You have to win enough to win the election. So, Bush didn't win Maryland. Winning every state would be just as suspicious as winning every district.
Read my comment again. I said that a smart vote-rigger doesn't attempt to take over totally, but just enough to win. Diebold machines were not just used in Maryland. (Nor were they used nationwide.) If someone wanted to rig the presidential elections all he has to win is enough states. Which means they have to win enough districts in those states.
Yes, my language was a little sloppy in that quoted line. Not very though. Others seem to have understood me.
Standalone cellphone chargers have a few advantages over spare batteries: * They are generic. You probably won't need a new one for your new cell phone. Or your neighbors. * They can use other technologies. This means they can have different characteristics than regular batteries. One common version I've seen uses zinc-air tech, in a single use form. Once it starts reacting it is very time limited, but while sealed (airtight) it can last far longer. * You are less likely to accidentally use it.
So, for 'emergency reserve' a standalone charger can have some advantages. It's a different use, so needs different characteristics (hold a charge for long periods, easy to connect to just about any device, etc.)
Hey, wait a minute! That boombox you are playing, do you have broadcast rights to those songs? Remember, the artist[1] has a right to be paid for every ear that can hear their music!
That player also doesn't appear to be officially recognized as a SafePlay(TM) device (probablly why it is letting you broadcast on unlicenced speakers). Which means you must have broken the DRM on that music! That's a DMCA violation!
Do you have a recipt for that boombox even? Well, can you prove you got it before the 'Protect Our Media Act' was passed? If not, you are obviously in violation of that act as well: any device sold or produced must protect the artist's[1] wishes on how their music can be used.
It looks like you'll be going to jail for a looong time.
But remember: It is not a crime to listen to music, at least not when you listen to it legally. And the best way to do that is to get our new MusicInYourHead(TM) audio-brain interface: The way the music was meant to be heard.
[1] The term 'artist' may refer to the person who wrote the music, who performed the music, their agents and/or their assigns, including the enforcement arm of the RIAA. RIAA: Music coming to YOU!
The problem with the current situation is that neither case is provable. An audit-able vote trail would at least be able to disprove the worse-case scenario of vote-fraud.
So, the question is: "Were the last elections fair?" And the, very scary, answer is: We don't know.
But, let's say she's a representative of the Democratic party. If she can get the list of people in her party that voted, she can check that agaist her list of everyone who is in her party, and go see why people didn't vote. Maybe she can offer some service to help them vote.
Note that none of this assumes we know which way they actually voted. We just know that they did or didn't and try to help people who didn't. After all, if they don't vote their voice isn't heard.
If he hadn't, it would have looked odd. Maryland is one of the most Democrat states in the Union.
A good vote-rigger would only swing the votes a few percentage points. Not enough that the 'actual' votes are extremely different from the 'expected' votes. So, you don't win every race and district. You just have to win enough...
If you want to talk conspiracy theory, you could point out that the exit polls were unusually innacurate in the last election. Not quite out of possiblity, but definately out of the ordinary.
Which would be the only sign of a wide-spread, intelegent, vote-fixing scheme.
...like a person trying to enjoy music by watching the equalizer lights flicker instead of using the speakers.
Hey, I've done that! It's a great exercize for increasing the pattern-matching ablities of your brain! You have no idea how good it feels when you finally 'hear' the music just by watching the lights...
I guess it will depend per person but I find that reading novels, poetry, and other "classic" lit is what causes ME to be more creative. Yes, that stuff is available online but we all know how cumbersome and uncomfortable it can be to read a novel on a screen.
Huh? I read stuff on a screen all the time. It's rapidly becomeing my prefered way to read a book, actually... You just need to find a device with a good form factor/screen for you. My current favorite is my Clie TH55, but an LCD desktop screen will do quite often. CRTs are evil, but we knew that.
As for what makes you creative: Creativity is seeing possiblities that no one has seen before. The Internet is a great place for that, in several ways: It is a place where not a lot has been done (Overall, yet. There's lots there, but we are still in the begining stages.), and it is a great way to get information, especially different views on information. Which gives people more ways to see a situation, and more situations they can see.
People who are raised with it will see possiblities we never would consider, and will think them natural, obvious. It'll be interesting to watch, eventually...
The US government, fairly alone among major world powers, and with only a couple exceptions (Isreal, Egypt), does not just hand money over to countries as part of aid programs.
We go in and decide what needs to be done (sometimes in conjunction with the local government, sometimes without), and then we either do it ourselves or we hire someone to do it. if we hire someone to do it, we will check in regularly to make sure the work is being done to our specifications.
I won't say that there is no graft or loss in the process; there probably is. But we minimize it as much as we are able.
A law to require people to render assistance? Sorry, not going to happen, for lots of good reasons. (Starting with: unenforcable...)
