Some group has to fight hard to justify a budget allocation big enough to cover their GIS software licenses... and they don't want other government groups to reap the benefits without helping to pay for it.
Yeah? So freakin' what.
Why should I, as the taxpayer, be concerned with the budgetary constraints of inter (and sometmies intra) departmental rivalry? You've just made a case for a central GIS unit in local government to do the work, get the money, and act as a consultant for other departments. Matter of fact, every county I'm familiar with does it this way.
Fact of the matter is, for all intents and purposes, all this information is a matter of public record. It's just that GIS allows us to view, manage, and manipulate this information in novel and useful ways.
Sell me music in a format all my hardware and software can play.
I don't need it in a format that all my hardware understands; I just need it in a good lossless format that I can then legally convert to whatever other format I choose.
Passports are required by the United States when a US citizen crosses the border inbound, no matter where you're coming from.
Sure, why not? How else are you going to prove your nationality? I've got no problem with requiring a passport to cross an international boundary, for two main reasons: 1) To prove your citizenship and 2)To show where you've been. If your passport is stamped by Afganistan, Iran, Syria, etc., then maybe you deserve a little more scrutiny than someone who's passport is stamped Canada or the UK.
I defy you to name one legitimate reason for a citizen to own a 0.50 caliber weapon.
How about the simple fact that they're fun to shoot?
There was a West Wing ep a few years back where it was put most succintly: "It's not that you don't like guns, it's that you don't like people who like guns."
Not only are they made on the same type of machine; they're made on the same machine/production line. I asked one time at some store and Bausch & Lomb is gthe manufacturer; they just put it in different packages for different customers.
Yeah, but is your "quote a piece of a beat from a song in another song, or a segment of film or TV in a video art piece" really a scholarly or critical work? I'd say that generally, one does not critically analyze a song by inclduing samples of it in another song; or produce a scholarly work using one piece of video clip in another video art [my emph.]. Those that do do that are generally creating another, derivative, commerical work that requires permission of the parent copyright holder.
Then again, maybe you think Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" was a critical analysis of Queen's original "Under Pressure".
When President Eisenhower went to Kansas to announce the interstate highway system, he announced it as "the National Defense Highway System." In 1956 President Eisenhower signed legislation establishing the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (about 41,000 miles of roads).
Now, what your typical razorback trooper's going to say might have as much to do the size of your gun as it does with how much tarmac you've chewed up.
But we don't always use English common law. For example, you can own the surface rights to your property but a mining company can own the subsurface rights; meaning they can come in and drill/excavate for minerals.
People really make a huge deal out of the exit polls, but has anyone every seriously examined their methodology?
The way I understand it, pollsters sit outside precint houses and ask those who just voted a) if they'd like to participate in the exit poll and b)a whole bunch of questions about not only their votes but the reasons behind their votes.
Now, it seems to me that this starts off as a self-selected sample, which is one of the fundamental no-nos of sampling design. Are they controlled for age/race/socio-econ status/shoe size/whatever?
I'm not too much into exit polling anyway, I don't think it's an accurate sample. These 800-voter national polls are similar too; even though they're "+/- 3%" we still don't know if they've selected a representative sample. You give me a population and a desired outcome and brother I guarantee you I can design a sample that will give you the results you want.
Let's say you have a computer with only a 4 gig hard drive (like me; I know, I know:). Your iPod holds 20 gig. There's no way you can hold all your iPod files on your computer, so you've got a lot of music on your iPod that just can't be stored on your machine.
So what you do is rip a CD, copy it to the iPod, delete it off your PC. If you use iTunes in it's default config, every time you sync you'll be wiping out your iPod!
WRONG! You only have to claim those purchases when you are itemizing deductions. If you don't itemize, then you don't do it.
Wrong. It depends on what state you live in. Here in NC, they're so kind as to give you an estimate, based on gross income, pf what your internet purchase tax should be and even expect you to pay it.
Shoot, I've had my rifle and shotguns (and yes, even a pistol or 2) on the plane; see, they're declared and in checked baggage .
I was flying to Biloxi one time and they didn't have the proper declaration form, and get this, the freakin' pilot was going to let me carry in the passenger compartment if I signed some form saying I wasn't up to no good. I did not take him up on it.
The guage designator of a shotgun is the number of round lead balls, the nominal diameter of the bore, that weigh one pound. So, for a 12 guage, if you make 12 lead balls that just fit inside the bore and weigh 'em, they'll weigh a pound. Which is why the larger the guage, the smaller the bore.
The only exception is the.410 guage, which is really a caliber, as it's bore is 0.410 inches.
I don't think it's all that much of a coincidence; after all these are engineers we're talking about here, and they certainly designed the ship to hit the 100,000 meter mark; that extra 125 meters is really them being a bit sloppy, wasted energy that could have been used for more fruitful effect.
