Your response looks poor to me. You are suggesting heavy additional work loads (scanning machines, used to check the scantron ballot, and someoen to process them)
You totally failed to understand his "update with a correct ballot comment". And brought in side issues that are not required at all as part of his idea. Yeah, in the CURRENT system they require pre-printed ballots - if they were implement his concept that would not be a requirement. His concept is basically that the 'election' machines would simply be machines that printed out paper ballots, as such pre-printed ballots would be done away with.
The "order of the list of candidates" that you so cavilearly dismissed is thought by many to be the reason why Bush 'won' florida in his first election - they violated Florida law and created a 'butterfly' ballot that may have caused seniors to mistakenly vote for Bush when they did not intend to do that.
All in all, I find your counter arguements to be rather flawed. He made an insightfull commentary, you gave a poor one.
No I am not, you are failing to understand the math. Even if you just reduce the peak load, that is enough. Why? Because your are reducing your use of electricity at the high price, while still using pretty much the same electricity at night, during the lower prices.
Look the "peak/off peak" system is NOT a way to screw the customers. It is supposed to average out the same total cost for the entire year. That is, without the solar power deal, using "Peak/Off Peak" should mean higher electrical prices in the summer but lower prices in the winter (as electricity, unlike oil/gas is cheap in the winter).
With the solar power deal, the worst case scenario should be that during the summer they pay the same as they would normally without any reduction or increase but during the winter, they still get the same lower prices. So they end up saving money over the year, just all the savings are during the winter instead of spread out over the summer.
As long as the Utilitiy is doing the Peak/Off Peak thing in a fair/reasonable manner, it should NOT increase total cost, but should decrease total cost.
First get an appointment with someone that can actually DO something, not a flunky.
Second, explain to him that you are doing a study, and that their policy has created a problem.
Third, explain that you have the right to get the information, and that their policyis no so much 'a problem' for you, as instead a delay for you and a serious problem for them.
Fourth, when he asks why is it a problem for him, tell him that if you have reasonable access, you will only ask for about 20 most relevant documents, then maybe follow up with more information on about another 30 other documents that the first 20 led you to.
Fifth, Continue with: But if they continue with their rather short-sighted, annoying, delaying policy, then you will not be able to wait for followup. And therefore will ask for all 3,526 documents that you have identified as being possibly relevant, because you won't have time to ask again so you need all possible documents.
Sixth, ask him is he SURE he is not going to change the policy sometime this week, it would really help you out if you only had to read 20 docs instead of 3,526.
The article implied it was the only difference.
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The Human Mutation
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A closer read of the article has it being only ONE change between human and ape, and in no way 'the only' change.
While they clearly hope it is the single significant change, honestly they did not give much evidence that it was. They kind of made a good claim that it was one of several significant changes, but no where close to having evidence that it was the major change, let alone the only significant one.
While I assume that pricing of the sensor system is far cheaper, they really should have given us numbers. If it turns out that installing the sensor/computer costs $15,000, then hey, buy the Hybrid.
The basic claim seems to be that by requiring solar buyers to use per hour rates, it somehow drives the cost of electricity up.
But solar power is itself most usefull during the hours when the rates are HIGHER - because usually that is noon, when air conditioning is requiried, and also when the sun is brighter. Therefore your savings should be greater, not less.
For this article to be true, then one of three things must be true:
A. The utilities are charging them higher rates, but are not paying the same higher rates for electricitrity the utilities buy from the home owner.
B. The utilities have in some way 'cheated' the customers using the 'hourly rates', rather severely.
C. The article has made major errors, and the hourly rates have nothing to do with the issue.
The same as if someone called your house every day at 3 AM and called you a f.ck.ng sl.t
It should be treated as harrasment, with is usually done with a warning for first time offenders, and then some kind of court protection order.
On line that would be probably be best handled by a warning, then if the behavior persists having the offender kicked off Second life and legally ordered not to rejoing.
If they did, then they would be in violation of the court order and be sent to jail.
Re:when is slashdot going to fall out of love?
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Believe that all large companies are equally evil is as stupid as beliveing that Goodle is not evil.
Evilness is not only caused by the nature of having a large organziation, and . Large organizations encourage it by their nature, but it not the only cause.
Enron was TRULY, FREAKIN EVIL.
They intentionally gamed the system to raise energy prices, cheating their customers, the states, everyone. They encouraged employees to buy Enron stock despite many of them KNOWING they they were breaking the law. They lied about everything, and engaged in multiple criminal actions, including destoying documents.
