Meaning as long as intent can be determined the vote is valid.
Your quote and reference are valid, but...
Oooh!! Intent again!! I seem to remember quite a few questions about intent in 2000 in Florida. Did they really intend to vote for Buchanan? Did they voter intend to vote for Gore, but didn't push hard enough to break the chad? 2004 was even worse in Ohio, when voters waited for seven hours in some districts, but their intent to even vote was fuzzier. Perhaps they were really waiting to get the cool "I voted today!" stickers.
Color me cynical, but when four years of presidential control on the line, something tells me that party shills (of ALL parties) in Texas will push the envelope of "intent" in all directions.
let's let the President sit next to the pilot and push the button for a couple of those missions, then sit there and watch the blood and destruction.
Our current president used to enjoy blowing up frogs with firecrackers. Something tells me he would enjoy pushing the button a little too much. For all we know, he may be getting the videos of the UAV kills and watching them on Saturday nights.
As I recall in 2003 the GOP chair of a committee refused to allow the Democratic members of the committe to speak, ignored a motion to continue the hearing and stormed off WITH the gavel in hand...all this beacuse the dems wanted to call some witnesses for testimony.
Ah, yes. That was quite an event. Check wiki for the June 17th event where it happened. There was also a case where the Dems held an 'unofficial' gathering which was so unofficial that they couldn't use any titles, such as 'chairman', as the GOP held the majority then. Regardless, Jim S. crashed that party and pulled the same stunt. Still looking for the story of the second case.
For a functional response to the "ask Slashdot", I'd recommend using the Adobe plugin for Outlook. It can be configured to print an entire folder, complete with breakdowns by date, sender, etc. in the bookmark area. Normally, the program just ticks me off because it screws up toolbars in Word, Outloooke, etc., but it's perfect for this situation. It also remains pretty searchable, as well.
As for the business case issue, many other posters have it right as well. Be sure this is something you want to do, as it can work for or against you later. If you have any personal email coming in via work, start changing email addresses as well.
Rather than focus on incapacitation, we should be focusing on rehabilitation, which, dollar for dollar, has a *much* higher rate of return than prison.
As so many prisons are partially privatized, I think there's a whole different type of "return" we're talking about here. It's in the best interest of the local economy, food and equipment suppliers, etc. to make sure the inmate comes back. An example: collect calls from my brother in state jail (Illinois) run 25 cents per minute, $2.00 for the first min. This is run through a private company, NOT one of the typical wired phone companies. Many other services to the jail system are provided by the companies with the most ties to politicians or bureaucrats - maybe that's an Illinois thing, not sure.
On a slightly offtopic note, she looks kinda M.I.L.F.!
I think that's the journalist, Ellen Messmer. Not that I'd disagree with the sentiment, but I don't think that's the mom from the story. She COULD be the MILF from Naperville, but the picture type and placement makes me think it's the journalist; I couldn't find any other pictures of her on the Internet, though.
Although come to think of it, I live in the Naperville area, and I can assure you that the town is full of moms with personal trainers at the gym, weekly trips to Whole Foods, spa treatment ever few weeks, etc. A lifestyle like that tends to encourage MILF-ism.
I think they're just acknowledging that they can't write firmware to save their lives.
Agreed. I had one of the original 802.11b ME102 wifi access points that Netgear had out there, and they sat on the whole "40 bit encryption" pot for way too long. Incompatibilities of the wifi admin software with Windows 2000 was the final straw. I flashed it with the Linksys firmware (identical chipset, 128-bit WEP) and used the Linksys admin software, and never went back.
Amazon on the other hand doesn't have the luxury of rolling over.
Amazon has the additional problem of having a complex mix of products. Many states and jurisdictions have special tax rates on necessities, medicines, etc. A fur coat may be exempt as 'clothing-necessity' in one area but not another. The book-keeping on all of this is part of the reason why there's a "business presence" requirement on sales tax collection, as you're expected to know the tax rules in the jurisdiction in which you're based.
Of course, Amazon is big enough to keep track of this, but it can be quite a mess.
In our house, my wife, I and my children each have 'sub-accounts'. Recommendations from Netflix have been pretty intelligent. Under the new plan, all of our viewing habits will be lumped together, with the result that we'll start getting recommendations for hospital drama/scifi/children shows. What will that leave us? Poor recommendations. Darn: it was just starting to flush out the children recommendations from my sub-account from way back a long time ago when they were combined.
