How can you even begin to be a viable choice if you don't have candidates across the board in a majority of electorial races.
According to this page in 2000 the party fielded 255 of 435 U.S. Congress candidates and 25 of 33 Senate Candidates. Over 1430 candidates ran under the Libertarian Banner in 2000. The LP runs twice as many other candidates as all other third parties combined.
And those numbers are a enough that we could have mathematically had a house majority.
But remember that a majority is not necessary to effect a change, a minority equal to the difference between the two statist parties would do a lot.
In a two-party system you will automatically get two extreme views, left and right, because the two parties have to exaggerate their differences to get as many voters as they can.
I think you are wrong on two counts:
You have been sold on the idea that left and right are all there is. Not true. Politics are much more complicated than that, but better models Exist.
When you have a two party system, they both attempt to make you think they are different, but in reality, they both know that the only thing that they can do to win is to appeal to the independent voters, so they become more and more like each other. You end up with the current state, which I call the sportsization of politics: what a party stands for is no longer important, you vote republican (or democrat) because your friends vote that way, or because your parents voted that way or because your parents did not vote that way.
Increasing libertarian votes is important, but in the case of the Libertarian Party doing so to give them federal support is a non-issue since most LP candidates would reject such funds.
If the LP dropped the pot angle they would no longer be Libertarian!
Many people say that the LP would win them over if it wasn't for x or y part of the platform, well, the LP considers itself "The Party of Principle". It is a fairly consistent political ideology, it does not pander to polls, and we like it that way.
This election, vote Badnarik for President.
Also, remember that most of the planets that are being found are being found because they are easier to find (more eccentric orbits, larger planets, etc.), planetary formation for these systems might also be different than average (close encounters with other stars early in star formation, stars more unstable than others, etc.)
I guess since I had *my* copy I never even knew it was out of print. Oh, well, see what you've done? now I'll have to go re-read it all over again, which will likely lead me to read the whole foundation all over again. Let's see... should I read them in print order this time or timeline order? Alphabetical?
It is possible that you are somewhat different. But try this: sit in front of a table, take your hands in the air a bit and let them fall naturally in the table. Are they parallel to each other? If they are (maybe you had your arms at your side) does it feel natural? Ergonomics isn't just about "it feels right" but about anatomy as well. Split (sloped) keyboards take anatomy into consideration.
There are indeed different people, I'll agree, my hip is slightly open, so I walk with my feet pointing out, it is very uncorfortable for me to walk straight (or to even try to make my feet point in). But that's the exception.
I've seen keyboard designs that have your hands facing each other (think of each hand in a karate chop), and that seems very natural to me, but I think I'd miss some of the visual cues that even a good touch typist (such as myself) needs.
What I don't get is why they still insist on forcing on users flat layouts? Do they WANT to give pain to their users? Flat (i.e. non-ergonomic) keyboards are a pain.
I use a Kinesis Maxim keyboard and you have no idea what a difference it can be, but even a Microsoft natural keyboard is a lot less painful than a flat layout
Oh, yeah, and to get a few mod points more... I also type Dvorak.
Yeah, I sooo miss the day when I had to barter for everything. Do you know how hard it is to find the person who is willing to barter the exact thing I
want at any given moment for my programming skills? oh, and on the spot? so that I have to start programming the moment I want to buy (let's say) an apple from the supermarket?
Which is why in Esperanto the "correct" name for the people of this country is "Usonano", or Usonian. And according to the wiki, it has also been used in english Usonian
I believe (strongly, as a Libertarian) that any contract between two people that does not harm anyone else should be valid (perhaps with some extreme fringe cases) and that one of our governments *proper* role is to enforce and protect these contracts.
Having said that, next time someone asks you to sign this kind of non-compete, negotiate, ask to add a clause that if the company wants to enforce the non-compete at the termination of employment, they must pay your salary at the time of termination for the duration of the non-compete. It seems only fair.
I mention 50%, but that's probably on the low side. Did you take into account sales tax? did you take into account property taxes? government mitigation "fees" when building a house? Car tax? Luxury taxes? the costs of compliance with all kinds of laws, regulations and ordinances at local, state and federal level?
50%? I wish it was that low.
Now, if you get "Perks" like Gym, free food etc, that's still coming from your total compensation, and on average just makes your paycheck smaller. That's true for Perks as well as "Free" insurance, Social Security and all the other things that "the employer pays for". If the Employer does not pay for it, you would get that money.
Kinda, except for the fact of the big black hole that is taxes. Normally many perks are not taxed, so you get 100% of them instead of the taxed 50%.
Eliminate the income tax. Vote Libertarian.
Using Dvorak in a QWERTY world makes me feel like the timecube guy: everyone else seems "educated stupid". Why do we teach QWERTY? Because that's what everyone knows. Why does everyone know QWERTY? Because that's what we teach. It's like a great reason to keep doing something retarded from a hundred years ago.
