Actually, that's sort of the whole point behind the US's Electoral College. the Founding Fathers didn't want to put all the electoral power in the hands of a general population that (at the time) wasn't particularly well-informed or educated.
i'll leave it up to debate whether today's citizen is any better informed than that of 1789.
Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere.
... which ought to be very useful as soon as they find astronauts who would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere.
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my favorite explanation for the lack of ET contact is that Earth is the ghetto of the universe. if you were an upper-middle-class space-faring advanced lifeform, would you really want to take a cruise to such a violent and polluted place?
IKEA makes a great wooden shelf unit called GORM that can be put together in a variety of configurations and only costs about $30 for a 6ft x 3ft x 2ft unit. every couple of months as my basement fills with more stuff, i run down to IKEA and get two more shelf units...
When the damage from large rocks is estimated, do they take into account the relatively velocities of the object vs. the Earth? i would think that a head-on collision would be far more damaging than one in which the rock is "catching up from behind" in our orbit.
this sounds like the inspiration for a new Dilbert cartoon...
PHB: "We have too many chiefs and not enough indians. So we're outsourcing to India, where they have more indians than they know what to do with."
... and get some open-sourcers together to go ahead and write a system. all this bellyachin' about flawed software doesn't do any good if there's no alternative. let's get some people together to sit down and crank out something better.
They would... remember past experiences (for instance, that you tend to make errors in multiplication), and alert you to mistakes.
Secretary? Sounds more like a nagging wife.
I can also foresee TIVO-style confusion about your interests. If you get a lot of spam, is your computer secretary going to start fetching the latest goatse.cx offerings every morning?
The article claims that fakesters become hubs of activity by linking to as many people as possible. So why doesn't the developer just make a change to the software so the linked person has to confirm the connection?
it could even be taken farther: have the software keep track of how many people have rejected your link. if it's more than 10, that's a pretty good bet that you're a fakester that can be modded down. or maybe you're just an asshole that no one likes, which is still a good reason to be modded to oblivion.
but comics are often less about "reading" and more about "collecting". downloading the first issue of superman isn't anywhere near as valuable as owning the paper copy. in fact, it would be nice to see comic publishers offer downloads as a service to their collectors: so that when they do feel like actually reading their collection, they can do so online without risking damage to the physical assets.
someone looking for the latest Stephen King book, on the other hand, just wants the content. the hardcopy itself doesn't usually hold any particular intrinsic value.
Property rights ARE a major tradition in America. One of the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed the rights of all to "life, liberty, and property" instead of "the pursuit of happiness". The Bill of Rights still insists that no one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. Look at the enormous estates of the founding fathers and tell me they didn't value property. It may sound strange in the context presented, but it's absolutely true.
sounds like a bad idea to put electronics rated at up to 120 degrees inside a car. first time you leave your car in a parking lot on a hot day with the windows up, you're probably going to see temps in excess of 120....
that's an interesting stat, but it doesn't erase the memory of hundreds dying in high speed crashes into skyscrapers the year before. people tend to remember things like that.
Reagan ended the Cold War by refusing to quake in fear at the supposed might of the Soviet Union. Instead of sitting idly by like earlier, ineffective leaders, the Reagan administration pushed back against the Soviets. And what we all discovered was that Russia's facade of power had no support, and quickly crumbled when challenged.
Blaming Reagan for Soviet starvation is ludicrous. Soviet policy was to blame for that. It's not like the US forced them to have a miserable economy. They did it to themselves. And if the US had been content to let the USSR keep living the lie of communism, the starvation never would have ended.
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i'll leave it up to debate whether today's citizen is any better informed than that of 1789.
my favorite explanation for the lack of ET contact is that Earth is the ghetto of the universe. if you were an upper-middle-class space-faring advanced lifeform, would you really want to take a cruise to such a violent and polluted place?
Dr. Evil: "Do you like your quasi-futuristic clothing, Mr. Powers? I designed it myself."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/free/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vote/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freevote/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/votesystem/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbvote/
did anyone ever think to just shout, "SHUT UP!! .... lousy vikings.... "
IKEA makes a great wooden shelf unit called GORM that can be put together in a variety of configurations and only costs about $30 for a 6ft x 3ft x 2ft unit. every couple of months as my basement fills with more stuff, i run down to IKEA and get two more shelf units...
if the moon had rotting dinosaur bones and pre-cambrian vegetation turning into black gold, we'd be up there faster than you can say "Halliburton".
When the damage from large rocks is estimated, do they take into account the relatively velocities of the object vs. the Earth? i would think that a head-on collision would be far more damaging than one in which the rock is "catching up from behind" in our orbit.
this sounds like the inspiration for a new Dilbert cartoon... PHB: "We have too many chiefs and not enough indians. So we're outsourcing to India, where they have more indians than they know what to do with."
... and get some open-sourcers together to go ahead and write a system. all this bellyachin' about flawed software doesn't do any good if there's no alternative. let's get some people together to sit down and crank out something better.
...and with the way playlists are today, you could record off the radio all day and still only have 5 different songs.
I can also foresee TIVO-style confusion about your interests. If you get a lot of spam, is your computer secretary going to start fetching the latest goatse.cx offerings every morning?
And if so, can it sue you for sexual harassment?
ah, but it only had power once the mothership arrived in the vicinity: a few days, at most.
it could even be taken farther: have the software keep track of how many people have rejected your link. if it's more than 10, that's a pretty good bet that you're a fakester that can be modded down. or maybe you're just an asshole that no one likes, which is still a good reason to be modded to oblivion.
but comics are often less about "reading" and more about "collecting". downloading the first issue of superman isn't anywhere near as valuable as owning the paper copy. in fact, it would be nice to see comic publishers offer downloads as a service to their collectors: so that when they do feel like actually reading their collection, they can do so online without risking damage to the physical assets. someone looking for the latest Stephen King book, on the other hand, just wants the content. the hardcopy itself doesn't usually hold any particular intrinsic value.
"did you dress her like this?"
"no. no. uh, yes, a bit."
"she has got a wart, though!"
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Property rights ARE a major tradition in America. One of the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed the rights of all to "life, liberty, and property" instead of "the pursuit of happiness". The Bill of Rights still insists that no one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. Look at the enormous estates of the founding fathers and tell me they didn't value property. It may sound strange in the context presented, but it's absolutely true.
If it's really so autonomous, then who was there taking the pictures? huh? huh?
sounds like a bad idea to put electronics rated at up to 120 degrees inside a car. first time you leave your car in a parking lot on a hot day with the windows up, you're probably going to see temps in excess of 120....
that's an interesting stat, but it doesn't erase the memory of hundreds dying in high speed crashes into skyscrapers the year before. people tend to remember things like that.
now i know why my AIBO and Roomba have been acting so suspiciously...
Blaming Reagan for Soviet starvation is ludicrous. Soviet policy was to blame for that. It's not like the US forced them to have a miserable economy. They did it to themselves. And if the US had been content to let the USSR keep living the lie of communism, the starvation never would have ended.