It irritates me when people make these comparisons.
At one time, the republican party DID stand for shrinking government, fiscal conservatism, and a host of other things. Guess what? At one time, all the racists were democrats. Guess what? Pointing out that fact about the democratic party now is nonsense. Why? Because all the racists swung into the republican party for myriad reasons. Guess what? Fiscal conservatism seems to have swung to the democrats as the last 24 years should attest.
You can't look at these stupid labels and say "well, this person or group must then stand for x, y, and z". It doesn't work like that anymore. There are too many politicians passing around too much disinformation and blurring all sorts of lines to get as much support from the electorate as possible. There's no real government anymore, it's just a bunch of power mad people desperately trying to take things over and preserve their own hides.
Saddest part of it all? Nobody gives a fuck and they keep voting against those horrible "lefties" or those knuckle-dragging "conservatives" anyway. If people stood the fuck back for five goddamn minutes and actually looked intelligently at who they were voting for, they'd be absolutely disgusted.
Would you support the government randomly stomping through your house with fully automatic weapons and flak gear? You have nothing to hide, after all. It shouldn't matter to you what they do.
Uh... how does that pdf in your signature justify the war in Iraq, when the war in Iraq was based on the baseless charges that he was in possession of or was actively attempting to gain posession of weapons of mass destructions that would be used against the United States? That report doesn't justify those claims even by the most ridiculous stretch of the imagination. There is never one bit of evidence provided for the series of claims in the firt part. The closest thing to evidence that is provided is the statement that the report is based on "interviews with former regime officials".
In fact, your little linky dink there explicitly states several different times that Hussein was in compliance with many of the various sanctions. It only alludes to non-compliance in some places, and likely never comes right out and says that Hussein had any of the banned weapons because it never begins to offer any evidence that those claims would be accurate.
On top of that, it explicitly states that after 1991, "Iraq's ability to reconstitute a nuclear program progressively decayed". The only "damning evidence" is in reference to chemical weapons and it's preceded by "probably".
The most this report could possibly justify is forceful reintroduction of the inspection teams, and since Bush decided he'd rather play Rambo than president, I'd say this report is proof of Bush's extreme negligence and acutely dangerous incompetence. To state that this is justification for a full scale invasion is a plain, flat out lie.
And if the antifreeze boils over, you're going to have one heck of a mess on your carpet (not to mention one fried processor)....
Hmmm.... I don't think AMD has had a problem with their chips being as hot as a running car motor for awhile now.
Amusingly, I note that he actually did use glycol. Unless he plans on running his system outside in the winter, however, I'm not sure what the point was. The only thing it seems to be doing is bringing a toxic substance into his living quarters. Hope he doesn't have any pets, or he may not have them much longer:/
Oh, I love America. I hate stupid Americans. Much like yourself.
Now, like almost every other dipshit who wasted precious seconds of their life responding to a post they clearly didn't read, I see that you couldn't be bothered to actually review and comprehend the post, nor does it appear that you bothered to read the article which has absolutely nothing to do with eVoting-specific or even realistic threats.
You, sir, like 98.5% of all the other retards that log into this site to exercise their god-given right to form painfully uninformed, wildly inaccurate, opinions, are a moron.
Hey, chucklehead. I note that while you were responding in righteous indignation, you conveniently ignored everything I posted that invalidates that entire last paragraph in your post. Go back and read my position again slowly and carefully. Maybe you'll get the point if you don't go ripping through it with the intent of attacking a position you couldn't be bothered to understand.
First of all, this "study" was done with full knowledge of the outcome of the election. While this makes for a slightly amusing statistical exercise, for it to work right, one candidate would not only have to have unrealistic access to countless voting machines, he'd have had to have guessed WHICH machines he needed unrealistic access to beforehand.
Second, this doesn't show any problem specific to electronic voting. Each of those votes in the "one vote per machine" total could have been "flipped" by countless other fraudulent activities if the aforementioned prerequisite of psychic ability had been met.
