One place for all my email accounts, and they all work the same (simple) way. It's the perfect tool for those of us who neither want, nor require "help" writing emails. I believe my first email client was elm...now, off my lawn!
It's not like paper ballots are really any better. There's no shortage of stories about them going missing. You can get a whole list of Google auto-complete suggestions for "box of ballots found" to help you narrow it down. If you want to ensure that an election isn't getting tampered with in some way, you need to make sure that as many opposed parties can participate in the process. Even if they're all independently crooked, they'll keep each other honest.
There are two advantages to paper ballots: 1. They are marked directly by the voter and are documentary proof of the voter's intention. 2. They are at any time, hand countable
Voting machines are unreliable, expensive and unverifiable. There is no records of individual votes, except the data in the memory of that machine, which may or may not be accurate. Voter-marked paper ballots, automatically counted is the only reasonable way forward. Voting machines are only a win for the companies that sell them.
Voter ID laws are unConstitutional and don't prevent fraud anyway... certainly not vote-switching en masse fraud via hacks. You're kind of retarded, the only voter fraud in-person campaign was Republicans this last election.
You're the fraud, GOP.
They would go a long way to preventing fraud. They're no more unconstitutional than requiring an ID to purchase guns or beer. We witnessed massive voter fraud in 2018 in Florida. What are you fucking talking about? The lady in charge who was CONVICTED of the same shit years earlier was creating box after box of fake provisional ballots and kept "finding" them well after the deadline to count and certify. It was so brazen that she resigned in an attempt to avoid another round of charges.
Massive voter fraud in Florida in 2018? No. Massive *election fraud*, yes. Voter ID is a solution for a problem that does not exist (to any significant extent) and this has been demonstrated over and over again. "Election fraud", such as in NC-09 and Florida, involves fake or legitimate ballots or totals altered by an intermediary or election official. Voter ID would not have prevented either of those two frauds.
Voter ID is, and will always be, a way of discouraging low income or disabled voters from casting their votes. The Constitution says nothing about proof of identity or citizenship being required to exercise your right to vote. You are presumed to be a legitimate voter unless proven otherwise.
The woman spent two or three semesters at Stanford, then decided she knew all she needed to know.
I wouldn't trust her to science her way out of a paper bag. When I graduated I knew just enough engineering to know what I didn't know. And that's after getting a Masters. I learned a lot more on the job, by watching more experienced people and asking questions. Something I doubt Miss Know-it-all has ever done.
Regarding Marconi...there were others investigating radio at the time, but his real genius was building a profitable company around his discovery and monopolizing the radio communications business for years.
IANAChemist, but I remember once being told that organophosphates are from the same chemical family as modern "a drop will kill 100 people" nerve gasses.
Anything that toxic deserves to be treated with respect, even if it's only designed to kill bugs. So, if there's evidence that it is affecting children's brain development, we should be looking very hard at it, and banning is definitely on the table. Seems a lot more likely that organophosphates are a problem than, say, vaccines.
But, I grew up with _Silent Spring_, Agent Orange , Vietnam, leaded gas and Bhopal. So my trust level for pronouncements that organophosphates are "safe when used as directed" is a bit low. And I'm not convinced that produce gets or can be washed enough to remove all traces of them.
Used to be a great source, they published a nice catalog with all the details of their ball bearings and metal stock items. Not any more. Since Amazon bought them, you get what information they feel like providing and browsing the catalog is no longer an option.
Name (fine) Phone number (work) Email (throwaway I use for orders) Major (sure) DOB (sure, year is correct, but month and day are made up)
You ask me for data, I'll give it to you. It may not be accurate, is all. Because you have given me no incentive to provide accurate data, and I don't trust you. After all, this is about coffee, not something important. You get what you could have looked up anyway.
Our company CEO ordered a jug of laundry detergent from Amazon for his college-age son. (don't judge) It was delivered here at work and I happened to be there when it showed up, leaking. I felt sorry for the receptionist, so I checked the address to find out who the idiot was who'd ordered it and dumped the whole thing in the sink, where I opened the soggy cardboard box and proceeded to start rinsing the detergent off the jug .
