No kidding. Next time I go to a hospital with a serious problem and they tell me to `go sit over there by the green chairs' I'm going to collapse on the floor instead.
I have it on good authority that overseas voters are registering in huge numbers this time, maybe double or triple 2000.
Just wanted to pipe in that as an American living in London, this seems to be true. There is a big push by Europeans to get all the American ex-patriots to register to vote.
However, as I understand the election laws, absentee votes aren't counted unless the vote is really close. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
I am starting to think that both skins and customization are highly overrated. What's needed is a single good skin. The ability to custmoize is nice, but far less important than having a good skin already there.
Can't agree more. When I used windows and, especially, linux I would spend hours trying to get all the themes to look just right. Then in a few weeks time, I'd feel the need to change it all again.
Now, with OS X, everything looks just right all the time. The only thing I did was remove the brush metal from safari. Otherwise, it's perfection.
I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it
So what, you're trying to tell me you wanted Greedo to shoot first, but that you were unable to do so 30 years ago?
"If you have ever played casual games on the internet -- chess, hearts -- you are familiar with how rude and impersonal people are to each other," Harvey said. "Anyone who has ever met people and socialized in a compelling (virtual world) knows that people act differently when interacting as avatars than they would if they were interacting in a chat room with text alone. The visuals matter. You treat people as people, instead of as screen names."
This is the only part of GIM that seems like it could actually be useful.
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1) because the Electoral College allows the *individual states*, not the popular vote, to elect the President. This actually *helps* keep California and New York from completely dominating, say, Wisconsin.
California: 1.5x10^-6
New York: 1.6x10^-6
Wisconsin: 1.8x10^-6
Give me one good reason why my vote should be worth more than a Californian's just because I was born in New York, and why a farmer's in Wisconsin is worth more than mine.
George Bush freed all those Afgan and Iraqi people. Personally.
I must have missed the part were GWB went into Iraq by himself and -- matrix style -- fought his way past Sadam's Republican Guard, and then stole the key's to Abu Ghraib and let everyone out.
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While I don't agree that the rest of the world should be able to vote on the president of the United States, I will agree that since I moved to London and have been exposed to people from all over the world it seems that non-Americans know more about America than Americans do.
I remember once having a conversation where a French friend of mine explained all the details of the California Recall vote to me. I didn't have the slightest idea how it worked : \
While this sounds good in theory, it's too easy for powerful organization (unions, corportations, etc...) to sway elections by paying people for voting by having them turn in thier voting receipts after an election.
`Bring in your vote for Bush and get a free Liberty Burger!' is what I'm afraid of.
t's usually in the best interests of the electors to go with the flow and approve who the voters choose, but it exists in case the next Hitler comes along so that even with a popular vote such a person would not come to power.
So the next Hitler only has to bribe the voters in the electoral college and not the whole population? Interesting.
Cheating at chess online?? Like how, an aimbot or something? It isn't like the other player isn't going to notice when your Queen bunnyhops across the board and headshots 4 pawns in a row without missing
Nah, it's nothing that obvious. The cheat takes away the fog of war, just like every 13-year-old bastard I play on battle.net : (
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I guess that depends on the ideology ;-)
You have to like a Presidential candidate who uses a winkey smiley.
-Colin
Really, I don't know what so many of you are so disgusted by; this is Capitalism 101
That's why.
-Colin
No kidding. Next time I go to a hospital with a serious problem and they tell me to `go sit over there by the green chairs' I'm going to collapse on the floor instead.
-Colin
I have it on good authority that overseas voters are registering in huge numbers this time, maybe double or triple 2000.
Just wanted to pipe in that as an American living in London, this seems to be true. There is a big push by Europeans to get all the American ex-patriots to register to vote.
However, as I understand the election laws, absentee votes aren't counted unless the vote is really close. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
I got it from here. He has some screenshots of it somewhere.
-Colin
I am starting to think that both skins and customization are highly overrated. What's needed is a single good skin. The ability to custmoize is nice, but far less important than having a good skin already there.
Can't agree more. When I used windows and, especially, linux I would spend hours trying to get all the themes to look just right. Then in a few weeks time, I'd feel the need to change it all again.
