Paper ballots got us grief in Florida and in other areas in 2000. Do we really want to go through that tripe again? How many years have passed and people still speak of conspiracy and fraud?
The fact is we need electronic voting. We need an absolute. Electronic voting can get us this but only if done right. Paper and OCR leave doubt, look at how many ways people of one party or another tried to "interpret what a voter really meant" Come on, how can we justify paper when you have government assigned persons deciding votes on a whim?
Provide a paper trail. Put the requirements to the same restrictions we put on commercial machines used for money transactions and record keeping. Why isn't that done now? Simple, this is government. There are rules for the public (and corporations) and then there is government.
While we cannot hold the voting machine companies blameless we must realize that the real blame are the politicians who are still attempting to "game" the system. They don't want a straight up honest system because they want to be able to cast doubt into any election that doesn't go their way.
No, the real problem with voting is that its all manipulated by TWO parties who in no way want the balance of power shifted. By that I mean they want no competition, they want no accountability. They simply want strife at varying levels so they can FUD their way into permanent office.
because as a world there is enough wealth to end hunger.
Yet we don't because it is not so PC to remove the many reasons for that hunger. We also do not have the stomach for it (no pun intended) because it would cost us lives to remove the leadership that routinely starves their own populations.
India is coming forward rapidly, by advancing space science they advance all their sciences. They also give their people something to strive for - something they can show children that India is and what they can become. Let alone the fact that satellites provide better weather monitoring , can track crops and movement of animals. The possibilities of helping their own are a hundredfold, let alone what they can do for others.
Oh, before you troll India again I must ask, did you buy food out this week? If so, why? There are lots of poor people who could have used it in rice to feed a family... so why didn't you help? Oh, yeah, thats because its easier to be a forum troll and blame others for not doing instead of doing yourself.
North Carolina will probably hunt you down and charge you with tax evasion. They did it in 2007 for a guy buying vegetable oil and converting it to biodiesel.
hell they have been known to test fuel at events, to see if people are using fuel they don't like. They check NC registered trucks to make sure they don't buy fuel over the border.
you think that they just won't slap a silly tax on the sugar?
The one thing people keep ignoring as cars become more efficient are tax addicted governments are going to have to raise them to make up for the losses because of our efficiency and if we circumvent the whole tax strategy they have they will simply make a new one
to your personal freedom because regardless of what a law says today it can become a whole different thing tomorrow. Suddenly all that information on you that was supposed secure is now available to parties who have a need to know, all in the vein of "its for the children", "terrorist are lurking", "for increased safety"... and so on.
Never believe anything in the government vaults is safe because leaders change and so do laws
Politicians love to say one thing and then pay for another.
Voting is important, the security of the vote is important, unless that money can be used to buy votes elsewhere. It also becomes a great issue to underfund so when a politician loses they can blame voting machines for it because no one wants to admit they lost a popularity contest
here is substantial indoctrination i.e. any mention of helping others gets you labelled a 'socialist' or a 'commie'.
What is it with people like you? The problem isn't helping others, Americans donate more per capita than most other peoples - and conservatives even more so than "liberals" which I am assuming you are referring to as being targeted for the "socialist/commie" label.
If your willing to help people that is fine, it is what makes America great. Many of us pour money into charities daily, charities of our choice.
YOU ARE NOT GIVING IF IT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY
Clear? I am quite happy you want to give and that others do to. Just do it with your own money. you have NO RIGHT to my property and using the government to force me to give up my property so you can feel good about yourself is wholly against what this country was founded upon. Amazing how some of the very same people here will come crying over the Patriot act then turn around and lambaste people for wanting to maintain their property rights.
You are a socialist if your plan for making your fellow man better off means taking from others to do so, especially if you buy into this idea of taking more from others simply because they earn more. Your also a selfish bastard too
Thats the problem, I bet I can get as many different answers as people I ask just on/.
