Perhaps the U.S. gov't is waiting until India prosecutes the gov't inspectors who failed to ensure safety equipment was operational. Maybe they're waiting for the prosecution of the politicians who took the bribes from the local plant manager to cover up the problems.
In other words, maybe they realize that the charges against the UC chairman are probably nothing more than an attempt to create a scapegoat so the corrupt courts and governments involved at the LOCAL level can get off scott free.
Except that when the network calls a state, the understanding is that it doesn't matter if you vote, your candidate is going to lose. That's the whole point, of you know, calling the state.
Unlike your comment, which is ignorant, the parent's comment is based in the U.S. Constitution, which specifically declares that presidential electors are to be named by the State Legislatures.
Actually, the bigger issue is not "voting for the winner," but voter discouragement when it looks like the candidate you WANT to win is behind. If you think your guy is going to lose anyway, why go out and vote?
Most estimates put the election 2000 vote loss for Bush in Florida at between 15 and 20 thousand when CBS called the state for Gore while the polls in the strongly conservative panhandle were still open.
Personally, I'd just as soon see the state legislatures show some backbone and follow their constitutional requirement to select presidential electors instead of just carte blanching a statewide popular vote.
Of course, since our joke of an education system has people thinking we live in a democracy and that the people actually elect the President, I doubt this will ever happen.
This has nothing to do with changing formats and more to do with you being a flighty user who flits from one music format to another.
MP3 has been around for years and will continue to be around for years. If you had originally ripped all your stuff as MP3, you wouldn't be having this conversation with yourself every year.
And once again the answer comes back to: Lower your standard of living. (I say "your" because the people promoting it never mean themselves; they're too important to the "cause.")
--- until efficient solar power comes along... ---
I just wish this would finally die a quiet death. There's just not enough energy density in sunlight hitting the Earth's surface to make solar a viable power source for any kind of industrialized society.
--- Someone needs to put a dollar figure on what the total destruction of our environment (ie the planet), and the impact on human health, of car exhaust/smog/fossil fuels truly is. ---
Personally, I'd rather see the dollar cost associated with environmental hysterics.
Since the problem is people eager to run around and tell other people what they should and shouldn't be driving as some sort of moral crusade, I'd say it's too late; you are already part of the problem.
I know they wouldn't, because they Didn't. Six years ago Tom Daschle won his senate seat by less than 500 votes, most of which were extremely suspect. His Republican challenger refused to drag the results out, saying that it would do more harm than good.
In the Kennedy/Nixon election, Richard Nixon lost the vote under extremely suspect circumstances. He made the deliberate decision not to pursue because of the harm it would do to the nation. In fact, he made a personal phone call to the journalist who was beginning to uncover massive election fraud (in the hopes of winning a Pulitzer), and specifically requested the journalist stop investigating the matter.
In a senate race in Missouri a few years ago, the challenger, lost by a slim sympathy vote when the incumbent died during the race and his wife took his place. The wife replacing the husband in the middle of the race was probably illegal under Missouir law, but the Republican decided not to pursue the matter, citing that it would not be good for the state of Missouri to have the election process dragged through the mud.
The facts would seem to argue against your position that "they all do it."
No, it started as a Hydrogen fire, the heat of which ignited the aluminum and other elements of the dirigible. This was the conclusion of the original investigators in both the U.S. and Germany after the incident.
It followed the same pattern as a GoodYear dirigible hydrogen fire in Chicago a few years earlier that killed several hundred people on the ground.
The only person questioning it is some kook NASA hydrogen economy zealot who also proproses a massive coverup among both the German and American governments to suppress "the truth."
Yet another example of how wikipedia is a totally unreliable source for anything.
They're not calling for a statewide recount. They're calling for PARTIAL recounts. Translation: We want to recount in precincts where we have the best chance of picking up votes, and let the counts stand where we have the best chance of losing votes.
It's the same crap that was pulled in Florida that got the US Supreme court involved in the mess.
Give me control over the school curriculum quality of teachers and educational philosophy and I will agree with you. As long as the state tells me where I have to send my children, and determines what they'll learn and how they'll learn it, then I have every right to blame the school system when my kids don't learn crap.
--- If your government considers it inappropriate to help treat you when you're sick what makes you think that it would consider it any more appropriate to help you download MP3s at a faster rate? ---
Maybe it's because most Americans are man enough to take care of themselves instead of whining to their nannystate to take care of them when they have a runny nose that we're the only nation (the fine Brits and Aussies excepted) who still have enough b**** to actually take care of murdering thugs around the world so the French can continue sipping their wines on the Rhine and comment on how gauche those American barbarians are.
Talk to your telco. If you're a major business, you have other options. You can get a dry pair line run to your business and roll your own. You can have a T1 (you are, after all, a Major Business). If broadband is essential to your business operations, then there are options available.
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I'll be sure to tell the Poles, Aussies, Brits, South Koreans and Japanese that they don't count as part of the international community.
Perhaps the U.S. gov't is waiting until India prosecutes the gov't inspectors who failed to ensure safety equipment was operational. Maybe they're waiting for the prosecution of the politicians who took the bribes from the local plant manager to cover up the problems.
In other words, maybe they realize that the charges against the UC chairman are probably nothing more than an attempt to create a scapegoat so the corrupt courts and governments involved at the LOCAL level can get off scott free.
