Given that Buchanan's vote totals (roughly equivalent to Harry Browne's)
are consistent with the numbers in most other states (where they also
were roughly equivalent to Harry Browne's), it seems unlikely that this
"master stroke" had much effect. If Buchanan were amazingly ahead in
Florida compared to the other states, then there might be reason to
suspect that there were a LOT of mistakes. If the race is down to a few
hundred, perhaps it could have made a difference, but it seems unlikely
that in the end this will be a major factor.
The "butterfly ballots" were only in use in one county. The results for Buchanan in Florida as a whole weren't especially high, but votes for Buchanan in that one county were 3 times as prevalent as votes for Buchanan in nearby counties. --
"HORSE."
It's not that simple. There's easy ways to tamper with a vote that would be almost impossible to detect after the fact, ex. punching extra holes in ballots which already contain votes for a candidate you don't like, then throwing out those ballots as "spoiled". --
"HORSE."
Statistically, it's fairly certain that a large portion of those Buchanan votes were intended to be Gore votes, since there were many, many more Buchanan votes in the area with the "butterfly ballots" than there were in nearby districts, which had largely similar political leanings _and_ non-weird ballot sheets.
Does anyone if there's a precedent of a recast being called in situations where ballot sheets were flawed? I can see the (democratic) atty. general of Florida fighting tooth and nail for a recast if there is in fact a precedent...
Mod this "mod this "mod this comment up" comment down" up! It's not a fucking waste of space, it's an insightful commentary on the spiritual emptyness of the millenial situation of the er postmodern somethingerather of the other thing altogether!
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"HORSE."
Actually, unless something's changed drastically recently, Washington's a swing state too. Also, I've heard that for some bizarre reason Bush is under the impression that West Virginia's swing too, which is, um, amusing. --
"HORSE."
A logical positivist (including Zen types) would claim
that these questions are more a defect of language/thought
than of philosophy or science. That is, asking something
property of a domain that doesn't apply. Example,
"beginning of universe"- nothing in the physical world
(except for hypotheised creation) has a true beginning.
Like asking what is the sound of green? It doesn't apply
(unless you are stoned)
Unfortunately, logical positivism is a trifle self-contradictory, since the statement that all non-falsifiable statements are meaningless is itself a non-falsifiable statement. Read some of Bertrand Russell's mid-period stuff for more on this.
(personally, I find the logical positivist position incredibly appealing, but it's intellectually dishonest to act as if it's not a bit flawed). --
"HORSE."
(I'm just musing here, I've certainly got nothing to back this up. Hell, I'm not even certain I believe it myself)
The reason the rich pay a higher percentage is that life is fairly hard, and a just government will want to fund itself without inflicting unnecessary misery. If someone who earns one million dollars a year loses thirty percent of that to taxes, they've got to cut back a little bit, but someone who loses ten percent of ten thousand dollars a year is going to be in serious pain.
What is this, a Utilitarian position? Could someone more informed correct my reasoning? --
"HORSE."
It sure would be a bizzare expierence to have your legs ripped off,
electrodes stuck in, and finding yourself attached to a giant car, 10
times your height, which you could then drive by thinking about
walking...
Oh sweet mother of fuck, YES. This _is_ in fact exactly what I want. Okay, if you could do it without ripping off my legs, that'd be cool, but even if you've got to take that sort of Extreme Measure, I WANT MY GIANT ROBOT
It's the YEAR 2000. It's practically the FUTURE. But I've got no rocket car, no vampiric machine-based immortality, no SHINY SILVER JUMPSUIT with GOLDFISH BOWL HELMET, no NANOTECH ASSEMBLERS, no giant robots, no NOTHING.
Remember folks, there's NO PROBLEM that can't be solved by robots of the appropriate size.
The biggest problems with Search Engines, is relevancy. The problem
being that when I do a search for a word like "magic" the search engine
will return results based upon its algorithm, but trying to produce
relevancy from a single search word is just about impossible as a task.
With a term like "magic" I could be looking for:
Magic as in Magic the Gathering - a collectible card game I used to
play.
Magic as in the occult.
