All this get out the vote drive is nothing more than an effort to get unmotivated people to vote. Why? Simple. Because they are unmotivated to vote, they are also uninformed and easy prey for propaganda.
The idea of a lottery is no different. People will go just to make an entry so they have a chance at winning the lottery. They won't care who they vote for which makes them prime for pumping at the poll.
It's just a more sophisticated way to try and buy votes.
Um, the Constitution clearly states that state legislatures choose electors for president. That is because in our form of government, states elect the President, not the people. Traditionally states have used a popular vote to apportion electors, but they can do it any way they please.
This is another reason why the Florida controversy in 2000 is moot. The moment the FL state legislature declared they were setting aside the popular vote and naming the electors directly, Bush won the state, game over.
Of course, nearly all Americans, even those who are (self-proclaimed, of course) intelligent, enlightened slahsdotters have no clue about how their system of government works.
Since we were never intended to be a democracy, but a representative republic, your ideas on why there is universal sufferage fall apart. Read the federalist papers some time. Universal sufferage is not the wonderful thing we've all been indoctrinated to believe it is.
Well, as long as we're dreaming, I'd like to see the franchise limited to people who do not receive any kind of government aid. You take a welfare check, WIC, foodstamps, medicaid, etc. you don't vote. Period.
Considering the real problem of voter fraud, I like the idea of an anal retentive secretary of state in matters pertaining to making sure the laws regarding voting are enforced.
An judge also ruled that fear of a murder attempt is not sufficient reason to search individuals at a public place because we will never eliminate all murder.
The judge then retired to his gated community after checking in with the security guard.
drop the media/corporation crap. Neither of those two entities can seize your property at gunpoint or put you in prison or execute you. That power belongs soley to government. Moreso in the presence of an unarmed populace.
The idea of a corporation or media conglomerate being able to take away your freedom is a huge smokescreen. Don't fall for it.
Unfortunately, many people prefer to trade being taken care of for freedom. Watch the movie Rollerball some time (the original, not the blasphemy of a remake).
Read the news story. These are registrations that occurred by means of voter registration drives. These registrations were done through a private company, and the company would then forward the forms to the state registration offices.
These are people who couldn't be bothered to get off their a**es to register themselves, they just happened to fill out a form only when someone came and pestered them to do it. I'm not terribly bothered by the fact they won't be voting this election either.
--- There's ample amounts of fraud on *both* sides. ---
Factually incorrect. There's one case in AZ where a fired employee is claiming he saw people tearing up Democrat ballots. The company is actually subcontracted to do the registration drive. There's a second case in OR where an individual is claiming the same company was also shredding Dem ballots. The company claims the man never worked for him.
On the other side, there are extensively documented instances of voter registration fraud among democrat organizations in Colorado, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and Iowa.
One one side the cases are isolated and suspect.On the other the cases are systemic and organized.
I understand the way to gain credibility with liberals is to call your side equally corrupt, facts be damned, but the truth is the truth.
And there lies a lot of the problem with the space program. It's become cold and lifeless. You sound like a freaking accountant except that instead of counting dollars, you're counting quanta of scientific data.
We send people to Mars because it would be one glorious incredible acheivement of the human spirit and human will. We send people to Mars to hold our heads up high and say: Look what we can do, universe, now get out of our way.
And some day, the wild horses of humanity will go into space, and all the domesticated men and women they leave behind will huddle around their pathetic lives and fade away into the gray mist reserved for all mediocrity.
Because we all know the delicate, fragile probes with these large, gossamar solar panels we send all over the solar system are shredded to bits within a week of leaving the atmosphere.
You've been watching the Empire Strikes Back too many times.
You seem to have not noticed that most of those plans have the swear word "nuclear" in them. In Chicken Little America, nuclear is the most horrible thing the little Henny Penny's can imagine.
Because we all know that the steam engine, the universal governor, the printing press, the cotton gin, the combine, the internal combustion engine, the Model T, the airplane, the transistor, the integrated circuit, the telephone, the chemical battery, the capacitor, the steam tubine, the incadescent light, the phonograph, the film projector, the Compact Disk, and the mechanical loom are all examples of not much happening in the world because of the guiding principle of life being profit.
Gravity is not universally evil. microgravity has its own set of problems. The best solution would probably be low gravity, like the moon, where you have enough to stabilize your plaforms and drilling operations, but not so much that it's a major pain to get into orbit.