But when people start equalizing society, I always think of the blind. Some people, you see are blind. Now this is clearly a disadvantage. And with some the problems are so severe that they cannot ever be fixed (e.g. myelin problems on the optic nerve, there won't be a treatment for at least 200 years for that one), so how do you create equality ?
Summmary: "In the story, societal equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the highest common endowment. This process is central to the society, designed so that no one will feel inferior to anyone else. This is overseen by the United States Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers."
Do you really believe round two is going to be done in the same manner? In a place we've fortified, changed our policies about and are watching to the point of unhealthy obsession? They're going to look for the NEXT target where they can exploit their way to success--and I'm sure there are many of them. If I had to pick a place I felt the MOST safe from a terrorist attack post 9/11, it would be on an airplane. Hell, I'd be more afraid in the lines at the security checkpoints. If I were a terrorist, I'd detonate my bomb there.
I still chuckle (sadly, but chuckle) when I recollect John Ashcroft, in his 'good-bye' speech, expressing astonishment that they hadn't gone after our food supply. Now the American public has sworn off tomatoes, and spinach STILL hasn't recovered - one store brand of sushi STILL has a sticker on it stating "contains no spinach!"
Me: I figure the water supply is next for most "bang-for-the-buck" when trying to kill or hurt a lot of people. Electric and 'dirty bomb' are two easy targets for instilling fear.
Should I be pissed at Sony every few months when they upgrade their camcorders?
One thing that Apple rarely does is promote any model name changes with the aforementioned updates. My coworker has a 1st gen iPod. My kids have the current gen iPods. They're all called "iPod", so there's no easy way to differentiate them, but you can bet my kids are watching h264 video and my friend is not. Ditto for computers, phones, etc. When you try to look up RAM or other component pricing for an Apple product, you have to be very clear about the product description or you'll be steered astray. "What? You have an iMac? Is that the Tangerine model with tray-load CD player at 333MHz? or is that the latest model with everything built into the screen?" No model number, no sub-name, nothing easily differentiates the various animals that are called an 'iMac'. True, cars have been doing this for years, but people are used to including the car year or age to differentiate it.
My call is that people get most of their "buyer's remorse" from Apple because year after year, Apple keeps releasing a MacBook Pro, an iPod, an iPod Shuffle, an iMac, etc.
Funny. Comcast charges me $3.95 to pay with my credit/debit card.
The VISA Merchant Rules (Google cache - I'm having problems with the real link) on Page 15 says that they can't charge extra for a credit card transaction, but CAN charge a "convenience fee" (wink wink), but there are a bunch of rules on when they're allowed to do this. They're probably in compliance with all of them, but there's a small chance they've messed up on this one: "The customer must be given a opportunity to cancel prior to completion of the transaction."
Me personally, I just ignored the letter and plan to let the domains expire since they are worthless to me in the first place.
Personally, I'd hold onto the domains for the $10 or so per year it takes just to screw with them. It probably cost them more than $10 in employee time to write the letter. Maybe set them up to redirect to some off-shore gambling, spyware or porn haven. Heck: route them back to Slashdot!
For entertainment value, you could have them route to their own company site one or two days per week- check your logs for the Google bot and redirect back to the porn site after Google has visited. Hilarity ensues!
Personally I think whoever chose the name of the bill and made sure it was rushed through without time for it to be read should be imprisoned as a driving force back to monarchy.
Agreed. Can we also hold the feet to the fire of anyone who drops the case on the name of the act or shortens it? "USA PATRIOT Act" By showing the goofy case, it at least points out more glaringly that it's a backronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". Someone went to the effort of creating the acronym, then filling in the words later.
Seriously: "Clear Skies Initiative", etc. This administration has been STELLAR at this game. Next up: the "KITTEN Act": Kindergarteners Industrial Task Training Encouraging Necrophilia. You wouldn't vote against kittens, would you?
Agreed. The education system isn't broken in this country (USA), it's the parental system that's broken. My parents supported my learning.
As a former high school math teacher, I can agree. When I was a student, I went to a school that had a reputation for an ongoing drug problem, but also a fair number of "Advanced Placement" classes. I was able to graduate high school with a full year of college already complete.
Fast forward four years. I'm back teaching at the same school. Often, if a kid was having problems in class, parents would literally ask me "What can I do? He/she won't listen to me." Take away the car keys? Turn off the internet connection? Take away the Playstation? All too often, the parents won't make that move because it's their 'kid's car' or would be too hard, or they just didn't want the confrontation. Most of the time, many of that child's most precious possessions are at the whim of the parent anyway, and they just didn't get it. The kids who had trouble in my classes but also were able to get it together were usually those with a carrot or a stick at the other end; I remember one kid who busted his butt to get a "C" because he had a driver's license riding on it.