However, we do have laws absolving people from blame as long as they were trying to (and not required to) help. The cannonical example is someone who breaks a persons rib while administering CPR. If they are a EMT, then they are expected to know what they are doing and can be subject to malpractice or something. If it's just someone on the street, then they aren't and we just say thank you.
Well, at least you've tried. I figure if enough fuss is made, something might happen. Nothing will ever happen if no fuss is made. So, if you have a problem, make a fuss. Be polite about it (because being rude makes *you* the problem), but make a fuss. Worst that can happen is they ignore you.
So, question: Did you get, walk out, and tell the theatre you wanted your money back because you couldn't enjoy the movie because the lady in the next seat was oboxious? Did you even change seats?
If not, how was the theatre to know that there was a problem they needed to solve? I'm not saying the theatre shouldn't do something, just that short of watching every seat with infrared googles how are they to know. (And even then, how do they tell the difference between your girlfriend resting her head on your shoulder and someone pretending to wisper in your ear?)
Just saying the idiots won't learn curtousy without it being pointed out to them.
I don't think you understand the point of my question. The article wasn't avalible, and it was talking about the growth of a tech that was less than a year old, by the blurb. I had never heard of it. I keep moderatly up to date, but I don't have time to follow every new trend. Apparently this one is interesting to people.
So, in the interest of the discussion, I asked what it was. It's not likely to be relevent to anything I do; If it was I'd likely have heard of it. But here's a chance to offer insight into the issue, both to me and other readers. A chance to show the benfits and disadvantages.
Since I can't discuss the article, that's the next best thing. And it might be useful, to me or others.
We already know they don't hold under all circumstaces; they have trouble dealing with quantum effects. We have other theories that work there, but they don't work very well on the macro scale.
Which is like Newton's equations. They had known for quite a while that the orbit of Mercury couldn't be accuratly described by his theories, but they were the best avalible.
Einstein's are the best avalible now, for non-quantum events. Someday someone will come up with something that handles both. Then they'll be the genious hailed as the greatest.
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And I didn't vote for Kerry. So?
You have to win enough to win the election. So, Bush didn't win Maryland. Winning every state would be just as suspicious as winning every district.
Read my comment again. I said that a smart vote-rigger doesn't attempt to take over totally, but just enough to win. Diebold machines were not just used in Maryland. (Nor were they used nationwide.) If someone wanted to rig the presidential elections all he has to win is enough states. Which means they have to win enough districts in those states.
Yes, my language was a little sloppy in that quoted line. Not very though. Others seem to have understood me.
Standalone cellphone chargers have a few advantages over spare batteries:
* They are generic. You probably won't need a new one for your new cell phone. Or your neighbors.
* They can use other technologies. This means they can have different characteristics than regular batteries. One common version I've seen uses zinc-air tech, in a single use form. Once it starts reacting it is very time limited, but while sealed (airtight) it can last far longer.
* You are less likely to accidentally use it.
So, for 'emergency reserve' a standalone charger can have some advantages. It's a different use, so needs different characteristics (hold a charge for long periods, easy to connect to just about any device, etc.)
What? It's not a crime now to listen to music...
Hey, wait a minute! That boombox you are playing, do you have broadcast rights to those songs? Remember, the artist[1] has a right to be paid for every ear that can hear their music!
That player also doesn't appear to be officially recognized as a SafePlay(TM) device (probablly why it is letting you broadcast on unlicenced speakers). Which means you must have broken the DRM on that music! That's a DMCA violation!
Do you have a recipt for that boombox even? Well, can you prove you got it before the 'Protect Our Media Act' was passed? If not, you are obviously in violation of that act as well: any device sold or produced must protect the artist's[1] wishes on how their music can be used.
It looks like you'll be going to jail for a looong time.
But remember: It is not a crime to listen to music, at least not when you listen to it legally. And the best way to do that is to get our new MusicInYourHead(TM) audio-brain interface: The way the music was meant to be heard.
[1] The term 'artist' may refer to the person who wrote the music, who performed the music, their agents and/or their assigns, including the enforcement arm of the RIAA. RIAA: Music coming to YOU!
All true.
The problem with the current situation is that neither case is provable. An audit-able vote trail would at least be able to disprove the worse-case scenario of vote-fraud.
So, the question is: "Were the last elections fair?" And the, very scary, answer is: We don't know.
To a voter? Maybe not much...
But, let's say she's a representative of the Democratic party. If she can get the list of people in her party that voted, she can check that agaist her list of everyone who is in her party, and go see why people didn't vote. Maybe she can offer some service to help them vote.
Note that none of this assumes we know which way they actually voted. We just know that they did or didn't and try to help people who didn't. After all, if they don't vote their voice isn't heard.
I'd assume the Republicans would do the same.
If he hadn't, it would have looked odd. Maryland is one of the most Democrat states in the Union.
