So you'd look at the address on their ID and turn them away if it didn't match their registered address?
If that was what the law required, yes. Remember, when you work the polls, it's not your job to decide what the law should be; you're taught what the law is, and expected to follow it.
Here in California, there's no requirement to show ID, although some people always offer it. I remember once, years ago, a man told us that he'd moved away almost six months earlier, never registered at his new address and insisted on voting, even after we explained the law to him. Being in charge of the precinct, I eventually let him vote a Provisional Ballot, making sure to note on the outside that the reason for doing this was that he'd already admitted that he no longer lived in the precinct. It made him happy, kept peace at the poling place and I'd bet money that once whoever's in charge of such things read what I'd written it was destroyed unopened. (A Provisional Ballot envelope isn't supposed to be opened unless it's established that the person who cast it actually had the right to do so.)
You register to vote at a specific address. If you move, you need to re-register, even if you're still living at the same address. As an example, if you move from one apartment to another in the same building, you still need to re-register because your address has changed. Thus, you not only need to prove your ID but that your address hasn't changed.
I've worked the polls a number of times. Several times, I've had people who wanted to vote even though they'd moved out of the precinct six months ago and never bothered to re-register. The fact that you were eligible to to vote in that precinct when you registered doesn't prove that you still are. (In California, at least, you can only vote in your old precinct if you moved after the registration period for that election, usually 60 days, had ended.)
I did some work, years ago, that had a better way to do it: there was one testing machine that had exactly the minimum specs we were shooting for and if your code didn't run on that machine, it didn't pass. This was back when the 486 was still king, most boxes were lucky to have much more than 640K and if you needed to use overlays, you had to plan them out and build them yourself, so writing tight code was a Good Thing.
Building a Moon Base and making it self sufficient would be much easier than doing so on Mars. If nothing else, the Moon's only a few days away from Earth, so that emergency supplies could be brought in much more quickly. That means that we'd be able to learn how to construct and maintain a closed ecology without being forced to get everything absolutely right the first time. Then, once we've done that, doing it again on Mars would be much simpler because we'd know ahead of time what we needed to take and what we didn't.
,,,an out-of-state Driver License to prove your identity...
An out-of-state Driver's License may be good to prove your identity, but it doesn't show that you reside in Texas, let alone in the precinct in question. And, as you need to be registered to vote in that precinct, it's useless as a form of ID.
Are Live tiles pinned to your start bar completely independent of user, or do different users have different settings for that?
If the machine has only one user and that user has turned it off, there's no legitimate reason to be pulling it down. Of course, this is Microsoft we're discussing, so the question of legitimacy is moot; they're going to do whatever they want and ignore your settings.
The only way that would work is if you specifically cherry picked hardware that is known to work with Linux out of the box.
Wrong. I've installed Linux on new, pre-built computers without doing any compatibility checks and It Just Worked. This holds both for desktops and laptops. I've never had Linux fail to install or not work properly. Depending on the hardware and the distro, I sometimes have to install binary-blob graphics drivers to get the best performance, but the system is fully operational, with a working GUI even before I do that. I don't know if you've just had bad luck, if you've insisted on using bleeding edge hardware before the drivers are written or if you're just trying to spread FUD, but in any event, you're just another AC, so it doesn't matter.
This is true, and using an ad blocker is no different than using the mute button when there's a TV ad that you find obnoxious or have gotten tired of listening to.
Back when banner ads were the latest and greatest thing, they were always displayed right at the top of the page. Instead of complaining, I just got into the habit of scrolling down just far enough to take them out of my sight. The advertisers were happy, the sites got the revenue and I never really saw them because they were off the edge of the screen before I had a chance to read them. Now, of course, that doesn't work because the ads are all over the page, or so I'm told. What with Add-blocker + and Ghostery, I hardly see any of them at all, including the ones that are supposed to be on Slashdot's main page.
There is one crucial feature that isn't covered perfectly: absolute compatibility with MS Office.