If they only filter by port, you could open up port 443 (HTTPS) for SSH, in addition to port 22. It is unlikely that they block that port. I did this once for a friend who was in Armenia at the time. Worked for him.
Way cool tip - I agree with sibling post! I'm adding this to my tips/tricks list as well. If I had only known this one when my wife went to China two years ago. In her case, it didn't seem as if the port and site blocking was intentional or malicious - it seemed more like incompetence.
Some sibling posts have indicated that Netflix hasn't had a copy in a long time. Luckily, there are TONS of snips on YouTube. Pre-watch them before you bring in your daughter - my own seven year old daughter found them quite slow-paced. She might have gotten a better kick out of the evolution animation sequence, or the discussion on the googol. (note the proper spelling!)
Your better bet would probably be to buy the DVDs and watch them yourself on a TV in a 'public' area of the house. Not only does it look better on the bigger, clearer screen, but you also impart to her the idea that this is important to YOU, more important than the sitcom of the week.
Even re-watching it on YouTube, I was struck by the sheer poetry of it all.
As for diseases, there is no earthly disease that kills 100% of its victims, (because such a disease would then itself become extinct).
I can't verify it, but I understand that rabies is pretty darn close - six known human survivors. All a disease needs to be prolific is a host population that it CAN'T kill, and one it can. Or: a host population that it kills more slowly than others. Then: such a disease can bounce back and forth for a long time.
Alternatively, a disease that only strikes later in life (post reproduction age) and kills slowly. ALS might be a candidate. MS may be another.
Sorry to be pedantic, but I saw the opportunity to create a really bad disease and couldn't pass it up!
A fair election? You mean this ends automatic ballot access for Democrats and Republicans, as well as matching funds?
To be more accurate (but not "fair"), the ruling on ballot access and matching funds is generally decided by percent of popular vote in the prior election and these rules vary by state. All parties have to get a certain number of signatures (via petition) to get on the ballot, but the number of signatures varies depending on the performance in the past election. Once the threshold has been passed (5%), the party in question gets matching funds and the lowered signature count for the next election.
The Libertarian Party has passed this threshold in many states. Also: Texas has some of the most restrictive rules; a non-dominant party can't start collecting signatures until after the primaries have left, have 60 days to collect, and the signatures of those who voted in the primaries don't count.
I've heard this accusation before, but I don't grok it at all. My limited understanding was that anti-pollution devices were supposed to squelch unburned hydrocarbons emitted by inefficient engines. However, if your engine is more efficient -- if it more completely burns hydrocarbons -- then the emissions controls should be superfluous.
A good example would be the Honda Insight (hybrid). It was available in a ULEV 5 speed as well as a SULEV CVT transmission model. The 5 speed was EPA rated for bout 70MPG, while the CVT was rated for 56. The difference wasn't in the trans, but in the engine; the ULEV model was able to go into a 'lean burn' mode with a air-gas ratio of about 28:1 when the engine wasn't under load, while the CVT was still constrained to run at ~15:1. Burning gas at the 28:1 ratio resulted in higher "NOx" levels, and the ULEV car couldn't pass the California SULEV standards, so the CVT model was produced to satisfy that requirement.
Additional note: in a 'stick hybrid', the driver gets to decide (through early shifting) to put more demand on the electrical motor than the gas, while the CVT driver is stuck with the pre-programmed ratios. This allowed the stick driver to adjust their shifting pattern on current and future driving conditions, while the CVT owner cannot.
I believe that's why the merchant is supposed to at least make a half-assed attempt at checking the signature...but how often does that really happen?
According to this guy, not very often. (Links to "The Credit Card Prank" - guy runs around signing various fake signatures unable to get ANYONE to check it until he buys three plasma TVs for 16K at Circuit City.)
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Your quote and reference are valid, but...
Oooh!! Intent again!! I seem to remember quite a few questions about intent in 2000 in Florida. Did they really intend to vote for Buchanan? Did they voter intend to vote for Gore, but didn't push hard enough to break the chad? 2004 was even worse in Ohio, when voters waited for seven hours in some districts, but their intent to even vote was fuzzier. Perhaps they were really waiting to get the cool "I voted today!" stickers.
Color me cynical, but when four years of presidential control on the line, something tells me that party shills (of ALL parties) in Texas will push the envelope of "intent" in all directions.
Our current president used to enjoy blowing up frogs with firecrackers. Something tells me he would enjoy pushing the button a little too much. For all we know, he may be getting the videos of the UAV kills and watching them on Saturday nights.
