Just for reference, there is about 5 pounds of carbon in a gallon of gasoline. A whole lot of books amounts to sinking about 1 tank (100 lbs of carbon!) of gasoline. Or maybe 5 tanks if you really have books.
I grew up about 5 or 6 miles from a paper mill. It was pretty much the industrial base of the local community, situated about 2 or 3 miles from the town. We rarely smelled it, but a big part of that was that it was downwind during prevailing weather conditions. My impression was that it also added a great deal of scrubbing and whatnot when I was about 4, so it was much better as I was growing up than it had been.
People weren't real excited to eat fish that came out of the river it was on, but there were fish in the river.
It isn't that it is free of effects, it is that the effects are due to production of enormous amounts of paper. The environmental harm contained in 1 book (and thus in the several dozen that most people carry around) is very small.
How does a paper trail impact anonymity? Just have the machine spit out a piece of paper (call it a 'ballot'), have the voter inspect the paper to ensure that it matches their intent, and then have them place it in a box with the rest of the ballots. With a little attention to that last step, there aren't any anonymity problems (save that it is still possible to see how a precinct voted in aggregate).
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It all started when some guy rubbed some sticks together or carried away some of the remains of a lightning fire. Later, someone found some metal. Much later, organic chemistry was born.
Google is an advertising company. They might make a little money providing search, but they make most of their money selling advertising (which is why the spend so much time developing products that people will want to use, it gets them eyeballs).
How do you reconcile that view with the apparent relative success of Obama on the ground? My understanding is that his volunteers were a good deal more effective than Clinton's, which doesn't jibe with what you are saying, at all.
It all goes in a big cycle. If networking were truly ubiquitous and fast, and your cellphone or credit card was a powerful computer and reliable authentication device that could inspect a display for eavesdropping devices and so forth, you would happily run all your applications, everything, over the network, simply for the convenience of never losing any data.
Since they aren't, we carry bigger devices around and do a poor job securing them, but we live with it, because it makes the most sense given current network costs, hardware costs and hardware capabilities. When network costs, hardware costs and hardware capabilities change, people change their behavior in response to the new situation.
If he had polio, he would not be the Republican nominee.
It all depends on if the picture of his apparent health is being painted, or if he really is an energetic 71 years old. If he truly is a tired old man, it will leak into the campaign, and people will vote against him because of it (regardless of whether it should influence them or not).
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Cut the cord man!
Where am I? Where's my mop?
Just for reference, there is about 5 pounds of carbon in a gallon of gasoline. A whole lot of books amounts to sinking about 1 tank (100 lbs of carbon!) of gasoline. Or maybe 5 tanks if you really have books.
Look at it this way, did Cheney shoot his friend in the face because he was pissed off at him, or because he is a buffoon?
I grew up about 5 or 6 miles from a paper mill. It was pretty much the industrial base of the local community, situated about 2 or 3 miles from the town. We rarely smelled it, but a big part of that was that it was downwind during prevailing weather conditions. My impression was that it also added a great deal of scrubbing and whatnot when I was about 4, so it was much better as I was growing up than it had been.
People weren't real excited to eat fish that came out of the river it was on, but there were fish in the river.
It isn't that it is free of effects, it is that the effects are due to production of enormous amounts of paper. The environmental harm contained in 1 book (and thus in the several dozen that most people carry around) is very small.
Pulp wood is a well managed resource. There is plenty of paper, the only (slight) downside is the energy consumed in its production.
I realize you are joking, but that is just the sort of theory that gives them an awful lot of credit.
Have you made a cell phone vanish in a puff of logic yet?
Alltel is CDMA.
The machine can still keep track of the votes, and output 'fast' totals. Also, there might be accessibility benefits to electronic voting.
My district uses scantron, which I am perfectly happy with, I hope they don't waste money changing it.
How does a paper trail impact anonymity? Just have the machine spit out a piece of paper (call it a 'ballot'), have the voter inspect the paper to ensure that it matches their intent, and then have them place it in a box with the rest of the ballots. With a little attention to that last step, there aren't any anonymity problems (save that it is still possible to see how a precinct voted in aggregate).
mplayer and VLC both work just fine on windows. There is even a wrapper available to inject the FFMPEG codecs into the windows codec system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffdshow
The one with less integrity?
People are much more average than you seem to think.
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It all started when some guy rubbed some sticks together or carried away some of the remains of a lightning fire. Later, someone found some metal. Much later, organic chemistry was born.
Fuck you.
Google is an advertising company. They might make a little money providing search, but they make most of their money selling advertising (which is why the spend so much time developing products that people will want to use, it gets them eyeballs).
Oh boo hoo.
If I made even 1 minute of your day worse, you need to take me a lot less seriously.
How do you reconcile that view with the apparent relative success of Obama on the ground? My understanding is that his volunteers were a good deal more effective than Clinton's, which doesn't jibe with what you are saying, at all.
The question is, do you disenfranchise the people who showed up at the polls, or do you disenfranchise the people who didn't show up at the polls?
Michigan, at least, didn't even have anyone other than Hillary on the ballot.
It all goes in a big cycle. If networking were truly ubiquitous and fast, and your cellphone or credit card was a powerful computer and reliable authentication device that could inspect a display for eavesdropping devices and so forth, you would happily run all your applications, everything, over the network, simply for the convenience of never losing any data.
Since they aren't, we carry bigger devices around and do a poor job securing them, but we live with it, because it makes the most sense given current network costs, hardware costs and hardware capabilities. When network costs, hardware costs and hardware capabilities change, people change their behavior in response to the new situation.
If he had polio, he would not be the Republican nominee.
It all depends on if the picture of his apparent health is being painted, or if he really is an energetic 71 years old. If he truly is a tired old man, it will leak into the campaign, and people will vote against him because of it (regardless of whether it should influence them or not).
What math classes did you take?
Where's the fun in that?