I tried that site comparing candidates to my views. After looking at the results for a while, I realized there is a large range with many intermediate choices for personal issues.
On the other hand, there seems to be only two economic plans: get rid of as many government services as posible and the taxes that pay for them and give the people all the choices, or provide services to everyone with a big security net. On the one hand you have the Democrats and Reform, and the other, Republican, Constitution, Green, etc.
What about something in-between that redistributes the wealth with taxes and still meets the _basic_ needs of everyone, like healthcare and food and shelter? Don't make it great, but good enough to help people _survive_ while they work toward something better!
1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2. One who opposes technical or technological change.
This wouldn't seem to apply to Gore who "was instramental in creating the Internet" or to John Haglund (sp?), who is a physicist (and presumably supports scientific research).
It would, however, apply to the Senate, whose rules forbid electronic devices including laptops, cellphones, etc. on the chamber floor.
Personally, I'd rather see anyone other than a Republican or Democrat elected. I'm voting all 3rd party this year. Even though I agree with each candidate on some things, there is a lot they aren't addressing and a lot that they shouldn't be doing (read special interests).
Do you feel that the current electoral college system of voting is the best way to reflect the people's will? Or do you feel that voting practices in the US no longer reflect the will of the general population?
I think Jessie is the best thing to happen here in Minnesota politics in a long time. Since the Democrats and Republicans split congress and Ventura's in the Governor's seat, a LOT less pork is getting passed around. New laws have to make sense to a guy with an ordinary background (i.e. pro-wrestling has more in common with the real world than today's government).
Abe Lincoln was the first Republican to get in office. His party WAS for something a lot of people believed in - outlawing slavery. It went down the tubes from there.
Teddie Rosevelt got in on the Bull Moose party. He started a lot of the momentum forming national parks such as Yellowstone. Who wants to bet that some company would have exclusive rights to Old Faithful if it wasn't made a park by someone who cared about the future?
Both major candidates seem to be out of touch with the population. One has problems answering questions from prepared crowds. The other has problems telling the truth. Both are into big oil. Neither one really seems to be that different about most issues (except abortion and tax cuts). Both are just as responsible for my prosperity today (i.e. neither one had very much to do with it).
The only alternative I see is to vote for something different. It worked before. It will work again. I will vote this fall. It won't be for one of them.
Have you looked at the inside? It has a couple of small circuit boards, at least one of which appears to be the system memory. I wonder if they'll release a flash upgrade kit? (Like they did 3Com did for the Palm Pilots)
Did anyone notice they said the speed would be about 180,000 miles per hour in 3 months? The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second, so traveling to the sun would only take about 21 days from earth's orbit. Now where did I put my pf 3 million sunblock...
Some of the stuff I've read about solar sails involves the use of small propulsion units to provide navigational capabilities. As for the return trip, they could use a gravity assist from a planet. As long as they shut off their magnetic sail, the return trip would be faster than the way out since decelleration could be done by atmospheric breaking.
Uh... The atmosphere doesn't extend to the altitudes where this would be used. We're taling over 100K, while the atmosphere is significantly less than that. Electric fields at that altitude generated by man would be insignificant anyway. Right now the sun is kicking up orders of magnitude higher electrical disturbances through solar flares reacting with the Earth's magetic field (read Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis). A number of studies have been done showing that this interaction doesn't affect weather. As far as polluting space, the total volume of a sphere increases as a cube of its radius, meaning that there is a LOT of space in space.
This will actually reduce space junk, not make more of it. Rather than having to send up new satelites when the fuel runs out or sending extra resupply flights with fuel for the space stations, solar panels can collect electricty and provide thrust via these wires. All this and its environmentally friendly, since it doesn't waste millions of pounds of fuel just trying to get fuel into orbit!
Didn't I see this a few years ago in a theater? Think of the possibilities for the military and law enforcement--or uses agains the military or law enforcement. I could just see a bunch of drug dealers getting their hands^h^h^h^h^hfeet on these!
The number of IRQs is a function of the microprocessor architecture. The x86 design has only 16 for the resources of the entire motherboard, so some of the IRQs are reserved for things like drive controllers, bus bridges, etc. 256 IRQs is technically possible, but with a different hardware archtecture that would support it. Then the OS would have to be re-written to take advantage of all the new IRQs (probably possible for an open source OS, but not your favorate closed-source variety).
