You said this better than I did.
Last year, there was a guy running for some hospital district position or something. I have no idea what he stood for; I don't even know what the position does. But I voted for him because my friend worked with him and thought he was a good guy so I remembered his name when I got my ballot.
Name recognition. In local races where party affiliation is less important, people vote the name they know.
How do you get name recognition?
Doorbell every registered voter. Goes to name recognition. In a town of 40,000 people, half will be registered. So 20,000 people, probably 10,000 households, roughly 10 months to the election. So visit 250 houses a week. That's doable, especially if you drop the precincts you know will not vote for you.
Get out the vote. Identify precincts with high voting rates that you believe will be inclined to vote for you. Election day, your volunteers will harass every single one of them to go out and vote.
Mail. This reinforces name recognition.
Yard signs don't get out the vote or persuade voters but they do give you credibility and visibility as well as pacifying your base.
With a visit from you during the year, a mail piece a couple weeks prior to the election and a phone call on election day, every single registered voter will have heard/seen your name at least three times in three different ways, not counting any sightings of your yard signs.
A town of 40,000; only half are registered and less than half will bother to vote, probably only a third in an off year election. And you need half of that to win.
So, you only need 3400-5000 votes to get elected to anything in a town of 40,000. It takes a fair bit of work but anyone can do it. That's how you end up with these kooky types in city councils, state legislature seat, etc. They simply worked hard for it.
You will never seen a Microsoft or AOL exec talking about how cool the their companies or products are, only how useful and easy to use.
Have you actually seen their ads? Both advertise how cool they are. As for useful and easy to use, that's pretty much been the Apple focus for *years*. Making something useful, easy to use *and* cool(the iMac apparently) is what broke them out of their slump.
They don't really care how much heavy breathing they generate in the media
[sarcasm]Yeah, Microsoft doesn't care how it's portrayed in the media *at all*![/sarcasm]
Why this lavish devotion to "upgradability"? The average computer user really doesn't need that much beyond what the iMac has. Memory plus all the ports you need pretty much takes care of it.
I've got a Dell Inspiron that I've used for three years without upgrading and I'm a good deal more geeky than the average computer user. I simply haven't needed to upgrade, not even memory. Laptops are probably a better base of comparison for the new iMac. I don't see anyone complaining about not being able to "upgrade" laptops, really, and they're arguably more integrated than Apple computers.
If you're at all concerned about being able to "upgrade" your computer, the iMac simply isn't for you. The average computer user doesn't need, nor wants to do, to upgrade their computer any more than they would want/need to upgrade their car. Does anyone here *get* that?
I might get the new iMac. It's the first Apple product I've seriously considered buying. Get the high end model, max out the memory... I'll probably be set for another 3-4 years.
*Half a year* after this article was published, this guy finally comes around to say "Yes, you *can* meet deadlines"?
I suppose it'd have been more ironic if he immediately produced an article that agreed with the original.
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FWIW, the foreign press reported American combat casualities(~30 IIRC) supposedly with Special Forces weeks before we officially got involved in Afghanistan.
Now, I trust the foreign press as little as you do, but I don't trust the CWM(Corporate Whore Media) either which is saying we've only lost *one* person in combat.
In any case, the US Military has performed about as well as you could ask it to but I wouldn't be bragging about it. Yes, it was impressive, but so is a tank rolling over a man with no arms.
And, of course, the whole point of the entire endeavour(assuming you're ignoring the oil pipeline stuff), Osama Bin Laden, appears to still be on the loose. So the operation is a failure so far?
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With the Taliban out of the way, oil companies can finally build that coveted pipeline through Afghanistan that they wanted. I'm sure the new gov't will be more accomadating than the Taliban was.
Don't worry your pretty little head, though, I'm sure we only dethroned the Taliban because they were bad people and not because the President's friends could make a buck.
I cheated to get Mewtwo. I just started an indefinite length match with two human players and left the machine on all night. Bang. There's your 20 hours.
1000 Vs. matches(any kind, any length) is probably the *alternate* way of unlocking a character or two.
In Outlook 98, Marking a message as Private prevent you from modifying a message or copying the text when replying to it.
However, in true MS fashion, it doesn't prevent you from copying the text when reading the message itself, forwarding it/replying to anyone, etc, hence making it just another useless flag.
"Domestic terrorist" is defined as anyone who attempts to terrorize or coerce the public.
Not much better huh?
Just think, the next time Democrats run "Mediscare"-type ads, Ashcroft can haul them in for being domestic terrorists. It'll certainly make Bush's re-election campaign much easier!
Gore graduated with honors. That doesn't look like F's to me.
He attended divinity school briefly for a few classes. Later, he attended another college but left to go run for a Congressional seat that had just opened up. Neither case qualifies as "failed", IMHO.
As for his ability to connect with voters, the media is constantly praising Bush's "way with people" but last time I checked, Gore got half a million more votes than Bush nationwide.
Well there was that charity special a couple years back with Rowan Adtikson(sp) aka Mr Bean as the Doctor. It was surprisingly good for what it was. Brief though.
At the end, the Doctor gets killed repeatedly and is played by a number of people(including Hugh Grant) before finally dying...
