http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/04/clinton-mccain-has-more-_n_89758.html
"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." I think things like this would truly come back to haunt Obama if he were to select Hillary as his VP. I can already see the McCain ads on it. "Even his own vice president agrees that John McCain would be a better choice..."
There are a lot of different cases where one state changed their drinking age, then saw a spike in fatalities. I was just siting some of the first ones i saw using a google search. If there is evidence to the contrary, i wouldn't mind seeing it.
Like i said, though, i DO agree that raising the drinking age is a hack of a way to get around this. Proper education and a change in the structure of the DUI laws would make much more sense. Until recently though, the 18-21 age bracket didn't make up a large percentage of voters because they never got politically motivated (well, except in the 60's i guess), so it was probably easier to screw them over than to actually put in smart laws. Politicians could say that they fought to reduce drinking-related accidents, but if they raised the punishments for DUIs then people might say they were trying to supress peoples' rights. That's just speculation, though.
There are far too many languages in the world to have to consider the way things might be translated, let alone how things might be mistranslated. It is up to the translator to consider the tone of the words in question, and to translate accordingly. We shouldn't blame Iran for an error on the part of the translator, and on the part of MSN for not doing further research and re-translating it into English themselves. This is especially when we consider that the official languages of Israel are Hebrew and Arabic, *not* English.
One DOES send the Defense Minister to OVERSEE that the defense of one of their most valuable research facilities is being carried out with the utmost care. Who else should be sent instead? I wouldn't think twice if the Secretary of Homeland Security toured one of our nuclear power plants.
I understand the fear that a nation like Iran might get a nuke, but look at it from Iran's perspective. If they got a nuke and tried to use it on another state, they would be turned into a radioactive crater. If, however, they become the regions leading country on the advancement of nuclear power, they not only have a lock on today's source of energy (oil), but tomorrow's as well. They put themselves in a much stronger position in the world by researching nuclear energy than they do by researching nuclear bombs.
Why would Iran want to burn oil, when it could sell it for insanely high prices?
Also, oil wont last forever. Once (if?) we move off of oil, Iran could be in a position to be a leader in (clean) nuclear energy -- especially considering how scared the US is of advancing the technology right now.
Iran isn't stupid: they wouldn't develop nukes and try to use them on us because if they could actually be traced back to Iran (as opposed to the imaginary connection between 9/11 and Iraq), the American people would support a full takeover of their nation. I'm not talking about an occupation while we "create democracy" like Iraq, I'm talking about a "kill everyone and take their shit" invasion.
Actually, the reason the drinking age has been set at 21 is that studies have shown that it decreases the amount of fatal auto accidents.
http://www.winternet.com/~martinez/AATdrinkingage.html
An Arizona Department of Public Safety report found that fatal accidents increased over 25% while traffic fatalities increased more than 35% after the state MLPA was lowered from 21 to 19.
A Michigan study found that police reports of "had been drinking" crashes increased 35%, while the incidence of nighttime single-vehicle crashes among young men increased 17% after the state reduced its MLPA from 21 to 18.13 Another Michigan study found that DWI arrests increased 141% for 18 - 20 year-olds after the state lowered the MLPA. Roadside surveys showed that the proportion of 16 - 20 year-old drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) over.05 more than doubled. The main problem with drunk driving is that you put other people at risk more than you do yourself. People should be able to expect a reasonable amount of safety when driving responsibly on the road, and the laws are set up to maintain that safety.
Of course, i do agree that setting the drinking age to 21 is actually a poor solution to this. The laws should be set up to have different punishments for driving under different degrees of influence, with much stricter punishments for those who clearly cant drive (no license for 5-10 years, jail time) and lighter punishments for those that are juuust past the legal limit (ticket and points on license). Combined with better education on the topic, it would probably reduce the number of accidents much better.
What power supply and fans did you use? The PSU is typically the loudest thing in my system, but I admin I usually don't buy a very good PSU. You'd think I would know better. ^_^
Obama's preacher is a racist, a white person voting for him would be like a black person voting for a white man whose preacher is a Klansman. Actually, McCain's preacher said a lot worse stuff. Obama's preacher's words were mostly taken out of context. McCain may be able to spin a lot of fights, but I don't think that's one he wants to go near.
Myself, I'll be voting either Green or Libertarian, depending on who's on the ballot in Illinois. Mine will be a protest vote against our Corporate-owned government. We, the people, have been left out of the loop for far too long. There stands to be between two and four supreme court justices retiring in the next presidency cycle. So, there stands to be either 2-4 new Democratic SCJs, or 2-4 new Republican SCJs. It could mean the reversal of Roe vs. Wade*, among other things. Even if you are Green or Libertarian, it is in your best interest to vote for your "lesser of two evils".