Google is no Enron. They are not as evil as all other companies.
I would probably rank Google as one of the better companies. On a scale of evil from 0 being a one more store run by an honest priest, to 100 being Enron, they are probably a solid 70. Microsoft is around a 85-90 or so. They cheated their customers and clients, but never cheated their own employees and generally admitted their illegal activities instead of working as hard to cover them up as they did to do them in the first place.
Well, not quite true. Basically this method as an add on is pretty clean. The main goal of doing this is to take the horrendous garbage waste and turn it into clean water. The electricity is a side effect that is slightly usefull.
As such, the general system is probably usefull for dealing with ANY kind of organic waste.
I bet many large food service organziation (prison,military bases,frozen dinner manufacturers,universities) could all implement a similar system, with perhaps slightly less effeciency producing electricity but similar efficencies cleaning the waste liquid.
Their are TWO problems with the US health care system:
1. It is too expensive
2. It is NOT very good. Life expectancy is worse than the majority of other industrialized nations, even if you restrict yourself to people with full insurance.
The honest truth is that there are a LOT of expensive procedures of questionable value that are accepted and paid for. The prime one I know about is "Stents". Several studies have shown that life expectency for people that undergo expensive surgery to implant uncoated stents into their veins because the veins were blocked/collapsed is no better than people using relatively cheap pills.
Right now, a lot of health care is 'unproven' with regards to helping the patient. They find something that does X and claim that X means the patient will get better, but often that is not the case. They prove things like Y medicine lowers chlorestal, but don't check to see if it increases life expectancy. Sometimes that same medicine also raises the risk of cancer, or may increase all chlorestal, even the good one, and life expectancy does not change.
I don't have a solution to this problem, but it should be pointed out.
Without heavy price protection, I will bet that big corps will not be able to sell power in dry rural areas, particularly in the South West.
But they will DEFINITELY be selling power in major metropolitan areas. The tiny amount of sun my Condo gets in NYC is no where near enough to power my requirements. (On the other hand, my carbon footprint is about 1/3 average, because I use the subway instead of owning a car).
This is some guys personal web site, that favored Obama. He set it up YEARS before Obama was announced he was in the presidential race.
Did he ask for money? NO.
This was his baby, his project to help Obama.
Then some low level staffer says "HEY, I like your idea, only I want to run it."
He responds: "No thank you, this mine. Go make your own".
Low level greedy staffer responds "I am one laze SOB. I don't want to do the work, I just want the credit. How much to buy your work?"
Honest, hard working guy responds "Well, if the Obama campaing really wants my personal Pro Obama web site, I could sell it to you. It cost me $10 grand in outright cash, and more than 3 years worth of work. If you really don't want me to run my web site anymore, and want to run it yourself, I'll give it to you for a measily 50 grand."
Read the article first, instead of getting all huffy about who did what.
Solar power seems reasonable to me. You don't need a lot of power, and if you just hold it out in the light, it should power up and provide the next number.
This is a common myth, usually promoted by people that are not biologists and have ZERO idea of what animals do.
Ants pollute their own drinking water and poison their own food.
Hm. Ants are one of the most succesfull species in the world. So are Humans.
Could it possibly be that garbage is a sign of Success? (Yes) And that the more succesfull a human society is, the more garbage it makes (Yes)? And that the more succesfull ANY animal society is, the more garbage they make? So that only the most successfull species pollute their own drinking water, air and food?
Part of the problem was that while the importation and exportation of slaves was interstate commerce, the existence of slaves already in certain states did not involve interstate commerce.
The main thing you are complaining about is available games. That was in part caused developers being taken in by the 360 advertisements and not 'getting' the Wii. Now developers have realized their mistake and in less than 3 months there should be as many good new games for the Wii as for the 360 coming out.
I am sorry to throw a blanket on your insane diet ideas.
Yes the body can run on ketones.
It does so by MAKING sugars.
Your body REQUIRES sugar. You use it in almost EVERY single cell in your body.
You may or may not (we honestly do not have studies showing either way) be healthier/lose weight if you avoid sugars.
But the concept that sugar is not neccessary is obibiously stupid. Your body makes sugar, you need it as an essential part of your body's functoin.
Claiming sugar is not neccessary is like claiming that you don't need water.
It is laughable moronic, not wise.
What you really meant was "You don't need to EAT sugar".
