Exlcuding the movie that I think Chris Robert's must have been smoking some strongy wacky tobaccy while making - Wing Commander is an absolute classic. Only a moron would not consider it "high brow" - it tells a much better story across it's first 4 games than even Peter Jackson could manage in 9 movies!
wow.... you're really ignorant if you don't think those states had unusual districts - we know FOR A FACT that those states are gerrymandered - it's not a matter of debate, it's a fact. Furthermore the number of districts you have is irrelevant as is population density for this - that only affects how much total landmass they take up. You don't have to make c-shaped districts with complex boundries to evenly divide your population between all your districts - S-shaped, C-shaped, and more complex districts than that are all gerrymandered
can you prove to me the 2004 election was fraud free? can you even support the statement that it was fraud free? Of course fucking not, even a cursory glance at Ohio will tell anyone who has a brain that we can never know if bush really was the honest winner of that state (not to mention several others) or not.
Why did they make up a fake terrorist threat claim on the last county to count it's votes (which prevented all observers from seeing the count)? We know it wasn't a real threat, and we know counting votes in secret like that is one of the fundmantal signs of a flawed election.
How about the ESS tech who, without authorization, accessed on of the voting machines used in voting between the voting and the "recount" (retabulating insecurable inauditable unreliable data tables doesn't constitute a recount).
Insecure elections is NOT a partisan issue, just like jerrymandering ISN'T a partisan issue. The last two national election cycles the insecurities in the voting system have merely happen to have been taken advantage by the republicans - there Is no gaurantee that the democrats wouldn't do that same thing, and I have no illusions that they are immune to the temptation.
Insecure balloting techniques, jerrymandering, etc should ALL be illegal. Jerrymandering is impossible in exactly ONE state in the nation: Iowa, where I happen to live. One state with only 5 house reps is the only state where you cannot jerrymander
you're a presumptious ass to assume that i'm not involved. You're an arrogant ass for thinking that you're better than me. you're a jackass for thinking that bitching about idiots in government has no effect and you're a dumbass for ignoring the fact that scantron is a generic term for any optical-reader-capable answer sheet - the printout text can be bigger and more easily readable than your vaulted hanging chad punchard butterfly ballot.
A) The user gets to see the scantron, it is one that would be designed to be clearly, easily, human readable (it would take a real IDIOT to be unable to line up the damn rows.. have you ever seen a scantron?) - butterfly ballots and scantrons are A LOT different
B) There is a reason why the person casting a ballot gets to SEE and CONFIRM the contents of the scantron before depositing it in the firebox - if it's innaccurate a technician cancels their vote and they revote
C) this problem exists with any paper ballots, and it's is a matter of physical security outside the content of an electronic voting machine discussion - if your system cannot guarauntee this then your system is a fraud and you should just hand your country over to the fascists now [and no, the current US voting regime cannot even gaurantee this in all cases *cough*ohio*cough]
D) See C
E) see A
Butterfly ballots are not a valid analogy for scantrons - a simple correctly printed grid scantron can be read by a 4 year old.
do you mean "see a paper trail in usage" or "in theory" - because a voter-confirmed audit receipt would work fine
IE "sure, vote electronically! we'll tabulate that way, but we'll print off a scantron for your to double check and then deposit in one of the fireproof safeboxes"
Third Party supporters have a serious persecution complex. Sure, they are marginalized somewhat, but not nearly as much as they make it out to be. the simple fact of the matter is NO THIRD PARTY holds a single seat in congress.
The Senate is currently: 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats, 1 Independant (no-party) The House is currently: 231 Republicans, 201 Democrats, 1 Independant, 2 vacant seats
When one of the third parties suceeds in even getting ONE representative in congress then we'll take. Hell I even like the goddamn Green Party and if I had a viable Green candidate to vote for I would vote for them over a democrat.
However they should be in on the debates - because then the country can see the Green Party is not just Ralph Naderites, and that Libertarians are trickle-down economics neoreaganites, and that the Constitution party is just a bunch of KKK and white supramacist members with a sense of orwellian naming.
and in most places if they have more than one company they really just have one company - the others - the "local ISPs" still buy from the big Phone/Cable Cartel company
check the accuracy of the national weather service forecasts - they tend to be highly accurate (temperature +-5 degrees F, other conditions very high accuracy)
accuracy tends to extend very well out to the 3-day period and acceptably well to the 7-day
and presumption gets you no where - most of the studies on ETS were not government funded. and marijuana isn't a gateway drug - but it should be illegal on the same basis that smoking tobacco should be illegal - or atleast illegal for consumption in a manner which creates an aerosol.
