FLIP FLOP!!! OMFG DON'T VOTE FOR BUSH HE'S A FLIP FLOPPER
AHHHHHH FLIP FLOP
oh wait, isn't it the responsible thing to do to change your opinions as new information becomes available? or sticking to your position no matter how wrong it is the mark of a strong leader?
seriously people, the bush administration is far and away the most absurd group to ever hold the white house.
Hey now the most expensive item on the Starbuck's menu here is a Venti (x-lg) White Chocolate Mocha at $4.20. It's delicious, and I don't know how I'd survive my 8am class without it, you can't put a price on that.
Also on some PDAs. The iPaq comes with a universal remote control program called Nevo that lets you control virtually everything that has an IR remote, TVs, stereos DVD players, VCRs... and also projectors. I've had many a good time in class programming it to turn off the projector the professor is using and watching them try to figure whats going on:)
Well since it's across fiber optic cables, and light is part of the spectrum...
Never doubt the ability of ANY government agency to interpret things to stretch their power beyond mandate, since they know it will take years for a case to hit the courts, and years more for it to finish its appeals if it even wins, and while that's happening they can come up with another interpretation that will require another court case, of course thats even assuming the SCOTUS doesn't just cite "compelling public interest" and let it stand... well you get the picture.
And let them know you would like to see someone other than Corporate backed candidates.
Like who? Someone like Badnarik, who's backed by, among others, steel, pipeline, and an airline company?
Also, apparently he received a $2,000 campaign contribution directly from God himself.
IIRC, Paypal is not insured by the FDIC. Doing that might actually make them subject to regulations governing companies that control peoples money, and they sure wouldn't have that.
Even if they did, I believe the cap is $10,000.
and here in America,
In African-American males, 40% of cases were related to injection drug use, 36% in females.. and 37.2% of all Hispanics.
Source: Centers for Disease Control, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 2002 (October 2002), Vol. 14, Table 11, page 20.
Needle exchange programs can "prevent significant numbers of infections among clients of the programs, their drug and sex partners and their offspring. In almost all cases, the cost per HIV infection averted is far below the $119,000 lifetime cost of treating an HIV infected person."
Source: Lurie, P. & Reingold, A.L., et al., The Public Health Impact of Needle Exchange Programs in the United States and Abroad (San Francisco, CA: University of California, 1993), Vol. 1, Executive Summary, pp. iii-v.
"After reviewing all of the research to date, the senior scientists of the Department and I have unanimously agreed that there is conclusive scientific evidence that syringe exchange programs, as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy, are an effective public health intervention that reduces the transmission of HIV and does not encourage the use of illegal drugs."
Source: US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, Department of Health and Human Services, Evidence-Based Findings on the Efficacy of Syringe Exchange Programs: An Analysis from the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General of the Scientific Research Completed Since April 1998 (Washington, DC: Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2000)
I don't have a source off-hand, but I believe it was concluded that easy syringe availability reduced HIV infection rates among IDUs by 70%. The United States needs to put its resources into educating the politicians (both major parties really) and the majority of their constituents that HIV isn't only from sex, and that syringe access significantly reduces the HIV infection rate while not increasing use rates of the drugs.
Of course this subject area didn't come up when Cheney and Edwards were talking about the AIDS problem in the US, and don't expect it to come up in either of the remaining presidential debates. Basing policies on science and compassion indeed. Both Bush and Kerry should be ashamed, and frankly so should the general public who don't support such programs for the same erroneous belief that it promotes use.
Do you get a boner looking at a fork, a knife, a plate, or a spoon?
Especially when I see someone wrap their fingers around a spoon, take it into their mouth, and swallow some creamy white stuff.
Speed doesn't kill, speed differentials kill. If everyone drove the same speed, that's what would cut down on speed related accidents... the problem is the speed limits on highways are set way too slow. We need a system like the autobahn, where there's fast lanes and slow lanes. And on big sections, lanes without a limit. The entire concept of a single speed limit is just pandering to the lowest common denominator. You're going to sit here and tell me it's unsafe for me to go 100mph with my 20/20 vision, quick reaction time, and sports car with superior handling and braking,; but the elderly person going 70mph with shit vision and shit reaction time in a shitbox car is a safe driver? Not only do speed limits need to be higher, the people who are actually doing something dangerous need to be pulled over. SPEED IS NOT INHERENTLY DANGEROUS.
Anyway, serious points over.
The people doing 20 over get in my way on the interstate. If you're doing double digits, get out of my way. If you're on Alligator Alley (100 miles of straight interstate 75 in the everglades, with fenced sides so nothing can even wander onto the road), just don't be in the left lane. 20 over? I go 75 over the 70mph speed limit (yes, 145). I'd love to see the looks on peoples faces as they're crawling along at 70 and I pass at 75mph relative to them, but I must stay focused on the road.
