Actually, the 'superbugs' that are resistant to antibiotics do not fare very well when competing with standard bacteria outside the presense of the antibiotic they are resistant to. The mutations selected information that was beneficial for a situation. The selection is actually a degradation in certain surface receptors. That represents a loss of genetic information not a gain. The resistant organisms are actually genetically weaker than the original strain. I don't have my reference in front of me, but if you reply and are interested I'll dig it up for you.
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I am sorry, but you really have this one wrong. The most basic Tenet of Christianity is that Jesus IS God. No other religion in the world, including Judaism and Islam support this.
Jesus is God. Jesus died and rose from the dead. Jesus will come again.
Look that up in the Quran and tell me it's there, then I'll agree that we worship the same God.
Please learn a little about the religions you talk about.
I totally agree however, with your statements of not hating people because they happen to be Muslims, or Arabs.
I work in Disability Insurance and for SSI Disability to kick in, it is necessary for the claimant to prove that if they are not blind, or deaf, or missing limbs, they must not be able to perform in 'any' work.
You are not considered disabled if you can only not work in 'your' field.
In this case, she can no longer perform her job after much accomodations, but it is obvious that she can work somewhere else, and is not disabled outside the work place.
Your point is well made. However, the UIs that you listed each represent a paradigm shift in usability. Each interface was incrementally perfected until the next style of interface was available.
So as for the 2D window-based GUI, it is reaching the 'pinnacle' of usability. And we need to be prepared for a paradigm shift to a new style of interface, that none of us can conceive of yet.
(At least we can hope it's not than 3D hallway thing from Microsoft Research)
IIRC something similar to this when hoover was using Fred Estaire footage and mapped in a vacuum cleaner. I believe the lawsuit that ensued decided that the actors have no rights to their on-screen personas.
Therefore, once they perfect this Tom would get no money unless another ruling came down changing things.
The relatively static market share for Microsoft on the web as a whole contrasts sharply with its progress in our companion SSL Server Survey where Microsoft makes consistent and relentless gains, month after month, and now accounts for 49% of the sites performing encrypted transactions on the internet.
I don't think MS is slipping at all in the Webserver market.
That is the same system we use here in Alabama. The problem is with the punched cards. There are better systems, and hopefully, Florida will look into changing to one that sparks less controversy.
I would argue that the very act of predicting an outcome will cause people to believe that there is some reason for it, and therefore any prediction will influence outcome, whether it is justified or not.
What you are suggesting would be to say that they don't even have to justify their predictions at all.
I was in fact wrong. That is the way I interpreted what I heard on a report. After reading several more articles, I saw the concensus that it was the post mark date.
You realize that you have said the same thing that I just said. I didn't say they couldn't make predictions after the votes are done. Just that while Florida is done, but Oregon is not, the media can influence the election there through their predictions.
EC -- Electoral College, sorry about the confusion. I'd seen the abbreviation used in other posts in this discussion and thought that it was generally accepted for this thread.
Yes there are differences and that right now it would be quite difficult to get close to 100% of the vote.
The checks that the Electoral College (EC, for the poster who thought I was speaking of the European Community) provides is that the states as legal entities in the constitution have power themselves.
If those protections didn't exist, then there is no reason to suppose that if the population centers of the country shifted from where they are now, a situation could develop where 5-6 of the largest states dictate to the rest of the country.
In a direct popular vote, I think it would become less of a Republican/Democratic divide and more about local issues, and that will have an adverse effect on the less populous states.
It is about preventing it from happening. I don't believe any type of majority tyrnnany is happening now, but it could happen if we dismantle the protections.
I have placed this comment in several places through this thread to remind people that we are not a democracy, we are a republic.
The states have a certain amount of constitionally given power that would be ignored in a general election. The extra votes given to states by the EC is what keeps the 5-6 most populous states from walking all over the others.
The absentee ballots were due in by election day, not postmarked. The 10 days are the legal amount of time that Florida has to count them. In a landslide election this probably gets pushed back in terms of time to the limit.
But it will be done, by the end of today or tomorrow in a case like this.
Florida election officials confirmed to reporters from CNN and MSNBC that they were including the absentee ballots in the returns on Tuesday Night/Wednesday Morning.
I have to argue that there are two entities in this country, people and states. The states, constitutionally, are entitled to certain protections under the constitution. To eliminate the 'extra' power under the EC system that states have would be to allow the 5 or 6 most populous states to ignore the rest of the country.
The EC should be of finer granularity than the current system. Each district as a unit should cast their vote for one candidate, and then each state should cast their vote. This would be done by popular vote. The winner of each state, would get two votes. The winner of each district, one. Then you would see a real increase in the power of minorty districts in majority states. (Like Republicans in California, or Democrats in Alabama).
It's important to understand that the United States is not a democracy, it is a republic. There is a delicate balance in our country over State vs. Federal power.
