that porportional representation is worse because "only" 80-90% of the population would get attention compared to the electoral college where 20%(at best) gets noticed in a campaign.
People are going to get ignored no matter the system, but it's clear which scenario is better here.
Let's face facts. Photoshop is easy to use. Paint Shop Pro is easy to use. Even MS Paint is easy to use. Why can't GIMP be easy to use? It has nothing to do with familiarity and eventhing to do with yet another open source project with a user-hostile interface.
Gimpshop does a lot to improve things but it can only do so much.
First, the House net neutrality vote was for a net neutrality amendment to a larger bill(COPE). They didn't include it obviously.
Now, the Senate is considering their version of the bill. Their version may or may not include the net neutrality provision. Talking Points Memo is keeping a tally of where Senators currently stand.
Ideally, the Senate includes it in their version of the bill. Then, the bill will go to conference to iron out the differences between the Senate and House versions. Hopefully, someone will champion it there and ensure it stays in the final version.
Then the larger bill goes to the House and Senate for a final vote. Congressmen who voted against net neutrality will probably not vote against the final bill.
Then it goes to the President for signing, and since Bush has yet to veto a bill, the bill likely becomes law and so does the Net Neutrality provision.
So the House vote was a setback but by no means the final blow.
understanding why anyone would rely on a Web email application. When you don't control the processor being used to manage email, how can you be sure it's safe and secure?
Reading this thread is like watching some massive scale version of the Prisoner's Dilemma where everyone always defects.
Everyone in this thread is convinced they're the best at what they do and only lazy schmuck's get laid off... until they do of course. Never seen so many "best in my field" in one place before.
They're more than willing to put up with substandard benefits, low pay, insanely long hours and non-existant job security and they'll shiv you for a marginal gain because gosh darn they're so superior to everyone else. I mean, you're obviously lazy and stupid because you don't like looking for a job every nine months. Sometimes they even hit the jackpot because some sucker tried to cooperate. All the while the pot gets warmer and warmer. Has anyone checked out real wage growth lately? Or even noticed that there isn't any?
Good luck guys with an economy where no one who isn't already wealthy can risk having long-term financial committments. I guess that sort of thing is just "stupid." You've made your bed; it's just too bad the rest of us have to sleep in it too.
The "good" guys will NOT perform certain actions, regardless of the circumstances. Anyone who argues any other way would be a great follower of Saddam, if you were born in Iraq instead of here.
They're valuable support documentation for identity theft. The DMV will probably accept a photo ID and a car registration for a replacement driver's license, for instance.
A better scam is too just copy the information on the insurance and registration forms (don't actually steal anything) for use in an insurance fraud scam.
Then call up the insurance company and claim that you were hit by so and so and proceed to give all those details...
Interesting fact: IMDB says that the character Oliver in the movie "Love Story" was partly based on Al Gore. Al Gore had been a roommate of Tommy Lee Jones, who appears in the movie.
Which brings up another manufactured attack by the right-wing noise machine. Gore mentioned in an interview that he had read in another interview that the author, Erich Segal, who knew Gore in college, had based the lead in Love Story on him.
Republicans and all their media outlets would later assail Gore for making it up... nevermind that that Erich Segal confirmed to the New York Times that yes, the male lead was indeed based on Gore.
A John Kerry diary on DailyKos would obviously have been written by a staffer as would most "by" various Senators, but posts from House representatives and just about any candidate usually are written by the actual politician in question. My Congressman, Jim McDermott, even responds to comments to his posts.
There were repeated requests for basic information, but the King Co. elections department (run by D's) either didn't provide the information or covered it up or even openly lied about it, all this while an important trial is being held to uncover who was really elected. Based on admissions by the elections department, they manufactured votes and counted votes that should not have been counted.
And the bottom line out of that trial is that there was no evidence of fraud with the only consequence being the removal of four illegal votes for Rossi. There was a reason the GOP went with that porportionality nonsense: they knew full well that if they started putting (more) felons on the stand, they'd lose a ton of votes. The felons lists were overwhelmingly male and men voted overwhelmingly for Rossi.
