The funny thing is the notes on the computer indicate they never even thought of using chemical weapons because they thought it would be too complicated. It wasn't until the American government began making public statements about how easy it would be for certain rouge nations to make simple but deadly chemical weapons, like mustard gas, they they started working on these projects!
Man, unless he's time-traveling back, it'll be damn hard to make him look like the feisty young thing of the '60s. They'll have to slather him with makeup and airbrush half of him out of the frames.
Maybe they can do the same thing they did for the guy in Lord of the Rings who played Gollum. Have Shatner on the set acting with all the other characters and then CGI an image of how he looked back in the 60's on top. Like a virtual face lift.
I thought IE and the Window OS were so tightly integrated that they were virtually the same thing? Do you mean IE was actually a separate program all along?
Another victim becomes an abuser....
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The Saga of Katie.com
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Does anybody know why its so common for victims of childhood sexual abuse to become abusers, either sexual or otherwise, later on in life?
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's machine readable yet understandable to the naked eye.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and then feeds it into a reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
With this sysetm even if all the computer records are erased the paper ballots can either be re-scanned or counted by hand.
People.... this can be a good thing. The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade your privacy because its just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the feeds will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Imagine a world were everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recorders... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and happy place.
The problem with this is that some voters are stupid and will attempt to cross out, erase or otherwise make their ballot a complete mess. This opens up their ballot to interpretation. However, if we use a touch-screen voting machine to print out a ballot we eliminate that possibility.... as an added bonus these machine can be made accessible to the blind and physically challenged.
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's machine readable yet understandable to the naked eye.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and then feeds it into a reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
This way not only do we get the benifit of a machine count but a paper trail to boot.
Maybe a year and a half back or so, I started using someone@somewhere.com
as a dummy email id in online blogs, guestboks, forums, and sundry pages. But
then I started wondering what if someone actually tried to email me on that
email address.
So.... you're the jackass who clogged up my mailbox with all this crap. Thanks alot,
pal!
Did any of the missles have radio beacons or other tracking devices as in previous test? Until missle or laser defense systems can shoot down a missle without onboard beacons to help with aim the damn things seems prety useless to me.
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's a machine
readable.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded
on the ballot and feeds it into a optical reader. It's this machine that actually
records the voter's vote.
The touch screen machines and the optical reader should be produced by two
seprate companies and operate on different networks and they should both keep
a tally. If the two systems ever get out of synch we will automatically know
that a problem has occured. If such cases we can fall back on the paper ballet.
Since it was laser printed it will avoid all the problems Florida judges had
with hanging chads and strange marks left by stupid voters.
This way not only do we get the benifit of a machine count but a paper trail
to boot.
The U.S. Library of Congress website (Thomas) houses all incoming, processed, and finalized bills that pass through Congress. Recently a friend sent me information about the
Universal National Service Act of 2003 and its disturbing contents.
(Anyone may view the fine print of this bill by clicking on the above link and
entering in the bill's name, listed above in bold.) Proposed in January of 2003, this bill serves:
To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the
Unites States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period
of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland
security, and for other purposes.
Why gives up caffeine? It's not like cigarettes or crack which wreck your health. Study after study has found that people who consume caffeine actually have a lower risk of depression and suicide than those who abstain (Arch Intern Med. 1996;156:521-525). That same study also found no link between caffeine and stroke.
I'd rather be awake and happy then sleepy and suicidal. Give me my caffeine baby!
Seriously, Taiwan needs to get a hold of some nuclear weapons. Since they're so close to mainland China they don't even need ICBM to deliver them. It's not like thye don't have the infrastructure to develop them, they just need some raw materials. Hell, if North Korea of all places can build some nukes then Taiwan sure can. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) kept the Western world safe when the USSR had the manpower to overrun Europe it can work for Taiwan too. Maybe they can buy a few from Israel. It the fear that Israel has a shitload of nukes that keeps the local Arab nations from trying to push them into the sea (that and the fact they kicked their ass the last two times they tried but I'm sure the nukes help).
