A lot of people wonder how running an election can be so friggin' tough. Well, it is because there are two forces pulling in opposite directions. The first direction is one that requires that everyone who is a citizen older than 18 gets to vote. They can only vote once. They must vote as themselves and not vote for anyone else. They also cannot be dead. (I fear slightly of the electorate of zombies). Pulling in the opposite direction is a treasured concept of Americana called the 'secret ballot'. This is to protect people with potentially unfavorable ideas. Also, we love privacy. We don't like being forced to carry cards that prove we are someone. We don't like being forced in general. 'Mind your own business' is something I'd like to think is uniquely American.
The problem is that to prevent the first problem, we need to slightly violate the second. We could prove that someone is allowed to vote by keeping a photographic ID, required to be updated every year that they must present. It would have biometrics that would identify a person against a giant retinal scan database. We'd probably eliminate 99% of potential voter fraud. But then we'd pretty much have no guarantee that those records weren't matched against our voting. We'd have no guarantee that it wouldn't be abused, and that voters weren't intimidated.
We could ask no questions at the polls, as well. We just let you vote and drop it in a box. You could come into any polling place and they wouldn't know if you lived there. You could make a couple runs in a couple different locations. You could be under 18. We could bus in the invalid and have them vote according to a 'guide', who could divine their voting will by whatever standard he choses. Let's complicate things even further by saying that every state has different voting standards and rules.
Obviously, neither option is very pleasant to think about. Neither is the idea that some half-assed current system might disenfranchise a voter; or that another voter who votes for X has his vote cancelled by a fraudulent voter who votes for Y. Its something to think about, though, since I'm sure some people who should have gotten to vote, didn't. Also, I bet some who shouldn't have, voted.
Dude, Move to massachusetts. on my ballot, the only contested race was the presidency. We had three offices which were uncontested in my district going for the democrats. You're not the only one who feels that way. You at least had choices. I had offices where only one person was on the ballot. I did my write-ins and sadly walked away.
whoa, slow down . there were too many facts, well backed up and well thought out. My head is spinning. Oh well, you're convinced of your views regardless of evidence. That's nice.
Abortion is still legal. Gay Marriage is becoming legal. In which states? And who wants federal prohibition of the "unholy" unions? Oh yeah, that's right.
Gay Marriage is legal in Massachusetts. I live there. Abortion is legal here, too. I'm pretty sure Abortion is legal everywhere.
Are there religious roots and traditions still present in american culture, and to a small degree, in governance? Yes. Is our government beholden to the will of a church or religious institution? No. If you would like to see what that is truly like, I recommend you visit Saudi Arabia or a like country. The justification for their legal and moral code is scripture. Our justification for our code is the declaration of independence.
We are still not a religious state. Why is everyone convinced we are?
50 years ago white people couldn't marry black people. 50 years ago a president added 'under god' to the pledge of allegiance to show we were a god fearing nation. more than fifty years ago the scopes monkey trial brought creationism out of the classroom.
We were a religious country for about 150 years. We have made so many strides against it, moving towards secularism, that's its ridiculous. People think because Bush got elected that suddenly we're a religious theocracy. Its just not true. Abortion is still legal. Gay Marriage is becoming legal. All sorts of non-religious things are happening.
Americans are abandoning religion anyways. after the catholic priest diddling little boys scandal, people just don't care as much about religion. Massachusetts, where I live, used to be one of the epicenters of catholicsm. Now churches are closing.
You don't like Bush, that's fine. Say it. stop saying we're becoming a crazy religious state.
I'm pretty sure if you register with microsoft by providing your CD key, name and address, like most companies recommend, you can call and get your key back / get a new key.
Wait, google doesn't already have 90% market share? anyone who's anyone is using google. And they are quietly building a large portfolio of tools.
Next step: merge local buliten boards (Excuse the spelling, I'm drunk) like craigslist, online auctions like EBAY, and poof... ubiqutous web experience.
