But it was always my understanding that longer journeys are more fuel efficient than shorter ones.
Longer journeys at highway speeds are more fuel efficient in terms of MPG, yes, but if I'm only driving one mile to my destination instead of fifteen, I'm still going to burn less fuel.
What is the trade-off on speed/functionality with virtualization/WINE-based?
If you need raw performance and don't need to run Mac OS X applications at the same time, Boot Camp is your solution.
If you need acceptable performance and need to run Mac OS X applications at the same time, use Parallels.
If you're too fucking tight to buy a copy of Windows after having purchased VS2003 already, then Crossover might work for you, but I really wouldn't do any software development under it.
Other than this idiot with his blog. Who would really want to?
I prefer Mac OS X for most things, but I pay the bills with.NET. Only now with Parallels and/or Boot Camp do I not have to have multiple computers to accomplish both tasks.
Primary elections for congress are combined with local elections. Thus, I'm voting for a party's representative for congress and electing a mayor at the same time.
A primary election and a general election should not be on the same ballot; there should be two ballots.
Yes. Maine doesn't have open primaries, so I didn't think of that.
That restriction on open primary ballots, however, is not at all a sinister contrivance meant to oppress "third" parties. It's meant to help prevent gaming the system even more than it can be gamed already.
You'll never ever ever see such wording on a general election ballot.
In primary elections you cannot split your vote for partisan races, that is voting for one party and then voting for another party in another race. Doing so will void your vote for all the partisan races.
Primary elections are to choose a party's nominee for the general election, you dumb piece of shit. You shouldn't be allowed to select more than one party's nominees.
The last time I voted it said right at the top of the ballot that if I voted for candidates from multiple parties, my ballot would be invalid and discarded. That means I could vote for the the better of two candidates for congress (democrat), or I could vote for the libertarian candidate for mayor, but not both.
The American people have determined that they are not interested in liberty, nor even particularly in the constitution; they want a mommy government that controls everything they do without thoughtful guiding principle, underlying legitimate constitutional authority, or any semblance of honor. And that is exactly what they have received. Unfortunately, that means I have received it as well.
What's your solution?
Plato's philosopher-kings?
Libertarians do an awful good job explicating the problem but an incredibly piss-poor job coming up with any viable solutions that don't involve stripping away anybody else's right to have a say in government.
So if a person with empathy had a terminally ill spouse undergoing tremendous pain before they died, would they pull the plug on the life support system ?
It would be an empathetic thing to do. In the US, it would also constitute murder.
Hey, now.
Discontinuing life support (artificial respiration, feeding tube, etc.) is legal.
What's illegal is actively causing somebody else's death.
I think based on the numbers I can safely assert that our nation's leaders have put this country on a war footing but are not going out on a limb with their own children.
Probably because parents can't compel their children to enter the military.
because we all know how unbiased and meticulous the press is.
How do you know it was actually democrats who were opposing him.. is this like the "democrats" who screwed up the response to katrina.. you know.. the democratic governor who was somehow magically in charge of fema..
Are you fucking retarded? Or do you really think that the Washington Post is world-famous for its hit-and-run conservative journalism? Some highlights:
A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November election.
"When in doubt, go paper, go low-tech," he said.
Linda H. Lamone, the administrator of the Maryland State Board of Elections, quickly denounced the plan to swap voting systems just seven weeks before the general election as "crazy." And Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) said it "cannot happen. It will not happen."
Ehrlich said that, if necessary, he would call a special session of the Maryland General Assembly to change the law to allow paper ballots. But Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel) dismissed the idea of a special session, saying elections officials should focus instead on fixing the current system.
"We paid millions. These are state-of-the-art machines," said Miller, who called Ehrlich's announcement a political ploy to energize his Republican supporters.
Yeah, sounds like that's some pretty shoddy reporting there.
Unfortunately, politics in the United States have become so very partisan that most open discussion of this sort will devolve quickly into shouting matches between kneejerk liberals and dittoheads.
Shut the fuck up, you America-hating, shiteating, cocksucking sack of whoremongery.
Since when did the law in your state say paper ballots were no longer allowed. You'd think that change would have made it on slashdot when it happened because it's pretty outrageous.
Well, Mr. Wizzerd, maybe you'd like to make like Tom Cruise and do some research?
Scroll down to the bottom section titled "Voting System Selection and Procurement"
It says, in part:
After the 2000 Presidential Election, Governor Parris N. Glendening established a Special Committee on Voting Systems and Election Procedures to review Maryland's election policies and procedures. In its report, the Special Committee recommended, among other things, that the State implement a statewide, uniform voting system for polling place voting and a statewide, uniform voting system for absentee voting. In response to this recommendation, the General Assembly passed legislation requiring the State Board of Elections, in consultation with the local boards of election, to select a statewide, uniform voting system for polling place voting and for absentee voting. See House Bill 1457 of the 2001 Legislative Session.
Once the bill became effective, the State Board selected a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting system for polling place voting and an optical scan voting system for absentee voting. A DRE voting system was selected because of the many advantages that it offers over other voting systems.
Slashdot Mirror
If you need acceptable performance and need to run Mac OS X applications at the same time, use Parallels.
If you're too fucking tight to buy a copy of Windows after having purchased VS2003 already, then Crossover might work for you, but I really wouldn't do any software development under it.
1) Monodevelop is a pile of shit right now.
2) Running said pile of shit inside X11 isn't a "solution."
Do you actually develop
No wonder you're such a goddamned retard.
Call Michigan's Secretary of State's office.
Yes. Maine doesn't have open primaries, so I didn't think of that.
That restriction on open primary ballots, however, is not at all a sinister contrivance meant to oppress "third" parties. It's meant to help prevent gaming the system even more than it can be gamed already.
You'll never ever ever see such wording on a general election ballot.
You can get 1TB of disk for $300, cap'n.
Prove it.
Plato's philosopher-kings?
Libertarians do an awful good job explicating the problem but an incredibly piss-poor job coming up with any viable solutions that don't involve stripping away anybody else's right to have a say in government.
Discontinuing life support (artificial respiration, feeding tube, etc.) is legal.
What's illegal is actively causing somebody else's death.
But I bet the US Postal Inspectors would be more than happy to intercept any check any offshore Internet casino might send you.
Another free shirt?
Pass.
Yeah, sounds like that's some pretty shoddy reporting there.
Dipshit.
DC does, however, have three electoral votes.
Same thing with Tim Busfield and Matt Perry.
http://www.elections.state.md.us/citizens/voting_
Scroll down to the bottom section titled "Voting System Selection and Procurement"
It says, in part: