Of the machines that had the problems you read about diebold was not one of them. It was other manufacturers and some of them were supporters of kerry.
What is even more informative is that of all the problems people mention during the last election with electronic machines did not come from Diebold machines, they were made by other manufacturers including some that supported kerry.
13132 -- Basiclly removed the 10th admendment and gave federal government full control over state and local governments. It goes on to remove and reverse some protection states had from federal governmental agencies and the they interpreted laws. This was a nice rewording of a executive order that actually enforced the states rights
13107 -- Setup a new agency for implementing UN ideas and treaties, even thoses not aggreed to by the US Senate. It then goes on to say that the rights of US citizens are granted and guarenteded by the UN.
13083 -- pre-dates 13132. It also granted all rights to superceed state laws if a federal agency thinks it can do it cheaper, the thinks the state will not follow thier rules, or if the federal agency thinks there is a national reason to superceed the state laws.
Yes the police can request all your details if they have good reason and a court order um like every other country in the world.
Not the US they couldn't. The US PATRIOT act did expand the polices capabilities so they could but before that thoses places could refuse or destroy the information when servered with court orders.
That people tend to blame this on bush is always interesting.
under bush the US attacked, bombed, increased attacks on 2 counties and that was only after months of discussion with them and warning that it was going to happen.
Under clinton the US attacked, bombed or increased attacks on 10+ countries and the majority of thoses were without notice or any attempts of discussion.
In America, you have to "register" with the US Post Office and IRS (and the DMV since you need a state ID or driver's license to exist). And, by way of employment or banking, the social security administration.
You don't have to register with the post office and IRS only cares who you work for not where. Besides in Europe you have to do all the same things, just here you are required to goto the city hall and register that you are living in the city it is not used for anything but reporting that information to the police. When you stay at a hotel in America, you need to provide photo identification and a credit card.
Has that changed in the last 2 months?
The only time I was required in the US to show identification at a hotel was to prove who I was since the hotel was pre-paid, all the other hotels just took my credit card and wanted some information if I had a vehicle parked in thier lots. It was for thier own use not some federal level requirement which was turned into police. Oh, and then there was that case in Texas where the guy was basically arrested for refusing to provide identification on the side of the road by his home.
yea but was a special case, the guy was carring a hand gun and did not have his firearm identification. Alot of difference between that and having to carry regular identification around. Also the Europian laws that require ID allow you to be stopped just to check that, in the US the only time you are going to see problem with the police for not having identification is if you are stopped for committing some other crime and that is because the police have legally identify you before ticketing you, no ID they are going to have to identify you someway, but you will not get into extra problems because you lack the ID.
The closest you do get in the US are certain vagrency or residency laws, and the majority of them just require that you have a certain amount of money on you not the requirement of ID.
BTW secret subpeones already existed pre-patriot act, that act just extended them to the digtal age by adding modern equivalents to thier evialent older technology item.
If you want to see something really scary in taking away rights go read executive order 13132, 13107 and 13083. Not just the wordings of the orders but what the way they were implemented.
Please don't compare what is happening in the US to what you have to do in Europe.
Depending on where you are in Europe:
You have to register with you local town hall, this is not for taxes or services or anything(that is all seperate) you just have to register that you are living in there city, send to police and the higher up the buracrary chain.
You are required to carry identification with you all the time, stopped without it, instant jail.
When you stay at a hotel your information and picture is send to the police.
The police can already request all the information from local businesses and other state entities they want.
Not sure UK specific laws
However with most countries, it just means you can now record your own version of the song with the paying the writer(s) money. Also you could produce your own sheet music of it and even copywrite that.
Look at all the stuff from Bach, Mozart, etc on how it is treated.
There have been some arrests with links to terrorist groups such as Hezbollah
The guess from the article is that it is in the $30 million range of additional funding for theses groups.
The funniest thing with the old cartoon and political correctness is that cartoon network USA will not show speedy gonzales because of the liberal crowd claims it causes discrimination; the lazy mice . However speedy gonzales is a major hit with the latin america cartoon network.
The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:
-- Forty-six percent of all poor households own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and porch or patio.
-- Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
-- Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
-- The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens and other European cities. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
-- Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.
-- Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television. Over half own two or more color televisions.
-- Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
-- Seventy-three percent own a microwave oven, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.
The changing of the Army berets came during 1998-99 with delays for funding reasons causing it be a performed in 2001. There was hope that it would be stopped under the Bush administration but because of it was already funded and the way it had been impletemented(there are actually laws that prevent a new administration from acting to stop stuff put in place by previous administration) it was something that was going to happen without an act of congress, which was asked for.
The beret change was just the last item, and most vocal, that happened during the 90s with the goal of removing items of distinction.
Hawaii is the most per capita followed by Alaska in the amount of SPAM eaten by state.
A few stupid things.
In the event of an emergency the state of Hawaii has a warehouse filled with SPAM, stuff is cycled in/out for experation dates also they do not disclose the location, so that the state will have a supply for a few weeks.
Station Central casino in Las Vegas is heavily used by Hawaiians, they have SPAM fast food restaurant where you that product make with a variety of different items.
Before Castro, Cuba was an American chattel, everything of worth (such as the sugar plantations) was owned by American investors and the Cuban people were forced into a life of near slavery by American "investment".
Not even close to reality.
By 1959(year Castro gained control) all major factories and industry was owned by the Cuban government. The US was providing no support to batista and was waiting for him to be kicked out, there was wide hope that Castro would go by his original words and restore democracy to the country.
Even before then US investment and ownership in Cuba had been dropping, in 1924 US investment was $1.24 billion by 34 it had dropped to $500 million. By the time of Batiasta Cubans owned 108 out of 161 sugar mills, Americans were a major owner along with France, Holland and Spain.
The US was the major purchaser of Cuban products purchasing over 1/2 the sugar and more in other prodcuts, also the US company ownership was in select companies and thoses companies tended to be high profit and highly visible.
If you go by thoses current numbers then the US imprisons 1 in every 140 of its citizen; as said the numbers used included all criminals(even forgein) and for a different year.
That link you listed does not list stats for Cuba, also the 1 in 99 people in Cuba's prisons was just criminal so it does not include medical segrigation camps.
Probably will not be going to Cuba, since I am more interested in museums and ancient items and Cuba does not have many of them.
However was reading some other stuff on Cuba healthcare and they are suppose to have a bunch of upper end world class hospitals which are all reserved for high officials and forgein visitors. So it would probably be a good place to visit when sick, the lines would be short.
"Thus, the US has the highest imprisonment rate in the world."
Back when the Pope visited Cuba the rate of cubian prisoners was rated at 1 out of very 99 citizen.
The USA was at 1 out of every 154 citizens, which also include close to 90,000 people arrested who are citizen of other countries.
Abdullah al-Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, as for not having a lawyer better inform Donna Newman, she has been defending him a long while and very successfully at that. He was not directly allowed contact with the lawyer but was had one.
BTW the case about him is not about him being charged(that is the end result) it is the location where he was captured. When he was originally arrested on a material witness warrent he was on US soil. The court cases are whether the authority detaining him is valid when a US citzen is detained on US soil, the Supreme Court has already said it is OK for them to detail them the same way on forgein soil under circumstances. Some courts have said it does apply to US soil the last one hearing this case was heard at said no since it was a criminal matter not a military matter, and it is currently on appeals at a circuit court. If ruled that it does not apply then he will need to be charged.
I left and joined up with EQ2, having a blast.
It does not have PvP until later this year(they are adding gladiator arenas) but PvP is something I do if a group needs help and not something I really go out of the way for; community is more important for me and the one in EQ2 is great.
but even if you could leave Cuba would the US willingly accept everyone, provide them with green cards and citizenship etc
The US has some wierd laws with respect to Cubians fleeing, if they touch dry land without intervention (ie being caught at sea) they are given green cards a special immigration status and allowed to stay.
The difference between Cuba and thoses other countries is that the people coming from the other countries are mostly seeing jobs, and have initally have plans to return back home.
For a long while illegals were using this as a way to get a free trip back home. When they wanted to go back home they would get themselves captured and then take the trip back to the border and closer to home. The immigration center then changed this so that if you were captured in say Arizona they transported you to texas and the border near there, so you still had a long trip back. This was deemed as cruel so they switched it so that they transported you back to the center of Mexico before you are released, it has been a while since I have been in that area so I am not sure what the current policy is.
Havn't been to Cuba but during the early and mid 80s I did get to vacation in 5 Soviet bloc countries, and they were really nice vacation. They treated you great, always the best of stuff from food to hotels(to young for alchohol) and prime seats for all the entertainment events. Provided you stay out of the government stores and shopped in public stores stuff was really cheap.
Here is a good description of Cuba's healthcare
The point is that they are desperate to provide content to the players.
Yea CtF is more FPS then RPG but if I had not already left the game for green pastures, it might be a reason to pay for a few more months.
Slashdot Mirror
Of the machines that had the problems you read about diebold was not one of them. It was other manufacturers and some of them were supporters of kerry.
What is even more informative is that of all the problems people mention during the last election with electronic machines did not come from Diebold machines, they were made by other manufacturers including some that supported kerry.
Here is a site answering both of your items.
13132 -- Basiclly removed the 10th admendment and gave federal government full control over state and local governments. It goes on to remove and reverse some protection states had from federal governmental agencies and the they interpreted laws. This was a nice rewording of a executive order that actually enforced the states rights
13107 -- Setup a new agency for implementing UN ideas and treaties, even thoses not aggreed to by the US Senate. It then goes on to say that the rights of US citizens are granted and guarenteded by the UN.
13083 -- pre-dates 13132. It also granted all rights to superceed state laws if a federal agency thinks it can do it cheaper, the thinks the state will not follow thier rules, or if the federal agency thinks there is a national reason to superceed the state laws.
Looks like New York City went that way, a quick search showed that new york city hotels are now requiring photo ids also.
Yes the police can request all your details if they have good reason and a court order um like every other country in the world.
Not the US they couldn't. The US PATRIOT act did expand the polices capabilities so they could but before that thoses places could refuse or destroy the information when servered with court orders.
That people tend to blame this on bush is always interesting.
under bush the US attacked, bombed, increased attacks on 2 counties and that was only after months of discussion with them and warning that it was going to happen.
Under clinton the US attacked, bombed or increased attacks on 10+ countries and the majority of thoses were without notice or any attempts of discussion.
In America, you have to "register" with the US Post Office and IRS (and the DMV since you need a state ID or driver's license to exist). And, by way of employment or banking, the social security administration.
You don't have to register with the post office and IRS only cares who you work for not where. Besides in Europe you have to do all the same things, just here you are required to goto the city hall and register that you are living in the city it is not used for anything but reporting that information to the police.
When you stay at a hotel in America, you need to provide photo identification and a credit card.
Has that changed in the last 2 months?
The only time I was required in the US to show identification at a hotel was to prove who I was since the hotel was pre-paid, all the other hotels just took my credit card and wanted some information if I had a vehicle parked in thier lots. It was for thier own use not some federal level requirement which was turned into police.
Oh, and then there was that case in Texas where the guy was basically arrested for refusing to provide identification on the side of the road by his home.
yea but was a special case, the guy was carring a hand gun and did not have his firearm identification. Alot of difference between that and having to carry regular identification around. Also the Europian laws that require ID allow you to be stopped just to check that, in the US the only time you are going to see problem with the police for not having identification is if you are stopped for committing some other crime and that is because the police have legally identify you before ticketing you, no ID they are going to have to identify you someway, but you will not get into extra problems because you lack the ID.
The closest you do get in the US are certain vagrency or residency laws, and the majority of them just require that you have a certain amount of money on you not the requirement of ID.
So where you for or against gun registration?
BTW secret subpeones already existed pre-patriot act, that act just extended them to the digtal age by adding modern equivalents to thier evialent older technology item.
If you want to see something really scary in taking away rights go read executive order 13132, 13107 and 13083. Not just the wordings of the orders but what the way they were implemented.
Please don't compare what is happening in the US to what you have to do in Europe.
Depending on where you are in Europe:
You have to register with you local town hall, this is not for taxes or services or anything(that is all seperate) you just have to register that you are living in there city, send to police and the higher up the buracrary chain.
You are required to carry identification with you all the time, stopped without it, instant jail.
When you stay at a hotel your information and picture is send to the police.
The police can already request all the information from local businesses and other state entities they want.
Not sure UK specific laws
However with most countries, it just means you can now record your own version of the song with the paying the writer(s) money. Also you could produce your own sheet music of it and even copywrite that.
Look at all the stuff from Bach, Mozart, etc on how it is treated.
There have been some arrests with links to terrorist groups such as Hezbollah
The guess from the article is that it is in the $30 million range of additional funding for theses groups.
The funniest thing with the old cartoon and political correctness is that cartoon network USA will not show speedy gonzales because of the liberal crowd claims it causes discrimination; the lazy mice . However speedy gonzales is a major hit with the latin america cartoon network.
That was work done by Robert Rector
The changing of the Army berets came during 1998-99 with delays for funding reasons causing it be a performed in 2001. There was hope that it would be stopped under the Bush administration but because of it was already funded and the way it had been impletemented(there are actually laws that prevent a new administration from acting to stop stuff put in place by previous administration) it was something that was going to happen without an act of congress, which was asked for.
