I can see a legitimate argument against that. Specifically that it applies only to things the Federal Gov't has jurisdiction over.
10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So, I can see a legal argument that the Feds can only dictate the admission of election observers in places under Federal jurisdiction. Places like Washington, DC, overseas military bases and embassies, etc.
After all, the elections are called and run by the States and their delegated authorities.
Texas State Election Code, Title 3 "Election Officers and Observers", Chapter 33 "Watchers", Subchapter B "Eligibility", Section 33.031: "GENERAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS"
(a) To be eligible to serve as a watcher, a person must be a qualified voter:
(1) of the county in which the person is to serve, in an election ordered by the governor or a county authority or in a primary election;
(2) of the part of the county in which the election is held, in an election ordered by the governor or a county authority that does not cover the entire county of the person's residence; and
(3) of the political subdivision, in an election ordered by an authority of a political subdivision other than a county.
(b) The Alcoholic Beverage Code supersedes this section to the extent of any conflict.
So, technically, unless the international observers are local residents, they would be in violation of the law. Legitimately registered voters may observe their LOCAL elections, either by County or possibly State-wide depending on which election it is.
This *partially* changes the ball game. ARM isn't a chip, it is a CPU component on the processor. The "chip" is comprised of many different parts, like Legos. That is why it is called a System on a Chip (SoC).
Other components, for example the GPU, are still very proprietary and closed.
Bullshit. Oh, and you forgot Mitt Romney's actions-that-speak-louder-than-lies position on coal plants in your rush to make this a Democrat-only political football.
Coal is taking a hammering because they compete in exactly the same areas a natural gas. Natural Gas is at an all-time low in price and an all-time high in availability.
Two independent financial firms say the Marcellus isnâ(TM)t just the biggest natural gas field in the country â" itâ(TM)s the cheapest place for energy companies to drill.
The Marcellus could contain "almost half of the current proven natural gas reserves in the U.S," a report from Standard & Poorâ(TM)s issued last week said.
Geology.com has reports of super-sized fields that are turning up there.
Output from the Marcellus - a rich seam of gas-bearing rock that straddles Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia - has jumped nearly ten fold since 2009, flooding pipelines and playing a central role in pushing futures prices to ten-year lows earlier this year.
Local radio up in the Eastern West Virginia Panhandle has run stories about the switch from coal to natgas and the jobs issue. It starts with people who've been in the coal business for generations complaining about losing jobs -- then finishes with THOSE SAME PEOPLE saying they moved over to natgas jobs that PAY MORE and ARE SAFER. They just had an emotional tie to the coal, which has employed their families for generations which took some getting over.
People may bitch about fracking, but it doesn't hold a candle to the environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal and coal mining. Coal mining is also one of the single most dangerous jobs in the country.
The coal isn't going anywhere. It'll still be there if we ever need it. But pure economics is driving the industry to natural gas and coal is the primary loser -- and rightfully so. It is more expensive to produce, more dangerous to both the producers (miners) and end users (people who breathe), more difficult to transport in quantity (can't use pipelines), cleaner (natgas doesn't leave coal dust messes in homes that use it for heat) and all-around substandard to natural gas.
This is capitalism and the free market at work, baby. Or are you one of those planned-economy socialists longing for the good-old days of Marx, Lenin and Mao?
The missing factor is the physical size and weight of the respective batteries. I expect Google doesn't prizes smaller/thinner/cooler over longer charge once it passed about 6 hours.
I'm not concerned about user access to the data. That is part of their job. I was commenting about malware that runs not as Admin, but with the rights of the user having access to all the data the user has access to.
Data theft is now the #1 target of malware.
Also, one of the largest vectors of malware infection is by simply tricking the user to click on it and install it. There is a ton of damage malware can do if it just installs with user rights.
As for users not installing all levels of crap on the machines -- that is also a false goal. With all the pressure put on vendors to write software with minimal rights and permissions, lots of it now DOES NOT NEED admin rights to install. Users can still install all levels of crap on their machines and it is just as bad as admin-rights crap from their perspective.
If you really want to keep machines clean you do application whitelisting or some form of VM/VDI. That is a serious chore.
Admin access is a red herring. If I'm after patient medical or billing data and that is readily accessible by the logged-in user account, why do I care about Admin rights?
Yes, it helps for propagation and hiding, but for data access it is superfluous.
It is the plot of a few different novels I've read over the last couple of decades. Some of them go fairly in depth.
It should work especially well on those groups that like to promote "ethnic purity" and have genetic tests to prove they're "pure". Find the genes they're claiming as unique, bind to just those.
If I don't "tailgate" while commuting to/from work on the Interstate someone will simply change lanes in front of me and magically I'll be tailgating again.
I have found this to be true in every major city I have commuted by auto in: Washington, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Dallas and Seattle.
A space of more than about a car length between me and the car in front of me is an invitation for someone to dangerously merge.
I have no hatred of Islam, or any other religion. I have disdain for many and fervent disagreement with several. Am I not allowed to voice my opinion?
