Look at some of the figures on that last link. The last time the turnout went above even 70% was 1900 - and that was a 2 party election. Hell the turnout 1896 was almost 80%, and that was a 2 party election too.
So I'm legitimately curious about this, guys - if what I'm saying is a bunch of crap then why in the last century have voter turnouts held around the 50%-60% range? Are we waiting for something? The right issue, or set of issues? The right guy? The right scandal? I'd honestly like to know.
Can you really blame those who don't show up?
There are folks out there who don't like Bush, but won't vote for Kerry because all he's done so far is talk about Vietnam. And there's people who don't like Kerry but won't vote for Bush because they don't like the way he handled Iraq. And then there's your oddball few that like Ralph Nader but don't want to vote for him because he's not going to win anyway.
I love internet radio, but listening to heavy metal on my Launchcast station 9 hours a day at work tends to wear thin after awhile. If the online offering is anywhere near as expansive as what's currently offered, I would definitely throw down 8 bucks a month for the service.
We all read the the story about the Lexar Jump drive and how 256-bit AES encryption doesn't match up to the fact that the passwords weren't being encoded in a very secure manner.
I would seriously hope that if this new encryption scheme goes anywhere the people that implement it have the common sense to lock it down tight. Otherwise those HACKED BY CHINESE pages aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Playstation/Playstation 2 (ya, most video game systems aren't compatible with other manufacturers.. but this is still an example)
There is no "set standard" in the console industry, so that's not really a good example. PSX won the console war in the mid/late 90s and PS2 isn't doing half-bad, so either way the format was a success.
I'm a bench technician for a local ISP just outside of Omaha. 90% of my job is cleaning pron dialers/browser hijacks/etc off people's computers, mostly through Ad-Aware and AVG. Think as soon as Firefox goes to 1.0 I'll start throwing that in there too on the grounds (and rightly so) that it's more secure than Internet Explorer.
Not knowing anyone who thinks the Beatles and Apple are related doesn't mean anything. A deal was struck between Apple Corp and Apple Computer, and Apple Computer broke it - no extortion involved.
As far as I'm concerned, war's been around as long as mankind has. I don't think a circle-jerk organization like the United Nations is going to make a shade of difference about it.
Last time I played foosball was against these German kids when I lived in Germany. Those kids were mean, they beat my brother and me by almost a dozen points before we conceded victory.
This is myopic, naive and ultimately a dangerous attitude. As Adrian Veidt [amazon.com] put it, "What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?"
What he said wasn't really near-sighted - it's a viewpoint that's morally upright on a case-by-case basis. Dropping out of high school and spending all your money from your minimum wage job on drugs can put you in poverty too, and you wouldn't catch me dead trying to defend someone in that position who steals food to feed their family.
If you think about it, Star Trek's turning out like World Championship Wrestling did years ago. They cashed in on previous success and eventually went under because their creative team sucked and they were content to rest on their laurels instead of pushing ahead.
IMO if Star Trek is to stay alive, two things need to happen.
1) Entire creative team scrapped, no holdovers from previous series. It's obvious what they were doing wasn't working, so there's no reason to keep them around.
2) No ties to other series. That means Worf can't take a transfer to the new starship, Scotty can't appear through a Dyson sphere, etc. Every time they do that it just reeks of desperation.
Maybe this just comes from years having to show my ID card to buy a pop at the commissary or something, but looking at this article I don't understand how or why this guy got his panties in a knot over having to show some identification to get on an airplane.
Now OTOH, if we're expected to abide by a law it had damn well better be something we can see for ourselves. That secret shit just doesn't fly.
... sneakernet. And until every computer that comes into the place where I work is equipped with a cd burner there's always going to be a use for downloading an antivirus fix file or a NIC driver onto a floppy from my workstation and using it on the busted PC.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.fairvote.org/turnout/preturn.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
http://www.fec.gov/pages/htmlto5.htm
http://www.multied.com/elections/
Look at some of the figures on that last link. The last time the turnout went above even 70% was 1900 - and that was a 2 party election. Hell the turnout 1896 was almost 80%, and that was a 2 party election too. So I'm legitimately curious about this, guys - if what I'm saying is a bunch of crap then why in the last century have voter turnouts held around the 50%-60% range? Are we waiting for something? The right issue, or set of issues? The right guy? The right scandal? I'd honestly like to know.
Can you really blame those who don't show up? There are folks out there who don't like Bush, but won't vote for Kerry because all he's done so far is talk about Vietnam. And there's people who don't like Kerry but won't vote for Bush because they don't like the way he handled Iraq. And then there's your oddball few that like Ralph Nader but don't want to vote for him because he's not going to win anyway.