A good vote-rigger would only swing the votes a few percentage points. Not enough that the 'actual' votes are extremely different from the 'expected' votes. So, you don't win every race and district. You just have to win enough...
If you want to talk conspiracy theory, you could point out that the exit polls were unusually innacurate in the last election. Not quite out of possiblity, but definately out of the ordinary.
Which would be the only sign of a wide-spread, intelegent, vote-fixing scheme.
Ok, sounds like I wouldn't like Python... (I'm having COBOL flashbacks here, needing a space on some line, just because...)
Cuddled:
} else {
Uncuddled:
}
else {
or
}
else
}
(Suitably indented of course.)
You need to read the book. Besides the bad variable names, you need whitespace and blocking. Comments and using better delimiters would help too.
I've seen similarly unintelligeble C, and it has the same basic problems: Bad variable names, bad whitespacing, bad blocking.
I am now out of college.
Hey, I've done that! It's a great exercize for increasing the pattern-matching ablities of your brain! You have no idea how good it feels when you finally 'hear' the music just by watching the lights...
(Well, at least I think so.)
I believe there was a firmware update that fixed that issue. The grandparent probably needs to update both iTunes and the firmware, just to be sure.
I knew I needed to out a smiley face next to that line...
Huh? I read stuff on a screen all the time. It's rapidly becomeing my prefered way to read a book, actually... You just need to find a device with a good form factor/screen for you. My current favorite is my Clie TH55, but an LCD desktop screen will do quite often. CRTs are evil, but we knew that.
As for what makes you creative: Creativity is seeing possiblities that no one has seen before. The Internet is a great place for that, in several ways: It is a place where not a lot has been done (Overall, yet. There's lots there, but we are still in the begining stages.), and it is a great way to get information, especially different views on information. Which gives people more ways to see a situation, and more situations they can see.
People who are raised with it will see possiblities we never would consider, and will think them natural, obvious. It'll be interesting to watch, eventually...
The US government, fairly alone among major world powers, and with only a couple exceptions (Isreal, Egypt), does not just hand money over to countries as part of aid programs.
We go in and decide what needs to be done (sometimes in conjunction with the local government, sometimes without), and then we either do it ourselves or we hire someone to do it. if we hire someone to do it, we will check in regularly to make sure the work is being done to our specifications.
I won't say that there is no graft or loss in the process; there probably is. But we minimize it as much as we are able.
A law to require people to render assistance? Sorry, not going to happen, for lots of good reasons. (Starting with: unenforcable...)
However, we do have laws absolving people from blame as long as they were trying to (and not required to) help. The cannonical example is someone who breaks a persons rib while administering CPR. If they are a EMT, then they are expected to know what they are doing and can be subject to malpractice or something. If it's just someone on the street, then they aren't and we just say thank you.
Dang. The only place I use Opera is on my OS/2 box.
Well, at least you've tried. I figure if enough fuss is made, something might happen. Nothing will ever happen if no fuss is made. So, if you have a problem, make a fuss. Be polite about it (because being rude makes *you* the problem), but make a fuss. Worst that can happen is they ignore you.
So, question: Did you get, walk out, and tell the theatre you wanted your money back because you couldn't enjoy the movie because the lady in the next seat was oboxious? Did you even change seats?
If not, how was the theatre to know that there was a problem they needed to solve? I'm not saying the theatre shouldn't do something, just that short of watching every seat with infrared googles how are they to know. (And even then, how do they tell the difference between your girlfriend resting her head on your shoulder and someone pretending to wisper in your ear?)
Just saying the idiots won't learn curtousy without it being pointed out to them.
I admit I only fit two of the three: My parent's basement is dark, and I like techno music. Never got into pills of any sort.
You're not?
I don't think you understand the point of my question. The article wasn't avalible, and it was talking about the growth of a tech that was less than a year old, by the blurb. I had never heard of it. I keep moderatly up to date, but I don't have time to follow every new trend. Apparently this one is interesting to people.
So, in the interest of the discussion, I asked what it was. It's not likely to be relevent to anything I do; If it was I'd likely have heard of it. But here's a chance to offer insight into the issue, both to me and other readers. A chance to show the benfits and disadvantages.
Since I can't discuss the article, that's the next best thing. And it might be useful, to me or others.
Ok, the site is down, and I'm ignorant. What is Ajax? Free Karma to the best answer.
We already know they don't hold under all circumstaces; they have trouble dealing with quantum effects. We have other theories that work there, but they don't work very well on the macro scale.
Which is like Newton's equations. They had known for quite a while that the orbit of Mercury couldn't be accuratly described by his theories, but they were the best avalible.
Einstein's are the best avalible now, for non-quantum events. Someday someone will come up with something that handles both. Then they'll be the genious hailed as the greatest.
That is only true until they redefine what needs to be hidden. (Or, more correctly, what they want tob be able to hold against you.)