with a higher top speed than a Dodge Ram SRT-10.
They can be just as bad as profit motives. Choosing plant designs based on what company operates in whose district, rushing completion so a pet-project plant of a politician can go online before election time, hiding defects in that pet project plant during the next election cycle so that politician doesn't get kicked out of office for supporting it.
And think of the ability to keep bad things secret. With government, that's it. You really have no recourse if it wants to keep bad things secret. With plants operated by business, you have government oversight, someone to go to when things aren't being done right that isn't related to the people not doing things right.
Thousands of coal mining deaths per year, probably a huge number more attributable to air pollution caused by coal. I couldn't find any appreciable numbers for uranium mining deaths.
And the radiation. How much radiation has coal burning put into the environment? How does that compare to TMI, Fukushima and Chernobyl combined?
Chernobyl estimates account for actual deaths, deaths that MAY have been reasonably caused by radiation exposure, and expected long-term deaths in the future. If you add in illnesses, it's still less than this one dam accident.
That is if you exclude ideological-based estimates, such as from Greenpeace, which give ridiculous numbers.
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The majority of the military still votes Republican, so the Democrats are the ones you will find challenging their absentee ballots. It was a big stink in Florida in 2000, where Bush won largely on those absentee ballots. The Democrats were trying to throw out as many of them as possible.
If there was any effort to prevent your aunt from voting, it would have been by the Democrats in order to hinder that Republican voting bloc.
The Atacama desert, the driest place on Earth, barely gets into the 70s.
It's not about the temperature, it's about the precipitation.
What Canada will get is the temperate zone for food production going northward, which is a good thing.
But it's hard to jump right on, get a clearance and go to a war zone.
Better to find a local job that requires a SECRET clearance, get it and they get you your clearance. Then get another local job that requires upgrading to TS. Then put yourself in clearancejobs.com and go for the $$$.
Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3 depends on your definition of "Acceptable." Definitely not acceptable for me, Gnome 3 is acceptable, if I don't mind grinding my teeth a bit. But I'd rather not do even that.
OpenOffice/etc may be technically acceptable by feature list, but regardless of actual feature count it still sucks. I used it for quite a while before I finally gave in and got MS Office, not for features that OO didn't have, but for plain old usability.
It's just professional level designed by an architect, rather than giving some uneducated workers a bunch of shovels and telling them to dig a tunnel.
Cisco has one, the one they got from Infogear. Timeline:
The trademark was awarded to Infogear in 1999, Cisco bought them in 2000, and sold its last "iPhone" product before this matter in 2001.
The trademark was up for renewal on 11/16/2005, and Cisco didn't bother, having abandoned the mark. But there is a six month grace period.
Then in mid 2006 Apple came to Cisco asking about using it with an Apple phone that was to be announced in early 2007.
Cisco immediately used the grace period to renew the trademark twelve days before its absolute expiration in order to get leverage on Apple for a higher license fee.
But to do that, Cisco had to show that it had been using "iPhone" in commerce, and submit a photo showing the mark in use. Cisco slapped an "iPhone" label on a Linksys VOIP phone and swore under penalty of perjury that it was in use. Cisco was so hurried that the label was placed on top of the shrinkwrap on the box for the photo. Cisco wouldn't rebrand and sell that as an iPhone until months later, after the trademark would have expired.
That is perjury. That is fraud.
Apple apparently pointed this out to Cisco after Cisco's talk about suing, and Cisco quietly dropped the issue, talking about some "interoperability promise" over its use that never happened. My bet is Apple said "Go ahead, take us to court, and we'll show your fraud," but Apple wanted the issue resolved before the January launch of Apple's phone.
Perjury, fraud upon the USPTO. ILLEGAL. Cisco hadn't used the trademark for years until Apple showed up asking about using the name (yes, Apple asked first), then Cisco swore upon penalty of perjury to the USPTO that it had been using it in order to renew it, and even slapped an iPhone sticker on a Linksys VOIP phone retail box as their the required evidence that a Cisco iPhone product was out in the market (which it wasn't). Cisco's lucky their trademark attorney wasn't disbarred.