Hundreds of felons fraudulently voted for Rossi yet it's Gregoire who "stole the election"? Give me a break.
You can do better for elections information than Sound Politics. Sharkansky is talking out of his ass most of the time. No one who actually knows the subject matter takes him seriously.
Actually, by being married, you don't have the ability to declare an extra deduction that you would of if you were single. You are screwed because the govt. knows that you have a combined income. Where are these magical tax laws you are talking about?
You get a larger deduction, irregardless of whether both of you work. That's why most married couples get a tax break. Larger deductions and larger tax bracketts.
Two-income families(especially where one makes significantly more than the other) might get screwed but that's about it. It's difficult to come up with a tax structure benefitting both single-earner families and two-income families without completely screwing over single people.
Income tax aside, it's pretty much gravy from there. Multitudes of discounts, public and private, await married couples. Whether it's health insurance and family discounts or the vast legal framework of rights, there are a lot of financial benefits for married couples.
Exact same rules as Risk except that it wasn't called Risk. The author even charged money for registrations. As far as I know, he never had any legal problems.
This guy just needs to change the name of the site to something that isn't trademarked and he'll be fine.
I see them as fufilling two different roles: Subs should be the more literal translation for people who know the original language or culture while dubs should be a cultural translation for those without that knowledge.
I think a lot of the problems with anime not appearing to make any sense is that they try to make a literal translation but since Japanese and English are so different, a ton gets lost in the translation. If they started from scratch in writing a script that aims to convey the same *meaning* as the original, I think they'd be better off than simply trying to convey the same words.
Slashdot Mirror
Who killed E3?
At its heart, it's a military drama with sci-fi trappings.
that porportional representation is worse because "only" 80-90% of the population would get attention compared to the electoral college where 20%(at best) gets noticed in a campaign.
People are going to get ignored no matter the system, but it's clear which scenario is better here.
There is only Zune.
Let's face facts. Photoshop is easy to use. Paint Shop Pro is easy to use. Even MS Paint is easy to use. Why can't GIMP be easy to use? It has nothing to do with familiarity and eventhing to do with yet another open source project with a user-hostile interface.
Gimpshop does a lot to improve things but it can only do so much.
Kind of hard to take seriously a person who seems to think the movie studios have one computer between them to encode movies.
I might have this wrong but this is how it goes.
First, the House net neutrality vote was for a net neutrality amendment to a larger bill(COPE). They didn't include it obviously.
Now, the Senate is considering their version of the bill. Their version may or may not include the net neutrality provision. Talking Points Memo is keeping a tally of where Senators currently stand.
Ideally, the Senate includes it in their version of the bill. Then, the bill will go to conference to iron out the differences between the Senate and House versions. Hopefully, someone will champion it there and ensure it stays in the final version.
Then the larger bill goes to the House and Senate for a final vote. Congressmen who voted against net neutrality will probably not vote against the final bill.
Then it goes to the President for signing, and since Bush has yet to veto a bill, the bill likely becomes law and so does the Net Neutrality provision.
So the House vote was a setback but by no means the final blow.
understanding why anyone would rely on a Web email application. When you don't control the processor being used to manage email, how can you be sure it's safe and secure?
Isn't that only a couple grand, however?
Blu-Ray on the PS3 runs at only 2x. Xbox 360 DVD runs at 12x.
times what though? I'm guessing the data thoroughput on Blu-Ray is higher than DVD.
It is standard police procedure in a criminal investigation to subpoena or to get a search warrant for telephone records.
Somehow, I doubt the administration bothered with technicalities like "warrants".
Dr. Strangelove.
Truly a visionary. He's always been an inspiration to me.
-Donald Rumsfeld
Reading this thread is like watching some massive scale version of the Prisoner's Dilemma where everyone always defects.
Everyone in this thread is convinced they're the best at what they do and only lazy schmuck's get laid off... until they do of course. Never seen so many "best in my field" in one place before.
