Ethical doctors treat the wounded on both sides. Can most (military) weapon designers make the same claim?
Ethical doctors treat soldiers on their side and prisoners from the other side. Same as an engineer contributes to the strength of his own side without (intentionally) helping the other side.
The linked article is obviously very biased, as is the slashdot headline. Why this made the front page is a mystery. One quote form the article stands out:
Dixon, 34, also declined to provide specifics on his guilty plea but he said he’d become an instructor because he couldn’t find work as an electrical contractor. During the investigation, his house went into foreclosure.
“My wife and I are terrified,” he said. “I stumbled into this. I’m a Little League coach in Indiana. I don’t have any law enforcement background.”
In other words, the guy was committing fraud by charging for this "instruction". He was convicted of fraud. The Big Brother angle is all hype and speculation.
Schools these days don't allow the top students to be challenged by treating them like they're special. The good students are mixed in with the others who are just putting in their time; robbing both good students and good teachers of the opportunity to prepare for college classes.
Repeating that 1991 strategy as needed in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been far less expensive
Repeating 1991 would've given Saddam an excuse to murder another quarter of a million people as payback (which he did in the mid-90s). And the Arab Spring would never have happened if dictators were free to slaughter people at will.
Linked articles are long on hype and short on data. The "green" angle is irrelevant, but this would be the perfect complement to the cold fusion reactor we'll all have in our basements.
The goal was and still is to prevent a few large cities from having absolute rule. The country needs rural and undeveloped areas that are somewhat protected from urbanites.
if they had distributed the electoral votes by district
Which would have given Romney this election. The idea has merit...
But the idea is to get a mix of how candidates are elected - House of Representatives is as local as it can be done, Senate statewide popular vote in different years, President statewide by popular vote. It works for me.
Both parties have a lunatic fringe. I suspect if you opened you mind and learned what most Republicans support instead of listening to what Democrats say about Republicans you would be pleasantly surprised.
I voted with one of those machines today. It's not a touchscreen, you use a trackball to select the candidate. The guy is obviously trying to make it look like the machine doesn't work by touching the screen and not showing the trackball being moved.
Here in PA I just walked in, told them my name, and voted. No ID required (Democrats squashed that requirement). I noticed a couple of my relatives who haven't lived around here for years are still registered to vote but didn't try returning later and claiming to be them.
I've seen reports of a video "proving" that the electronic machines are rigged so you can't pick Obama. The video is the only thing fraudulent. It shows the guy's finger touching the screen trying to pick Obama but the selection says on Romney; then he touches Stein and the selection skips across Obama and stops on Stein. What the video doesn't show is the trackball that controls your selection that the guy is obviously moving with his other hand off camera; the machines are NOT touchscreen.
If I was Apple I would have set the price at $250 and lived with little or no profit and counted on iTunes sales.
Why? Apple buyers will buy Apply products, they have no other choice. The higher price makes the product a status symbol. Marketers! Marketers! Marketers!
I'm pretty sure that's kind of the plan here. A single device that's powerful enough to replace what we have today. You can put it on your desktop if you want, or slip it into your pocket.
Generating electricity from trash is pretty inefficient, the US had almost 200 incinerators in 1990 but roughly half of them have been shut down due to economics. The real money for Sweden is the fee for taking trash from European countries that don't have (or won't build) landfills. Still, in the long run it seems make more sense to burn it rather than just bury it even if burning is more expensive in the short term..
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Ethical doctors treat the wounded on both sides. Can most (military) weapon designers make the same claim?
Ethical doctors treat soldiers on their side and prisoners from the other side. Same as an engineer contributes to the strength of his own side without (intentionally) helping the other side.
Saying an engineer shouldn't design a better weapon is like saying a doctor shouldn't treat a wounded soldier.
Dixon, 34, also declined to provide specifics on his guilty plea but he said he’d become an instructor because he couldn’t find work as an electrical contractor. During the investigation, his house went into foreclosure. “My wife and I are terrified,” he said. “I stumbled into this. I’m a Little League coach in Indiana. I don’t have any law enforcement background.”
