[sarcasm]Yeah and then people could use tiny cameras that we will call "webcams" and then some people will even tell their lives on the web site and film themselves 24h on 24h. What an excellent original new idea!!![sarcasme/]
Not to suggest that counting the votes by hand is perfectly adequate, but while the politicians are out to waste money, they might as well waste it well
As a Canadian no-good commie;) that has worked on many elections and as followed very closely yours on 2000 and 2004, I can tell you a couple of things about that.
In my opinion the origin of all problems in USA elections is the lack of a uniformed voting system for the whole country. The fact that so many types of ballots and ways of voting exist makes almost impossible for an independent group to monitor accurately, through all the country, the validity of an election.
For presidential election the process should be run in one and only one type of voting ballot. It should be clear years in advance what it will be. Then the whole country could examine the possible problems and if a problem exist, the whole country will be concerned and the pressure will be to big to be ignored.
In Canada, federal elections are run by one federal government body, "Elections Canada". It apply the exact same process the "Canada Elections Act" in every district and we only use one voting technology through all the country. It's called "paper and pencil". One of the great things about a low tech voting system is that even after a major disaster that could make electricity inaccessible to parts of the country, our voting process will still work perfectly. The other great thing is that its almost impossible to cheat in the counting process because each single vote is manually counted in front of many witnesses, each one appointed and volunteering for is own candidate.
The Voting Material
All voting boots are identical through the whole country; each county receive identical voting packages from the federal that include the exact same material no matter where you live. If a county have a larger population, then there will simply be more voting booths in each voting point because each voting booth can only legally handle a certain maximum amount of voters. Basically a voting booth package contain:
-The list of all registered voters
-Voting ballots
-Cardboard voting booth panels
-Cardboard voting ballot box
-Standard idiot proof form to calculate the votes
-Enough receipts to give for each official witnesses of the process
-Seals and envelopes to close and lock everything almost hermetically in the voting box at the end.
Now the people that run the show the whole day.
-A deputy returning officer: chosen from among the persons recommended by the registered party whose candidate finished first in the last election in the electoral district
-A poll clerk: chosen from among the persons recommended by the registered party whose candidate finished second in that election in that electoral district.
-Each candidate representative.
Counting process
Immediately after the close of a polling station, the deputy returning officer shall count the votes in the presence of the poll clerk and any candidates or their representatives who are present or, if no candidates or representatives are present, in the presence of at least two electors.
Steps to follow in the following order, in front of every witnesses named above.
(a) count the number of electors who voted at the polling station, make an entry at the end of the list of electors that states The number of electors who voted at this election in this polling station is (stating the number), sign the list, and place the list in the envelope supplied for the purpose;
(b) count the spoiled ballots, place them in the envelope supplied for the purpose, indicate on the envelope the number of spoiled ballots, and seal it;
(c) count the unused ballots that are not detached from the books of ballots, place them with the stubs of the used ballots in the envelope supplied for the purpose, indicate on the envelope the number of unused ballots, and seal it;
(d
By the way I am reading again your post and I am not sure anymore what was the intention of your post at first?
Claiming that the list is bulshit and being sarcastic about how "lots of people would love to see that". (like it seamed to me at first)
Or honestly stating that you'd love to find more about that?
Sometimes, sarcasm its very difficult to detect on the Intarweb and if you meant the second thing I'll give you my apology to be an happy trigger on my answer. But if you meant the first, well...
Errr! Why don't you try TV, Newspapers and Google. Books also are a great source of information and web sites of each politician can also work. I hope you don't expect me to send you a copy of each personal military record because I don't have them in my pocket right now.
This list wasn't build by me, like I said, but is widely available on many web sites. I can tell you that the information on that lists seams generally accurate to me and match what is available to anybody who listen to the news and read.
Do you doubt that Cheney did not served?
Do you doubt that John Ashcroft did not served?
Do you doubt that Jeb Bush did not served?
