It may only be a little more than 50% of the seats, but here in Canada when something similar happened in the last election, the Liberals lost to the Conservatives but the Conservatives only have a minority government as the NDP also gained seats the Conservatives did not win by a huge margin though. The Liberals said that they are taking this as a very strong message that what they had done in power was wrong and they were going to try and fix their party. There had been some corruption that had been spotted related to advertising somehow (I can't remember the exact situation and am too lazy to look it up). I say all this to make the point that any time there is a change in power or control, even if it is small, it should be noticed as a strong message has been sent. That message as I look at it is that the people who are not necessarily affiliated with any party have noticed what you have done in the past and found it unacceptable so they changed their vote. It would take a lot for any major change to be made as there are people who grew up in a family that voted Liberal, raised children that will also vote liberal and will continue to vote Liberal till the day they die. This of course applies to all parties not just the liberals.
From what I read it appears that by switching to electronic voting mechanisms you have removed one of the easiest ways to prove that a rigged election has been held, which would be by recounting the paper ballots. However if you were able to take several of each different type of electronic voting machine at random, why there is more than one type of voting machine that is allowed to be used is baffling on its own, dump all of the code on the machine and have it analyzed by multiple independent companies you should be able to determine if any tampering has been done. You would probably also want to have the code for any machine that touches any of the the data. You would need a complete dump of all code on each machine and it would take quite awhile to do but given the current state of the voting system it seems like the only way that you could prove that and sort of tampering had been done.
After reading my original comment I think it may have sounded like I don't care, but I do. I would really like to see it proven that someone has tampered with your electoral process so that it can be fixed, which I believe would make the world a better place. I am really interested to find out what is going to happen during the coming elections.
The sad thing is that there is no help coming from the likes of countries like China. They're not really an alternative in the sense that they once were. It is amazing that Spain and Canada are as liberal as they are but they're not going to help us in the US in any way other than being great tourist destinations.
Speaking as a Canadian, it is not our job to go enforce our way of living on anyone. However, if you were to ask for help there is much better chance that you would receive help from us and probably other nations as well. I can't say for sure as I am only a regular citizen and have no idea what would happen with our leaders if you asked. Another way to show to the international community that you would like help with your problem would be to show that a majority of you would like the change and that your current leaders would not let this happen. Again if you were to do this then the rest of the world would likely become much more concerned than with what is happening now; which appears to be an ever growing minority, but still less than 50%, of your population does not like the current leader. Find some way to prove that the elections you hold are rigged and there is a chance that you will solve your own problems, if not then come to the rest of the world with your proof and we will be much more inclined to help. Unlike some countries we do not just go attack a sovereign nation because we think there are problems, we require proof before we do that.
According to company plan, the PS2s that are just out of warranty should be breaking any day now though. What they really meant to say is that our plan to have the PS2 break and people buy a new one doesn't seem to be working.
At least 2 to be a proper Canadian, one for each of our languages. And probably an instrumental version just to be safe, then maybe one that has all of the verses.
No matter how little anyone I have ever met knows about computers they all know how to use their favourite search engine to find the spyware they want (I mean desktop backgrounds and what not). If they know how to do that and they do as it is fairly obvious through the copious amounts of spyware that you can find on a system, they know enough to find out what an acronym means. It is probably more the case that they don't care enough to look or feel that if it is too complicated for them to care about. Either way people who have email know enough about the internet to find the information they want.
I completely agree that everyone should be an independant researcher but it is important to realize that not everyone wants to be.
Okami does look like it could be very pretty but I think the things that made it so pretty were probably design decisions and not graphical intensity. I've never played it though so I can't say for sure. All I can do is provide screen shots of both Okami and Gears Of War. In my personal opinion I think that a lot of the North American gamers, myself included, will be thinking that Gears Of War looks better and like a next gen title, and that Okami looks similar to Zelda on the gamecube.
I am right handed but am slightly ambidexterous, I can't write with my left hand anymore but I can do pretty much everything else with it if I have to. I was forced into learning through the multiple times I broke my right arm while growing up. I find it extremely usefull to be able to do most things with both hands. I don't have to set something down or juggle it between arms to do pretty much anything. I can sit at a computer used by a lefty and not have to move their mouse to the other side in order to get some work done. I would recommend that you try doing more things with your off hand that you would normaly do with your strong hand. Though it might look a little weird a first if you go and start it with your right hand then switch to your left.
