I caught a hit like that in high school - rounded a corner and ran into a guy - and those actually don't hurt much at all. If you'll notice, Clark is off the ground and Walker neatly topples over. These are fairly elastic collisions. The ones that hurt are the fullback-linebacker type impacts right near the line of scrimmage.
Actually, superglue is quite effective at closing skin (though large wounds still need to have the deep layers closed). The monomers used are designed not to produce as much heat during curing as the home-use ones, but they're still cyanoacrylate adhesives.
Stories like that make me glad I live in a neighborhood that doesn't even have covenants (built in the 50s). It's far from perfect - there's nothing keeping people from renting out homes - but if I don't feel like cutting the grass this week on my one day off, I don't have to.
As I once put it to someone, homeowners' association and condo association boards are dominated by people who have lots of spare time, care tremendously about trivia like who parked over the line, and don't mind doing any amount of paperwork in order to achieve their goal. You could not imagine a more fertile ground for growing petty tyrants.
The problem with this, of course, is that if you have enough money, you can create your own charity. Said charity can then employ your descendants to perform not-too-difficult jobs for rather-higher-than-average salaries.
If you have upwards of $10-$20M, this is a completely valid way to do things The hit in high inheritance taxes falls on those with just enough to be taxable but not enough to fund ways around it.
Bottled water in the US is sold mainly because... it's in a bottle for you. You can work out, carry it hiking, etc., etc. Our water is mostly pretty good - there are a few places with naturally nasty groundwater, but it's safe even if unappetizing. There are problems in some small towns out west - high mineral content in the water sometimes means arsenic and the like. If you remember the kerfluffle early in the Bush admin about raising allowable arsenic levels in tap water, that's what it was about - community water associations that didn't want to have to pay to install further purification equipment.
And you want to be the guy who has to explain what you cut out to Congress when this email ends up being part of a scandal?
Seriously, Bush sent an email telling everyone that he knew that he wouldn't be emailing while president, in order to protect them from any chance of special prosecutors and the like. Obama is going to have to do the same. The presidential record-keeping required post-Watergate has made damned sure that nobody says anything not suitable for public consumption in any way except face to face. This is not a net benefit.
You know, it's sad people have to do this. You can easily get a sense from Babelfish or Google, and Dutch and English are not so radically different that you can't piece together some of the rest. I don't speak Dutch at all, but I've learned "het" for "the" and have gotten a bit more adept at recognizing cognate words between the two.
... which so rarely comes with extended battery life, low equipment cost, etc. that makes handing it off a task of 10 seconds rather than a ten-minute fight over who should charge the damned thing, where the car adapter is, who broke the holster, and so forth.
But your point is taken. Our ED uses one of those multi-homed cordless phone systems for their staff, although the system only works down there.
Not to mention that pagers obviate the need for passthrough of caller ID info - my rate of response to a page from my wife, who probably just wants to know if I'm free for lunch, is going to be rather different from a 911 page to the ICU.
Another so-far-ignored advantage of pagers is the ability to hand them off. You can, for example, have one on-call pager for an entire group or (in an academic hospital) service, and the nurses don't have to spend time looking up who's on call or wondering if someone has switched call without telling them - they just call the on-call pager.
So? You can usually predict what the result of a guilty verdict will be. I'm sorry that my elision there upset you. I know that the ability to think two steps ahead is missing in the average AC post, but I figured most people could jump the gap.
So, to follow on here, what's your suggestion for voter verification? Let anyone who shows up vote, without any verification that they are who they say they are? Amuse me by explaining why positively identifying voters is such an evil thing. The county to my north has 25% more registered voters than living people of voting age. How to toss out the bad ones?
Oh, I know about those. I re-registered every time I moved, and even made sure that the clerk entered my name correctly. I am not making light of the difficulties you may face; I'm just saying that nobody else is going to fix those problems for you, and if you care enough to do it in person, you'll be covered.
Federal conviction numbers don't impress me much on this. Would you send someone to jail for 5 years for voting twice? I'd find it pretty damned hard to do so, and I think most people would.
Voter fraud is a real concern because the integrity of the election process has a lot of knock-on effects in people's trust in government - as evidenced by the reaction of virtually every Democrat in the country to George W Bush in 2000. It didn't make you think that the government was corrupt?
