My dad always told me that "A dog will warm himself by the fire, but will never throw another log on it." So now, I guess a chimp will add fuel, but won't get one started?
This also reminds me of that old headline at The Onion: "Dolphins Develop Thumbs: 'Oh Shit,' say Humans"
Third parties serve as a laboratory for ideas. It is up to the voter to lobby his representatives to co-opt these ideas for the major party of the voter's choice. You can lobby by writing to your representatives, and you can do it by voting for third parties.
Jeepers, mcmonkey. There is no one-size-fits-all time limit. The higher the IQ, the less time it takes to process something. That doesn't mean that a high IQ person will pick someone superior (since his frame of reference may be incorrect) or a low IQ person will pick someone inferior (since his frame of reference may be quite wonderful.) It's not pussy footing, it's individual responsibility. It seems to me you're just screaming and shouting trying to start a fight, or burning off hormones you've accumulated because you repulse mates you find desirable, or peeing on the furiture because you feel the need to mark some kind of territory over something. I can't wait to find out which one it is.
Good Lord, will you adolescents sit quietly long enough to actually apply your IQ to this? No one is saying people who don't vote Republican shouldn't vote. No one is saying people who don't Democrat shouldn't vote. If you haven't taken the time to reason through who the candidates are and why you would vote for one and/or vote against another, then stay home. Please. While the noise will probably cancel itself out 1) why risk it and 2) why distort the margin by which a body of ideas wins or loses in the national debate? Only an idiot would think that voting randomly is as good as voting based on careful reasoning. And we don't need any more idiots voting.
People who need to be prodded to the polls with a sharp stick aren't going to be well-enough informed to cast their votes meaningfully.
A lot more is at stake than the presidential election: all the house of representatives, a third of the senate, and lots of state and local elections.
When you force the ignorant into the polling places, they will most likely vote for every selection, even the ones they know nothing about. So you wind up with candidates getting votes because of their party affiliation or their cool-sounding names. That's the last thing we should be pushing for.
I dunno... It sounds like a girl drink to me, and the only good thing about a girl drink drunk is that (s)he will pass out fairly quickly. Now we're robbed of that cold comfort, too...
It's nice to see an article about this. All we're witnessing here is the natural evolution of the internet browser system... A monoculture gets decimated by pathogens, and that opens up niches for newer species. This is what any monopoly leads to when it's not protected by some level of government.
Yup. I remember the painfully pretentious National Public Radio bit on Black and White. And it sounded like you'd get a Ph.D in philosophy by playing the game.
And with the obligatory uber-nerd Coast to Coast AM/Carl Sagan connection: one of the things that would provide persuasive evidence of a UFO crash would be debris composed in whole or in part of element(s) from the Island of Stability
The electoral college is designed to defend our Federal system: a nation made up of separate states. Saying that the electoral college is not fair is like saying the bicameral legislature is not fair: after all, why don't we trust the house of representatives to make laws free from the interference of the inordinately powerful votes of the small states' senators?
The argument this guy is making ignores the fact that our system is based on one of the most successful compromises in history: many disparate states sacrificing some aspects of sovereignty to form a single nation. Our constitution is set up so that the states choose the president, not the undifferentiated mass of the people. That means that there is intrinsic power in being a state, no matter how small. Article 2 section 1 clause 2 of the united states constitution determines how members of the electoral college are chosen: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.
So you see, the number is driven primarily by the population of the state (as the number of the representatives of the lower house of congress is) with a guaranteed minimum of votes to make sure each state gets a say in the process.
Arguing for a number driven entirely by popular vote ignores the realities of separate states in our Federation, and invites secession and the possible dissolution of our nation.
For the slower folks out there, I'll put the punchline here: the dissolution of the United States of America would be so bad for the stability, prosperity, and standard of living for the people of Earth that there aren't words strong enough to convey it.
Yup. The game was just achingly disappointing after such a long wait. It's like DOOM 3 came from a different bunch of folks than the makers of Quake. If they do come up with a patch to fix the currently linear nature of the single player mode, I'll re-install it and finish it.