That may be true, but phrasing in the way you wanted to just demonstrates both ignorance and a desire to 'convince' other people that sugar is bad. Try being honest and accurate, you might convince more people.
Slashdot Mirror
is so bright at night, it makes it hard to sleep. I try to 'cover' everything up, but light reflects.
As such, it will give driving directions to any western European country from any Continential state.
The wierd part is, it will not give directions to get to Brazil from New York, even though it IS driveable
I don't think they exist. >
In capitalist world, New Yorkers go to Florida.
In grand new Soviet World, Florida comes to the New York.
I assure you that their are already quite a lot of Second Life Dungeons. So it has already been programed.
You totally failed to understand his "update with a correct ballot comment". And brought in side issues that are not required at all as part of his idea. Yeah, in the CURRENT system they require pre-printed ballots - if they were implement his concept that would not be a requirement. His concept is basically that the 'election' machines would simply be machines that printed out paper ballots, as such pre-printed ballots would be done away with.
The "order of the list of candidates" that you so cavilearly dismissed is thought by many to be the reason why Bush 'won' florida in his first election - they violated Florida law and created a 'butterfly' ballot that may have caused seniors to mistakenly vote for Bush when they did not intend to do that.
All in all, I find your counter arguements to be rather flawed. He made an insightfull commentary, you gave a poor one.
Look the "peak/off peak" system is NOT a way to screw the customers. It is supposed to average out the same total cost for the entire year. That is, without the solar power deal, using "Peak/Off Peak" should mean higher electrical prices in the summer but lower prices in the winter (as electricity, unlike oil/gas is cheap in the winter).
With the solar power deal, the worst case scenario should be that during the summer they pay the same as they would normally without any reduction or increase but during the winter, they still get the same lower prices. So they end up saving money over the year, just all the savings are during the winter instead of spread out over the summer.
As long as the Utilitiy is doing the Peak/Off Peak thing in a fair/reasonable manner, it should NOT increase total cost, but should decrease total cost.
Second, explain to him that you are doing a study, and that their policy has created a problem.
Third, explain that you have the right to get the information, and that their policyis no so much 'a problem' for you, as instead a delay for you and a serious problem for them.
Fourth, when he asks why is it a problem for him, tell him that if you have reasonable access, you will only ask for about 20 most relevant documents, then maybe follow up with more information on about another 30 other documents that the first 20 led you to.
Fifth, Continue with: But if they continue with their rather short-sighted, annoying, delaying policy, then you will not be able to wait for followup. And therefore will ask for all 3,526 documents that you have identified as being possibly relevant, because you won't have time to ask again so you need all possible documents.
Sixth, ask him is he SURE he is not going to change the policy sometime this week, it would really help you out if you only had to read 20 docs instead of 3,526.
While they clearly hope it is the single significant change, honestly they did not give much evidence that it was. They kind of made a good claim that it was one of several significant changes, but no where close to having evidence that it was the major change, let alone the only significant one.
While I assume that pricing of the sensor system is far cheaper, they really should have given us numbers. If it turns out that installing the sensor/computer costs $15,000, then hey, buy the Hybrid.
But solar power is itself most usefull during the hours when the rates are HIGHER - because usually that is noon, when air conditioning is requiried, and also when the sun is brighter. Therefore your savings should be greater, not less.
For this article to be true, then one of three things must be true:
A. The utilities are charging them higher rates, but are not paying the same higher rates for electricitrity the utilities buy from the home owner.
B. The utilities have in some way 'cheated' the customers using the 'hourly rates', rather severely.
C. The article has made major errors, and the hourly rates have nothing to do with the issue.
The same as if someone called your house every day at 3 AM and called you a f.ck.ng sl.t
It should be treated as harrasment, with is usually done with a warning for first time offenders, and then some kind of court protection order.
On line that would be probably be best handled by a warning, then if the behavior persists having the offender kicked off Second life and legally ordered not to rejoing.
If they did, then they would be in violation of the court order and be sent to jail.
Evilness is not only caused by the nature of having a large organziation, and . Large organizations encourage it by their nature, but it not the only cause.
Enron was TRULY, FREAKIN EVIL.
They intentionally gamed the system to raise energy prices, cheating their customers, the states, everyone. They encouraged employees to buy Enron stock despite many of them KNOWING they they were breaking the law. They lied about everything, and engaged in multiple criminal actions, including destoying documents.
Google is no Enron. They are not as evil as all other companies.
