If hispanics made up half the population and Hispanics wanted representation, then all that had to happen was for all the hispanics to vote. I guarantee that some other minorities and some whites would end up voting for an hispanic candidate if said candidate was an issue candidate and not a race candidate.
This is nothing but a way for a specific race, to get someone elected. Special rules designed to benefit a certain race? That sounds like racism to me.
While you are right, the system itself is very, very, wrong.
We are supposed to be a democratic republic, where every legal voter gets one vote for each set of candidates. In this system, one gets six votes, one vote for each candidate and can vote multiple times for a single candidate.
The proper thing to do was to break the town in to districts. Another thing that could have been done was have all the trustees elected at the same time, with the top six as the winners.
The judge should be removed from the bench. Unfortunately, he can not be charged with election fraud as he so richly deserves.
Cumulative voting is great for allowing a specific minority to elect officials. It is also great for election fraud. It is undemocratic and it is unamerican.
No, I think I know who I am thinking about. Tell you want, ask Theo Van Gogh who murders people.
If you don't think muslims use car bombs as a means of assassination, you should try paying attention to the news from Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Muslims don't bother with things like extradition or kidnapping. They execute people in what ever country they are found in, using whatever means necessary, such as car bombs.
Except, there have been plenty of other examples of the exact same behavior by other muslims. Muslims believe they have the right to impose their religious law on anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Your uncle is part of the problem. The prisons are not underfunded. The prisons are waste too much money.
Remember, it costs California $47,000 per-inmate annually, which is 50 percent higher than the national average. There are approximately 170,000 people in California prisons. That works out to almost 10% of the budget. If the cost were more in line with the rest of the nation, it would save over $2 billion.
Ask your uncle why it costs a third more to house an inmate in California. I guarantee you he won't say it is because he is overpaid, but that is the case.
I support three-strikes laws. If one is going to be an habitual repeat offender, I see no need to let one out.
While what you say may be true, spamhaus decided they didn't have to care about the lawsuit and lost by default. If Spamhaus had decided to take the lawsuit seriously and provided evidence that e360 was a spammer, then this would not be an issue at all.
Someone might call you elitists for believing that scientists and other experts might know better than the mouth-breathing, TV-watching, failed-at-critical-thinking random man on the street or basic B-list celebrity.
So, San Francisco passed a law that required a sticker on a common product showing a rating of something most people do not understand or even know about, that has not been shown to have any health consequences, and offers no guidance or explanation. And, it is all to placate some paranoid idiots and will result in ignorant hypochondriacs going bonkers.
This isn't FUD. It is blatant fear mongering and deliberate risk miscommunication.
In this case, he did not provide the information to just the car owners. He provided it to everyone, including the car thieves along with detailed instructions on how to open and start the car.
I see. So, even though he has no idea how long it will take to fix and test, Microsoft should agree to his arbitrary deadline and if they don't he will release exploit code. That is different from extortion how?
"They test hundreds upon hundreds of patches" Funny, do you make things up often? He said "Hey, found this exploit. Fix it or else." Seeing as you seem to know everything exactly how much code needs to be changed and how many tests need to be run? How long it will it take?
"yet they can't test their OS worth shit" Yet, it took 9 years for someone to stumble upon this.
Blaming third parties for informing us of problems MS would prefer to sweep under the carpet
So, wanting to be able to give a definitive answer is, in your mind, sweeping things under the carpet. At least you have shown how your mind works. What is it like to be a paranoid?
You kind of skipped over the fact that Ormandy only gave MS 5 days to fix the problem before alerting the world and providing exploit code.
Microsoft is a huge corporation and has to both check his work and then get a fix written and scheduled for release. Things take time in a huge corporation. Not giving MS time to create a patch and distribute it is being an asshole and Ormandy is responsible for any infections because he couldn't wait a week.
You are saying Ormandy forced Microsoft to release the fix. Let's see how true that is.
Ormandy reported the problem to Microsoft. Microsoft told Ormandy they would need 5 days to get a release schedule. Ormandy releases the exploit and code 2 days later.
That doesn't seem to match up with what you are saying. Looks like you are a liar.
If it is true, then it is probably caused by subconscious programming. Just like kata "programs" the body and mind to respond without thought, aggressive driving games probably program aggressive driving behavior. It probably doesn't effect everyone and those it effects are probably effected to varying degrees.
Some of it will come from one confusing one's ability in video games with one's abilities in real life. Some will come from believing that video game physics are the same as real world physics. Some will come from, as other's have said, the "fast is fun" mentality.
Really, this is not going to be a case of A causing B, just A exacerbating the pre-existing tendency towards B.
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If hispanics made up half the population and Hispanics wanted representation, then all that had to happen was for all the hispanics to vote. I guarantee that some other minorities and some whites would end up voting for an hispanic candidate if said candidate was an issue candidate and not a race candidate.
This is nothing but a way for a specific race, to get someone elected. Special rules designed to benefit a certain race? That sounds like racism to me.
While you are right, the system itself is very, very, wrong.
We are supposed to be a democratic republic, where every legal voter gets one vote for each set of candidates. In this system, one gets six votes, one vote for each candidate and can vote multiple times for a single candidate.