Now move this responsibility to government. The problem with government is that while it is formed with the best of intents is that its comprised of people. The problem with people is that they have bias and unfortunately some are more than willing to use the power given to them to show it and even enforce that bias.
To get a wonderful idea, look at the recent raid in Texas of a "cult". Of course those who did the raid like to toss the word around because it has connotations that are not good. The problem is that it all originated from a false accusation yet the government is using its power, no people in the government are using the governments powers, to come up delay justice, look for crime, or coerce people to think a crime has been committed. Hell they have brought in psychological experts to declare just living there was abuse because of the religious beliefs. Does that give you pause? Just because someone thinks its wrong its automatically abuse even though no law was known to be broken they can just dig until they find one?
Want a second example? How about the recent abuses disclosed here about TSA practices that the TSA in Washington disavowed yet had gone on for months? Why did it happen, because no one questions the abuse anymore because they guilt anyone who opposes into adhering
"its for the children", "you want to protect children, right?"
That is the problem I have with governments getting sway over corporations we entrust our information too, whether we do so directly or indirectly. The government has no right to go on a fishing expedition, especially when its most likely at some egotistical power abusive official.
Because if there is one constant I get from/. is how all these people here can do "X" better than someone else and how "Open Source" can do it even better and for free.
When push comes to shove suddenly its "unreasonable" or will result in a crappy product unless lots of money are spent.
Which is it?
I guess some NASA upper crusts bought into all that forum bragging as if it were meaningful.
* Oh, for reference go look up any story here on World of Warcraft or Diablo... I am still waiting for all these "better" games from forum members, now NASA is giving them a shot
Go back and review NASA budgets across the last couple of Administrations.
Tell me what you see.
Here is what I see, a government agency which appeals to geeks who make up a small portion of the overall voter pie. Meaning that Congress has no real reason to fun NASA beyond minimums because it does nothing FOR THEM.
Only Presidents give NASA meaning anymore. No one in Congress champions them unless it benefits their local voters.
To actually believe that Iraq is the reason for NASA consistently getting the short end of the budget stick is to buy into the lies perpetuated by one political party or another.
Simply put, entitlement programs get votes, NASA does not.
Because I can find lots of stories that make me I am glad the crazies here don't express their religion by bombing people... like , in, uh wonderfully enlightened Europe.
Really, do you guys not get the news we do? Burning cars in France, oh I know, the PC word is immigrants. Killing of writers in Europe because they dared to write about someone's god?
What you have here in America is exaggeration. Look at it this way, if its brought up over and over and made to look silly it probably is. The haters need something to jump up and down about to make themselves feel superior and these ID people are a great target. The ID people are not a great percentage, just a convenient target.
It says even more for/. that this qualifies as a story. I guess a few editors need to get their brownie points with the insecure techie crowd... the one that needs to vilify anyone with belief and the willingness to express it. (plus its also good fodder for anti-Bush people who claim some hair brained connection to him however tenous)
mod to me to hell if you like, but it is true that it takes a big does of exaggeration to make ID people out as a representative of America or religious America.
Bring out the haters, this thread should have lots of them.
A lot of the web's content exploits the ability to see. Whole websites are geared to nothing more than pictures and manipulation of them.
How can rules be applied that would not be biased against the content choices of the providers? If a provider wanted to provide full length movies that they did not originate would it fall on them to provide versions that lend themselves to one disability or another or all?
The simple fact is, not all aspects of life are enjoyable by all people. The primary limiting factor is loss or serious reduction of one of the senses, eyesight and hearing are the two primary ones that seriously alter one's methods of participation in the world.
Second, the internet is NOT A RIGHT.
Third, it is not a right to impose on someone your needs. I am so tired of people decrying their right to my stuff or someone else's, to include money, time, and or property. The web isn't a right. As such you cannot impose your problems on people who use it.
I don't think its that Linux isn't ready for the desktop; though I will admit the two I tried were "meh"; its that software developers of popular packages aren't ready for Linux, worse they don't care.
