Just because they can make a rule doesn't mean it's right. Are you suggesting we should just shutup and accept whatever rules are handed down from above? It's funny that 'sheep' is commonly used as an insult here, and yet so many posters are saying "it's a rule, shutup and follow". This country wouldn't exist today if some wise men had taken your advice 228 years ago and shut up.
Eventually, we got rid of the "second place is vice-president" rule by amendment because it always meant that the president of the senate was in opposition to the president, and the government was constantly gridlocked due to that.
The reason that the 2nd place Vice-President was scrapped was because of succession. If the Vice President is in opposition to the President, it provides a lot of incentive for someone to assassinate the President.
The president of the Senate is mostly meaningless. Their only real power is to cast the tie breaking vote. The president of the Senate is obliged to follow the rules of the Senate, so they cannot just arbitrarily say "the Senate will sit on its hands until I am pleased" or anything like that.
A policital party working to get another party's candidate on the ballot, simply to weaken their main opposition, is playing dirty. Trying to take someone off the ballot because they will weaken your position is equally dirty.
If conservatives were doing this to a liberal candidate, people would be screaming bloody murder. Same old far-left tactic.... Supress the voice of the people you don't agree with.
Swap liberal and conservative, change left to right. It's simple to make baseless attacks, isn't it?
If these same groups could keep Bush off the ballot the same way, they would.
As I understand, Nader does not meet the satutory requirements to appear on the ballot in many states. If Bush didn't meet the requirements, I wouldn't expect him on the ballot either. If Nader can get state courts to overrule the respective state legislatures, then by all means, he should be allowed on, just as Lautenberg replaced Torricelli after the statutory deadline in 2002 by order of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
If I was in his state and he didn't vote according to the popular vote then I'd feel very much like he stole from me personally my right to influence the election process.
To get technical, you don't have a right to vote for president. The Constitution says that the state legislatures shall determine the methods for selecting electors. It just so happens that every state legislature has chosen direct popular vote as the method for selecting electors. In 2000, Florida was prepared to select its electors by legislative resolution, in case Bush lost the recount battle.
Of course the Republicans haven't 100% removed them, but they no longer set the agenda.
You mean the republican agenda to cut taxes whenever possible, end government oversight of industry, cut civil liberties in the name of security, privatize or eliminate social services, unilaterally and selectively enforce UN resolutions, end all abortions (even when required for the mother's health), and write gay bashing into the constitution isn't radical?
The democrats are currently way too controlled by people seriously running around claiming Bush is worse than Hitler.
What a joke! Who is saying this? Please show me an elected democrat, democrat running for office, or democratic party official who said anything like this. You can't take an internet message board and say that it represents the party leadership.
An example of the leftist loonies are most of the protestors at the RNC (though presumably not all of them).
Really? Were you there? I wasn't able to make the RNC protests but I was in the city for the large protest before the war last year. You'd really be surprised at how many "normal people" are at these things. Or maybe it was just 300,000 loonies. Right.
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Until the records come out, and the investigations are completed we'll never know.
Until the records come out? Look what you said in your own post:
The Naval officer who's signature appears on Kerry's star doesn't remember ever issuing the commendation. What? The Navy lie!?! Thats unpossible.
Somehow I doubt you'd be saying this if the records supported your version of the story.
In a presidential debate, you can't just tell your opponent to shut up and then cut his mic.
You must have missed Reagan. During a primary debate with George Bush in 1980, it somehow ended up (supposedly) that his campaign footed the bill for a microphone rental. At one point, the moderator asked for Reagan's microphone to be shut off so that Bush could speak. Reagan angrily retorted, "I paid for this microphone!" It is considered one of the defining moments of Reagan's 1980 campaign.
Mediocrity reigns in the American public school system, and it isn't going to change any time soon.
Hate to break it to you, but mediocrity reigns everywhere. If everyone was above mediocre, mediocrity would simply be redefined. There will always be a top 10% and bottom 10%.
