I agree that the fact that these corporations are giving large sums of money to the parties is not the problem and eliminating the flow of money is not going to solve the problems in the system. I think that the main problem exists in the electorate. The burden of information is so high now that those people who do vote are most likely going to go on what they see on the TV, which is funded by said money. We need to find someway to get more people educated, motivated and less cynical about the government. I have no clue about how to do this, but simply forcing the parties to find new ways to get money isn't going to do much.
Once the voter learns about this they will surely elect better leaders next time.:P
That's the problem isn't it? If more voters were willing to search out and learn the positions of the candidates, the candidates wouldn't need to spend the money they do on campaign ads thus reducing their need for moeny, thus reducing the influence of said money.
Of course it really is too much to ask people to care about what the government is doing, everybody else is aren't they?
They keep taking pi out so damned far to see if it contains all possible patterns of numbers (which is a lot). Since its irrationial its possible and if we convert these 1.4 trillion places into binary then we can start and stop at any point along the way and have stuff. then instead of sending a binary package out to somebody, you can give them where to stop and start along the path, of course that number may be larger than what you want to send, but it'd still be cool.
yes, which is exactly the reason my parents bought a 333 K6-2 about 4 years ago. We had an old Powermac 6100 (actually it was a performa something or other but it was based on the 6100) and it took me forever to explain that the 1001 POS game collections at the Wal-Mart wouldn't work becuase we had a Mac. They finally got tired of asking me "will this work?" and bought the k6-2. its still happily chugging away with Win98 (not SE even) doing Word and Outlook 2k (atually all of office, but word and outlook is all that gets used), IE and AIM. I keep telling her to let me gut and update it, but there really isn't any point in that beside letting me muck about with new hardware. mmmm new hardware.
yes and piss off all the people that want to legitimatly use their xbox? Not everyone cares that MS is evil and if something like that did happen don't you think that it'd be reported and MS could just lift the ban? Not to mention that I'd be supprised if 40K people get into xbox live. MS is going to know how many kits are out there. They'd be able to tell that its someone with too much time on their hands trying to make a political statement by hurting those people that want to use their product.
Yes, but these ROMs were created for the US army, so there's a decent chance they're public domain. I have no idea if that's true or not, but it is possible.
except this isn't yet-another-coin-op-arcade-game. Its about custom hardware, running a modified Battlezone ROM to train Bradley gunners in the mid 80s. Semantics I suppose in your world, but the distinction is important.
Well, JK Rowling is writing these books for her own children, so the content is going to become more mature as time goes on. I think that anybody who sees "Harry Potter" and assumes the 9-12 age group should probably re-think that idea. The first book/movie was for that and this one is slightly older, the next will be older still....
Well, you might be but I would assume the ones (other than the/. editors) posting on the "Ooohh, shiny DVD/CD" stories are not the ones posting on the "DMCA is bad m'kay" stories. Its just a thought.
I only see this useful for people who t y p e r e a l l y s l o w . ....
Well, I've been looking for a way to organize my class notes for awhile now. I'd love something like this. I can take it to class, make my scribbles which then get changed into semi-orderly notes, bring them back to my room and file them away on the HD. no more carrying about all the notebooks, its searchable and organized, and I'll be able to read it when I've forgotten what it was I meant to say.
Its out there, but to use it right now, you have to install XDarwin and XonX, so I don't really consider it to be at the same level as the other platforms. They're working on a cocca version(I think its cocca anyway), but lord only knows when that will come out.
What do you think the mergers of the similar parties are? I never said that this would solve stand stills in government, just that two smaller parties would join to form a larger party. Vote splits are a result of the other problem with SMPDs, that a MP or congressman is not responsible to the party orginization but to their constituancy (or campaign contributers, but that's picking nits in this contest), meaning that while Party ID may have something to do with how an MP votes, it isn't set in stone as it is in other countries (IE. the UK)
Growl, I haven't had to remember this stuff since Intro freshman year.
No, the two party system is a result from the election system. As I stated, the US has Single member plurality districts. Canada and other places MPs are elected by proportionallity. IE, the party will give the election board a list of potential canidates, then seats are given by the total number of votes across the whole country, not the individual district.
Yes, Gore is not a solution, but Jello Biafra isn't exactly a voice of moderation either. Canidates, especially in presidential, must campaign on incredibly moderate views as most of america is moderate, the fringes are only important in primaries and fund raising. And I voted for Bush, I only mentioned Gore to illustrate the only way a third party can get their prefrences expressed in a system with SMPDs.
In a state with single member plurality districts (SMPDs), which is to say, one canidate is elected by simply having more votes than everybody else, not a majority, the total number of Effective political parties will equal two.