The problem I have with the Linux Desktop is that there is no reason for me to leave my Windows and Mac systems (yes I have both and use them both - even have a Windows Home server built on a refurb dell dual core slim line). The Mac is different enough from Windows that I actually feel I get something out of that. Too many of the distros that I used tried to "ape" Windows only to frustrate me with "well some of it works the same but not this.... or that..."
Really, want desktops, then out of the box turn key / push button / etc install... it connects to the net and gets their mail and browses all through a simple "wizard"... Text editor and spread sheet are easily found. Take the best of OS/X and XP/Vista but make the damn work on first boot - no text files - no download this - etc... sheesh hell I am a geek and I hated the damn hoops... I am one of those types of geeks that if the tech annoys me I just skip it because its not important enough to me to matter. I take things back to stores if they annoy me as anything should be easy and functional out of the box.
figures that they stand the greatest benefit from tax reduction.
The rich can only be abused so much before they stop spending, when they stop spending everyone will be hurt.
I am not one of the evil rich but I want to be there one day. It sickens me to see all the people who think its okay to tax people at higher percentages simply because they make more money. These same jealously driven whiners then toss stupid examples like Paris Hilton while standing around with their friends nodding their heads as if that is the answer to the questions of life.
Progressive tax rates are regressive. They are used to buy off the lower class by taking money from the most productive people to the least productive because the second always is more than first the longer the progressive tax system remains. The whole idea was sold on class jealously and is perpetuated by it.
However we can see shining examples of what happens when you tax people and industry too much, they leave. Look to Michigan, parts of PA and CA for great examples where "the evil rich fled" to avoid paying "their fair share". Buzz phrases for people who are more than willing to use other people's money for programs they like but won't spend their own on.
this brings me back to DNA tracking and all the ranting about it. Why do you all act so aghast about them tracking by DNA for criminals but don't care they take a huge portion of your income directly, some indirectly, and spend it on all sorts of new ways to abuse your rights? Why are these same people screaming to have government pay their healtcare - the big lie - government pays for nothing, it is a tool that is used to force redistribution of money. Would you have the guts to ask someone at work who makes more than you to pay your medical? Would you?
Selfish and lazy. To have the audacity to bitch about rights being lost while preaching to take money away from people who earn it
but conformity in neighborhoods is the rage today unless you can find a good home in a very old one. Basically I might be able to get away with solar panels because my S/SW side is away from the road. A windmill of any sort other than decorative would probably be shot down. It doesn't help that local and state governments aren't writing laws to encourage this type of development. Yet at the same time I understand that windmills are a special breed. I have friends who live near the big ones and they eventually got their house purchased by some agency. It will drive you flipping nuts.
So my questions are, how are these things in reality? Is there a noticeable and constant noise? Are there any actions taking place at the Federal level to encourage their use? Remember satellite dishes? Many localities even banned them until the Feds stepped in. HOAs backed by local enforcement made having the dishes impossible. It may be something that will be required to allow panels on rooftops everywhere. As for windmills, honestly only if they have no noise impact on the environment - the big units do make noise.
Before some twat throws out "thats what you get for living in a McMansion" just take a hike will ya. First the people who toss out terms like this come across as twats because thats what they are. They don't know the poster and don't even know reality. Buying a new home over the last few years made more financial sense than buying a resale. Many builders practically give them away now. The only issue is that most are in new neighborhoods which means you get an HOA with some type of rules that prevent certain oddities from cropping up. This is generally a good thing because it prevents junk cars, chain link fences, and having homes fall apart become the dominating factor the neighborhood. Plus if your smart you buy into a neighborhood without amenities like pools and tennis courts which do cost money.
they conveniently forget about all the life that exists in a desert environment?
There are some unique species, some that can teach us on how to deal with limited resources, but I guess since pictures only show sand and cactus instead of cute little deer its ok to cover them up?
