IIRC there's one in the works but it'll be awhile before it's ready. The reason one didn't get out there earlier is that anything carrying the Star Trek label needs licensing through Paramount.
Counterintuitive and contradictive maybe, but not mutually exclusive. This is not a system that will be fixed by revolution soon. The solution will have to be evolutionary.
The party system is inherently flawed, yes, but it's not going away tomorrow. You can do a lot more to fix it from the inside if you stick to principles.
Generally in MLB, the players union controls licensing of player names, including for video games. Since Barry Bonds pulled out of the union to have control of his own licensing, video games have replaced him with fictional versions. Other players (like Kerry Lightenberg, formerly of the Braves) have long been replaced with fictional versions in video games because they were banned from the union. (Lightenberg and others crossed the picket line during the '94 strike, thus the ban.)
Most voters who say that are eligible to run for at least some office, too. Even if you can't run, you can still get involved in the local party organizations to have more direct voice in who runs and what policies they follow.
You shall not make for yourself a priority in the form of monopoly or world domination. You shall not seek them; for I, the paying customer, am a demanding customer, punishing the bottom line for the sin of management to the third and fourth product lines of those who are greedy, but showing love to a thousand product lines of those who love me and keep my commandments.
You shall not lock-in the customer, for the customer will not hold anyone guiltless who locks him in.
Remember the law by keeping it holy. Within the law you shall labor and do all your work, but outside the law you shall do no business. Outside the law you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your employee, nor your contractor, nor your family. For the customer is a citizen who has taken part in creating and maintaing the law, but he despises criminals. Therefore the customer blessed the law and made it holy.
Honor the open standards, so that you may live long in the profits the customer is giving you.
You shall not make buggy, insecure, or generally bad products.
You shall not conspire with or attack other businesses.
You shall not steal.
You shall not deceive anyone.
You shall not covet the paying customer's remaining cash. You shall not overcharge him, obsolete his product, break his systems, or covet anything that belongs to your paying customer.
Do to others as you would have them do to you, for this sums up my commandments.
Do we not have the responsibility to clean up the mess that we started by supporting dictators who wouldn't otherwise be in power? To fix our meddling?
Not necessarily by war - I do think the Iraq War was rashly done - but we do have considerable diplomatic clout in a number of these countries. We do provide support that maintains the status quo.
Many of these peoples WANT democracy. And even if they don't, at least giving them a chance for democracy gives them a chance to choose the system they do want and not just what's imposed by those who currently have the guns.
Pakistan was a democracy quite recently. We're supporting Musharraf after he deposed their president, when we should be pushing him to follow their constitution. We only support him because its convenient for the war on terror. Meanwhile Musharraf has little or no control of tribal areas that are breeding the very terrorism we fight, breeding it partially because Musharraf is a not-so-popular dictator.
Mubarak still leads Egypt partly because we've allied with him, provided him financial and military assistance, while he jails peaceful democratic activists.
Those are just 2 cases where we currently meddle AND there's known public support for democracy. There are plenty more. Don't you think we should fix that?
Marriage can still be a legally binding institution. Let the religious institutions write up contracts that abide by their beliefs. The couple can choose their church and their marriage contract. That way, if the Catholics don't want to allow divorce or whatever, they simply write it into the contracts. You can even specify the church as arbiter in the contract and let them handle things like divorce hearings. The law becomes more flexible to serve the diverse religious needs of the people.
We're not just talking about people "not answering their landline," we're talking about people who don't even have landlines. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence (from multiple sources) that this is common with the younger generation as the economics begin to tilt towards cell phones, and that demographic historically leans left. Maybe it's a large enough group to swing a crucial swing state like Florida, but I'm not so sure.
Also there's a widely-accepted historical trend to these polls underrepresenting the poor, who also lean left.
Kids tend to be influenced by their parents, and that's why they make a reasonable predictor. But look at the way the election's divided, with one candidate very loudly proclaiming himself as the family values candidate. Even in my very conservative state, I'm seeing a bigger division between parents and non-parents politically this election.
The grandparent post does seem to be looking too locally at the political winds. I don't need a poll to tell you Bush has a ton of support in the South and Midwest.
If the debate were allowed to pass without a decision, wouldn't the Libertarians lose standing to bring the suit, or something? This doesn't seem to be a case where you can simply compensate the Libertarians financially after the fact.
I wonder why? Maybe partially because Bush's grandfather was also Nixon's political mentor? People tend to forget that the Bush political and defense industry connections date back to WWI.
When a disputed election involving millions of voters comes down to 500 votes (officially), we can hypothesize that either there wasn't a sufficiently large number of people to drown out shortsightedness and bias or that the candidates were so similar that they were equally reasonable choices. Now for the follow-up election we're talking about having the number of voters reduced. Does that really inspire hope of having a clear vote?