Now, with OS X, everything looks just right all the time. The only thing I did was remove the brush metal from safari. Otherwise, it's perfection.
-Colin
I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it
So what, you're trying to tell me you wanted Greedo to shoot first, but that you were unable to do so 30 years ago?
-Colin
"If you have ever played casual games on the internet -- chess, hearts -- you are familiar with how rude and impersonal people are to each other," Harvey said. "Anyone who has ever met people and socialized in a compelling (virtual world) knows that people act differently when interacting as avatars than they would if they were interacting in a chat room with text alone. The visuals matter. You treat people as people, instead of as screen names."
This is the only part of GIM that seems like it could actually be useful.
-Colin
Homer Simpson: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
-Colin
People don't explode in a vacuum
-Colin
1) because the Electoral College allows the *individual states*, not the popular vote, to elect the President. This actually *helps* keep California and New York from completely dominating, say, Wisconsin.
From the US census, as of July 1, 2003:
Resident Population California: 35,484,453 4.8
Resident Population New York: 19,190,115 1.1
Resident Population Wisconsin: 5,472,299
From Project Vote Smart:
Electoral Votes California: 55
Electoral Votes New York: 31
Electoral Votes Wisconsin: 10
Electoral Votes Per Person:
California: 1.5x10^-6
New York: 1.6x10^-6
Wisconsin: 1.8x10^-6
Give me one good reason why my vote should be worth more than a Californian's just because I was born in New York, and why a farmer's in Wisconsin is worth more than mine.
-Colin
3. The french people and the rest of the world all hate him most.
So if your sister was dating a guy who abused her, would you be happy to see her keep dating him just because the family hates him?
-Colin
George Bush freed all those Afgan and Iraqi people. Personally.
I must have missed the part were GWB went into Iraq by himself and -- matrix style -- fought his way past Sadam's Republican Guard, and then stole the key's to Abu Ghraib and let everyone out.
-Colin
While I don't agree that the rest of the world should be able to vote on the president of the United States, I will agree that since I moved to London and have been exposed to people from all over the world it seems that non-Americans know more about America than Americans do.
I remember once having a conversation where a French friend of mine explained all the details of the California Recall vote to me. I didn't have the slightest idea how it worked : \
Now that's a quite a goal for a civilization to aspire to: forever being thrown back to square one because of short-sighted thinking. : \
-Colin
... slashdotters will spot the magic phrase "RFID", and remember that this is something the hivemind has told them they're against
Is Apple involved in anyway? If so RFID is then OK : )
-Colin
Might I direct you here: Bill Gates: Killing Africans for Profit and P.R., by Greg Palast
The short summary is he cost them more because of IP laws than he gave back.
-Colin
Search on "Gary Kildall" [yahoo.com] if you do not know who he is.
Let's try that again, Google or Wikipedia
While this sounds good in theory, it's too easy for powerful organization (unions, corportations, etc...) to sway elections by paying people for voting by having them turn in thier voting receipts after an election.
`Bring in your vote for Bush and get a free Liberty Burger!' is what I'm afraid of.
-Colin
No idea, but this is the first time I've seen the red hell BSD colors. Glad I've always passed on the BSD stories.
-Colin
Not close at all. The Oort cloud is really far away.
-Colin
t's usually in the best interests of the electors to go with the flow and approve who the voters choose, but it exists in case the next Hitler comes along so that even with a popular vote such a person would not come to power.
So the next Hitler only has to bribe the voters in the electoral college and not the whole population? Interesting.
And just to finish it off:
Google search for nader on google: 2,060,000
Google search for bush on google: 36,500,000
Nader/Bush Ratio: 0.056
The benefits include Programable Shaders, in particular: Shader Objects, Shader Programs, OpenGL Shading Language and changes to the Shader API.
Look, all I want to know is if I can shade something.
Cheating at chess online?? Like how, an aimbot or something? It isn't like the other player isn't going to notice when your Queen bunnyhops across the board and headshots 4 pawns in a row without missing
Nah, it's nothing that obvious. The cheat takes away the fog of war, just like every 13-year-old bastard I play on battle.net : (