Problem solved, release a different localized version in each locale. I don't care if I have the choice to hear the game in spanish or any language other than what I speak. Sure in canada it might be nice to provide both english and french but I don't think I have seen that yet anyways.
The last article may have incited a flame war against Bush, but the article was about the closing of research libraries, which should be something nerds would care about, I know the jocks won't care.
That would be Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox of which there are two versions Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black, which as far as I've been told are largely the same aside from easy was added to Black and Black has a little bit longer of a story or so I'm told, I have to wait till I get to the end and get my friend who played the first one to let me know if Black is any longer.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a game before.. I can't remember whcih one right now but Fable seems to come to mind. It didn't extend to plot elements but I'm pretty sure there was a time when I would die or not save and try to go dig something up right after I started again and it wasn't there.
Have you even played Ninja Gaiden? I'm playing through Ninja Gaiden right now and there is more than one button for attack. X is regular blow Y is kick or with certain weapons a stronger attack, B is for projectile weapons, Y + B is to use your magic attack, and X + Y does a jump in the air which you can then launch different attacks from. There are also other attacks which can be done by launching off of walls. While you probably could get through the game only using X and block I'm pretty sure that would take an obscenely long time. From what my friends and other people who have also posted I can tell that I am not the only person who says that this is the hardest game they have played in years, which leads me to suspect almost everything you have said.
If you do it right and set you bios clock to before the court then maybe change the clock and touch some files a few times on your way back to today then you should be fine.
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It goes on like this for quite a while. The most notable thing in the file is the commented out options. If only they had implemented the Clippy options tab.
That sounds like it is way too much work and would cost way too much money. If you have the systems open to scrutiny by whomever wanted to look you could produce something extremely secure and simple instead of something extremely complicated with minimal security. All that is really needed for electronic voting is a receipt (until the time where the system is trusted. ie all the old people are too old to vote), a touch screen, soume counters and a VPN to communicate to the server. It should still be required for people to sign in at the voting center and the servers should be in a vault or possibly under armed guard on the day of the election. We live in the year 2006 there is no reason I should have to watch tv all night long on election night to find out who the next Prime Minister of Canada is.
If I was in charge every person of voting age would be issued a device which would work over SMS or something similar, if SMS can be used to determine who the next American Idol is it should be usable for us to make decisions as a country and return us closer to the state of being truly democractic instead of having to wade through 3 months of campaign lies to try and determine which politician is lying to you the least and trusting them not to change their minds or be swayed by some company to doing something they said they wouldn't do before.
Where I live Shaw already does something very similar to this. They insert a small bit of fuzz into the analog system so that you will upgrade to their digital system.
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I'm pretty sure no one will care if you use Fahrenheit or Celsius at -40 as that is where the two scales are the same.
Thank you, I was not aware of the different meanings. I hope someone mods you informative.
You could just ban war, but if I recall correctly the US is currently not in a war in Iraq...
It may only be a little more than 50% of the seats, but here in Canada when something similar happened in the last election, the Liberals lost to the Conservatives but the Conservatives only have a minority government as the NDP also gained seats the Conservatives did not win by a huge margin though. The Liberals said that they are taking this as a very strong message that what they had done in power was wrong and they were going to try and fix their party. There had been some corruption that had been spotted related to advertising somehow (I can't remember the exact situation and am too lazy to look it up).
I say all this to make the point that any time there is a change in power or control, even if it is small, it should be noticed as a strong message has been sent. That message as I look at it is that the people who are not necessarily affiliated with any party have noticed what you have done in the past and found it unacceptable so they changed their vote. It would take a lot for any major change to be made as there are people who grew up in a family that voted Liberal, raised children that will also vote liberal and will continue to vote Liberal till the day they die. This of course applies to all parties not just the liberals.
After reading my original comment I think it may have sounded like I don't care, but I do. I would really like to see it proven that someone has tampered with your electoral process so that it can be fixed, which I believe would make the world a better place. I am really interested to find out what is going to happen during the coming elections.
