George Herbert Walker Bush (that's George H. W. Bush) has a son named George Walker Bush (George W. Bush). There are no Senior, Junior titles for people with different names!
Why we would ever elect another one of them to office is quite beyond me
Of course it is, because you are out of touch with mainstream America. Don't believe me? Look at the election results of 2000, and the current polls. Now who's the nutcase?
Ask the potential victim of the first crime that's prevented because of the cameras if the price is too high.
As has been said, cameras don't prevent crime. Another thing most people miss is that police also do not prevent crime. In fact, in Warren v. D.C. the court held "courts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community."
You may think of police mainly as historians. They are charged with collecting the facts and figuring out what happened and arresting the person responsible. They are not there to prvent crime, only to deal with committed crimes. It is up to individuals to defend themselves.
namely the fact that the supposed supporters of states rights won't let a state decide how to run it's election. The fact that the supreme court ruled on that at all is probably the grossest violation of the constitution I have ever seen.
The SCOTUS said that Florida had to follow its own laws for elections (instead of ignoring their own laws and having recounts until Al Gore was satisfied.) What's so unreasonable about that?
Where do you get that State-politicians would be any better/worse than Federal politicians?
If it's a school system it should probably be done by the local government, because locally elected officials are right next to the needs of a community. A politician 500 miles away dealing with politicians from thousands of miles away isn't in the best position to fix localy handled problems (school systems, roads, welfare, etc.)
As a European I believe you'd better hve such a program run by independant beaurocrats than For Profit commercial interests.
My expierence is that beaurocrats seek to expand their power - that means increasing budget at every opportunity. That isn't beneficial when what they do doesn't necessairly need to even exist (remember, once a program is created it is very hard to get rid of.) The write-up states the government didn't follow competetive bidding proceedures. If they had, the resulting for profit commercial interest selected should have been the most economically efficient company for the task. Granted, that isn't always the case but that's why competetive bid exists.
But with so few going to the polls, who can complain about the politicians?
I see this as an education problem. My peers don't vote and they certainly don't care about state and local elections. I don't understand why, since those officials probably affect them more than the President. I don't know how you get people to care about something important - it's a nobrainer to me.
Bad Boys Ravish* Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly
Our high school electronics teacher taught it to us as "Bad Bourbon Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well" - although I remembered it with the first word Black (so I could remember which was black and which was blue.)
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Geeks and Poker?
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I've seen hundreds of good players get cleaned out by newbies with insane calls.
Sammy Farha seemed to be having the same problem in last years World Series. In one of his interviews he said something to the effect of "Against a good player, I win. Against a bad player, I don't know." Then he got beat by the unknown and relatively new Chris Moneymaker. How many turns and rivers could that guy get to make a monster hand?
Dutch Boyd got his law degree at age 18 (and his bachelors a few years before that.) Apparently he started a failed poker.com and is working on another.
How's this for 6 degrees of seperation: I dated Chris Moneymaker's little sister when I was younger. I wonder what ever happened to her...
I think the Supreme's said that it isn't admissable in court or cause for a search warrant. I'm sure the cops still do it and then flag the residence for followup.
Or they just walk up and ask to look around. All the occupants can do is say no, but often times they submit to the search. Criminals aren't normally known for being smart.
Remember, Congress spends money, the President just authorizes it.
Uh, no. Congress appropriates money. The President (really the executive branch) spends it. In fact, the Supreme Court has said the President must spend it (as opposed to impounding funds for programs the given President doesn't like.)
What gets me about not using the centigrade measurement system is that it makes so much more sense. Where 0 = where water freezes. Vs. Degrees F = where a half mixture of salt and water freezes.
Centigrade is 0 when water freezes, 100 when water boils. That gives 100 degrees to work with. Contrast with Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32 and boils at 212 giving 180 degrees to work with. Thus fahrenheit allows for more precise temperature measurments.
No argument about the definition of centigrade making more sense, but having a more narrow definition of degree is useful.
He wrote the C++ book back in '99 too and it SUCKED.
Was that C++ for You++?
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Yes, he told the daily show his email address. Appearently spamming doesn't pay that well, otherwise he'd have cable and know better.
Apparently they didn't publish his real e-mail address, because a friend of mine saw that show, discovered the address wasn't valid, and registered it himself. He received four death threats that night, but I don't think he got more than a dozen or two e-mails total last I heard.
The data collected by NETI, sans anything that might personally identify volunteers, will also be made available to other network researchers and the general public on the NETI website. As the project picks up speed -- currently there are only a few dozen volunteers -- they expect to make the data available in real time.
if the original poster wanted to back up his assertion, he could have done a hell of a lot better, as sources go, than Wikipedia.