Magic as in sleight-of-hand.
I know this will blow your mind, but no advanced AI is necessary. Instead of typing "magic," you can add one or two more words to your query, and actually get the info you need! E.g. "Magic the Gathering."
Pretty neat, huh kids?
-thomas
Yeah, really... and say you're looking for magic as in sleight-of-hand,
you could search for `magic sleight -gathering -occult'! Whoa!
Really,
this sort of thing isn't difficult, doesn't take up that much time,
isn't the slightest bit hard to figure out, and it's much more reliable
than any AI.
C is deeply integrated with UNIX and POSIX. C++ is not. Your claim that if the kernel had been developed in C++ it would be more robust is quite ridiculous. That would turn out to be something like BeOS, which has completely different project goals from Linux. Linux is a Minix clone. Minix was written in C. End of discussion.
Actually, IIRC BeOS's kernel itself isn't written in C++ either.
The thing is, none of the shows you listed had anything resembling a
serious, ongoing story. There's a lot of american animation I like
(most notably Powerpuff Girls, followed by Futurama and South Park)
but I don't see any american animation studio coming out with something
like Evangelion or Lain anytime soon. (Or, for that matter, anything
close to one of Miyazaki's films...)
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"HORSE."
It's not his site - it's the public's site (and partly mine).
But not tomorrow after I call Deutche Bank and sell off my shares of VA
Linux stock (thus dumping my part of the ownership of Andover)
Even if you personally held enough stock to affect VA Linux's value, they couldn't do a damn thing about CmdrTaco's political views, since
the contract/. signed grants them complete journalistic independence.
I, for one, think that's a good thing; of course, I, for one, think that the two major candidates for U.S. president are both evil and stupid, so I might be a bit biased myself... --
"HORSE."
I suspect that this sort of cleverness is much less of a waste of time than devoting yourself to the Ancient Art of Quake Fu. Like the guy said, most likely the cheat developers are going to be the people writing the next generation of games. -- "HORSE."
What happens when someone runs into a wall or lamp post at 25MPH? Or worse, hits another pedestrian?
Well, for one, when you're wearing these it's impossible to hit another pedestrian, since you're not a pedestrian yourself; you're in (wearing) a vehicle. As for what happens when you hit a wall or a pedestrian at 25MPH while you're running around with your powershoes, I'd expect it's the same as when you hit a wall or a pedestrian at 25MPH when you're on a bike. I'm sure it'd be painful, but it doesn't happen all that often. Myself, I'd wear a helmet if I was going to go running around in those things, but I'm a bit of a wuss. -- "HORSE."
Something that must be noted is that Blizzard openly goes out of their way to make the user interface "friendly, but not _too_ friendly." This is why, for example, you can only select 12 units at a time in Starcraft. This restriction doesn't exist in any other (modern) RTS, at least as far as I know, and Blizzard specifically put it in to make small highly-planned raids more feasible than massed attacks.
This is, of course, wildly offtopic, but to wander vaguely back to the subject, I suppose my point is that looking to games for GUI design is something you must do carefully, since games aren't concerned with the sort of things other applications are. -- "HORSE."
Bah. You're either a troll or a kid with an inflated opinion of his own intelligence. Look, I hate to break this to you, but the smart people read Advogato or maybe Technocrat . Slashdot, and, to a lesser extent, Kuro5hin are strictly for the proles.
Actually, the really smart people don't bother with all of this weblog crap... -- "HORSE."
Okay, look, are you on crack? The interesting part of the pinball table is NOT the "theme" of that table, it's how well the table as a whole is designed. One of my fav. tables of all time, "Demolition Man", is "themed" after a movie which I've seen once and entirely disliked (well, except for that they had the chutzpah to name one of the characters "Huxley", I chuckled a bit at that). Saying that pinball tables are unoriginal because they've got an unoriginal theme is *exactly* like saying an OS sucks just because the default theme of its default window manager sucks (*mumbles something about MacOS fanatics saying exactly that, but that's neither here nor there*). -- "HORSE."
Slashdot Mirror
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"HORSE."
