He's there in the FotR. If you look closely in the scene where Frodo and Sam are in the cornfield with the scarecrow, you can just make out a guy in a blue jacket and yellow boots skipping down the road in the background. Or maybe he was driving a car, I don't remember. I think it was edited out for the DVD, though.
Sure, check out the International Email Chess Group. I haven't played there much recently, but they have a good system for playing email games, with time limits and everything. They also run thematic tournaments every so often.
I still think that the line painted in the street to show you if you are too close to the intersection to stop if the light is yellow is a good idea.
Hmm, good idea! Of course, they would become inaccurate any time they decided to change the speed limit or the length of the yellow light at that intersection. I guess they would be somewhat inaccurate to start with, since most people drive faster than the speed limit. And you'd always get jehus who punch the accelerator even harder to make the light from behind the line.
(Just learned that word, "jehu", by the way. Good Scrabble word.:)
On the radio this morning, I heard something about a couple thousand votes already present on some electronic voting machines in Philadelphia before the poll workers arrived in the morning. But I can't find any stories about it online. Does anyone have any more information on this?
The court is absolutely right on this one. Paper ballots are a formula for disaster. And that disaster has happened in every single election in the history of the world. It's insane to think that paper ballots are a safe choice when they have never, not once, been used in an election that didn't turn out to be a horrific tragedy for the human race. Hitler was elected with paper ballots. I rest my case.
What an idiot officer. You don't get to make a "political message" by defacing others' property. How the heck did he get to be an enforcer of laws he doesn't even understand?
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles! [audience gasps in terror] Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us. Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system. Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate. Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away!
That's weird... I went out and bought a DVD writer so that I could play the Sims 2 DVD edition (oh yeah, and my wife wanted it for making DVDs too). The DVD drive came with a bunch of Nero programs for creating DVDs, which I installed. Then I installed Sims 2 with no problems. I wonder why I didn't see this issue?
I agree. Believe it or not, it actually drove me to switch to Opera. I have come to love the way you can list your tabs in a tree view in Opera instead of in a tab bar along the top. I usually browse with 20-30 tabs open at a time. Alas, there seem to be some problems using Opera as well... Gmail doesn't work, no client-side XSLT, etc. So I'm looking at returning to Firefox. But there's no way I'll be installing Tabbrowser Extensions again. For me, it just hasn't been worth the trouble.
Please stop screwing around with these nearly 30-year old movies. All you're doing is pissing off what few fans you have left, and making yourself look like an indecisive jerk having a mid-life crisis. Thank you.
Seriously though, since I've never been entirely clear exactly how electors are chosen, I just became interested enough to look it up. Interesting that we as common voters are not casting our votes for president and vice president. We are casting them for electors. And the ballot has choices between "Electors for X" and "Electors for Y", whose names have been submitted by the various political parties.
It is the electors' prerogative to vote their consciences. At the same time, if Mayor Robb was chosen as a Bush elector by the Republican Party, I assume it was with the understanding that he would vote for Bush. Either he's changed his mind since becoming an elector, or else he became a Bush elector without ever intending to vote for Bush. Either way, I'm not sure I agree with his decision to go back on the "understood" agreement that he would vote for Bush. But it is his decision.
Actually, I like the way Maine and Nebraska choose their electors. Instead of each party choosing a slate of electors that everyone in the state votes for, there are two statewide electors plus one elector chosen from each Congressional district. I think the electors would be much more representative of the overall will of the people if they were chosen this way, instead of on a statewide basis.
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He's there in the FotR. If you look closely in the scene where Frodo and Sam are in the cornfield with the scarecrow, you can just make out a guy in a blue jacket and yellow boots skipping down the road in the background. Or maybe he was driving a car, I don't remember. I think it was edited out for the DVD, though.
If we could only charge our grandmothers for every time we fixed their cord not being plugged in...
I didn't know grandmothers required electricity.
Yes, and they get charged every time you fix their cord not being plugged in.
How did you come up with such a clever nickname?
Sure, check out the International Email Chess Group. I haven't played there much recently, but they have a good system for playing email games, with time limits and everything. They also run thematic tournaments every so often.
Oh, BTW, the years chocolate sales and crime were up also correlate with population.
It must be because chocolate is an aphrodisiac.
Well, it is good cape weather. Cool. Breezy.