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As for countries like Iran, Hussein's Iraq, Pakistan, etc, they were broken up for a reason. Very simply: we can't trust them as far as we can kick them. September 11 only proves that.
Odd. You don't mention either of the two countries that actually had anything to do with September 11: Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Actually, under the Bush Doctrine, world affairs become more stable when countries have access to nuclear weapons. You don't hear Bush say much about North Korea (the biggest threat to the US, and a known proliferator), but Iran or Syria? Hell, they're already planning the invasion in case Bush happens to win.
Oh, and I don't know about you, but anime actually affects me as a person, unlike Hollywood movies that I watch and I go "Wow, that was cool." and move on with life. The more in-depth anime around make me think about various issues, and causes me to take a look at things from a different angle.
Then you aren't watching the right movies. While, imo, most good anime is much more character driven than your typical hollywood fare, there are still lots of american movies that are character driven and/or make you think.
Umm, this happens a lot. Usually only in smaller races, because in those races absentee ballots can represent a sizable percentage of the vote. Absentee ballots generally aren't very different from the 'in-person' vote distribution, as well, so it is very, very rare, but it does occur that it takes a week to finally determine the winner. See here, here, here, etc. All gleaned from a yahoo search for "absentee ballots change outcome of election".
Well, you're right in the general sense, but incorrect in the details. Congress does not control voting. They do set some standards for voting equipment, but that's about it. The Constitution places the authority for selecting presidential electors on the state legislatures. In fact, there is no requirement that the people vote for president. The state legislatures could decide to simply name electors that will vote for the person they want. Florida voted to do this in 2000, in case Bush lost the court battles/recount.
Anyway, my point is that vote reform would have to get pushed through the state legislatures. Now, while those are also controlled by Rs and Ds, they do not have national parties to answer to like congresspeople do (yes, they still answer to the parties, but it's simply not the same). State legislatures will do things that would never happen on the national stage because of the attention. It's simply not as drastic a change if a small state, such as New Hampshire, started the ball rolling. This is what is currently happening with gay marriage/civil union. It's what happened with emancipation, integration, prohibition (iirc), etc. Movements in this country have generally started at the state level. Note that Louisana already uses some method of vote reform for statewide races. If no one gets a majority (>50%) of the vote, there is a runoff vote between the top two finishers, regardless of party. AFAIK, they do not do this for presidential elections.
I guess you've never been in the situation where some faceless company decided you owed them money for no reason. It's not exactly fun. Furthermore, you imply that the fact that some people haven't paid their bills means that collection agencies should be able to break the law. Was that your intent? Do you support vigilante bill collection?
While the GP's post may have had a bit of a "look how much I know" feel to it, I suspect that your reaction to his use of "jargon" which with you are not familiar is an emotional rather than rational one.
Look at the original post. He starts by saying "For those who failed chemistry..." Well, there are a lot of us who didn't fail chemistry, and didn't know what he was talking about, so there was a clear disparity there, and we pointed it out. His attitude was truly arrogant and elitist, and that was the source of the negative reaction. I think most of us learn things here every day, and that's why we come back despite duplicate posts, lame jokes, trolls, etc.
Sorry, but anyone who studied (and passed) chemistry ought to know what steric hindrance is.
I use chemistry at my job every day (I'm an environmental scientist who mainly works on air permitting) and I don't know what steric hinderance is. For the record, I was a CS major and never took chemistry in college, though I did receive college credit for AP chemistry. I have studied (and passed) chemistry, just not at the level where topics such as steric hindrance are covered. Chemistry is quite a big field, as I'm sure you know.
To quote H. L. Mencken, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
Quoting people doesn't make them, or you, right. I've always thought that Mencken quote to be elitist. It presents a truly disgusting attitude about teachers; implying that they are all people who couldn't cut it in their field. Einstein was a teacher. Do you think he couldn't "do"? Without teachers, none of us would be anywhere near where we are today, including you.
Other posts here have indicated that it does not work on mirrors, so who knows what it's actual capabilities are. IMO, the safety/liability issue is overblown. This thing shouldn't be using a laser anywhere near powerful enough to do any damage. The light only has to travel a cm or so and reflect back.