Speaking as a Canadian, it is not our job to go enforce our way of living on anyone. However, if you were to ask for help there is much better chance that you would receive help from us and probably other nations as well. I can't say for sure as I am only a regular citizen and have no idea what would happen with our leaders if you asked. Another way to show to the international community that you would like help with your problem would be to show that a majority of you would like the change and that your current leaders would not let this happen. Again if you were to do this then the rest of the world would likely become much more concerned than with what is happening now; which appears to be an ever growing minority, but still less than 50%, of your population does not like the current leader. Find some way to prove that the elections you hold are rigged and there is a chance that you will solve your own problems, if not then come to the rest of the world with your proof and we will be much more inclined to help. Unlike some countries we do not just go attack a sovereign nation because we think there are problems, we require proof before we do that.
How is that better for the parents? I would think it would be better for them to be back an hour earlier if anything.
According to company plan, the PS2s that are just out of warranty should be breaking any day now though. What they really meant to say is that our plan to have the PS2 break and people buy a new one doesn't seem to be working.
At least 2 to be a proper Canadian, one for each of our languages. And probably an instrumental version just to be safe, then maybe one that has all of the verses.
I completely agree that everyone should be an independant researcher but it is important to realize that not everyone wants to be.
Okami does look like it could be very pretty but I think the things that made it so pretty were probably design decisions and not graphical intensity. I've never played it though so I can't say for sure. All I can do is provide screen shots of both Okami and Gears Of War. In my personal opinion I think that a lot of the North American gamers, myself included, will be thinking that Gears Of War looks better and like a next gen title, and that Okami looks similar to Zelda on the gamecube.
Your paranoid, and I'd like my hat in a fancy silver color.
Only you know the answer to your question.
I am right handed but am slightly ambidexterous, I can't write with my left hand anymore but I can do pretty much everything else with it if I have to. I was forced into learning through the multiple times I broke my right arm while growing up. I find it extremely usefull to be able to do most things with both hands. I don't have to set something down or juggle it between arms to do pretty much anything. I can sit at a computer used by a lefty and not have to move their mouse to the other side in order to get some work done. I would recommend that you try doing more things with your off hand that you would normaly do with your strong hand. Though it might look a little weird a first if you go and start it with your right hand then switch to your left.
Problem solved, release a different localized version in each locale. I don't care if I have the choice to hear the game in spanish or any language other than what I speak. Sure in canada it might be nice to provide both english and french but I don't think I have seen that yet anyways.
The last article may have incited a flame war against Bush, but the article was about the closing of research libraries, which should be something nerds would care about, I know the jocks won't care.
That would be Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox of which there are two versions Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black, which as far as I've been told are largely the same aside from easy was added to Black and Black has a little bit longer of a story or so I'm told, I have to wait till I get to the end and get my friend who played the first one to let me know if Black is any longer.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a game before.. I can't remember whcih one right now but Fable seems to come to mind. It didn't extend to plot elements but I'm pretty sure there was a time when I would die or not save and try to go dig something up right after I started again and it wasn't there.
Have you even played Ninja Gaiden? I'm playing through Ninja Gaiden right now and there is more than one button for attack. X is regular blow Y is kick or with certain weapons a stronger attack, B is for projectile weapons, Y + B is to use your magic attack, and X + Y does a jump in the air which you can then launch different attacks from. There are also other attacks which can be done by launching off of walls. While you probably could get through the game only using X and block I'm pretty sure that would take an obscenely long time. From what my friends and other people who have also posted I can tell that I am not the only person who says that this is the hardest game they have played in years, which leads me to suspect almost everything you have said.
Here you go, this is much more intresting and easier to compare.
If you do it right and set you bios clock to before the court then maybe change the clock and touch some files a few times on your way back to today then you should be fine.
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It goes on like this for quite a while. The most notable thing in the file is the commented out options. If only they had implemented the Clippy options tab.
If I was in charge every person of voting age would be issued a device which would work over SMS or something similar, if SMS can be used to determine who the next American Idol is it should be usable for us to make decisions as a country and return us closer to the state of being truly democractic instead of having to wade through 3 months of campaign lies to try and determine which politician is lying to you the least and trusting them not to change their minds or be swayed by some company to doing something they said they wouldn't do before.
Where I live Shaw already does something very similar to this. They insert a small bit of fuzz into the analog system so that you will upgrade to their digital system.
It happened both last night with Samantha Bee and last week when Samuel L. was there for the interview with John Stewart.