But that would depend on a balance between the speed with which the heat transfer and "freezing" occur and the depth of the barrier. Most likely the material isn't efficient enough to do this within a practical size. Only a few materials like Kevlar can dissipate that energy quick enough to make a practical bullet-proof material.
IRV is an interesting solution, but for simplicity within the American system it may be easier to do a combined primary (rather than Democrat, Republican, etc.) with the top 2 vote-getters advancing to the November election. Maybe not quite as fair, but it's a less dramatic overhaul, simpler to understand, and very easy to implement within the existing system.
Proportional representation sucks. You're basically voting for a political party rather than a person, and then depending on that party to enforce rigid party discipline to keep that person in line when he and not the party is actually serving you. And still the party can buck it's platform. If we're going to go with that non-sense, we might as well throw people out of the governing process and vote strictly for a platform and have decisions automated based on that.
The American system in particular is known historically for loose party discipline. That works. You could have southerners vote Democrat in a congressional election and get a more conservative Democratic representative than they would be getting if they were voting Democrat in California, and they knew what they were getting because they knew what the people ran for, when they were and weren't likely to toe the party line. But party discipline has been tightening in Congress since the '70s or '80s, and it's contributing to polarizing the country.
See if I'm understanding this right.... A blackhole is the cosmic equivalent of a blender and pressure cooker, and the contents are way overcooked? The composition has to be the same, but the form is completely changed? Or is he saying we may eventually be able to determine the original form as well?
If there is any weakness in this setup, it's probably in WPA-PSK. It's intended more for home use than for corporate WLANs. If the PSK password gets compromised, you could be in for trouble. Of course if the password is strong, the only attack I know of is to get physical access to one of the wireless nodes. I'm not all that familiar with the new protocals; the attacker may still have to find a way past AES to make use of the compromised PSK.
To be more accurate, JPEG2000 can be used losslessly, but unless you're using the progressive streaming capability there's little point in choosing it for lossless applications.
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1. Patent blatantly obvious anything.
2. ??
3. Profit!
As a non-technological business process.
And if I get a favorable examiner, maybe I can patent 2+2=4.
...And just after I posted, I saw this: http://www.trektoday.com/news/050305_01.shtml. A year away.
IIRC there's one in the works but it'll be awhile before it's ready. The reason one didn't get out there earlier is that anything carrying the Star Trek label needs licensing through Paramount.
Counterintuitive and contradictive maybe, but not mutually exclusive. This is not a system that will be fixed by revolution soon. The solution will have to be evolutionary.
...if the game imports the latest stats database. Too bad the big companies believe in built-in obsolesence.
The party system is inherently flawed, yes, but it's not going away tomorrow. You can do a lot more to fix it from the inside if you stick to principles.
Generally in MLB, the players union controls licensing of player names, including for video games. Since Barry Bonds pulled out of the union to have control of his own licensing, video games have replaced him with fictional versions. Other players (like Kerry Lightenberg, formerly of the Braves) have long been replaced with fictional versions in video games because they were banned from the union. (Lightenberg and others crossed the picket line during the '94 strike, thus the ban.)
Most voters who say that are eligible to run for at least some office, too. Even if you can't run, you can still get involved in the local party organizations to have more direct voice in who runs and what policies they follow.
I am the paying customer who has made you rich.
You shall have no other priorities before me.
You shall not make for yourself a priority in the form of monopoly or world domination. You shall not seek them; for I, the paying customer, am a demanding customer, punishing the bottom line for the sin of management to the third and fourth product lines of those who are greedy, but showing love to a thousand product lines of those who love me and keep my commandments.
You shall not lock-in the customer, for the customer will not hold anyone guiltless who locks him in.
Remember the law by keeping it holy. Within the law you shall labor and do all your work, but outside the law you shall do no business. Outside the law you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your employee, nor your contractor, nor your family. For the customer is a citizen who has taken part in creating and maintaing the law, but he despises criminals. Therefore the customer blessed the law and made it holy.
Honor the open standards, so that you may live long in the profits the customer is giving you.
You shall not make buggy, insecure, or generally bad products.
You shall not conspire with or attack other businesses.
You shall not steal.
You shall not deceive anyone.
You shall not covet the paying customer's remaining cash. You shall not overcharge him, obsolete his product, break his systems, or covet anything that belongs to your paying customer.
Do to others as you would have them do to you, for this sums up my commandments.
Do we not have the responsibility to clean up the mess that we started by supporting dictators who wouldn't otherwise be in power? To fix our meddling?
Not necessarily by war - I do think the Iraq War was rashly done - but we do have considerable diplomatic clout in a number of these countries. We do provide support that maintains the status quo.
Many of these peoples WANT democracy. And even if they don't, at least giving them a chance for democracy gives them a chance to choose the system they do want and not just what's imposed by those who currently have the guns.