Who says you can't feather your way out of orbit? There most certainly is atmosphere up there. What do you think caused Skylab's orbit to decay? Bad karma?
What amuses me is people seriously trying to argue the physics of a movie with light sabers, the force, little green puppets that can lift space ships out of a swamp with their minds, little fuzzy creatures with spears defeating armored tanks and space craft, and an entire space station the size of a moon being destroyed by two little torpedoes fired perfectly down a 1000 mile shaft without ever touching the sides.
Folks, it's space opera. Han says 12 parsecs because it sounded cool when the wrote the dialog. Just like Robin says Holy disappearing UN Ambassadors, Batman!
--- Red Book Audio CDs don't contain compressed data, ---
The analog input is continuous, the sampling is packetized. That's data loss
--- Again, analog isn't a method of compression, --- Compression is just one method by which information is lost. In analog, the loss of energy of the sound waves due to interference, propagation, friction of the transmission medium, etc. also results in lost information.
--- That's not the definition of lossy. ---
The definition of lossy means loss of information. The translation of the sound wave into neural impulses by the human ear results in loss of information. It is, therefore, by definition, a lossy process.
--- There is no one threshold ---
Incorrect. There is a theoretical maximum threhshold above which the loss of information by the translation of sound into nerve impulses exceeds that of the source. As compression algorithms become more complex, and an understanding of how the human ear processes sound advances, it becomes possible to throw away even more information and still remain above the biological discernment threshold.
Most of the audiophile crap people spout is just another facet of the old brag: I'm better than you are.
Most especially it was for political free speech, and I'm more concerned with the power of incumbents than I am with individual citizens regardless of their wealth.
FCR was nothing more than the incumbent re-election protection act.
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Maybe they're afraid of getting caught like the people in Illinois, New Mexico, Colorado and Iowa where massive registration fraud is being uncovered. And it ain't Republican registration fraud. You can tell because the party affiliation isn't being reported.
This statement is getting really old. CDs are lossy. Analog is lossy. Even your ears are lossy (the cochlea cannot differentiate an infinite range of frequencies.)
The key to lossy compression is to make the lossiness below the threshold of detection.
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All this get out the vote drive is nothing more than an effort to get unmotivated people to vote. Why? Simple. Because they are unmotivated to vote, they are also uninformed and easy prey for propaganda.
The idea of a lottery is no different. People will go just to make an entry so they have a chance at winning the lottery. They won't care who they vote for which makes them prime for pumping at the poll.
It's just a more sophisticated way to try and buy votes.
Um, the Constitution clearly states that state legislatures choose electors for president. That is because in our form of government, states elect the President, not the people. Traditionally states have used a popular vote to apportion electors, but they can do it any way they please.
This is another reason why the Florida controversy in 2000 is moot. The moment the FL state legislature declared they were setting aside the popular vote and naming the electors directly, Bush won the state, game over.
Of course, nearly all Americans, even those who are (self-proclaimed, of course) intelligent, enlightened slahsdotters have no clue about how their system of government works.
Since we were never intended to be a democracy, but a representative republic, your ideas on why there is universal sufferage fall apart. Read the federalist papers some time. Universal sufferage is not the wonderful thing we've all been indoctrinated to believe it is.
Well, as long as we're dreaming, I'd like to see the franchise limited to people who do not receive any kind of government aid. You take a welfare check, WIC, foodstamps, medicaid, etc. you don't vote. Period.
Considering the real problem of voter fraud, I like the idea of an anal retentive secretary of state in matters pertaining to making sure the laws regarding voting are enforced.
Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence.
An judge also ruled that fear of a murder attempt is not sufficient reason to search individuals at a public place because we will never eliminate all murder.
The judge then retired to his gated community after checking in with the security guard.
...that pulling a squid out of the ocean is a far more effective way of measuring water temperature than using a thermometer.
drop the media/corporation crap. Neither of those two entities can seize your property at gunpoint or put you in prison or execute you. That power belongs soley to government. Moreso in the presence of an unarmed populace.
The idea of a corporation or media conglomerate being able to take away your freedom is a huge smokescreen. Don't fall for it.
Unfortunately, many people prefer to trade being taken care of for freedom. Watch the movie Rollerball some time (the original, not the blasphemy of a remake).
Read the news story. These are registrations that occurred by means of voter registration drives. These registrations were done through a private company, and the company would then forward the forms to the state registration offices.
