First thing I think of is the tomatometer rating for games. Fresh games are rated at least an 8 (instead of 6 for movies), otherwise most games would be recommended.
Should I be scared that my first thought... That thought was in your head, not mine. Maybe you should be scared;)
In actuality, the professor didn't look like your stereotype nerdy professor. In fact, he looked more like an MD than a CS PhD. And he had a great hobby, homebrewing beer.
In the late 90's, the podunk university which I got my CS degree from required a math minor. The core requirements for the degree were also 2 credits shy of a physics minor. Math requirements included (after the basics of algebra and trig) 12 credits of calc, 3 of statistical calculus, 3(or 4) of numerical analysis, 6 of algorithm analysis, and 3 of diff-Eq.
We had "major fair" days when all the majors would set up booths to inform and recruit undeclareds. A lot of interested students would inquire about CS desgrees. One of my professors would ask, "Can you hack math?" If the student looked doubtful or said no, he would point accross the hall and say, "CIS is over there."
I'll respond to your question with another: "How exactly is it more difficult to tamper with a punch card ballot or a mark-sensor ballot? I see that one would only need a marker or a small hand punch, or even just a small pointed object like an awl to void those.
It appears that your assumption is that one party of the US/THEM dichotomy has unfettered control of cast ballots. If they do not have that control, then they cannot "scratch of the remaining areas." Only mixed interests who are monitoring each other have access to the ballots, which is a deterrent to ballot adulteration.
To carry your logic to its conclusion, ff they do have that control, then the form of ballot, punch card, oval fill, machine, electronic does not matter, by nature of the power you assume they have, they have the ability to void or alter votes.
Would you rather have Computer errors, damaged punch card ballots, broken voting machines, bad optical scanners, or good old fashioned human error? I'll take good old fashioned voter error so I want scratch tickets. Thanks to state lotteries and product marketing lotteries, just about everyone knows how to use scratch tickets. All you need is a coin and a lockbox with slot.
The area under the scratch would have a bar code so the tickets can be stacked and scanned. AND you have a paper trail built into the process. No dimpled, pregnant, etc chads.
There would be two types of scratch tickets:
Standard: The label of the choice above the scratch area. pick your candidate or Yes/No on issue and scratch that selection, then drop your ticket in the box
Random- position/ballot issue is to the left on the line and a number of unlabelled choice scratch areas to the right. The candidates or Y/N choices are randomly printed on the ballot before the scratch material is applied. Pick one by method or random. This addition of randomness would shake up our voting system.
Upon entering the voting station, the voter has a choice of picking a standard or random scratch ballot. Of course, they would be clearly marked as "STANDARD VOTING BALLOT" or "RANDOM VOTING BALLOT"
There is also a significant amount of ice on Greenland which, if it melts in significant quantities will also pose a threat to coastal regions, oceanic currents and oceanic salinity.
Also, from the article link, the free service is for Wallas customers: Walla Communications (TASE: WALA) Israel's leading Internet portal with 75,000 customers, reported this morning plans to become the first company in the world to provide one-gigabyte (GB) e-mailboxes to its customers.
So unless your a Walla customer and can read Hebrew, looks like your out.
If people curb "the splurge," then they can get a lot more and better quality food with less money. Like budgeting advisors say, if you don't buy that latte and muffin every work day, you save about $5, which is over $100/month. I'm not even going to get into the costs of eating out.
Likewise, find generic (store brand) products to substitute for name brand, such as frozen vegetables. Make food "from scratch" (a seemingly lost art today). I don't mean bake your own bread or churn your own butter, but make your own casserole (or hot dish if your from up there) instead of buying prepacked ready to make foods. Figure a box of the instafood is going to be 2-3 dollars. A 10 lb sack of spuds will be about $3, and will serve several meals. We spend about $300-350 a month on food. We are a family of 4: 2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 infant eating baby food. I do most of the shopping. We don't skimp on quality. I just don't buy frozen dinners or insta foods, and very little sweets.
Not only better things to do with our time, but also better things to do with our money. W'ere a one income family with 2 small children. I have broadband access at work, so I know what it's like. We've got dialup at $12 on top of our standard phone bill. DSL is cheaper than cable modem and the cheapest I could find DSL is $40/month. Thats a savings of $28/month ($336/ year) Sure, that's not a ton of money saved, but we also don't have cable tv or eat out much and have only one car. It all adds up, especially when you are working to be debt free.
1948 Chicago Daily Tribune healine No matter the medium, the rule is Caveat Lector, let the reader beware. What we take as "truth" is based upon our trust and experience and skepticism, and enough disparate sources of information to do our own parity checks for accuracy.
In addition, automobile manufacturers have had to implement new technology due to many pressures from legislation and consumer desires such as fuel economy, reliability, safety, and emmisions. From reading recent reports on car reliability, it seems that we don't have the number of lemons that we used to.
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First thing I think of is the tomatometer rating for games. Fresh games are rated at least an 8 (instead of 6 for movies), otherwise most games would be recommended.
#$^&* timed out link. Now I feel like a lummox.
Hopefully this is a more permanent link.
They may want to rename it lummox, because Matsushita Electric Corporation has a trademark on
Lumix
Should I be scared that my first thought... ;)
That thought was in your head, not mine. Maybe you should be scared
In actuality, the professor didn't look like your stereotype nerdy professor. In fact, he looked more like an MD than a CS PhD. And he had a great hobby, homebrewing beer.
