I don't know why anyone would compare Munich with Canberra. Canberra is a suburban sprawl without a center created solely to be the Australian federal capital (because of Sydney/Melbourne rivalry). Munich is a densely populated 800 year old European city. Canberra has ~300k people (including suburbs). Munich has about 1.2-1.3 million, not including the Satellite commuting towns. Munich has a thriving high tech industry but also has 6 breweries (laptop and lederhosen), whereas Canberra has a lot of politicians and public servants.
When I studied maths in high school in Australia in 1983 it was divided into two subjects: pure maths and applied maths. In both subjects, calculators were allowed. In pure maths, answers had to be given in their pure forms - any approximation was marked wrong. Ie. 11+6(sqrt(2)) might be correct, but 19.485 would be marked wrong. In applied maths, the decimal approximation was required, but with the correct number of significant figures. Ie. if the correct number of sig. figures (from the input values) was 4, then 19.49 was correct, but 19.485281 would be marked wrong. I think this is a valid approach.
As a non-American, it didn't even occur to me that the problem they had with the master-slave couplet had anything to do with blacks and whites. I just thought that they were offended by the concept of slavery. If it is true that they see the master-slave relationship as being non other than the white-black relationship, then these people are truly racist.
Actually I do understand that the US system is not a direct election, but that they indirectly vote for the electoral college. I believe that this is probably an anachronism, due to the difficulty in organising a nationwide election 200 years ago. It certainly contributed to the unfair result last time. However, even with a direct presidential election, the first past the post system would still have resulted in unfairness, as there was more than one candidate. If candidates B and C attract many of the same voters (as was the case with Gore and the third candidate, whose name I forget), then a vote for C is stolen from B and A wins. ie. if A=45%, B= 40%, C=15% then A wins with first past the post. With a preferential system, B would win if 2/3 of the C voters gave their second preferences to B, which is fairer in my opinion.
Another poster said that this strengthens the two party system, however this is only the case when it is coupled with the parliamentary government system (as in Australia) but would not be the case in a presidential election - probably the opposite.
As for it being too complicated, this system has worked successfully in Australia for a very long time, however it does confuse some voters (especially immigrants). Perhaps, this would be one of the advantages of an electronic system - that it would not let you vote invalidly.
Re. the bolsheviks in 1917, I think that that any electoral system that they might have set up was obviously meant to be a sham from the beginning and so has no relevance.
Foreign readers might also be interested in checking out the Australian preferential voting system. This is, in my opinion, a much fairer system than the "first past the post" system of the UK or US. In the preferential system, votes for minority candidates are never wasted as the vote cannot be split. This would be especially valid for a presidential system as in the US. For more details, check out:
http://www.australianpolitics.com/voting/systems/p referential.shtml
I am just curious whether other countries also have a pledge of allegiance (with or without God) that they recite in schools. I know that Australia and Germany do not. Are there any other countries in the world other than the US that do this?
The original altitude was given in feet, which is valid as that is the standard unit used in aviation worldwide, however when converting to units understandable by normal humans, they should have converted to miles and km so that more than ~10% of the world's population (ie. Britain and the US) can understand it.
That there are always a lot of comments whenever someone posts in non-SI units is not because these people are anal-retentive and overly fussy, but rather that most people get fed up with journalistic laziness forcing them to constantly convert to something meaningful.
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If I were that rich, I would do the same.
I don't know why anyone would compare Munich with Canberra. Canberra is a suburban sprawl without a center created solely to be the Australian federal capital (because of Sydney/Melbourne rivalry). Munich is a densely populated 800 year old European city. Canberra has ~300k people (including suburbs). Munich has about 1.2-1.3 million, not including the Satellite commuting towns. Munich has a thriving high tech industry but also has 6 breweries (laptop and lederhosen), whereas Canberra has a lot of politicians and public servants.
I would rather have ntp.
I first saw this in Australia, where it was released as "Braindead". Great film. Check out the reviews at imdb.com
When I studied maths in high school in Australia in 1983 it was divided into two subjects: pure maths and applied maths. In both subjects, calculators were allowed. In pure maths, answers had to be given in their pure forms - any approximation was marked wrong. Ie. 11+6(sqrt(2)) might be correct, but 19.485 would be marked wrong. In applied maths, the decimal approximation was required, but with the correct number of significant figures. Ie. if the correct number of sig. figures (from the input values) was 4, then 19.49 was correct, but 19.485281 would be marked wrong. I think this is a valid approach.
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As a non-American, it didn't even occur to me that the problem they had with the master-slave couplet had anything to do with blacks and whites. I just thought that they were offended by the concept of slavery. If it is true that they see the master-slave relationship as being non other than the white-black relationship, then these people are truly racist.
The extremetech article was written on June 8, 2001. This is a bit old for technology overview.
Actually I do understand that the US system is not a direct election, but that they indirectly vote for the electoral college. I believe that this is probably an anachronism, due to the difficulty in organising a nationwide election 200 years ago. It certainly contributed to the unfair result last time. However, even with a direct presidential election, the first past the post system would still have resulted in unfairness, as there was more than one candidate. If candidates B and C attract many of the same voters (as was the case with Gore and the third candidate, whose name I forget), then a vote for C is stolen from B and A wins. ie. if A=45%, B= 40%, C=15% then A wins with first past the post. With a preferential system, B would win if 2/3 of the C voters gave their second preferences to B, which is fairer in my opinion. Another poster said that this strengthens the two party system, however this is only the case when it is coupled with the parliamentary government system (as in Australia) but would not be the case in a presidential election - probably the opposite. As for it being too complicated, this system has worked successfully in Australia for a very long time, however it does confuse some voters (especially immigrants). Perhaps, this would be one of the advantages of an electronic system - that it would not let you vote invalidly. Re. the bolsheviks in 1917, I think that that any electoral system that they might have set up was obviously meant to be a sham from the beginning and so has no relevance.
Foreign readers might also be interested in checking out the Australian preferential voting system. This is, in my opinion, a much fairer system than the "first past the post" system of the UK or US. In the preferential system, votes for minority candidates are never wasted as the vote cannot be split. This would be especially valid for a presidential system as in the US. For more details, check out: http://www.australianpolitics.com/voting/systems/p referential.shtml
"most of my life" - How old are you?
I am just curious whether other countries also have a pledge of allegiance (with or without God) that they recite in schools. I know that Australia and Germany do not. Are there any other countries in the world other than the US that do this?
Unless of course the great prophet Zarquon returns first.
The original altitude was given in feet, which is valid as that is the standard unit used in aviation worldwide, however when converting to units understandable by normal humans, they should have converted to miles and km so that more than ~10% of the world's population (ie. Britain and the US) can understand it. That there are always a lot of comments whenever someone posts in non-SI units is not because these people are anal-retentive and overly fussy, but rather that most people get fed up with journalistic laziness forcing them to constantly convert to something meaningful.
Because it was harder to get a divorce than it is now and women had much less financial independance than now.