I graduated from there a year or two ago, but when I was there, it _WAS_ a federal depository. And yes, they did allow access to anyone. They always asked for a student ID when you came in, but you didn't _have_ to have one. They made it difficult for others to come in and look around, but anyone could if they were persistent, without breaking any of the rules. They just didn't want everyone to know about this.
The tubes wouldn't have to be that strong if only small pressures are used inside of them. Because space is essentially a vacuum, you can use a very low pressure inside the tubes to accomplish the same thing. It's the difference in pressure that matters.
OK, I've been using 10 digit dialing for local calls for some time now since I live in Atlanta. But, I do see potential for problems elsewhere.
For example, what about places like southern GA that has an area code of 912? Don't you think that the number of people accidentelly dialing 911 will jump significantly? The one and the 2 aren't very far apart on the keypad of most phones...
With our current system, this isn't an issu in that area code as (I don't think) any areas in 912 use 10 digit dialing. Only, 7 digit or 11.
Oh, I don't know. I'm sure there's probably a good reason somewhere. Probably something silly to do with the constitution of either (or both) the US and of FL. Or maybe something even sillier like state law requiring how the electoral votes are to be awarded. I mean, damn, why let those stupid things get in the way...
Exactly, as I said above, republicans did not alter ballots, only absentee ballot applications. The abcnews story you quote has "because local Republican officials completed 1,700 to 2,500 absentee ballot applications that were not fully filled out by voters", emphasis mine.
Also in the same story, "no ballots were ever touched and claim the people who voted using absentee ballots did so legally."
The debate is whether or not to throw out absentee ballots. I am not saying that they should not be thrown out, only that the ballots themselves were not altered by anyone. Does it look to me as if sometihng was done by republican officials that shouldn't have been? Sure. Does that merit that all 15,000 votes in the county should be thrown out? Personally, I don't think so. Sounds kind of funny coming fromthe same guy that "wants every vote to count".
umm, no. Nothing was corrected on ballots. Everything that I have seen was that some items were corrected on absentee ballot applications. Now whether or not this is correct is another debate all together.
OK, I've never ad a problem with mine. I have it set to vibrate more often than I have the ringer on when I carry it around. And I have _NEVER_ had a problem with it ringing later indicating that I've missed a call. _YOU_ can configure it to do that, but you can also configure it to either vibrate for missed calls, or do nothing for missed calls. I know, I have one and that's the way that I have it set up.
Second, I've never had a problem with it hanging up on me and I've never had a problem with it just turning off on me.
In the year (almost I think) that I've had the phone, I've only accidently turned off the key lock once. And I generally don't have a carrying case for it, I almost always just drop it in a pocket.
Voice Dial, nice, but not really used all that much, it's just faster most of the time to use the one button speeddial (as long as you can remember the correct one...).
All in all, I would gladly get the phone again. But I've heard that the latest Samsung model (8500?) may be a better deal now, I haven't really looked into it to much though.
Loophole? Never happened? What are you talking about? I'm assuming that you mean for an electorate to vote "against" the "will of the people" that elected him. OK, first let me say that some states do make it illegal for the electorate to vote against what they are supposed to... FL, however, to the best of my knowledge does not have such a law so the electorates are free to vote their conscious.
That being said, in the past, it _HAS_ happened. I believe it was back in the Reagan vs. Dukakis race, but I'm not positive. One of the few electorates for Dukakis changed his vote when it actually came time to vote... And I vaguely remember one guy voting for Mickey mouse or something at sometime in the semi-distant past.
OK, you are partially right... the only problem is that if you actually look at the physics. The speed of sound doesn't depend upon density, but rather upon the temperature of the fluid. The equation is something like a [speed of sound] = SQRT(Gamma [1.4 for air] * R [gas constant that I don't remember the value for off the top of my head] * T [temperature]). As you can see, Gamma and R don't change they are constants, Temperature is the only thing that changes...
Hell, Since the book is handy, at 161,000 feet using a standard atmosphere, T = 508.79 R. Therefore a = SQRT(1.4*1716*508.79) = 1106 ft/s which is about 768 mph. A standard falling speed closer to earth is figured to be somewhere around 105-120 mph... nah, you'r right, not much of a speed difference.
OK, an important thing to note about this study... The study said that high levels of energy were recorded in the cockpit area, not that these levels have _ever_ been demonstrated to actually cause a problem.
The systems were certified to a certain level (A). This means that anything under level A is gauranteed not to cause a problem. It doesn't mean that signal B (> A) will cause a problem with the electronics, just that it isn't gauranteed not to... Both Boeing and Airbus have done extensive studies on their aircraft to see what the effects are, and both have concluded that they can't reproduce any ill effects. They still recommend against using them, but they can't give a reason after many independant studies...
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I graduated from there a year or two ago, but when I was there, it _WAS_ a federal depository. And yes, they did allow access to anyone. They always asked for a student ID when you came in, but you didn't _have_ to have one. They made it difficult for others to come in and look around, but anyone could if they were persistent, without breaking any of the rules. They just didn't want everyone to know about this.