What you do to your own body: i could care less, so long as you do it in a responsible manner and you are restricted from doing certain activities (driving for example) under the influence - oh and your employer can contracturally require you to not do them.
Most of that big truck of bus's "Black cloud of exhaust" is carbon oxides (monoxide and dioxide) - greenhouse gases yes, carcinogens/toxicants? no - simple asyphixants (oxygen displacers, only harmful to human health in enclosed spaces at above normal concentrations).
Internal Combustion Engine exhaust is not analogous to the byproducts of tobacco (or cannabis) combustion. Thank you for reiterating #1 on the top ten list of shitty arguments repeated by people who love to poison others with impunity. That being said - soon as we can replace hydrocarbon internal combustion engines with something cleaner it should be done.
bingo - I know a guy who chews tobacco and he holds the same opinion of smoking as me. Watching him load up on chew just about makes me puke, but it only affects him medically so it's HIS BUSINESS even if I find it disgusting.
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then why did they say they have NO EVIDENCE OF FURTHER THREAT
Exlcuding the movie that I think Chris Robert's must have been smoking some strongy wacky tobaccy while making - Wing Commander is an absolute classic. Only a moron would not consider it "high brow" - it tells a much better story across it's first 4 games than even Peter Jackson could manage in 9 movies!
my point is - how many nanoparticle emitters are there right now? how many nanoparticles are being put into the air by nanoparticle manufacturing?
as far as i know - none - they're doing a good job of not releasing "nanosoot" - so DON'T PANIC
I'm not dismissing concern entirely, i'm just dismissing the chicken-little type of concern we have going on right now
I'd be more concerned with second hand tobacco smoke, which is proven to be toxic, than specious worries about "nano-particles" possibly being toxic.
yup, especially since the theory of trickledown economics is thoroughly refuted :P
and yet that assessment is inaccurate, because I've never seen the democrats do things just for the sake of power.
wow.... you're really ignorant if you don't think those states had unusual districts - we know FOR A FACT that those states are gerrymandered - it's not a matter of debate, it's a fact. Furthermore the number of districts you have is irrelevant as is population density for this - that only affects how much total landmass they take up. You don't have to make c-shaped districts with complex boundries to evenly divide your population between all your districts - S-shaped, C-shaped, and more complex districts than that are all gerrymandered
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can you prove to me the 2004 election was fraud free? can you even support the statement that it was fraud free? Of course fucking not, even a cursory glance at Ohio will tell anyone who has a brain that we can never know if bush really was the honest winner of that state (not to mention several others) or not.
Why did they make up a fake terrorist threat claim on the last county to count it's votes (which prevented all observers from seeing the count)? We know it wasn't a real threat, and we know counting votes in secret like that is one of the fundmantal signs of a flawed election.
How about the ESS tech who, without authorization, accessed on of the voting machines used in voting between the voting and the "recount" (retabulating insecurable inauditable unreliable data tables doesn't constitute a recount).
Insecure elections is NOT a partisan issue, just like jerrymandering ISN'T a partisan issue. The last two national election cycles the insecurities in the voting system have merely happen to have been taken advantage by the republicans - there Is no gaurantee that the democrats wouldn't do that same thing, and I have no illusions that they are immune to the temptation.
Insecure balloting techniques, jerrymandering, etc should ALL be illegal. Jerrymandering is impossible in exactly ONE state in the nation: Iowa, where I happen to live. One state with only 5 house reps is the only state where you cannot jerrymander
Unjerrymandered:
Iowa http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/77GA/Congressiona
Hawaii http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/HI-
(probably) Idaho http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/ID-
NH http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/NH-
Jerrymandered:
Texas http://z.about.com/d/uspolitics/1/0/w/texas_congr
California http://www.senate.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/cngplan/CNGMAPS/
Florida http://www.democracyinaction.com/dia/organization
Illinois http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/IL-
see the difference? Jerrymandering leads to complex districts most of the time, unjerrymandered districts are as geographically simple as possible.
rather obvious are they not? Jerrymandering is just another form of election fraud and both parties engage in it.
and you just revealed YOURSELF to be the anti-american fucknut of this conversation by calling your opponant a traitor.
