Here in Wisconsin, they tried that. The hunters were up in arms because what happens when you see the huge buck and have not shot a doe yet? There are plenty of hunters who will shoot does, but don't want to have to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime huge buck.
Plenty of software folks who make over 80K in Wisconsin. IT directors and CEO's make way more than that. I live near West Bend. My commute takes me 20 minutes in the winter. You've a twisted image of Wisconsin -- makes me wonder if you have ever even lived near here.
...in three months. I've been developing software for over 25 years now. My manager is the only person near my age in my group of seven developers (not sure if she is younger or older). Everyone else is around thirty or even younger. We're mostly using C# with.Net 4.0 right now and have just started looking at.Net 4.5. (We're held back a bit by software we have to be compatible with.) It's still interesting to me.
Forty is too old?! You young whippersnapper! You're just hitting your mid-life crisis! Go out and buy a little red sports car and get it over with!
Oh, yeah -- GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!!
All electric sources of heat (baseboard, portable heater, light bulbs, etc.) are 100% efficient.
Every watt of energy that goes into them is transformed to heat without any losses at all.
And it is the same approach a young United States took towards the Barbary Pirates -- spending up to 20% of the country's annual budget on tribute and ransom.
Ether: how can there be waves unless something is waving?
Four Elements: earth, wind, water and fire
Atoms: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed
Electrons, Protons and Neutrons: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed
Quarks: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed?
My son is now 15. He's had several teachers over the years that had great teaching skills but were really weak in the subject they were teaching -- to the point where I would catch serious errors in what was being taught (geometry, science). It's really interesting to be in the position of correcting the teacher without harming the teacher's ability to reach the kid.
This happened more often in grade school than it has in middle school where some of the teachers are specialists. I'm hoping the trend of increasing subject knowledge continues in high school.
That said, a good teacher knows that one answer to a question is "I'm not sure, how about we investigate and try to figure it out together."
I remember and interview from back when she was at NHTSA. She threw around language like "the sanctity of human life". I guess human life is sacred when it's endangered by a politically-correct car.
I normally read at 1500 wpm. When I read your paragraph, I hesitated at half of the words you scrambled. So much for the theory that you can scramble the spelling without causing problems. Maybe there is a signal to noise threshold involved here?
To know that, we'd have to know if the Japanese government got involved and locked in the choices before the market had a chance to correct it. After all, until the two systems met it didn't matter what frequencies they used.
Some clocks DO use line frequency as the timing source.
For example, "synchronous movement" clocks -- essentially synchronous motors driving gears to move the hands. Many buildings from before 1980 have a clock socket (a recessed outlet) mounted where most people would put a clock that was intended for this type of clock. Most later buildings don't have this feature as most wall clocks are now battery operated.
I've also seen early electronic clocks that used the line for the timing source.
(Remembering this stuff is starting to make me feel old...)
The reason this was news here (I live in the West Bend area) was because this was the first time the snow stuck really badly to the LED lights! People didn't really have much trouble with it -- most people were being careful enough to not go charging through the intersection right in front of other traffic. Only a few accidents were reportedly caused by the problem and I suspect that it was more of an excuse than a cause in some cases.
I live in the area the original article came from.
I've owned two Ford Explorers. The first was totaled when a drunk in a Neon ran a stop sign in front of me. I almost missed him. I drove the second one until the engine finally died. I liked how both of them handled in snow better than the car I now drive does.
The problem with SUV's (and four-wheel-drive in general) is that many people who own one think they can stop better than a car. They usually learn different by running into someone. And as for the rollover "problem", what do people expect to happen when the left rear blows and they slam on the brakes while sharply turning the steering wheel? (Note -- I had the left rear blow and had no problem controlling the truck. I just didn't react stupidly.)
"Semi-automatic" just means it's ready to fire another shot as soon as you release the trigger. In other words, it goes bang each time the trigger is pulled with no other action required (at least, until you need to reload).
My hunting rifle -- goes bang each time I pull the trigger (a semi-automatic).
My hunting shotgun -- goes bang each time I pull the trigger (a semi-automatic).
My brother's hunting shotgun -- goes bang each time he pumps it after pulling (and holding the trigger) the first time (a older Model 12 Winchester operating as designed).
And just to really confuse things -- my revolver goes bang each time I pull the trigger (double-action revolver).
And I've seen my father shoot a pump shotgun accurately faster than I can shoot a semi-automatic shotgun. He's just really well practiced at it.
It's nowhere near as easy to buy fully automatic firearms as you think it is. Check into it at the ATF web site.
And I remember first hearing of these "robodeer" in the 80's. Best rural legend I heard about them involved a guy who legally shot one to pieces (he spotted the robodeer out in the field, went and got permission to hunt on the land, snuck up on it and blasted away -- the story goes that the DNR agents had set it up to sting people shooting from the road and had put it far enough into the field that he didn't violate any laws).