We where in need of IVF (in vitro fertalization) and this is typically not covered by insurance companies in the US
Forgive my callous analysis, but 'needing' IVF is a subjective take on it. You wouldn't die or be sore or suffer in any objective terms if you were unable to conceive. While I feel for you, I think that any insurance company that did cover it would be driving up costs and doing a disservice to people who just wanted to stay well and not pay through the nose if they were injured or ill.
Adoption, while also expensive, is also a viable option. If you REALLY want your own biological baby so bad, pay for it yourself. don't burden the others on your insurance policy with paying for something that is unnecessary. And it seems you did, which is great.
The idea that the Netherlands mandates insurance for it is ridiculous. Sometimes life deals you a bad card. That's just the way it is.
Please explain the fundamentalist Christian Direction.
You must mean massachusetts' court ruling allowing gay weddings. Or, maybe you mean the striking down by the courts of anti-sodomy laws. Abortion is still legal. Or how the ten commandments statue in front of a courthouse and any public religious symbols are being taken down.
The only fundie christian idea still codified in enforceable law lately is the laws against euthanasia. (jack kevorkian).
Would you rather tell a man that he is beholden to everyone who might starve? I believe it to be equally evil to hold a man back through tax or rule or regulation as much as it is to let a man starve.
I'm implying that software development is no longer 'untouchable' like it was as little as ten years ago. Monkeying code is a skillset just like building cars.
Writing software, on the other hand, still has a viable place in the market of the US. (I know, I'm a Software Engineer.) However, it shouldn't be expected to be as exclusive or as high paying as it was, especially for entry level software jobs.
I'm not saying CTO jobs are popping up in papers. What I'm saying is that the general collection of jobs is migrating. And Yes, I expect people to follow job trends and prepare themselves for a volitale job market. That's life. And I think you're wrong about not seeing increased management positions. As costs go down because employees are outsourced, that money is redirected into the company in order to further grow it, in order to further expand profits. and as the business grows, even if they're hiring more outsourced employees, they're going to use domestic managers.
And these jobs SHOULD be gone. While these industries built the backbone of America for the longest time, its not as if they require specialized skills that you can't get anywhere else. Indians, Chinese, and anyone else can turn wrenches. Wrench turning is not specialized.
What America should realize is that for every job that we outsource, we have a job waiting that requires more education and more skill. There are few CTO, CEO, CIOs and middle management jobs being outsourced to india. Job markets evolve. And because of that, if the people evolve with it, they can be successful.
People make the same arguements about Robots. Robots will displace human workers. Humans will become inefficient. Its a false arguement because who makes the robots? Who designs the robots? Who determines the direction of the robot companies? Labor may no longer be the backbone of our economy, but managing and distributing and guiding it is. It is a victory, not a travesty, for outsourcing. It means we can be freed from having to fill expensive labor positions and instead hire the best executives, managers, and scientists to make even more money. But it requires that people get themselves educated. So do it.
give me a call when these devices are $100. That's my pricepoint for 4-5 GB. $200 for 20 gb. I don't think this is an ipod killer. the regular 20gb ipod is more of an ipod mini killer than this, because its only $50 more.
Subaru sent me a recall notice 6 months ago about a potential problem. It was mechanical, though, not electrical. Apparently a retaining clip for the cable for the cruise control has broken in some models, causing acceleration to 'stick'. Dealers are replacing defective clips at no cost to drivers.
As it has already been said many times, the best way is to shift into neutral, sound the horn and use hazards. That's what the recall letter said, as well.
its taught at least in the massachusetts drivers license handbook.
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Actually, dig a little deeper. Money supply wasn't as much the government's job as it was private banks jobs up until the turn of the century.
what used to happen is the public would often have 'runs' on the banks... economic news was bad and people would fear bank failure. Doing so, they'd go to the bank and take all their money out. Now the banks had no money to lend and were forced to call in loans, which would bankrupt farmers and business owners. So banks routinely denied withdrawals during runs... they simply closed and waited out the hysteria, and mortgage payments came in and the money supply returned to normal and the public calmed down. This entire practice is due to the fact that banks don't keep your money in a vault... they keep 'some' cash on hand and lend out most of the money in accounts to others. When the banks lend out the money, then people come knocking looking for it back in large numbers, the banks go insolvent.