Amazon had put a shrink-wrap sleeve over the detergent jug (which did nothing to prevent the cap from loosening), and thrown it in one of their standard boxes, along with a strip of those air pillows. This worked about as well as it usually does.
My hands smelled clean and fresh for the remainder of the day. Try to avoid ordering liquids from Amazon, is the moral of this story.
I ordered a wireless mouse, received a ball of twine. Amazon was good about replacing it, but insisted I return the ball of twine and threatened to charge me for the mouse they didn't ship if I failed to do so. No, this does not make any sense.
The second mouse arrived, and they acknowledged receipt of the ball of twine and credited me for the missing mouse.
Just because the scanner "produces an error" does not mean that it does not also record the number of the scanned package, and who scanned it.
Betcha that package number goes into "the system" as soon as it's scanned, thereby providing evidence that the driver had it in his hands at a particular time.
I'm fairly arrogant at work. I'm not an asshole..Don't conflate the two.
Arrogance is counterproductive at work. You *might* be a superstar, but there aren't too many of them. And, even if you are, you'll gain a better following if you're pleasant to be around.
Without exception, the arrogant folks I have worked with, were "legends in their own minds". When I had to work on their designs, I found they were no better than anyone else's. But when I went to them with questions about why they did something in a particular way, instead of taking the time to explain, they were dismissive.
Now, when you're part of a team, the whole team depends on everyone learning from each other and cooperating to get the job done. Arrogance impedes that. The *really* bright people I've worked with, have all been genuinely nice folks. And I still stay in touch with many of them. The arrogant ones? Dunno what happened to them. Don't much care, either.
Extremely easy. 1. Set default ringtone to a single "ding" (as used to announce an SMS or email arrival) 2. Set ringtone for everyone in your contacts list to "old telephone" 3. When phone "dings", check number, answer if it looks like one you were expecting, otherwise easy to ignore 4. Folks in your contacts list will cause phone to ring normally.
And by "20 years ago", I mean 1940. It was just more "Andy Griffith Mayberry". I was in 3rd grade, and I walked home a mile from school every day. Didn't think a thing of it.
Otherwise, life is pretty similar to what other 18-year-olds in the city experience.
Ummm, no it isn't. It isn't much like life in any city. Not saying it's better or worse but it definitely isn't what I'd call similar. For one thing I'm pretty confident the dating scene isn't exactly a target rich environment. And 24/7 access to electricity and places to go use it is not a trivial difference.
I lived in Australia (Melbourne) as a kid in the 60s. My first impression was that it was like living in the US 20 years ago. Not in a bad way, we still had creature comforts, but life was...simpler. We learned about Coober Pedy in school. I remember seeing a semaphore traffic light in a country town we drove through: it was a clock face, divided into red, yellow and green sectors. A hand went around the clock face. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
In the Melbourne suburbs (2d biggest city in Australia and the finance and baking capitol) we had a milkman with a horse drawn cart and electric trams, straight out of the thirties.
Public libraries are one of the great things about America...free to all, no questions asked.
Thanks in large part to robber baron guilt. Given that we're busily descending into a new Gilded Age, I guess the libraries in America can look forward to a new contruction boom—in 2080 or so. (It takes a while to fully complete those continent-straddling trusts.)
Robber baron guilt can be a good thing...Acadia National Park contains a chunk of it as well. Gates and Buffet are also setting a good example, but then we have the Trumps and their ilk on the opposing side of the coin.
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Seconded.
One place for all my email accounts, and they all work the same (simple) way. It's the perfect tool for those of us who neither want, nor require "help" writing emails. I believe my first email client was elm...now, off my lawn!
It's not like paper ballots are really any better. There's no shortage of stories about them going missing. You can get a whole list of Google auto-complete suggestions for "box of ballots found" to help you narrow it down. If you want to ensure that an election isn't getting tampered with in some way, you need to make sure that as many opposed parties can participate in the process. Even if they're all independently crooked, they'll keep each other honest.
There are two advantages to paper ballots:
1. They are marked directly by the voter and are documentary proof of the voter's intention.
2. They are at any time, hand countable
Voting machines are unreliable, expensive and unverifiable. There is no records of individual votes, except the data in the memory of that machine, which may or may not be accurate. Voter-marked paper ballots, automatically counted is the only reasonable way forward. Voting machines are only a win for the companies that sell them.
