this should not be used to force me to be atheist.
This argument always confuses me. Explain how, exactly, preventing you from using my tax dollars to promote your religon (perhaps even to my kids), forces you to be an Atheist.
...it happens to a New York media person, instead of by them like God intended.
The author has three examples for his "censorship" arguement: Facebook blocking a page containing cartoon nipples (but it was the New Yorker's page, so that's bad!), Apple asterixing out some letters in the name of a book, and various autocorrects not helpfullying filling out dirty words for you. That's it.
The first two are pretty damn obvious. iTunes and Facebook operate walled gardens. Monolithic control of the content, whether you like it or not, is exactly the problem with such systems. The only thing annoying about this is that Evgeny and his buddies at the Times saw no problem with this until it inconvienenced other New York media types like themselves. The obivious solution here, which I and a good portion of the rest of us here on Slashdot implement, it don't use them.
The third is just plain sillyness. Of course you don't want autocompletion software to fill out explitives for you. You have to look at how things fail here. Autocomplete is a prediction, but it isn't perfect, and the last thing you want is the damn thing changing innocuous words to one of the Carlin 7 when you are texting your family or employer. Duh.
If I want a "bad" word, I'll go through the effort to manually spell it. It's typically only 4 letters anyway.:-)
but it's still pretty safe if you aren't an idiot.
Nice variant of the "no true Scottsman" argument there.
As someone who spent a decade living in the drained swapland areas of central Florida, IMHO anyone who hangs around 10+ foot gators during mating season is an idiot. Some just get to live through the experience because there aren't quite enough gators to eat all y'all.
Of course the adults would be fine with it; they are bigger than you. This is exactly why park rangers in India always take a goat with them when visiting the tigers.
Once the gator eats the kids, then the adults start to worry.
"The decision to leave was mutual" usually means that his boss(es) decided it would be a good idea for him to leave without them having to call the cops and throw him out, and he agreed.
This really shouldn't suprise anyone. For most of the history of Oil Production, the USA has been the world's largest producer. We only lost the title in the 70's (I was a kid, so yes, I remember us being the largest before). We never left the top three, and the Saudi's never outproduced us by a large percentage.
I even remember back in the 70's being told that we had so much shale that we could easily keep leading the world, but it would probably stay put until we figured out a way to get it more cheaply, or the prices raised a fair amont.
Well, there's been a Socialist in congress (Bernie Sanders) for years. There are occasionally independents too (we just lost one, but gained another. However they almost always caucus with the Democrats, so for all intents and purposes they are Democrats.
However, as I tried to say previously, our parties are pretty much built around the President, or trying to win the Presidency. Since that's a nationwide vote, and no more than two parties can have a shot at winning a majority in any election, the stable-state of the American Democracy will always be a two-party system.
As per article 4 section 3 of the United States Constitution, the disposition of the territory of the United States of America is under the perview of Congress. Convince them of your case enough to make a law of it, and I may sign it. Convince two thirds of them, and it doesn't matter what I think.
So if you think you have a good case, go talk to my collegues in Congress. Its the big white building up on the hill over there. I'll be here running the country while you are gone. Good luck!
That's because your extra parties are Regional, and there is no nationwide plebicite on a single candidate. In each riding you can only have two viable parties, but it changes from riding to riding what those two parties are.
For instance, let's look at the Green party's one seat. The election results in that riding were: Greens 46%, Conservatives: 36%, all others combined: 18%. Only two parties are viable there
We've had several spurts in US history where we had regional parties too. The reason that situation is not stable here is our nationwide first-past-the-post plebicite for President. No more than two such candidates can be viable, so inasmuch as parties tend to be built around Presidents, we are forced into a non-regional two-party system.
Lefty gamer here, and I have switched to Logitech. I'm using the G300 now, and am quite happy with it. The setup software is a bit wonky, and has to be twiddled with every time I come back from sleep or reboot for some reason (?), but otherwise it Just Works. My last 3 Razer mice all got unreliable on one axis after about 6 months or so. I'd expect that from a $20 beater mouse, but not a supposed "gaming" mouse. I won't put up with a peice of hardware I can't rely on.