And PS: US Attorney is a political appointee and patronage spot. Do you get upset when the former president's chief of staff loses his job? I don't care much for what Bush did in the Presidency, but I can't see how that wasn't entirely within his power.
Have you gone to the courthouse? When they screwed up my registration, that's what I did. With documents. And I asked the clerk to print a copy of the registration - which she did. And now, having missed one primary election due to a mistake at the courthouse, everything is right.
Or do you just let people vote without any identity check at all? Because that's how my state does it, and if there is a more open invitation to voter fraud, I don't know what it is. See, if you went to my polling place, and said you were Demon P. Lapin, they would let you vote - and I wouldn't be able to when I showed up later. Where's the justice in that?
I never pretended the current system is perfect; I'm very conscientious about this sort of thing, and even I got screwed once. But I don't see any evidence that this is anything more than random chance; I'm a Republican voter in a Democratic city. The clerk that registered me is working for a Democratic elected official, and probably is a Democrat herself. I don't think I was intentionally disenfranchised. It was bad luck, and given the fallibility of humans, it happens.
Further down the thread, I mentioned one fairly simple defense against fraud - dyeing fingers - that could easily be implemented without requiring stringent ID requirements, although it does not work against non-citizen voting.
Citizens get to vote, that's how democracy works
Ah, but you don't seem to like the easiest verification that they are citizens. Let me step back and not be obstreperous, because I really do want a reliable and bipartisan approach to this - I think that trustable election results are critical to the functioning of a democracy, and if the people I like get wiped out at the election, so be it. What would you suggest we do to prevent multiple-voting and non-citizen voting? I'll stipulate that - as someone noted - not many people have been successfully prosecuted for voter fraud. (I'm not sure that means it's rare, but that's not important to this part of the discussion.) To be fair, this has to be something that is black-letter law - no human judgment allowed. Either the proof is, or is not, acceptable. What do you suggest?
I'm not knocking your intelligence, but if you use two different names in legal documents, you're asking for trouble - as your example clearly demonstrates. Your legal name is just that - your legal name. It does not need to be what you call yourself. And it can be changed - though the process is admittedly a pain in the ass - to rectify the problem. Choose your pain.
My wife, for example, has legally retained her maiden name for professional reasons (she's a doctor). What we go by socially - the Joneses - is different from what is on the title to our house, our mortgage, her driver's license, and so forth. It does cause some odd looks now and again - especially when the poll workers at our precinct are the parents of people I went to high school with, and know both of us from back then - but it beats carrying around a copy of her marriage license every time she does anything official.
If you're going to the trouble of a paper audit record that is really voter-verifiable, why don't you just do the damned thing on paper to begin with? It's the only way to be totally anonymous while voting, as e-voting machines will timestamp - making it possible to figure out just what order votes were cast in, and then to reconstruct (from the sign-in sheet) the approximate voting record.
The problem with electronic voting is that it can be either secure or anonymous, but not both - at least in any system I've seen.
Yes, sadly. People who lack the basic intelligence and wherewithal to make sure that their information matches aren't likely to be good voters, so forgive me if I'm unconcerned that these people tend to vote for a party you appear to prefer. Snafus *do* occur - once happened to me! - but you'll have to be a lot more convincing than the above is to make me think that the snafus aren't random.
Incidentally, how do you get an ID that doesn't match your voter registration? I registered - every time I've done it - in person, at the courthouse, on a day off dedicated to just such random crap. I showed them my license (for ID) and a copy of a recent utility bill or lease (for location). No mismatch, although one time they didn't have me on the list in the new precinct by the time the first election - a primary - came around. Next time, it was there.
Of course, I live in Mississippi, where there is no ID requirement *at all*. You walk up, state your (supposed) name, and vote.
In addition to paper ballots, why don't we just use the simplest technique to rein in corrupt voting: staining of the fingernails with a dye. (Silver nitrate, e.g., would do the job in spades.)
Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was a very popular video in the early days of MTV. I don't actually know any of their other songs, more's the pity, but that one got a lot of airtime.
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I caught a hit like that in high school - rounded a corner and ran into a guy - and those actually don't hurt much at all. If you'll notice, Clark is off the ground and Walker neatly topples over. These are fairly elastic collisions. The ones that hurt are the fullback-linebacker type impacts right near the line of scrimmage.
