And the count shall be three and no more before pulling the holy ripcord. It shall not be four, nor five, nor six, nor include fractions, but three. Three is the count. (Apologies to Monty Python.:)
A few people tried to use provisional ballots earlier in the year and their votes were ruled invalid (they even appealed to the State Supreme Court and the ruling was upheld). At least in Maryland, you have no choice but to use the Diebold machines.
The provisional ballot requirement is part of HAVA. How does Maryland think it can trump federal law during a federal election? Was there any rationale given?
However, this in some way explains why I was able to vote in spite of not being American... and here I was thinking "Those Americans are SO internationally-minded people"...
Hey, it really is true. We not only allow illegal immigrants to vote, but dead people and convicted felons who have lost their voting priviledge also. We are truly tolerant of all when it comes to voting. In most states it is considered intimidation to make a voter provide proof of eligibility or identity.
Cheney's deferred compensation is a gross violation of ethical standards. Can I help it if this administration happens to have worse ones?
The current administration did not write the tax laws that make it legal and accepted. Take it up with previous Congresses. John Elway (and his grandchildren) will be getting paid by the Broncos for some time. It doesn't seem unethical to me. Once a company has made a deferred compensation deal, it has an obligation to pay it without recourse. Pick a real issue. How about Cheney's lobbying for a war with Iraq even before 9/11? There's something to get upset about.
When young people couldn't vote, they had to resort to mass demonstrations that were a much more dangerous way to express their opinions.
Not totally true. What a lot of us did was work very hard for passage of the 26th Amendment. The thought was that if you could be sent to war, then you should have the right to vote, and the country agreed. The disappointing thing is that since the 70s, the percentage of 18-25 year-old voters has been declining steadily until this election. You're right about motivation. The question is why have younger voters been so apathetic?
If I had two kids, a morgage, and a carreer, I doubt I would have the time to follow the hundreds of millions of dollars that is getting funneled to a company who is openly paying the vice president.
Then you would be wrong. Cheney's deferred compensation from Haliburton is a minor concern. The bigger problem is that the President of the U.S. seems to be the willing puppet of a group of neocon advisors while ignoring advice from people with real experience, like Powell. That's why this Republican with a mortgage, two kids, and a career already voted -- and it wasn't for Bush. A 50% approval rating for an incumbent isn't really good, and considering all the Young Republican activities on campus recently, some portion of that rating is coming from college campuses.
These powermad sleazebags don't care about getting caught. They've been repeating "Nixon was guilty only because he got caught" for 30 years, so they've decided to just ignore getting caught.
They do care about being caught, which is why they deny everything. The problem is that there is no punishment. Nixon wasn't impeached. Clinton was and still served out his term.
I'm a Linux user at home and a UNIX programmer at work, and after reading that, all I can say is you're part of the problem, not the solution. Politics aside, does your mommy know you're posting to Slashdot again and using dirty words?
RIGHT THERE is the reason that business, Mom and Dad, and Joe Sixpack won't adopt OSS. The elitist - no, actually - "prick-ish" attitude that so many Linux and Unix users display.
Until this attitude is GONE, we have no chance at becoming the proud bearers of an alternative operating system.
I don't think the attitude is as prevalent as you think. Slashdot is not the place to look for help with Linux. I've used Mandrake for years because when I first tried Linux, Red Hat wouldn't install but Mandrake did. Visit the Mandrake forums. N00bs don't get flamed (at least not often - there's always some rude twit with an ego in need of boosting). Generally, other users try to help as long as the question is understandable.
You could make an argument that several of these individuals died in generic construction snfaus, but on the other hand, the list doesn't include the people who died of heart attacks from sheer over work and stress during the Apollo crash program.
And that is somehow different from the thousands upon thousands of people who die from industrial accidents, stress, and overwork every year in corporate America? They don't even get that small statue. When they write articles about drivers who died in a race, they don't include the name of the guy who had a heart attack while machining pistons for one of the engines. Such is life - and death.
a) The story says disposable, not reusable
b) Doesn't look like it -- the article mentions relying on Soyuz (and potentially Shenzhou) for manned flights in future.
Of course. Outsourcing the space program was the next logical step.
'Third party' does not necessarily mean Nader. Nader's independent this time around, while Cobb is the Green Party candidate, Badnarik is the Libertarian candidate, and so on, and so on.
Anderson as an independent in 1980 did better than Nader as a Green in 2000. Anyone running outside the two-party system is third-party by definition.
Y'know, I'm the only person in the country still willing to admit that I voted for you. Your real fault was trying to cover for subordinates who turned out to be morons (well, and for hiring them in the first place). People have forgotten (or have never been taught) about your foreign policy work which eventually allowed Reagan to end the cold war.
That is why a vote for a third party candidate is not a wasted vote.