Do you doubt that Paul Wolfowitz did not served?
Do you doubt that Bill Frist did not served?
Do you doubt that Richard Gephardt did served?
Do you doubt that Tom Daschle did served?
Do you doubt that Al Gore did served?
Do you doubt that John Kerry did served?
Do you doubt that Max Cleland did served?
Do you doubt that Ted Kennedye did served?
Do you doubt that Jimmy Carter did served?
Do you doubt that John Glenn did served?
And do you also doubt that even if not directly politicians: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, all war mongers did not served?
Hope your are big enough to do your homework alone and then if you find some mistakes in that list, maybe you can say something constructive and point out those mistakes in the list.
"citizens can vote. Citizens being, of course, only those people who had served in the armed forces"
If you did not serve I presume then that you can't either serve in political office because you are not a citizen. Then almost only democrats can fill the job.
Democrats:
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91. v
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal. v
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311. v
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters. v
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg. v
Republicans -- and these are the guys sending people to war:
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve. v
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: d
I think communism in our new ages have a better chance of success in China than in USSR. Because of all the new technologies and cheap computing it's easier now for a government to run "more" efficiently than in the 80's stocks and production through all the country. Also the fact that they decentralize decision-making to some "private entrepreneurs"(friends of the government) also help. So I think that they are becoming stronger each day but I hope that the citizens will gain more freedom.
My feeling is that tomorrow you will be able to go to a random web site anywhere in the world and you will find information about the election.
As a Canadian I can tell you that this is the first time that I see people who seems to care more about an American election than about our own last one. I think many people around the world feel the same. So information will be available anywhere.
but I seriously think there is something lacking in the way languages are presented in high school/college.
The question becomes now, can we take this data and apply it to teaching languages?
Yes, the difference is that the only language spoken around the kid is the one he learn, the kid depend 100% of that language to eat, take a dump get attention and anything else. The kid is surrounded by a loving family that is talking to him slowly and continuously to help him get new vocabulary.
I guarantee you that if you put yourself in that situation to learn a new language you will learn it much faster.
In Canada we have one thing called summer language immersion programs where French speakers can learn English and English speakers can learn French. If you are an English speaker you go for a month and an half to a French university where you have 5 hours of French classes 5 days a week plus many social activities with other learners. 24h on 24h during the whole program you are forbidden to speak any other language than French, if you cheat and get caught, after your third warning your are expelled.
That's how I learned to speak English. All my English high school classes did not seems to give lots of results but once I got on that program I came back with great confidence in my new language skills. Put me in an immersion program for a year where I can learn Russian and I am sure that I will do well in our formers communist friends language.
A couple of month ago I would have discarded your post as the equivalent of comments from people who believe in the horoscope. But since I found this project from Princeton University I started to wonder if it's possible that something like that could exist.
"...The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures...."
"...Continuous streams of data are sent over the internet to be archived and correlated with events that may evoke a world-wide consciousness. Examples that appear to have done so include both peaceful gatherings and disasters: a few minutes around midnight on any New Years Eve, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, the Papal visit to Israel, a variety of global meditations, several major earthquakes, and September 11 2001...."
Here a link that goes with your post about the 100 000 civilians.
It makes me sad to think that many people seams to hardly care about those "collateral damages". I'll admit that even me, I forget about them, I need to fall on this kind of post to start feeling bad. I think that the fact that this is kind of a "taboo" subject to main stream media have something to do with it.
Sad:(
My question to supporters and non supporters of the war is: Do 100 000 civilians death is an acceptable price to pay to overthrow a dictator? (I am definitely more interested on the arguments than on the obvious position of each camp)
I personally just manifested my outrage about the lack of judgement of Tom Hayes for is public unacceptable comments. This is the address where I encourage you all to do the same at the
http://jfs.ohio.gov/feedback/
These are points that I believe and that I have expressed in my email:
1-Publicly insulting someone without any reason was unacceptable.