Exactly! The same way that the paper-based book is (and always will be) superior to an e version in all ways (except looking busy at work when you're really screwing around,) so will paper ballots always be superior to some ephemeral electronic version. Investigators need paper ballots to avoid cracker tampering the same way we need photographic negatives to avoid Photoshop-style tampering with images. And in 3000 years, when the inks on DVD-Rs have degraded to uselessness and the magnetic material on hard disks has re-randomized, archaeologists will take pride in forcing their armies of graduate student flunkies to recount Florida 2000 yet again (Bush still wins the state, and another cow college Ph.D is born.)
The times it's worked for us was in death march mode. One person who was the better-animated zombie for the time being would code. The less-well animated zombie would eyeball the code and look for stuff. Worked well because there were lots of annoying errors popping up: people picking nondescriptive variable names in a for loop then forgetting to actually use the incrementing variable (declaring a descriptive incrementing variable elsewhere that never changed! Genius!)When zombie A wound down, zombie B would take over the coding. We were able to get a lot better work out of it. But the critics elsewhere are right; it does suck. Once you've lost your will to live, your partner ceases to be unbearably annoying. At least in our cases.
I still like the pay as you go approach: if you had to pay a nickel for every unsolicited e-mail you sent over the internet (as opposed to a company's intranet), spammers would be shut down overnight.
Of course, there's the logistical issues to deal with, but having escrow accounts for every ISP and "approved to receive" lists for no-charge e-mails would allow us to get past this annoyance.
Right now, we've got people selling snake-oil penis enlargements, counterfeit prescription drugs, and fraudulent stock tips. This seems to me like a reasonable price to pay to clamp down on that kind of crime.
Ah. Let's see how many/.ers can work in infantile critiques of the war against terror into their posts.
Lord knows we don't want fewer totalitarian states. Lord knows the Twin Towers either didn't really happen or didn't happen to anyone we know, so it's okay to ignore it. Our main Marine base in Iraq sits on the site where 4 terrorist training camps were operating. Saddam used WMDs against his own people. But we need to spend the money here instead, on people who ought to know enough to take care of themselves.
If there's any argument against India's moon launch, it's that it will further enrage the demented savages in the Middle East, since it will involve an infidel country performing a feat that most Muslim states are too barbaric and and degenerate to even contemplate.
I don't think it's about celebrities. I think that's the only example they've got so far. A lot of it depends on what kind of awful threat the worriers in the government think we face.
Are we going to have large numbers of suicide bombers waiting around for a target of opportunity? Suppose there were four. The first one signaled the second "I'm going off at 1st and main... Now." So the second bomber arrives. The next one to arrive goes off in the middle of the densest crowd of spectators, signalling that he's gone off.
But, wait! you wouldn't need flash mobs for that; you just need the bad guys loitering every two or three blocks and waiting to have a crowd to blow up in.
Hmmm... If you spot a high-value target, like a Prime Minister, wouldn't you just whack him if so equipped? Or call for backup if not? But not a flash mob...
So these folks really ARE just looking for things to outlaw? Hmmm...
"Maybe, and he'll be backed by the Republican Party *entirely* to be able to say that the first black president was a Republican."
Ow! You wound me, Sir. I can assure the Republicans will back him only if they feel confident he can win the election. So it WON'T be Keyes. And if they pick the winning candiate and that candidate is black, that by definition makes him the best candidate regardless of skin color. No?
The last time Keyes ran for president, he got himself arrested here in Atlanta for trying to crash a debate he was excluded from because of his poor performance in the primaries up to that point. Result: A nice talk radio/commentator/columnist career. So his senate run in Illinois means that he uses "Reporting for duty!" *almost* as cynically as Kerry does.
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My dad always told me that "A dog will warm himself by the fire, but will never throw another log on it." So now, I guess a chimp will add fuel, but won't get one started?
This also reminds me of that old headline at The Onion: "Dolphins Develop Thumbs: 'Oh Shit,' say Humans"
I think they're triggering them. This calls for a tinfoil beanie the size of California.
