If all the votes for a state are pooled, evenly mixed, then a statistically significant number are randomly chosen to predict the winner, it will be FAR more accurate than the current system of hand recounts with varying criteria used by different counties or counters.
Exit polling is based on bad data, and is not a random sample. Using a random sample of the actual vote data, is guaranteed to converge to the correct answer.
collecting data on you without your conscent would be illegal, I'd say
Since when? There are some legalities involved with collecting data on "minors", I believe, but I do not think there is law stating that they cannot collect data on adults (with or without consent). I'd like to be proven wrong, though.
Just as viruses can use the net to send information about software usage to their authors, I'm willing to bet there are multiple booby traps in the Office software such that Microsoft will have very good information about versions that are being used without a subscription. Unless you are willing to trust that the crackers have removed all such surreptitious channels from the Office code (or you are truly isolated from the net) there is the chance that Microsoft can track you.
Also, this information might be embedded in documents of people using "cracked" software, waiting for it to be moved to a computer that DOES have net access, before being sent back to Microsoft. Many other companies and services have been found to mine data without users consent, and I'd bet it could be happening w/ Microsoft. We'll have to wait and see...
Well, if they still have the voter log, and know the ballot serial numbers, they can at least check to see if there is anything obviously wrong (ie. more votes than voters, etc.)
Not sure if that would be enough to allow the votes to be validated.
There's about as much of a chance of an elector voting for a different candidate when it matters, as there is of Bush being elected and implementing Gore's complete agenda.
Does anyone know if keeping your voting receipt allows you to change your vote in such an instance (ie. there is a recount and you can reasonably show that you voted incorrectly?) If so, I'd expect many Nader voters to be rushing to the election officials, saying "Oops!"
That isn't necessarily true. Many Bush voters may be supporting him because they dislike the ethically tainted Gore, and are embarrased by the Clinton era (regardless of policies).
I think Clinton's facing down of the Gingrich govt. shutdown and his "winning" the resulting popularity contest, is evidence that America is stuck solidly in the middle, issue-wise, with wide variance. What they are responding to in this election is who they feel has "leadership" qualities, or a lack it, more than any specific issues of liberal vs. conservative policy.
If Gore had shown himself to actually be different from Bush, in the sense of having commanding leadership presence, and a credible fiscal vision of reinventing government and cutting deadweight while maintaining necessary services, he could come across as more "liberal" and still be accepted by the nation as a whole.
In the exit polls, Gore seems to appeal to men less than Gore, even in states where he won (and women helped carry his win). I think men respond more to a natural leader, and even somewhat conservative men would accept and vote for a liberal with "presidential, leadership" qualities (whatever those may be). I think FDR showed this, and to a lesser extent Truman and even Clinton.
When I tuned in, Florida had been "ceded" to Gore by the various media (they even went so far as to proclaim "Gore takes Florida!"). Now that I check the actual results, Bush seems to be winning by a safe margin (so far). It will be a real embarassment if all the media projected incorrectly, in this CRITICAL state...
I assumed Bush Sr.'s term in the presidency would have precluded any Bush Jr.'s from running for dog catcher, much less making a viable run for the presidency. One mustn't be too cocky...
Nader also supports a binding "None of the Above" vote, BTW. Meaning if "None of the Above" gets the majority, a runoff occurs where none of the candidates may be listed on the ballot (and hopefully a new batch will run:)
Such a ballot measure was voted on in California last year and (I believe) lost. However, it was non-binding. Does anyone know if a binding measure has ever been put on the ballot anywhere at a state level?
Was Jesse Ventura a mayor before being elected Governor? He is currently Governor of Minnesota, a MUCH more powerful and high level job than (almost any) mayor.
The gist of that article, and all of Moore's output, is satirical, and can be easily seen as such by most anyone who reads it. I think even those people who hate Moore the most would not be able to truthfully call him uninformed or ignorant. Indeed, he seems to work hard to be exceptionally well informed on any issue he puts his axe to.