I love internet radio, but listening to heavy metal on my Launchcast station 9 hours a day at work tends to wear thin after awhile. If the online offering is anywhere near as expansive as what's currently offered, I would definitely throw down 8 bucks a month for the service.
"Make something idiot-proof and they'll build a better idiot."
We all read the the story about the Lexar Jump drive and how 256-bit AES encryption doesn't match up to the fact that the passwords weren't being encoded in a very secure manner.
I would seriously hope that if this new encryption scheme goes anywhere the people that implement it have the common sense to lock it down tight. Otherwise those HACKED BY CHINESE pages aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Playstation/Playstation 2 (ya, most video game systems aren't compatible with other manufacturers.. but this is still an example)
There is no "set standard" in the console industry, so that's not really a good example. PSX won the console war in the mid/late 90s and PS2 isn't doing half-bad, so either way the format was a success.
I'm a bench technician for a local ISP just outside of Omaha. 90% of my job is cleaning pron dialers/browser hijacks/etc off people's computers, mostly through Ad-Aware and AVG. Think as soon as Firefox goes to 1.0 I'll start throwing that in there too on the grounds (and rightly so) that it's more secure than Internet Explorer.
Doing my part!
Geez, and I thought the Star Wars nerds were out of control!
Not knowing anyone who thinks the Beatles and Apple are related doesn't mean anything. A deal was struck between Apple Corp and Apple Computer, and Apple Computer broke it - no extortion involved.
As far as I'm concerned, war's been around as long as mankind has. I don't think a circle-jerk organization like the United Nations is going to make a shade of difference about it.
Don't worry, as soon as we get Skynet up and running everything will be fine!
Last time I played foosball was against these German kids when I lived in Germany. Those kids were mean, they beat my brother and me by almost a dozen points before we conceded victory.
It's not just you, I'm not a fan of surround either.
But then again, a birth defect rendered my right ear completely useless, so even something simple like stereo's beyond my grasp.
You'll probably get that at a convention for anything. I'd wager the casual, non-nerdy watchers of anime outnumber the hardcore nerds by now.
This is myopic, naive and ultimately a dangerous attitude. As Adrian Veidt [amazon.com] put it, "What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?" What he said wasn't really near-sighted - it's a viewpoint that's morally upright on a case-by-case basis. Dropping out of high school and spending all your money from your minimum wage job on drugs can put you in poverty too, and you wouldn't catch me dead trying to defend someone in that position who steals food to feed their family.
Lucky, 143 plantiffs seeking only 158,000 in damages. Over here that kid would have been sued for 158,000,000!
No sense in being in the 'digital fast lane' if you aren't going to learn the rules of the road first. Too bad that'll never happen.
That's a pretty nifty idea, even though I'm more likely to completely futz it up rather than get it to work right. I'll stick with my gamepad!
Everyone's getting pissed off over a couple of 30 second spots from Swift Boat vets, what's gonna happen if a 2 hour John Kerry ad gets aired?
... maybe enough people will get pissed off and demand reforms to campaign advertising.
Then again, let it air
If you think about it, Star Trek's turning out like World Championship Wrestling did years ago. They cashed in on previous success and eventually went under because their creative team sucked and they were content to rest on their laurels instead of pushing ahead.
IMO if Star Trek is to stay alive, two things need to happen.
1) Entire creative team scrapped, no holdovers from previous series. It's obvious what they were doing wasn't working, so there's no reason to keep them around.
2) No ties to other series. That means Worf can't take a transfer to the new starship, Scotty can't appear through a Dyson sphere, etc. Every time they do that it just reeks of desperation.
I bet if you worked at it long enough you could get a keyboard running through the GBA link port.
... but that guy better watch out. It'll be a race between Nintendo and SCO to see who can sue him first! ;)
Maybe this just comes from years having to show my ID card to buy a pop at the commissary or something, but looking at this article I don't understand how or why this guy got his panties in a knot over having to show some identification to get on an airplane. Now OTOH, if we're expected to abide by a law it had damn well better be something we can see for ourselves. That secret shit just doesn't fly.
... sneakernet. And until every computer that comes into the place where I work is equipped with a cd burner there's always going to be a use for downloading an antivirus fix file or a NIC driver onto a floppy from my workstation and using it on the busted PC.
1) This game doesn't make it out of beta
2) This game does make it out of beta and gets slaughtered by EQ and DAOC.
I like Star Trek and all, but the MMORPG market isn't exactly the easiest one to work in.