Third parties serve as a laboratory for ideas. It is up to the voter to lobby his representatives to co-opt these ideas for the major party of the voter's choice. You can lobby by writing to your representatives, and you can do it by voting for third parties.
Jeepers, mcmonkey. There is no one-size-fits-all time limit. The higher the IQ, the less time it takes to process something. That doesn't mean that a high IQ person will pick someone superior (since his frame of reference may be incorrect) or a low IQ person will pick someone inferior (since his frame of reference may be quite wonderful.) It's not pussy footing, it's individual responsibility. It seems to me you're just screaming and shouting trying to start a fight, or burning off hormones you've accumulated because you repulse mates you find desirable, or peeing on the furiture because you feel the need to mark some kind of territory over something. I can't wait to find out which one it is.
Good Lord, will you adolescents sit quietly long enough to actually apply your IQ to this? No one is saying people who don't vote Republican shouldn't vote. No one is saying people who don't Democrat shouldn't vote. If you haven't taken the time to reason through who the candidates are and why you would vote for one and/or vote against another, then stay home. Please. While the noise will probably cancel itself out 1) why risk it and 2) why distort the margin by which a body of ideas wins or loses in the national debate? Only an idiot would think that voting randomly is as good as voting based on careful reasoning. And we don't need any more idiots voting.
People who need to be prodded to the polls with a sharp stick aren't going to be well-enough informed to cast their votes meaningfully.
A lot more is at stake than the presidential election: all the house of representatives, a third of the senate, and lots of state and local elections.
When you force the ignorant into the polling places, they will most likely vote for every selection, even the ones they know nothing about. So you wind up with candidates getting votes because of their party affiliation or their cool-sounding names. That's the last thing we should be pushing for.
I dunno... It sounds like a girl drink to me, and the only good thing about a girl drink drunk is that (s)he will pass out fairly quickly. Now we're robbed of that cold comfort, too...
It's nice to see an article about this. All we're witnessing here is the natural evolution of the internet browser system... A monoculture gets decimated by pathogens, and that opens up niches for newer species. This is what any monopoly leads to when it's not protected by some level of government.
The nice thing about this is we might finally get to see all the pron titles: Konkey Dong, Mario and the Princesspool. You know, quality stuff.
Hmmm... Can I con my boss into buying us some as collaboration tools? That would be a great way to hold meetings.
Yup. I remember the painfully pretentious National Public Radio bit on Black and White. And it sounded like you'd get a Ph.D in philosophy by playing the game.
People who listen to country music just have more guts and determination than the poor pansies hooked on 80's rock.
And with the obligatory uber-nerd Coast to Coast AM/Carl Sagan connection: one of the things that would provide persuasive evidence of a UFO crash would be debris composed in whole or in part of element(s) from the Island of Stability
Our man Carl Sagan strikes again!
The electoral college is designed to defend our Federal system: a nation made up of separate states. Saying that the electoral college is not fair is like saying the bicameral legislature is not fair: after all, why don't we trust the house of representatives to make laws free from the interference of the inordinately powerful votes of the small states' senators?
The argument this guy is making ignores the fact that our system is based on one of the most successful compromises in history: many disparate states sacrificing some aspects of sovereignty to form a single nation. Our constitution is set up so that the states choose the president, not the undifferentiated mass of the people. That means that there is intrinsic power in being a state, no matter how small. Article 2 section 1 clause 2 of the united states constitution determines how members of the electoral college are chosen: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.
So you see, the number is driven primarily by the population of the state (as the number of the representatives of the lower house of congress is) with a guaranteed minimum of votes to make sure each state gets a say in the process.
Arguing for a number driven entirely by popular vote ignores the realities of separate states in our Federation, and invites secession and the possible dissolution of our nation.
For the slower folks out there, I'll put the punchline here: the dissolution of the United States of America would be so bad for the stability, prosperity, and standard of living for the people of Earth that there aren't words strong enough to convey it.
Yup. The game was just achingly disappointing after such a long wait. It's like DOOM 3 came from a different bunch of folks than the makers of Quake. If they do come up with a patch to fix the currently linear nature of the single player mode, I'll re-install it and finish it.