I switched to Logitech as well. Razer mice had a nasty habit of going bad after a year or so. The motion in one axis will just go away for a while, almost like its an old roller mouse with a gummed up roller. Its generally fixable by rebooting (or of course buying a new $150 mouse from them), but this is just not acceptable behaviour for a serious gamer. Seriously, rebooting fixes a mouse issue!
Frankly the above behaviour points to a really poorly designed product. Requiring an internet connection fits right into thier already demonstrated level of design "skill".
Did it surprise you to find out that YOU are part of the 47% Romney considers to be a leech?
This is rather inaccurate. I'm no Romney fan, but almost everybody gets this wrong, and its annoying.
Romney's 47% was, by his definition, people who pay no income taxes. A certian amount of slashdot readers are probably full-time students, and a few will be retirees and/or active duty miltary, but otherwise almost everybody reading here is in Romney's other 53%.
The part I found particularly apalling about his remarks wasn't the disrespect he showed (sadly, I'm used to that), but the sheer stupidity. A large portion of the "47%" are retirees, who are Romney's strongest demograpic. The next largest portion are active duty military, who back in the Bush era were also strong Republican supporters.
So when he was "entitiled" people who pay no taxes, he was insulting mostly his own voters, and was too stupid to realise he was doing it.
Thank whatever diety you pray to that the USA didn't end up with that delusional person as POTUS.
A union should be beneficial enough for people to want to join voluntarily.
I don't understand this comment at all. If it costs me money to join the union, but I can reap all the benefits of working in a union shop for free, all the incentive is against joining the union, isn't it?
It seems like mandating "open shops" is just a sneaky way to emasculate the unions by starving them to death with free riders.
Nate explains his model in detail, and regularly explains clearly what facets of the latest data and his model caused the various shifts that occurred.
So basically its because he's a better writer. Turns out that, even for nerds, communication skills matter.
That really was the case in this race. Apparently MMORPG players around the world got outraged and donated almost $200K to her campaign. That's just crazy money for a state senate race.
Two. He got the midterms right too (to the consternation of many on the left before the actual vote happened).
Admittedly two-for-two isn't a huge sample size, but many of the pollsters can't even boast that storied of a career. Other poll aggregators have even less going for them. Perhaps that's more of an indictment of the current state of the art than it is a brag for Nate, but either way it leaves those of us trying to objectively analyze the numbers in the same position: Until something better comes along, 538's the best we have.
I'm sure if you called up the Communications Workers of America, they'd be happy to talk with you about this subject in detail. (warning: I am not responsible for what happens to your employment status if you click that link from work and it shows up in your company's webserver logs).
A decade ago I worked at a Lockheed Martin site (in Camden, NJ) that had all its software engineers unionized under the CWA. I was on loan (yes, a scab), but I never witnessed any of the common horror stories you typically hear about unions while there. It was almost exactly like working anywhere else. The only real difference I saw was that when we got sold to Lockheed, the union at that one site was single-handedly responsible for the old company being forced to fork over our saved pension funds to the new company.
Mr. Obama will be weakened by the divisive campaign; the electorate is bitterly split, and he will find Congress harder to work with.
You sound so sure. But GWB actually lost the popular vote in 2000, and yet the Democratic congress was willing to work with him. So it doesn't have to be that way.
I hold out hope that once they realize making Obama look bad for the next election can't be a goal any more, the Congressional Republicans will start acting more like a traditional USA opposition party and a bit less like Captain Ahab trying to take down the Great White Whale.
Perhaps you are right though. We'll (most likely) see.
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this should not be used to force me to be atheist.
This argument always confuses me. Explain how, exactly, preventing you from using my tax dollars to promote your religon (perhaps even to my kids), forces you to be an Atheist.
...it happens to a New York media person, instead of by them like God intended.
The author has three examples for his "censorship" arguement: Facebook blocking a page containing cartoon nipples (but it was the New Yorker's page, so that's bad!), Apple asterixing out some letters in the name of a book, and various autocorrects not helpfullying filling out dirty words for you. That's it.
The first two are pretty damn obvious. iTunes and Facebook operate walled gardens. Monolithic control of the content, whether you like it or not, is exactly the problem with such systems. The only thing annoying about this is that Evgeny and his buddies at the Times saw no problem with this until it inconvienenced other New York media types like themselves. The obivious solution here, which I and a good portion of the rest of us here on Slashdot implement, it don't use them.