These are people who couldn't be bothered to get off their a**es to register themselves, they just happened to fill out a form only when someone came and pestered them to do it. I'm not terribly bothered by the fact they won't be voting this election either.
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There's ample amounts of fraud on *both* sides.
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Factually incorrect. There's one case in AZ where a fired employee is claiming he saw people tearing up Democrat ballots. The company is actually subcontracted to do the registration drive. There's a second case in OR where an individual is claiming the same company was also shredding Dem ballots. The company claims the man never worked for him.
On the other side, there are extensively documented instances of voter registration fraud among democrat organizations in Colorado, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and Iowa.
One one side the cases are isolated and suspect.On the other the cases are systemic and organized.
I understand the way to gain credibility with liberals is to call your side equally corrupt, facts be damned, but the truth is the truth.
This is nothing more than setting the stage for cries of "stolen election" should Bush win.
And there lies a lot of the problem with the space program. It's become cold and lifeless. You sound like a freaking accountant except that instead of counting dollars, you're counting quanta of scientific data.
We send people to Mars because it would be one glorious incredible acheivement of the human spirit and human will. We send people to Mars to hold our heads up high and say: Look what we can do, universe, now get out of our way.
And some day, the wild horses of humanity will go into space, and all the domesticated men and women they leave behind will huddle around their pathetic lives and fade away into the gray mist reserved for all mediocrity.
Because we all know the delicate, fragile probes with these large, gossamar solar panels we send all over the solar system are shredded to bits within a week of leaving the atmosphere.
You've been watching the Empire Strikes Back too many times.
You seem to have not noticed that most of those plans have the swear word "nuclear" in them. In Chicken Little America, nuclear is the most horrible thing the little Henny Penny's can imagine.
Because we all know that the steam engine, the universal governor, the printing press, the cotton gin, the combine, the internal combustion engine, the Model T, the airplane, the transistor, the integrated circuit, the telephone, the chemical battery, the capacitor, the steam tubine, the incadescent light, the phonograph, the film projector, the Compact Disk, and the mechanical loom are all examples of not much happening in the world because of the guiding principle of life being profit.
Gravity is not universally evil. microgravity has its own set of problems. The best solution would probably be low gravity, like the moon, where you have enough to stabilize your plaforms and drilling operations, but not so much that it's a major pain to get into orbit.
Who says you can't feather your way out of orbit? There most certainly is atmosphere up there. What do you think caused Skylab's orbit to decay? Bad karma?
What amuses me is people seriously trying to argue the physics of a movie with light sabers, the force, little green puppets that can lift space ships out of a swamp with their minds, little fuzzy creatures with spears defeating armored tanks and space craft, and an entire space station the size of a moon being destroyed by two little torpedoes fired perfectly down a 1000 mile shaft without ever touching the sides.
Folks, it's space opera. Han says 12 parsecs because it sounded cool when the wrote the dialog. Just like Robin says Holy disappearing UN Ambassadors, Batman!
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Red Book Audio CDs don't contain compressed data,
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The analog input is continuous, the sampling is packetized. That's data loss
---
Again, analog isn't a method of compression,
---
Compression is just one method by which information is lost. In analog, the loss of energy of the sound waves due to interference, propagation, friction of the transmission medium, etc. also results in lost information.
---
That's not the definition of lossy.
---
The definition of lossy means loss of information. The translation of the sound wave into neural impulses by the human ear results in loss of information. It is, therefore, by definition, a lossy process.
---
There is no one threshold
---
Incorrect. There is a theoretical maximum threhshold above which the loss of information by the translation of sound into nerve impulses exceeds that of the source. As compression algorithms become more complex, and an understanding of how the human ear processes sound advances, it becomes possible to throw away even more information and still remain above the biological discernment threshold.
Most of the audiophile crap people spout is just another facet of the old brag: I'm better than you are.
More evidence computers have become so easy to use that even morons can operate them.
Most especially it was for political free speech, and I'm more concerned with the power of incumbents than I am with individual citizens regardless of their wealth.
FCR was nothing more than the incumbent re-election protection act.
Maybe they're afraid of getting caught like the people in Illinois, New Mexico, Colorado and Iowa where massive registration fraud is being uncovered. And it ain't Republican registration fraud. You can tell because the party affiliation isn't being reported.
This statement is getting really old. CDs are lossy. Analog is lossy. Even your ears are lossy (the cochlea cannot differentiate an infinite range of frequencies.)
The key to lossy compression is to make the lossiness below the threshold of detection.