Does Ban Ki-Moon's opinion extend to the hatred expressed and acted upon by followers of a religion who assault and murder those to leave that faith? (Apostasy)
What about the fatwa and decree of death against Salman Rushdie for his publication of The Satanic Verses? Is the call to murder what Ban Ki-Moon is referring to?
No religion is in isolation from the beliefs and practices of those who claim to be adherents. I have several friends who are Muslims, but who aren't violent extremists. They bear no resemblance to the medieval barbarians making the news in South Asia and the Middle East.
Can I simply direct my scorn and derision at the backward practices of those who are attempting to spread their beliefs with violence and sustain them with oppression?
It isn't the religion I have issues with or hatred for, it is the actions of the religious.
Wikionary is handy for a definition of -ism: Ultimately from either Ancient Greek (-ismos), a suffix that forms abstract nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine; from stem of verbs in (-izein) (whence English -ize), or from the related suffix Ancient Greek (-isma), which more specifically expressed a finished act or thing done.
Therefore terrorism would be a noun that describes a finished act of terrorizing. Or, the completed act of creating terror.
Terror can be defined as intense fright, fear or dread.
What the film The Innocence of Muslims did was to lampoon, ridicule and belittle the actions of the founder of Islam and the beliefs of its followers. There is a difference.
Conflating one with the other does the worst disservice to the people in the world who live in fear and dread because of the violent reactions of others who disagree with or disapprove of them in one way or another.
Saying "You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny" is not the same at all as saying "you will wear what I tell you to wear or I will murder your family, just like I murdered that other family".
Trying to equate the two is more offensive than that stupid video.
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I can see a legitimate argument against that. Specifically that it applies only to things the Federal Gov't has jurisdiction over.
10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
So, I can see a legal argument that the Feds can only dictate the admission of election observers in places under Federal jurisdiction. Places like Washington, DC, overseas military bases and embassies, etc.
After all, the elections are called and run by the States and their delegated authorities.
Texas State Election Code, Title 3 "Election Officers and Observers", Chapter 33 "Watchers", Subchapter B "Eligibility", Section 33.031: "GENERAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS"
(a) To be eligible to serve as a watcher, a person must be a qualified voter:
(1) of the county in which the person is to serve, in an election ordered by the governor or a county authority or in a primary election;
(2) of the part of the county in which the election is held, in an election ordered by the governor or a county authority that does not cover the entire county of the person's residence; and
(3) of the political subdivision, in an election ordered by an authority of a political subdivision other than a county.
(b) The Alcoholic Beverage Code supersedes this section to the extent of any conflict.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986."
So, technically, unless the international observers are local residents, they would be in violation of the law. Legitimately registered voters may observe their LOCAL
elections, either by County or possibly State-wide depending on which election it is.
He is clearly lying or been living too much outside real world..
He's a professional mathematician. That's a given.
Whoosh!
This *partially* changes the ball game. ARM isn't a chip, it is a CPU component on the processor. The "chip" is comprised of many different parts, like Legos. That is why it is called a System on a Chip (SoC).
Other components, for example the GPU, are still very proprietary and closed.
Bullshit. Oh, and you forgot Mitt Romney's actions-that-speak-louder-than-lies position on coal plants in your rush to make this a Democrat-only political football.
Coal is taking a hammering because they compete in exactly the same areas a natural gas. Natural Gas is at an all-time low in price and an all-time high in availability.
Two independent financial firms say the Marcellus isnâ(TM)t just the biggest natural gas field in the country â" itâ(TM)s the cheapest place for energy companies to drill.
The Marcellus could contain "almost half of the current proven natural gas reserves in the U.S," a report from Standard & Poorâ(TM)s issued last week said.
http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/reports-marcellus-shale-reserves-larger-and-cheaper-to-develop-1.344086
Geology.com has reports of super-sized fields that are turning up there.
Output from the Marcellus - a rich seam of gas-bearing rock that straddles Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia - has jumped nearly ten fold since 2009, flooding pipelines and playing a central role in pushing futures prices to ten-year lows earlier this year.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-energy-natgas-marcellus-idUSBRE89E12B20121015
Local radio up in the Eastern West Virginia Panhandle has run stories about the switch from coal to natgas and the jobs issue. It starts with people who've been in the coal business for generations complaining about losing jobs -- then finishes with THOSE SAME PEOPLE saying they moved over to natgas jobs that PAY MORE and ARE SAFER. They just had an emotional tie to the coal, which has employed their families for generations which took some getting over.
People may bitch about fracking, but it doesn't hold a candle to the environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal and coal mining. Coal mining is also one of the single most dangerous jobs in the country.
The coal isn't going anywhere. It'll still be there if we ever need it. But pure economics is driving the industry to natural gas and coal is the primary loser -- and rightfully so. It is more expensive to produce, more dangerous to both the producers (miners) and end users (people who breathe), more difficult to transport in quantity (can't use pipelines), cleaner (natgas doesn't leave coal dust messes in homes that use it for heat) and all-around substandard to natural gas.
This is capitalism and the free market at work, baby. Or are you one of those planned-economy socialists longing for the good-old days of Marx, Lenin and Mao?
