Your premise is flawed though, whereas the coilpacks in that particular model might be prone to failure, that is a simple design flaw, however the points in your distributor iginition need to be adjusted and replaced frequently, likewise the condesor needs frequent replacement, likewise the ballast resistor require frequent replacement; all those things are designed to require that level of maintainence and replacement....
The majority of 60's era cars on the road today with 300,000 miles on the odometer have required a considerable investment in time and parts to stay going as long as they have, unlike my 1985 toyota which has 250,000 miles on the odometer and doesn't require any of the "regular tuneup" maintainence require of a 60's era car except for an oil change every 33-7 thousand miles and a set of plugs every 30,000....
I had a buddy back in Highschool who wrote some code for older macintoshes that would tweak the video settings just enough to fry the CRT after a few days.
It's a good thing that the U.S. government isn't a definitive authority on very many things:)
Being Mulatto I've put a considerable ammount of time into thinking about races/ethnicities/countries of origin/countries of residence and I've come to the conclusion that there is no one single system by which people can easily define/categorize one another. It's best to to let people define themselves...
I think this could strike a serious blow to voter apathy though; the current problem is a sort of vicious cycle where a minority of the lower classes vote and rarely end up on top since the majority of the lower classes didn't vote (and hence didn't support legislation which is in their interest). The minority group is then suffered the pain of defeat and the majority is given ammo in the form of a "Told ya' So" to those who did vote.
If everyone were to vote, people would be presented with choices and would then be more likely to relate the effect with the cause. It's simple classical conditioning. People who vote for things that impact them negatively would be less likely to support similar legislation in the future after experiencing their effects, while those who vote for things that benefit them would be more likely to support similar legislation.
Any pyschologist will tell you that the combination of both negative and positive reinforcment is a strong motivator for behavioral change.
Aside from that, the only other really good reform I can think of to our political system would require a complete constitutional rewrite whereby there was proportional representation in both houses of legislature, reduced federal beuracracy, direct elections, and a generally more state/local centric government.
(I hope some of that made sense, I'm having a difficult time phrasing my thoughts coherently this evening.)
This will probably fall on deaf ears since I've posted much to far down on this topic, but....
I've always thought that since voting is a civic duty much like jury duty that it should be manditory to cast a vote. I figure the best way to do this would be to require a ballot receipt to be submitted along with your federal income tax filing in order to recieve a return. It would likely result in a huge number of abstentions being cast, but when presented with a choice after already reporting to a polling place I believe that the large majority of eligible voters would prefer to pick SOMEONE rether than NO ONE...
The alternate and slightly more cynical idea I had would be to require a ballot receipt in order to collect Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, and/or WIC stamps. This would dramatically increase the turn out in the quickly growing economic lower class and resultantly increase turnout in the middle and upper classes as the realized that they would become increasingly under-represented in government.
AFAIK no major political figure has ever suggested any sort of election reform even remotely similar to this. The reason is probably simple, if you are already in office there is no incentive to promote any change in the electorate...
Libertarians are far right. The problem is that people can't keep their legislative issues seperated from their moral issues. In a perfect world conservatives would mean Libertarian; a strong dislike for large government, beuracracy, taxes, and legislative bloat.
However the current crop of "conservatives" seem to be introducing new laws everyday which create adidtional beuracracys, limit our freedoms, and provide subsidys for "free market" enterprises.
I consider myself an anti-federalist. I'm for the dissolution of all but the very minimum federal government. The feds should make foreign treaties, mint a standard currency, and provide a military to defend against the invasion of foreign governments. All other legislative and regulatory functions should be provided by state and local governments. This would allow everyone to have more direct effect on the laws that regulate their own lives and also allow people the freedom to move to areas that may favor their own beliefs (or lack thereof).
You hit the nail on the head. The success of wierd realtime "spatialization" and other audio hacks in software in the low end market have a greater cost v. benefit. It allows manufacturers to put "cool 3D sound" stickers on the packages of their products and those without knowledge of how real surround sound works think they are getting something for nothing.