It's not that simple. There's easy ways to tamper with a vote that would be almost impossible to detect after the fact, ex. punching extra holes in ballots which already contain votes for a candidate you don't like, then throwing out those ballots as "spoiled".
--
"HORSE."
Does anyone if there's a precedent of a recast being called in situations where ballot sheets were flawed? I can see the (democratic) atty. general of Florida fighting tooth and nail for a recast if there is in fact a precedent...
--
"HORSE."
Mod this "mod this "mod this comment up" comment down" up! It's not a fucking waste of space, it's an insightful commentary on the spiritual emptyness of the millenial situation of the er postmodern somethingerather of the other thing altogether!
--
"HORSE."
I'm in Washington. That swing enough for you? I'll go Gore if you'll go Nader.
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"HORSE."
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"HORSE."
(personally, I find the logical positivist position incredibly appealing, but it's intellectually dishonest to act as if it's not a bit flawed).
--
"HORSE."
The reason the rich pay a higher percentage is that life is fairly hard, and a just government will want to fund itself without inflicting unnecessary misery. If someone who earns one million dollars a year loses thirty percent of that to taxes, they've got to cut back a little bit, but someone who loses ten percent of ten thousand dollars a year is going to be in serious pain.
What is this, a Utilitarian position? Could someone more informed correct my reasoning?
--
"HORSE."
It's the YEAR 2000. It's practically the FUTURE. But I've got no rocket car, no vampiric machine-based immortality, no SHINY SILVER JUMPSUIT with GOLDFISH BOWL HELMET, no NANOTECH ASSEMBLERS, no giant robots, no NOTHING.
Remember folks, there's NO PROBLEM that can't be solved by robots of the appropriate size.
--
"HORSE."
Funny, I thought Diplomacy was a board game designed by Alan B. Calhamer....
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"HORSE."
Matador's 0wn3d by a major now.
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"HORSE."
Really, this sort of thing isn't difficult, doesn't take up that much time, isn't the slightest bit hard to figure out, and it's much more reliable than any AI.
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"HORSE."
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"HORSE."
I have a friend who flew into a fit of rage when he found out he couldn't register ph34r.us...
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"HORSE."
The thing is, none of the shows you listed had anything resembling a serious, ongoing story. There's a lot of american animation I like (most notably Powerpuff Girls, followed by Futurama and South Park) but I don't see any american animation studio coming out with something like Evangelion or Lain anytime soon. (Or, for that matter, anything close to one of Miyazaki's films...)
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"HORSE."
I, for one, think that's a good thing; of course, I, for one, think that the two major candidates for U.S. president are both evil and stupid, so I might be a bit biased myself...
--
"HORSE."
I suspect that this sort of cleverness is much less of a waste of time than devoting yourself to the Ancient Art of Quake Fu. Like the guy said, most likely the cheat developers are going to be the people writing the next generation of games.
--
"HORSE."
...an ugly anime chick. Thank you, CmdrTaco...
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"HORSE."
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"HORSE."
This is, of course, wildly offtopic, but to wander vaguely back to the subject, I suppose my point is that looking to games for GUI design is something you must do carefully, since games aren't concerned with the sort of things other applications are.
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"HORSE."
Aren't there lots and lots of babylonian documents written way before genesis?
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NEC resurrects Packard Bell
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Actually, the really smart people don't bother with all of this weblog crap...
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"HORSE."
It was winston, he wrote it in his diary. That book sucks anyway, it's a straight ripoff of "We" by Zamyatin.
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"HORSE."
Okay, look, are you on crack? The interesting part of the pinball table is NOT the "theme" of that table, it's how well the table as a whole is designed. One of my fav. tables of all time, "Demolition Man", is "themed" after a movie which I've seen once and entirely disliked (well, except for that they had the chutzpah to name one of the characters "Huxley", I chuckled a bit at that). Saying that pinball tables are unoriginal because they've got an unoriginal theme is *exactly* like saying an OS sucks just because the default theme of its default window manager sucks (*mumbles something about MacOS fanatics saying exactly that, but that's neither here nor there*).
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"HORSE."