Finally - see that horse? It's dead. You can stop beating it. Electronic voting has happened, is happening, and will happen. The only way people will rise up and kill it is if (when) some massive fraud or error occurs that totally fucks the outcome of a major race.
I suppose that pointing this out to Sims is a waste of time given his history of childish antics and self-serving coniptions, but I'll do it anyway: this sort of nonsense being given face time on Slashdot just serves to stir up a bunch of clueless 16 year old zitheads who go around yelping about a real problem in an unrealistic way which just galvanizes everyone who needs to know about it against the people who actually understand the threat and have a real case to make. Congratulations, Michael. You not only continue to lower the overall level of discourse in the technical arena, you even manage to get paid for it now.
The easiest way to think of the distinction is that a theory is a set of calculations and observations that are used to explain some previously unexplained phenomena.
A law, however, is something that is quite set in stone. In your example, you're actually referring to a set of equations that Newton put forth. These equations are quite absolute and will always reproduce the same output no matter how often a given set of variables is retested.
Therefore, while a theory is a "best effort" explanation that tries to predict results, a law is a logical system (such as an equation) that must and will always produce the expected results given a defined starting point.
Agreed, but we're talking about two different things now. It's definitely been observed in the cosmos, but AFAIK this is the first experiment that tentatively confirms the phenomenon.
Frame dragging is the explanation for observed inconsistencies in the swirling gas/dust clouds surrounding massive black holes, but I don't know that this portion of the theory has ever been confirmed via experiment.
The original linked article IS CNN's writeup. Read the Nature article. CNN may have beat them to the punch, but there's some question as to the accuracy of these findings that CNN conveniently didn't mention.
Hmmm... I read this earlier because CNN jumped on it, but there are questions (noted in the Nature article) about its actual accuracy. There's some concern that the original gravity field maps that this method used weren't accurate enough.
This is a good step forward, but I think until we call the frame dragging prediction confirmed we should wait to see what Gravity Probe B comes up with.
Hummers are full time 4WD. They cannot do wheelies without major modifications to the drivetrain to make them RWD, shifting the engine to the rear of the vehicle (and possibly weighting the ass end even more or lightening the front), and upping the engine output (they don't make enough torque).
Yea, right. That's why I'm banned from posting for going apeshit on the slashbots. Because I support the groupthink that gets you modpoints and I modbomb the individual thought processes that get you banned.
Stop talking about yourself in that voice. Everyone knows you're just a sockpuppet and I hurt your feelings.
One potential problem with that story is that the doctor "delivered... everything but his... head" yet she remembers it had "the most perfect, angelic face"
What is this, some form of dead baby joke? Are you stupid? Did you survive a botched partial birth abortion or something?
I'm glad that you've cleared this up for me, as I was unaware of the correlation between speeding and infringement of ownership rights until you came along.
Thank you for sharing your unintelligible, brainless opinion with the rest of us. Now, please join the other gentleman in the corner and sit quietly.
How does it feel to be so horrendously stupid that you can't separate an incident from its intentions?
Or, are you psychic? Or do you have some insight nobody else does?
Or, more likely, was that a politically motivated charge with an intent for CBS that you made up completely on the spot, or, perhaps, heard from one of your bullhorn-equipped retards like that pill popping hippy Rush Limbaugh?
Sooo.... people who can't defend themselves in court are free to break the law from a moral standpoint? Pretty much everything else in your statement is a different topic that's not being discussed here, so it has been appropriately ignored.
Congratulations. Here's you dunce cap. Please sit in the corner.
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He wasn't smart enough to run his own companies, what on earth makes you think he suddenly got smart enough to guide an entire country's economy?
Do you understand the implications here? If our voting system has been corrupted, irretrievably, then it's game over for democracy.
And anyone stupid enough to vote for Bush would care about that.... why?
It irritates me when people make these comparisons.