Sorry but you really seem to want us to all chime in and excuse you for your poor judgement, let alone ethical outlook.
You want to know the problem, its called theft. By your example which you tried to use clever words to cover up its pure theft.
"Proper Distribution Channels" - Thats rich.
You are receiving stolen goods, worse you acknowledge they are stolen. You they try to excuse it by tossing all the PC key phrases to assign the guilt back to the party being harmed... as in "using slave labor, low wages, poor living conditions" Yeah I added a few terms but why not, I was expecting them.
Is this how your outlook is? You can excuse bad behavior, lack of ethics and morals, by claiming someone else is worse?
Well to be honest we really don't know exactly what happened. All we can do is throw out ideas and see if they are accepted or proven wrong. No one can stand up in a court of law and declare they know for sure all the variables in this problem. We have a wrecked ship that has fallen apart after nearly a hundred years at the bottom of an ocean. How is that evidence? Sure it might yield some clues but it doesn't tell us how fast the ship was traveling when it hit or how big the iceberg really was let alone its shape and such.
Don't bother trying to blame either the builders or the owners of the ship. If anything it was the industry as a whole and the countries they were based in that all through their actions and inaction lead up to this disaster. Unfortunately this was a disaster that needed to happen in order to effect change. Countries wanted their industry to be the biggest and best and definitely looked the other way.
Just like rules and regulations made going by boat safer the same had to be applied to trains and airplanes. Unfortunately government moves very slowly compared to technology. Now they react a bit faster, look at all the angst people here had at mention of the FAA possibly interfering with Spaceship One and its successors.
Besides, I wonder how long before someone does file suit to reclaim all that money which belongs "rightfully" to someone who isn't alive... but would do wonders for the law firms bottom line. I wonder who will stoop so low as to file it.
level, if you want performance and such you go with the Pro which outside the realm of many of the geeks who "would love to own a Mac" but as geeks go they don't want some non expandable machine that forever traps them into it. Now I finally broke down and bought an iMac, USED off of e-bay thank you. While I like it very much I would also prefer something I could slap more drives in, occasionally boost the video card, and change out the optical drives as technology progresses. External drives don't cut it and even then I got to hope that once they come out I have support for all of them.
It isn't about profit, unless the model is to force upgrades to get new tech. I think they are fixated on style over function at the consumer level
We have a few of these, the accident rate is so low that I have never encountered one at an intersection where traffic goes one direction only through it.
Now we do have a few sites where there are cameras and the initial reaction is more rear end collisions as people are more likely to panic stop because the light goes yellow.
I recently read of one city looking to remove the cameras as people have become to attentive that revenue is actually below the cost of paying for the cameras.
The best punishment for any city caught reducing the yellows below legal limits is loss of federal funds. Give them a TICKET!
The real problem with MMOs like WoW is that the meat of the game isn't all that fun. Some, like City of Heroes, try and avoid it by purposefully making low-level re-play the focus of the game. Others, like Eve Online, say to heck with PvE and focus on the PvP side.
If this were true WOW would never had been so popular. It is amazing popular because the parts of the game which usually are boring or a drag in others games are not so in WOW.
They could make it fun and interesting and genuinely massive, but that'd require real work and wouldn't have the same profit margin
If the above statement doesn't scream "I am an irrational WOW/Blizzard hater" I don't know what does. Sorry, but you don't arrive at B without A.
How do you explain the massive profit they generate? Really? If not for the fun and interesting aspect of the game? I understand you don't like the game, your clueless attempts at dismissing their work makes it obvious, but honestly why do you have to prove your stupid at the same time.
You do not make the big bucks like Blizzard is unless you do deliver fun and interesting game play across all aspects of the game.
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Paper ballots got us grief in Florida and in other areas in 2000. Do we really want to go through that tripe again? How many years have passed and people still speak of conspiracy and fraud?