The mechanics to this scam are ridiculously simple. Many stores have the cards racked like merchandise and they are activated at the register by scanning their barcode and entering the value into a back end database through the POS. All one has to do is go into the store with a small didigtal camera, take pictures of the bar codes on the cards; print up a bunch of stickers, wait a few days for the cards to get sold off the shelf and then use your new stickerized cards to make purchases against the cards that were sold.... TaDa!!!!
Reminds me of a Cisco Cert class I was in once upon a time. The instructor was telling us about how when he was teaching the CCIE course in Britain that one of his students kept correcting his pronounciation of the word route (rah - out) saying that the proper pronounciation was route (root). My instructor finally lost his patience and replied "WE [Americans] invented the damn thing and we will call it whatever the hell we want."
Cracks me up everytime I think about it.
Back in my more punkrock days we used to drag and old TV set and VCR downtown and set it up near some park benches. There was an A/C outlet on a lamp post and everybody had a good time watching free flicks...
Hrrrmmm I think it's likely that every single person who has any sort of heart transplant has a medicalert bracelet with very specific instructions and contact information for their doctor...
Nifty technology yes, a boon for home tinkerers hardly....
Go ahead and make some simple brackets using their software and you will quickly notice that they charge per machine operation and at rates much much higher than most machine shops. The ease of having instant quotes and ordering built into the software is quickly offset by the additional costs for their ridiculous production costs as well as paying to have the parts shipped.
If you look in your local yellow pages I'm sure you'll find that there is a mchine shop located local to you that can make parts from a properly formed CAD drawing and do it for far cheaper than Emachine shop...
That is quite a laughable suggestion. 3D video drivers are the worst offenders on this count, neither of the "BIG" makers (ATI & Nvidia) have usable open source drivers that support direct rendering. The only open source option is not included in any standard distro kernel that I have heard of and getting it to work requires minimally two compiles, 1 reboot, 4 files renamed, and 1 config file manually edited.....
Falsely invaded two countries which had nothing to with terrorism? You're implying that AFghanistan had nothing to do with terrorism" Now, I wasn't pro-war in the case of Iraq, but absolutely was in AFghanistan. I think someone has a little problem telling lies on slashdot--quit trying to lie and say that Afghanistan wasn't part of the terrorist problem.
What exactly did Afghanistan do to attack the US? Bin Laden was a Saudi, the broad majority of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis... The only thing I can think of that they did was allow Bin Laden to stay in their country; but then again, if America was soo upset about that, why did it take 2 months after we began invading Afghanistan before we even sent troops to the part of the country where Bin Laden was suppoosedly hiding out? If "harboring" Bin Laden was bad enough to merit the carpet bombing of Afghanistan, then certainly Bush himself should be considered a criminal for failing to continue the persuit og Bin Landen... And before you say "Bush is still looking" I believe that Bush has already publicly stated that he is spending very little time time/effort on Bin Laden; also the scant 22,000 troops that were in Afghanistan have mostly been redeployed to Iraq.
Even though you meant it in jest, I assure you that is actually more than 1 driver in Nascar whom has had a cigarette lighter installed in instrument cluster on their dash so they could enjoy a mid race smoke... I'm not sure exactly how they work it with the helmet and all, but I've actually seen a picture of the cigarette lighter in Nascar car before. Wish I could remeber the source of the photo....
You can download just the boot.iso and then boot with "linux ask method" this will allow you to point to an FTP site with the FC2 tree on it. Then select upgrade instead of fresh instal.... Voila!
uhm, not exactly. Explosives are designed to explode, it is not a design flaw or unintended usage. OTOH if they stole a warehouse full of recalled Happy Meal toys and then sold them at flea market which resulted in the choking death of 3 dozen infants.......
Not just the players are in danger, imagine idiot drivers on their cellphones randomly flying across 4 lanes of traffic to avoid a monster or collect some treasure...
It's just stupid enough that it might succeed in America.
I for one am sick of all these new feature being put into phones. What happened to wireless sets that were actually good as phones.. Since my first wireless in 1995 it seems that every generation of phone seems to get worse and worse, more feature and poorer reception. Gimme a good old fasioned brick phone with support for the new wireless networks and I'd be a happy happy person, imagine the standby time you could get with a brickphone sized battery and newer more efficient processing....