Also, if you feel your opinion is being left out of the process, then join the process. Find your local events. I'd suggest trying to get people to support Instant Runnoff voting, so that Greens and Libertarians can gain some footing in this nation.
*I am neither in full support nor fully against abortion. However, making a 100% no-abortions law is not the solution to that debate.
Unfortunately, that is just an assumption. In most cases that I've seen a curve being used, the distribution of skill level was nowhere near Gaussian, or the class was so poorly designed that everyone was struggling.
I still think that a curve is used more often to cover up flaws in the system than to development self-advancement through competition, but I agree that it *can* be used correctly.
You just exposed a flaw in your own argument. Why is it fair to get an A by getting 95% in a class, when they only have to get a 75% the next semester because those students weren't as bright?
I understand that the "where did you go to school" remark was flaimbait, but the rest of this post was spot-on. Engineering in real life is pass/fail. Either your bridge will stand, and stay standing in the manner that it should, or it is not a successful bridge. The grading should reflect this.
The THEORY of grading on a curve is smart enough: it pushes students to become above-average through competition. In practice, however, it becomes a tool for bad teachers (or good teachers without the proper resources) to turn a class full of D's and F's into a class with a C average. It is not acceptable to get an A in a class without knowing the material, simply because those around me knew it even less than I did.
Many pastors, priests, and rabbis think that homosexuality is a sin, that abortionists are murderers, and that those practicing other faiths will burn in hell. Do you have to go to every one of these beliefs to go to their church?
One of my aunts is racist. I love her, but that does not make me racist. I may denounce that way of thought, but I would never turn my back on those that I love, simply because they are wrong.
I THINK here in southeast michigan, the power company owns most of the poles, with a handful of poles owned by the phone company. You can rent open access to all of their poles at a flat rate. At least, when I figure build costs for my company, I've never had to factor in a rental fee for power company poles. I could be wrong though, maybe it's just ignored in my department.
Probably at least a couple hundred dollars per telephone pole, actually. Plus anytime you want to get power from the electric company, the cost goes up even more because you need electric company linesmen, which cost more. Also, there may not be enough bandwidth available on the existing line (if cable) or enough free open lines available (if phone), so it could jump the price even more.
People tend to underestimate how hard it actually is to get good WiFi coverage to very large areas. I do still think it's possible though, otherwise we wouldn't have cell phones. I think you're right in that it needs to have devices placed on existing things like phone lines, but the technology needs to be rethought to be more similar to cell-phone mesh/grid systems.
AM radio spans roughly 1 MHz (IE: approx 530KHz to 1.6 MHz.) You CANNOT fit a broadband wireless service into that space Actually, the amount of bandwidth available in a block of frequencies isn't limited to
[highest frequency] - [lowest frequency] It's limited to the total sum of every frequency within that block, taking into account of how much of a distance you have to put between each frequency before you start getting interference. So, more like
[bandwidth of 530KHz] + [bandwidth of 531KHz] + [bandwidth of 532KHz] +... + [bandwidth of 1600KHz] assuming you only had to separate each frequency by 1KHz. I think the actual theoretical maximum bandwidth in any frequency is half the Hz, but I don't remember very well.
Sorry, but government officials have had more access to classified stuff than civilians for a long long time now. I'm against immunity too, but I trust John Conyers enough to believe that he and most of the House Dems would call the GOP on bullshit if it turns out to be the case. If they couldn't be trusted to do so, immunity would have been granted a long time ago, and the press would have barely had a chance to notice.
It's not so much that people want to go after the Telecoms because they want tons of cash. It's the fact that if we ever want to see the extent of the illegal wiretaps, we have to bring them to court. If they have immunity, this isn't possible.
It's more important that we find out who abused this power, than it is for us to get money from it. And judging by how so many in this administration are scared shitless about this, I'm going to make a guess that they were abusing this power.
Also, the Telecoms, who have had to deal with the legality of wiretaps for decades, should know that this was unconstitunal. If the government asks me to start raping babies "so we can find the terrorists", odds are good that I'd refuse. Kudos to Quest.
It'll take a lot more than a year for that to happen. Eventually, yeah, but in the meantime I'm currently in the process of burning a lot of friends CDs because mine were destroyed. A 20GB flash stick may be $2 in 3-5 years, but i bought my last 50-pack of DVD-R's for $4.99, and that holds 235GB. And I don't mind giving a friend a burned DVD, whereas I would want my flash drive back.