It's not insightful to say 'deal with it'. While I am a lefty who doesn't use left mice (but use my left hand, though i can easily do either). I don't think that it's right to go around saying "Oh, I'm left handed and I use right, so you should too!" People should use what they think is most comfortable and what they can get and afford. Unfortunately, the market for left mice is limited. Demand is low, supply is low, and prices are high (compared to right mice). That doesn't mean that the peopel that want them shouldn't demand them (how else will manufacturers know that demand exists?)
I think there are much more 'useful' keys nearer to the arrows (maybe our definition of useful is different?). When you're using WASD or IJKL (harder to type those on a dvorak.. its Just MHO. Everyone has their own preferences of course.
The real point is that it can track on surfaces that it couldn't before.
The write up mentions mirrors for a reason.
Yeah, but the box, according to other posts, specifically says the mouse won't work well on mirrors and other reflective surfaces, so that can't be it.
I had completely forgotten about that. Not only could you import characters (throughout the whole series, if you went in order, IIRC), there were always subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) references to the previous games. Also, the game was very well balanced. It didn't matter if you started fresh or brought in a character that you had been using for the prior 3 games. Also, the three character classes provided almost three games in one. Sure, the same general plot elements always happened, but the solutions were always different.
Note in point: I called Intel the other week, and they asked what chassis I had for my PC. The lady pronounced the ch as ch instead of sh, so that confused me for 10 seconds tops.
You're both right. Dictionary.com: chassis [sh (short a) s (long e), ch (short a) s (long e)]. Offhand, where did you grow up? I've always heard it as "ch" here in New Jersey.
IIRC, Carl Sagan died during production and was involved with the production until his death. From IMDB: "Author and producer Carl Sagan died during production of the film. He was reportedly taking great care to ensure that "science" was accurately depicted in the film."
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Just because they can make a rule doesn't mean it's right. Are you suggesting we should just shutup and accept whatever rules are handed down from above? It's funny that 'sheep' is commonly used as an insult here, and yet so many posters are saying "it's a rule, shutup and follow". This country wouldn't exist today if some wise men had taken your advice 228 years ago and shut up.
Eventually, we got rid of the "second place is vice-president" rule by amendment because it always meant that the president of the senate was in opposition to the president, and the government was constantly gridlocked due to that.
The reason that the 2nd place Vice-President was scrapped was because of succession. If the Vice President is in opposition to the President, it provides a lot of incentive for someone to assassinate the President.
The president of the Senate is mostly meaningless. Their only real power is to cast the tie breaking vote. The president of the Senate is obliged to follow the rules of the Senate, so they cannot just arbitrarily say "the Senate will sit on its hands until I am pleased" or anything like that.
A policital party working to get another party's candidate on the ballot, simply to weaken their main opposition, is playing dirty. Trying to take someone off the ballot because they will weaken your position is equally dirty.
If conservatives were doing this to a liberal candidate, people would be screaming bloody murder. Same old far-left tactic.... Supress the voice of the people you don't agree with.
Swap liberal and conservative, change left to right. It's simple to make baseless attacks, isn't it?
If these same groups could keep Bush off the ballot the same way, they would.
As I understand, Nader does not meet the satutory requirements to appear on the ballot in many states. If Bush didn't meet the requirements, I wouldn't expect him on the ballot either. If Nader can get state courts to overrule the respective state legislatures, then by all means, he should be allowed on, just as Lautenberg replaced Torricelli after the statutory deadline in 2002 by order of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
If I was in his state and he didn't vote according to the popular vote then I'd feel very much like he stole from me personally my right to influence the election process.
To get technical, you don't have a right to vote for president. The Constitution says that the state legislatures shall determine the methods for selecting electors. It just so happens that every state legislature has chosen direct popular vote as the method for selecting electors. In 2000, Florida was prepared to select its electors by legislative resolution, in case Bush lost the recount battle.
I call bullshit.
Of course the Republicans haven't 100% removed them, but they no longer set the agenda.