I for one am sick of all these new feature being put into phones. What happened to wireless sets that were actually good as phones.. Since my first wireless in 1995 it seems that every generation of phone seems to get worse and worse, more feature and poorer reception. Gimme a good old fasioned brick phone with support for the new wireless networks and I'd be a happy happy person, imagine the standby time you could get with a brickphone sized battery and newer more efficient processing....
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Your premise is flawed though, whereas the coilpacks in that particular model might be prone to failure, that is a simple design flaw, however the points in your distributor iginition need to be adjusted and replaced frequently, likewise the condesor needs frequent replacement, likewise the ballast resistor require frequent replacement; all those things are designed to require that level of maintainence and replacement....
The majority of 60's era cars on the road today with 300,000 miles on the odometer have required a considerable investment in time and parts to stay going as long as they have, unlike my 1985 toyota which has 250,000 miles on the odometer and doesn't require any of the "regular tuneup" maintainence require of a 60's era car except for an oil change every 33-7 thousand miles and a set of plugs every 30,000....
I had a buddy back in Highschool who wrote some code for older macintoshes that would tweak the video settings just enough to fry the CRT after a few days.
It's a good thing that the U.S. government isn't a definitive authority on very many things :)
Being Mulatto I've put a considerable ammount of time into thinking about races/ethnicities/countries of origin/countries of residence and I've come to the conclusion that there is no one single system by which people can easily define/categorize one another. It's best to to let people define themselves...
Not all black people are African American. Not all African-Americans are black.
I think this could strike a serious blow to voter apathy though; the current problem is a sort of vicious cycle where a minority of the lower classes vote and rarely end up on top since the majority of the lower classes didn't vote (and hence didn't support legislation which is in their interest). The minority group is then suffered the pain of defeat and the majority is given ammo in the form of a "Told ya' So" to those who did vote. If everyone were to vote, people would be presented with choices and would then be more likely to relate the effect with the cause. It's simple classical conditioning. People who vote for things that impact them negatively would be less likely to support similar legislation in the future after experiencing their effects, while those who vote for things that benefit them would be more likely to support similar legislation.
Any pyschologist will tell you that the combination of both negative and positive reinforcment is a strong motivator for behavioral change.
Aside from that, the only other really good reform I can think of to our political system would require a complete constitutional rewrite whereby there was proportional representation in both houses of legislature, reduced federal beuracracy, direct elections, and a generally more state/local centric government.
(I hope some of that made sense, I'm having a difficult time phrasing my thoughts coherently this evening.)
This will probably fall on deaf ears since I've posted much to far down on this topic, but....
I've always thought that since voting is a civic duty much like jury duty that it should be manditory to cast a vote. I figure the best way to do this would be to require a ballot receipt to be submitted along with your federal income tax filing in order to recieve a return. It would likely result in a huge number of abstentions being cast, but when presented with a choice after already reporting to a polling place I believe that the large majority of eligible voters would prefer to pick SOMEONE rether than NO ONE...
The alternate and slightly more cynical idea I had would be to require a ballot receipt in order to collect Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, and/or WIC stamps. This would dramatically increase the turn out in the quickly growing economic lower class and resultantly increase turnout in the middle and upper classes as the realized that they would become increasingly under-represented in government.
AFAIK no major political figure has ever suggested any sort of election reform even remotely similar to this. The reason is probably simple, if you are already in office there is no incentive to promote any change in the electorate...
Libertarians are far right. The problem is that people can't keep their legislative issues seperated from their moral issues. In a perfect world conservatives would mean Libertarian; a strong dislike for large government, beuracracy, taxes, and legislative bloat. However the current crop of "conservatives" seem to be introducing new laws everyday which create adidtional beuracracys, limit our freedoms, and provide subsidys for "free market" enterprises.
I consider myself an anti-federalist. I'm for the dissolution of all but the very minimum federal government. The feds should make foreign treaties, mint a standard currency, and provide a military to defend against the invasion of foreign governments. All other legislative and regulatory functions should be provided by state and local governments. This would allow everyone to have more direct effect on the laws that regulate their own lives and also allow people the freedom to move to areas that may favor their own beliefs (or lack thereof).