During 1911 , a particularly rash series of bank refusals and insolvency forced through federal legislation that allowed the federal government to keep banks open through federal money promises... not free federal money, but guarunteed payment on money from other banks so that banks stayed open. What happened during the great depression is that when banks weren't given the choice to close, or a false promise of solvency when they were insolvent, it triggered a massive collapse of banking. When FDR was elected, the first thing he did was declare a 'banking holiday', which closed banks that day in order to calm the hysteria of the citizenry. the policy which caused the great depression was founded in 1911, not 1933. FDR's reforms are up for debate, but he didn't turn a recession into a depression.
for more information , pick up 'freedom to choose' by Milton Friedman
is how craigslist is a virtual hook-up community, as well. If you want no strings attached sex and can host, you have a good chance of meeting someone to fuck in the major metro area of your choice.
I guess I really was shocked to read your post. I live in Boston, and took one of my first excursions into New York City last week. I knew that urban areas got a lot of focus in the 80's as being dangerous and crime filled, but lately most major urban areas seem to have been revitalized. In Massachusetts, Lowell and Brockton followed Boston's lead and had urban renewal campaigns. NYC, especially manhattan, just doesn't seem all that dangerous. Why is Philly still so bad? are they mourning the loss of the fresh prince? Why doesn't the state do anything about it?
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A lot of people wonder how running an election can be so friggin' tough. Well, it is because there are two forces pulling in opposite directions. The first direction is one that requires that everyone who is a citizen older than 18 gets to vote. They can only vote once. They must vote as themselves and not vote for anyone else. They also cannot be dead. (I fear slightly of the electorate of zombies). Pulling in the opposite direction is a treasured concept of Americana called the 'secret ballot'. This is to protect people with potentially unfavorable ideas. Also, we love privacy. We don't like being forced to carry cards that prove we are someone. We don't like being forced in general. 'Mind your own business' is something I'd like to think is uniquely American.
The problem is that to prevent the first problem, we need to slightly violate the second. We could prove that someone is allowed to vote by keeping a photographic ID, required to be updated every year that they must present. It would have biometrics that would identify a person against a giant retinal scan database. We'd probably eliminate 99% of potential voter fraud. But then we'd pretty much have no guarantee that those records weren't matched against our voting. We'd have no guarantee that it wouldn't be abused, and that voters weren't intimidated.
We could ask no questions at the polls, as well. We just let you vote and drop it in a box. You could come into any polling place and they wouldn't know if you lived there. You could make a couple runs in a couple different locations. You could be under 18. We could bus in the invalid and have them vote according to a 'guide', who could divine their voting will by whatever standard he choses. Let's complicate things even further by saying that every state has different voting standards and rules.
Obviously, neither option is very pleasant to think about. Neither is the idea that some half-assed current system might disenfranchise a voter; or that another voter who votes for X has his vote cancelled by a fraudulent voter who votes for Y. Its something to think about, though, since I'm sure some people who should have gotten to vote, didn't. Also, I bet some who shouldn't have, voted.
People would rather pay $50 and have broadband than close to $30 and have dial up. While you can use AOL over broadband, what's the point?
One of their main developers has a prior felony conviction.
Hold on. democrats want felons to vote, but not to write the voting software?
Dude, Move to massachusetts. on my ballot, the only contested race was the presidency. We had three offices which were uncontested in my district going for the democrats. You're not the only one who feels that way. You at least had choices. I had offices where only one person was on the ballot. I did my write-ins and sadly walked away.
whoa, slow down . there were too many facts, well backed up and well thought out. My head is spinning. Oh well, you're convinced of your views regardless of evidence. That's nice.
Abortion is still legal. Gay Marriage is becoming legal.
In which states? And who wants federal prohibition of the "unholy" unions? Oh yeah, that's right.
Gay Marriage is legal in Massachusetts. I live there. Abortion is legal here, too. I'm pretty sure Abortion is legal everywhere.