I wasn't trying to back up my assertion, I was trying to link to a source with more information incase someone cared about learning about Voltaire. Actually, I was looking for a link about what we discussed in my Western Civ class: Voltaire had a house built ontop of the boarder between two countries. So, when authorties in one country got pissed at him, he moved to a room in the other half of the house.
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hy would a shareholder care about server specifications? Investing is all about money.
I, for one, would. Now, unfortunately I don't have enough money to start investing on Wall Street, but hopefully that will change soon. So, why would I want to know technical details for a company? Obviously, because I'm a geek. But someone has to track this kind of stuff to produce a stock report. You can't have a company saying "We bought an IBM X Server and it now ballances our accounts and brokers international deals for us - so our $10,000 server produces $10Million in revenue." I'd like to know I was making a good investment, instead of one based on snake oil.
No, they have to have people who understand technical details to be able to produce legitimate forecasts of output. I'm sure there are people who analyize how many workers and robots Ford has to estimate how many cars they can produce, right? So the equvilent is how many coders and systems Google has, no?
Well if they don't, big brokerage houses can reply and I will consider the most lucrative offer.
The people arrested were actualy laying on the interesctions of various country borders in order to make their arrest harder. A very clever tactic.
But a very old tactic. Voltaire did this as far back as the 1750s:
He was here practically at the meeting-point of four distinct jurisdictions--Geneva, the canton Vaud, Sardinia, and France, while other cantons were within easy reach; and he bought other houses dotted about these territories, so as never to be without a refuge close at hand in case of sudden storms.
The Laws of the Land say that it's up to the states to determine which representatives to send, not the federal judiciary.
The supreme court said that Florida had to follow its own laws. That means not doing an infinate number of recounts until Gore got his way, and letting the Secretary of State (of Florida) certify the election after the legally required recount proceedures. The supreme court did not say "Bush won."
some sort of law for American companies that they would have to have the same minimum wage type laws apply to them even with internationally based employees
Then set up a different corporation, based in a country with desirable laws. Then the works are employed by a foreign company - and only their products are being purchased by the domestic company. The law, as you state it, would not apply.
Any expansion on my idea, complete reworking of it, or utter destruction of my idea is welcome.
Don't mind if I do. A sibling poster espouses his graduate economic studies - unfortunately I cannot boast the same. However, it doesn't take a graduate student to figure out minimum wage is a bad idea. Here goes:
If the minimum wage is such a good idea, why settle for $5 or $6 or $7/hr? We have the chance to improve the lives of the working poor - why not set the minimum wage at something comfy, say $10/hr or maybe even $20 or even more? Most people would probably say that doesn't make much sense - but why? Well, that would mean people would be paid more than they are worth and the company couldn't hire them or would have to raise prices. This is exactly what happens when wages are artifically manipulated vis a vis any minimum wage.
So what happens with a minimum wage? Companies can't hire more workers (they can't afford it) without raising prices (more expensive labor.) Thus, the entire community or economy must subsidize these workers - the end result is lower real wages for everyone. The artifical wage increase ends up having no benefit.
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Industralization.
You may think of police mainly as historians. They are charged with collecting the facts and figuring out what happened and arresting the person responsible. They are not there to prvent crime, only to deal with committed crimes. It is up to individuals to defend themselves.
How's this for 6 degrees of seperation: I dated Chris Moneymaker's little sister when I was younger. I wonder what ever happened to her...
No argument about the definition of centigrade making more sense, but having a more narrow definition of degree is useful.
No, they have to have people who understand technical details to be able to produce legitimate forecasts of output. I'm sure there are people who analyize how many workers and robots Ford has to estimate how many cars they can produce, right? So the equvilent is how many coders and systems Google has, no?
Well if they don't, big brokerage houses can reply and I will consider the most lucrative offer.
If the minimum wage is such a good idea, why settle for $5 or $6 or $7/hr? We have the chance to improve the lives of the working poor - why not set the minimum wage at something comfy, say $10/hr or maybe even $20 or even more? Most people would probably say that doesn't make much sense - but why? Well, that would mean people would be paid more than they are worth and the company couldn't hire them or would have to raise prices. This is exactly what happens when wages are artifically manipulated vis a vis any minimum wage.
So what happens with a minimum wage? Companies can't hire more workers (they can't afford it) without raising prices (more expensive labor.) Thus, the entire community or economy must subsidize these workers - the end result is lower real wages for everyone. The artifical wage increase ends up having no benefit.