different people find different things fun. Camping out of the car can be fun. I just don't like all the other people that are around. It's nice to walk a couple miles and a couple thousand feet up. Then you're away from people and you get to be alone at pristine mountain lakes. you get to see things like wild goats. It's a nice escape sometimes. Plus the excersice is good for you.
Well, our last trip was just overnight so were we were much much lighter was food. we had a dinner, a breakfast, and a few cliff bars. We divided that up between two people as well.
Here is what I had:
Tent, very light less than 5 pounds with the poles
Sleeping bag, it's a 30+ sleeping bag so it's very light
one pot, pancake mix, iso-butane canister, stove
one change of light pants, light shirt, underwear, socks
That weighs a ton in terms of camping gear. Try adding that to your 20lb pack and you'll know what I mean. People who camp alot do things like pay hundreds of dollars more to shave an once or two on a sleeping back and cut the handles off their tooth brushes and eating utensiles. I don't go that far, but my last overnight trip saw me carrying about 25lbs (my girlfriend had 20), and I don't want to carry much more.
But a computer is fucking heavy. My pack is heavy enough with food and shelter and extra clothes. About the most high tech thing I take is my iso-butane stove and my water filter.
What's wrong with wolves? You do know that there has never been an account of a wild wolf killing a human?
And I have no problems with you being an artificial predator. Go out and shoot the sick, diseased, and old deer at you leisure? You mean you don't want to shoot them... you only want to shoot the healthy, big, currently reproducing bucks? You aren't being an artifical predator then are you.
try looking it up in the dictionary. The popular usage has become one of the definitions. The first definition as a matter of fact. Here I'll save you the work:
decimate
To destroy or kill a large part of (a group).
Usage Problem.
To inflict great destruction or damage on: The fawns decimated my rose bushes.
To reduce markedly in amount: a profligate heir who decimated his trust fund.
So, then the media gets called in. So what? What do we do re-run the election? If that's the case what is to stop someone from trying to do this for the canidate they oppose? The story breaks and everyone thinks he's a cheater and has no chance in the second election.
Just face it. Any system that allows you to show anyone else who you are voting for is broken. That's something that has been known forever.
You obviously don't know how criminals work. It's not hard for him to figure out the cops were called. It's not hard for him to figure out who did it. That's why we need things like the witness protection program and why extortion works. If someone is sophisticated enough to plan fixing an election they'll have no trouble punishing someone for going against their plans.
It wouldn't be difficult at all. Think of all the homeless people out there. A bottle of whiskey could easily = 1 vote. All you have to do is get them registered. Vote buying and intimidation have been problems in the past. Letting someone vote privately from home could only make the problem worse.
I think their code is audited. I think it is then stored on some kind of EEPROM. The EEPROM is then put into the machine under the eye of the gaming commission. All of this makes it difficult (but not impossible) to tamper with the machines.
Tell me again why an electronic system that prints a user verifiable paper reciept that must be placed in a ballot box isn't bullet proof? If it isn't bullet proof I can't think of any system that is going to be better.
ahhh, but if you have an electronic machine and a paper trail then you have 2 chances to check the vote. If the person voted for A but his paper trail says B, we've got a chance to fix it before the vote is cast. If you have no paper trail all the votes for A could go to B and you'd never know.
You don't know that they turned in blank ballots. Possibly an error kept their vote from being recorded. If they truly didn't mean to cast a vote, then a paper trail would confirm that. If there was an error, a paper trail would have helped to catch it. There is no good arguement not to have a paper trail.
what about the guy who comes to your office with the lead pipe and threatens to break your kneecaps unless you vote the way he tells you. This guy can acutally watch you vote from your office and see who you pick.
animals are still fed to eachother in the US. The law states though that you can't have canibal cows (you can't feed cows other cows). But you can feed cows to chickens and then chickens to cows, which would cause the same problems. We also feed cows to dogs and cats, which in turn are fed back to cows and chickens (what do you think they do with all those unwanted pets?).