You mean the republican agenda to cut taxes whenever possible, end government oversight of industry, cut civil liberties in the name of security, privatize or eliminate social services, unilaterally and selectively enforce UN resolutions, end all abortions (even when required for the mother's health), and write gay bashing into the constitution isn't radical?
The democrats are currently way too controlled by people seriously running around claiming Bush is worse than Hitler.
What a joke! Who is saying this? Please show me an elected democrat, democrat running for office, or democratic party official who said anything like this. You can't take an internet message board and say that it represents the party leadership.
An example of the leftist loonies are most of the protestors at the RNC (though presumably not all of them).
Really? Were you there? I wasn't able to make the RNC protests but I was in the city for the large protest before the war last year. You'd really be surprised at how many "normal people" are at these things. Or maybe it was just 300,000 loonies. Right.
Until the records come out, and the investigations are completed we'll never know.
Until the records come out? Look what you said in your own post:
The Naval officer who's signature appears on Kerry's star doesn't remember ever issuing the commendation. What? The Navy lie!?! Thats unpossible.
Somehow I doubt you'd be saying this if the records supported your version of the story.
FWIW, it's been discovered that many groups working to get Nader on the ballot are funded by the GOP. Both sides are playing dirty here.
In a presidential debate, you can't just tell your opponent to shut up and then cut his mic.
You must have missed Reagan. During a primary debate with George Bush in 1980, it somehow ended up (supposedly) that his campaign footed the bill for a microphone rental. At one point, the moderator asked for Reagan's microphone to be shut off so that Bush could speak. Reagan angrily retorted, "I paid for this microphone!" It is considered one of the defining moments of Reagan's 1980 campaign.
Mediocrity reigns in the American public school system, and it isn't going to change any time soon.
Hate to break it to you, but mediocrity reigns everywhere. If everyone was above mediocre, mediocrity would simply be redefined. There will always be a top 10% and bottom 10%.
As for countries like Iran, Hussein's Iraq, Pakistan, etc, they were broken up for a reason. Very simply: we can't trust them as far as we can kick them. September 11 only proves that.
Odd. You don't mention either of the two countries that actually had anything to do with September 11: Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Actually, under the Bush Doctrine, world affairs become more stable when countries have access to nuclear weapons. You don't hear Bush say much about North Korea (the biggest threat to the US, and a known proliferator), but Iran or Syria? Hell, they're already planning the invasion in case Bush happens to win.
Oh, and I don't know about you, but anime actually affects me as a person, unlike Hollywood movies that I watch and I go "Wow, that was cool." and move on with life. The more in-depth anime around make me think about various issues, and causes me to take a look at things from a different angle.
Then you aren't watching the right movies. While, imo, most good anime is much more character driven than your typical hollywood fare, there are still lots of american movies that are character driven and/or make you think.
Umm, this happens a lot. Usually only in smaller races, because in those races absentee ballots can represent a sizable percentage of the vote. Absentee ballots generally aren't very different from the 'in-person' vote distribution, as well, so it is very, very rare, but it does occur that it takes a week to finally determine the winner. See here, here, here, etc. All gleaned from a yahoo search for "absentee ballots change outcome of election".
4.) Then I get to vote. And mail back the ballot. And hope that it's received in time.
Generally, as with most government deadlines, the document needs to only be postmarked by the deadline to be considered.
Well, you're right in the general sense, but incorrect in the details. Congress does not control voting. They do set some standards for voting equipment, but that's about it. The Constitution places the authority for selecting presidential electors on the state legislatures. In fact, there is no requirement that the people vote for president. The state legislatures could decide to simply name electors that will vote for the person they want. Florida voted to do this in 2000, in case Bush lost the court battles/recount.