In the late 90's, the podunk university which I got my CS degree from required a math minor. The core requirements for the degree were also 2 credits shy of a physics minor. Math requirements included (after the basics of algebra and trig) 12 credits of calc, 3 of statistical calculus, 3(or 4) of numerical analysis, 6 of algorithm analysis, and 3 of diff-Eq.
We had "major fair" days when all the majors would set up booths to inform and recruit undeclareds. A lot of interested students would inquire about CS desgrees. One of my professors would ask, "Can you hack math?" If the student looked doubtful or said no, he would point accross the hall and say, "CIS is over there."
A rumor mill has it that Donald Trump is going to try out Wife 3.0
Morlocks eat Eloi
After a little digging, found the name is the Peter B. Lewis Building. For those who would like to look at photes, go here.
I'll respond to your question with another:
"How exactly is it more difficult to tamper with a punch card ballot or a mark-sensor ballot? I see that one would only need a marker or a small hand punch, or even just a small pointed object like an awl to void those.
It appears that your assumption is that one party of the US/THEM dichotomy has unfettered control of cast ballots. If they do not have that control, then they cannot "scratch of the remaining areas." Only mixed interests who are monitoring each other have access to the ballots, which is a deterrent to ballot adulteration.
To carry your logic to its conclusion, ff they do have that control, then the form of ballot, punch card, oval fill, machine, electronic does not matter, by nature of the power you assume they have, they have the ability to void or alter votes.
Would you rather have Computer errors, damaged punch card ballots, broken voting machines, bad optical scanners, or good old fashioned human error?
I'll take good old fashioned voter error so I want scratch tickets. Thanks to state lotteries and product marketing lotteries, just about everyone knows how to use scratch tickets. All you need is a coin and a lockbox with slot.
The area under the scratch would have a bar code so the tickets can be stacked and scanned. AND you have a paper trail built into the process. No dimpled, pregnant, etc chads.
There would be two types of scratch tickets:
Standard: The label of the choice above the scratch area. pick your candidate or Yes/No on issue and scratch that selection, then drop your ticket in the box
Random- position/ballot issue is to the left on the line and a number of unlabelled choice scratch areas to the right. The candidates or Y/N choices are randomly printed on the ballot before the scratch material is applied.
Pick one by method or random. This addition of randomness would shake up our voting system.
Upon entering the voting station, the voter has a choice of picking a standard or random scratch ballot.
Of course, they would be clearly marked as "STANDARD VOTING BALLOT" or "RANDOM VOTING BALLOT"
There is also a significant amount of ice on Greenland
which, if it melts in significant quantities will also pose a threat to coastal regions, oceanic currents and oceanic salinity.
At least it can't be worse than Space Truckers
This makes me think of the quote:
"We store the sum of human experience on mechanical devices with a one year limited warranty"
Well, you know what they say, "easy scome, easy sco."
Doesn't the model-view-controller pattern originally come from smalltalk?
Then what do you call those machines with arms in automobile factories that put the porducts together, lowlevel mechanical employees?
e) Walla is in Hebrew.
Also, from the article link, the free service is for Wallas customers:
Walla Communications (TASE: WALA) Israel's leading Internet portal with 75,000 customers, reported this morning plans to become the first company in the world to provide one-gigabyte (GB) e-mailboxes to its customers.
So unless your a Walla customer and can read Hebrew, looks like your out.
Why not hire those you think are best if you can afford them? And I'm not seeing these people being conscripted.
If people curb "the splurge," then they can get a lot more and better quality food with less money. Like budgeting advisors say, if you don't buy that latte and muffin every work day, you save about $5, which is over $100/month. I'm not even going to get into the costs of eating out.
Likewise, find generic (store brand) products to substitute for name brand, such as frozen vegetables. Make food "from scratch" (a seemingly lost art today). I don't mean bake your own bread or churn your own butter, but make your own casserole (or hot dish if your from up there) instead of buying prepacked ready to make foods. Figure a box of the instafood is going to be 2-3 dollars. A 10 lb sack of spuds will be about $3, and will serve several meals.
We spend about $300-350 a month on food. We are a family of 4: 2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 infant eating baby food. I do most of the shopping. We don't skimp on quality. I just don't buy frozen dinners or insta foods, and very little sweets.
Not only better things to do with our time, but also better things to do with our money. W'ere a one income family with 2 small children. I have broadband access at work, so I know what it's like.
We've got dialup at $12 on top of our standard phone bill.
DSL is cheaper than cable modem and the cheapest I could find DSL is $40/month.
Thats a savings of $28/month ($336/ year)
Sure, that's not a ton of money saved, but we also don't have cable tv or eat out much and have only one car. It all adds up, especially when you are working to be debt free.
1948 Chicago Daily Tribune healine
No matter the medium, the rule is Caveat Lector, let the reader beware. What we take as "truth" is based upon our trust and experience and skepticism, and enough disparate sources of information to do our own parity checks for accuracy.
In addition, automobile manufacturers have had to implement new technology due to many pressures from legislation and consumer desires such as fuel economy, reliability, safety, and emmisions.
From reading recent reports on car reliability, it seems that we don't have the number of lemons that we used to.
small numbers of grealty anomalous behavior can really skew averages, like the guy who buys a 2 million dollar house in a 100K town.
I'd like to know how many instances of spyware are on the median computer.
As a longtime Moz user with a poor memory, please refresh me on this software you call IE. Is it an acronym for Intruder Express?