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's a machine readable scantron sheet.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and feeds it into a scantron reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
This way not only do we get the benifit of a machine count but a paper trail to boot.
This will only happen if the new media offers the consumer a clear advantage over CDs.
CDs replaced LPs because they offered numerous advantages over vinyl, smaller size, greater music clarity, etc...etc.... If whatever comes down the pipe does not offer more benifits it won't be adopted.
How is this any better than writing a person's name and phone number on your hand? But seriously what are the practical benifits? It's not really helpful in social situations since you would need to program it to display ALL the names of people whose name you forget ALL the time.
Glasses such as these are only useful if they display the information you need WHEN you need it. Add speech and facial recognition to the system and then you'll have a truely useful product.
None of them are as good as just buying the damn(hopefully non-copy protected)
CD's and ripping them yourself. (Hopefully with the good, sweet, cleanness of
Ogg Vorbis). Fuck DRM
Yeah because I love having to buy a whole CD when I just want one song for
$12! I don't know about you but I'd prefer to spend that money on 12 individual
songs that I actually want and burn those songs to a CD then buy 12 separate
CD.
Can anyone tell me what the fuck is wrong with using scantron ballots?
Voters fill in bubbles for their candidate and feed the ballots into the
voting machine.
The machine reads the ballot and if its valid records the vote.
If the voter fucks up and fills in too many or not enough bubbles the voting
machine spits it out with an error message and the voter gets a new ballot
from the little old ladies who always seem to man these things.
This way not only do we get the benefits of real-time error correction, to avoid
the hanging chad issue, but we also have a real paper trail to follow in case
someone screams fraud.
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The funny thing is the notes on the computer indicate they never even thought of using chemical weapons because they thought it would be too complicated. It wasn't until the American government began making public statements about how easy it would be for certain rouge nations to make simple but deadly chemical weapons, like mustard gas, they they started working on these projects!
Man, unless he's time-traveling back, it'll be damn hard to make him look like the feisty young thing of the '60s.
They'll have to slather him with makeup and airbrush half of him out of the frames.
Maybe they can do the same thing they did for the guy in Lord of the Rings who played Gollum. Have Shatner on the set acting with all the other characters and then CGI an image of how he looked back in the 60's on top. Like a virtual face lift.
I thought IE and the Window OS were so tightly integrated that they were virtually the same thing? Do you mean IE was actually a separate program all along?
Does anybody know why its so common for victims of childhood sexual abuse to become abusers, either sexual or otherwise, later on in life?
Here's what we need...
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's machine readable yet understandable to the naked eye.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and then feeds it into a reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
With this sysetm even if all the computer records are erased the paper ballots can either be re-scanned or counted by hand.
Who will watch the watchmen? The watched!
People.... this can be a good thing. The rich, powerful or corrupt have always had the power to invade your privacy because its just an illusion and will alway be so. Privacy laws just protect the powerful from being watched by the masses.
Instead of fighting a lossing battle to stop this technology we need to ensure that it will be available to everyone and that the feeds will be open to the public. Put cameras on the streets, in the police stations and in government buildings. I don't mind being watched as long as I can watch everyone else. Imagine a world were everyone is equipped with their own personal cameras and recorders... with so many eyes spreading their light everywhere the world might become a more peaceful and happy place.
Are we still going to be using desktop PCs in 6 years? I want a wearable computer and I don't want it running Windows!
The problem with this is that some voters are stupid and will attempt to cross out, erase or otherwise make their ballot a complete mess. This opens up their ballot to interpretation. However, if we use a touch-screen voting machine to print out a ballot we eliminate that possibility.... as an added bonus these machine can be made accessible to the blind and physically challenged.
Here's what we need...
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's machine readable yet understandable to the naked eye.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and then feeds it into a reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
This way not only do we get the benifit of a machine count but a paper trail to boot.
Maybe a year and a half back or so, I started using someone@somewhere.com as a dummy email id in online blogs, guestboks, forums, and sundry pages. But then I started wondering what if someone actually tried to email me on that email address.