Are there religious roots and traditions still present in american culture, and to a small degree, in governance? Yes. Is our government beholden to the will of a church or religious institution? No. If you would like to see what that is truly like, I recommend you visit Saudi Arabia or a like country. The justification for their legal and moral code is scripture. Our justification for our code is the declaration of independence.
We are still not a religious state. Why is everyone convinced we are?
50 years ago white people couldn't marry black people. 50 years ago a president added 'under god' to the pledge of allegiance to show we were a god fearing nation. more than fifty years ago the scopes monkey trial brought creationism out of the classroom.
We were a religious country for about 150 years. We have made so many strides against it, moving towards secularism, that's its ridiculous. People think because Bush got elected that suddenly we're a religious theocracy. Its just not true. Abortion is still legal. Gay Marriage is becoming legal. All sorts of non-religious things are happening.
Americans are abandoning religion anyways. after the catholic priest diddling little boys scandal, people just don't care as much about religion. Massachusetts, where I live, used to be one of the epicenters of catholicsm. Now churches are closing.
You don't like Bush, that's fine. Say it. stop saying we're becoming a crazy religious state.
I'm pretty sure if you register with microsoft by providing your CD key, name and address, like most companies recommend, you can call and get your key back / get a new key.
Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers.
So Kerry is going to close that pesky tax loophole that allows indian and other workers to get paid a fraction of what US workers make?
The reason outsourcing is profitable is because workers are willing to work for a lower wage outside the U.S. That's not a tax loophole.
Wait, google doesn't already have 90% market share?
anyone who's anyone is using google. And they are quietly building a large portfolio of tools.
Next step: merge local buliten boards (Excuse the spelling, I'm drunk) like craigslist, online auctions like EBAY, and poof... ubiqutous web experience.
We where in need of IVF (in vitro fertalization) and this is typically not covered by insurance companies in the US
Forgive my callous analysis, but 'needing' IVF is a subjective take on it. You wouldn't die or be sore or suffer in any objective terms if you were unable to conceive. While I feel for you, I think that any insurance company that did cover it would be driving up costs and doing a disservice to people who just wanted to stay well and not pay through the nose if they were injured or ill.
Adoption, while also expensive, is also a viable option. If you REALLY want your own biological baby so bad, pay for it yourself. don't burden the others on your insurance policy with paying for something that is unnecessary. And it seems you did, which is great.
The idea that the Netherlands mandates insurance for it is ridiculous. Sometimes life deals you a bad card. That's just the way it is.
Please explain the fundamentalist Christian Direction.
You must mean massachusetts' court ruling allowing gay weddings. Or, maybe you mean the striking down by the courts of anti-sodomy laws. Abortion is still legal. Or how the ten commandments statue in front of a courthouse and any public religious symbols are being taken down.
The only fundie christian idea still codified in enforceable law lately is the laws against euthanasia. (jack kevorkian).
Would you rather tell a man that he is beholden to everyone who might starve? I believe it to be equally evil to hold a man back through tax or rule or regulation as much as it is to let a man starve.
We can't all be the best after all.
Speak for yourself.
That others should hold themselves back in order that the ineffective feel 'needed' is the worst sort of egalitarianism.
I'm implying that software development is no longer 'untouchable' like it was as little as ten years ago. Monkeying code is a skillset just like building cars.
Writing software, on the other hand, still has a viable place in the market of the US. (I know, I'm a Software Engineer.) However, it shouldn't be expected to be as exclusive or as high paying as it was, especially for entry level software jobs.
I'm not saying CTO jobs are popping up in papers. What I'm saying is that the general collection of jobs is migrating. And Yes, I expect people to follow job trends and prepare themselves for a volitale job market. That's life. And I think you're wrong about not seeing increased management positions. As costs go down because employees are outsourced, that money is redirected into the company in order to further grow it, in order to further expand profits. and as the business grows, even if they're hiring more outsourced employees, they're going to use domestic managers.
