Yeah, but tons more people live in NYC and Long Island, so what would you rather do, let the minority decide what issues are important for the majority of voters?
The two "halves" of the state are so disparate and so many people concentrated downstate that the best solution, IMO, would be to split them apart entirely.
The needs of downstate are very, very different from the needs of upstate. Yet presently one portion of the state can really screw over the other, and the half that got screwed can't return the favor.
The Senators represent the majority in your State because that's the way the system was designed. It's counterbalanced by your Representative in the House representing your district in upstate NY.
How do you figure that's "counterbalanced"? I have unequal representation in the 2 houses of Congress. One of many representatives vs. zero of 2 senators.
Sane with people in states where the population is not even close to evenly distributed. For example, NY. The majority of things are decided by votes cast south of Westchester. Which is a completely different world as compared to upstate.
BOTH US Senators representing New York really represent NYC and Long Island. Upstate NY has no true representation in the Senate.
I am disgusted by the government of my state. I moved from PA to NY for a better job, but literally everything is higher taxed and more expensive. The taxes don t make any sense either. I live near Rochester, NY. Depending on the locality you re in, you can pay 6% Henrietta to 10% Greece taxes on a variety of things but if you send a letter it s all Rochester, NY. And then there is the paper store, I mean government agencies. Everything needs a permit, paper, registration or a tax. You can t get a single piece of paper without paying at least $10 for it.
Meanwhile, downtown Rochester is about to begin a huge parking crunch with the closure of Midtown, and various levels of gov't are chipping in for Ferry Pt. 2 (the Paetec building - even with questions about the company being in existence when it comes time to move in) and Ferry Pt. 3 (Ren Square).
At least with the ferry, they could sell off the boat & recover some of the costs.
I works downtown, park in Midtown, and will start having to go to shady Mortimer St. next week to park. I'm not looking forward to the extra 15-20 minutes of commuting that change will cause, nor the extra personal & property safety risks. Which reminds me, I have to strip my car of anything valuable this weekend before someone else decides to "help" me with it.
Yeah but the NBC Olympics coverage was about marketing & profit. This is a political convention. It's different. It's about, uh...well, it's different marketing & profit. The profit is mostly for the hookers, not the network execs.
Many employers' benefit plans contribute large amounts of money to adoption costs, as well as fertility treatment(s), and paying 100% minus a nominal $50 or so for prenatal care and all well-baby visits for the first 2 years.
Yet they also don't shell out the $10 for birth control pills. They'll pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to get you knocked up & take care of the kid, but won't pay a hundred bucks a year to prevent those costs from being incurred.
Just in case you hadn't guess it was Windows only. It's from Microsoft and they care about making money, which they do a great job at.
MS has an entire business unit named "MacBU" (and it's probably profitable). I'll give you 3 guesses what OS they write software for, and the first 2 don't count.
Absolutely they should be stripped of their medals. Competitors caught using performance-enhancing drugs or otherwise doping are stripped of their medals and removed from the Olympic Village because they broke the rules governing the competitors - a rule which, if broken, can have a direct impact on the outcome of the event.
The age limit is a similar rule (being underage may directly affect the results of the competition), and if it's been broken, the same penalty should be applied.
It is the prof's fault, to a degree. The prof chose the book which is changed annually (there won't be enough copies of last year's version in circulation for this year's students to pick up used). Surely there must be some books out there that aren't changed every year which the prof could be choosing from?
The professor wants everyone to have the same book because the assigned problems will likely come from the text - new version means a few new questions and reordering of older questions
Which is just a mechanism to make more money. The math isn't changing. Reordering the problem sets is just extortion.
to lock their phones down tight and wipe out the OEM software in favor of their own crap, the chances of me ever getting to use it are close to nil. T-Mobile's coverage is spotty at best in the areas my wife & I frequent, even AT&T can get iffy, so we're stuck with Verizon.
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The two "halves" of the state are so disparate and so many people concentrated downstate that the best solution, IMO, would be to split them apart entirely.
The needs of downstate are very, very different from the needs of upstate. Yet presently one portion of the state can really screw over the other, and the half that got screwed can't return the favor.