Apple iOS is not an operating system for routers and other networking devices, so technically Apple would have had an arguable case for non-infringement. There is no way in hell this consumer OS could be confused with the networking OS, and the purpose of trademark is the prevention of consumer confusion ("I want a phone with iOS, hey this Apple iPhone doesn't have Cisco IOS on it!") or fraud (like Apple selling iOS as a Cisco IOS fake for a networking device, not gonna happen).
But that doesn't matter since Apple LICENSED the iOS trademark from Cisco before the name change for undisclosed considerations.
What lame, baseless complaints are you going to try now?
In 2000 Cisco acquired a company that had used it, and quickly dropped the line. Then Cisco fraudulently tried to resurrect the trademark after Apple came asking about iPhone.
In those cases, the parameters are set by the armed forces ordering the simulations, including penalties for simulated Geneva Convention violations if desired.
Now it's giving us scientific breakthroughs.
It must be stopped.
Regardless of where the data was from and what agreements covered its release, the stated purpose of the people in the emails was to keep the data out of the hands of their opponents regardless of open freedom of information requests, and Phil Jones himself said he would be "hiding behind" the agreements in order to keep the data from being released. There was quite literally a conspiracy not only to avoid normal scientific sharing of information, but legal freedom of information requests.
As scientists, they should be discredited and shamed.
As public employees, they should be fired or put in jail.
That should provide enough compost to fertilize the entire Midwest.
Then the law would simply require everyone to be immunized.
That they take this backdoor route shows that either they don't think they could survive a challenge by the rich, or that they don't think their constitution would allow for a straightforward mandate.
Neither is good. The first shows they don't mind trampling the poor as long as they don't piss off the rich. The second shows they don't mind violating their constitution by backdoor means.
You want an SLR to change lenses, get high quality lenses, and be able to screw on filters. You also get a standard hot shoe with these, so you can attach larger offset flashes.
You want the time between pressing the button and the shutter snapping to be as short as possible. Film cameras are instant, digital cameras often have some lag. Some cheapo and phone cameras have over a second of lag, totally unacceptable.
You want an all-manual mode. You'll need that if you're actually interested in what F-stops and shutter speeds do, and what they can do to give you exactly what you want in your photo (control over depth of field for example).
Don't go just by pixel count for digitals. All else being equal, a larger CCD means a higher image quality, higher pixel count on the same size CCD means lower quality.
The poor who don't want to immunize will be forced to due to financial considerations.
The rich who don't want to immunize simply won't.
This doesn't target those who already believe immunization is a smart move, because obviously they will already immunize. This only affects those who don't want to, and among them, it will only affect the poor.
The rich get to do what they want, the poor have to do what they're told.
Poor people who rely on the money are effectively required to get immunizations for their children, while rich people have no real increased incentive to immunize their children.
I could look at the thinking behind this many different ways, and none of them are good.
But this does give good visibility to the concept of alternative fuels. It's not just some hippie in his diesel VW bus anymore, it's a truck with a higher top speed than a Dodge Ram SRT-10.
It only cuts off benefits for not getting it. If you don't need the benefits, then you effectively are not required to get immunization.
The basic message is "Poor people need to be immunized, not rich people."
It's already happened.
As usual, the rich don't have to bother.
One nuclear plant surpasses that coal plant once every few decades.
Meanwhile, thousands of coal plants spew out their radiation every day as part of normal operation.
They can be just as bad as profit motives. Choosing plant designs based on what company operates in whose district, rushing completion so a pet-project plant of a politician can go online before election time, hiding defects in that pet project plant during the next election cycle so that politician doesn't get kicked out of office for supporting it.
And think of the ability to keep bad things secret. With government, that's it. You really have no recourse if it wants to keep bad things secret. With plants operated by business, you have government oversight, someone to go to when things aren't being done right that isn't related to the people not doing things right.
Thousands of coal mining deaths per year, probably a huge number more attributable to air pollution caused by coal. I couldn't find any appreciable numbers for uranium mining deaths.
And the radiation. How much radiation has coal burning put into the environment? How does that compare to TMI, Fukushima and Chernobyl combined?
Chernobyl estimates account for actual deaths, deaths that MAY have been reasonably caused by radiation exposure, and expected long-term deaths in the future. If you add in illnesses, it's still less than this one dam accident.
That is if you exclude ideological-based estimates, such as from Greenpeace, which give ridiculous numbers.
That's what knocked out the backup generators.
And plants with outdated designs.
Bring on the new designs.