Perhaps something better, instead of the winner-take-all-in-each-state:
The overall winner in the state gets the 2 electoral votes corresponding to that state's senators. The winner in each congressional district gets the electoral vote corresponding to the elector for that district.
e.g.: in CA, the state winner would get the 2. The remaining 53 votes would be divided by congressional district (i.e. if candidate A won districts 4,8,15,16,23, and 42 he'd get 6 electoral votes, while candidate B who won all other districts would get 47).
I've submitted bug reports for the semi-opposite issue... apps that require Admin for no good reason (games, typing tutors, etc...). The few times I got a reply I was essentially told "tough shit".
The issue is that those of us who don't want those features have trouble finding one without them.
I work in defense. Many defense contractor facilities allow cells, but no camera phones. You'd think that the CellCos would recognize this as a small, but regular market.
I think the reason is that the CellCos have no financial incentive to offer such phones.
Consider: If CellCo sells me a voice only phone, they have no potential monthly income from:
Mostly I think the phone companies just don't want to make these plain jane models look attractive. Cause if they did many more people would opt for them. At least more of the people I know would. Sheeple are strange like that. Will pay more for something they know they won't like just cause it's "Shiny".
I think the issue is not just that the CellCos realize that people will pay more for "shiny", but because the overloaded non-plain-jane phones let them charge monthly for:
* pictures * email * data * texting * MP3 * this * that * the other * anything else they can think of
I'm assuming you're going for irony here, given your sig.
There is a little thing called the First Amendment, which pretty much would prevent your proposal. I could make a case for the Second, Fourth, and Fifth as well, but given the the current Administration's prediliction for using the Fourth and Fifth (as well as the First) as toilet paper, it's not worth doing so.
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Did SCO ask permission from their partners before filing suit over technology that they (nee, Taratala) only helped develop?
Darl's +5 Name Of Confusion worked.
SCO (the *current" SCO) did not have anything to do with this. Santa Cruz became Tarantella, later bought by Sun.
Nobody is to stone anybody until I say so... even if they do write "Sauron"!
I was thinking about this as well. IMHO (IANAL), a non-neutral net kind of kills any "common carrier" safe harbour status.
Won't *SOMEONE* think of the Paper children????
but beggars can't be choosers.
But buggers can
Perhaps something better, instead of the winner-take-all-in-each-state:
The overall winner in the state gets the 2 electoral votes corresponding to that state's senators.
The winner in each congressional district gets the electoral vote corresponding to the elector for that district.
e.g.: in CA, the state winner would get the 2. The remaining 53 votes would be divided by congressional district (i.e. if candidate A won districts 4,8,15,16,23, and 42 he'd get 6 electoral votes, while candidate B who won all other districts would get 47).
he goo (and balloon material) formed a temporary patch
Not to mention the protagonist's ass.
Oh Yeah!!!!
I've submitted bug reports for the semi-opposite issue ... apps that require Admin for no good reason (games, typing tutors, etc...). The few times I got a reply I was essentially told "tough shit".
My turn to slap forehead. I never read that wikipedia article until now, and I wasn't sure one way or the other if the math in base 13 was deliberate.
Of course, Adams was just the sort to make a base-13 joke, and then claim it wasn't.
Douglas Adams made one....
"What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" "Forty-two".
Work it out in base 13.
I don't -- when avoidable. My previous employment used Dells with the preinstalled Norton Bloatware on it.
Their corporate client has a decent rep (until this).
Their consumer clients are steaming bloated piles of crap.
The issue is that those of us who don't want those features have trouble finding one without them.
I work in defense. Many defense contractor facilities allow cells, but no camera phones. You'd think that the CellCos would recognize this as a small, but regular market.
I think the reason is that the CellCos have no financial incentive to offer such phones.
Consider: If CellCo sells me a voice only phone, they have no potential monthly income from:
* data services
* picture services
* mp3 services
* etc....
Mostly I think the phone companies just don't want to make these plain jane models look attractive. Cause if they did many more people would opt for them. At least more of the people I know would. Sheeple are strange like that. Will pay more for something they know they won't like just cause it's "Shiny".
I think the issue is not just that the CellCos realize that people will pay more for "shiny", but because the overloaded non-plain-jane phones let them charge monthly for:
* pictures
* email
* data
* texting
* MP3
* this
* that
* the other
* anything else they can think of
Back in the monopoly days, AT&T charged extra for touch tone dial capability. So the pulse switch allowed you to save some $$ on your phone bill.
<GEEZER>
Darned young'uns today don't know no history!
</GEEZER>
There were? And they did?
<GLOAT>
Funny... I didn't see any ads like that *cough*FF+AdBlock*cough*
</GLOAT>
Clarke's First Law applies.
And right now we're in one of those (hopefully temporary) demolition phases. :-(
I think he's being a bit transcendental.
I'm going to trademark Web aleph-null and Web aleph-one.
Fine. Let's shift the debate.
Time to open an MS "OpenXML" document on Linux - infinite
Time to open an ODF document in OO.o on LInux - a few seconds.
Actually, some strange quark theories are isomrphic to Banach-Tarski.
No, your token is lost in the Ethernet
See Arthur C. Clarke, "Imperial Earth" and David Eddings, "The Tamuli".
I'm assuming you're going for irony here, given your sig.
There is a little thing called the First Amendment, which pretty much would prevent your proposal. I could make a case for the Second, Fourth, and Fifth as well, but given the the current Administration's prediliction for using the Fourth and Fifth (as well as the First) as toilet paper, it's not worth doing so.