I expect us to reach a point where everyone has their phone, music player, and file storage in one device, before recordable media starts dying. This is just starting to become more common, but is still inconvenient for most people.
I think you two are defining two different "youth" groups. You're probably thinking of high-schoolers or college kids. Your parent post is probably thinking of people in their early to mid twenties. From a marketing standpoint, the 18-25 age group is more desirable, or so I'm told.
You two probably have different personal experiences with "youth demographics" as well.
Personally, I'm 23. I have a full time job, pay for school on the side, and pay my own mortgage. While I think some commercials are funny (Chuck Norris Old Spice comes to mind), I almost never buy that product. Most of my friends feel the same way.
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You keep heading down this path, and you run the risk of getting offtopic.
Wait, no!
There are a lot of different cases where one state changed their drinking age, then saw a spike in fatalities. I was just siting some of the first ones i saw using a google search. If there is evidence to the contrary, i wouldn't mind seeing it.
Like i said, though, i DO agree that raising the drinking age is a hack of a way to get around this. Proper education and a change in the structure of the DUI laws would make much more sense. Until recently though, the 18-21 age bracket didn't make up a large percentage of voters because they never got politically motivated (well, except in the 60's i guess), so it was probably easier to screw them over than to actually put in smart laws. Politicians could say that they fought to reduce drinking-related accidents, but if they raised the punishments for DUIs then people might say they were trying to supress peoples' rights. That's just speculation, though.
There are far too many languages in the world to have to consider the way things might be translated, let alone how things might be mistranslated. It is up to the translator to consider the tone of the words in question, and to translate accordingly. We shouldn't blame Iran for an error on the part of the translator, and on the part of MSN for not doing further research and re-translating it into English themselves. This is especially when we consider that the official languages of Israel are Hebrew and Arabic, *not* English.
But they attacked them back! They should have just let them in to take whatever they wanted!
One DOES send the Defense Minister to OVERSEE that the defense of one of their most valuable research facilities is being carried out with the utmost care. Who else should be sent instead? I wouldn't think twice if the Secretary of Homeland Security toured one of our nuclear power plants.
I understand the fear that a nation like Iran might get a nuke, but look at it from Iran's perspective. If they got a nuke and tried to use it on another state, they would be turned into a radioactive crater. If, however, they become the regions leading country on the advancement of nuclear power, they not only have a lock on today's source of energy (oil), but tomorrow's as well. They put themselves in a much stronger position in the world by researching nuclear energy than they do by researching nuclear bombs.
Why would Iran want to burn oil, when it could sell it for insanely high prices?
Also, oil wont last forever. Once (if?) we move off of oil, Iran could be in a position to be a leader in (clean) nuclear energy -- especially considering how scared the US is of advancing the technology right now.
Iran isn't stupid: they wouldn't develop nukes and try to use them on us because if they could actually be traced back to Iran (as opposed to the imaginary connection between 9/11 and Iraq), the American people would support a full takeover of their nation. I'm not talking about an occupation while we "create democracy" like Iraq, I'm talking about a "kill everyone and take their shit" invasion.
http://www.winternet.com/~martinez/AATdrinkingage.html An Arizona Department of Public Safety report found that fatal accidents increased over 25% while traffic fatalities increased more than 35% after the state MLPA was lowered from 21 to 19.
A Michigan study found that police reports of "had been drinking" crashes increased 35%, while the incidence of nighttime single-vehicle crashes among young men increased 17% after the state reduced its MLPA from 21 to 18.13 Another Michigan study found that DWI arrests increased 141% for 18 - 20 year-olds after the state lowered the MLPA. Roadside surveys showed that the proportion of 16 - 20 year-old drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) over
Of course, i do agree that setting the drinking age to 21 is actually a poor solution to this. The laws should be set up to have different punishments for driving under different degrees of influence, with much stricter punishments for those who clearly cant drive (no license for 5-10 years, jail time) and lighter punishments for those that are juuust past the legal limit (ticket and points on license). Combined with better education on the topic, it would probably reduce the number of accidents much better.
What power supply and fans did you use? The PSU is typically the loudest thing in my system, but I admin I usually don't buy a very good PSU. You'd think I would know better. ^_^
Also, if you feel your opinion is being left out of the process, then join the process. Find your local events. I'd suggest trying to get people to support Instant Runnoff voting, so that Greens and Libertarians can gain some footing in this nation.