2-Tom Hayes is a public servant and it makes is act much more critical because he receive is pay from taxpayers.
3-Charles E. Smith is 63 and I think that we should have much more respect for our seniors.
4-I support the SETI project as many other million people and because Tom Hayes as a lack of culture, education and sight, that doesn't give him the right to insult is ex employee and at the same time all supporters of SETI project.
5-They should have give Charles E. Smith a warning; it's not like if he did something with malign intentions. Installing Internet Explorer is probably much more dangerous than installing SETI@home.
6-Tom Hayes should be sacked for is lack of judgement.
Well first of all I said I was in tinfoil hat mod and this was more some kind of brain storming. I am probably much more of a fan of space exploration than you so I don't really appreciate your aggressiveness.
But now that we are on the subject why are you talking about luggage? Are you dumb enough to think that a passengers that bring explosives in their luggage in "Space Ship One" could accomplish something? That makes no sense It's a verry lame plan, find something better like a "super-villain" ala "James Bond" movies that can buy the technology for a couple of millions and then from is hidden volcano can cause havoc around the world by dropping chemical weapons on the cities of is choice.
Talking of paranoia I always wondered if the fact that space travel as always been so expensive and complicated is not a coincidence. Think about it, when space travel will be cheap and if the technology is easily available to individuals, this could become the ultimate weapon for terrorists. How many rogue countries are still dreaming to acquire the technology to send something in orbit? When the technology will be in the private market those countries will be the first buyers.
So for my paranoia declaration: Maybe NASA and other government space ventures did never worked very hard to lower the costs of space exploration so only the most powerful nations can put their hand on orbital technology?
I am a big supporter of space exploration but thinking about that puzzle me a little bit.
What I particularly like in the idea is the fact that the competition will be at a fixed date. This mean that more people will be able to plan a vacation to go see the event and it could turn out attracting many people each year. Now once you reach a critical mass sponsors will be very interested to be partners in the event and cash will flow so they can pay higher "prizes".
Now I think that their is still place for other "unscheduled" competitions like the first x-prize because it certainly have other advantages. ()
Slashdot Mirror
...the next big thing will be VideoBlogging...
//This is so 90's ;)
[sarcasm]Yeah and then people could use tiny cameras that we will call "webcams" and then some people will even tell their lives on the web site and film themselves 24h on 24h. What an excellent original new idea!!![sarcasme/]
As a Canadian no-good commie
In my opinion the origin of all problems in USA elections is the lack of a uniformed voting system for the whole country. The fact that so many types of ballots and ways of voting exist makes almost impossible for an independent group to monitor accurately, through all the country, the validity of an election.
For presidential election the process should be run in one and only one type of voting ballot. It should be clear years in advance what it will be. Then the whole country could examine the possible problems and if a problem exist, the whole country will be concerned and the pressure will be to big to be ignored.
In Canada, federal elections are run by one federal government body, "Elections Canada". It apply the exact same process the "Canada Elections Act" in every district and we only use one voting technology through all the country. It's called "paper and pencil". One of the great things about a low tech voting system is that even after a major disaster that could make electricity inaccessible to parts of the country, our voting process will still work perfectly. The other great thing is that its almost impossible to cheat in the counting process because each single vote is manually counted in front of many witnesses, each one appointed and volunteering for is own candidate.
The Voting Material
All voting boots are identical through the whole country; each county receive identical voting packages from the federal that include the exact same material no matter where you live. If a county have a larger population, then there will simply be more voting booths in each voting point because each voting booth can only legally handle a certain maximum amount of voters. Basically a voting booth package contain:
-The list of all registered voters
-Voting ballots
-Cardboard voting booth panels
-Cardboard voting ballot box
-Standard idiot proof form to calculate the votes
-Enough receipts to give for each official witnesses of the process
-Seals and envelopes to close and lock everything almost hermetically in the voting box at the end.