Except that when the network calls a state, the understanding is that it doesn't matter if you vote, your candidate is going to lose. That's the whole point, of you know, calling the state.
Unlike your comment, which is ignorant, the parent's comment is based in the U.S. Constitution, which specifically declares that presidential electors are to be named by the State Legislatures.
Actually, the bigger issue is not "voting for the winner," but voter discouragement when it looks like the candidate you WANT to win is behind. If you think your guy is going to lose anyway, why go out and vote?
Most estimates put the election 2000 vote loss for Bush in Florida at between 15 and 20 thousand when CBS called the state for Gore while the polls in the strongly conservative panhandle were still open.
Personally, I'd just as soon see the state legislatures show some backbone and follow their constitutional requirement to select presidential electors instead of just carte blanching a statewide popular vote.
Of course, since our joke of an education system has people thinking we live in a democracy and that the people actually elect the President, I doubt this will ever happen.
You re-ripped once in 8 years. The original poster does it every year. A bit of a difference. You're not flighty. He is.
Of course spelling should matter. If you can't spell properly, what else can't you do properly?
This has nothing to do with changing formats and more to do with you being a flighty user who flits from one music format to another.
MP3 has been around for years and will continue to be around for years. If you had originally ripped all your stuff as MP3, you wouldn't be having this conversation with yourself every year.
And once again the answer comes back to: Lower your standard of living. (I say "your" because the people promoting it never mean themselves; they're too important to the "cause.")
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until efficient solar power comes along...
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I just wish this would finally die a quiet death. There's just not enough energy density in sunlight hitting the Earth's surface to make solar a viable power source for any kind of industrialized society.
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Someone needs to put a dollar figure on what the total destruction of our environment (ie the planet), and the impact on human health, of car exhaust/smog/fossil fuels truly is.
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Personally, I'd rather see the dollar cost associated with environmental hysterics.
Since the problem is people eager to run around and tell other people what they should and shouldn't be driving as some sort of moral crusade, I'd say it's too late; you are already part of the problem.
I know they wouldn't, because they Didn't. Six years ago Tom Daschle won his senate seat by less than 500 votes, most of which were extremely suspect. His Republican challenger refused to drag the results out, saying that it would do more harm than good.
In the Kennedy/Nixon election, Richard Nixon lost the vote under extremely suspect circumstances. He made the deliberate decision not to pursue because of the harm it would do to the nation. In fact, he made a personal phone call to the journalist who was beginning to uncover massive election fraud (in the hopes of winning a Pulitzer), and specifically requested the journalist stop investigating the matter.
In a senate race in Missouri a few years ago, the challenger, lost by a slim sympathy vote when the incumbent died during the race and his wife took his place. The wife replacing the husband in the middle of the race was probably illegal under Missouir law, but the Republican decided not to pursue the matter, citing that it would not be good for the state of Missouri to have the election process dragged through the mud.
The facts would seem to argue against your position that "they all do it."
No, it started as a Hydrogen fire, the heat of which ignited the aluminum and other elements of the dirigible. This was the conclusion of the original investigators in both the U.S. and Germany after the incident.
It followed the same pattern as a GoodYear dirigible hydrogen fire in Chicago a few years earlier that killed several hundred people on the ground.
The only person questioning it is some kook NASA hydrogen economy zealot who also proproses a massive coverup among both the German and American governments to suppress "the truth."
Yet another example of how wikipedia is a totally unreliable source for anything.
It sounds like they are saying that prayer gave THEM the strength in Jeanna's fight with the rabies virus.
Absolutely. Burn the religionists. They're dangerous.
They're not calling for a statewide recount. They're calling for PARTIAL recounts. Translation: We want to recount in precincts where we have the best chance of picking up votes, and let the counts stand where we have the best chance of losing votes.
It's the same crap that was pulled in Florida that got the US Supreme court involved in the mess.
Give me control over the school curriculum quality of teachers and educational philosophy and I will agree with you. As long as the state tells me where I have to send my children, and determines what they'll learn and how they'll learn it, then I have every right to blame the school system when my kids don't learn crap.
Because we all know that it is absolutely impossible to use a computer for geeky things if it isn't in your room.
George W. Bush and Rush Limbaugh are both Mac users.
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If your government considers it inappropriate to help treat you when you're sick what makes you think that it would consider it any more appropriate to help you download MP3s at a faster rate?
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Maybe it's because most Americans are man enough to take care of themselves instead of whining to their nannystate to take care of them when they have a runny nose that we're the only nation (the fine Brits and Aussies excepted) who still have enough b**** to actually take care of murdering thugs around the world so the French can continue sipping their wines on the Rhine and comment on how gauche those American barbarians are.
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Yes it's too expensive. Again, it's because the providers care more about profit than service
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Because we all know the best way to stay in business and make obscene profits is to provide crappy service.
Your Marx is showing. You may want to hem it up before going out in public and embarassing yourself.
Talk to your telco. If you're a major business, you have other options. You can get a dry pair line run to your business and roll your own. You can have a T1 (you are, after all, a Major Business). If broadband is essential to your business operations, then there are options available.
Exactly! We all know that watching Survivor and COPS is for morons. People with a life play MMORPGs and read Slashdot.
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We've got money, and an appetite for media.
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YOU may have money and an appetite for media, but most New Yorkers probably don't.
I would wager that in New York city, the people who want broadband likely have broadband.