The fact is we need electronic voting. We need an absolute. Electronic voting can get us this but only if done right. Paper and OCR leave doubt, look at how many ways people of one party or another tried to "interpret what a voter really meant" Come on, how can we justify paper when you have government assigned persons deciding votes on a whim?
Provide a paper trail. Put the requirements to the same restrictions we put on commercial machines used for money transactions and record keeping. Why isn't that done now? Simple, this is government. There are rules for the public (and corporations) and then there is government.
While we cannot hold the voting machine companies blameless we must realize that the real blame are the politicians who are still attempting to "game" the system. They don't want a straight up honest system because they want to be able to cast doubt into any election that doesn't go their way.
No, the real problem with voting is that its all manipulated by TWO parties who in no way want the balance of power shifted. By that I mean they want no competition, they want no accountability. They simply want strife at varying levels so they can FUD their way into permanent office.
at least users of these machines won't reboot after every damn download of iTunes and such.
I wish I were kidding.
because as a world there is enough wealth to end hunger.
Yet we don't because it is not so PC to remove the many reasons for that hunger. We also do not have the stomach for it (no pun intended) because it would cost us lives to remove the leadership that routinely starves their own populations.
India is coming forward rapidly, by advancing space science they advance all their sciences. They also give their people something to strive for - something they can show children that India is and what they can become. Let alone the fact that satellites provide better weather monitoring , can track crops and movement of animals. The possibilities of helping their own are a hundredfold, let alone what they can do for others.
Oh, before you troll India again I must ask, did you buy food out this week? If so, why? There are lots of poor people who could have used it in rice to feed a family... so why didn't you help? Oh, yeah, thats because its easier to be a forum troll and blame others for not doing instead of doing yourself.
North Carolina will probably hunt you down and charge you with tax evasion. They did it in 2007 for a guy buying vegetable oil and converting it to biodiesel.
hell they have been known to test fuel at events, to see if people are using fuel they don't like. They check NC registered trucks to make sure they don't buy fuel over the border.
you think that they just won't slap a silly tax on the sugar?
The one thing people keep ignoring as cars become more efficient are tax addicted governments are going to have to raise them to make up for the losses because of our efficiency and if we circumvent the whole tax strategy they have they will simply make a new one
to your personal freedom because regardless of what a law says today it can become a whole different thing tomorrow. Suddenly all that information on you that was supposed secure is now available to parties who have a need to know, all in the vein of "its for the children", "terrorist are lurking", "for increased safety"... and so on.
Never believe anything in the government vaults is safe because leaders change and so do laws
Politicians love to say one thing and then pay for another.
Voting is important, the security of the vote is important, unless that money can be used to buy votes elsewhere. It also becomes a great issue to underfund so when a politician loses they can blame voting machines for it because no one wants to admit they lost a popularity contest
What is it with people like you? The problem isn't helping others, Americans donate more per capita than most other peoples - and conservatives even more so than "liberals" which I am assuming you are referring to as being targeted for the "socialist/commie" label.
If your willing to help people that is fine, it is what makes America great. Many of us pour money into charities daily, charities of our choice.
YOU ARE NOT GIVING IF IT IS SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY
Clear? I am quite happy you want to give and that others do to. Just do it with your own money. you have NO RIGHT to my property and using the government to force me to give up my property so you can feel good about yourself is wholly against what this country was founded upon. Amazing how some of the very same people here will come crying over the Patriot act then turn around and lambaste people for wanting to maintain their property rights.
You are a socialist if your plan for making your fellow man better off means taking from others to do so, especially if you buy into this idea of taking more from others simply because they earn more. Your also a selfish bastard too
Thats the problem, I bet I can get as many different answers as people I ask just on /.
Now move this responsibility to government. The problem with government is that while it is formed with the best of intents is that its comprised of people. The problem with people is that they have bias and unfortunately some are more than willing to use the power given to them to show it and even enforce that bias.