And it never will be. Ignoring the people who won't try LiberOffice because it can't duplicate MS Office's behavior in some obscure corner-case, there's the fact that compatibility with MS Office is a constantly-moving goal post. Every version does things differently and has its own, proprietary format so that no matter what happens, LibreOffice will always be trying to catch up with the latest and "greatest" version of MS Office. Of course, so will everybody using an older version of Office, but all the MicroSofties are going to pay attention to is how FOSS can't keep up with whatever MS is currently pushing.
I'm with Zontar on this one: don't use Ubuntu. Unless you specifically want Unity, there are better options.
It didn't take more than five minutes for my older sister to decide that she wanted Linux, not Windows, so we downloaded and installed Ubuntu. This was before they went to Unity, and all was well. It didn't take her long to decide that she didn't want to fight with Unity because Unity and Parkinson's don't go well together so I migrated her across to Xubuntu, and she's been happy with it ever since. A few months ago, I helped install Xubuntu on a laptop for a friend's wife; her first husband had used Linux and she liked it better than Windows. I picked Xubuntu partly because I prefer Xfce (with Fedora) but mostly because she didn't think that she'd like using Unity.
The bottom line here is that there are several Desktop Environments that you can use with any Linux distro; most have a default Desktop, but I've never heard of a distro that didn't let you change that to whatever you want. There are reasons that I'd not want to use Ubuntu myself, but being locked into Unity isn't one of them.
And this is exactly why it's so hard to bring a professional hit man (or woman) to justice, even if the cops know who did it: a professional doesn't leave any traceable physical evidence behind and there's no other connection between the killer and the victim. They may know who ordered the kill, but there's not much you can do if the actual killer never met the target before.
IANAL, but my guess is that that would be considered extenuating circumstances as far as legal action is concerned, but it would still go on the driver's insurance.
That may be true where you live, but where I live the pedestrian's right of way is absolute and can't be waived. If a pedestrian is in the street and waves a car past, the car's driver can (but probably won't) get a ticket if a cop sees it.
Programs that save settings/need re-installing it's all in the User\%username%\AppData folder (though can be installed anywhere I suppose).
Yes. Exactly. Especially that last parenthetical comment. Windows programs can store their settings anywhere whoever wrote it decides that they should because Windows was designed to be used by only one person, or, at least, with all users running from the same account, so that it didn't matter where things were stored. Linux, OTOH, has always been designed as a multi-user OS, even if most of today's desktops and laptops only have one user account. That's why all of your private configuration is stored in hidden files in your home directory so that they don't conflict with anybody else's configuration. It also means that you can easily find out if a problem's caused by a bug or a config issue by creating a new user, logging in to that account and seeing what happens.
Neither does Fedora, and by extension, CentOS and RedHat.
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The problem was (or at least, was thought to be) that the Japanese might easily persuade themselves that what happened to Hiroshima either wasn't an A-bomb or that we were only able to make the one. Once that assumption's granted, it's hard to see what other choices they had. I won't argue that the Japanese really believed that because I don't know for sure, one way or the other, but President Truman and his advisers didn't feel that they were justified in taking that chance. In the end, they made the decision they thought they had to make and all we can do is second guess them after the fact. Personally, I've long believed that neither nuking them nor invasion were the right answer. Japan relied on importing food because they couldn't grow enough to feed themselves and we'd already sunk most of their shipping fleet. All we had to do is keep them blockaded until they either surrendered or starved, but the American people wanted to get the war over with and I doubt that they'd have accepted such a slow solution to the issue.
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It's not that we would have had to invade them immediately, it's that we were already planning the invasion and training the troops for it. I know, because I had a friend who was a Navy Corpsman serving with the Marines in the Pacific in 1945. They were being trained for the invasion of Japan, and he said on more than one occasion that he probably wouldn't have survived the first day if they'd had to go in. In fact, he was part of a live fire exercise on Tinian when they got the word of the surrender, but were told to keep down and complete the exercise because the airplanes providing the live fire hadn't been told yet and they didn't want anybody to stand up and get killed.
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So you'd look at the address on their ID and turn them away if it didn't match their registered address?
If that was what the law required, yes. Remember, when you work the polls, it's not your job to decide what the law should be; you're taught what the law is, and expected to follow it.