The third is just plain sillyness. Of course you don't want autocompletion software to fill out explitives for you. You have to look at how things fail here. Autocomplete is a prediction, but it isn't perfect, and the last thing you want is the damn thing changing innocuous words to one of the Carlin 7 when you are texting your family or employer. Duh.
If I want a "bad" word, I'll go through the effort to manually spell it. It's typically only 4 letters anyway. :-)
but it's still pretty safe if you aren't an idiot.
Nice variant of the "no true Scottsman" argument there.
As someone who spent a decade living in the drained swapland areas of central Florida, IMHO anyone who hangs around 10+ foot gators during mating season is an idiot. Some just get to live through the experience because there aren't quite enough gators to eat all y'all.
Yet.
Of course the adults would be fine with it; they are bigger than you. This is exactly why park rangers in India always take a goat with them when visiting the tigers.
Once the gator eats the kids, then the adults start to worry.
"The decision to leave was mutual" usually means that his boss(es) decided it would be a good idea for him to leave without them having to call the cops and throw him out, and he agreed.
This really shouldn't suprise anyone. For most of the history of Oil Production, the USA has been the world's largest producer. We only lost the title in the 70's (I was a kid, so yes, I remember us being the largest before). We never left the top three, and the Saudi's never outproduced us by a large percentage.
I even remember back in the 70's being told that we had so much shale that we could easily keep leading the world, but it would probably stay put until we figured out a way to get it more cheaply, or the prices raised a fair amont.
Both have happened, so here we are.
Well, there's been a Socialist in congress (Bernie Sanders) for years. There are occasionally independents too (we just lost one, but gained another. However they almost always caucus with the Democrats, so for all intents and purposes they are Democrats.
However, as I tried to say previously, our parties are pretty much built around the President, or trying to win the Presidency. Since that's a nationwide vote, and no more than two parties can have a shot at winning a majority in any election, the stable-state of the American Democracy will always be a two-party system.
As per article 4 section 3 of the United States Constitution, the disposition of the territory of the United States of America is under the perview of Congress. Convince them of your case enough to make a law of it, and I may sign it. Convince two thirds of them, and it doesn't matter what I think.
So if you think you have a good case, go talk to my collegues in Congress. Its the big white building up on the hill over there. I'll be here running the country while you are gone. Good luck!
Yours, Barry.
Not in Oklahoma you didn't. She wasn't on the ballot in a quarter of the states, and wasn't even available as a write-in in half of those.
In a first-past the post election, there cannot physically be more than two viable candidates. She wasn't one of them.
So yes. Perhaps you marked a ballot that way somewhere, but for all intents and purposes, the Jill Stein candidacy was a figment of your imagination.
That's because your extra parties are Regional, and there is no nationwide plebicite on a single candidate. In each riding you can only have two viable parties, but it changes from riding to riding what those two parties are.
For instance, let's look at the Green party's one seat. The election results in that riding were: Greens 46%, Conservatives: 36%, all others combined: 18%. Only two parties are viable there
We've had several spurts in US history where we had regional parties too. The reason that situation is not stable here is our nationwide first-past-the-post plebicite for President. No more than two such candidates can be viable, so inasmuch as parties tend to be built around Presidents, we are forced into a non-regional two-party system.
You can't get around Dveger's Law.
Lefty gamer here, and I have switched to Logitech. I'm using the G300 now, and am quite happy with it. The setup software is a bit wonky, and has to be twiddled with every time I come back from sleep or reboot for some reason (?), but otherwise it Just Works. My last 3 Razer mice all got unreliable on one axis after about 6 months or so. I'd expect that from a $20 beater mouse, but not a supposed "gaming" mouse. I won't put up with a peice of hardware I can't rely on.
I switched to Logitech as well. Razer mice had a nasty habit of going bad after a year or so. The motion in one axis will just go away for a while, almost like its an old roller mouse with a gummed up roller. Its generally fixable by rebooting (or of course buying a new $150 mouse from them), but this is just not acceptable behaviour for a serious gamer. Seriously, rebooting fixes a mouse issue!