At one time, the republican party DID stand for shrinking government, fiscal conservatism, and a host of other things. Guess what? At one time, all the racists were democrats. Guess what? Pointing out that fact about the democratic party now is nonsense. Why? Because all the racists swung into the republican party for myriad reasons. Guess what? Fiscal conservatism seems to have swung to the democrats as the last 24 years should attest.
You can't look at these stupid labels and say "well, this person or group must then stand for x, y, and z". It doesn't work like that anymore. There are too many politicians passing around too much disinformation and blurring all sorts of lines to get as much support from the electorate as possible. There's no real government anymore, it's just a bunch of power mad people desperately trying to take things over and preserve their own hides.
Saddest part of it all? Nobody gives a fuck and they keep voting against those horrible "lefties" or those knuckle-dragging "conservatives" anyway. If people stood the fuck back for five goddamn minutes and actually looked intelligently at who they were voting for, they'd be absolutely disgusted.
Proof.
Until you provide it, I call bullshit and say you're just making that up.
And... that's related to the point... how?
Would you support the government randomly stomping through your house with fully automatic weapons and flak gear? You have nothing to hide, after all. It shouldn't matter to you what they do.
Uh... how does that pdf in your signature justify the war in Iraq, when the war in Iraq was based on the baseless charges that he was in possession of or was actively attempting to gain posession of weapons of mass destructions that would be used against the United States? That report doesn't justify those claims even by the most ridiculous stretch of the imagination. There is never one bit of evidence provided for the series of claims in the firt part. The closest thing to evidence that is provided is the statement that the report is based on "interviews with former regime officials".
In fact, your little linky dink there explicitly states several different times that Hussein was in compliance with many of the various sanctions. It only alludes to non-compliance in some places, and likely never comes right out and says that Hussein had any of the banned weapons because it never begins to offer any evidence that those claims would be accurate.
On top of that, it explicitly states that after 1991, "Iraq's ability to reconstitute a nuclear program progressively decayed". The only "damning evidence" is in reference to chemical weapons and it's preceded by "probably".
The most this report could possibly justify is forceful reintroduction of the inspection teams, and since Bush decided he'd rather play Rambo than president, I'd say this report is proof of Bush's extreme negligence and acutely dangerous incompetence. To state that this is justification for a full scale invasion is a plain, flat out lie.
And if the antifreeze boils over, you're going to have one heck of a mess on your carpet (not to mention one fried processor)....
Hmmm.... I don't think AMD has had a problem with their chips being as hot as a running car motor for awhile now.
Amusingly, I note that he actually did use glycol. Unless he plans on running his system outside in the winter, however, I'm not sure what the point was. The only thing it seems to be doing is bringing a toxic substance into his living quarters. Hope he doesn't have any pets, or he may not have them much longer :/
Not in this instance with these people....
Oh, I love America. I hate stupid Americans. Much like yourself.
Now, like almost every other dipshit who wasted precious seconds of their life responding to a post they clearly didn't read, I see that you couldn't be bothered to actually review and comprehend the post, nor does it appear that you bothered to read the article which has absolutely nothing to do with eVoting-specific or even realistic threats.
You, sir, like 98.5% of all the other retards that log into this site to exercise their god-given right to form painfully uninformed, wildly inaccurate, opinions, are a moron.
It's always fascinating to nail an overinflated ego to the wall and watch it slowly die as all the hot air leaks out....
Hey, chucklehead. I note that while you were responding in righteous indignation, you conveniently ignored everything I posted that invalidates that entire last paragraph in your post. Go back and read my position again slowly and carefully. Maybe you'll get the point if you don't go ripping through it with the intent of attacking a position you couldn't be bothered to understand.
First of all, this "study" was done with full knowledge of the outcome of the election. While this makes for a slightly amusing statistical exercise, for it to work right, one candidate would not only have to have unrealistic access to countless voting machines, he'd have had to have guessed WHICH machines he needed unrealistic access to beforehand.