Here in California, there's no requirement to show ID, although some people always offer it. I remember once, years ago, a man told us that he'd moved away almost six months earlier, never registered at his new address and insisted on voting, even after we explained the law to him. Being in charge of the precinct, I eventually let him vote a Provisional Ballot, making sure to note on the outside that the reason for doing this was that he'd already admitted that he no longer lived in the precinct. It made him happy, kept peace at the poling place and I'd bet money that once whoever's in charge of such things read what I'd written it was destroyed unopened. (A Provisional Ballot envelope isn't supposed to be opened unless it's established that the person who cast it actually had the right to do so.)
You register to vote at a specific address. If you move, you need to re-register, even if you're still living at the same address. As an example, if you move from one apartment to another in the same building, you still need to re-register because your address has changed. Thus, you not only need to prove your ID but that your address hasn't changed.
I've worked the polls a number of times. Several times, I've had people who wanted to vote even though they'd moved out of the precinct six months ago and never bothered to re-register. The fact that you were eligible to to vote in that precinct when you registered doesn't prove that you still are. (In California, at least, you can only vote in your old precinct if you moved after the registration period for that election, usually 60 days, had ended.)
I did some work, years ago, that had a better way to do it: there was one testing machine that had exactly the minimum specs we were shooting for and if your code didn't run on that machine, it didn't pass. This was back when the 486 was still king, most boxes were lucky to have much more than 640K and if you needed to use overlays, you had to plan them out and build them yourself, so writing tight code was a Good Thing.
Building a Moon Base and making it self sufficient would be much easier than doing so on Mars. If nothing else, the Moon's only a few days away from Earth, so that emergency supplies could be brought in much more quickly. That means that we'd be able to learn how to construct and maintain a closed ecology without being forced to get everything absolutely right the first time. Then, once we've done that, doing it again on Mars would be much simpler because we'd know ahead of time what we needed to take and what we didn't.
,,,an out-of-state Driver License to prove your identity...
An out-of-state Driver's License may be good to prove your identity, but it doesn't show that you reside in Texas, let alone in the precinct in question. And, as you need to be registered to vote in that precinct, it's useless as a form of ID.
In Microsoft's Amerika, software upgrades you!
I'm fairly sure that in this context POS means "Piece Of Sh!t."
Are Live tiles pinned to your start bar completely independent of user, or do different users have different settings for that?
If the machine has only one user and that user has turned it off, there's no legitimate reason to be pulling it down. Of course, this is Microsoft we're discussing, so the question of legitimacy is moot; they're going to do whatever they want and ignore your settings.
I don't use suspend or a two-finger tap, so I don't know. I do know, however, that I've never seen wi-fi roaming that didn't Just Work.
The only way that would work is if you specifically cherry picked hardware that is known to work with Linux out of the box.
Wrong. I've installed Linux on new, pre-built computers without doing any compatibility checks and It Just Worked. This holds both for desktops and laptops. I've never had Linux fail to install or not work properly. Depending on the hardware and the distro, I sometimes have to install binary-blob graphics drivers to get the best performance, but the system is fully operational, with a working GUI even before I do that. I don't know if you've just had bad luck, if you've insisted on using bleeding edge hardware before the drivers are written or if you're just trying to spread FUD, but in any event, you're just another AC, so it doesn't matter.
This is true, and using an ad blocker is no different than using the mute button when there's a TV ad that you find obnoxious or have gotten tired of listening to.
Back when banner ads were the latest and greatest thing, they were always displayed right at the top of the page. Instead of complaining, I just got into the habit of scrolling down just far enough to take them out of my sight. The advertisers were happy, the sites got the revenue and I never really saw them because they were off the edge of the screen before I had a chance to read them. Now, of course, that doesn't work because the ads are all over the page, or so I'm told. What with Add-blocker + and Ghostery, I hardly see any of them at all, including the ones that are supposed to be on Slashdot's main page.
There is one crucial feature that isn't covered perfectly: absolute compatibility with MS Office.