And these jobs SHOULD be gone. While these industries built the backbone of America for the longest time, its not as if they require specialized skills that you can't get anywhere else. Indians, Chinese, and anyone else can turn wrenches. Wrench turning is not specialized.
What America should realize is that for every job that we outsource, we have a job waiting that requires more education and more skill. There are few CTO, CEO, CIOs and middle management jobs being outsourced to india. Job markets evolve. And because of that, if the people evolve with it, they can be successful.
People make the same arguements about Robots. Robots will displace human workers. Humans will become inefficient. Its a false arguement because who makes the robots? Who designs the robots? Who determines the direction of the robot companies? Labor may no longer be the backbone of our economy, but managing and distributing and guiding it is. It is a victory, not a travesty, for outsourcing. It means we can be freed from having to fill expensive labor positions and instead hire the best executives, managers, and scientists to make even more money. But it requires that people get themselves educated. So do it.
give me a call when these devices are $100. That's my pricepoint for 4-5 GB. $200 for 20 gb.
I don't think this is an ipod killer. the regular 20gb ipod is more of an ipod mini killer than this, because its only $50 more.
Wait, you're saying CBS fabricates stories? What about the Dan Rather guard memo exposes? obviously those were real, right ? ;)
Subaru sent me a recall notice 6 months ago about a potential problem. It was mechanical, though, not electrical. Apparently a retaining clip for the cable for the cruise control has broken in some models, causing acceleration to 'stick'. Dealers are replacing defective clips at no cost to drivers.
As it has already been said many times, the best way is to shift into neutral, sound the horn and use hazards. That's what the recall letter said, as well.
its taught at least in the massachusetts drivers license handbook.
Actually, dig a little deeper. Money supply wasn't as much the government's job as it was private banks jobs up until the turn of the century.
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what used to happen is the public would often have 'runs' on the banks... economic news was bad and people would fear bank failure. Doing so, they'd go to the bank and take all their money out. Now the banks had no money to lend and were forced to call in loans, which would bankrupt farmers and business owners. So banks routinely denied withdrawals during runs... they simply closed and waited out the hysteria, and mortgage payments came in and the money supply returned to normal and the public calmed down. This entire practice is due to the fact that banks don't keep your money in a vault... they keep 'some' cash on hand and lend out most of the money in accounts to others. When the banks lend out the money, then people come knocking looking for it back in large numbers, the banks go insolvent.
During 1911 , a particularly rash series of bank refusals and insolvency forced through federal legislation that allowed the federal government to keep banks open through federal money promises... not free federal money, but guarunteed payment on money from other banks so that banks stayed open. What happened during the great depression is that when banks weren't given the choice to close, or a false promise of solvency when they were insolvent, it triggered a massive collapse of banking. When FDR was elected, the first thing he did was declare a 'banking holiday', which closed banks that day in order to calm the hysteria of the citizenry. the policy which caused the great depression was founded in 1911, not 1933. FDR's reforms are up for debate, but he didn't turn a recession into a depression.
for more information , pick up 'freedom to choose' by Milton Friedman
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Bush wants to ban Federal Funding from Stem Cell Research. This seems to be privately funded.
Stem Cell Research is not illegal. Still.
Jimmy Carter called. He wants his scare tactics back.
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I wrote that comment all seriousness. I've posted several craigslist ads, and met more than one girl whom I've slept with.
is how craigslist is a virtual hook-up community, as well. If you want no strings attached sex and can host, you have a good chance of meeting someone to fuck in the major metro area of your choice.
and behead it if your money does not leave to the EFF within 48 hours.
I guess I really was shocked to read your post. I live in Boston, and took one of my first excursions into New York City last week. I knew that urban areas got a lot of focus in the 80's as being dangerous and crime filled, but lately most major urban areas seem to have been revitalized. In Massachusetts, Lowell and Brockton followed Boston's lead and had urban renewal campaigns. NYC, especially manhattan, just doesn't seem all that dangerous. Why is Philly still so bad? are they mourning the loss of the fresh prince? Why doesn't the state do anything about it?