I can't follow that logic. I'm a Republican, and it's no secret that Republicans are bankrolling Nader's campaign. From the looks of the latest polls, it seems that for the second election in a row, Nader will again play the spoiler for the left-leaning crowd. I really doubt the people voting for Nader would pick Bush as a second choice, which is what they are effectively doing by splitting the liberal vote when there is no corresponding split of the conservative vote. I have a hard time understanding why Nader hasn't withdrawn from the race. He's made the only point he's going to make, except perhaps to be called spoiler and egotist again.
Most of the people liked Reagan's optimism, and that he really seemed to believe in what he said and in his goals. Compare that to his opponent, Carter, who had botched an attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran, had abdicated any responsibility for the economy or inflation, and sported (and supported) heavy sweaters as the answer to the oil/energy problems.
Personally, I think Reagan was a great president, and Carter was a good President. At the time, the people were unhappy and really ready for a change. In the same election, Anderson (an independent) won nearly 7% of the vote - really good for a third-party candidate.
All in favor of waiting until electronic voting is mature and trustworthy before deployment raise your hand...
*raises hand* I voted using an absentee ballot this year and will continue to do so until the e-voting machines have a verifiable paper record of each vote.
So you think your presence is the result of completely random chance interaction of energy and chemicals, and your life has no real purpose, value, or meaning? Interesting. Why do you choose to continue living a pointless, often painful existence?
The rabbits don't change size. They become carnivorous and develop killer instincts which cause them to attack knights of the Round Table and audition for parts in Monty Python movies.
I live with the claws because I know that she needs them for defense in various situations (dog, gets outside, falls and needs to grip something).
Cats, like people, are all different. I've had cats in the past that coexisted just fine with claws intact. The current one didn't. Probably too close to being feral, but since my wife insisted it was going to be an inside cat, the claws aren't really needed. Living a long, pampered life without claws is preferable to dying after a couple of weeks of life in my opinion. You're entitled to yours.
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Don't hit the ground so hard.
And the count shall be three and no more before pulling the holy ripcord. It shall not be four, nor five, nor six, nor include fractions, but three. Three is the count. (Apologies to Monty Python. :)
Translation: They're going to paint it flourescent green so they can tell where it crashed.
It's hard to distinguish colors in the shadows of a deep hole. Next suggestion.
A few people tried to use provisional ballots earlier in the year and their votes were ruled invalid (they even appealed to the State Supreme Court and the ruling was upheld). At least in Maryland, you have no choice but to use the Diebold machines.
The provisional ballot requirement is part of HAVA. How does Maryland think it can trump federal law during a federal election? Was there any rationale given?
However, this in some way explains why I was able to vote in spite of not being American... and here I was thinking "Those Americans are SO internationally-minded people"...
Hey, it really is true. We not only allow illegal immigrants to vote, but dead people and convicted felons who have lost their voting priviledge also. We are truly tolerant of all when it comes to voting. In most states it is considered intimidation to make a voter provide proof of eligibility or identity.
Cheney's deferred compensation is a gross violation of ethical standards. Can I help it if this administration happens to have worse ones?
The current administration did not write the tax laws that make it legal and accepted. Take it up with previous Congresses. John Elway (and his grandchildren) will be getting paid by the Broncos for some time. It doesn't seem unethical to me. Once a company has made a deferred compensation deal, it has an obligation to pay it without recourse. Pick a real issue. How about Cheney's lobbying for a war with Iraq even before 9/11? There's something to get upset about.
They could have pushed it to 3.5GHz if they'd used the radiator from my '78 Chrysler Cordoba.
Does it have the Corinthian leather seats?
It has to do with the speed of rotation, combined with the height of the average table.
As I suspected, it's a database problem.
When young people couldn't vote, they had to resort to mass demonstrations that were a much more dangerous way to express their opinions.
Not totally true. What a lot of us did was work very hard for passage of the 26th Amendment. The thought was that if you could be sent to war, then you should have the right to vote, and the country agreed. The disappointing thing is that since the 70s, the percentage of 18-25 year-old voters has been declining steadily until this election. You're right about motivation. The question is why have younger voters been so apathetic?
If I had two kids, a morgage, and a carreer, I doubt I would have the time to follow the hundreds of millions of dollars that is getting funneled to a company who is openly paying the vice president.
Then you would be wrong. Cheney's deferred compensation from Haliburton is a minor concern. The bigger problem is that the President of the U.S. seems to be the willing puppet of a group of neocon advisors while ignoring advice from people with real experience, like Powell. That's why this Republican with a mortgage, two kids, and a career already voted -- and it wasn't for Bush. A 50% approval rating for an incumbent isn't really good, and considering all the Young Republican activities on campus recently, some portion of that rating is coming from college campuses.