But he comes back to life and regenerates as one of the women from AbFab. And she goes off to find out why The Master is called the Master...
A couple years ago when I worked on the hill, one Senator's office(Inhofe?) got busted for downloading porn. How'd HIR find out about it? Because they crashed the servers with the amount they were bringing in.
It was all the more humorous given how socially conservative their boss was.
I mean, what other way is there to get rid of DMCA right now? Have Congress repeal it? Yeah right.
OTOH, if he were convicted and the convicted was overturned on grounds that the DMCA was unconstitutional, that'd be good...
Maybe that explains why DoJ is so headstrong on "convicting" an easily popularized guy? They know the case will eventually lose and they want it to because that's the only way to get rid of it.
Of course, it's inconvienent for Dmitri, but then again, someone's gotta be the martyr and it might as well be someone who isn't an American.
If Ford made you sign an agreement saying it couldn't be held responsible for anything that went wrong with your new car, and then the car burst into the flames when the engine started, killing your family...
they could probably still be held liable. Has anyone actually challenged EULAs?
that hasn't made anyone claim that America isn't a democracy.
We aren't. We're a democratic republic.
Seriously though, I think a lot of Gore supporters would argue that after the last Presidential election, we aren't a democracy anymore. ("Counting all the votes might undermine the credibility of Bush's victory.")
Will the Linux and Windows versions be compatible multi-player wise?
To chime in, it really is a good game. I can't testify to how "original" the company scheme is but I can't think of any other major RTS' with anything close to it.
The unit autonomy is also nice. You don't have to worry about your troops being too stupid to fight and just standing there as their comrades get cut down. If the ZOCs overlap, they fight. That simple. Cities deploy their militias automatically when under seige. It's all very nice.
It also takes out a lot of the RTS tedium in building. No peons, units automatically heal and replace themselves. There are building decisions and dependencies but you have to actually think and not just mindlessly go up the tech tree.
And the opposing AI ain't half bad either.
The campaign isn't really anything you haven't seen before and is pretty easy as you're given lots of powerful units to start each scenario off with and your heroes accumulate experience through the course of the campaign.
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It's nothing a little crazy glue won't fix. There. Good as new.
Ah... crazy glue. I love this little toob, makes alllll my problems go away wayw ay2ay
You said this better than I did. Last year, there was a guy running for some hospital district position or something. I have no idea what he stood for; I don't even know what the position does. But I voted for him because my friend worked with him and thought he was a good guy so I remembered his name when I got my ballot.
Get more people to vote for you.
How?
Name recognition. In local races where party affiliation is less important, people vote the name they know.
How do you get name recognition?
Doorbell every registered voter. Goes to name recognition. In a town of 40,000 people, half will be registered. So 20,000 people, probably 10,000 households, roughly 10 months to the election. So visit 250 houses a week. That's doable, especially if you drop the precincts you know will not vote for you.
Get out the vote. Identify precincts with high voting rates that you believe will be inclined to vote for you. Election day, your volunteers will harass every single one of them to go out and vote.
Mail. This reinforces name recognition.
Yard signs don't get out the vote or persuade voters but they do give you credibility and visibility as well as pacifying your base.
With a visit from you during the year, a mail piece a couple weeks prior to the election and a phone call on election day, every single registered voter will have heard/seen your name at least three times in three different ways, not counting any sightings of your yard signs.
A town of 40,000; only half are registered and less than half will bother to vote, probably only a third in an off year election. And you need half of that to win.
So, you only need 3400-5000 votes to get elected to anything in a town of 40,000. It takes a fair bit of work but anyone can do it. That's how you end up with these kooky types in city councils, state legislature seat, etc. They simply worked hard for it.
Have you actually seen their ads? Both advertise how cool they are. As for useful and easy to use, that's pretty much been the Apple focus for *years*. Making something useful, easy to use *and* cool(the iMac apparently) is what broke them out of their slump.
They don't really care how much heavy breathing they generate in the media
[sarcasm]Yeah, Microsoft doesn't care how it's portrayed in the media *at all*![/sarcasm]
Why this lavish devotion to "upgradability"? The average computer user really doesn't need that much beyond what the iMac has. Memory plus all the ports you need pretty much takes care of it.
I've got a Dell Inspiron that I've used for three years without upgrading and I'm a good deal more geeky than the average computer user. I simply haven't needed to upgrade, not even memory. Laptops are probably a better base of comparison for the new iMac. I don't see anyone complaining about not being able to "upgrade" laptops, really, and they're arguably more integrated than Apple computers.
If you're at all concerned about being able to "upgrade" your computer, the iMac simply isn't for you. The average computer user doesn't need, nor wants to do, to upgrade their computer any more than they would want/need to upgrade their car. Does anyone here *get* that?
I might get the new iMac. It's the first Apple product I've seriously considered buying. Get the high end model, max out the memory... I'll probably be set for another 3-4 years.
*Half a year* after this article was published, this guy finally comes around to say "Yes, you *can* meet deadlines"?
I suppose it'd have been more ironic if he immediately produced an article that agreed with the original.