Frankly the above behaviour points to a really poorly designed product. Requiring an internet connection fits right into thier already demonstrated level of design "skill".
Did it surprise you to find out that YOU are part of the 47% Romney considers to be a leech?
This is rather inaccurate. I'm no Romney fan, but almost everybody gets this wrong, and its annoying.
Romney's 47% was, by his definition, people who pay no income taxes. A certian amount of slashdot readers are probably full-time students, and a few will be retirees and/or active duty miltary, but otherwise almost everybody reading here is in Romney's other 53%.
The part I found particularly apalling about his remarks wasn't the disrespect he showed (sadly, I'm used to that), but the sheer stupidity. A large portion of the "47%" are retirees, who are Romney's strongest demograpic. The next largest portion are active duty military, who back in the Bush era were also strong Republican supporters.
So when he was "entitiled" people who pay no taxes, he was insulting mostly his own voters, and was too stupid to realise he was doing it.
Thank whatever diety you pray to that the USA didn't end up with that delusional person as POTUS.
A union should be beneficial enough for people to want to join voluntarily.
I don't understand this comment at all. If it costs me money to join the union, but I can reap all the benefits of working in a union shop for free, all the incentive is against joining the union, isn't it?
It seems like mandating "open shops" is just a sneaky way to emasculate the unions by starving them to death with free riders.
What a great idea! I think I'll use my handy time-machine and go back to 2000 and create it. Hang on....
(da da da dat dadadada...)
...
Done. Here it is: Seen on Slash. Enjoy!
I wonder what else I can do with this time machine? Oh well, back to Slashdot...
Nate explains his model in detail, and regularly explains clearly what facets of the latest data and his model caused the various shifts that occurred.
So basically its because he's a better writer. Turns out that, even for nerds, communication skills matter.
The only ones who believed the race was a 'virtual tie' were those who had gains to be had by it being so, namely the media.
...and those who listened to the media, rather than the few relatively unknown statewide poll aggregators like Nate.
In otherwords: almost everyone. :-(
Couldn't you make the same exact argument about our right to play World of Warcraft, or our Right to Party (as enumerated in License to Ill, track 7)?
That really was the case in this race. Apparently MMORPG players around the world got outraged and donated almost $200K to her campaign. That's just crazy money for a state senate race.
Two. He got the midterms right too (to the consternation of many on the left before the actual vote happened).
Admittedly two-for-two isn't a huge sample size, but many of the pollsters can't even boast that storied of a career. Other poll aggregators have even less going for them. Perhaps that's more of an indictment of the current state of the art than it is a brag for Nate, but either way it leaves those of us trying to objectively analyze the numbers in the same position: Until something better comes along, 538's the best we have.
I'm sure if you called up the Communications Workers of America, they'd be happy to talk with you about this subject in detail. (warning: I am not responsible for what happens to your employment status if you click that link from work and it shows up in your company's webserver logs).
A decade ago I worked at a Lockheed Martin site (in Camden, NJ) that had all its software engineers unionized under the CWA. I was on loan (yes, a scab), but I never witnessed any of the common horror stories you typically hear about unions while there. It was almost exactly like working anywhere else. The only real difference I saw was that when we got sold to Lockheed, the union at that one site was single-handedly responsible for the old company being forced to fork over our saved pension funds to the new company.
Well, its sort of a paywall. The kind that has a pay-pusher leaning against it willing to give you your first 10 or so hits (per month) free.
Just don't read more than 10 NYT articles a month, and you can still pretend you don't have a problem.
Mr. Obama will be weakened by the divisive campaign; the electorate is bitterly split, and he will find Congress harder to work with.
You sound so sure. But GWB actually lost the popular vote in 2000, and yet the Democratic congress was willing to work with him. So it doesn't have to be that way.
I hold out hope that once they realize making Obama look bad for the next election can't be a goal any more, the Congressional Republicans will start acting more like a traditional USA opposition party and a bit less like Captain Ahab trying to take down the Great White Whale.
Perhaps you are right though. We'll (most likely) see.
Perhaps it was flying in a circle, and the built the chimney around it?
I forgot to add...
Probably got distracted by some kids walking on his lawn.