Funny, that's the same I think about the reasons people don't vote Libertarian (or speak Esperanto, but that's a whole different story, cxu ne?, kaj jes, mi estas Liberecana Esperantiso, kiuj tajpas Dvorake).
Brooks comment is some years old. I'm sure our productivity has increased a bit since then, or our lines of code count for more (most of us aren't writing assembly anymore).
Anyway, those 11 lines of code are an average, there are days when I don't code at all, mostly at the beggining of a project (requirements gathering, understanding, meetings, etc) and towards the end (integration testing, where most bug fixes are a few changes here and there).
I have nothing to say to this, but it's a keyboard related topic and I must thus write something about Dvorak keyboards, in which I type and which are so much superior to Qwerty.
Can someone tie Dvorak into the subject a bit better?
Then go an cast an empty ballot, which at least counts for something. You don't get to vote on just the Presidential race, there are other things on the ballot, including, in many states, counties and cities initiatives that can seriously impact your life, don't tell me you don't have opinions on those.
I've often wondered about the future evolutionary path for H. Sapiens, but it is hard to judge evolutionary movements from a sampling of current life, what may be adaptive today may not be so in 100, 1000 or a million years, which is the scale over which species develop and differentiate. If I were to judge today... you have to take into consideration which people are reproducing like crazy and I come up with some ideas:
- Religious nuts who have tens of kids (scary thought) and their traits are selective, particularly when they form economic networks that allow them to raise those kids with good nutrition and healthctare.
- Religious nuts of the catholic variety, who turn into priests and don't (generally or in the open) procreate are non-selective. That's a good thing.
- By being more open about homosexual behaviors, homosexuals might not tend so much to be in the closet living their lives as heterosexuals (kids and all), so if there's an inherited component to Homosexuality by beeing a freer society we might actually be selecting against it.
- Very brainy people might spend more of their time pursuing PhD's or running companies than raising kids, so they might tend to die out.
I'll leave any conclusions from these ramblings to others.
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Your host will indeed keep its local addresses, in IPv6 (as in IPv4, though it's not as common there) you can have many addresses attached to a particular interface. But that local address does not get routed between networks, so you can't use those outside your network (I guess you could configure your routers otherwise, but it's not a wise thing to do).
There are so many global addresses available that it doesn't matter, and using them is what you ARE supposed to do (by the specs). Renumbering is almost a non-issue in IPv6 since most hosts get autoconfigured by the unmanaged protocol (or by DHCPv6, which is much enhanced).
Believe me, it all works out. Local addresses for local use, global addresses when going outside of your link (network).
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How can you even begin to be a viable choice if you don't have candidates across the board in a majority of electorial races.
According to this page in 2000 the party fielded 255 of 435 U.S. Congress candidates and 25 of 33 Senate Candidates. Over 1430 candidates ran under the Libertarian Banner in 2000. The LP runs twice as many other candidates as all other third parties combined.
And those numbers are a enough that we could have mathematically had a house majority.
But remember that a majority is not necessary to effect a change, a minority equal to the difference between the two statist parties would do a lot.
I think you are wrong on two counts:
Increasing libertarian votes is important, but in the case of the Libertarian Party doing so to give them federal support is a non-issue since most LP candidates would reject such funds.
If the LP dropped the pot angle they would no longer be Libertarian!
Many people say that the LP would win them over if it wasn't for x or y part of the platform, well, the LP considers itself "The Party of Principle". It is a fairly consistent political ideology, it does not pander to polls, and we like it that way.
This election, vote Badnarik for President.
The sun is not normal.
Also, remember that most of the planets that are being found are being found because they are easier to find (more eccentric orbits, larger planets, etc.), planetary formation for these systems might also be different than average (close encounters with other stars early in star formation, stars more unstable than others, etc.)
I guess since I had *my* copy I never even knew it was out of print. Oh, well, see what you've done? now I'll have to go re-read it all over again, which will likely lead me to read the whole foundation all over again. Let's see... should I read them in print order this time or timeline order? Alphabetical?
It is possible that you are somewhat different. But try this: sit in front of a table, take your hands in the air a bit and let them fall naturally in the table. Are they parallel to each other? If they are (maybe you had your arms at your side) does it feel natural? Ergonomics isn't just about "it feels right" but about anatomy as well. Split (sloped) keyboards take anatomy into consideration.
There are indeed different people, I'll agree, my hip is slightly open, so I walk with my feet pointing out, it is very uncorfortable for me to walk straight (or to even try to make my feet point in). But that's the exception.
I've seen keyboard designs that have your hands facing each other (think of each hand in a karate chop), and that seems very natural to me, but I think I'd miss some of the visual cues that even a good touch typist (such as myself) needs.
Re your signature...
When was "the end of eternity" lost?
One of his best. I'll agree.
What I don't get is why they still insist on forcing on users flat layouts? Do they WANT to give pain to their users? Flat (i.e. non-ergonomic) keyboards are a pain.