For example, the House represents the Federal, democratic populous in our government. They directly represent the 'district' that they are elected from. And each district is supposed to represent approxiamately (sp?) equal populations. This gives a democratic representation of power in the House.
The Senate is the forum of the State. Each state has the same power in the Senate regardless of the population. This was put in place to prevent things like the following, hypothetical, example:
Congressman from New York: I think we need a toxic waste dump, but where to put it,.... Hmm, I know, let's put it in Wyoming.
Congressman from Wyoming: No wait,...
Congressman from California: Yea, that's a good idea, why don't we send all the prisoners over there two.
Basically, the idea is that the Senate prevents Populuous states from walking all over the unpopulous ones. Each state has a certain amount of autonomy(sp?) in our country.
The electoral college represents these two ideals, combined in the same election. The electoral college is important. However, I feel that the plan others have proposed, to give one electoral vote for the winner of each district, and then two votes for the popular winner of each state, will better reflect how the people, and the states want the elections to go.
Also, the actual people of the electoral system should go. I don't think that there should be someone who can countermand the will of the people. The votes should just automatically go to the winner in each race.
You need to consider the political fire storm that a revote would touch off. Some experts on CNN were discussing this Wednesday night, and on both sides of the fence they thought that a revote would be a disaster.
All eyes would turn to a single county, and whether legal or not, campaigners would drive every single voter to that county.
Plus, you have the change of third party candidates to the major two, don't say it won't happen. A revoted election in that county would not be the same as the fresh election.
What really needs to happen is that ballots need to be redesigned and standardized throughout the modern world, with a automated technological system, like the one used in Riverside county CA that allows a voter to review their selections before commiting.
The system that controls this should be Open Source, so that anyone can inspect the control system, but not networked to avoid hacking. Results of control system 'purity' should be verified at every polling station before it opens, and peroidically throughtout the day.
From another point, Presidential elections should be a national holiday, with all the polls open during the same hours GMT. No news organization should be allowed to make any predictions whatsoever until the polls are closed.
Actually, the framers probably did not consider the dominance that two major parties would possess over the system. In a country with three or four strong parties, and the current electoral system, the President would almost always be decided upon by congress.
I think the confusion lies in the fact that although the ballots must be received before election day. The state of Florida has 10 days to count them after election day. In an election that is not this close, this probably gets brushed under the rug.
The absentee votes are there already, they just haven't started counting them yet.
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Actually, the 'superbugs' that are resistant to antibiotics do not fare very well when competing with standard bacteria outside the presense of the antibiotic they are resistant to. The mutations selected information that was beneficial for a situation. The selection is actually a degradation in certain surface receptors. That represents a loss of genetic information not a gain. The resistant organisms are actually genetically weaker than the original strain. I don't have my reference in front of me, but if you reply and are interested I'll dig it up for you.
I am sorry, but you really have this one wrong. The most basic Tenet of Christianity is that Jesus IS God. No other religion in the world, including Judaism and Islam support this.
Jesus is God. Jesus died and rose from the dead. Jesus will come again.
Look that up in the Quran and tell me it's there, then I'll agree that we worship the same God.
Please learn a little about the religions you talk about.
I totally agree however, with your statements of not hating people because they happen to be Muslims, or Arabs.
I work in Disability Insurance and for SSI Disability to kick in, it is necessary for the claimant to prove that if they are not blind, or deaf, or missing limbs, they must not be able to perform in 'any' work.
You are not considered disabled if you can only not work in 'your' field.
In this case, she can no longer perform her job after much accomodations, but it is obvious that she can work somewhere else, and is not disabled outside the work place.
Your point is well made. However, the UIs that you listed each represent a paradigm shift in usability. Each interface was incrementally perfected until the next style of interface was available.
So as for the 2D window-based GUI, it is reaching the 'pinnacle' of usability. And we need to be prepared for a paradigm shift to a new style of interface, that none of us can conceive of yet.
(At least we can hope it's not than 3D hallway thing from Microsoft Research)
IIRC something similar to this when hoover was using Fred Estaire footage and mapped in a vacuum cleaner. I believe the lawsuit that ensued decided that the actors have no rights to their on-screen personas.
Therefore, once they perfect this Tom would get no money unless another ruling came down changing things.
From the Netcraft site:
The relatively static market share for Microsoft on the web as a whole contrasts sharply with its progress in our companion SSL Server Survey where Microsoft makes consistent and relentless gains, month after month, and now accounts for 49% of the sites performing encrypted transactions on the internet.
I don't think MS is slipping at all in the Webserver market.
That is the same system we use here in Alabama. The problem is with the punched cards. There are better systems, and hopefully, Florida will look into changing to one that sparks less controversy.
I would argue that the very act of predicting an outcome will cause people to believe that there is some reason for it, and therefore any prediction will influence outcome, whether it is justified or not.