Heh. That's not really gruesome, you know. There's a lot uglier in your average trauma center.
No, not everywhere you don't.
Actually, superglue is quite effective at closing skin (though large wounds still need to have the deep layers closed). The monomers used are designed not to produce as much heat during curing as the home-use ones, but they're still cyanoacrylate adhesives.
Stories like that make me glad I live in a neighborhood that doesn't even have covenants (built in the 50s). It's far from perfect - there's nothing keeping people from renting out homes - but if I don't feel like cutting the grass this week on my one day off, I don't have to.
As I once put it to someone, homeowners' association and condo association boards are dominated by people who have lots of spare time, care tremendously about trivia like who parked over the line, and don't mind doing any amount of paperwork in order to achieve their goal. You could not imagine a more fertile ground for growing petty tyrants.
The problem with this, of course, is that if you have enough money, you can create your own charity. Said charity can then employ your descendants to perform not-too-difficult jobs for rather-higher-than-average salaries.
If you have upwards of $10-$20M, this is a completely valid way to do things The hit in high inheritance taxes falls on those with just enough to be taxable but not enough to fund ways around it.
Bottled water in the US is sold mainly because... it's in a bottle for you. You can work out, carry it hiking, etc., etc. Our water is mostly pretty good - there are a few places with naturally nasty groundwater, but it's safe even if unappetizing. There are problems in some small towns out west - high mineral content in the water sometimes means arsenic and the like. If you remember the kerfluffle early in the Bush admin about raising allowable arsenic levels in tap water, that's what it was about - community water associations that didn't want to have to pay to install further purification equipment.
Yeah, I should have said to assume the originals are lost - possibly by genuine accident. It'll still look bad.
Judicious editing of the emails
And you want to be the guy who has to explain what you cut out to Congress when this email ends up being part of a scandal?
Seriously, Bush sent an email telling everyone that he knew that he wouldn't be emailing while president, in order to protect them from any chance of special prosecutors and the like. Obama is going to have to do the same. The presidential record-keeping required post-Watergate has made damned sure that nobody says anything not suitable for public consumption in any way except face to face. This is not a net benefit.
Are you a rocket scientist, or a brain surgeon? The neurosurgeons I work with use that exact phrase.
You know, it's sad people have to do this. You can easily get a sense from Babelfish or Google, and Dutch and English are not so radically different that you can't piece together some of the rest. I don't speak Dutch at all, but I've learned "het" for "the" and have gotten a bit more adept at recognizing cognate words between the two.
... which so rarely comes with extended battery life, low equipment cost, etc. that makes handing it off a task of 10 seconds rather than a ten-minute fight over who should charge the damned thing, where the car adapter is, who broke the holster, and so forth.
But your point is taken. Our ED uses one of those multi-homed cordless phone systems for their staff, although the system only works down there.
Not to mention that pagers obviate the need for passthrough of caller ID info - my rate of response to a page from my wife, who probably just wants to know if I'm free for lunch, is going to be rather different from a 911 page to the ICU.
Another so-far-ignored advantage of pagers is the ability to hand them off. You can, for example, have one on-call pager for an entire group or (in an academic hospital) service, and the nurses don't have to spend time looking up who's on call or wondering if someone has switched call without telling them - they just call the on-call pager.
Thanks for the tips.
Christ, isn't that the truth. GTA? Please? An FPS? *Anything* that treats the Wii controller like a wireless controller instead of a novelty toy?
So? You can usually predict what the result of a guilty verdict will be. I'm sorry that my elision there upset you. I know that the ability to think two steps ahead is missing in the average AC post, but I figured most people could jump the gap.
So, to follow on here, what's your suggestion for voter verification? Let anyone who shows up vote, without any verification that they are who they say they are? Amuse me by explaining why positively identifying voters is such an evil thing. The county to my north has 25% more registered voters than living people of voting age. How to toss out the bad ones?
Oh, I know about those. I re-registered every time I moved, and even made sure that the clerk entered my name correctly. I am not making light of the difficulties you may face; I'm just saying that nobody else is going to fix those problems for you, and if you care enough to do it in person, you'll be covered.
Federal conviction numbers don't impress me much on this. Would you send someone to jail for 5 years for voting twice? I'd find it pretty damned hard to do so, and I think most people would.