In any case, I laugh at all the people pulled over as I drive on with my radar detector and scanner. Sure I've gotten 2 tickets (0 warnings) in the past 5 years of driving (zero accidents, zero instances of losing control of the car), but i always do at LEAST 20 over traffic allowing, and to be quite honest it's still slow in light traffic.
No, it means that you, like the vast majority of reporters, will just not actually be in the debate hall. The media center is in a separate building, and they're not credentialed to get into the actual debate.
There will be various live feeds all over the campus, so you can cover it all you want.
The debate footage comes from pool cameras, not from every network having their own cameras right in the debate hall.
There are over 2200 journalists credentialed for the media center, which combined with equipment they've put in there, should make one consider the declined due to space constraints part. It's not some conspiracy against Indy reporters, it's space limitations and the desire not to have an out of control media frenzy.
It's not even secret. That's a CPD item that existed before the parties ridiculous 32 page contract.
Not only that, as of last night the CPD had not even officially signed off on the candidates debate contracts and are well aware of how asinine some of the terms are.
Disclaimer: I attend the University of Miami, so have above average awareness of the debate terms.
Well I think the evidence has built up enough to say with a high degree of confidence there was at one point some kind of life on Mars, whats up in the air now is whether there is presently some sort of microscopic lifeform population.
Nader is apparently agitated enough at not being included in the Presidential Debate that he's holding a small community discussion of his platform and a question session here at the University of Miami 2 days before the debate. I'm sure he'll address whether us Floridians and others in swing states (almost said other swingers for a minute lol) should vote for a 3rd party this election... the fact that he's doing a platform presentation in Florida at the site of the 1st debate seems to indicate he wants our votes anyway tho.
Maybe they actually had a reasonable person who spoke up and pointed out that Microsoft code on major email system was a really, really bad idea. It would only be a matter of weeks before someone found a buffer to overflow, take control of the mail server, then spread to more computers than ever possible with normal propagation.
5 day forcasts from the NHC have lately been given with a margin of error routinely approaching 800 miles. Now I wasn't following this stuff years back, but I can't imagine it being "much" more accurate as that implies that couldn't guess within around 1200 miles.
The 3-day forcast for Frances at one point when the storm was only moving 4mph had a error cone at an angle over 90 degrees, they didn't know whether it would be moving SW or N less than an hour from its current location. Great accuracy there!
Living in Florida I've spent a whole lot of time looking at track modelling in the past month. For hurricane Frances at one point, the cone of error of eye movement was over 90 degrees, as in they had no clue which direction the storm would be moving an hour from when the model was made. In Charley, their predictions were over 100 miles off for the eye only a couple hours before landfall (which really sucked for me since the eye hit land only 30 miles away). And since that happened, the margins of error for Frances and Ivan have been much much larger as they realized their path predictions still sucked.
What's more, one of the local TV stations in-house track forcasting program gave a dead on accurate prediction several days before it hit while the National Hurricane Center was saying Tampa. With Ivan, at one point one of the major models (BAM Medium) predicted the storm would change directions from WNW to NE instantly at a point 3 days away.
Perhaps media forcasters should be evaluating which models are most accurate for the current storm instead of just reporting on a numerical average of computer model coordinates, since often outlying models pick up on something the other ones missed. A few places do that, and often predict the path with a much smaller error than the NHC, whose predictions are purely based on averages of models of which none are always accurate to begin with.
Derivately from the parent:
Thinking of people who feeling a 3rd party vote is wasted, do you think a runoff system is a workable system to improve the parties following, as it would allow people to express their support for a 3rd platform while still having the more favorable of the two major platforms being ultimately elected? How would we go about establishing such a system?
That's exactly what the framers had in mind. In a true democracy of majority rule in direct voting, the majority would easily supress the rights of a minority. Where would we be now if ideas that came out of minorities were supressed instead of being able to form groups that impacted the outcome of an election? Possibly still holding slaves and not having anything resembling equal employment opportunity, as much as we'd like to think this is something we suddenly decided was the right thing to do, it came out of minorities influencing the vote.
The founders of the consitution never intended a democracy, they intended a Republic where representatives made the laws, not the simple majority.