*I am neither in full support nor fully against abortion. However, making a 100% no-abortions law is not the solution to that debate.
Unfortunately, that is just an assumption. In most cases that I've seen a curve being used, the distribution of skill level was nowhere near Gaussian, or the class was so poorly designed that everyone was struggling.
I still think that a curve is used more often to cover up flaws in the system than to development self-advancement through competition, but I agree that it *can* be used correctly.
You just exposed a flaw in your own argument. Why is it fair to get an A by getting 95% in a class, when they only have to get a 75% the next semester because those students weren't as bright?
I understand that the "where did you go to school" remark was flaimbait, but the rest of this post was spot-on. Engineering in real life is pass/fail. Either your bridge will stand, and stay standing in the manner that it should, or it is not a successful bridge. The grading should reflect this.
The THEORY of grading on a curve is smart enough: it pushes students to become above-average through competition. In practice, however, it becomes a tool for bad teachers (or good teachers without the proper resources) to turn a class full of D's and F's into a class with a C average. It is not acceptable to get an A in a class without knowing the material, simply because those around me knew it even less than I did.
Neither did Lincoln. Seemed to work out OK.
Many pastors, priests, and rabbis think that homosexuality is a sin, that abortionists are murderers, and that those practicing other faiths will burn in hell. Do you have to go to every one of these beliefs to go to their church?
One of my aunts is racist. I love her, but that does not make me racist. I may denounce that way of thought, but I would never turn my back on those that I love, simply because they are wrong.
I THINK here in southeast michigan, the power company owns most of the poles, with a handful of poles owned by the phone company. You can rent open access to all of their poles at a flat rate. At least, when I figure build costs for my company, I've never had to factor in a rental fee for power company poles. I could be wrong though, maybe it's just ignored in my department.
Probably at least a couple hundred dollars per telephone pole, actually. Plus anytime you want to get power from the electric company, the cost goes up even more because you need electric company linesmen, which cost more. Also, there may not be enough bandwidth available on the existing line (if cable) or enough free open lines available (if phone), so it could jump the price even more.
People tend to underestimate how hard it actually is to get good WiFi coverage to very large areas. I do still think it's possible though, otherwise we wouldn't have cell phones. I think you're right in that it needs to have devices placed on existing things like phone lines, but the technology needs to be rethought to be more similar to cell-phone mesh/grid systems.
Excuse the bad descriptions, as i lack sleep. ^_^
Sorry, but government officials have had more access to classified stuff than civilians for a long long time now. I'm against immunity too, but I trust John Conyers enough to believe that he and most of the House Dems would call the GOP on bullshit if it turns out to be the case. If they couldn't be trusted to do so, immunity would have been granted a long time ago, and the press would have barely had a chance to notice.
It's not so much that people want to go after the Telecoms because they want tons of cash. It's the fact that if we ever want to see the extent of the illegal wiretaps, we have to bring them to court. If they have immunity, this isn't possible.
It's more important that we find out who abused this power, than it is for us to get money from it. And judging by how so many in this administration are scared shitless about this, I'm going to make a guess that they were abusing this power.
Also, the Telecoms, who have had to deal with the legality of wiretaps for decades, should know that this was unconstitunal. If the government asks me to start raping babies "so we can find the terrorists", odds are good that I'd refuse. Kudos to Quest.
It'll never work until we get something other than first-past-the-post elections, unfortunately. :(
I have to disagree. Everyone knows that a more proper example of irony is like rain on your wedding day...
Most gamers do, though. ;)
It'll take a lot more than a year for that to happen. Eventually, yeah, but in the meantime I'm currently in the process of burning a lot of friends CDs because mine were destroyed. A 20GB flash stick may be $2 in 3-5 years, but i bought my last 50-pack of DVD-R's for $4.99, and that holds 235GB. And I don't mind giving a friend a burned DVD, whereas I would want my flash drive back.
I expect us to reach a point where everyone has their phone, music player, and file storage in one device, before recordable media starts dying. This is just starting to become more common, but is still inconvenient for most people.
I think you two are defining two different "youth" groups. You're probably thinking of high-schoolers or college kids. Your parent post is probably thinking of people in their early to mid twenties. From a marketing standpoint, the 18-25 age group is more desirable, or so I'm told.
You two probably have different personal experiences with "youth demographics" as well.
Personally, I'm 23. I have a full time job, pay for school on the side, and pay my own mortgage. While I think some commercials are funny (Chuck Norris Old Spice comes to mind), I almost never buy that product. Most of my friends feel the same way.