Voter ID laws are unConstitutional and don't prevent fraud anyway... certainly not vote-switching en masse fraud via hacks. You're kind of retarded, the only voter fraud in-person campaign was Republicans this last election.
You're the fraud, GOP.
They would go a long way to preventing fraud. They're no more unconstitutional than requiring an ID to purchase guns or beer.
We witnessed massive voter fraud in 2018 in Florida. What are you fucking talking about? The lady in charge who was CONVICTED of the same shit years earlier was creating box after box of fake provisional ballots and kept "finding" them well after the deadline to count and certify. It was so brazen that she resigned in an attempt to avoid another round of charges.
Massive voter fraud in Florida in 2018? No. Massive *election fraud*, yes. Voter ID is a solution for a problem that does not exist (to any significant extent) and this has been demonstrated over and over again. "Election fraud", such as in NC-09 and Florida, involves fake or legitimate ballots or totals altered by an intermediary or election official. Voter ID would not have prevented either of those two frauds.
Voter ID is, and will always be, a way of discouraging low income or disabled voters from casting their votes. The Constitution says nothing about proof of identity or citizenship being required to exercise your right to vote. You are presumed to be a legitimate voter unless proven otherwise.
"You have an enshrined right to vote. You do not have one to purchase beer or guns."
Actually we do have an enshrined Constitutional right to purchase guns.
No, we have a right to "keep and bear arms". The 2nd Amendment says nothing about a right to buy and sell them.
The woman spent two or three semesters at Stanford, then decided she knew all she needed to know.
I wouldn't trust her to science her way out of a paper bag.
When I graduated I knew just enough engineering to know what I didn't know. And that's after getting a Masters. I learned a lot more on the job, by watching more experienced people and asking questions. Something I doubt Miss Know-it-all has ever done.
Was this a mass debate?
No, but clearly, the human was a master debater.
Better question is why does a [insert derogagory adjective here] company like this still have any customers?
That volume of calls coming into the wireless carrier must leave a huge footprint.
Either they're getting a cut, or they're willfully ignoring it.
Regarding Marconi...there were others investigating radio at the time, but his real genius was building a profitable company around his discovery and monopolizing the radio communications business for years.
IANAChemist, but I remember once being told that organophosphates are from the same chemical family as modern "a drop will kill 100 people" nerve gasses.
Anything that toxic deserves to be treated with respect, even if it's only designed to kill bugs. So, if there's evidence that it is affecting children's brain development, we should be looking very hard at it, and banning is definitely on the table. Seems a lot more likely that organophosphates are a problem than, say, vaccines.
But, I grew up with _Silent Spring_, Agent Orange , Vietnam, leaded gas and Bhopal. So my trust level for pronouncements that organophosphates are "safe when used as directed" is a bit low. And I'm not convinced that produce gets or can be washed enough to remove all traces of them.
Used to be a great source, they published a nice catalog with all the details of their ball bearings and metal stock items. Not any more. Since Amazon bought them, you get what information they feel like providing and browsing the catalog is no longer an option.
Oh well...
I suspect they will have issues with bullet holes in the cameras in the western states.
Name (fine)
Phone number (work)
Email (throwaway I use for orders)
Major (sure)
DOB (sure, year is correct, but month and day are made up)
You ask me for data, I'll give it to you. It may not be accurate, is all. Because you have given me no incentive to provide accurate data, and I don't trust you. After all, this is about coffee, not something important. You get what you could have looked up anyway.
...if this is real leather that's pretty cool from both a durability and a biodegradability stance.
But, perhaps not so cool from a thermal transfer point of view.
In many designs, the alumin[i]um case forms part of the heat sink.
Our company CEO ordered a jug of laundry detergent from Amazon for his college-age son. (don't judge) It was delivered here at work and I happened to be there when it showed up, leaking. I felt sorry for the receptionist, so I checked the address to find out who the idiot was who'd ordered it and dumped the whole thing in the sink, where I opened the soggy cardboard box and proceeded to start rinsing the detergent off the jug .