What you are suggesting would be to say that they don't even have to justify their predictions at all.
I was in fact wrong. That is the way I interpreted what I heard on a report. After reading several more articles, I saw the concensus that it was the post mark date.
You realize that you have said the same thing that I just said. I didn't say they couldn't make predictions after the votes are done. Just that while Florida is done, but Oregon is not, the media can influence the election there through their predictions.
EC -- Electoral College, sorry about the confusion. I'd seen the abbreviation used in other posts in this discussion and thought that it was generally accepted for this thread.
Yes there are differences and that right now it would be quite difficult to get close to 100% of the vote.
The checks that the Electoral College (EC, for the poster who thought I was speaking of the European Community) provides is that the states as legal entities in the constitution have power themselves.
If those protections didn't exist, then there is no reason to suppose that if the population centers of the country shifted from where they are now, a situation could develop where 5-6 of the largest states dictate to the rest of the country.
In a direct popular vote, I think it would become less of a Republican/Democratic divide and more about local issues, and that will have an adverse effect on the less populous states.
It is about preventing it from happening. I don't believe any type of majority tyrnnany is happening now, but it could happen if we dismantle the protections.
I have placed this comment in several places through this thread to remind people that we are not a democracy, we are a republic.
The states have a certain amount of constitionally given power that would be ignored in a general election. The extra votes given to states by the EC is what keeps the 5-6 most populous states from walking all over the others.
The absentee ballots were due in by election day, not postmarked. The 10 days are the legal amount of time that Florida has to count them. In a landslide election this probably gets pushed back in terms of time to the limit.
But it will be done, by the end of today or tomorrow in a case like this.
Florida election officials confirmed to reporters from CNN and MSNBC that they were including the absentee ballots in the returns on Tuesday Night/Wednesday Morning.
I have to argue that there are two entities in this country, people and states. The states, constitutionally, are entitled to certain protections under the constitution. To eliminate the 'extra' power under the EC system that states have would be to allow the 5 or 6 most populous states to ignore the rest of the country. The EC should be of finer granularity than the current system. Each district as a unit should cast their vote for one candidate, and then each state should cast their vote. This would be done by popular vote. The winner of each state, would get two votes. The winner of each district, one. Then you would see a real increase in the power of minorty districts in majority states. (Like Republicans in California, or Democrats in Alabama).
It's important to understand that the United States is not a democracy, it is a republic. There is a delicate balance in our country over State vs. Federal power. For example, the House represents the Federal, democratic populous in our government. They directly represent the 'district' that they are elected from. And each district is supposed to represent approxiamately (sp?) equal populations. This gives a democratic representation of power in the House. The Senate is the forum of the State. Each state has the same power in the Senate regardless of the population. This was put in place to prevent things like the following, hypothetical, example: Congressman from New York: I think we need a toxic waste dump, but where to put it,.... Hmm, I know, let's put it in Wyoming. Congressman from Wyoming: No wait,... Congressman from California: Yea, that's a good idea, why don't we send all the prisoners over there two. Basically, the idea is that the Senate prevents Populuous states from walking all over the unpopulous ones. Each state has a certain amount of autonomy(sp?) in our country. The electoral college represents these two ideals, combined in the same election. The electoral college is important. However, I feel that the plan others have proposed, to give one electoral vote for the winner of each district, and then two votes for the popular winner of each state, will better reflect how the people, and the states want the elections to go. Also, the actual people of the electoral system should go. I don't think that there should be someone who can countermand the will of the people. The votes should just automatically go to the winner in each race.
You need to consider the political fire storm that a revote would touch off. Some experts on CNN were discussing this Wednesday night, and on both sides of the fence they thought that a revote would be a disaster. All eyes would turn to a single county, and whether legal or not, campaigners would drive every single voter to that county. Plus, you have the change of third party candidates to the major two, don't say it won't happen. A revoted election in that county would not be the same as the fresh election. What really needs to happen is that ballots need to be redesigned and standardized throughout the modern world, with a automated technological system, like the one used in Riverside county CA that allows a voter to review their selections before commiting. The system that controls this should be Open Source, so that anyone can inspect the control system, but not networked to avoid hacking. Results of control system 'purity' should be verified at every polling station before it opens, and peroidically throughtout the day. From another point, Presidential elections should be a national holiday, with all the polls open during the same hours GMT. No news organization should be allowed to make any predictions whatsoever until the polls are closed.
Actually, the framers probably did not consider the dominance that two major parties would possess over the system. In a country with three or four strong parties, and the current electoral system, the President would almost always be decided upon by congress.
I think the confusion lies in the fact that although the ballots must be received before election day. The state of Florida has 10 days to count them after election day. In an election that is not this close, this probably gets brushed under the rug. The absentee votes are there already, they just haven't started counting them yet.