In other words, the guy was committing fraud by charging for this "instruction". He was convicted of fraud. The Big Brother angle is all hype and speculation.
Schools these days don't allow the top students to be challenged by treating them like they're special. The good students are mixed in with the others who are just putting in their time; robbing both good students and good teachers of the opportunity to prepare for college classes.
Everything about the Oregon result looks like sabotage. It'll be interesting to see if they can find the source of the seed.
Because we all know how valuable Beanie Babies were at their peak. There is no doubt in my mind that a rebound will come any day now...
Repeating that 1991 strategy as needed in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been far less expensive
Repeating 1991 would've given Saddam an excuse to murder another quarter of a million people as payback (which he did in the mid-90s). And the Arab Spring would never have happened if dictators were free to slaughter people at will.
Linked articles are long on hype and short on data. The "green" angle is irrelevant, but this would be the perfect complement to the cold fusion reactor we'll all have in our basements.
The goal was and still is to prevent a few large cities from having absolute rule. The country needs rural and undeveloped areas that are somewhat protected from urbanites.
if they had distributed the electoral votes by district
Which would have given Romney this election. The idea has merit...
But the idea is to get a mix of how candidates are elected - House of Representatives is as local as it can be done, Senate statewide popular vote in different years, President statewide by popular vote. It works for me.
No, that's an example of candidates who know how to campaign concentrating their efforts in swing states.
Gore screwed up by standing in front of cheering crowds in New York and California. But those are a given for the Democrats, he was wasting his time.
Not stupid at all. The USA is a federation of states. Each state decides which candidate it supports for the federal Chief Executive.
Both parties have a lunatic fringe. I suspect if you opened you mind and learned what most Republicans support instead of listening to what Democrats say about Republicans you would be pleasantly surprised.
I voted with one of those machines today. It's not a touchscreen, you use a trackball to select the candidate. The guy is obviously trying to make it look like the machine doesn't work by touching the screen and not showing the trackball being moved.
Here in PA I just walked in, told them my name, and voted. No ID required (Democrats squashed that requirement). I noticed a couple of my relatives who haven't lived around here for years are still registered to vote but didn't try returning later and claiming to be them.
I've seen reports of a video "proving" that the electronic machines are rigged so you can't pick Obama. The video is the only thing fraudulent. It shows the guy's finger touching the screen trying to pick Obama but the selection says on Romney; then he touches Stein and the selection skips across Obama and stops on Stein. What the video doesn't show is the trackball that controls your selection that the guy is obviously moving with his other hand off camera; the machines are NOT touchscreen.
If I was Apple I would have set the price at $250 and lived with little or no profit and counted on iTunes sales.
Why? Apple buyers will buy Apply products, they have no other choice. The higher price makes the product a status symbol. Marketers! Marketers! Marketers!
That's right. It comes with a lifetime guarantee.
More likely they would knock on the door. If someone answers they ask for somebody you never heard of. "Oh, sorry, must have the wrong address".
'shopped, I can tell by the pixels.
That empathic behavior is more likely to get you laid and produce children than rational behavior.
More likely to get you hooked up with a psycho too.
I'm pretty sure that's kind of the plan here. A single device that's powerful enough to replace what we have today. You can put it on your desktop if you want, or slip it into your pocket.
You're thinking of Wikipedia.
Generating electricity from trash is pretty inefficient, the US had almost 200 incinerators in 1990 but roughly half of them have been shut down due to economics. The real money for Sweden is the fee for taking trash from European countries that don't have (or won't build) landfills. Still, in the long run it seems make more sense to burn it rather than just bury it even if burning is more expensive in the short term..
They'd get their butt kicked, same as if they invaded any other time. What do you think they would do, come ashore in Atlantic City with Sandy?
Bigotry? Intolerance? Care to be more specific?