Sounds to me like a rehash of the X-Specs technolgy available for the Amiga back in the day. Their stuff was cheap enough for anyone who could afford an Amiga. The X-specs used the two fields of a frame of video to represent the left and right eye views. The glasses had LCD shutters which would sync with the fields. I even had some object modeling software which could use the X-Specs technology to give "real" 3d modelling results. Good fun way back when...
1. I'm pretty sure the constitution gives the power of deciding who gets to vote to the states. So while you might think for national elections it should be decided at a federal level it should take an amendment to change it. 2. I think if the bill is presented by two democrats and it can be demonstrated resonably that the bill will give a significant advantage to democratic voters then it is an important thing to consider and is not ad hominem. 3. You seem to be saying ex-con voting rights should be handled nationally and that is more important than whether the way it is handled is they get to vote or not. I think it should be decided first whether it should be handled nationally and then decided whether they get to vote or not. 4. There are a ton of federal holidays which are not observed by any but federal employees. I work at a company which observes *some* of the federal holidays but not all of them. Because it is only a mandated holiday for federal employees they are the only ones *guaranteed* to get the day off to go vote. 5. You really didn't respond to the original poster's core statement which was this is not a bill intended to fix flaws in the electronic voting process but actually will have the effect of getting more democrats to the polls.
Because those bills do not have sections which will allow ex-convicts to vote and declare election day a federal holiday thus making it easier for the largely unionized federal employees to vote without having to miss work unlike those of us in the private sector who are working 12-16 hour days. This bill has both of those provisions.
You say: As a percentage of the population the number of lower-class and poor folks, along with the very rich, are at their highest points ever in American history. And then: if all you're doing is turning former middle-class folks into poor folks, while making rich folks richer.
So if both ends of the spectrum are increasing in size why don't you say "turning former middle-class folks into poor OR rich folks"? The facts may not be debatable but when you make a statement like the above you show your bias which is debatable. I personally am someone who went from being a "poor folk" to middle-class and am now heading towards "rich". I do not expect the government to do anything to benefit me regarldess of who is in charge and I think if more people would try to "look out for #1" and depend less on the government (or someone else) to take care of them then we would have a lot fewer problems. I'm sooo tired of all the whining (by both sides).
Take up a martial art as a hobby. I recommend Judo for maximum stress relief. I would link to the article about how to be a hacker but I can't remember who wrote it (maybe RMS?). In the article, whoever wrote it said being involved in a martial art is very important to becoming a successful hacker (not cracker). Many days I can't wait to get to judo so I can imagine the idiot who is causing me stress at work as I beat on someone else (who then thanks me for beating up on them). I sleep great at night, have good blood preasure, and only accumulate a days worth of stress each day before working it off at the dojo.
We have very similar needs in the medical software industry and we find RogueWave to be a pretty good solution for our cross platform C++ needs. They have various libraries (database abstraction, STL, math, etc.) which are all cross platform and provide decent performance. There is still some tweaking to be done to get all platforms to compile clean but it is much less than what we had before we moved to RogueWave.
I believe Neal Stephenson made a pretty good argument for "open hardware" being a significant contributor to the existence of linux. He mentions the unlikely trinity of Bill Gates, IBM clones, and Linus as being the combination of things needed for linux to be created. Read it here
Actually the way it is usually written is: e^(pi*i) + 1 = 0 This keeps the five constants (e, pi, i, 1, and 0) in the equation. And yeah, he was a way math dude.
I think the thing to do in the short run is use the wheel "thingy" in the middle mouse button for movement in the 'Z' plane. When they first came out, I wrote a little bit that would allow me to scroll through the windows in Z order (This was in WinDoze however) using the wheel.
The flaw in your statement is that every issue will have a correct answer for the majority to know. Many of the issues will be ones that appeal strongly to some emotion. The majority will then vote their emotion and not their knowledge. This is (as I said earlier) when majority rule becomes a lynch mob. Enough "voters" get emotionally wound-up about the issue and the next thing you know, they've voted in incorrect solution. Emotion is a way powerful force, and even the most disciplined will have trouble controlling it, given an issue that is on their hot list. Your other statements listing the "focusing mechanisms" does not go away either in a pure democracy; I gaurantee that money and corruption would still be a "focusing mechanism".
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Sounds to me like a rehash of the X-Specs technolgy available for the Amiga back in the day. Their stuff was cheap enough for anyone who could afford an Amiga. The X-specs used the two fields of a frame of video to represent the left and right eye views. The glasses had LCD shutters which would sync with the fields. I even had some object modeling software which could use the X-Specs technology to give "real" 3d modelling results. Good fun way back when...