Now the people that run the show the whole day.
-A deputy returning officer: chosen from among the persons recommended by the registered party whose candidate finished first in the last election in the electoral district
-A poll clerk: chosen from among the persons recommended by the registered party whose candidate finished second in that election in that electoral district.
-Each candidate representative.
Counting process
Immediately after the close of a polling station, the deputy returning officer shall count the votes in the presence of the poll clerk and any candidates or their representatives who are present or, if no candidates or representatives are present, in the presence of at least two electors.
Steps to follow in the following order, in front of every witnesses named above.
(a) count the number of electors who voted at the polling station, make an entry at the end of the list of electors that states The number of electors who voted at this election in this polling station is (stating the number), sign the list, and place the list in the envelope supplied for the purpose;
(b) count the spoiled ballots, place them in the envelope supplied for the purpose, indicate on the envelope the number of spoiled ballots, and seal it;
(c) count the unused ballots that are not detached from the books of ballots, place them with the stubs of the used ballots in the envelope supplied for the purpose, indicate on the envelope the number of unused ballots, and seal it;
(d
By the way I am reading again your post and I am not sure anymore what was the intention of your post at first?
Claiming that the list is bulshit and being sarcastic about how "lots of people would love to see that". (like it seamed to me at first)
Or honestly stating that you'd love to find more about that?
Sometimes, sarcasm its very difficult to detect on the Intarweb and if you meant the second thing I'll give you my apology to be an happy trigger on my answer. But if you meant the first, well...
"Sources please?"
Errr! Why don't you try TV, Newspapers and Google. Books also are a great source of information and web sites of each politician can also work. I hope you don't expect me to send you a copy of each personal military record because I don't have them in my pocket right now.
This list wasn't build by me, like I said, but is widely available on many web sites. I can tell you that the information on that lists seams generally accurate to me and match what is available to anybody who listen to the news and read.
Do you doubt that Cheney did not served?
Do you doubt that John Ashcroft did not served?
Do you doubt that Jeb Bush did not served?
Do you doubt that Paul Wolfowitz did not served?
Do you doubt that Bill Frist did not served?
Do you doubt that Richard Gephardt did served?
Do you doubt that Tom Daschle did served?
Do you doubt that Al Gore did served?
Do you doubt that John Kerry did served?
Do you doubt that Max Cleland did served?
Do you doubt that Ted Kennedye did served?
Do you doubt that Jimmy Carter did served?
Do you doubt that John Glenn did served?
And do you also doubt that even if not directly politicians: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, all war mongers did not served?
Hope your are big enough to do your homework alone and then if you find some mistakes in that list, maybe you can say something constructive and point out those mistakes in the list.
"citizens can vote. Citizens being, of course, only those people who had served in the armed forces"
If you did not serve I presume then that you can't either serve in political office because you are not a citizen. Then almost only democrats can fill the job.
Democrats:
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91. v * Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal. v * Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311. v * Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters. v * Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg. v
Republicans -- and these are the guys sending people to war:
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve. v * Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: d
I think communism in our new ages have a better chance of success in China than in USSR. Because of all the new technologies and cheap computing it's easier now for a government to run "more" efficiently than in the 80's stocks and production through all the country. Also the fact that they decentralize decision-making to some "private entrepreneurs"(friends of the government) also help. So I think that they are becoming stronger each day but I hope that the citizens will gain more freedom.
Great, maybe I can sue Sierra for making me an hairy middle age slacker chasing women out of my league after to much playing Leisure Suit Larry!
Oh my good, they were wearing pants, boots and a shirt!
(Counter-Strike outfits have nothing-particular except that they look pretty similar to what you can find in reality.)
To my special designed underground log cabin bomb shelter with double layer of tin foil mind reading protection.
As a Canadian I can tell you that this is the first time that I see people who seems to care more about an American election than about our own last one. I think many people around the world feel the same. So information will be available anywhere.