To get a wonderful idea, look at the recent raid in Texas of a "cult". Of course those who did the raid like to toss the word around because it has connotations that are not good. The problem is that it all originated from a false accusation yet the government is using its power, no people in the government are using the governments powers, to come up delay justice, look for crime, or coerce people to think a crime has been committed. Hell they have brought in psychological experts to declare just living there was abuse because of the religious beliefs. Does that give you pause? Just because someone thinks its wrong its automatically abuse even though no law was known to be broken they can just dig until they find one?
Want a second example? How about the recent abuses disclosed here about TSA practices that the TSA in Washington disavowed yet had gone on for months? Why did it happen, because no one questions the abuse anymore because they guilt anyone who opposes into adhering
"its for the children", "you want to protect children, right?"
That is the problem I have with governments getting sway over corporations we entrust our information too, whether we do so directly or indirectly. The government has no right to go on a fishing expedition, especially when its most likely at some egotistical power abusive official.
Because if there is one constant I get from /. is how all these people here can do "X" better than someone else and how "Open Source" can do it even better and for free.
When push comes to shove suddenly its "unreasonable" or will result in a crappy product unless lots of money are spent.
Which is it?
I guess some NASA upper crusts bought into all that forum bragging as if it were meaningful.
* Oh, for reference go look up any story here on World of Warcraft or Diablo... I am still waiting for all these "better" games from forum members, now NASA is giving them a shot
It is far easier for people here to believe in little green men than God. It might be even more assuring the first exist and second doesn't for many.
If SH had come out and said God exists people would brand him scooters.
Go back and review NASA budgets across the last couple of Administrations.
Tell me what you see.
Here is what I see, a government agency which appeals to geeks who make up a small portion of the overall voter pie. Meaning that Congress has no real reason to fun NASA beyond minimums because it does nothing FOR THEM.
Only Presidents give NASA meaning anymore. No one in Congress champions them unless it benefits their local voters.
To actually believe that Iraq is the reason for NASA consistently getting the short end of the budget stick is to buy into the lies perpetuated by one political party or another.
Simply put, entitlement programs get votes, NASA does not.
Because I can find lots of stories that make me I am glad the crazies here don't express their religion by bombing people... like , in, uh wonderfully enlightened Europe.
/. that this qualifies as a story. I guess a few editors need to get their brownie points with the insecure techie crowd... the one that needs to vilify anyone with belief and the willingness to express it. (plus its also good fodder for anti-Bush people who claim some hair brained connection to him however tenous)
Really, do you guys not get the news we do? Burning cars in France, oh I know, the PC word is immigrants. Killing of writers in Europe because they dared to write about someone's god?
What you have here in America is exaggeration. Look at it this way, if its brought up over and over and made to look silly it probably is. The haters need something to jump up and down about to make themselves feel superior and these ID people are a great target. The ID people are not a great percentage, just a convenient target.
It says even more for
mod to me to hell if you like, but it is true that it takes a big does of exaggeration to make ID people out as a representative of America or religious America.
Bring out the haters, this thread should have lots of them.
A lot of the web's content exploits the ability to see. Whole websites are geared to nothing more than pictures and manipulation of them.
How can rules be applied that would not be biased against the content choices of the providers? If a provider wanted to provide full length movies that they did not originate would it fall on them to provide versions that lend themselves to one disability or another or all?
The simple fact is, not all aspects of life are enjoyable by all people. The primary limiting factor is loss or serious reduction of one of the senses, eyesight and hearing are the two primary ones that seriously alter one's methods of participation in the world.
Second, the internet is NOT A RIGHT.
Third, it is not a right to impose on someone your needs. I am so tired of people decrying their right to my stuff or someone else's, to include money, time, and or property. The web isn't a right. As such you cannot impose your problems on people who use it.
I don't think its that Linux isn't ready for the desktop; though I will admit the two I tried were "meh"; its that software developers of popular packages aren't ready for Linux, worse they don't care.