The tubes wouldn't have to be that strong if only small pressures are used inside of them. Because space is essentially a vacuum, you can use a very low pressure inside the tubes to accomplish the same thing. It's the difference in pressure that matters.
OK, I've been using 10 digit dialing for local calls for some time now since I live in Atlanta. But, I do see potential for problems elsewhere.
For example, what about places like southern GA that has an area code of 912? Don't you think that the number of people accidentelly dialing 911 will jump significantly? The one and the 2 aren't very far apart on the keypad of most phones...
With our current system, this isn't an issu in that area code as (I don't think) any areas in 912 use 10 digit dialing. Only, 7 digit or 11.
Oh, I don't know. I'm sure there's probably a good reason somewhere. Probably something silly to do with the constitution of either (or both) the US and of FL. Or maybe something even sillier like state law requiring how the electoral votes are to be awarded. I mean, damn, why let those stupid things get in the way...
Exactly, as I said above, republicans did not alter ballots, only absentee ballot applications. The abcnews story you quote has "because local Republican officials completed 1,700 to 2,500 absentee ballot applications that were not fully filled out by voters", emphasis mine.
Also in the same story, "no ballots were ever touched and claim the people who voted using absentee ballots did so legally."
The debate is whether or not to throw out absentee ballots. I am not saying that they should not be thrown out, only that the ballots themselves were not altered by anyone. Does it look to me as if sometihng was done by republican officials that shouldn't have been? Sure. Does that merit that all 15,000 votes in the county should be thrown out? Personally, I don't think so. Sounds kind of funny coming fromthe same guy that "wants every vote to count".
umm, no. Nothing was corrected on ballots. Everything that I have seen was that some items were corrected on absentee ballot applications. Now whether or not this is correct is another debate all together.
OK, I've never ad a problem with mine. I have it set to vibrate more often than I have the ringer on when I carry it around. And I have _NEVER_ had a problem with it ringing later indicating that I've missed a call. _YOU_ can configure it to do that, but you can also configure it to either vibrate for missed calls, or do nothing for missed calls. I know, I have one and that's the way that I have it set up.
Second, I've never had a problem with it hanging up on me and I've never had a problem with it just turning off on me.
In the year (almost I think) that I've had the phone, I've only accidently turned off the key lock once. And I generally don't have a carrying case for it, I almost always just drop it in a pocket.
Voice Dial, nice, but not really used all that much, it's just faster most of the time to use the one button speeddial (as long as you can remember the correct one...).
All in all, I would gladly get the phone again. But I've heard that the latest Samsung model (8500?) may be a better deal now, I haven't really looked into it to much though.
Sorry about the inaccuracy. You are absolutely right about it being Bush v. Dukakis. Thanks for correcting my admittedly foggy at times memory...
OK, the first baseball analogy wasn't that good, try this one instead. Say you have a world series, the scores break down something like this:
Game: 1 2 3 4 5
Pirates 3 1 5 5 4
Yankees 2 14 4 3 3
OK, the Pirates win the series 4-1, but if you look at the number of runs scored by each team, the Yankees outscored the Pirates 26-18 in raw runs...
But no one will try to say that the Yankees should have won the series.
Loophole? Never happened? What are you talking about? I'm assuming that you mean for an electorate to vote "against" the "will of the people" that elected him. OK, first let me say that some states do make it illegal for the electorate to vote against what they are supposed to... FL, however, to the best of my knowledge does not have such a law so the electorates are free to vote their conscious.
That being said, in the past, it _HAS_ happened. I believe it was back in the Reagan vs. Dukakis race, but I'm not positive. One of the few electorates for Dukakis changed his vote when it actually came time to vote... And I vaguely remember one guy voting for Mickey mouse or something at sometime in the semi-distant past.
OK, you are partially right... the only problem is that if you actually look at the physics. The speed of sound doesn't depend upon density, but rather upon the temperature of the fluid. The equation is something like a [speed of sound] = SQRT(Gamma [1.4 for air] * R [gas constant that I don't remember the value for off the top of my head] * T [temperature]). As you can see, Gamma and R don't change they are constants, Temperature is the only thing that changes...
Hell, Since the book is handy, at 161,000 feet using a standard atmosphere, T = 508.79 R. Therefore a = SQRT(1.4*1716*508.79) = 1106 ft/s which is about 768 mph. A standard falling speed closer to earth is figured to be somewhere around 105-120 mph... nah, you'r right, not much of a speed difference.
OK, an important thing to note about this study... The study said that high levels of energy were recorded in the cockpit area, not that these levels have _ever_ been demonstrated to actually cause a problem.
The systems were certified to a certain level (A). This means that anything under level A is gauranteed not to cause a problem. It doesn't mean that signal B (> A) will cause a problem with the electronics, just that it isn't gauranteed not to... Both Boeing and Airbus have done extensive studies on their aircraft to see what the effects are, and both have concluded that they can't reproduce any ill effects. They still recommend against using them, but they can't give a reason after many independant studies...