So.... you're the jackass who clogged up my mailbox with all this crap. Thanks alot, pal!
So where's the native Mac OS X version? Or will it run natively within the Mac OS X compile of GNOME?
Too late, I've already download it. However, that does not mean I won't pay to see it when it opens in the States. It was good...
Sex
Did any of the missles have radio beacons or other tracking devices as in previous test? Until missle or laser defense systems can shoot down a missle without onboard beacons to help with aim the damn things seems prety useless to me.
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's a machine readable.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and feeds it into a optical reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
The touch screen machines and the optical reader should be produced by two seprate companies and operate on different networks and they should both keep a tally. If the two systems ever get out of synch we will automatically know that a problem has occured. If such cases we can fall back on the paper ballet. Since it was laser printed it will avoid all the problems Florida judges had with hanging chads and strange marks left by stupid voters.
This way not only do we get the benifit of a machine count but a paper trail to boot.
Yes, it's off topic but this is important.
The U.S. Library of Congress website (Thomas) houses all incoming, processed, and finalized bills that pass through Congress. Recently a friend sent me information about the Universal National Service Act of 2003 and its disturbing contents. (Anyone may view the fine print of this bill by clicking on the above link and entering in the bill's name, listed above in bold.) Proposed in January of 2003, this bill serves:
To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the Unites States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.
Why gives up caffeine? It's not like cigarettes or crack which wreck your health. Study after study has found that people who consume caffeine actually have a lower risk of depression and suicide than those who abstain (Arch Intern Med. 1996;156:521-525). That same study also found no link between caffeine and stroke.
I'd rather be awake and happy then sleepy and suicidal. Give me my caffeine baby!
Seriously, Taiwan needs to get a hold of some nuclear weapons. Since they're so close to mainland China they don't even need ICBM to deliver them. It's not like thye don't have the infrastructure to develop them, they just need some raw materials. Hell, if North Korea of all places can build some nukes then Taiwan sure can. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) kept the Western world safe when the USSR had the manpower to overrun Europe it can work for Taiwan too. Maybe they can buy a few from Israel. It the fear that Israel has a shitload of nukes that keeps the local Arab nations from trying to push them into the sea (that and the fact they kicked their ass the last two times they tried but I'm sure the nukes help).
Here's what we need...
A touch screen voting booth that lets voters select the canidates they want.
After the voter casts their vote the booth prints out a ballot that's a machine readable scantron sheet.
The voter checks to make sure that the canidates they selected are recorded on the ballot and feeds it into a scantron reader. It's this machine that actually records the voter's vote.
This way not only do we get the benifit of a machine count but a paper trail to boot.
This will only happen if the new media offers the consumer a clear advantage over CDs.
CDs replaced LPs because they offered numerous advantages over vinyl, smaller size, greater music clarity, etc...etc.... If whatever comes down the pipe does not offer more benifits it won't be adopted.
How is this any better than writing a person's name and phone number on your hand? But seriously what are the practical benifits? It's not really helpful in social situations since you would need to program it to display ALL the names of people whose name you forget ALL the time.
Glasses such as these are only useful if they display the information you need WHEN you need it. Add speech and facial recognition to the system and then you'll have a truely useful product.
None of them are as good as just buying the damn(hopefully non-copy protected) CD's and ripping them yourself. (Hopefully with the good, sweet, cleanness of Ogg Vorbis). Fuck DRM
Yeah because I love having to buy a whole CD when I just want one song for $12! I don't know about you but I'd prefer to spend that money on 12 individual songs that I actually want and burn those songs to a CD then buy 12 separate CD.
You don't need a credit card to sign up for paypal, that's the point.
Duh.
But you need a checking account and what checking account nowadays does not offer a free VISA debt card?
Can anyone tell me what the fuck is wrong with using scantron ballots?
This way not only do we get the benefits of real-time error correction, to avoid the hanging chad issue, but we also have a real paper trail to follow in case someone screams fraud.