... Text editor and spread sheet are easily found. Take the best of OS/X and XP/Vista but make the damn work on first boot - no text files - no download this - etc... sheesh hell I am a geek and I hated the damn hoops... I am one of those types of geeks that if the tech annoys me I just skip it because its not important enough to me to matter. I take things back to stores if they annoy me as anything should be easy and functional out of the box.
The problem I have with the Linux Desktop is that there is no reason for me to leave my Windows and Mac systems (yes I have both and use them both - even have a Windows Home server built on a refurb dell dual core slim line). The Mac is different enough from Windows that I actually feel I get something out of that. Too many of the distros that I used tried to "ape" Windows only to frustrate me with "well some of it works the same but not this.... or that..."
Really, want desktops, then out of the box turn key / push button / etc install... it connects to the net and gets their mail and browses all through a simple "wizard"
maybe they are trying to cache the internet?
figures that they stand the greatest benefit from tax reduction.
The rich can only be abused so much before they stop spending, when they stop spending everyone will be hurt.
I am not one of the evil rich but I want to be there one day. It sickens me to see all the people who think its okay to tax people at higher percentages simply because they make more money. These same jealously driven whiners then toss stupid examples like Paris Hilton while standing around with their friends nodding their heads as if that is the answer to the questions of life.
Progressive tax rates are regressive. They are used to buy off the lower class by taking money from the most productive people to the least productive because the second always is more than first the longer the progressive tax system remains. The whole idea was sold on class jealously and is perpetuated by it.
However we can see shining examples of what happens when you tax people and industry too much, they leave. Look to Michigan, parts of PA and CA for great examples where "the evil rich fled" to avoid paying "their fair share". Buzz phrases for people who are more than willing to use other people's money for programs they like but won't spend their own on.
this brings me back to DNA tracking and all the ranting about it. Why do you all act so aghast about them tracking by DNA for criminals but don't care they take a huge portion of your income directly, some indirectly, and spend it on all sorts of new ways to abuse your rights? Why are these same people screaming to have government pay their healtcare - the big lie - government pays for nothing, it is a tool that is used to force redistribution of money. Would you have the guts to ask someone at work who makes more than you to pay your medical? Would you?
Selfish and lazy. To have the audacity to bitch about rights being lost while preaching to take money away from people who earn it
but conformity in neighborhoods is the rage today unless you can find a good home in a very old one. Basically I might be able to get away with solar panels because my S/SW side is away from the road. A windmill of any sort other than decorative would probably be shot down. It doesn't help that local and state governments aren't writing laws to encourage this type of development. Yet at the same time I understand that windmills are a special breed. I have friends who live near the big ones and they eventually got their house purchased by some agency. It will drive you flipping nuts.
So my questions are, how are these things in reality? Is there a noticeable and constant noise? Are there any actions taking place at the Federal level to encourage their use? Remember satellite dishes? Many localities even banned them until the Feds stepped in. HOAs backed by local enforcement made having the dishes impossible. It may be something that will be required to allow panels on rooftops everywhere. As for windmills, honestly only if they have no noise impact on the environment - the big units do make noise.
Before some twat throws out "thats what you get for living in a McMansion" just take a hike will ya. First the people who toss out terms like this come across as twats because thats what they are. They don't know the poster and don't even know reality. Buying a new home over the last few years made more financial sense than buying a resale. Many builders practically give them away now. The only issue is that most are in new neighborhoods which means you get an HOA with some type of rules that prevent certain oddities from cropping up. This is generally a good thing because it prevents junk cars, chain link fences, and having homes fall apart become the dominating factor the neighborhood. Plus if your smart you buy into a neighborhood without amenities like pools and tennis courts which do cost money.
I wonder how long before we do that here to our police or air travelers?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558597&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
I guess we can change the motto to
The FBI lied, Rights died.
they conveniently forget about all the life that exists in a desert environment?