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He voted for it, but the vote was 99-0-1. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:S.203 7:
FLIP FLOP!!! OMFG DON'T VOTE FOR BUSH HE'S A FLIP FLOPPER
AHHHHHH FLIP FLOP
oh wait, isn't it the responsible thing to do to change your opinions as new information becomes available? or sticking to your position no matter how wrong it is the mark of a strong leader?
seriously people, the bush administration is far and away the most absurd group to ever hold the white house.
flip flopper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey now the most expensive item on the Starbuck's menu here is a Venti (x-lg) White Chocolate Mocha at $4.20. It's delicious, and I don't know how I'd survive my 8am class without it, you can't put a price on that.
Since when does Windows cause problems with only the things its designed to work with?
Also on some PDAs. The iPaq comes with a universal remote control program called Nevo that lets you control virtually everything that has an IR remote, TVs, stereos DVD players, VCRs... and also projectors. I've had many a good time in class programming it to turn off the projector the professor is using and watching them try to figure whats going on :)
Well since it's across fiber optic cables, and light is part of the spectrum...
Never doubt the ability of ANY government agency to interpret things to stretch their power beyond mandate, since they know it will take years for a case to hit the courts, and years more for it to finish its appeals if it even wins, and while that's happening they can come up with another interpretation that will require another court case, of course thats even assuming the SCOTUS doesn't just cite "compelling public interest" and let it stand... well you get the picture.
And let them know you would like to see someone other than Corporate backed candidates.
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Like who? Someone like Badnarik, who's backed by, among others, steel, pipeline, and an airline company?
Also, apparently he received a $2,000 campaign contribution directly from God himself.
http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/contrib.a
It was broadcast. I watched it on CSPAN a few nights ago. It ran again this morning, and will likely air a few more times.
IIRC, Paypal is not insured by the FDIC. Doing that might actually make them subject to regulations governing companies that control peoples money, and they sure wouldn't have that.
Even if they did, I believe the cap is $10,000.
and here in America,
In African-American males, 40% of cases were related to injection drug use, 36% in females.. and 37.2% of all Hispanics.
Source: Centers for Disease Control, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 2002 (October 2002), Vol. 14, Table 11, page 20.
Needle exchange programs can "prevent significant numbers of infections among clients of the programs, their drug and sex partners and their offspring. In almost all cases, the cost per HIV infection averted is far below the $119,000 lifetime cost of treating an HIV infected person."
Source: Lurie, P. & Reingold, A.L., et al., The Public Health Impact of Needle Exchange Programs in the United States and Abroad (San Francisco, CA: University of California, 1993), Vol. 1, Executive Summary, pp. iii-v.
"After reviewing all of the research to date, the senior scientists of the Department and I have unanimously agreed that there is conclusive scientific evidence that syringe exchange programs, as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy, are an effective public health intervention that reduces the transmission of HIV and does not encourage the use of illegal drugs."
Source: US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, Department of Health and Human Services, Evidence-Based Findings on the Efficacy of Syringe Exchange Programs: An Analysis from the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General of the Scientific Research Completed Since April 1998 (Washington, DC: Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2000)
I don't have a source off-hand, but I believe it was concluded that easy syringe availability reduced HIV infection rates among IDUs by 70%. The United States needs to put its resources into educating the politicians (both major parties really) and the majority of their constituents that HIV isn't only from sex, and that syringe access significantly reduces the HIV infection rate while not increasing use rates of the drugs.
Of course this subject area didn't come up when Cheney and Edwards were talking about the AIDS problem in the US, and don't expect it to come up in either of the remaining presidential debates. Basing policies on science and compassion indeed. Both Bush and Kerry should be ashamed, and frankly so should the general public who don't support such programs for the same erroneous belief that it promotes use.
4,952,000,000 pennies were minted in 2004 alone
Not even close to a significant fraction.
Do you get a boner looking at a fork, a knife, a plate, or a spoon? Especially when I see someone wrap their fingers around a spoon, take it into their mouth, and swallow some creamy white stuff.
Speed doesn't kill, speed differentials kill. If everyone drove the same speed, that's what would cut down on speed related accidents... the problem is the speed limits on highways are set way too slow. We need a system like the autobahn, where there's fast lanes and slow lanes. And on big sections, lanes without a limit. The entire concept of a single speed limit is just pandering to the lowest common denominator. You're going to sit here and tell me it's unsafe for me to go 100mph with my 20/20 vision, quick reaction time, and sports car with superior handling and braking,; but the elderly person going 70mph with shit vision and shit reaction time in a shitbox car is a safe driver? Not only do speed limits need to be higher, the people who are actually doing something dangerous need to be pulled over. SPEED IS NOT INHERENTLY DANGEROUS.
Anyway, serious points over.