Second, this doesn't show any problem specific to electronic voting. Each of those votes in the "one vote per machine" total could have been "flipped" by countless other fraudulent activities if the aforementioned prerequisite of psychic ability had been met.
Finally - see that horse? It's dead. You can stop beating it. Electronic voting has happened, is happening, and will happen. The only way people will rise up and kill it is if (when) some massive fraud or error occurs that totally fucks the outcome of a major race.
I suppose that pointing this out to Sims is a waste of time given his history of childish antics and self-serving coniptions, but I'll do it anyway: this sort of nonsense being given face time on Slashdot just serves to stir up a bunch of clueless 16 year old zitheads who go around yelping about a real problem in an unrealistic way which just galvanizes everyone who needs to know about it against the people who actually understand the threat and have a real case to make. Congratulations, Michael. You not only continue to lower the overall level of discourse in the technical arena, you even manage to get paid for it now.
The easiest way to think of the distinction is that a theory is a set of calculations and observations that are used to explain some previously unexplained phenomena.
A law, however, is something that is quite set in stone. In your example, you're actually referring to a set of equations that Newton put forth. These equations are quite absolute and will always reproduce the same output no matter how often a given set of variables is retested.
Therefore, while a theory is a "best effort" explanation that tries to predict results, a law is a logical system (such as an equation) that must and will always produce the expected results given a defined starting point.
Agreed, but we're talking about two different things now. It's definitely been observed in the cosmos, but AFAIK this is the first experiment that tentatively confirms the phenomenon.
Frame dragging is the explanation for observed inconsistencies in the swirling gas/dust clouds surrounding massive black holes, but I don't know that this portion of the theory has ever been confirmed via experiment.
The original linked article IS CNN's writeup. Read the Nature article. CNN may have beat them to the punch, but there's some question as to the accuracy of these findings that CNN conveniently didn't mention.
Hmmm... I read this earlier because CNN jumped on it, but there are questions (noted in the Nature article) about its actual accuracy. There's some concern that the original gravity field maps that this method used weren't accurate enough.
This is a good step forward, but I think until we call the frame dragging prediction confirmed we should wait to see what Gravity Probe B comes up with.
Hummers are full time 4WD. They cannot do wheelies without major modifications to the drivetrain to make them RWD, shifting the engine to the rear of the vehicle (and possibly weighting the ass end even more or lightening the front), and upping the engine output (they don't make enough torque).
Yea, right. That's why I'm banned from posting for going apeshit on the slashbots. Because I support the groupthink that gets you modpoints and I modbomb the individual thought processes that get you banned.
Stop talking about yourself in that voice. Everyone knows you're just a sockpuppet and I hurt your feelings.
One potential problem with that story is that the doctor "delivered ... everything but his ... head" yet she remembers it had "the most perfect, angelic face"
What is this, some form of dead baby joke? Are you stupid? Did you survive a botched partial birth abortion or something?
I'm glad that you've cleared this up for me, as I was unaware of the correlation between speeding and infringement of ownership rights until you came along.
Thank you for sharing your unintelligible, brainless opinion with the rest of us. Now, please join the other gentleman in the corner and sit quietly.
Huh? It's been modded up and down all day. That comment probably ate at least 2 dozen mod points on its own.
Give it some time. I tend to draw mod-bombers. It'll hit -1 eventually, but the damage is already done.
How does it feel to be so horrendously stupid that you can't separate an incident from its intentions?
Or, are you psychic? Or do you have some insight nobody else does?
Or, more likely, was that a politically motivated charge with an intent for CBS that you made up completely on the spot, or, perhaps, heard from one of your bullhorn-equipped retards like that pill popping hippy Rush Limbaugh?
Imbecile.
Sooo.... people who can't defend themselves in court are free to break the law from a moral standpoint? Pretty much everything else in your statement is a different topic that's not being discussed here, so it has been appropriately ignored.
Congratulations. Here's you dunce cap. Please sit in the corner.
I hear the average price of a sense of humor has decreased drastically in recent months. You should check into it.