These powermad sleazebags don't care about getting caught. They've been repeating "Nixon was guilty only because he got caught" for 30 years, so they've decided to just ignore getting caught.
They do care about being caught, which is why they deny everything. The problem is that there is no punishment. Nixon wasn't impeached. Clinton was and still served out his term.
I'm a Linux user at home and a UNIX programmer at work, and after reading that, all I can say is you're part of the problem, not the solution. Politics aside, does your mommy know you're posting to Slashdot again and using dirty words?
RIGHT THERE is the reason that business, Mom and Dad, and Joe Sixpack won't adopt OSS. The elitist - no, actually - "prick-ish" attitude that so many Linux and Unix users display.
Until this attitude is GONE, we have no chance at becoming the proud bearers of an alternative operating system.
I don't think the attitude is as prevalent as you think. Slashdot is not the place to look for help with Linux. I've used Mandrake for years because when I first tried Linux, Red Hat wouldn't install but Mandrake did. Visit the Mandrake forums. N00bs don't get flamed (at least not often - there's always some rude twit with an ego in need of boosting). Generally, other users try to help as long as the question is understandable.
My subnet has been banned from posting anonymously
You would know that because . . . ? It's a problem because . . . ?
You could make an argument that several of these individuals died in generic construction snfaus, but on the other hand, the list doesn't include the people who died of heart attacks from sheer over work and stress during the Apollo crash program.
And that is somehow different from the thousands upon thousands of people who die from industrial accidents, stress, and overwork every year in corporate America? They don't even get that small statue. When they write articles about drivers who died in a race, they don't include the name of the guy who had a heart attack while machining pistons for one of the engines. Such is life - and death.
India has the neccesary "intellectual" labour and which it doesn't, the US can easily transfer the skills; and technology .
And then the U.S. would be doing what in space exploration? Calling tech support and asking how it's going?
The Saturn V was the John Holmes of rockets.
The Saturn V died from AIDS? I thought it died from lack of aids from NASA.
a) The story says disposable, not reusable
b) Doesn't look like it -- the article mentions relying on Soyuz (and potentially Shenzhou) for manned flights in future.
Of course. Outsourcing the space program was the next logical step.
'Third party' does not necessarily mean Nader. Nader's independent this time around, while Cobb is the Green Party candidate, Badnarik is the Libertarian candidate, and so on, and so on.
Anderson as an independent in 1980 did better than Nader as a Green in 2000. Anyone running outside the two-party system is third-party by definition.
Y'know, I'm the only person in the country still willing to admit that I voted for you. Your real fault was trying to cover for subordinates who turned out to be morons (well, and for hiring them in the first place). People have forgotten (or have never been taught) about your foreign policy work which eventually allowed Reagan to end the cold war.
That is why a vote for a third party candidate is not a wasted vote.
I can't follow that logic. I'm a Republican, and it's no secret that Republicans are bankrolling Nader's campaign. From the looks of the latest polls, it seems that for the second election in a row, Nader will again play the spoiler for the left-leaning crowd. I really doubt the people voting for Nader would pick Bush as a second choice, which is what they are effectively doing by splitting the liberal vote when there is no corresponding split of the conservative vote. I have a hard time understanding why Nader hasn't withdrawn from the race. He's made the only point he's going to make, except perhaps to be called spoiler and egotist again.
Did the people like Reagan when he ran?
Most of the people liked Reagan's optimism, and that he really seemed to believe in what he said and in his goals. Compare that to his opponent, Carter, who had botched an attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran, had abdicated any responsibility for the economy or inflation, and sported (and supported) heavy sweaters as the answer to the oil/energy problems.
Personally, I think Reagan was a great president, and Carter was a good President. At the time, the people were unhappy and really ready for a change. In the same election, Anderson (an independent) won nearly 7% of the vote - really good for a third-party candidate.
All in favor of waiting until electronic voting is mature and trustworthy before deployment raise your hand...
*raises hand* I voted using an absentee ballot this year and will continue to do so until the e-voting machines have a verifiable paper record of each vote.
So you think your presence is the result of completely random chance interaction of energy and chemicals, and your life has no real purpose, value, or meaning? Interesting. Why do you choose to continue living a pointless, often painful existence?
What about rabbits? What size do they become?
The rabbits don't change size. They become carnivorous and develop killer instincts which cause them to attack knights of the Round Table and audition for parts in Monty Python movies.
I live with the claws because I know that she needs them for defense in various situations (dog, gets outside, falls and needs to grip something).
Cats, like people, are all different. I've had cats in the past that coexisted just fine with claws intact. The current one didn't. Probably too close to being feral, but since my wife insisted it was going to be an inside cat, the claws aren't really needed. Living a long, pampered life without claws is preferable to dying after a couple of weeks of life in my opinion. You're entitled to yours.