If you're using firefox you can do this using only the keyboard...
1 - When you manually accept the first hit, make sure you check "Automatically accept the next HIT". 2 - Press the '/' to search then type 'no,'. This highlights the "no" text adjacent to the radio buttons. 3 - <shift>-<tab> takes you to the radio buttons 4 - up/down arrow to select yes or no 5 - Press the ENTER key to accept the HIT. 6 - Goto 2
The article is good, but it misses some points. First, Los Alamos is a far cry from a university. They develop atomic weapons there and those are classified.
Yes, but they also received upwards of $25 million over the past 6 years to develop an urban transportation model which they have since licensed to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Granting the exclusive right to develop and market the product to a single commercial entity seems dubious given that their TRANSIMS system is intended to replace existing transportation forecasting methods (since existing transportation air quality modeling practice has successfully been challenged in court).
Absolutely. The banking business model is largely built upon the banks being able to use your money while you leave it with them. Do you really want ASPs using your data while you store it with them?
Small states and areas with low population density are not ignored
Small states get their representation in the senate.
In the case that something awful happens (the president-elect turns out to be psycho after the election, we've elected the Anti-Christ, or god forbid they die in a plane crash, etc...) the electors don't HAVE to go with the people's vote... they can break ranks and vote whichever way they want to...Not what we want to happen in a normal election, but it's there as a safety.
Oh yeah, because that's really likely to happen. Plus, impeachment would deal with a criminal "anti-Christ" and succession in case of death is handled by the constitution already.
The actual reason was that the founding fathers were a slightly elitist and didn't want the uneducated masses voting "irrationally" based on their emotions. As a result, they put in the elector safety valve. Of course, I'd say it's a lot more likely that a few electors flip out and vote irrationally than a block of a few million people do, but maybe that's just me.
Then again, if this were Bush vs. Bradley, I'd probably be outraged right now. But Bradley was another one that the media viciously killed right away, so badly and obviously that Bush should consider himself lucky. But hey, that's what you get when you aren't a party puppet like Gore is.
McCain learned the same lesson in the other party, as well...
Funny thing is that block voting is that it makes it very difficult for third parties to win anything since you have to have a majority of support focused in one district. Our system seems to have geographic bias. If 10% of the population believes something but is spread out geographically they'll never have their views represented because they'll never win a district (state or whatever). In a popular vote, however, the candidates would have to pay more attention to that 10% since they'd be more likely to swing the election.
Finally, it's the only thing that prevents the presidential election from being a full-blown popularity contest. Basically, if we go to a direct-election system, we might as well change the position's title from "president" to "homecoming king"
Huh? The electoral vote is tied to the popular vote so the popularity contest is just one step removed. You vote for a "homecoming court" of 538 rather than a king. Then that "elite" court chooses the president. It's still a popularity contest.
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If you're using firefox you can do this using only the keyboard...
1 - When you manually accept the first hit, make sure you check "Automatically accept the next HIT".
2 - Press the '/' to search then type 'no,'. This highlights the "no" text adjacent to the radio buttons.
3 - <shift>-<tab> takes you to the radio buttons
4 - up/down arrow to select yes or no
5 - Press the ENTER key to accept the HIT.
6 - Goto 2
OK, no camera, but that's what my DSLR is for.
Headphones: use bluetooth, perhaps?
Memory slot: What's that MicroSD thingy?
Sounds good to me...except maybe the touch screen---tactile controls are really hard to beat.
Absolutely. The banking business model is largely built upon the banks being able to use your money while you leave it with them. Do you really want ASPs using your data while you store it with them?
The actual reason was that the founding fathers were a slightly elitist and didn't want the uneducated masses voting "irrationally" based on their emotions. As a result, they put in the elector safety valve. Of course, I'd say it's a lot more likely that a few electors flip out and vote irrationally than a block of a few million people do, but maybe that's just me.
Funny thing is that block voting is that it makes it very difficult for third parties to win anything since you have to have a majority of support focused in one district. Our system seems to have geographic bias. If 10% of the population believes something but is spread out geographically they'll never have their views represented because they'll never win a district (state or whatever). In a popular vote, however, the candidates would have to pay more attention to that 10% since they'd be more likely to swing the election. Huh? The electoral vote is tied to the popular vote so the popularity contest is just one step removed. You vote for a "homecoming court" of 538 rather than a king. Then that "elite" court chooses the president. It's still a popularity contest.