Yes, the difference is that the only language spoken around the kid is the one he learn, the kid depend 100% of that language to eat, take a dump get attention and anything else. The kid is surrounded by a loving family that is talking to him slowly and continuously to help him get new vocabulary.
I guarantee you that if you put yourself in that situation to learn a new language you will learn it much faster.
In Canada we have one thing called summer language immersion programs where French speakers can learn English and English speakers can learn French. If you are an English speaker you go for a month and an half to a French university where you have 5 hours of French classes 5 days a week plus many social activities with other learners. 24h on 24h during the whole program you are forbidden to speak any other language than French, if you cheat and get caught, after your third warning your are expelled.
That's how I learned to speak English. All my English high school classes did not seems to give lots of results but once I got on that program I came back with great confidence in my new language skills. Put me in an immersion program for a year where I can learn Russian and I am sure that I will do well in our formers communist friends language.
"...The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A description of the technical implementation is given under procedures. ..."
"...Continuous streams of data are sent over the internet to be archived and correlated with events that may evoke a world-wide consciousness. Examples that appear to have done so include both peaceful gatherings and disasters: a few minutes around midnight on any New Years Eve, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, the Papal visit to Israel, a variety of global meditations, several major earthquakes, and September 11 2001...."
Princeton Global Consciousness Project
Kind of freaky.
It makes me sad to think that many people seams to hardly care about those "collateral damages". I'll admit that even me, I forget about them, I need to fall on this kind of post to start feeling bad. I think that the fact that this is kind of a "taboo" subject to main stream media have something to do with it.
Sad :(
My question to supporters and non supporters of the war is: Do 100 000 civilians death is an acceptable price to pay to overthrow a dictator? (I am definitely more interested on the arguments than on the obvious position of each camp)
(Sorry for the first one)
Who shot first?
a) Greedo
b) Han Solo
c) Both at the same time
d) All of those answers
Who shot first? a) Greedo b) Han Solo c) Both at the same time d) All of those answers
Say things like: Ho! That computer in the computer lab is so crippled, I am sure that my code would run fine on a fresh Windows install.
The thing is that most people think that there is such things ass perfect programs and bug free programs.
There is always, always a way to manipulate, crash or exploit a program except if it's locked in a safe on the bottom of the ocean... and even then.
Gee I know but don't tell that to us tell it to the Prez.
Sorry for the URL I typing and talking at the phone at the same time :) I meant Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
These are points that I believe and that I have expressed in my email:
1-Publicly insulting someone without any reason was unacceptable.
2-Tom Hayes is a public servant and it makes is act much more critical because he receive is pay from taxpayers.
3-Charles E. Smith is 63 and I think that we should have much more respect for our seniors.
4-I support the SETI project as many other million people and because Tom Hayes as a lack of culture, education and sight, that doesn't give him the right to insult is ex employee and at the same time all supporters of SETI project.
5-They should have give Charles E. Smith a warning; it's not like if he did something with malign intentions. Installing Internet Explorer is probably much more dangerous than installing SETI@home.
6-Tom Hayes should be sacked for is lack of judgement.
I am sorry but no matter how high is your karma I still put my money on Sir Richard. ;)
But now that we are on the subject why are you talking about luggage? Are you dumb enough to think that a passengers that bring explosives in their luggage in "Space Ship One" could accomplish something? That makes no sense It's a verry lame plan, find something better like a "super-villain" ala "James Bond" movies that can buy the technology for a couple of millions and then from is hidden volcano can cause havoc around the world by dropping chemical weapons on the cities of is choice.
So for my paranoia declaration: Maybe NASA and other government space ventures did never worked very hard to lower the costs of space exploration so only the most powerful nations can put their hand on orbital technology?
I am a big supporter of space exploration but thinking about that puzzle me a little bit.
Now I think that their is still place for other "unscheduled" competitions like the first x-prize because it certainly have other advantages. ()
Hello?!?
Friends?!?