Amazon had put a shrink-wrap sleeve over the detergent jug (which did nothing to prevent the cap from loosening), and thrown it in one of their standard boxes, along with a strip of those air pillows. This worked about as well as it usually does.
My hands smelled clean and fresh for the remainder of the day. Try to avoid ordering liquids from Amazon, is the moral of this story.
I ordered a wireless mouse, received a ball of twine.
Amazon was good about replacing it, but insisted I return the ball of twine and threatened to charge me for the mouse they didn't ship if I failed to do so.
No, this does not make any sense.
The second mouse arrived, and they acknowledged receipt of the ball of twine and credited me for the missing mouse.
Just because the scanner "produces an error" does not mean that it does not also record the number of the scanned package, and who scanned it.
Betcha that package number goes into "the system" as soon as it's scanned, thereby providing evidence that the driver had it in his hands at a particular time.
But, as soon as the driver scans the package, it *is* in the system, simply by having been scanned.
Now, the driver knows the system knows he has the package, so he has to account for it.
This clever trick must only catch the very clueless thieves.
How do they distinguish the "dummy" packages from real ones with the wrong item in them, or the ones that are "lost". Those always seem to be mine.
I'm fairly arrogant at work. I'm not an asshole..Don't conflate the two.
Arrogance is counterproductive at work.
You *might* be a superstar, but there aren't too many of them.
And, even if you are, you'll gain a better following if you're pleasant to be around.
Without exception, the arrogant folks I have worked with, were "legends in their own minds". When I had to work on their designs, I found they were no better than anyone else's. But when I went to them with questions about why they did something in a particular way, instead of taking the time to explain, they were dismissive.
Now, when you're part of a team, the whole team depends on everyone learning from each other and cooperating to get the job done. Arrogance impedes that.
The *really* bright people I've worked with, have all been genuinely nice folks. And I still stay in touch with many of them. The arrogant ones? Dunno what happened to them. Don't much care, either.
Extremely easy.
1. Set default ringtone to a single "ding" (as used to announce an SMS or email arrival)
2. Set ringtone for everyone in your contacts list to "old telephone"
3. When phone "dings", check number, answer if it looks like one you were expecting, otherwise easy to ignore
4. Folks in your contacts list will cause phone to ring normally.
*banking*
And by "20 years ago", I mean 1940. It was just more "Andy Griffith Mayberry". I was in 3rd grade, and I walked home a mile from school every day. Didn't think a thing of it.
Otherwise, life is pretty similar to what other 18-year-olds in the city experience.
Ummm, no it isn't. It isn't much like life in any city. Not saying it's better or worse but it definitely isn't what I'd call similar. For one thing I'm pretty confident the dating scene isn't exactly a target rich environment. And 24/7 access to electricity and places to go use it is not a trivial difference.
I lived in Australia (Melbourne) as a kid in the 60s. My first impression was that it was like living in the US 20 years ago. Not in a bad way, we still had creature comforts, but life was...simpler. We learned about Coober Pedy in school. I remember seeing a semaphore traffic light in a country town we drove through: it was a clock face, divided into red, yellow and green sectors. A hand went around the clock face. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
In the Melbourne suburbs (2d biggest city in Australia and the finance and baking capitol) we had a milkman with a horse drawn cart and electric trams, straight out of the thirties.
but all in all, you really didn't feel empathetic to HAL.
Maybe that was because HAL had killed all the humans on the mission except Dave. Not surprisingly, Dave had no problem giving HAL a lobotomy.
Because you get to say whatever you feel like without a personal repercussion.
Like Twitter.
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
I think people were far more worried that the company would be selling their browsing histories, attached to their real names.
Public libraries are one of the great things about America...free to all, no questions asked.
Thanks in large part to robber baron guilt. Given that we're busily descending into a new Gilded Age, I guess the libraries in America can look forward to a new contruction boom—in 2080 or so. (It takes a while to fully complete those continent-straddling trusts.)
Robber baron guilt can be a good thing...Acadia National Park contains a chunk of it as well. Gates and Buffet are also setting a good example, but then we have the Trumps and their ilk on the opposing side of the coin.
Oh, well, one can hope.