If we were a true democracy, Al Gore would have won the presidential election two months ago. After all, he did get the "mob rule" popular vote.
Actually that is a press propagated misconception. (The press in this country, as a generalized observation, needs a few years of remedial civics.)
None of this matters a whit, BUT - Gore did not win the popular vote. He won the COUNTED popular vote.
The difference?
In some states, the system is designed only to determined who won the most votes in each state, not to determine a reasonably complete and accurate tally of the votes cast for each candidate in that state (and no, these are not the same thing)
In every election absentee/mail-in votes are not counted if they cannot make a difference to the outcome in a particular state. If we did the "mob rule" thing, these votes would have to be counted since they would apply to a general vote count.
Historically these votes strongly favor the Republican candidate and there were millions of them. Sucky-demopublican-Gore's popular vote lead is small in relation to the amount of votes Sucky-republicrat-Bush would gain in a popular vote count.
FWIW - all else being equal, if we had done a popular vote, it is almost certain Sucky-republicrat-Bush would have won that also, and more handily.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The major problem is that the Framers felt it necessary to justify this amendment, so they built it in. The worst problem with this was their choice of wording with "well-regulated."
A poor choice in current context, but it is hard to anticipate language drift. A more accurate reading of 'well regulated' at the time would be well trained, equipped, effective.
Billy the Kid's gang was called 'The Regulators', and there's at least one cowboy-action shooting club that uses the name also in historical context.
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Until it can survive being slashdotted, that is.
BottomQuark is a nice quiet little slash site that posts a lot of interesting science articles (/., BQ, and Kuro5hin are my news sites). BQ went down recently (funding) but came back up when someone in the readership took over hosting (mention was made of a cable-modem, which certainly couldn't stand up to being/.ed if that's the case)
It's actually funny to watch, there's some folks that snag the articles from BQ each day and submit them here.
As technology has become increasingly pervasive in our lives, it is now necessary to apply for a IPv6 address as well as a social security number. Your newly born child's IPv6 address
will never be used to track or collect data, nor should it be used for identification purposes. The IPv6 address is there only to guarantee access to the Internet at large.
That sounds like it was lifted from the back of my original (U.S.A.) Social-Security card.
I guess if enough people contest your journalistic integrety, you'll call it 'further research' and edit your article:-P
BugTraq keeps these statistics on 22 different operating systems, from the mainstream Windows NT to various exotic flavors of Unix. Given that Microsoft's product is the runaway market leader, it is not surprising that it leads in vulnerabilities: In 1999, the year it took over the server market in earnest, Windows NT totaled 99 new vulnerabilities on the BugTraq list. (So far in 2000, the count stands at 37.) This looks like an alarmingly high number in comparison with Solaris' 34 or NetBSD's 10, but it is scarcely more than the 84 racked up by Red Hat and the other Linuxes (their 2000 count stands at 30). And the NT number is inflated by BugTraq's inclusion of IE vulnerabilities, since it considers IE part of the operating system.
[Please note: Upon further research, I realized that my original numbers were a bit off. The numbers above are new and revised. Fred Moody, 8/4/00.]
True...but assuming they confiscated his computer (certain) and he's brain dead enough not to have covered his tracks (possible, but I would assume a high paranoia level) and they've got someone able to do descent computer forensics (possible) they may be able to nail him anyway.
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Actually that is a press propagated misconception. (The press in this country, as a generalized observation, needs a few years of remedial civics.)
None of this matters a whit, BUT - Gore did not win the popular vote. He won the COUNTED popular vote.
The difference?
In some states, the system is designed only to determined who won the most votes in each state, not to determine a reasonably complete and accurate tally of the votes cast for each candidate in that state (and no, these are not the same thing)
In every election absentee/mail-in votes are not counted if they cannot make a difference to the outcome in a particular state. If we did the "mob rule" thing, these votes would have to be counted since they would apply to a general vote count.
Historically these votes strongly favor the Republican candidate and there were millions of them. Sucky-demopublican-Gore's popular vote lead is small in relation to the amount of votes Sucky-republicrat-Bush would gain in a popular vote count.
FWIW - all else being equal, if we had done a popular vote, it is almost certain Sucky-republicrat-Bush would have won that also, and more handily.
So you are saying that God == Christian?
Man, you're gonna be popular...
A poor choice in current context, but it is hard to anticipate language drift. A more accurate reading of 'well regulated' at the time would be well trained, equipped, effective.
Billy the Kid's gang was called 'The Regulators', and there's at least one cowboy-action shooting club that uses the name also in historical context.
BottomQuark is a nice quiet little slash site that posts a lot of interesting science articles (/., BQ, and Kuro5hin are my news sites). BQ went down recently (funding) but came back up when someone in the readership took over hosting (mention was made of a cable-modem, which certainly couldn't stand up to being
It's actually funny to watch, there's some folks that snag the articles from BQ each day and submit them here.
Something about that phrase in a CPU article just worries me...
I wonder if it will like Costarican coffee?
Notice they don't say that anymore?
:-(
Get a new one and check it out
That sounds like it was lifted from the back of my original (U.S.A.) Social-Security card.
We all know how long THAT promise lasted...
Intel releases complete IA64 specs to the open-source community.
Microsoft starts developing chips.
Who woulda thunk it?
The suspicious man wonders where they got the data distributed.net is currently trying to crack...
True...but assuming they confiscated his computer (certain) and he's brain dead enough not to have covered his tracks (possible, but I would assume a high paranoia level) and they've got someone able to do descent computer forensics (possible) they may be able to nail him anyway.
A 30 year old writing macro viruses.
So much for the 'adolescents' image of virus writers.
I hope hang this guy out to dry (if he did actually do it of course...)