Ah, yes. That was quite an event. Check wiki for the June 17th event where it happened. There was also a case where the Dems held an 'unofficial' gathering which was so unofficial that they couldn't use any titles, such as 'chairman', as the GOP held the majority then. Regardless, Jim S. crashed that party and pulled the same stunt. Still looking for the story of the second case.
As for the business case issue, many other posters have it right as well. Be sure this is something you want to do, as it can work for or against you later. If you have any personal email coming in via work, start changing email addresses as well.
As so many prisons are partially privatized, I think there's a whole different type of "return" we're talking about here. It's in the best interest of the local economy, food and equipment suppliers, etc. to make sure the inmate comes back. An example: collect calls from my brother in state jail (Illinois) run 25 cents per minute, $2.00 for the first min. This is run through a private company, NOT one of the typical wired phone companies. Many other services to the jail system are provided by the companies with the most ties to politicians or bureaucrats - maybe that's an Illinois thing, not sure.
Should we perhaps call it a gene pool?
I think that's the journalist, Ellen Messmer. Not that I'd disagree with the sentiment, but I don't think that's the mom from the story. She COULD be the MILF from Naperville, but the picture type and placement makes me think it's the journalist; I couldn't find any other pictures of her on the Internet, though.
Although come to think of it, I live in the Naperville area, and I can assure you that the town is full of moms with personal trainers at the gym, weekly trips to Whole Foods, spa treatment ever few weeks, etc. A lifestyle like that tends to encourage MILF-ism.
Agreed. I had one of the original 802.11b ME102 wifi access points that Netgear had out there, and they sat on the whole "40 bit encryption" pot for way too long. Incompatibilities of the wifi admin software with Windows 2000 was the final straw. I flashed it with the Linksys firmware (identical chipset, 128-bit WEP) and used the Linksys admin software, and never went back.
Amazon has the additional problem of having a complex mix of products. Many states and jurisdictions have special tax rates on necessities, medicines, etc. A fur coat may be exempt as 'clothing-necessity' in one area but not another. The book-keeping on all of this is part of the reason why there's a "business presence" requirement on sales tax collection, as you're expected to know the tax rules in the jurisdiction in which you're based.
Of course, Amazon is big enough to keep track of this, but it can be quite a mess.
Thanks to Stephen Colbert for explaining the AT&T breakup and re-merger in this video.
Well, at least my Tivo doesn't think I'm gay.
Reminds me of this story by Vonnegut.
Summmary: "In the story, societal equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the highest common endowment. This process is central to the society, designed so that no one will feel inferior to anyone else. This is overseen by the United States Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers."
I still chuckle (sadly, but chuckle) when I recollect John Ashcroft, in his 'good-bye' speech, expressing astonishment that they hadn't gone after our food supply. Now the American public has sworn off tomatoes, and spinach STILL hasn't recovered - one store brand of sushi STILL has a sticker on it stating "contains no spinach!"
Me: I figure the water supply is next for most "bang-for-the-buck" when trying to kill or hurt a lot of people. Electric and 'dirty bomb' are two easy targets for instilling fear.
One thing that Apple rarely does is promote any model name changes with the aforementioned updates. My coworker has a 1st gen iPod. My kids have the current gen iPods. They're all called "iPod", so there's no easy way to differentiate them, but you can bet my kids are watching h264 video and my friend is not. Ditto for computers, phones, etc. When you try to look up RAM or other component pricing for an Apple product, you have to be very clear about the product description or you'll be steered astray. "What? You have an iMac? Is that the Tangerine model with tray-load CD player at 333MHz? or is that the latest model with everything built into the screen?" No model number, no sub-name, nothing easily differentiates the various animals that are called an 'iMac'. True, cars have been doing this for years, but people are used to including the car year or age to differentiate it.
My call is that people get most of their "buyer's remorse" from Apple because year after year, Apple keeps releasing a MacBook Pro, an iPod, an iPod Shuffle, an iMac, etc.
The VISA Merchant Rules (Google cache - I'm having problems with the real link) on Page 15 says that they can't charge extra for a credit card transaction, but CAN charge a "convenience fee" (wink wink), but there are a bunch of rules on when they're allowed to do this. They're probably in compliance with all of them, but there's a small chance they've messed up on this one: "The customer must be given a opportunity to cancel prior to completion of the transaction."
Therefore, Hawking is African?
Personally, I'd hold onto the domains for the $10 or so per year it takes just to screw with them. It probably cost them more than $10 in employee time to write the letter. Maybe set them up to redirect to some off-shore gambling, spyware or porn haven. Heck: route them back to Slashdot!