The proper thing to do was to break the town in to districts. Another thing that could have been done was have all the trustees elected at the same time, with the top six as the winners.
The judge should be removed from the bench. Unfortunately, he can not be charged with election fraud as he so richly deserves.
Cumulative voting is great for allowing a specific minority to elect officials. It is also great for election fraud. It is undemocratic and it is unamerican.
You forgot the part where SpaceX didn't do any R&D. Instead, they used old technologies developed by... wait for it... NASA.
And, SpaceX didn't build a launch facility, instead they used.... NASA's.
No wonder SpaceX didn't spend much, they didn't do anything new.
No, I think I know who I am thinking about. Tell you want, ask Theo Van Gogh who murders people.
If you don't think muslims use car bombs as a means of assassination, you should try paying attention to the news from Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
You are nothing but an apologist.
I'm sorry but you have confused HTTP/HTML/Javascript with the internet.
The fact is that this trend of using the browser as an interface is nothing less than having a hammer and treating everything as a nail.
Muslims don't bother with things like extradition or kidnapping. They execute people in what ever country they are found in, using whatever means necessary, such as car bombs.
Except, there have been plenty of other examples of the exact same behavior by other muslims. Muslims believe they have the right to impose their religious law on anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Careful. They will hunt you down and cut your head off.
Your uncle is part of the problem. The prisons are not underfunded. The prisons are waste too much money.
Remember, it costs California $47,000 per-inmate annually, which is 50 percent higher than the national average. There are approximately 170,000 people in California prisons. That works out to almost 10% of the budget. If the cost were more in line with the rest of the nation, it would save over $2 billion.
Ask your uncle why it costs a third more to house an inmate in California. I guarantee you he won't say it is because he is overpaid, but that is the case.
I support three-strikes laws. If one is going to be an habitual repeat offender, I see no need to let one out.
No, they didn't. No one knew about the trick until the discoverer told the world, including the thieves. Quit trying to change the facts.
In some parts of the country it does. Have you forgotten about radon gas?
While what you say may be true, spamhaus decided they didn't have to care about the lawsuit and lost by default. If Spamhaus had decided to take the lawsuit seriously and provided evidence that e360 was a spammer, then this would not be an issue at all.
But, do you have as many vocal, paranoid, hypochondriac idiots over there?
Better be careful.
Someone might call you elitists for believing that scientists and other experts might know better than the mouth-breathing, TV-watching, failed-at-critical-thinking random man on the street or basic B-list celebrity.
So, San Francisco passed a law that required a sticker on a common product showing a rating of something most people do not understand or even know about, that has not been shown to have any health consequences, and offers no guidance or explanation. And, it is all to placate some paranoid idiots and will result in ignorant hypochondriacs going bonkers.
This isn't FUD. It is blatant fear mongering and deliberate risk miscommunication.
In this case, he did not provide the information to just the car owners. He provided it to everyone, including the car thieves along with detailed instructions on how to open and start the car.
That is why your little story fails.
I see. So, even though he has no idea how long it will take to fix and test, Microsoft should agree to his arbitrary deadline and if they don't he will release exploit code. That is different from extortion how?
"They test hundreds upon hundreds of patches" Funny, do you make things up often? He said "Hey, found this exploit. Fix it or else." Seeing as you seem to know everything exactly how much code needs to be changed and how many tests need to be run? How long it will it take?
"yet they can't test their OS worth shit" Yet, it took 9 years for someone to stumble upon this.
So, wanting to be able to give a definitive answer is, in your mind, sweeping things under the carpet. At least you have shown how your mind works. What is it like to be a paranoid?
Yes, let's point our fingers at Ormandy.
You kind of skipped over the fact that Ormandy only gave MS 5 days to fix the problem before alerting the world and providing exploit code.
Microsoft is a huge corporation and has to both check his work and then get a fix written and scheduled for release. Things take time in a huge corporation. Not giving MS time to create a patch and distribute it is being an asshole and Ormandy is responsible for any infections because he couldn't wait a week.
You are saying Ormandy forced Microsoft to release the fix. Let's see how true that is.
That doesn't seem to match up with what you are saying. Looks like you are a liar.
No, there isn't a comparable magazine these days.
Looking at the modding here on slashdot, I can see the "ideals" of the wikipedia crowd quite well.
Hey, look, the Wikipedia fanboys are out in force, modding my comment down. It was +5, now it is +2.
They don't have a neutral point-of-view. They are promulgating their point of view and squashing any dissenting opinions.
The "locked" articles are guarded by ideologues whose views differ from the "mischief makers and ideologues" Wikipedia hates.
If it is true, then it is probably caused by subconscious programming. Just like kata "programs" the body and mind to respond without thought, aggressive driving games probably program aggressive driving behavior. It probably doesn't effect everyone and those it effects are probably effected to varying degrees.
Some of it will come from one confusing one's ability in video games with one's abilities in real life.
Some will come from believing that video game physics are the same as real world physics.
Some will come from, as other's have said, the "fast is fun" mentality.
Really, this is not going to be a case of A causing B, just A exacerbating the pre-existing tendency towards B.