Pakistan was a democracy quite recently. We're supporting Musharraf after he deposed their president, when we should be pushing him to follow their constitution. We only support him because its convenient for the war on terror. Meanwhile Musharraf has little or no control of tribal areas that are breeding the very terrorism we fight, breeding it partially because Musharraf is a not-so-popular dictator.
Mubarak still leads Egypt partly because we've allied with him, provided him financial and military assistance, while he jails peaceful democratic activists.
Those are just 2 cases where we currently meddle AND there's known public support for democracy. There are plenty more. Don't you think we should fix that?
Marriage can still be a legally binding institution. Let the religious institutions write up contracts that abide by their beliefs. The couple can choose their church and their marriage contract. That way, if the Catholics don't want to allow divorce or whatever, they simply write it into the contracts. You can even specify the church as arbiter in the contract and let them handle things like divorce hearings. The law becomes more flexible to serve the diverse religious needs of the people.
We're not just talking about people "not answering their landline," we're talking about people who don't even have landlines. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence (from multiple sources) that this is common with the younger generation as the economics begin to tilt towards cell phones, and that demographic historically leans left. Maybe it's a large enough group to swing a crucial swing state like Florida, but I'm not so sure.
Also there's a widely-accepted historical trend to these polls underrepresenting the poor, who also lean left.
Kids tend to be influenced by their parents, and that's why they make a reasonable predictor. But look at the way the election's divided, with one candidate very loudly proclaiming himself as the family values candidate. Even in my very conservative state, I'm seeing a bigger division between parents and non-parents politically this election.
The grandparent post does seem to be looking too locally at the political winds. I don't need a poll to tell you Bush has a ton of support in the South and Midwest.
I'm still waiting for Windows on x86 to have full efficiency.
If the debate were allowed to pass without a decision, wouldn't the Libertarians lose standing to bring the suit, or something? This doesn't seem to be a case where you can simply compensate the Libertarians financially after the fact.
I wonder why? Maybe partially because Bush's grandfather was also Nixon's political mentor? People tend to forget that the Bush political and defense industry connections date back to WWI.
When a disputed election involving millions of voters comes down to 500 votes (officially), we can hypothesize that either there wasn't a sufficiently large number of people to drown out shortsightedness and bias or that the candidates were so similar that they were equally reasonable choices. Now for the follow-up election we're talking about having the number of voters reduced. Does that really inspire hope of having a clear vote?
They should have been paying more attention on the quality of the movies themselves! As in story and acting and DIRECTING!
They didn't have time to get past worrying about whether the Wookie should have pants on.
But that would depend on a balance between the speed with which the heat transfer and "freezing" occur and the depth of the barrier. Most likely the material isn't efficient enough to do this within a practical size. Only a few materials like Kevlar can dissipate that energy quick enough to make a practical bullet-proof material.
IRV is an interesting solution, but for simplicity within the American system it may be easier to do a combined primary (rather than Democrat, Republican, etc.) with the top 2 vote-getters advancing to the November election. Maybe not quite as fair, but it's a less dramatic overhaul, simpler to understand, and very easy to implement within the existing system.
Proportional representation sucks. You're basically voting for a political party rather than a person, and then depending on that party to enforce rigid party discipline to keep that person in line when he and not the party is actually serving you. And still the party can buck it's platform. If we're going to go with that non-sense, we might as well throw people out of the governing process and vote strictly for a platform and have decisions automated based on that.
The American system in particular is known historically for loose party discipline. That works. You could have southerners vote Democrat in a congressional election and get a more conservative Democratic representative than they would be getting if they were voting Democrat in California, and they knew what they were getting because they knew what the people ran for, when they were and weren't likely to toe the party line. But party discipline has been tightening in Congress since the '70s or '80s, and it's contributing to polarizing the country.
In other news, all public election officials are being rounded up by the Bush campaign and taken to New York for a week.
See if I'm understanding this right.... A blackhole is the cosmic equivalent of a blender and pressure cooker, and the contents are way overcooked? The composition has to be the same, but the form is completely changed? Or is he saying we may eventually be able to determine the original form as well?
Your job has probably reappeared unrecognizable, mangled by an Indian accent.
It could just as easily be a button under a plastic cover (similar to some fire alarms).
If there is any weakness in this setup, it's probably in WPA-PSK. It's intended more for home use than for corporate WLANs. If the PSK password gets compromised, you could be in for trouble. Of course if the password is strong, the only attack I know of is to get physical access to one of the wireless nodes. I'm not all that familiar with the new protocals; the attacker may still have to find a way past AES to make use of the compromised PSK.
To be more accurate, JPEG2000 can be used losslessly, but unless you're using the progressive streaming capability there's little point in choosing it for lossless applications.