Yep, I do believe there are only two kinds of music stores. There are the integrated kind (musicmatch, napster, iTMS, and some that work with WMP) and the kind that work through a web interface (usually IE only). The Dell store can probably only be used by dell customers, however I'm pretty sure it is just a re-skinned version of the music match store; so technically anyone can use it.
Well Dell decided to make it look different or possibly creative demanded it. But under the surface they are the same player. They also both use music match to sync and the dell music store is just a rebranded music match store.
But the wrapper they put on it when you buy a song from iTMS is proprietary. AAC is about as open as WMA (both are fairly cheap to license, although you can look at the mpeg-4 standard for free), and WMA's DRM is just as propretary as Apple's DRM on AAC.
But you understood what I meant. I didn't mean that they would pick up and move everything to the caymans or bahamas or where ever else is popular these days. But mark my words the companies will threaten to reincorporate if the government ever tries to keep them from outsourcing. Then we not only loose the jobs, but the tax revenue as well.
I think a more important law should be that you must be incorporated in the state/country if you have more than a certain % of your employees there.
Of course then there are the people like me that are somewhere in the middle. I do support animal rights, I don't eat meat, I do eat organic free range eggs, and organic milk. I also do wear leather goods (although given the choice between a leather and non leather product or equivalent utility I would choose the non leather).
The main reason I'm a vegetarian is health. Mad cow is scary. And since cows are fed to chickens and chickens are fed to cows, I really question the safety of all our meat. Ethical, environmental, and political ideology rank as other reasons. I think we should be eating free range and organic food. I think farms should be smaller and not in the hands of agri-business. I think the way most food animals are treated and slaughtered is appaling.
I also am realistic enough to realize that I do have to live. I don't like auto manufacturers, but I do have to have a car. So I do. Sometimes I have to wear leather (it's hard to find a nice pair of dress shoes or hiking boots that are leather free). In an ideal world I would be eating free range meat and all organic produce. Unfortunately I can't afford to live that way. I do the best I can with in my means, I figure it's better than nothing.
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different people find different things fun. Camping out of the car can be fun. I just don't like all the other people that are around. It's nice to walk a couple miles and a couple thousand feet up. Then you're away from people and you get to be alone at pristine mountain lakes. you get to see things like wild goats. It's a nice escape sometimes. Plus the excersice is good for you.
Here is what I had:
That weighs a ton in terms of camping gear. Try adding that to your 20lb pack and you'll know what I mean. People who camp alot do things like pay hundreds of dollars more to shave an once or two on a sleeping back and cut the handles off their tooth brushes and eating utensiles. I don't go that far, but my last overnight trip saw me carrying about 25lbs (my girlfriend had 20), and I don't want to carry much more.
But a computer is fucking heavy. My pack is heavy enough with food and shelter and extra clothes. About the most high tech thing I take is my iso-butane stove and my water filter.
What's wrong with wolves? You do know that there has never been an account of a wild wolf killing a human?
And I have no problems with you being an artificial predator. Go out and shoot the sick, diseased, and old deer at you leisure? You mean you don't want to shoot them... you only want to shoot the healthy, big, currently reproducing bucks? You aren't being an artifical predator then are you.
decimate
Does this have anything to do with casio war? This might be one of the games wehre your odds are best.
So, then the media gets called in. So what? What do we do re-run the election? If that's the case what is to stop someone from trying to do this for the canidate they oppose? The story breaks and everyone thinks he's a cheater and has no chance in the second election.
Just face it. Any system that allows you to show anyone else who you are voting for is broken. That's something that has been known forever.
You obviously don't know how criminals work. It's not hard for him to figure out the cops were called. It's not hard for him to figure out who did it. That's why we need things like the witness protection program and why extortion works. If someone is sophisticated enough to plan fixing an election they'll have no trouble punishing someone for going against their plans.