The people doing 20 over get in my way on the interstate. If you're doing double digits, get out of my way. If you're on Alligator Alley (100 miles of straight interstate 75 in the everglades, with fenced sides so nothing can even wander onto the road), just don't be in the left lane. 20 over? I go 75 over the 70mph speed limit (yes, 145). I'd love to see the looks on peoples faces as they're crawling along at 70 and I pass at 75mph relative to them, but I must stay focused on the road.
In any case, I laugh at all the people pulled over as I drive on with my radar detector and scanner. Sure I've gotten 2 tickets (0 warnings) in the past 5 years of driving (zero accidents, zero instances of losing control of the car), but i always do at LEAST 20 over traffic allowing, and to be quite honest it's still slow in light traffic.
Like the exercise room for /.ers
No, it means that you, like the vast majority of reporters, will just not actually be in the debate hall. The media center is in a separate building, and they're not credentialed to get into the actual debate.
There will be various live feeds all over the campus, so you can cover it all you want.
The debate footage comes from pool cameras, not from every network having their own cameras right in the debate hall.
There are over 2200 journalists credentialed for the media center, which combined with equipment they've put in there, should make one consider the declined due to space constraints part. It's not some conspiracy against Indy reporters, it's space limitations and the desire not to have an out of control media frenzy.
It's not even secret. That's a CPD item that existed before the parties ridiculous 32 page contract.
Not only that, as of last night the CPD had not even officially signed off on the candidates debate contracts and are well aware of how asinine some of the terms are.
Disclaimer: I attend the University of Miami, so have above average awareness of the debate terms.
Well I think the evidence has built up enough to say with a high degree of confidence there was at one point some kind of life on Mars, whats up in the air now is whether there is presently some sort of microscopic lifeform population.
Nader is apparently agitated enough at not being included in the Presidential Debate that he's holding a small community discussion of his platform and a question session here at the University of Miami 2 days before the debate. I'm sure he'll address whether us Floridians and others in swing states (almost said other swingers for a minute lol) should vote for a 3rd party this election... the fact that he's doing a platform presentation in Florida at the site of the 1st debate seems to indicate he wants our votes anyway tho.
This is why someone needs to convince Bush there's oil on Mars, shouldn't be too hard.
If their daddy is one of the most powerful politicians in the country, absolutely.
Maybe they actually had a reasonable person who spoke up and pointed out that Microsoft code on major email system was a really, really bad idea. It would only be a matter of weeks before someone found a buffer to overflow, take control of the mail server, then spread to more computers than ever possible with normal propagation.
5 day forcasts from the NHC have lately been given with a margin of error routinely approaching 800 miles. Now I wasn't following this stuff years back, but I can't imagine it being "much" more accurate as that implies that couldn't guess within around 1200 miles. The 3-day forcast for Frances at one point when the storm was only moving 4mph had a error cone at an angle over 90 degrees, they didn't know whether it would be moving SW or N less than an hour from its current location. Great accuracy there!
Living in Florida I've spent a whole lot of time looking at track modelling in the past month. For hurricane Frances at one point, the cone of error of eye movement was over 90 degrees, as in they had no clue which direction the storm would be moving an hour from when the model was made. In Charley, their predictions were over 100 miles off for the eye only a couple hours before landfall (which really sucked for me since the eye hit land only 30 miles away). And since that happened, the margins of error for Frances and Ivan have been much much larger as they realized their path predictions still sucked.
What's more, one of the local TV stations in-house track forcasting program gave a dead on accurate prediction several days before it hit while the National Hurricane Center was saying Tampa. With Ivan, at one point one of the major models (BAM Medium) predicted the storm would change directions from WNW to NE instantly at a point 3 days away.
Perhaps media forcasters should be evaluating which models are most accurate for the current storm instead of just reporting on a numerical average of computer model coordinates, since often outlying models pick up on something the other ones missed. A few places do that, and often predict the path with a much smaller error than the NHC, whose predictions are purely based on averages of models of which none are always accurate to begin with.
Derivately from the parent: Thinking of people who feeling a 3rd party vote is wasted, do you think a runoff system is a workable system to improve the parties following, as it would allow people to express their support for a 3rd platform while still having the more favorable of the two major platforms being ultimately elected? How would we go about establishing such a system?
That's exactly what the framers had in mind. In a true democracy of majority rule in direct voting, the majority would easily supress the rights of a minority. Where would we be now if ideas that came out of minorities were supressed instead of being able to form groups that impacted the outcome of an election? Possibly still holding slaves and not having anything resembling equal employment opportunity, as much as we'd like to think this is something we suddenly decided was the right thing to do, it came out of minorities influencing the vote.
The founders of the consitution never intended a democracy, they intended a Republic where representatives made the laws, not the simple majority.