Lets assume that in the first ever election in a district there are three parties, named A, B, and C, and A is liberal, B is moderate leaning liberal, and C is conservative. Results come in and A recieves 30%, B 30%, and C 40%. The canidate from C will then have won. Come next election, because A and B have similar intrests, they will comprimise so their common intrests can be expressed, and some of their individual ones can as well. Then, assuming that there are no major changes in the electorate between the two elections, the new proto-A & B party-D will have 60%, and will defeat C, with its 40%.
A third party on either side of the political spectrum will only serve to marganalize the the larger party, as we saw in Flordia (which is the most prominent example I think) during the 2000 presidental election. If Nader had not been running, his votes would have presumable gone to Gore, as he is closest to Nader ideologically. Gore would have won, and we'd be in a marginally different situation today.
hat's still $15 for 15 tracks which is pretty typical for most CD's.
Yes, but you're paying $15 for 15 songs you like, which is one of my biggest complaints about CDs anyway. 15 songs, 1 or 2 good ones, 13 pieces o' stinky poo. I think this is a good start, as we can see a couple of the companies trying something new instead of attempting to legislate the new ones out of existance.
I don't see why there is a need for them. Gigabit ethernet does a theoritical max of 125 MB/s, I think PCI 2.1's max is 133, I think. And we all know that these things don't always operate at their maxes.
x86 didn't run away from PPC in the early 90s. The 68K series yes, but not the PPC. PPC was actually faster (clock speed wise, and we all know the MHz myth) until the first gen P3s came out in what? '98 or so. x86 didn't leap out ahead until '99 when Apple introduced the 500 MHz G4 and the P3 was already scaling up to 800. We all know the story from there.
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More difficult or just more expensive?
I agree that the fact that these corporations are giving large sums of money to the parties is not the problem and eliminating the flow of money is not going to solve the problems in the system. I think that the main problem exists in the electorate. The burden of information is so high now that those people who do vote are most likely going to go on what they see on the TV, which is funded by said money. We need to find someway to get more people educated, motivated and less cynical about the government. I have no clue about how to do this, but simply forcing the parties to find new ways to get money isn't going to do much.
Once the voter learns about this they will surely elect better leaders next time. :P
That's the problem isn't it? If more voters were willing to search out and learn the positions of the candidates, the candidates wouldn't need to spend the money they do on campaign ads thus reducing their need for moeny, thus reducing the influence of said money.
Of course it really is too much to ask people to care about what the government is doing, everybody else is aren't they?
Pi-level compression my friend.
They keep taking pi out so damned far to see if it contains all possible patterns of numbers (which is a lot). Since its irrationial its possible and if we convert these 1.4 trillion places into binary then we can start and stop at any point along the way and have stuff. then instead of sending a binary package out to somebody, you can give them where to stop and start along the path, of course that number may be larger than what you want to send, but it'd still be cool.
yes, which is exactly the reason my parents bought a 333 K6-2 about 4 years ago. We had an old Powermac 6100 (actually it was a performa something or other but it was based on the 6100) and it took me forever to explain that the 1001 POS game collections at the Wal-Mart wouldn't work becuase we had a Mac. They finally got tired of asking me "will this work?" and bought the k6-2. its still happily chugging away with Win98 (not SE even) doing Word and Outlook 2k (atually all of office, but word and outlook is all that gets used), IE and AIM. I keep telling her to let me gut and update it, but there really isn't any point in that beside letting me muck about with new hardware. mmmm new hardware.
FYI, Evolution worlds is just the first 2 Dreamcast games repackaged
yes, but if you're doing that then you're not going to be using Xbox live very much.
yes and piss off all the people that want to legitimatly use their xbox? Not everyone cares that MS is evil and if something like that did happen don't you think that it'd be reported and MS could just lift the ban? Not to mention that I'd be supprised if 40K people get into xbox live. MS is going to know how many kits are out there. They'd be able to tell that its someone with too much time on their hands trying to make a political statement by hurting those people that want to use their product.
Yes, but these ROMs were created for the US army, so there's a decent chance they're public domain. I have no idea if that's true or not, but it is possible.
except this isn't yet-another-coin-op-arcade-game. Its about custom hardware, running a modified Battlezone ROM to train Bradley gunners in the mid 80s. Semantics I suppose in your world, but the distinction is important.
oh yes, because its from Microsoft its obviously insecure.
