I think it is a case of more power with less votes rather than ideology.
In underpopulated states, the amount of people that share the spoils is smaller, so each individual gains more.
Therefore, they have more incentive to stand behind the incumbent senator (especially if the guy is a crook), and also why the incumbent senator has more incentive to be creative about pork.
In populous states, this kinda works in reverse. If the pork is spread over the total population it won't make much difference. And if spread over a smaller group of people, they'll be viewed as corrupt by the majority, and their patron will be likely to lose.
Well, the local vote doesn't rest so much on the personal qualities of a candidate so much on his ability to bring pork to his district. Having been convicted on things like having a piece of furniture in his home won't impress votes who depend on the pork for their jobs that much. And from what little I drained from the tubes on the topic, Mr. Stevens was an expert at getting quality output from them pork tubes.
Besides, he doesn't stand alone, and it dozen't only happen in the US. In Japan a few years back an MP got convicted, did jail time, got out and got promptly re-elected, despite the national media turning him into a sort of laughingstock. Similarities: he was from the northern, relatively unpopulated and cold part of Japan, and he was a "pork expert".
So, it is either the pork, or the ice. You decide.
having used all three, i find the oo (especially the last version) to have the features, availability and deployment options i need and a price i don't disagree with.
the purpose of the "law" is to make it hard for newcomers to enter the market. even in the few cases where that is not the overt purpose, the lawyers working for the (rich) incumbents manage to subvert it pretty quickly.
Probably, but a prosecution is almost unpossible. First, the US is unlikely to investigate if there is no other interested party in the US to stink. Second, as I pointed out, evidence is hard to come by. The scheme roughly works like this
a) you meet someone, who isn't related in any "official way" b) you two agree about the setup c) a "public tender" is constructed by the government so that other participant are excluded d) a chain of companies may be set up, usually offshore, so that it is harder to track where the money goes (and there is more than 1 jurisdiction involved) e) if anything at all comes to light, the local employees are dumped. I'd probably guess they aren't prosecutable under the act you quote.
If MS really made an offer, probably the partner had very good connections to someone and was very "stubborn" on the linux thing. That, or the Nigerian M$ manager really roots for linux.
As they do in other countries (see Eastern Europe for an example), Microsoft will just pay the government officials that award the contract.
It is a lot easier, safer (there are lawyer intermediaries, so it is impossible to catch the perpetrators) and works well, as the government has a "legitimate" reason to increase the budget, and the larger the budget, the merrier it gets.
hehe, sticking them isn't that much work if you co-opt the kids, but yours are a bit young. painting the constellations properly, yeah, that's a challenge.
as for the changing sky thing, that is why I used the black light. i put a cylinder box around it, with a cardboard cutout on top of the box over the lamp, which projected an ellpse over the whole sky the way those paper planispheres do -- I was only litting up the visible portion of the sky by turning the paper cover of the box with my bare hands.
it was okay, but you had to move around the room for a closer look as the seasons went by;)
That is true, not every solution is ideal for everyone.
What I did when I was a kid (before software and big screen TVs) was even simpler -- I got one package them phosphorescent paper stars with the sticky backs, painted my ceiling dark blue, and just glued the stars all over the place.
and one day i got a black light lamp... it was very useful even in highschool, the girls liked it a lot.
you can draw the constellations for extra credit:-D
Good luck with your project, and put it on the web when you're finished.
I use Stellarium (stellarium.org) on Linux on a large (47") TV. It is as cool as a planetarium, with more bells and whistles than you'd need. It works fine on a 32" too.
If what Stellarium ain't enough and I need Imperial cruisers and a Death star here and there, I use Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/) with some custom add-ons. Extra benefits if you let kids design their own universes.
The third piece is cartes du ciel, but I mostly use that to plan my observations.
I am not sure about Hillary (you could've provided a link), but if i have to go by the two pictures at the top of TFA, i'd say the algorithm isn't working very well for me. I find the original face more attractive than the result.
Maybe the algorithm works to tune an image to _someone's_ preferences, but those are different than mine. That is, beauty is still in the eye of the beholder.
I can testify to that. Being an irresponsible and stupid person who doesn't believe for a moment that consumer gadgets influence modern aircraft much, and is getting a kick from putting all those lives in danger, I've been using bluetooth GPS to track my flights since 2003 or thereabouts. I have over 100 tracks for that period and I am still alive to tell about it. On all sorts of aircraft too, boeings, airbuses, bombardiers, older and russian aircraft, helicopters and what you not.