I use a Kinesis Maxim keyboard and you have no idea what a difference it can be, but even a Microsoft natural keyboard is a lot less painful than a flat layout
Oh, yeah, and to get a few mod points more... I also type Dvorak.
Yeah, I sooo miss the day when I had to barter for everything. Do you know how hard it is to find the person who is willing to barter the exact thing I want at any given moment for my programming skills? oh, and on the spot? so that I have to start programming the moment I want to buy (let's say) an apple from the supermarket?
Titanic? Seriously, I've rented it twice, and both times I couldn't bring myself around to watch it. I will not rent it again.
Which is why in Esperanto the "correct" name for the people of this country is "Usonano", or Usonian. And according to the wiki, it has also been used in english Usonian
Sorry troll, this is not Libertarian, since it violates the non-initiation of force principle (the root of Libertarianism).
I believe (strongly, as a Libertarian) that any contract between two people that does not harm anyone else should be valid (perhaps with some extreme fringe cases) and that one of our governments *proper* role is to enforce and protect these contracts.
Having said that, next time someone asks you to sign this kind of non-compete, negotiate, ask to add a clause that if the company wants to enforce the non-compete at the termination of employment, they must pay your salary at the time of termination for the duration of the non-compete. It seems only fair.
Here's the answer to that... yes, from the Libertarian Candidate for president.
"WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN: LIBERTARIAN DISMISSES HASTERT TAX PLAN"
I mention 50%, but that's probably on the low side. Did you take into account sales tax? did you take into account property taxes? government mitigation "fees" when building a house? Car tax? Luxury taxes? the costs of compliance with all kinds of laws, regulations and ordinances at local, state and federal level?
50%? I wish it was that low.
Now, if you get "Perks" like Gym, free food etc, that's still coming from your total compensation, and on average just makes your paycheck smaller. That's true for Perks as well as "Free" insurance, Social Security and all the other things that "the employer pays for". If the Employer does not pay for it, you would get that money.
Kinda, except for the fact of the big black hole that is taxes. Normally many perks are not taxed, so you get 100% of them instead of the taxed 50%.
Eliminate the income tax. Vote Libertarian.
Using Dvorak in a QWERTY world makes me feel like the timecube guy: everyone else seems "educated stupid". Why do we teach QWERTY? Because that's what everyone knows. Why does everyone know QWERTY? Because that's what we teach. It's like a great reason to keep doing something retarded from a hundred years ago.
Funny, that's the same I think about the reasons people don't vote Libertarian (or speak Esperanto, but that's a whole different story, cxu ne?, kaj jes, mi estas Liberecana Esperantiso, kiuj tajpas Dvorake).
Brooks comment is some years old. I'm sure our productivity has increased a bit since then, or our lines of code count for more (most of us aren't writing assembly anymore).
Anyway, those 11 lines of code are an average, there are days when I don't code at all, mostly at the beggining of a project (requirements gathering, understanding, meetings, etc) and towards the end (integration testing, where most bug fixes are a few changes here and there).
I have nothing to say to this, but it's a keyboard related topic and I must thus write something about Dvorak keyboards, in which I type and which are so much superior to Qwerty.
Can someone tie Dvorak into the subject a bit better?
Well, just backup to optical, optical bits are not affected by EMP.
Then go an cast an empty ballot, which at least counts for something. You don't get to vote on just the Presidential race, there are other things on the ballot, including, in many states, counties and cities initiatives that can seriously impact your life, don't tell me you don't have opinions on those.
Me? I vote Libertarian.
I've often wondered about the future evolutionary path for H. Sapiens, but it is hard to judge evolutionary movements from a sampling of current life, what may be adaptive today may not be so in 100, 1000 or a million years, which is the scale over which species develop and differentiate. If I were to judge today... you have to take into consideration which people are reproducing like crazy and I come up with some ideas:
- Religious nuts who have tens of kids (scary thought) and their traits are selective, particularly when they form economic networks that allow them to raise those kids with good nutrition and healthctare.
- Religious nuts of the catholic variety, who turn into priests and don't (generally or in the open) procreate are non-selective. That's a good thing.
- By being more open about homosexual behaviors, homosexuals might not tend so much to be in the closet living their lives as heterosexuals (kids and all), so if there's an inherited component to Homosexuality by beeing a freer society we might actually be selecting against it.
- Very brainy people might spend more of their time pursuing PhD's or running companies than raising kids, so they might tend to die out.
I'll leave any conclusions from these ramblings to others.
Your host will indeed keep its local addresses, in IPv6 (as in IPv4, though it's not as common there) you can have many addresses attached to a particular interface. But that local address does not get routed between networks, so you can't use those outside your network (I guess you could configure your routers otherwise, but it's not a wise thing to do).
There are so many global addresses available that it doesn't matter, and using them is what you ARE supposed to do (by the specs). Renumbering is almost a non-issue in IPv6 since most hosts get autoconfigured by the unmanaged protocol (or by DHCPv6, which is much enhanced).
Believe me, it all works out. Local addresses for local use, global addresses when going outside of your link (network).