I guess Verizon hasn't deployed it here yet. I type "fttp://slashdot.org/" into Firefox and get "fttp is not a registered protocol".
I still think that the line painted in the street to show you if you are too close to the intersection to stop if the light is yellow is a good idea.
:)
Hmm, good idea! Of course, they would become inaccurate any time they decided to change the speed limit or the length of the yellow light at that intersection. I guess they would be somewhat inaccurate to start with, since most people drive faster than the speed limit. And you'd always get jehus who punch the accelerator even harder to make the light from behind the line.
(Just learned that word, "jehu", by the way. Good Scrabble word.
Yah, take off!
ABC News has a continuously-updated list of irregularities from around the country.
On the radio this morning, I heard something about a couple thousand votes already present on some electronic voting machines in Philadelphia before the poll workers arrived in the morning. But I can't find any stories about it online. Does anyone have any more information on this?
Hey now! Don't you know this is Slashdot? You're not supposed to ruin a paranoid conspiracy theory with something as inconsequential as the facts!
The court is absolutely right on this one. Paper ballots are a formula for disaster. And that disaster has happened in every single election in the history of the world. It's insane to think that paper ballots are a safe choice when they have never, not once, been used in an election that didn't turn out to be a horrific tragedy for the human race. Hitler was elected with paper ballots. I rest my case.
This one I find interesting because the two sides are not only equal, but anagrams of each other when spelled out in English:
11 + 2 = 12 + 1
ELEVEN + TWO = TWELVE + ONE
What an idiot officer. You don't get to make a "political message" by defacing others' property. How the heck did he get to be an enforcer of laws he doesn't even understand?
In that case, I guess I need to stockpile some assault rifles.
[... really long answer to Question 2 ...] The fact that we are having a discussion like this one on a forum such as Slashdot is Exhibit A.
Wow, a 2820-word answer ending with the word "A". Neal Stephenson is the master.
Time for the obligatory Simpsons quote from Treehouse of Horror VII:
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles! [audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
Man2: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away!
If you look closely it actually appears that Han and Greedy (err, Lucas) win the award almost simultaneously.
I just installed this "sh" thing in /bin, and now all my shell scripts run with 3D shading! This rules!!
"Upgrade" from Unix to Windows, eh. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
That's weird... I went out and bought a DVD writer so that I could play the Sims 2 DVD edition (oh yeah, and my wife wanted it for making DVDs too). The DVD drive came with a bunch of Nero programs for creating DVDs, which I installed. Then I installed Sims 2 with no problems. I wonder why I didn't see this issue?
I agree. Believe it or not, it actually drove me to switch to Opera. I have come to love the way you can list your tabs in a tree view in Opera instead of in a tab bar along the top. I usually browse with 20-30 tabs open at a time. Alas, there seem to be some problems using Opera as well... Gmail doesn't work, no client-side XSLT, etc. So I'm looking at returning to Firefox. But there's no way I'll be installing Tabbrowser Extensions again. For me, it just hasn't been worth the trouble.
I have no stack. What? Where was I...
Dear Mr. Lucas,
Please stop screwing around with these nearly 30-year old movies. All you're doing is pissing off what few fans you have left, and making yourself look like an indecisive jerk having a mid-life crisis. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Me
I think Godwin's Law may be applicable here. :-)
Seriously though, since I've never been entirely clear exactly how electors are chosen, I just became interested enough to look it up. Interesting that we as common voters are not casting our votes for president and vice president. We are casting them for electors. And the ballot has choices between "Electors for X" and "Electors for Y", whose names have been submitted by the various political parties.
It is the electors' prerogative to vote their consciences. At the same time, if Mayor Robb was chosen as a Bush elector by the Republican Party, I assume it was with the understanding that he would vote for Bush. Either he's changed his mind since becoming an elector, or else he became a Bush elector without ever intending to vote for Bush. Either way, I'm not sure I agree with his decision to go back on the "understood" agreement that he would vote for Bush. But it is his decision.
Actually, I like the way Maine and Nebraska choose their electors. Instead of each party choosing a slate of electors that everyone in the state votes for, there are two statewide electors plus one elector chosen from each Congressional district. I think the electors would be much more representative of the overall will of the people if they were chosen this way, instead of on a statewide basis.