Well, JK Rowling is writing these books for her own children, so the content is going to become more mature as time goes on. I think that anybody who sees "Harry Potter" and assumes the 9-12 age group should probably re-think that idea. The first book/movie was for that and this one is slightly older, the next will be older still ....
dude, its been like that for a while. All the posts under apple.slashdot.org have that theme, just like yro., apache., developers. on and on
Well, you might be but I would assume the ones (other than the /. editors) posting on the "Ooohh, shiny DVD/CD" stories are not the ones posting on the "DMCA is bad m'kay" stories. Its just a thought.
Douglass Adams wrote the Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm picking nits but felt like pointing that out anway.
I only see this useful for people who t y p e r e a l l y s l o w . . ...
Well, I've been looking for a way to organize my class notes for awhile now. I'd love something like this. I can take it to class, make my scribbles which then get changed into semi-orderly notes, bring them back to my room and file them away on the HD. no more carrying about all the notebooks, its searchable and organized, and I'll be able to read it when I've forgotten what it was I meant to say.
Its out there, but to use it right now, you have to install XDarwin and XonX, so I don't really consider it to be at the same level as the other platforms. They're working on a cocca version(I think its cocca anyway), but lord only knows when that will come out.
What do you think the mergers of the similar parties are? I never said that this would solve stand stills in government, just that two smaller parties would join to form a larger party. Vote splits are a result of the other problem with SMPDs, that a MP or congressman is not responsible to the party orginization but to their constituancy (or campaign contributers, but that's picking nits in this contest), meaning that while Party ID may have something to do with how an MP votes, it isn't set in stone as it is in other countries (IE. the UK)
Growl, I haven't had to remember this stuff since Intro freshman year. No, the two party system is a result from the election system. As I stated, the US has Single member plurality districts. Canada and other places MPs are elected by proportionallity. IE, the party will give the election board a list of potential canidates, then seats are given by the total number of votes across the whole country, not the individual district.
Yes, Gore is not a solution, but Jello Biafra isn't exactly a voice of moderation either. Canidates, especially in presidential, must campaign on incredibly moderate views as most of america is moderate, the fringes are only important in primaries and fund raising. And I voted for Bush, I only mentioned Gore to illustrate the only way a third party can get their prefrences expressed in a system with SMPDs.
In a state with single member plurality districts (SMPDs), which is to say, one canidate is elected by simply having more votes than everybody else, not a majority, the total number of Effective political parties will equal two.
Lets assume that in the first ever election in a district there are three parties, named A, B, and C, and A is liberal, B is moderate leaning liberal, and C is conservative. Results come in and A recieves 30%, B 30%, and C 40%. The canidate from C will then have won. Come next election, because A and B have similar intrests, they will comprimise so their common intrests can be expressed, and some of their individual ones can as well. Then, assuming that there are no major changes in the electorate between the two elections, the new proto-A & B party-D will have 60%, and will defeat C, with its 40%.
A third party on either side of the political spectrum will only serve to marganalize the the larger party, as we saw in Flordia (which is the most prominent example I think) during the 2000 presidental election. If Nader had not been running, his votes would have presumable gone to Gore, as he is closest to Nader ideologically. Gore would have won, and we'd be in a marginally different situation today.
With this game, you're imitating an Aryan extremist, whereas with the "beat up a ho" game, you're imitating a common street thug.
So its ok to randomly kill/shoot/maim random people, but if you single out a minority its bad?
hat's still $15 for 15 tracks which is pretty typical for most CD's.
Yes, but you're paying $15 for 15 songs you like, which is one of my biggest complaints about CDs anyway. 15 songs, 1 or 2 good ones, 13 pieces o' stinky poo. I think this is a good start, as we can see a couple of the companies trying something new instead of attempting to legislate the new ones out of existance.
I don't see why there is a need for them. Gigabit ethernet does a theoritical max of 125 MB/s, I think PCI 2.1's max is 133, I think. And we all know that these things don't always operate at their maxes.
Actually, the Voodoo 4/5 cards used SLI on board. So it doesn't have to occur between two cards. The Voodoo 5 6000 even had it between 4 VSA-100s
x86 didn't run away from PPC in the early 90s. The 68K series yes, but not the PPC. PPC was actually faster (clock speed wise, and we all know the MHz myth) until the first gen P3s came out in what? '98 or so. x86 didn't leap out ahead until '99 when Apple introduced the 500 MHz G4 and the P3 was already scaling up to 800. We all know the story from there.
Yes, but Wal-Mart normally sells clean versions of CDs, making your're lovely Eminem quote sound more like this:
..Then wanna ride..Ya'll know the that be steady screamin'.. ().. It's .. you know it's .. We scream it.. we yell it.. we livin' "
"Ya'll wanna