And it never will be. Ignoring the people who won't try LiberOffice because it can't duplicate MS Office's behavior in some obscure corner-case, there's the fact that compatibility with MS Office is a constantly-moving goal post. Every version does things differently and has its own, proprietary format so that no matter what happens, LibreOffice will always be trying to catch up with the latest and "greatest" version of MS Office. Of course, so will everybody using an older version of Office, but all the MicroSofties are going to pay attention to is how FOSS can't keep up with whatever MS is currently pushing.
I'm with Zontar on this one: don't use Ubuntu. Unless you specifically want Unity, there are better options.
It didn't take more than five minutes for my older sister to decide that she wanted Linux, not Windows, so we downloaded and installed Ubuntu. This was before they went to Unity, and all was well. It didn't take her long to decide that she didn't want to fight with Unity because Unity and Parkinson's don't go well together so I migrated her across to Xubuntu, and she's been happy with it ever since. A few months ago, I helped install Xubuntu on a laptop for a friend's wife; her first husband had used Linux and she liked it better than Windows. I picked Xubuntu partly because I prefer Xfce (with Fedora) but mostly because she didn't think that she'd like using Unity.
The bottom line here is that there are several Desktop Environments that you can use with any Linux distro; most have a default Desktop, but I've never heard of a distro that didn't let you change that to whatever you want. There are reasons that I'd not want to use Ubuntu myself, but being locked into Unity isn't one of them.
If that's the only type of email you get from this person, add their email address to your killfile and never see their ranting again.
And this is exactly why it's so hard to bring a professional hit man (or woman) to justice, even if the cops know who did it: a professional doesn't leave any traceable physical evidence behind and there's no other connection between the killer and the victim. They may know who ordered the kill, but there's not much you can do if the actual killer never met the target before.
IANAL, but my guess is that that would be considered extenuating circumstances as far as legal action is concerned, but it would still go on the driver's insurance.
That may be true where you live, but where I live the pedestrian's right of way is absolute and can't be waived. If a pedestrian is in the street and waves a car past, the car's driver can (but probably won't) get a ticket if a cop sees it.
Even though pedestrians have the right of way, any court of law would blame the pedestrian.
Wrong. The pedestrian has the right of way, therefor the driver by law is automatically at fault.
Even better: use Dip. Anything that can dissolve a toon can't possibly do anything good to a drone.
Programs that save settings/need re-installing it's all in the User\%username%\AppData folder (though can be installed anywhere I suppose).
Yes. Exactly. Especially that last parenthetical comment. Windows programs can store their settings anywhere whoever wrote it decides that they should because Windows was designed to be used by only one person, or, at least, with all users running from the same account, so that it didn't matter where things were stored. Linux, OTOH, has always been designed as a multi-user OS, even if most of today's desktops and laptops only have one user account. That's why all of your private configuration is stored in hidden files in your home directory so that they don't conflict with anybody else's configuration. It also means that you can easily find out if a problem's caused by a bug or a config issue by creating a new user, logging in to that account and seeing what happens.
Neither does Fedora, and by extension, CentOS and RedHat.
The problem was (or at least, was thought to be) that the Japanese might easily persuade themselves that what happened to Hiroshima either wasn't an A-bomb or that we were only able to make the one. Once that assumption's granted, it's hard to see what other choices they had. I won't argue that the Japanese really believed that because I don't know for sure, one way or the other, but President Truman and his advisers didn't feel that they were justified in taking that chance. In the end, they made the decision they thought they had to make and all we can do is second guess them after the fact. Personally, I've long believed that neither nuking them nor invasion were the right answer. Japan relied on importing food because they couldn't grow enough to feed themselves and we'd already sunk most of their shipping fleet. All we had to do is keep them blockaded until they either surrendered or starved, but the American people wanted to get the war over with and I doubt that they'd have accepted such a slow solution to the issue.
It's not that we would have had to invade them immediately, it's that we were already planning the invasion and training the troops for it. I know, because I had a friend who was a Navy Corpsman serving with the Marines in the Pacific in 1945. They were being trained for the invasion of Japan, and he said on more than one occasion that he probably wouldn't have survived the first day if they'd had to go in. In fact, he was part of a live fire exercise on Tinian when they got the word of the surrender, but were told to keep down and complete the exercise because the airplanes providing the live fire hadn't been told yet and they didn't want anybody to stand up and get killed.