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On the other hand, there seems to be only two economic plans: get rid of as many government services as posible and the taxes that pay for them and give the people all the choices, or provide services to everyone with a big security net. On the one hand you have the Democrats and Reform, and the other, Republican, Constitution, Green, etc.
What about something in-between that redistributes the wealth with taxes and still meets the _basic_ needs of everyone, like healthcare and food and shelter? Don't make it great, but good enough to help people _survive_ while they work toward something better!
Luddite (ldt) n.
1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2. One who opposes technical or technological change.
This wouldn't seem to apply to Gore who "was instramental in creating the Internet" or to John Haglund (sp?), who is a physicist (and presumably supports scientific research).
It would, however, apply to the Senate, whose rules forbid electronic devices including laptops, cellphones, etc. on the chamber floor.
Personally, I'd rather see anyone other than a Republican or Democrat elected. I'm voting all 3rd party this year. Even though I agree with each candidate on some things, there is a lot they aren't addressing and a lot that they shouldn't be doing (read special interests).
Well, it looks like the ISP's are going to have to provide this service for free, or pay Amazon some royalties;)
He convinced me!
Do you feel that the current electoral college system of voting is the best way to reflect the people's will? Or do you feel that voting practices in the US no longer reflect the will of the general population?
Ok, I read the comment a little hasty. What about Abe & Teddie?
Abe Lincoln was the first Republican to get in office. His party WAS for something a lot of people believed in - outlawing slavery. It went down the tubes from there.
Teddie Rosevelt got in on the Bull Moose party. He started a lot of the momentum forming national parks such as Yellowstone. Who wants to bet that some company would have exclusive rights to Old Faithful if it wasn't made a park by someone who cared about the future?
Both major candidates seem to be out of touch with the population. One has problems answering questions from prepared crowds. The other has problems telling the truth. Both are into big oil. Neither one really seems to be that different about most issues (except abortion and tax cuts). Both are just as responsible for my prosperity today (i.e. neither one had very much to do with it).
The only alternative I see is to vote for something different. It worked before. It will work again. I will vote this fall. It won't be for one of them.
Have you looked at the inside? It has a couple of small circuit boards, at least one of which appears to be the system memory. I wonder if they'll release a flash upgrade kit? (Like they did 3Com did for the Palm Pilots)
Did anyone notice they said the speed would be about 180,000 miles per hour in 3 months? The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second, so traveling to the sun would only take about 21 days from earth's orbit. Now where did I put my pf 3 million sunblock...
Some of the stuff I've read about solar sails involves the use of small propulsion units to provide navigational capabilities. As for the return trip, they could use a gravity assist from a planet. As long as they shut off their magnetic sail, the return trip would be faster than the way out since decelleration could be done by atmospheric breaking.
Uh... The atmosphere doesn't extend to the altitudes where this would be used. We're taling over 100K, while the atmosphere is significantly less than that. Electric fields at that altitude generated by man would be insignificant anyway. Right now the sun is kicking up orders of magnitude higher electrical disturbances through solar flares reacting with the Earth's magetic field (read Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis). A number of studies have been done showing that this interaction doesn't affect weather. As far as polluting space, the total volume of a sphere increases as a cube of its radius, meaning that there is a LOT of space in space.
This will actually reduce space junk, not make more of it. Rather than having to send up new satelites when the fuel runs out or sending extra resupply flights with fuel for the space stations, solar panels can collect electricty and provide thrust via these wires. All this and its environmentally friendly, since it doesn't waste millions of pounds of fuel just trying to get fuel into orbit!
Was it Lars Ulrick?
Didn't I see this a few years ago in a theater? Think of the possibilities for the military and law enforcement--or uses agains the military or law enforcement. I could just see a bunch of drug dealers getting their hands^h^h^h^h^hfeet on these!
The number of IRQs is a function of the microprocessor architecture. The x86 design has only 16 for the resources of the entire motherboard, so some of the IRQs are reserved for things like drive controllers, bus bridges, etc. 256 IRQs is technically possible, but with a different hardware archtecture that would support it. Then the OS would have to be re-written to take advantage of all the new IRQs (probably possible for an open source OS, but not your favorate closed-source variety).
I'll second that!
Don't the shortcuts that M$ use in Windows fit the requirements of the patent?