I would probably rank Google as one of the better companies. On a scale of evil from 0 being a one more store run by an honest priest, to 100 being Enron, they are probably a solid 70. Microsoft is around a 85-90 or so. They cheated their customers and clients, but never cheated their own employees and generally admitted their illegal activities instead of working as hard to cover them up as they did to do them in the first place.
As such, the general system is probably usefull for dealing with ANY kind of organic waste.
I bet many large food service organziation (prison,military bases,frozen dinner manufacturers,universities) could all implement a similar system, with perhaps slightly less effeciency producing electricity but similar efficencies cleaning the waste liquid.
1. It is too expensive
2. It is NOT very good. Life expectancy is worse than the majority of other industrialized nations, even if you restrict yourself to people with full insurance.
The honest truth is that there are a LOT of expensive procedures of questionable value that are accepted and paid for. The prime one I know about is "Stents". Several studies have shown that life expectency for people that undergo expensive surgery to implant uncoated stents into their veins because the veins were blocked/collapsed is no better than people using relatively cheap pills.
Right now, a lot of health care is 'unproven' with regards to helping the patient. They find something that does X and claim that X means the patient will get better, but often that is not the case. They prove things like Y medicine lowers chlorestal, but don't check to see if it increases life expectancy. Sometimes that same medicine also raises the risk of cancer, or may increase all chlorestal, even the good one, and life expectancy does not change.
I don't have a solution to this problem, but it should be pointed out.
But they will DEFINITELY be selling power in major metropolitan areas. The tiny amount of sun my Condo gets in NYC is no where near enough to power my requirements. (On the other hand, my carbon footprint is about 1/3 average, because I use the subway instead of owning a car).
This is some guys personal web site, that favored Obama. He set it up YEARS before Obama was announced he was in the presidential race.
Did he ask for money? NO.
This was his baby, his project to help Obama.
Then some low level staffer says "HEY, I like your idea, only I want to run it."
He responds: "No thank you, this mine. Go make your own".
Low level greedy staffer responds "I am one laze SOB. I don't want to do the work, I just want the credit. How much to buy your work?"
Honest, hard working guy responds "Well, if the Obama campaing really wants my personal Pro Obama web site, I could sell it to you. It cost me $10 grand in outright cash, and more than 3 years worth of work. If you really don't want me to run my web site anymore, and want to run it yourself, I'll give it to you for a measily 50 grand."
Read the article first, instead of getting all huffy about who did what.
Solar power seems reasonable to me. You don't need a lot of power, and if you just hold it out in the light, it should power up and provide the next number.
This is a common myth, usually promoted by people that are not biologists and have ZERO idea of what animals do.
Ants pollute their own drinking water and poison their own food.
Hm. Ants are one of the most succesfull species in the world. So are Humans.
Could it possibly be that garbage is a sign of Success? (Yes) And that the more succesfull a human society is, the more garbage it makes (Yes)? And that the more succesfull ANY animal society is, the more garbage they make? So that only the most successfull species pollute their own drinking water, air and food?
Part of the problem was that while the importation and exportation of slaves was interstate commerce, the existence of slaves already in certain states did not involve interstate commerce.
The main thing you are complaining about is available games. That was in part caused developers being taken in by the 360 advertisements and not 'getting' the Wii. Now developers have realized their mistake and in less than 3 months there should be as many good new games for the Wii as for the 360 coming out.
I am sorry to throw a blanket on your insane diet ideas. Yes the body can run on ketones. It does so by MAKING sugars. Your body REQUIRES sugar. You use it in almost EVERY single cell in your body. You may or may not (we honestly do not have studies showing either way) be healthier/lose weight if you avoid sugars. But the concept that sugar is not neccessary is obibiously stupid. Your body makes sugar, you need it as an essential part of your body's functoin. Claiming sugar is not neccessary is like claiming that you don't need water. It is laughable moronic, not wise. What you really meant was "You don't need to EAT sugar". That may be true, but phrasing in the way you wanted to just demonstrates both ignorance and a desire to 'convince' other people that sugar is bad. Try being honest and accurate, you might convince more people.
Britain is rich, so they just put a camera on every street corner, looking at the entire city the entire time.
Which do you think is worse?
No, that is not a sad comment on the human diet, it is instead an explanation for why we like sugar so much, it is so usefull and neccessary.
With all the punk 1eet programers out there, you would think that someone would spend time writing this instead of silly viruses.
I am tired of having pop-up advertisements beat my pop-up blocker.