Not to mention that he doesn't want to fuck over his wife's campaign for Senate. How much you want to bet that Dubya will get 8 years in office, then when his brother Jeb runs, Mrs. Clinton runs against him? It is amazing to think that this does not have ZERO probability...
You don't think Dubya will actually be running the country himself, do ya? He will simply do what Bush Sr., Dick Cheney, Dick Armey, and his Mom, TELL him to do... Some of that may be a good thing, in his case, but the principle is abhorrent. We need someone with COURAGE, and leadership skills, to run for BOTH parties (or ALL parties), so we can vote with our hearts and our heads, not with our noses pinched closed.
After installing the Nvidia drivers, how do you compile or run applications that depend on GLUT (and GLU)? Does one have to download GLUT from sgi and compile it with the new drivers, or are there premade packages that will work?
What we have to lose by believing in dieties, is our dignity and self-respect. I simply CANNOT believe in any form of diety that interacts with "humanity", or with any of the tenets of organized religion (People talking with God? Praying and expecting God to hear and respond in some way?)
It is simply hogwash, IMO, and if I devoted any of my short time here to trying to hedge my bets for living in an after-life, I would feel so bad about it that my life just wouldn't be worth living anyway. And frankly, if anyone lives their life believing in God and some mythically described afterlife, only because they are made to feel afraid of doing otherwise, they are cowards and have wasted THEIR life.
While it is supposed that pi is "normal", I'm not sure it has been proven. This releates closely to Kolmogorov complexity. Check Google for more (I weep for Mathworld...)
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If all the votes for a state are pooled, evenly mixed, then a statistically significant number are randomly chosen to predict the winner, it will be FAR more accurate than the current system of hand recounts with varying criteria used by different counties or counters.
Exit polling is based on bad data, and is not a random sample. Using a random sample of the actual vote data, is guaranteed to converge to the correct answer.
If city buses are any indication, we ARE that kind of society.
I'll bet the kid has longer uptimes than 2.4.0-test11-pre3.
That kid spent less time in the womb than Linux has been in feature freeze...
You're thinking of the Louis Armstrong song "What a Wonderful World", not the Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" that is used above.
collecting data on you without your conscent would be illegal, I'd say
Since when? There are some legalities involved with collecting data on "minors", I believe, but I do not think there is law stating that they cannot collect data on adults (with or without consent). I'd like to be proven wrong, though.
Just as viruses can use the net to send information about software usage to their authors, I'm willing to bet there are multiple booby traps in the Office software such that Microsoft will have very good information about versions that are being used without a subscription. Unless you are willing to trust that the crackers have removed all such surreptitious channels from the Office code (or you are truly isolated from the net) there is the chance that Microsoft can track you.
Also, this information might be embedded in documents of people using "cracked" software, waiting for it to be moved to a computer that DOES have net access, before being sent back to Microsoft. Many other companies and services have been found to mine data without users consent, and I'd bet it could be happening w/ Microsoft. We'll have to wait and see...
It's there! Left column, second from bottom.
Well, if they still have the voter log, and know the ballot serial numbers, they can at least check to see if there is anything obviously wrong (ie. more votes than voters, etc.)
Not sure if that would be enough to allow the votes to be validated.
There's about as much of a chance of an elector voting for a different candidate when it matters, as there is of Bush being elected and implementing Gore's complete agenda.
So about 50/50 then.
In these cases, was the electoral vote not decisive enough that it went to the House of Reps to decide (as in the early days)?
Does anyone know if keeping your voting receipt allows you to change your vote in such an instance (ie. there is a recount and you can reasonably show that you voted incorrectly?) If so, I'd expect many Nader voters to be rushing to the election officials, saying "Oops!"
Don't worry, Dubya is going to "bring us together" as a nation, and puts lots more money into the War on Drugs. We can all sleep soundly.
BTW. You better start getting your bids together to buy oil drilling rights in Alaskan protected land; You wouldn't want to miss out on that.