Isn't that one of the examples given by "Q" in ST:TNG on the trial of humanity? :-)
Hulu, yes. Netflix -- not yet.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/laptops/21180/new-samsung-chromebook-netflix
Kodos the alien or Kodos the Executioner?
The missing factor is the physical size and weight of the respective batteries. I expect Google doesn't prizes smaller/thinner/cooler over longer charge once it passed about 6 hours.
VPN proxy. I think every smartphone has that built-in.
Of course, it doesn't stop them from pulling location data or calling patterns. Unless you install a VoIP app and use that.
Er, I must've been unclear.
I'm not concerned about user access to the data. That is part of their job. I was commenting about malware that runs not as Admin, but with the rights of the user having access to all the data the user has access to.
Data theft is now the #1 target of malware.
Also, one of the largest vectors of malware infection is by simply tricking the user to click on it and install it. There is a ton of damage malware can do if it just installs with user rights.
As for users not installing all levels of crap on the machines -- that is also a false goal. With all the pressure put on vendors to write software with minimal rights and permissions, lots of it now DOES NOT NEED admin rights to install. Users can still install all levels of crap on their machines and it is just as bad as admin-rights crap from their perspective.
If you really want to keep machines clean you do application whitelisting or some form of VM/VDI. That is a serious chore.
He didn't say they were playing baseball...
Admin access is a red herring. If I'm after patient medical or billing data and that is readily accessible by the logged-in user account, why do I care about Admin rights?
Yes, it helps for propagation and hiding, but for data access it is superfluous.
Then I suggest you invest in a rickshaw service. Maybe rent Segways. You'll make a killing.
It is the plot of a few different novels I've read over the last couple of decades. Some of them go fairly in depth.
It should work especially well on those groups that like to promote "ethnic purity" and have genetic tests to prove they're "pure". Find the genes they're claiming as unique, bind to just those.
It *WAS* 3.5 million, but they lost a cool million at the Indian Casino craps table before they wised up and cashed out.
Yes. School funding comes mostly from property and impact taxes in the area. It is distributed to schools according to their population (attendance).
Each child is worth a particular dollar amount per day to the school. Special needs kids are worth more money.
If they signal, sure. If they just snap in to try and weave thru the traffic, no.
Nope. I like to encourage people to signal. I'll speed up a bit if you try and merge WITHOUT signalling. If you're also using a cell phone, I'll honk.
Yes? And?
Have you driven in any of those cities during rush hour?
The gap doesn't increase until you hit 35 MPH, in which case it'll be 2 - 3 car lengths. You won't see more than that until 60+ MPH.
The trick is not to watch the car in front of you, but half-a-dozen cars in front to know when the line is braking.
Listen to traffic reports in the morning in a major city and you'll hear no less than half-a-dozen accidents each day. This is the major reason why.
You may think you are joking, but I've seen television ads in the San Francisco area for Hummers (the vehicle) that basically were this.
The message was simply "You're a pussy, buy a Hummer."
Not possible.
If I don't "tailgate" while commuting to/from work on the Interstate someone will simply change lanes in front of me and magically I'll be tailgating again.
I have found this to be true in every major city I have commuted by auto in: Washington, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Dallas and Seattle.
A space of more than about a car length between me and the car in front of me is an invitation for someone to dangerously merge.
I have no hatred of Islam, or any other religion. I have disdain for many and fervent disagreement with several. Am I not allowed to voice my opinion?
Does Ban Ki-Moon's opinion extend to the hatred expressed and acted upon by followers of a religion who assault and murder those to leave that faith? (Apostasy)
What about the fatwa and decree of death against Salman Rushdie for his publication of The Satanic Verses? Is the call to murder what Ban Ki-Moon is referring to?
No religion is in isolation from the beliefs and practices of those who claim to be adherents. I have several friends who are Muslims, but who aren't violent extremists. They bear no resemblance to the medieval barbarians making the news in South Asia and the Middle East.
Can I simply direct my scorn and derision at the backward practices of those who are attempting to spread their beliefs with violence and sustain them with oppression?
It isn't the religion I have issues with or hatred for, it is the actions of the religious.
Wikionary is handy for a definition of -ism : Ultimately from either Ancient Greek (-ismos), a suffix that forms abstract nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine; from stem of verbs in (-izein) (whence English -ize), or from the related suffix Ancient Greek (-isma), which more specifically expressed a finished act or thing done.
Therefore terrorism would be a noun that describes a finished act of terrorizing. Or, the completed act of creating terror.
Terror can be defined as intense fright, fear or dread.
What the film The Innocence of Muslims did was to lampoon, ridicule and belittle the actions of the founder of Islam and the beliefs of its followers. There is a difference.
Conflating one with the other does the worst disservice to the people in the world who live in fear and dread because of the violent reactions of others who disagree with or disapprove of them in one way or another.
Saying "You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny" is not the same at all as saying "you will wear what I tell you to wear or I will murder your family, just like I murdered that other family".
Trying to equate the two is more offensive than that stupid video.