And throughout modern history, those aged 21 to 29 have typically been less likely to vote than older Americans. After a brief spike in 1992, turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds in the 2000 presidential election dropped more than 20 percentage points below the national average--46 percent to the other age groups' 72 percent.
turnout among the under-30 set shot up 9 percent from 2000
Since every age bracket voted in higher numbers than in 2000, the exit polls showed about equal youth shares of total voters for 2004 and 2000
So, doing the math, the under 30 set was up 54% to other age groups 82%. Still seems pathetic to me especially when compared to other age groups.
Is that you can rip out the DRM. I refuse to buy anything that has DRM such that if the company goes under I'm stuck.
I already had one machine die and when I contacted Apple to have it removed they made it sound like it was a big deal to take it off my approved list. Just imagine what will happen in 10 years when this technology is old. Whats going to happen? Will Apple be around?
It would have been nice if the HDTV implementors had allowed multiple compression schema. Animation is very compressible even when using lossless algorithms. It just doesn't like the lossy (dct) compression.
MPEG/JPEG relies on gradual changes from one frame/color to the next. Animation doesn't follow this rule and thus looks crappy.
I looked into a projector but the major issue is you really need a room where you can control the light. Most modern houses in my area are meant to be open/airy. Lots of high windows and vaulted ceilings. Its very hard to get a dark room especially if you want to watch TV during the day.
Oh, and how about those bulbs? Have you had to buy a replacement yet?
Even more of a problem is backing up all the gigs of pictures. Before getting into the digital photo stuff I really didn't have anything on my drives that I couldn't replace. If I lost the all the photos of my kids I think I'd be devistated.
Right now I use DVD-R and CDR as well as a USB HD but I still don't feel "save".
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I'm not sure I see how your system works.
What happens when all the jobs go to areas with low labor costs?
I think we have all said the same thing about one company or another but lets be truthful here. Next time they come out with a game you really want they will see about $50 of your pennies.
Yep, I've certainly heard of the silent majority. Its usually used to represent the majority of people "in the middle". Not the quacks on the left or right.
Why exactly do you believe CBS and/or the Boston Globe were in on a coordinated attack? A much more likely situation is that someone was out to get Bush and CBS/Globe jumped on the story in the age old journalistic tradition.
This is just going to feed the Right Wing's crap about the liberal press.
2) Here I agree. CBS took way to long to admit a mistake. Furthermore, some of the items brought up to prove these documents were fakes were so obvious I have to seriously question how well the researched them in the first place. Again, they probably wanted to get the story out so bad they fell hook, line, and sinker.
I'd setup a moderation system. Every so often I'd give random users 5 points they could use to moderate posts. Of course you would need a meta-moderations to watch the moderators as well..
"1: Bribes, otherwise known as federally funded stuff"
Also called pork. Seeing as this is how many things get funded it isn't in Colorado's best interest to be ignored. Its a corrupt system but its how things work today.
Colodrado is a clear Rebublican state. In 2000 Bush got 51% to Gore's 43%. In 1996 Dole won by a slim margin. Because of this the bill won't pass.
A bill like this could only pass in truely contested states. In a state, like Colorado, where one party dominates its against their best interest to let this go through.
Personally, as a swing voter in CO, I love the idea. It makes me feel like my vote would count just a little more but I see no chance in it actually passing.
Also, I think any state with such a system may be doing itself harm. It makes the state much less of a battle ground during an election and may marginalize the number of "election promisses" are granted to a state.
You still spin the thing to separate the gas out. On inner edge where the gas collects you have a gortex like membrian that will let the gas out but keep the water in.
Now, you have the gas, H and O, in your ship. Make another H scrubber. I'll leave that activity up to the reader:).
I'd agree on the vacation/sick day. That seems fair all around.
Since we know nothing about the company with this policy I would shy away from calling it reprehensible. Who knows, maybe its a small company on the brink. Having said company cover all the costs of a natural disaster is much different then a larger corporation.
Ideally a company would think first about its employees and tell them to stay home and take care of business. I know mine would.
Not that its ever put into practice, but if your a salaried employee I think a company is required to pay you the same no matter how many hours you work in a single day. So, if you show up for 1 hour they have to pay you the same as if you worked 10.
Why should your employeer pay you for time you didn't work? They didn't dock you anything. If you didn't work they don't owe you the money for said work.
It would be a totally different matter if they had said you would loose your job if you didn't come in.
It would be one thing if your company had said anyone who didn't show up would be fired but that doesn't sound like what happened. From your description it sounds like the employeer just wasn't going to pay you for time you weren't at work.
The question is... why should they? Are they really taking anything away from you if you didn't work. If you didn't work then the money you would have gotten isn't yours. They didn't take anything.
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And throughout modern history, those aged 21 to 29 have typically been less likely to vote than older Americans. After a brief spike in 1992, turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds in the 2000 presidential election dropped more than 20 percentage points below the national average--46 percent to the other age groups' 72 percent.
turnout among the under-30 set shot up 9 percent from 2000
Since every age bracket voted in higher numbers than in 2000, the exit polls showed about equal youth shares of total voters for 2004 and 2000
So, doing the math, the under 30 set was up 54% to other age groups 82%. Still seems pathetic to me especially when compared to other age groups.