How do you figure that's "counterbalanced"? I have unequal representation in the 2 houses of Congress. One of many representatives vs. zero of 2 senators.
Sane with people in states where the population is not even close to evenly distributed. For example, NY. The majority of things are decided by votes cast south of Westchester. Which is a completely different world as compared to upstate.
BOTH US Senators representing New York really represent NYC and Long Island. Upstate NY has no true representation in the Senate.
Meanwhile, downtown Rochester is about to begin a huge parking crunch with the closure of Midtown, and various levels of gov't are chipping in for Ferry Pt. 2 (the Paetec building - even with questions about the company being in existence when it comes time to move in) and Ferry Pt. 3 (Ren Square).
At least with the ferry, they could sell off the boat & recover some of the costs.
I works downtown, park in Midtown, and will start having to go to shady Mortimer St. next week to park. I'm not looking forward to the extra 15-20 minutes of commuting that change will cause, nor the extra personal & property safety risks. Which reminds me, I have to strip my car of anything valuable this weekend before someone else decides to "help" me with it.
You're going to put something as important as your source code repository on the quality of hardware that comes with at $400 PC?
You're right, that will make it fail, and spectacularly.
They're offered one or two plans by the only insurance company in town & lack the power to negotiate.
And the employees don't stand up and ask for it (I can't say "demand" because they can't say no - it's take the offered plan or have nothing).
And no one who has any pull has done the math.
And there's probably some kind of weird thing about morals & letting women have sex without having to worry so much about getting pregnant.
Yeah but the NBC Olympics coverage was about marketing & profit. This is a political convention. It's different. It's about, uh...well, it's different marketing & profit. The profit is mostly for the hookers, not the network execs.
Many employers' benefit plans contribute large amounts of money to adoption costs, as well as fertility treatment(s), and paying 100% minus a nominal $50 or so for prenatal care and all well-baby visits for the first 2 years.
Yet they also don't shell out the $10 for birth control pills. They'll pay thousands upon thousands of dollars to get you knocked up & take care of the kid, but won't pay a hundred bucks a year to prevent those costs from being incurred.
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MS has an entire business unit named "MacBU" (and it's probably profitable). I'll give you 3 guesses what OS they write software for, and the first 2 don't count.
Absolutely they should be stripped of their medals. Competitors caught using performance-enhancing drugs or otherwise doping are stripped of their medals and removed from the Olympic Village because they broke the rules governing the competitors - a rule which, if broken, can have a direct impact on the outcome of the event.
The age limit is a similar rule (being underage may directly affect the results of the competition), and if it's been broken, the same penalty should be applied.
The IOC had credibility in the first place?
It is the prof's fault, to a degree. The prof chose the book which is changed annually (there won't be enough copies of last year's version in circulation for this year's students to pick up used). Surely there must be some books out there that aren't changed every year which the prof could be choosing from?
I could care less.
Which is just a mechanism to make more money. The math isn't changing. Reordering the problem sets is just extortion.
T-Mobile & AT&T's coverage maps for my area are nearly identical. Stray off major roads and you're rolling the dice.
OTOH, with Verizon, we've found at most a handful of dead zones, and they're at most 100 yards in radius.
to lock their phones down tight and wipe out the OEM software in favor of their own crap, the chances of me ever getting to use it are close to nil. T-Mobile's coverage is spotty at best in the areas my wife & I frequent, even AT&T can get iffy, so we're stuck with Verizon.
Guess where Oregon gets a large portion of its power (I can't imagine the Civic-EV guy is going to ship a lot out of his area).
It's not coal or fuel. It's the OR/WA border.
Even the most densely-populated areas of the US have laughable "broadband" when compared to much of Japan.
I'll wait for OpenGL for Workgroups 3.11
The "live broadcast" was not live.
That's a bottle of Bud Light.
Which he bought from the rap star, thus making the rap star even richer.
Just throwing money at "someone" to develop the apps often isn't enough.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001158.html
Perhaps IBM should start writing these apps themselves instead.
Shitty taste in beer though.