1. I'm pretty sure the constitution gives the power of deciding who gets to vote to the states. So while you might think for national elections it should be decided at a federal level it should take an amendment to change it.
2. I think if the bill is presented by two democrats and it can be demonstrated resonably that the bill will give a significant advantage to democratic voters then it is an important thing to consider and is not ad hominem.
3. You seem to be saying ex-con voting rights should be handled nationally and that is more important than whether the way it is handled is they get to vote or not. I think it should be decided first whether it should be handled nationally and then decided whether they get to vote or not.
4. There are a ton of federal holidays which are not observed by any but federal employees. I work at a company which observes *some* of the federal holidays but not all of them. Because it is only a mandated holiday for federal employees they are the only ones *guaranteed* to get the day off to go vote.
5. You really didn't respond to the original poster's core statement which was this is not a bill intended to fix flaws in the electronic voting process but actually will have the effect of getting more democrats to the polls.
Because those bills do not have sections which will allow ex-convicts to vote and declare election day a federal holiday thus making it easier for the largely unionized federal employees to vote without having to miss work unlike those of us in the private sector who are working 12-16 hour days.
This bill has both of those provisions.
You say:
As a percentage of the population the number of lower-class and poor folks, along with the very rich, are at their highest points ever in American history.
And then:
if all you're doing is turning former middle-class folks into poor folks, while making rich folks richer.
So if both ends of the spectrum are increasing in size why don't you say "turning former middle-class folks into poor OR rich folks"? The facts may not be debatable but when you make a statement like the above you show your bias which is debatable. I personally am someone who went from being a "poor folk" to middle-class and am now heading towards "rich". I do not expect the government to do anything to benefit me regarldess of who is in charge and I think if more people would try to "look out for #1" and depend less on the government (or someone else) to take care of them then we would have a lot fewer problems. I'm sooo tired of all the whining (by both sides).
Take up a martial art as a hobby. I recommend Judo for maximum stress relief. I would link to the article about how to be a hacker but I can't remember who wrote it (maybe RMS?). In the article, whoever wrote it said being involved in a martial art is very important to becoming a successful hacker (not cracker). Many days I can't wait to get to judo so I can imagine the idiot who is causing me stress at work as I beat on someone else (who then thanks me for beating up on them). I sleep great at night, have good blood preasure, and only accumulate a days worth of stress each day before working it off at the dojo.
We have very similar needs in the medical software industry and we find RogueWave to be a pretty good solution for our cross platform C++ needs. They have various libraries (database abstraction, STL, math, etc.) which are all cross platform and provide decent performance. There is still some tweaking to be done to get all platforms to compile clean but it is much less than what we had before we moved to RogueWave.
I believe Neal Stephenson made a pretty good argument for "open hardware" being a significant contributor to the existence of linux. He mentions the unlikely trinity of Bill Gates, IBM clones, and Linus as being the combination of things needed for linux to be created. Read it here
four (yes, four.. Besides Bush and Gore, Nader and Buchannon are raise important issues and are valid candidates.)
Ummmm, Don't you mean five... We shouldn't forget Harry Browne.
Actually the way it is usually written is:
e^(pi*i) + 1 = 0
This keeps the five constants (e, pi, i, 1, and 0) in the equation.
And yeah, he was a way math dude.
Brown, the libertarian candidate comes close to what you are looking for.
I think the thing to do in the short run is use the wheel "thingy" in the middle mouse button for movement in the 'Z' plane. When they first came out, I wrote a little bit that would allow me to scroll through the windows in Z order (This was in WinDoze however) using the wheel.
The flaw in your statement is that every issue will have a correct answer for the majority to know. Many of the issues will be ones that appeal strongly to some emotion. The majority will then vote their emotion and not their knowledge. This is (as I said earlier) when majority rule becomes a lynch mob. Enough "voters" get emotionally wound-up about the issue and the next thing you know, they've voted in incorrect solution. Emotion is a way powerful force, and even the most disciplined will have trouble controlling it, given an issue that is on their hot list. Your other statements listing the "focusing mechanisms" does not go away either in a pure democracy; I gaurantee that money and corruption would still be a "focusing mechanism".
I agree, majority rule = mob rule, and I for one, do not like the idea of digital lynch mobs being turned loose.
"useful in any application"? What about extra-solar system navigation?
And as a teacher you should consider it part of your job to help develop that "motivation to learn".