"Officials in Palm Beach announced 19,120 ballots in the presidential race were tossed out before they
were counted because more than one candidate was picked. Only 3,783 voters made that mistake on
the U.S. Senate portion of the ballot."
One way for a fifth as many people to have marked more than one candidate in the Senate portion is if only one fifth of the people bothered to vote for Senate. Some people only vote for the President or other high-visibility races.
In my opinion the more likely reason is because President is the first selection, so people who will make mistakes will do so in that section. By the time they got to Senate they learned the system better.
Or maybe there's something not being described, such as if the ballot has to be matched with several templates and if you flip it over in the process then certain types of mistakes appear.
I guess the precincts using that system must have just tossed the cards in a ballot box and counted them later. The mark-sense ballot which I used was run through a counting machine immediately -- if I had voted for two Presidents then it would have beeped and given the ballot back to me, so I could get a replacement ballot and try again.
From the replies, apparently some people don't recognize the quotation attributed to the famous bank robber Willie Sutton (wrongly attributed, until he stole it).
"much better than the cheesy laser pointer that was on fox."
I'll have to take your word for it. I didn't notice that earlier, and now my Fox affiliat seems to be having "Newsradio" cover the election. I'll watch for a laser pointer on the radio.
Okay, so this doesn't mean we forget about it. It means we have a 71 year warning that something is coming -- and a 30 year warning that we have a chance to get a close look at it. Or a 30 year warning of the closest approach if we have to put equipment on it to tinker with its orbit.
Ozone is the effect of UV being filtered by oxygen. The oxygen gets blasted with intense UV from the Sun and separates into ozone. If you remove the oxygen from one level of the atmosphere, the UV would simply penetrate further and create more ozone further down. That's why the Antarctic "ozone hole" happens during the months-long winter down there -- there isn't much solar UV hitting the atmosphere there. There's still plenty of oxygen to interfere with ground-based UV observation at sea level anywhere on Earth.
Earth has been leaking stuff into space for millions and millions of years. Haven't we already contaminated the neighborhood? Or, if Mars bacteria got here and we're the result... Mars and we have contaminated the neighborhood.
Mechanical voting machines: Rows of small levers next to paper labels -- flip the lever next to the name you are voting for. A very large red lever closes the curtain behind you, and when you open the curtain with the large lever the vote is counted inside the machine and the levers are reset.
Mark/sense voting - pen marks on paper read by the machine which you feed the paper into.
Arrow marks: write a short horizontal line to complete an arror pointing at a name.
Oval filling: blacken in an oval next to a name.
Absentee ballot: If you can't go to the polling place, you can vote by mail. A ballot is sent to you and you send it back. Useful if you'll be traveling on Election Day.
Remote voting: Under development. One of the problems with voting away from the polling place is that it is not guaranteed to be secret. Someone can pay you to vote for someone, but they can't see how you vote at the polling place. If you can vote remotely, someone could be looking over your shoulder checking that you're voting a certain way.
"I didn't vote because I'm not 18 yet. If I could have voted, I would have voted for Nader.... Seems to me
every years voters have fewer reasons to turn out, because the republicrats are so sickeningly the same."
There were more than six presidential choices on my ballot this morning, and you mentioned one of them. Make up your mind, is there a choice or not? Well, you'll be able to vote soon and you'll have to make up your mind for a few seconds in the booth.
Apparently DIPC (Distributed IPC) can run with MOSIX, although DIPC a few months ago did not optimize migrated processes. It could work, but works better when DIPC realizes that processes are able to run on other systems.
The early data doesn't match old orbits of Saturn V third-stage (S-IVB, used in Earth orbit to accelerate to the Moon) data, although perhaps an orbit has altered over 30 years. After Apollo 12, that stage was aimed at the Moon for the benefit of seismic instruments. Or it might be from the USSR.
You can see that none of the objects in the table has a period of 353 or 354 days. Perhaps an object with a longer period got slowed, or one with a shorter period got accelerated, by Earth-Moon approaches. Or Apollo 12's lost stage ended up here...
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"Your reasoning implies that nothing is a dead issue until the Supreme Court hears it."
Nothing is ever a dead issue. If the courts decide something, the lawmakers can create similar new laws. Or the Executive Branch can alter how much they enforce the laws. Or the King can declare you part of the family and exempt from the laws. Or the software maker can alter their software to run differently with your products and systems.
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Actually Sega is getting out of the hardware business, so it will use Mir to deorbit the Iridium satellites. A revolutionary user interface will then introduce their new game family: "Find Water On Mars", followed by "Dry Mars", followed by "Mars Swimming Hole"...all of which will run only on Beowulf clusters of Dragonball Z graphically enhanced processors.
The article said that "couples" lined up. Were the ladies nominated and voted on separately? If not, was the young woman who campaigned with him aware that he was going to do this? Or did he have an unwitting participant who he left at the throne?