They're more than willing to put up with substandard benefits, low pay, insanely long hours and non-existant job security and they'll shiv you for a marginal gain because gosh darn they're so superior to everyone else. I mean, you're obviously lazy and stupid because you don't like looking for a job every nine months. Sometimes they even hit the jackpot because some sucker tried to cooperate. All the while the pot gets warmer and warmer. Has anyone checked out real wage growth lately? Or even noticed that there isn't any?
Good luck guys with an economy where no one who isn't already wealthy can risk having long-term financial committments. I guess that sort of thing is just "stupid." You've made your bed; it's just too bad the rest of us have to sleep in it too.
I was really looking forward to a new season.
The "good" guys will NOT perform certain actions, regardless of the circumstances. Anyone who argues any other way would be a great follower of Saddam, if you were born in Iraq instead of here.
"It's not fascism when *we* do it!"
They're valuable support documentation for identity theft. The DMV will probably accept a photo ID and a car registration for a replacement driver's license, for instance.
A better scam is too just copy the information on the insurance and registration forms (don't actually steal anything) for use in an insurance fraud scam.
Then call up the insurance company and claim that you were hit by so and so and proceed to give all those details...
Interesting fact: IMDB says that the character Oliver in the movie "Love Story" was partly based on Al Gore. Al Gore had been a roommate of Tommy Lee Jones, who appears in the movie.
Which brings up another manufactured attack by the right-wing noise machine. Gore mentioned in an interview that he had read in another interview that the author, Erich Segal, who knew Gore in college, had based the lead in Love Story on him.
Republicans and all their media outlets would later assail Gore for making it up... nevermind that that Erich Segal confirmed to the New York Times that yes, the male lead was indeed based on Gore.
But only if I can create a character in the mold of Judge Scalia!
You just call up the politician's office and ask.
A John Kerry diary on DailyKos would obviously have been written by a staffer as would most "by" various Senators, but posts from House representatives and just about any candidate usually are written by the actual politician in question. My Congressman, Jim McDermott, even responds to comments to his posts.
There were repeated requests for basic information, but the King Co. elections department (run by D's) either didn't provide the information or covered it up or even openly lied about it, all this while an important trial is being held to uncover who was really elected. Based on admissions by the elections department, they manufactured votes and counted votes that should not have been counted.
And the bottom line out of that trial is that there was no evidence of fraud with the only consequence being the removal of four illegal votes for Rossi. There was a reason the GOP went with that porportionality nonsense: they knew full well that if they started putting (more) felons on the stand, they'd lose a ton of votes. The felons lists were overwhelmingly male and men voted overwhelmingly for Rossi.
Hundreds of felons fraudulently voted for Rossi yet it's Gregoire who "stole the election"? Give me a break.
You can do better for elections information than Sound Politics. Sharkansky is talking out of his ass most of the time. No one who actually knows the subject matter takes him seriously.
Do you have any reason to believe the cyberbrain of the future will be any more secure against hacking than your average Windows PC?
Actually, by being married, you don't have the ability to declare an extra deduction that you would of if you were single. You are screwed because the govt. knows that you have a combined income. Where are these magical tax laws you are talking about?
You get a larger deduction, irregardless of whether both of you work. That's why most married couples get a tax break. Larger deductions and larger tax bracketts.
Two-income families(especially where one makes significantly more than the other) might get screwed but that's about it. It's difficult to come up with a tax structure benefitting both single-earner families and two-income families without completely screwing over single people.
Income tax aside, it's pretty much gravy from there. Multitudes of discounts, public and private, await married couples. Whether it's health insurance and family discounts or the vast legal framework of rights, there are a lot of financial benefits for married couples.
Remember the old BBS door game Global Wars?
Exact same rules as Risk except that it wasn't called Risk. The author even charged money for registrations. As far as I know, he never had any legal problems.
This guy just needs to change the name of the site to something that isn't trademarked and he'll be fine.
I see them as fufilling two different roles: Subs should be the more literal translation for people who know the original language or culture while dubs should be a cultural translation for those without that knowledge.
I think a lot of the problems with anime not appearing to make any sense is that they try to make a literal translation but since Japanese and English are so different, a ton gets lost in the translation. If they started from scratch in writing a script that aims to convey the same *meaning* as the original, I think they'd be better off than simply trying to convey the same words.