The beret change was just the last item, and most vocal, that happened during the 90s with the goal of removing items of distinction.
Hawaii is the most per capita followed by Alaska in the amount of SPAM eaten by state.
A few stupid things.
In the event of an emergency the state of Hawaii has a warehouse filled with SPAM, stuff is cycled in/out for experation dates also they do not disclose the location, so that the state will have a supply for a few weeks.
Station Central casino in Las Vegas is heavily used by Hawaiians, they have SPAM fast food restaurant where you that product make with a variety of different items.
Before Castro, Cuba was an American chattel, everything of worth (such as the sugar plantations) was owned by American investors and the Cuban people were forced into a life of near slavery by American "investment".
Not even close to reality.
By 1959(year Castro gained control) all major factories and industry was owned by the Cuban government. The US was providing no support to batista and was waiting for him to be kicked out, there was wide hope that Castro would go by his original words and restore democracy to the country.
Even before then US investment and ownership in Cuba had been dropping, in 1924 US investment was $1.24 billion by 34 it had dropped to $500 million. By the time of Batiasta Cubans owned 108 out of 161 sugar mills, Americans were a major owner along with France, Holland and Spain.
The US was the major purchaser of Cuban products purchasing over 1/2 the sugar and more in other prodcuts, also the US company ownership was in select companies and thoses companies tended to be high profit and highly visible.
If you go by thoses current numbers then the US imprisons 1 in every 140 of its citizen; as said the numbers used included all criminals(even forgein) and for a different year.
That link you listed does not list stats for Cuba, also the 1 in 99 people in Cuba's prisons was just criminal so it does not include medical segrigation camps.
Probably will not be going to Cuba, since I am more interested in museums and ancient items and Cuba does not have many of them.
However was reading some other stuff on Cuba healthcare and they are suppose to have a bunch of upper end world class hospitals which are all reserved for high officials and forgein visitors. So it would probably be a good place to visit when sick, the lines would be short.
"Thus, the US has the highest imprisonment rate in the world."
Back when the Pope visited Cuba the rate of cubian prisoners was rated at 1 out of very 99 citizen.
The USA was at 1 out of every 154 citizens, which also include close to 90,000 people arrested who are citizen of other countries.
Abdullah al-Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, as for not having a lawyer better inform Donna Newman, she has been defending him a long while and very successfully at that. He was not directly allowed contact with the lawyer but was had one.
BTW the case about him is not about him being charged(that is the end result) it is the location where he was captured. When he was originally arrested on a material witness warrent he was on US soil. The court cases are whether the authority detaining him is valid when a US citzen is detained on US soil, the Supreme Court has already said it is OK for them to detail them the same way on forgein soil under circumstances. Some courts have said it does apply to US soil the last one hearing this case was heard at said no since it was a criminal matter not a military matter, and it is currently on appeals at a circuit court. If ruled that it does not apply then he will need to be charged.
I left and joined up with EQ2, having a blast.
It does not have PvP until later this year(they are adding gladiator arenas) but PvP is something I do if a group needs help and not something I really go out of the way for; community is more important for me and the one in EQ2 is great.
but even if you could leave Cuba would the US willingly accept everyone, provide them with green cards and citizenship etc
The US has some wierd laws with respect to Cubians fleeing, if they touch dry land without intervention (ie being caught at sea) they are given green cards a special immigration status and allowed to stay.
The difference between Cuba and thoses other countries is that the people coming from the other countries are mostly seeing jobs, and have initally have plans to return back home.
For a long while illegals were using this as a way to get a free trip back home. When they wanted to go back home they would get themselves captured and then take the trip back to the border and closer to home. The immigration center then changed this so that if you were captured in say Arizona they transported you to texas and the border near there, so you still had a long trip back. This was deemed as cruel so they switched it so that they transported you back to the center of Mexico before you are released, it has been a while since I have been in that area so I am not sure what the current policy is.
Havn't been to Cuba but during the early and mid 80s I did get to vacation in 5 Soviet bloc countries, and they were really nice vacation. They treated you great, always the best of stuff from food to hotels(to young for alchohol) and prime seats for all the entertainment events. Provided you stay out of the government stores and shopped in public stores stuff was really cheap. Here is a good description of Cuba's healthcare
The point is that they are desperate to provide content to the players.
Yea CtF is more FPS then RPG but if I had not already left the game for green pastures, it might be a reason to pay for a few more months.