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What's the difference between using different windowing interfaces? Oh, yeah, in some you double-click, in some you use more than one mouse button... Yup, that's harder to use.
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One way for a fifth as many people to have marked more than one candidate in the Senate portion is if only one fifth of the people bothered to vote for Senate. Some people only vote for the President or other high-visibility races.
In my opinion the more likely reason is because President is the first selection, so people who will make mistakes will do so in that section. By the time they got to Senate they learned the system better.
Or maybe there's something not being described, such as if the ballot has to be matched with several templates and if you flip it over in the process then certain types of mistakes appear.
I guess the precincts using that system must have just tossed the cards in a ballot box and counted them later. The mark-sense ballot which I used was run through a counting machine immediately -- if I had voted for two Presidents then it would have beeped and given the ballot back to me, so I could get a replacement ballot and try again.
You don't need mini-PCI to connect to Ethernet. Use a USB Ethernet device.
From the replies, apparently some people don't recognize the quotation attributed to the famous bank robber Willie Sutton (wrongly attributed, until he stole it).
I'll have to take your word for it. I didn't notice that earlier, and now my Fox affiliat seems to be having "Newsradio" cover the election. I'll watch for a laser pointer on the radio.
Every file created by a human is copyrighted, unless the human has made the file public domain or has been dead over 70 years.
Okay, why is NBC using a whiteboard on someone's knee to show the latest tally? It is kind of retro...
"Because that's where the money is."
Okay, so this doesn't mean we forget about it. It means we have a 71 year warning that something is coming -- and a 30 year warning that we have a chance to get a close look at it. Or a 30 year warning of the closest approach if we have to put equipment on it to tinker with its orbit.
Ozone is the effect of UV being filtered by oxygen. The oxygen gets blasted with intense UV from the Sun and separates into ozone. If you remove the oxygen from one level of the atmosphere, the UV would simply penetrate further and create more ozone further down. That's why the Antarctic "ozone hole" happens during the months-long winter down there -- there isn't much solar UV hitting the atmosphere there. There's still plenty of oxygen to interfere with ground-based UV observation at sea level anywhere on Earth.
Earth has been leaking stuff into space for millions and millions of years. Haven't we already contaminated the neighborhood? Or, if Mars bacteria got here and we're the result ... Mars and we have contaminated the neighborhood.
Gee, too bad his feedback form at the bottom of the page doesn't work with my Netscape...
Actually, if you want to know how this population voted just go look at the Slashdot Poll.
There were more than six presidential choices on my ballot this morning, and you mentioned one of them. Make up your mind, is there a choice or not? Well, you'll be able to vote soon and you'll have to make up your mind for a few seconds in the booth.
Many books have been very successful and have been reprinted with many years between editions. How recent are your copies of Smith's "Lensman" series?
Apparently DIPC (Distributed IPC) can run with MOSIX, although DIPC a few months ago did not optimize migrated processes. It could work, but works better when DIPC realizes that processes are able to run on other systems.
You can see that none of the objects in the table has a period of 353 or 354 days. Perhaps an object with a longer period got slowed, or one with a shorter period got accelerated, by Earth-Moon approaches. Or Apollo 12's lost stage ended up here...
In preparation, please convert all your documents in proprietary formats to openly defined standards. Conversion of remaining propietary documents for examination will be billed at our standard rates.
Nothing is ever a dead issue. If the courts decide something, the lawmakers can create similar new laws. Or the Executive Branch can alter how much they enforce the laws. Or the King can declare you part of the family and exempt from the laws. Or the software maker can alter their software to run differently with your products and systems.
It has come to our attention that Slashdot has not registered licenses for any Microsoft products. We will be conducting an audit during December of your premises and equipment. No preparation is necessary, we will begin by reinstalling Windows 2000 on desktop machines and Windows NT on servers to ensure proper functioning of our audit tools.
Oh, is that why my keyboard chirps whenever my sleeves get close to it?
Actually Sega is getting out of the hardware business, so it will use Mir to deorbit the Iridium satellites. A revolutionary user interface will then introduce their new game family: "Find Water On Mars", followed by "Dry Mars", followed by "Mars Swimming Hole"...all of which will run only on Beowulf clusters of Dragonball Z graphically enhanced processors.
The article said that "couples" lined up. Were the ladies nominated and voted on separately? If not, was the young woman who campaigned with him aware that he was going to do this? Or did he have an unwitting participant who he left at the throne?
Let's see.. type in user name and password, click on program icon (or click on menu icon then on program name), click on things in the window and type things, click on an icon in the top part of the frame to quit...
What's the difference between using different windowing interfaces? Oh, yeah, in some you double-click, in some you use more than one mouse button... Yup, that's harder to use.
Imagine a Beowulf array inside there...