'Course, maybe it takes the VOA a while to report things....
Back a few months the hard drive on my work system crashed. IT rebuilt everything and delivered it to my desk with a new Lotus Notes password stored in a text file on the Windows desktop. I opened the text file, and sure enough, it was my full 9-digit SSN. Since the most everything else here uses is the last 4 digits, how and WHY did lower-level IT people have access to the full thing?
On the back, my card says a whole bunch of stuff -- none of it includes the text you quote. This is the original SS card that I was issued years ago (the text does include "Rev.(9-61)").
On the front, it states in all caps "FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION".
It's really interesting to look at the text that appears on older money, too.
"Of course, we can't forget the Japanese-American internment camps run by the US during WWII. I'll let you do your own research on those camps, since the whole subject is far too massive to describe adequately here."
And we should also remember the Italian-Americans and the German-Americans that were also interned by the US during WWII:
I live in the US in an area with a population well over 100,000. We have been using a system where you mark your selections by using a black marker to fill in a space. The ballots are then inserted (by the voter) in a counting machine that either accepts or rejects the ballot. The votes are tallied for the entire area within a few hours (including write-ins). The ballots are available for manual recounts if needed.
This is exactly the same as the system you describe, but with the counting process greatly accelerated. As for "exclud[ing] many people with disabilities from being able to vote" -- how about if they use a special machine designed to meet the needs of people with disablities while the rest of us use the simpler process?
'Course, now that the fad is the touch-screen systems I expect we'll be spending a bunch of money for little benefit (and gaining some risks).
And as I and others have pointed out elsewhere, the building codes and licensed professionals still screw things up. When we built our house, we checked out other houses that various contractors had built and talked with the owners of those houses. By doing that, we were able to decide which contractor to trust. Given the fact that the contractor redid some work that had already passed inspection, I'm confident that it was the choice of contractor and not the codes / inspection that got us a good house.
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Here in Wisconsin, they tried that. The hunters were up in arms because what happens when you see the huge buck and have not shot a doe yet? There are plenty of hunters who will shoot does, but don't want to have to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime huge buck.
Plenty of software folks who make over 80K in Wisconsin. IT directors and CEO's make way more than that. I live near West Bend. My commute takes me 20 minutes in the winter. You've a twisted image of Wisconsin -- makes me wonder if you have ever even lived near here.
And when there are three options?
...in three months. I've been developing software for over 25 years now. My manager is the only person near my age in my group of seven developers (not sure if she is younger or older). Everyone else is around thirty or even younger. We're mostly using C# with .Net 4.0 right now and have just started looking at .Net 4.5. (We're held back a bit by software we have to be compatible with.) It's still interesting to me.
Forty is too old?! You young whippersnapper! You're just hitting your mid-life crisis! Go out and buy a little red sports car and get it over with!
Oh, yeah -- GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!!
All electric sources of heat (baseboard, portable heater, light bulbs, etc.) are 100% efficient. Every watt of energy that goes into them is transformed to heat without any losses at all.
And it is the same approach a young United States took towards the Barbary Pirates -- spending up to 20% of the country's annual budget on tribute and ransom.
There are near-zero "Socialists" in the US.
The only folks using the term are the far Right.
I guess you don't live near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I've seen Democratic politicians proudly announce that they are really Socialists -- and win.
Ether: how can there be waves unless something is waving?
Four Elements: earth, wind, water and fire
Atoms: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed
Electrons, Protons and Neutrons: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed
Quarks: little individual elements that cannot be subdivided or changed?
Hmmmm... I see a trend here.
My son is now 15. He's had several teachers over the years that had great teaching skills but were really weak in the subject they were teaching -- to the point where I would catch serious errors in what was being taught (geometry, science). It's really interesting to be in the position of correcting the teacher without harming the teacher's ability to reach the kid.
This happened more often in grade school than it has in middle school where some of the teachers are specialists. I'm hoping the trend of increasing subject knowledge continues in high school.
That said, a good teacher knows that one answer to a question is "I'm not sure, how about we investigate and try to figure it out together."
I remember and interview from back when she was at NHTSA. She threw around language like "the sanctity of human life". I guess human life is sacred when it's endangered by a politically-correct car.
I normally read at 1500 wpm. When I read your paragraph, I hesitated at half of the words you scrambled. So much for the theory that you can scramble the spelling without causing problems. Maybe there is a signal to noise threshold involved here?
You realize you have almost no actual evidence to support this, right?
And where, pray tell, is your evidence? I suppose we should just take your word for it...
To know that, we'd have to know if the Japanese government got involved and locked in the choices before the market had a chance to correct it. After all, until the two systems met it didn't matter what frequencies they used.
Some clocks DO use line frequency as the timing source.