Is that you can rip out the DRM. I refuse to buy anything that has DRM such that if the company goes under I'm stuck.
I already had one machine die and when I contacted Apple to have it removed they made it sound like it was a big deal to take it off my approved list. Just imagine what will happen in 10 years when this technology is old. Whats going to happen? Will Apple be around?
All my friends are playing EQ2 but I like the looks of WoW. Decisions ... decisions...
I think we all know the dangers of hooking up robotic octopus arms without proper failsafes in place.
Could the ease of hacking the Xbox have anything to do with it?
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It would have been nice if the HDTV implementors had allowed multiple compression schema. Animation is very compressible even when using lossless algorithms. It just doesn't like the lossy (dct) compression.
MPEG/JPEG relies on gradual changes from one frame/color to the next. Animation doesn't follow this rule and thus looks crappy.
I looked into a projector but the major issue is you really need a room where you can control the light. Most modern houses in my area are meant to be open/airy. Lots of high windows and vaulted ceilings. Its very hard to get a dark room especially if you want to watch TV during the day.
Oh, and how about those bulbs? Have you had to buy a replacement yet?
Hmmm, I can turn off all the services I want in XP Home. Whats the issue?
From your post I take it your not a parent?
I've found that I'm much more tolerant of new parents talking about their kids after having a couple myself. Before I had kids it drove me nuts.
I hear ya!
Even more of a problem is backing up all the gigs of pictures. Before getting into the digital photo stuff I really didn't have anything on my drives that I couldn't replace. If I lost the all the photos of my kids I think I'd be devistated.
Right now I use DVD-R and CDR as well as a USB HD but I still don't feel "save".
I'm not sure I see how your system works.
What happens when all the jobs go to areas with low labor costs?
"EA will never see another penny from me."
Sure. Sure. We all beleive ya. Really.
I think we have all said the same thing about one company or another but lets be truthful here. Next time they come out with a game you really want they will see about $50 of your pennies.
Yep, I've certainly heard of the silent majority. Its usually used to represent the majority of people "in the middle". Not the quacks on the left or right.
Why exactly do you believe CBS and/or the Boston Globe were in on a coordinated attack? A much more likely situation is that someone was out to get Bush and CBS/Globe jumped on the story in the age old journalistic tradition.
This is just going to feed the Right Wing's crap about the liberal press.
2) Here I agree. CBS took way to long to admit a mistake. Furthermore, some of the items brought up to prove these documents were fakes were so obvious I have to seriously question how well the researched them in the first place. Again, they probably wanted to get the story out so bad they fell hook, line, and sinker.
I'd setup a moderation system. Every so often I'd give random users 5 points they could use to moderate posts. Of course you would need a meta-moderations to watch the moderators as well..
This is all theory mind you...
"1: Bribes, otherwise known as federally funded stuff"
Also called pork. Seeing as this is how many things get funded it isn't in Colorado's best interest to be ignored. Its a corrupt system but its how things work today.
Colodrado is a clear Rebublican state. In 2000 Bush got 51% to Gore's 43%. In 1996 Dole won by a slim margin. Because of this the bill won't pass.
A bill like this could only pass in truely contested states. In a state, like Colorado, where one party dominates its against their best interest to let this go through.
Personally, as a swing voter in CO, I love the idea. It makes me feel like my vote would count just a little more but I see no chance in it actually passing.
Also, I think any state with such a system may be doing itself harm. It makes the state much less of a battle ground during an election and may marginalize the number of "election promisses" are granted to a state.
Ok, how about this.
:).
You still spin the thing to separate the gas out. On inner edge where the gas collects you have a gortex like membrian that will let the gas out but keep the water in.
Now, you have the gas, H and O, in your ship. Make another H scrubber. I'll leave that activity up to the reader
While the idea of a space telescope with such a huge sensor is pretty cool this resolution wouldn't buy much on the normal camera front.
Today many of the 8MP cameras are a joke. The lens coupled with the sensors can't come close to getting that resolution.
Really? That much more complicated?
Wouldn't slow spinning the whole thing separate things out?
I'd agree on the vacation/sick day. That seems fair all around.
Since we know nothing about the company with this policy I would shy away from calling it reprehensible. Who knows, maybe its a small company on the brink. Having said company cover all the costs of a natural disaster is much different then a larger corporation.
Ideally a company would think first about its employees and tell them to stay home and take care of business. I know mine would.
Not that its ever put into practice, but if your a salaried employee I think a company is required to pay you the same no matter how many hours you work in a single day. So, if you show up for 1 hour they have to pay you the same as if you worked 10.
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Of course you'd soon be fired but
Why should your employeer pay you for time you didn't work? They didn't dock you anything. If you didn't work they don't owe you the money for said work.
It would be a totally different matter if they had said you would loose your job if you didn't come in.
It would be one thing if your company had said anyone who didn't show up would be fired but that doesn't sound like what happened. From your description it sounds like the employeer just wasn't going to pay you for time you weren't at work.
... why should they? Are they really taking anything away from you if you didn't work. If you didn't work then the money you would have gotten isn't yours. They didn't take anything.
The question is