That isn't necessarily true. Many Bush voters may be supporting him because they dislike the ethically tainted Gore, and are embarrased by the Clinton era (regardless of policies).
I think Clinton's facing down of the Gingrich govt. shutdown and his "winning" the resulting popularity contest, is evidence that America is stuck solidly in the middle, issue-wise, with wide variance. What they are responding to in this election is who they feel has "leadership" qualities, or a lack it, more than any specific issues of liberal vs. conservative policy.
If Gore had shown himself to actually be different from Bush, in the sense of having commanding leadership presence, and a credible fiscal vision of reinventing government and cutting deadweight while maintaining necessary services, he could come across as more "liberal" and still be accepted by the nation as a whole.
In the exit polls, Gore seems to appeal to men less than Gore, even in states where he won (and women helped carry his win). I think men respond more to a natural leader, and even somewhat conservative men would accept and vote for a liberal with "presidential, leadership" qualities (whatever those may be). I think FDR showed this, and to a lesser extent Truman and even Clinton.
This is IMHO, of course.
When I tuned in, Florida had been "ceded" to Gore by the various media (they even went so far as to proclaim "Gore takes Florida!"). Now that I check the actual results, Bush seems to be winning by a safe margin (so far). It will be a real embarassment if all the media projected incorrectly, in this CRITICAL state...
I assumed Bush Sr.'s term in the presidency would have precluded any Bush Jr.'s from running for dog catcher, much less making a viable run for the presidency. One mustn't be too cocky...
Nader also supports a binding "None of the Above" vote, BTW. Meaning if "None of the Above" gets the majority, a runoff occurs where none of the candidates may be listed on the ballot (and hopefully a new batch will run :)
Such a ballot measure was voted on in California last year and (I believe) lost. However, it was non-binding. Does anyone know if a binding measure has ever been put on the ballot anywhere at a state level?
Was Jesse Ventura a mayor before being elected Governor? He is currently Governor of Minnesota, a MUCH more powerful and high level job than (almost any) mayor.
The gist of that article, and all of Moore's output, is satirical, and can be easily seen as such by most anyone who reads it. I think even those people who hate Moore the most would not be able to truthfully call him uninformed or ignorant. Indeed, he seems to work hard to be exceptionally well informed on any issue he puts his axe to.
Not to mention that he doesn't want to fuck over his wife's campaign for Senate. How much you want to bet that Dubya will get 8 years in office, then when his brother Jeb runs, Mrs. Clinton runs against him? It is amazing to think that this does not have ZERO probability...
Politics has become TOO inbred.
You don't think Dubya will actually be running the country himself, do ya? He will simply do what Bush Sr., Dick Cheney, Dick Armey, and his Mom, TELL him to do... Some of that may be a good thing, in his case, but the principle is abhorrent. We need someone with COURAGE, and leadership skills, to run for BOTH parties (or ALL parties), so we can vote with our hearts and our heads, not with our noses pinched closed.
After installing the Nvidia drivers, how do you compile or run applications that depend on GLUT (and GLU)? Does one have to download GLUT from sgi and compile it with the new drivers, or are there premade packages that will work?
What we have to lose by believing in dieties, is our dignity and self-respect. I simply CANNOT believe in any form of diety that interacts with "humanity", or with any of the tenets of organized religion (People talking with God? Praying and expecting God to hear and respond in some way?)
It is simply hogwash, IMO, and if I devoted any of my short time here to trying to hedge my bets for living in an after-life, I would feel so bad about it that my life just wouldn't be worth living anyway. And frankly, if anyone lives their life believing in God and some mythically described afterlife, only because they are made to feel afraid of doing otherwise, they are cowards and have wasted THEIR life.
Anyway, that's my perspective on it.
No way man, I encrypt my drive...
No, the conclusion is that there is no smallest number that cannot be described in less than 100 words.
While it is supposed that pi is "normal", I'm not sure it has been proven. This releates closely to Kolmogorov complexity. Check Google for more (I weep for Mathworld...)