Anyway, my point is that vote reform would have to get pushed through the state legislatures. Now, while those are also controlled by Rs and Ds, they do not have national parties to answer to like congresspeople do (yes, they still answer to the parties, but it's simply not the same). State legislatures will do things that would never happen on the national stage because of the attention. It's simply not as drastic a change if a small state, such as New Hampshire, started the ball rolling. This is what is currently happening with gay marriage/civil union. It's what happened with emancipation, integration, prohibition (iirc), etc. Movements in this country have generally started at the state level. Note that Louisana already uses some method of vote reform for statewide races. If no one gets a majority (>50%) of the vote, there is a runoff vote between the top two finishers, regardless of party. AFAIK, they do not do this for presidential elections.
I guess you've never been in the situation where some faceless company decided you owed them money for no reason. It's not exactly fun. Furthermore, you imply that the fact that some people haven't paid their bills means that collection agencies should be able to break the law. Was that your intent? Do you support vigilante bill collection?
While the GP's post may have had a bit of a "look how much I know" feel to it, I suspect that your reaction to his use of "jargon" which with you are not familiar is an emotional rather than rational one.
Look at the original post. He starts by saying "For those who failed chemistry..." Well, there are a lot of us who didn't fail chemistry, and didn't know what he was talking about, so there was a clear disparity there, and we pointed it out. His attitude was truly arrogant and elitist, and that was the source of the negative reaction. I think most of us learn things here every day, and that's why we come back despite duplicate posts, lame jokes, trolls, etc.
Sorry, but anyone who studied (and passed) chemistry ought to know what steric hindrance is.
I use chemistry at my job every day (I'm an environmental scientist who mainly works on air permitting) and I don't know what steric hinderance is. For the record, I was a CS major and never took chemistry in college, though I did receive college credit for AP chemistry. I have studied (and passed) chemistry, just not at the level where topics such as steric hindrance are covered. Chemistry is quite a big field, as I'm sure you know.
To quote H. L. Mencken, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
Quoting people doesn't make them, or you, right. I've always thought that Mencken quote to be elitist. It presents a truly disgusting attitude about teachers; implying that they are all people who couldn't cut it in their field. Einstein was a teacher. Do you think he couldn't "do"? Without teachers, none of us would be anywhere near where we are today, including you.
Other posts here have indicated that it does not work on mirrors, so who knows what it's actual capabilities are. IMO, the safety/liability issue is overblown. This thing shouldn't be using a laser anywhere near powerful enough to do any damage. The light only has to travel a cm or so and reflect back.
It's not insightful to say 'deal with it'. While I am a lefty who doesn't use left mice (but use my left hand, though i can easily do either). I don't think that it's right to go around saying "Oh, I'm left handed and I use right, so you should too!" People should use what they think is most comfortable and what they can get and afford. Unfortunately, the market for left mice is limited. Demand is low, supply is low, and prices are high (compared to right mice). That doesn't mean that the peopel that want them shouldn't demand them (how else will manufacturers know that demand exists?)
I think there are much more 'useful' keys nearer to the arrows (maybe our definition of useful is different?). When you're using WASD or IJKL (harder to type those on a dvorak.. its
Just MHO. Everyone has their own preferences of course.
The real point is that it can track on surfaces that it couldn't before.
The write up mentions mirrors for a reason.
Yeah, but the box, according to other posts, specifically says the mouse won't work well on mirrors and other reflective surfaces, so that can't be it.
I had completely forgotten about that. Not only could you import characters (throughout the whole series, if you went in order, IIRC), there were always subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) references to the previous games. Also, the game was very well balanced. It didn't matter if you started fresh or brought in a character that you had been using for the prior 3 games. Also, the three character classes provided almost three games in one. Sure, the same general plot elements always happened, but the solutions were always different.
Note in point: I called Intel the other week, and they asked what chassis I had for my PC. The lady pronounced the ch as ch instead of sh, so that confused me for 10 seconds tops.
You're both right. Dictionary.com: chassis [sh (short a) s (long e), ch (short a) s (long e)]. Offhand, where did you grow up? I've always heard it as "ch" here in New Jersey.
IIRC, Carl Sagan died during production and was involved with the production until his death. From IMDB: "Author and producer Carl Sagan died during production of the film. He was reportedly taking great care to ensure that "science" was accurately depicted in the film."