So, puhlease... intereference from bt or wireless mice? it just doesn't happen. Or hasn't happened to me yet.
I started using encryption for most of my communications ages ago - first ssh and ssl, then email and chat encryption - and I still haven't had any problem from whatever evil forces are spying on me.
The real problem is elsewhere -- encryption is hard to do, entails cost in convenience and implies a warranty on the part of the body that provides the service/device.
Given the high profile that privacy glitches get in the news, it is likely every discovered bug will generate a small PR nightmare for the provider.
Not to mention the fact that such product will be killed by the mobile carriers which are by far the worst spy on the scene -- they perform total monitoring and even inject content in your data to make money off you.
The governments in the democratic parts of the world would be among the least important reasons for such devices not being available.
In the country I was born, about a quarter of the population were recurited as informers of the secret services.
The scale of this "domestic intelligence" was virtually unknown (although suspected by some) until recent laws allowed some old records to be opened.
Yet, even now there are still people who (out of ignorance, political reasons, blind trust in the government, financial gain etc.) still ignore or deny the fact that mass spying was going on such scale.
Based on this experience, if I were you I'd at least entertain the possibility that such thing is possible to do.
Especially if, as the article points out, it is possible that a lot of seemingly innocent data is obtained from a variety of (helpful) sources and then stitched together into a coherent profile by a secret agency with huge budget.;)
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I think it is a case of more power with less votes rather than ideology.
In underpopulated states, the amount of people that share the spoils is smaller, so each individual gains more.
Therefore, they have more incentive to stand behind the incumbent senator (especially if the guy is a crook), and also why the incumbent senator has more incentive to be creative about pork.
In populous states, this kinda works in reverse. If the pork is spread over the total population it won't make much difference. And if spread over a smaller group of people, they'll be viewed as corrupt by the majority, and their patron will be likely to lose.
Well, the local vote doesn't rest so much on the personal qualities of a candidate so much on his ability to bring pork to his district. Having been convicted on things like having a piece of furniture in his home won't impress votes who depend on the pork for their jobs that much. And from what little I drained from the tubes on the topic, Mr. Stevens was an expert at getting quality output from them pork tubes.
Besides, he doesn't stand alone, and it dozen't only happen in the US. In Japan a few years back an MP got convicted, did jail time, got out and got promptly re-elected, despite the national media turning him into a sort of laughingstock. Similarities: he was from the northern, relatively unpopulated and cold part of Japan, and he was a "pork expert".
So, it is either the pork, or the ice. You decide.
And since the Electricity has also been invented, Greece won't get a trade increase either. Kinda like the Olympics.
Not many grown ups on this site, obviously.
Man, you say "fuck" a lot. You're Sean Connery's distant relative or something?
i was commenting on the application features, not the installer.
i am pretty sure someone will be able to help you out with network install for a small fee.
having used all three, i find the oo (especially the last version) to have the features, availability and deployment options i need and a price i don't disagree with.
On the plus side, that'd be cheaper and less bothersome than that other one in the house that I call a "she".
the purpose of the "law" is to make it hard for newcomers to enter the market. even in the few cases where that is not the overt purpose, the lawyers working for the (rich) incumbents manage to subvert it pretty quickly.
Probably, but a prosecution is almost unpossible. First, the US is unlikely to investigate if there is no other interested party in the US to stink. Second, as I pointed out, evidence is hard to come by. The scheme roughly works like this
a) you meet someone, who isn't related in any "official way"
b) you two agree about the setup
c) a "public tender" is constructed by the government so that other participant are excluded
d) a chain of companies may be set up, usually offshore, so that it is harder to track where the money goes (and there is more than 1 jurisdiction involved)
e) if anything at all comes to light, the local employees are dumped. I'd probably guess they aren't prosecutable under the act you quote.
If MS really made an offer, probably the partner had very good connections to someone and was very "stubborn" on the linux thing. That, or the Nigerian M$ manager really roots for linux.
As they do in other countries (see Eastern Europe for an example), Microsoft will just pay the government officials that award the contract.