Why don't you remove your head from your ass and realize that bush never one a single election, but he stole two.
you're a presumptious ass to assume that i'm not involved. You're an arrogant ass for thinking that you're better than me. you're a jackass for thinking that bitching about idiots in government has no effect and you're a dumbass for ignoring the fact that scantron is a generic term for any optical-reader-capable answer sheet - the printout text can be bigger and more easily readable than your vaulted hanging chad punchard butterfly ballot.
A) The user gets to see the scantron, it is one that would be designed to be clearly, easily, human readable (it would take a real IDIOT to be unable to line up the damn rows.. have you ever seen a scantron?) - butterfly ballots and scantrons are A LOT different
B) There is a reason why the person casting a ballot gets to SEE and CONFIRM the contents of the scantron before depositing it in the firebox - if it's innaccurate a technician cancels their vote and they revote
C) this problem exists with any paper ballots, and it's is a matter of physical security outside the content of an electronic voting machine discussion - if your system cannot guarauntee this then your system is a fraud and you should just hand your country over to the fascists now [and no, the current US voting regime cannot even gaurantee this in all cases *cough*ohio*cough]
D) See C
E) see A
Butterfly ballots are not a valid analogy for scantrons - a simple correctly printed grid scantron can be read by a 4 year old.
do you mean "see a paper trail in usage" or "in theory" - because a voter-confirmed audit receipt would work fine
IE "sure, vote electronically! we'll tabulate that way, but we'll print off a scantron for your to double check and then deposit in one of the fireproof safeboxes"
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Which is an argument i fully reject as bullshit. Televised debates really only occur for the presidency, not for senate seats and house seats.
Third Party supporters have a serious persecution complex. Sure, they are marginalized somewhat, but not nearly as much as they make it out to be. the simple fact of the matter is NO THIRD PARTY holds a single seat in congress.
The Senate is currently: 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats, 1 Independant (no-party)
The House is currently: 231 Republicans, 201 Democrats, 1 Independant, 2 vacant seats
When one of the third parties suceeds in even getting ONE representative in congress then we'll take. Hell I even like the goddamn Green Party and if I had a viable Green candidate to vote for I would vote for them over a democrat.
However they should be in on the debates - because then the country can see the Green Party is not just Ralph Naderites, and that Libertarians are trickle-down economics neoreaganites, and that the Constitution party is just a bunch of KKK and white supramacist members with a sense of orwellian naming.
you can googlebomb him by linking elsewhere :D i have him linked in my sig on several phpBB forums as well
and in most places if they have more than one company they really just have one company - the others - the "local ISPs" still buy from the big Phone/Cable Cartel company
you watched desperate housewives?
sorry.. i stopped reading right there.
check the accuracy of the national weather service forecasts - they tend to be highly accurate (temperature +-5 degrees F, other conditions very high accuracy)
accuracy tends to extend very well out to the 3-day period and acceptably well to the 7-day
yes, because i have to own one to know the tech specs.
i buy the content once then use my fair use rights and format shift
but no, i don't have a video iCrack, nor do i want one (i have a portable DVD player I hardly use)
yup download your 320x240 resolution movie and hook it up to your 20" normal TV and cringe at the low quality - or worse yet your big 1920x1080i HDTV
and presumption gets you no where - most of the studies on ETS were not government funded. and marijuana isn't a gateway drug - but it should be illegal on the same basis that smoking tobacco should be illegal - or atleast illegal for consumption in a manner which creates an aerosol.
What you do to your own body: i could care less, so long as you do it in a responsible manner and you are restricted from doing certain activities (driving for example) under the influence - oh and your employer can contracturally require you to not do them.
Most of that big truck of bus's "Black cloud of exhaust" is carbon oxides (monoxide and dioxide) - greenhouse gases yes, carcinogens/toxicants? no - simple asyphixants (oxygen displacers, only harmful to human health in enclosed spaces at above normal concentrations).
Internal Combustion Engine exhaust is not analogous to the byproducts of tobacco (or cannabis) combustion. Thank you for reiterating #1 on the top ten list of shitty arguments repeated by people who love to poison others with impunity. That being said - soon as we can replace hydrocarbon internal combustion engines with something cleaner it should be done.
bingo - I know a guy who chews tobacco and he holds the same opinion of smoking as me. Watching him load up on chew just about makes me puke, but it only affects him medically so it's HIS BUSINESS even if I find it disgusting.