For example, "synchronous movement" clocks -- essentially synchronous motors driving gears to move the hands. Many buildings from before 1980 have a clock socket (a recessed outlet) mounted where most people would put a clock that was intended for this type of clock. Most later buildings don't have this feature as most wall clocks are now battery operated.
I've also seen early electronic clocks that used the line for the timing source.
(Remembering this stuff is starting to make me feel old...)
The reason this was news here (I live in the West Bend area) was because this was the first time the snow stuck really badly to the LED lights! People didn't really have much trouble with it -- most people were being careful enough to not go charging through the intersection right in front of other traffic. Only a few accidents were reportedly caused by the problem and I suspect that it was more of an excuse than a cause in some cases.
I live in the area the original article came from. I've owned two Ford Explorers. The first was totaled when a drunk in a Neon ran a stop sign in front of me. I almost missed him. I drove the second one until the engine finally died. I liked how both of them handled in snow better than the car I now drive does. The problem with SUV's (and four-wheel-drive in general) is that many people who own one think they can stop better than a car. They usually learn different by running into someone. And as for the rollover "problem", what do people expect to happen when the left rear blows and they slam on the brakes while sharply turning the steering wheel? (Note -- I had the left rear blow and had no problem controlling the truck. I just didn't react stupidly.)
Every time I've visited the local Best Buy recently they've had a HUGE stack of converter boxes (well over 100).
"Semi-automatic" just means it's ready to fire another shot as soon as you release the trigger. In other words, it goes bang each time the trigger is pulled with no other action required (at least, until you need to reload).
My hunting rifle -- goes bang each time I pull the trigger (a semi-automatic).
My hunting shotgun -- goes bang each time I pull the trigger (a semi-automatic).
My brother's hunting shotgun -- goes bang each time he pumps it after pulling (and holding the trigger) the first time (a older Model 12 Winchester operating as designed).
And just to really confuse things -- my revolver goes bang each time I pull the trigger (double-action revolver).
And I've seen my father shoot a pump shotgun accurately faster than I can shoot a semi-automatic shotgun. He's just really well practiced at it.
It's nowhere near as easy to buy fully automatic firearms as you think it is. Check into it at the ATF web site.
This link is to a story from 1993:
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http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_i
And I remember first hearing of these "robodeer" in the 80's. Best rural legend I heard about them involved a guy who legally shot one to pieces (he spotted the robodeer out in the field, went and got permission to hunt on the land, snuck up on it and blasted away -- the story goes that the DNR agents had set it up to sting people shooting from the road and had put it far enough into the field that he didn't violate any laws).
'Course, maybe it takes the VOA a while to report things....
Back a few months the hard drive on my work system crashed. IT rebuilt everything and delivered it to my desk with a new Lotus Notes password stored in a text file on the Windows desktop. I opened the text file, and sure enough, it was my full 9-digit SSN. Since the most everything else here uses is the last 4 digits, how and WHY did lower-level IT people have access to the full thing?
On the back, my card says a whole bunch of stuff -- none of it includes the text you quote. This is the original SS card that I was issued years ago (the text does include "Rev.(9-61)"). On the front, it states in all caps "FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION". It's really interesting to look at the text that appears on older money, too.
"Of course, we can't forget the Japanese-American internment camps run by the US during WWII. I'll let you do your own research on those camps, since the whole subject is far too massive to describe adequately here."
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And we should also remember the Italian-Americans and the German-Americans that were also interned by the US during WWII:
http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/itintern.htm
http://www.foitimes.com/internment/udq.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_in
And, unlike Japanese-American internees, it appears that Italian-American and German-American internees have never received any compensation.
"My exit poll token may be presented to exit pollsters, or I may destroy it."
You forgot a step:
"Or I can give my exit poll token to my party boss and receive payment for my vote."
That's the reason why the voting discussions keep avoiding giving voters anything that shows how they actually voted.
I live in the US in an area with a population well over 100,000. We have been using a system where you mark your selections by using a black marker to fill in a space. The ballots are then inserted (by the voter) in a counting machine that either accepts or rejects the ballot. The votes are tallied for the entire area within a few hours (including write-ins). The ballots are available for manual recounts if needed.
This is exactly the same as the system you describe, but with the counting process greatly accelerated. As for "exclud[ing] many people with disabilities from being able to vote" -- how about if they use a special machine designed to meet the needs of people with disablities while the rest of us use the simpler process?
'Course, now that the fad is the touch-screen systems I expect we'll be spending a bunch of money for little benefit (and gaining some risks).
And as I and others have pointed out elsewhere, the building codes and licensed professionals still screw things up. When we built our house, we checked out other houses that various contractors had built and talked with the owners of those houses. By doing that, we were able to decide which contractor to trust. Given the fact that the contractor redid some work that had already passed inspection, I'm confident that it was the choice of contractor and not the codes / inspection that got us a good house.