It is a lot easier, safer (there are lawyer intermediaries, so it is impossible to catch the perpetrators) and works well, as the government has a "legitimate" reason to increase the budget, and the larger the budget, the merrier it gets.
well, you're obviously easy to parse, probably because of the high carbonated beverage content :)
hehe, sticking them isn't that much work if you co-opt the kids, but yours are a bit young. painting the constellations properly, yeah, that's a challenge.
as for the changing sky thing, that is why I used the black light. i put a cylinder box around it, with a cardboard cutout on top of the box over the lamp, which projected an ellpse over the whole sky the way those paper planispheres do -- I was only litting up the visible portion of the sky by turning the paper cover of the box with my bare hands.
it was okay, but you had to move around the room for a closer look as the seasons went by ;)
ah, childhood memories ...
That is true, not every solution is ideal for everyone.
What I did when I was a kid (before software and big screen TVs) was even simpler -- I got one package them phosphorescent paper stars with the sticky backs, painted my ceiling dark blue, and just glued the stars all over the place.
and one day i got a black light lamp ... it was very useful even in highschool, the girls liked it a lot.
you can draw the constellations for extra credit :-D
Good luck with your project, and put it on the web when you're finished.
I use Stellarium (stellarium.org) on Linux on a large (47") TV. It is as cool as a planetarium, with more bells and whistles than you'd need. It works fine on a 32" too.
If what Stellarium ain't enough and I need Imperial cruisers and a Death star here and there, I use Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/) with some custom add-ons. Extra benefits if you let kids design their own universes.
The third piece is cartes du ciel, but I mostly use that to plan my observations.
You need more data. And less liebrul bias. Man, I tried searching "Sarah" in sites like sex.com. Your site's response?
"Thanks for the new information
Our system didn't know about sex.com before. Thank you for feeding us a new site. "
If you can't place Sarah in sex.com context, man, what good is your site fer?
I am not sure about Hillary (you could've provided a link), but if i have to go by the two pictures at the top of TFA, i'd say the algorithm isn't working very well for me. I find the original face more attractive than the result.
Maybe the algorithm works to tune an image to _someone's_ preferences, but those are different than mine. That is, beauty is still in the eye of the beholder.
What else is new?
I can testify to that. Being an irresponsible and stupid person who doesn't believe for a moment that consumer gadgets influence modern aircraft much, and is getting a kick from putting all those lives in danger, I've been using bluetooth GPS to track my flights since 2003 or thereabouts. I have over 100 tracks for that period and I am still alive to tell about it. On all sorts of aircraft too, boeings, airbuses, bombardiers, older and russian aircraft, helicopters and what you not.
So, puhlease ... intereference from bt or wireless mice? it just doesn't happen. Or hasn't happened to me yet.
yay, thanks. first reason to reboot into vista in 6 months.
they have to respond to Iran's nukular ambitions somehow, don't they?
since live testing is kinda out of question for the moment, they can just buy the simulation software as well.
come next year, it may be pretty cheap ;)
yeah, either that, or the fat of the basement dwellers.
that is pre-LHC thinking ... nowadays it is not a kaboom. instead, you have quiet sucking sound as the micro black hole swallows the earth.
man, compared to Letters from the Earth this video is soooo lame, unimaginative and boring.
i wish folk would know their culture better, really.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/twain/letearth.htm
I started using encryption for most of my communications ages ago - first ssh and ssl, then email and chat encryption - and I still haven't had any problem from whatever evil forces are spying on me.
The real problem is elsewhere -- encryption is hard to do, entails cost in convenience and implies a warranty on the part of the body that provides the service/device.
Given the high profile that privacy glitches get in the news, it is likely every discovered bug will generate a small PR nightmare for the provider.
Not to mention the fact that such product will be killed by the mobile carriers which are by far the worst spy on the scene -- they perform total monitoring and even inject content in your data to make money off you.
The governments in the democratic parts of the world would be among the least important reasons for such devices not being available.
In the country I was born, about a quarter of the population were recurited as informers of the secret services.
The scale of this "domestic intelligence" was virtually unknown (although suspected by some) until recent laws allowed some old records to be opened.
Yet, even now there are still people who (out of ignorance, political reasons, blind trust in the government, financial gain etc.) still ignore or deny the fact that mass spying was going on such scale.
Based on this experience, if I were you I'd at least entertain the possibility that such thing is possible to do.
Especially if, as the article points out, it is possible that a lot of seemingly innocent data is obtained from a variety of (helpful) sources and then stitched together into a coherent profile by a secret agency with huge budget. ;)