There are some unique species, some that can teach us on how to deal with limited resources, but I guess since pictures only show sand and cactus instead of cute little deer its ok to cover them up?
Sorry but you really seem to want us to all chime in and excuse you for your poor judgement, let alone ethical outlook.
You want to know the problem, its called theft. By your example which you tried to use clever words to cover up its pure theft.
"Proper Distribution Channels" - Thats rich.
You are receiving stolen goods, worse you acknowledge they are stolen. You they try to excuse it by tossing all the PC key phrases to assign the guilt back to the party being harmed... as in "using slave labor, low wages, poor living conditions" Yeah I added a few terms but why not, I was expecting them.
Is this how your outlook is? You can excuse bad behavior, lack of ethics and morals, by claiming someone else is worse?
Well to be honest we really don't know exactly what happened. All we can do is throw out ideas and see if they are accepted or proven wrong. No one can stand up in a court of law and declare they know for sure all the variables in this problem. We have a wrecked ship that has fallen apart after nearly a hundred years at the bottom of an ocean. How is that evidence? Sure it might yield some clues but it doesn't tell us how fast the ship was traveling when it hit or how big the iceberg really was let alone its shape and such.
Don't bother trying to blame either the builders or the owners of the ship. If anything it was the industry as a whole and the countries they were based in that all through their actions and inaction lead up to this disaster. Unfortunately this was a disaster that needed to happen in order to effect change. Countries wanted their industry to be the biggest and best and definitely looked the other way.
Just like rules and regulations made going by boat safer the same had to be applied to trains and airplanes. Unfortunately government moves very slowly compared to technology. Now they react a bit faster, look at all the angst people here had at mention of the FAA possibly interfering with Spaceship One and its successors.
Besides, I wonder how long before someone does file suit to reclaim all that money which belongs "rightfully" to someone who isn't alive... but would do wonders for the law firms bottom line. I wonder who will stoop so low as to file it.
level, if you want performance and such you go with the Pro which outside the realm of many of the geeks who "would love to own a Mac" but as geeks go they don't want some non expandable machine that forever traps them into it. Now I finally broke down and bought an iMac, USED off of e-bay thank you. While I like it very much I would also prefer something I could slap more drives in, occasionally boost the video card, and change out the optical drives as technology progresses. External drives don't cut it and even then I got to hope that once they come out I have support for all of them.
It isn't about profit, unless the model is to force upgrades to get new tech. I think they are fixated on style over function at the consumer level
sorry, but I don't think letting anyone have their way is going to fly.
try all they want but its my job to set in place what the auditors tell the big guys what we have to have to comply.
no one wants to not be in compliance and subject to some idiot in government who one day got bad service/etc from someone in your company.
so, if these power users can't confine their play to home then I don't need them here.
We have a few of these, the accident rate is so low that I have never encountered one at an intersection where traffic goes one direction only through it.
Now we do have a few sites where there are cameras and the initial reaction is more rear end collisions as people are more likely to panic stop because the light goes yellow.
I recently read of one city looking to remove the cameras as people have become to attentive that revenue is actually below the cost of paying for the cameras.
The best punishment for any city caught reducing the yellows below legal limits is loss of federal funds. Give them a TICKET!
If this were true WOW would never had been so popular. It is amazing popular because the parts of the game which usually are boring or a drag in others games are not so in WOW.
They could make it fun and interesting and genuinely massive, but that'd require real work and wouldn't have the same profit margin
If the above statement doesn't scream "I am an irrational WOW/Blizzard hater" I don't know what does. Sorry, but you don't arrive at B without A. How do you explain the massive profit they generate? Really? If not for the fun and interesting aspect of the game? I understand you don't like the game, your clueless attempts at dismissing their work makes it obvious, but honestly why do you have to prove your stupid at the same time. You do not make the big bucks like Blizzard is unless you do deliver fun and interesting game play across all aspects of the game.