FWIW, the foreign press reported American combat casualities(~30 IIRC) supposedly with Special Forces weeks before we officially got involved in Afghanistan. Now, I trust the foreign press as little as you do, but I don't trust the CWM(Corporate Whore Media) either which is saying we've only lost *one* person in combat. In any case, the US Military has performed about as well as you could ask it to but I wouldn't be bragging about it. Yes, it was impressive, but so is a tank rolling over a man with no arms. And, of course, the whole point of the entire endeavour(assuming you're ignoring the oil pipeline stuff), Osama Bin Laden, appears to still be on the loose. So the operation is a failure so far?
With the Taliban out of the way, oil companies can finally build that coveted pipeline through Afghanistan that they wanted. I'm sure the new gov't will be more accomadating than the Taliban was.
Don't worry your pretty little head, though, I'm sure we only dethroned the Taliban because they were bad people and not because the President's friends could make a buck.
Symantec...
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I cheated to get Mewtwo. I just started an indefinite length match with two human players and left the machine on all night. Bang. There's your 20 hours.
1000 Vs. matches(any kind, any length) is probably the *alternate* way of unlocking a character or two.
In Outlook 98, Marking a message as Private prevent you from modifying a message or copying the text when replying to it.
However, in true MS fashion, it doesn't prevent you from copying the text when reading the message itself, forwarding it/replying to anyone, etc, hence making it just another useless flag.
"Domestic terrorist" is defined as anyone who attempts to terrorize or coerce the public.
Not much better huh?
Just think, the next time Democrats run "Mediscare"-type ads, Ashcroft can haul them in for being domestic terrorists. It'll certainly make Bush's re-election campaign much easier!
Gore graduated with honors. That doesn't look like F's to me.
He attended divinity school briefly for a few classes. Later, he attended another college but left to go run for a Congressional seat that had just opened up. Neither case qualifies as "failed", IMHO.
As for his ability to connect with voters, the media is constantly praising Bush's "way with people" but last time I checked, Gore got half a million more votes than Bush nationwide.
Well there was that charity special a couple years back with Rowan Adtikson(sp) aka Mr Bean as the Doctor. It was surprisingly good for what it was. Brief though.
At the end, the Doctor gets killed repeatedly and is played by a number of people(including Hugh Grant) before finally dying...
But he comes back to life and regenerates as one of the women from AbFab. And she goes off to find out why The Master is called the Master...
Listen: Gundam Wing is a TELEVISION SHOW.
Just because Relena Peacecraft advocates disarming oneself as an example to other nations doesn't mean it's a good idea for the rest of us.
Now excuse me, I have to hop in my Gundam and kill some more people.
A couple years ago when I worked on the hill, one Senator's office(Inhofe?) got busted for downloading porn. How'd HIR find out about it? Because they crashed the servers with the amount they were bringing in.
It was all the more humorous given how socially conservative their boss was.
They're oppose DMCA.
I mean, what other way is there to get rid of DMCA right now? Have Congress repeal it? Yeah right.
OTOH, if he were convicted and the convicted was overturned on grounds that the DMCA was unconstitutional, that'd be good...
Maybe that explains why DoJ is so headstrong on "convicting" an easily popularized guy? They know the case will eventually lose and they want it to because that's the only way to get rid of it.
Of course, it's inconvienent for Dmitri, but then again, someone's gotta be the martyr and it might as well be someone who isn't an American.
The difference is between unjust actions in a democratic society (ie, US) and a communist dictaroship (ie, USSR).
Wasn't Putin democratically elected though? And, Bush was effectively appointed by the Supreme Court.
[Insert your own joke about the US and USSR switching places]
if you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
Maybe someone should submit a story linked to their website.
But would the EULA hold up in court?
If Ford made you sign an agreement saying it couldn't be held responsible for anything that went wrong with your new car, and then the car burst into the flames when the engine started, killing your family...
they could probably still be held liable. Has anyone actually challenged EULAs?
that hasn't made anyone claim that America isn't a democracy.
We aren't. We're a democratic republic.
Seriously though, I think a lot of Gore supporters would argue that after the last Presidential election, we aren't a democracy anymore. ("Counting all the votes might undermine the credibility of Bush's victory.")
Will the Linux and Windows versions be compatible multi-player wise?
To chime in, it really is a good game. I can't testify to how "original" the company scheme is but I can't think of any other major RTS' with anything close to it.
The unit autonomy is also nice. You don't have to worry about your troops being too stupid to fight and just standing there as their comrades get cut down. If the ZOCs overlap, they fight. That simple. Cities deploy their militias automatically when under seige. It's all very nice.
It also takes out a lot of the RTS tedium in building. No peons, units automatically heal and replace themselves. There are building decisions and dependencies but you have to actually think and not just mindlessly go up the tech tree.
And the opposing AI ain't half bad either.
The campaign isn't really anything you haven't seen before and is pretty easy as you're given lots of powerful units to start each scenario off with and your heroes accumulate experience through the course of the campaign.
All in all it's a good game.
It's probably about as legal as telemarketing, which also wastes your time and resources.
However, it's becoming harder to do legally in more and more states.