And I would imagine (though I haven't looked) that the XPrize folks are simply taking the on-board telemetry data to determine altitude; I betcha there's a whole bank of radar data that outside observers took to come up with the official height data.
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Yeah? So freakin' what.
Why should I, as the taxpayer, be concerned with the budgetary constraints of inter (and sometmies intra) departmental rivalry? You've just made a case for a central GIS unit in local government to do the work, get the money, and act as a consultant for other departments. Matter of fact, every county I'm familiar with does it this way.
Fact of the matter is, for all intents and purposes, all this information is a matter of public record. It's just that GIS allows us to view, manage, and manipulate this information in novel and useful ways.
I don't need it in a format that all my hardware understands; I just need it in a good lossless format that I can then legally convert to whatever other format I choose.
Sure, why not? How else are you going to prove your nationality? I've got no problem with requiring a passport to cross an international boundary, for two main reasons: 1) To prove your citizenship and 2)To show where you've been. If your passport is stamped by Afganistan, Iran, Syria, etc., then maybe you deserve a little more scrutiny than someone who's passport is stamped Canada or the UK.
Obligate me? Obligate me to what? Perhaps receipt of stolen goods?
How about the simple fact that they're fun to shoot?
There was a West Wing ep a few years back where it was put most succintly: "It's not that you don't like guns, it's that you don't like people who like guns."
My .308 will go through a "bullet proof" vest. Most anything more powerful than 9mm has a good chance of penetrating a vest.
Not only are they made on the same type of machine; they're made on the same machine/production line. I asked one time at some store and Bausch & Lomb is gthe manufacturer; they just put it in different packages for different customers.
The purpose of a union is to make money for its officers.
Or maybe your kids and grandkids won't have to worry about where their college money's coming from.
Then again, maybe you think Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" was a critical analysis of Queen's original "Under Pressure".
When President Eisenhower went to Kansas to announce the interstate highway system, he announced it as "the National Defense Highway System." In 1956 President Eisenhower signed legislation establishing the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (about 41,000 miles of roads).
Now, what your typical razorback trooper's going to say might have as much to do the size of your gun as it does with how much tarmac you've chewed up.
Woo fookin Hoo!
Actually, the highest point in Florida is 345' MSL. It's Britton Hill, 30-59-18 N, 86-16-55 W Who knew ? :)
But we don't always use English common law. For example, you can own the surface rights to your property but a mining company can own the subsurface rights; meaning they can come in and drill/excavate for minerals.
The way I understand it, pollsters sit outside precint houses and ask those who just voted a) if they'd like to participate in the exit poll and b)a whole bunch of questions about not only their votes but the reasons behind their votes.
Now, it seems to me that this starts off as a self-selected sample, which is one of the fundamental no-nos of sampling design. Are they controlled for age/race/socio-econ status/shoe size/whatever?
I'm not too much into exit polling anyway, I don't think it's an accurate sample. These 800-voter national polls are similar too; even though they're "+/- 3%" we still don't know if they've selected a representative sample. You give me a population and a desired outcome and brother I guarantee you I can design a sample that will give you the results you want.
Sure. Use the SSN for YET ONE MORE use for which it was never intended.
Actually, there's a third occaison:
Let's say you have a computer with only a 4 gig hard drive (like me; I know, I know :). Your iPod holds 20 gig. There's no way you can hold all your iPod files on your computer, so you've got a lot of music on your iPod that just can't be stored on your machine.
So what you do is rip a CD, copy it to the iPod, delete it off your PC. If you use iTunes in it's default config, every time you sync you'll be wiping out your iPod!
Wrong. It depends on what state you live in. Here in NC, they're so kind as to give you an estimate, based on gross income, pf what your internet purchase tax should be and even expect you to pay it.
I was flying to Biloxi one time and they didn't have the proper declaration form, and get this, the freakin' pilot was going to let me carry in the passenger compartment if I signed some form saying I wasn't up to no good. I did not take him up on it.
But Hinckley didn't kill the President, now did he? :)
Actually the saying goes something like "They can't stop someone who is committed enough to sacrifice their own life from killing the President."
Yeah, but the fluid ounce is really a measure of volume, not weight (or mass)
The guage designator of a shotgun is the number of round lead balls, the nominal diameter of the bore, that weigh one pound. So, for a 12 guage, if you make 12 lead balls that just fit inside the bore and weigh 'em, they'll weigh a pound. Which is why the larger the guage, the smaller the bore.
The only exception is the .410 guage, which is really a caliber, as it's bore is 0.410 inches.
Umm... you do have computers don't you? It's just math...
And I would imagine (though I haven't looked) that the XPrize folks are simply taking the on-board telemetry data to determine altitude; I betcha there's a whole bank of radar data that outside observers took to come up with the official height data.