Voter fraud is a real concern because the integrity of the election process has a lot of knock-on effects in people's trust in government - as evidenced by the reaction of virtually every Democrat in the country to George W Bush in 2000. It didn't make you think that the government was corrupt?
And PS: US Attorney is a political appointee and patronage spot. Do you get upset when the former president's chief of staff loses his job? I don't care much for what Bush did in the Presidency, but I can't see how that wasn't entirely within his power.
Have you gone to the courthouse? When they screwed up my registration, that's what I did. With documents. And I asked the clerk to print a copy of the registration - which she did. And now, having missed one primary election due to a mistake at the courthouse, everything is right.
Or do you just let people vote without any identity check at all? Because that's how my state does it, and if there is a more open invitation to voter fraud, I don't know what it is. See, if you went to my polling place, and said you were Demon P. Lapin, they would let you vote - and I wouldn't be able to when I showed up later. Where's the justice in that?
I never pretended the current system is perfect; I'm very conscientious about this sort of thing, and even I got screwed once. But I don't see any evidence that this is anything more than random chance; I'm a Republican voter in a Democratic city. The clerk that registered me is working for a Democratic elected official, and probably is a Democrat herself. I don't think I was intentionally disenfranchised. It was bad luck, and given the fallibility of humans, it happens.
Further down the thread, I mentioned one fairly simple defense against fraud - dyeing fingers - that could easily be implemented without requiring stringent ID requirements, although it does not work against non-citizen voting.
Citizens get to vote, that's how democracy works
Ah, but you don't seem to like the easiest verification that they are citizens. Let me step back and not be obstreperous, because I really do want a reliable and bipartisan approach to this - I think that trustable election results are critical to the functioning of a democracy, and if the people I like get wiped out at the election, so be it. What would you suggest we do to prevent multiple-voting and non-citizen voting? I'll stipulate that - as someone noted - not many people have been successfully prosecuted for voter fraud. (I'm not sure that means it's rare, but that's not important to this part of the discussion.) To be fair, this has to be something that is black-letter law - no human judgment allowed. Either the proof is, or is not, acceptable. What do you suggest?
I'm not knocking your intelligence, but if you use two different names in legal documents, you're asking for trouble - as your example clearly demonstrates. Your legal name is just that - your legal name. It does not need to be what you call yourself. And it can be changed - though the process is admittedly a pain in the ass - to rectify the problem. Choose your pain.
My wife, for example, has legally retained her maiden name for professional reasons (she's a doctor). What we go by socially - the Joneses - is different from what is on the title to our house, our mortgage, her driver's license, and so forth. It does cause some odd looks now and again - especially when the poll workers at our precinct are the parents of people I went to high school with, and know both of us from back then - but it beats carrying around a copy of her marriage license every time she does anything official.
If you're going to the trouble of a paper audit record that is really voter-verifiable, why don't you just do the damned thing on paper to begin with? It's the only way to be totally anonymous while voting, as e-voting machines will timestamp - making it possible to figure out just what order votes were cast in, and then to reconstruct (from the sign-in sheet) the approximate voting record.
The problem with electronic voting is that it can be either secure or anonymous, but not both - at least in any system I've seen.
Yes, sadly. People who lack the basic intelligence and wherewithal to make sure that their information matches aren't likely to be good voters, so forgive me if I'm unconcerned that these people tend to vote for a party you appear to prefer. Snafus *do* occur - once happened to me! - but you'll have to be a lot more convincing than the above is to make me think that the snafus aren't random.
Incidentally, how do you get an ID that doesn't match your voter registration? I registered - every time I've done it - in person, at the courthouse, on a day off dedicated to just such random crap. I showed them my license (for ID) and a copy of a recent utility bill or lease (for location). No mismatch, although one time they didn't have me on the list in the new precinct by the time the first election - a primary - came around. Next time, it was there.
Of course, I live in Mississippi, where there is no ID requirement *at all*. You walk up, state your (supposed) name, and vote.
In addition to paper ballots, why don't we just use the simplest technique to rein in corrupt voting: staining of the fingernails with a dye. (Silver nitrate, e.g., would do the job in spades.)
Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was a very popular video in the early days of MTV. I don't actually know any of their other songs, more's the pity, but that one got a lot of airtime.