100 km is not low earth orbit. It's just the lower boundary for being declared an astronaut.
Exactly! The same way that the paper-based book is (and always will be) superior to an e version in all ways (except looking busy at work when you're really screwing around,) so will paper ballots always be superior to some ephemeral electronic version. Investigators need paper ballots to avoid cracker tampering the same way we need photographic negatives to avoid Photoshop-style tampering with images. And in 3000 years, when the inks on DVD-Rs have degraded to uselessness and the magnetic material on hard disks has re-randomized, archaeologists will take pride in forcing their armies of graduate student flunkies to recount Florida 2000 yet again (Bush still wins the state, and another cow college Ph.D is born.)
The times it's worked for us was in death march mode. One person who was the better-animated zombie for the time being would code. The less-well animated zombie would eyeball the code and look for stuff. Worked well because there were lots of annoying errors popping up: people picking nondescriptive variable names in a for loop then forgetting to actually use the incrementing variable (declaring a descriptive incrementing variable elsewhere that never changed! Genius!)When zombie A wound down, zombie B would take over the coding. We were able to get a lot better work out of it. But the critics elsewhere are right; it does suck. Once you've lost your will to live, your partner ceases to be unbearably annoying. At least in our cases.
If I were looking for dates in the NBA, then yes. I'm SO over the whole "large black men" part of my personal life.
And the most depressing thing is that there's only two chicks in the top 50. Tho someone named "Tata" oughta count.
I still like the pay as you go approach: if you had to pay a nickel for every unsolicited e-mail you sent over the internet (as opposed to a company's intranet), spammers would be shut down overnight.
Of course, there's the logistical issues to deal with, but having escrow accounts for every ISP and "approved to receive" lists for no-charge e-mails would allow us to get past this annoyance.
Right now, we've got people selling snake-oil penis enlargements, counterfeit prescription drugs, and fraudulent stock tips. This seems to me like a reasonable price to pay to clamp down on that kind of crime.
Ah. Let's see how many /.ers can work in infantile critiques of the war against terror into their posts.
Lord knows we don't want fewer totalitarian states. Lord knows the Twin Towers either didn't really happen or didn't happen to anyone we know, so it's okay to ignore it. Our main Marine base in Iraq sits on the site where 4 terrorist training camps were operating. Saddam used WMDs against his own people. But we need to spend the money here instead, on people who ought to know enough to take care of themselves.
If there's any argument against India's moon launch, it's that it will further enrage the demented savages in the Middle East, since it will involve an infidel country performing a feat that most Muslim states are too barbaric and and degenerate to even contemplate.
Oh, sweet mother of Buddha! A use for all my "Java Game Programming" books at last!!!
I don't think it's about celebrities. I think that's the only example they've got so far. A lot of it depends on what kind of awful threat the worriers in the government think we face.
Are we going to have large numbers of suicide bombers waiting around for a target of opportunity? Suppose there were four. The first one signaled the second "I'm going off at 1st and main... Now." So the second bomber arrives. The next one to arrive goes off in the middle of the densest crowd of spectators, signalling that he's gone off.
But, wait! you wouldn't need flash mobs for that; you just need the bad guys loitering every two or three blocks and waiting to have a crowd to blow up in.
Hmmm... If you spot a high-value target, like a Prime Minister, wouldn't you just whack him if so equipped? Or call for backup if not? But not a flash mob...
So these folks really ARE just looking for things to outlaw? Hmmm...
"Maybe, and he'll be backed by the Republican Party *entirely* to be able to say that the first black president was a Republican."
Ow! You wound me, Sir. I can assure the Republicans will back him only if they feel confident he can win the election. So it WON'T be Keyes. And if they pick the winning candiate and that candidate is black, that by definition makes him the best candidate regardless of skin color. No?
The last time Keyes ran for president, he got himself arrested here in Atlanta for trying to crash a debate he was excluded from because of his poor performance in the primaries up to that point. Result: A nice talk radio/commentator/columnist career. So his senate run in Illinois means that he uses "Reporting for duty!" *almost* as cynically as Kerry does.