As soon as you call the police, another guy comes and he does break your knee caps.
It wouldn't be difficult at all. Think of all the homeless people out there. A bottle of whiskey could easily = 1 vote. All you have to do is get them registered. Vote buying and intimidation have been problems in the past. Letting someone vote privately from home could only make the problem worse.
I think their code is audited. I think it is then stored on some kind of EEPROM. The EEPROM is then put into the machine under the eye of the gaming commission. All of this makes it difficult (but not impossible) to tamper with the machines.
Tell me again why an electronic system that prints a user verifiable paper reciept that must be placed in a ballot box isn't bullet proof? If it isn't bullet proof I can't think of any system that is going to be better.
ahhh, but if you have an electronic machine and a paper trail then you have 2 chances to check the vote. If the person voted for A but his paper trail says B, we've got a chance to fix it before the vote is cast. If you have no paper trail all the votes for A could go to B and you'd never know.
You don't know that they turned in blank ballots. Possibly an error kept their vote from being recorded. If they truly didn't mean to cast a vote, then a paper trail would confirm that. If there was an error, a paper trail would have helped to catch it. There is no good arguement not to have a paper trail.
Because there is no audit trail. If there was an audit trail you could easily look and see if there were errors or not.
what about the guy who comes to your office with the lead pipe and threatens to break your kneecaps unless you vote the way he tells you. This guy can acutally watch you vote from your office and see who you pick.
animals are still fed to eachother in the US. The law states though that you can't have canibal cows (you can't feed cows other cows). But you can feed cows to chickens and then chickens to cows, which would cause the same problems. We also feed cows to dogs and cats, which in turn are fed back to cows and chickens (what do you think they do with all those unwanted pets?).
Yep, I do believe there are only two kinds of music stores. There are the integrated kind (musicmatch, napster, iTMS, and some that work with WMP) and the kind that work through a web interface (usually IE only). The Dell store can probably only be used by dell customers, however I'm pretty sure it is just a re-skinned version of the music match store; so technically anyone can use it.
Well Dell decided to make it look different or possibly creative demanded it. But under the surface they are the same player. They also both use music match to sync and the dell music store is just a rebranded music match store.
But the wrapper they put on it when you buy a song from iTMS is proprietary. AAC is about as open as WMA (both are fairly cheap to license, although you can look at the mpeg-4 standard for free), and WMA's DRM is just as propretary as Apple's DRM on AAC.
But you understood what I meant. I didn't mean that they would pick up and move everything to the caymans or bahamas or where ever else is popular these days. But mark my words the companies will threaten to reincorporate if the government ever tries to keep them from outsourcing. Then we not only loose the jobs, but the tax revenue as well.
I think a more important law should be that you must be incorporated in the state/country if you have more than a certain % of your employees there.
Of course Dell did the same thing. The Dell DJ is really a creative nomad zen.
Of course then there are the people like me that are somewhere in the middle. I do support animal rights, I don't eat meat, I do eat organic free range eggs, and organic milk. I also do wear leather goods (although given the choice between a leather and non leather product or equivalent utility I would choose the non leather).
The main reason I'm a vegetarian is health. Mad cow is scary. And since cows are fed to chickens and chickens are fed to cows, I really question the safety of all our meat. Ethical, environmental, and political ideology rank as other reasons. I think we should be eating free range and organic food. I think farms should be smaller and not in the hands of agri-business. I think the way most food animals are treated and slaughtered is appaling.
I also am realistic enough to realize that I do have to live. I don't like auto manufacturers, but I do have to have a car. So I do. Sometimes I have to wear leather (it's hard to find a nice pair of dress shoes or hiking boots that are leather free). In an ideal world I would be eating free range meat and all organic produce. Unfortunately I can't afford to live that way. I do the best I can with in my means, I figure it's better than nothing.
Of course then all companies would move their headquaters to the caymans.