They were missing long before the army ever got there.
That's probably incorrect. The Iraqi Provisional Authority says they were there until sometime after the fall of Baghdad (April 9), a view backed up by Pentagon spokesman Di Rita yesterday, who claimed the RDX and HMX were present with intact IAEA seals when the U.S. Army inspected, looking for (and not finding) WMD.
Another un-named Pentagon source gives a somewhat differing story, that they were missing around the time of April 9. Neither scenario is terribly positive: they were either there, known to be intact and left unguarded, or they were missing, known to be missing but word never filtered back to the National Security Advisor. Or she's a liar.
And before anyone says something about the machines being insecure, I was talking to the election commisioner for the county. She made sure they were as secure as they could be made. I'm not gonna worry about it
Your county election commisioner is a software engineer? Cool! Wait, she must work for the voting machine vendor... they're all closed source.
Conflict of interest? Or merely unqualified to "make sure"?
Such as the company shrink who made a member of my family take lithium to treat the bereavment she was still experiencing a week after her fiancee died in a car wreck. (true story)
I'm not a shrink, but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. As I recall, Lithium is most generally useful in bipolar disorder (a chronic metabolic condition) to control the manic leg of the cycle. Your family member is no doubt mourning, and such a sudden loss is obviously traumatic - so treatment for Acute Stress Disorder (analogous to PTSD without meeting duration requirements for that dignosis) with anti-anxiety and/or anti-depressant meds, along with counselling - would seem at more sane approach than chemical brain-bludgeoning with lithium salts.
The idea that the effects of drinking a cup of coffee could even be considered being classified as a "disease" is absolutely ludicrous
That's not what they're considering doing. They're talking about the symptoms that some regualt users of caffeiene experience upon sudden cessation. DSM is for the most part merely despriptive of various sets of symptoms and circumstances, including things like "Bereavement" (V62.82).
One can hardly claim that observing (and labelling) the fact that people are sad when a loved one dies is intended to absolve them of responsibility for their actions.
...Although this claims a public comment period... "Although not required by law" (i.e., we're going to do it anyhow; the comment period is just window dressing)
Online reporting of defective streetlights and traffic control devices, with complaints appropriately routed.
The pulic library system is likely not something you can directly influence, already having their own inter-library loan system, etc, but arrangements with them perhaps to crosslink with your resources.
Incidentally, the "first 64bit computer" part of the Apple debacle was one part I never understood - surely we've had 64bit (UltraSparc) workstations since the mid-90s?
As I recall it, the claim that Apple was taken to task for was more like "First 64-bit desktop" -- which led to a lot of reasonable debate concerning what a "Desktop" was vs. what a "Workstation" was.
I'm an Apple fan, but they should have done a mea culpa on that one and blamed the different standards UK v. US for confusion and moved on.
Yeah, especially since the battery manufacturer - the South Korean LG Chem - was the one that had a bad manufacturing run and is apparently accepting liability for it by footing the bill for the recall...
You would have to train yourself NOT to pay attention just to have the nerve to go through an intersection like that. It really creates for a more dangerous scenario.
It'd also get people used to whizzing by nearly clipping other vehicles, then they'd inevitably do it in unautomated settings, leading to much carnage. Interesting bit of work. BAD idea to even think about implementing it.
Not to mention the expense of equipping every vehicle on the particular road with the control system. Another issue: would it forbid manual control? If not, and tolerances are too close, accident. If so, and vehicle crossing in front of you has a mechanical issue (transmission falls out, blowout, whatnot) that delays it that critical half-second...
I stand corrected; I wasn't sure it refered to the screensaver issue and I should have looked more deeply.
About the only upside to this one that I can see is that among home users it's unlikely to be an issue unless they have multiple Macs (since AFP is off by default)
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Another un-named Pentagon source gives a somewhat differing story, that they were missing around the time of April 9. Neither scenario is terribly positive: they were either there, known to be intact and left unguarded, or they were missing, known to be missing but word never filtered back to the National Security Advisor. Or she's a liar.
Were they Diebold employees or something? That's simply not credible.
Conflict of interest? Or merely unqualified to "make sure"?
My sypmathies for the loss your family suffered.
One can hardly claim that observing (and labelling) the fact that people are sad when a loved one dies is intended to absolve them of responsibility for their actions.
...is widely regarded as this (next to last paragraph of section I)
In the case of straight popular vote, you are correct. I misunderstood; my comments apply to the present system.
OK, mod me an idiot for not reading the grandparent
(a) have a margin of <1% and
(b) aren't the exception to "winner-take-all" in terms of Electoral College votes
(I think Maine and Nebraska are the only one that proportionally allocate E.C. votes. Might be wrong on that.)
...Although this claims a public comment period... "Although not required by law" (i.e., we're going to do it anyhow; the comment period is just window dressing)
Of course the passengers - the ones whose data is concerned - aren't invited to comment.
...between the MPAA and the recipient of the takedown notice, allowing them to spam the MPAA?
The pulic library system is likely not something you can directly influence, already having their own inter-library loan system, etc, but arrangements with them perhaps to crosslink with your resources.
Too bad that neither of the candidsted have the balls to tke them up on it.
I'm an Apple fan, but they should have done a mea culpa on that one and blamed the different standards UK v. US for confusion and moved on.
Why do i run webcam?
Because I can. No other reason; it's totally pointless.
I'd hate to be slapping my forehead in a hundred years when some new industry comes along finds such waste a valuable resource...
...was the lifetime production of the facility, not material to be cleaned up as implied.
Not to mention the expense of equipping every vehicle on the particular road with the control system. Another issue: would it forbid manual control? If not, and tolerances are too close, accident. If so, and vehicle crossing in front of you has a mechanical issue (transmission falls out, blowout, whatnot) that delays it that critical half-second...
About the only upside to this one that I can see is that among home users it's unlikely to be an issue unless they have multiple Macs (since AFP is off by default)