For entertainment value, you could have them route to their own company site one or two days per week- check your logs for the Google bot and redirect back to the porn site after Google has visited. Hilarity ensues!
Agreed. Can we also hold the feet to the fire of anyone who drops the case on the name of the act or shortens it? "USA PATRIOT Act" By showing the goofy case, it at least points out more glaringly that it's a backronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". Someone went to the effort of creating the acronym, then filling in the words later.
Seriously: "Clear Skies Initiative", etc. This administration has been STELLAR at this game. Next up: the "KITTEN Act": Kindergarteners Industrial Task Training Encouraging Necrophilia. You wouldn't vote against kittens, would you?
As a former high school math teacher, I can agree. When I was a student, I went to a school that had a reputation for an ongoing drug problem, but also a fair number of "Advanced Placement" classes. I was able to graduate high school with a full year of college already complete.
Fast forward four years. I'm back teaching at the same school. Often, if a kid was having problems in class, parents would literally ask me "What can I do? He/she won't listen to me." Take away the car keys? Turn off the internet connection? Take away the Playstation? All too often, the parents won't make that move because it's their 'kid's car' or would be too hard, or they just didn't want the confrontation. Most of the time, many of that child's most precious possessions are at the whim of the parent anyway, and they just didn't get it. The kids who had trouble in my classes but also were able to get it together were usually those with a carrot or a stick at the other end; I remember one kid who busted his butt to get a "C" because he had a driver's license riding on it.
Way cool tip - I agree with sibling post! I'm adding this to my tips/tricks list as well. If I had only known this one when my wife went to China two years ago. In her case, it didn't seem as if the port and site blocking was intentional or malicious - it seemed more like incompetence.
Some sibling posts have indicated that Netflix hasn't had a copy in a long time. Luckily, there are TONS of snips on YouTube. Pre-watch them before you bring in your daughter - my own seven year old daughter found them quite slow-paced. She might have gotten a better kick out of the evolution animation sequence, or the discussion on the googol. (note the proper spelling!)
Your better bet would probably be to buy the DVDs and watch them yourself on a TV in a 'public' area of the house. Not only does it look better on the bigger, clearer screen, but you also impart to her the idea that this is important to YOU, more important than the sitcom of the week.
Even re-watching it on YouTube, I was struck by the sheer poetry of it all.
I can't verify it, but I understand that rabies is pretty darn close - six known human survivors. All a disease needs to be prolific is a host population that it CAN'T kill, and one it can. Or: a host population that it kills more slowly than others. Then: such a disease can bounce back and forth for a long time.
Alternatively, a disease that only strikes later in life (post reproduction age) and kills slowly. ALS might be a candidate. MS may be another.
Sorry to be pedantic, but I saw the opportunity to create a really bad disease and couldn't pass it up!
To be more accurate (but not "fair"), the ruling on ballot access and matching funds is generally decided by percent of popular vote in the prior election and these rules vary by state. All parties have to get a certain number of signatures (via petition) to get on the ballot, but the number of signatures varies depending on the performance in the past election. Once the threshold has been passed (5%), the party in question gets matching funds and the lowered signature count for the next election.
The Libertarian Party has passed this threshold in many states. Also: Texas has some of the most restrictive rules; a non-dominant party can't start collecting signatures until after the primaries have left, have 60 days to collect, and the signatures of those who voted in the primaries don't count.
A good example would be the Honda Insight (hybrid). It was available in a ULEV 5 speed as well as a SULEV CVT transmission model. The 5 speed was EPA rated for bout 70MPG, while the CVT was rated for 56. The difference wasn't in the trans, but in the engine; the ULEV model was able to go into a 'lean burn' mode with a air-gas ratio of about 28:1 when the engine wasn't under load, while the CVT was still constrained to run at ~15:1. Burning gas at the 28:1 ratio resulted in higher "NOx" levels, and the ULEV car couldn't pass the California SULEV standards, so the CVT model was produced to satisfy that requirement.
Additional note: in a 'stick hybrid', the driver gets to decide (through early shifting) to put more demand on the electrical motor than the gas, while the CVT driver is stuck with the pre-programmed ratios. This allowed the stick driver to adjust their shifting pattern on current and future driving conditions, while the CVT owner cannot.
According to this guy, not very often. (Links to "The Credit Card Prank" - guy runs around signing various fake signatures unable to get ANYONE to check it until he buys three plasma TVs for 16K at Circuit City.)