You hit the nail on the head. The success of wierd realtime "spatialization" and other audio hacks in software in the low end market have a greater cost v. benefit. It allows manufacturers to put "cool 3D sound" stickers on the packages of their products and those without knowledge of how real surround sound works think they are getting something for nothing.
The mechanics to this scam are ridiculously simple. Many stores have the cards racked like merchandise and they are activated at the register by scanning their barcode and entering the value into a back end database through the POS. All one has to do is go into the store with a small didigtal camera, take pictures of the bar codes on the cards; print up a bunch of stickers, wait a few days for the cards to get sold off the shelf and then use your new stickerized cards to make purchases against the cards that were sold.... TaDa!!!!
Reminds me of a Cisco Cert class I was in once upon a time. The instructor was telling us about how when he was teaching the CCIE course in Britain that one of his students kept correcting his pronounciation of the word route (rah - out) saying that the proper pronounciation was route (root). My instructor finally lost his patience and replied "WE [Americans] invented the damn thing and we will call it whatever the hell we want."
Cracks me up everytime I think about it.
Back in my more punkrock days we used to drag and old TV set and VCR downtown and set it up near some park benches. There was an A/C outlet on a lamp post and everybody had a good time watching free flicks...
Hrrrmmm I think it's likely that every single person who has any sort of heart transplant has a medicalert bracelet with very specific instructions and contact information for their doctor...
Nifty technology yes, a boon for home tinkerers hardly....
Go ahead and make some simple brackets using their software and you will quickly notice that they charge per machine operation and at rates much much higher than most machine shops. The ease of having instant quotes and ordering built into the software is quickly offset by the additional costs for their ridiculous production costs as well as paying to have the parts shipped.
If you look in your local yellow pages I'm sure you'll find that there is a mchine shop located local to you that can make parts from a properly formed CAD drawing and do it for far cheaper than Emachine shop...
100300 :)
That is quite a laughable suggestion. 3D video drivers are the worst offenders on this count, neither of the "BIG" makers (ATI & Nvidia) have usable open source drivers that support direct rendering. The only open source option is not included in any standard distro kernel that I have heard of and getting it to work requires minimally two compiles, 1 reboot, 4 files renamed, and 1 config file manually edited.....
Even though you meant it in jest, I assure you that is actually more than 1 driver in Nascar whom has had a cigarette lighter installed in instrument cluster on their dash so they could enjoy a mid race smoke... I'm not sure exactly how they work it with the helmet and all, but I've actually seen a picture of the cigarette lighter in Nascar car before. Wish I could remeber the source of the photo....
You can download just the boot.iso and then boot with "linux ask method" this will allow you to point to an FTP site with the FC2 tree on it. Then select upgrade instead of fresh instal.... Voila!
uhm, not exactly. Explosives are designed to explode, it is not a design flaw or unintended usage. OTOH if they stole a warehouse full of recalled Happy Meal toys and then sold them at flea market which resulted in the choking death of 3 dozen infants.......
Uhm.. ports are a protocol feature and as such cannot be used at link level...
Not just the players are in danger, imagine idiot drivers on their cellphones randomly flying across 4 lanes of traffic to avoid a monster or collect some treasure... It's just stupid enough that it might succeed in America.
Awesome links! Googlesets, returned a very comprehensive list of simpsons characters when fed "homer,bart,apu,marge,lisa"!
I for one am sick of all these new feature being put into phones. What happened to wireless sets that were actually good as phones.. Since my first wireless in 1995 it seems that every generation of phone seems to get worse and worse, more feature and poorer reception. Gimme a good old fasioned brick phone with support for the new wireless networks and I'd be a happy happy person, imagine the standby time you could get with a brickphone sized battery and newer more efficient processing....
I for one am sick of all these new feature being put into phones. What happened to wireless sets that were actually good as phones.. Since my first wireless in 1995 it seems that every generation of phone seems to get worse and worse, more feature and poorer reception. Gimme a good old fasioned brick phone with support for the new wireless networks and I'd be a happy happy person, imagine the standby time you could get with a brickphone sized battery and newer more efficient processing....
Not only cooler, but already available used on ebay :)