I never felt the urge to buy a graphing calculator because they were banned from all exams. Maybe the exams need to catch up, or something.
That said, I always liked Texas calculators from a hardware point of view. They were always more robust and easier to use than their flmsy Casio counterparts that always seemed a few years behind in terms of miniaturisation. I had a TI 30 which had nice clunky buttons that left you in no doubt that you had pressed them, and you could drop it on the floor without breaking it. You couldn't do that with a Casio. I later got a TI 35 which I still use to this day.
...SCO's stock is now more overvalued than a startup in Sunnyvale that plans to revolutionise the world of garden gnome retailing by harnessing the power of this new Internet thingy.
I don't see any way out of the two-party system. As soon as someone gets elected using it, it then becomes her interest to keep the system that elected her.
For example in the UK, where they have an equally unsophisticated 'First Past the Post' system as opposed to Proportional Representation (aka Single Tranferrable Voting), the third party Liberal Democrats have been saying for years that if they ever get elected they will bring about a PR system. AFAIK, thanks partly to the implosion of the Conservative Party, the Lib Dems seem to be on the way to becoming the main opposition party within the next ten years and are starting to make noises that maybe they won't tinker with the FPTP system after all.
The only way STV voting can make any in-roads in the US would be as follows:
But a measure on the ballot for Californian State Assembly elections to adopt STV
Reveal to the country the benefits of STV by ending the polarisation of politics up in Sacramento
Sell STV to the rest of the country as the road out from this abusive, out-dated, corrosive and childish left vs right shouting match between "stupid white men" who commit "treason" and "slander" in the land of "Lies and the lying liars who tell them."
Adopt STV in congressional elections to end polarisation and counter the effects of gerrymandering.
STV is a simple system for the voter to undeerstand, but the counting of votes is quite complex and is vulnerable to misrepresentation by people opposed to it. Communicating the benefits of STV and countering any misleading or ill-informed opposing arguments would be critical.
I was being sarcastic. It was a reference to the/. phenomenon of denouncing almost every anti-spam measure as being worthless just because it isn't a cure-all.
All they have to do is reconfigure the main deflector array to emit a polarised field of nanotachyons and redirect 20% of power from the EPS conduits to make sure that the ship maintains a stable warp field without compromising the counter-radiation shielding. Like, duh!
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That said, I always liked Texas calculators from a hardware point of view. They were always more robust and easier to use than their flmsy Casio counterparts that always seemed a few years behind in terms of miniaturisation. I had a TI 30 which had nice clunky buttons that left you in no doubt that you had pressed them, and you could drop it on the floor without breaking it. You couldn't do that with a Casio. I later got a TI 35 which I still use to this day.
...it isn't even a real dagget!
...a Beowulf cluster of iPod Minis?!
Sorry. Couldn't resist it.
Fair and Balanced analysis eh? I'm glad there are so many big companies out there today that are so objective about their own products and viewpoints.
...SCO's stock is now more overvalued than a startup in Sunnyvale that plans to revolutionise the world of garden gnome retailing by harnessing the power of this new Internet thingy.
Happy New Year to you too, Darl.
Will they be able to replace the window of your high-rise apartment like the ones in Star Wars Episode II?
I wouldn't write off the inventiveness of the aerospace industry just yet. Get ready for the Airbus A380.
Quite right! The government always fails at absolutely everything it does! Let's abolish laws completely and return to the jungle shall we?
A /. poster who read TFA.
For example in the UK, where they have an equally unsophisticated 'First Past the Post' system as opposed to Proportional Representation (aka Single Tranferrable Voting), the third party Liberal Democrats have been saying for years that if they ever get elected they will bring about a PR system. AFAIK, thanks partly to the implosion of the Conservative Party, the Lib Dems seem to be on the way to becoming the main opposition party within the next ten years and are starting to make noises that maybe they won't tinker with the FPTP system after all.
The only way STV voting can make any in-roads in the US would be as follows:
- But a measure on the ballot for Californian State Assembly elections to adopt STV
- Reveal to the country the benefits of STV by ending the polarisation of politics up in Sacramento
- Sell STV to the rest of the country as the road out from this abusive, out-dated, corrosive and childish left vs right shouting match between "stupid white men" who commit "treason" and "slander" in the land of "Lies and the lying liars who tell them."
- Adopt STV in congressional elections to end polarisation and counter the effects of gerrymandering.
STV is a simple system for the voter to undeerstand, but the counting of votes is quite complex and is vulnerable to misrepresentation by people opposed to it. Communicating the benefits of STV and countering any misleading or ill-informed opposing arguments would be critical.Hollywood movies in which laptop computers crash off a cliff and explode into flames.
Sorry for any confusion.
Yeah. In this house we obay the laws of thermodynamics!
This is not going to cure all spam overnight all by itself, ergo it's pointless.
All they have to do is reconfigure the main deflector array to emit a polarised field of nanotachyons and redirect 20% of power from the EPS conduits to make sure that the ship maintains a stable warp field without compromising the counter-radiation shielding. Like, duh!
This isn't going to cure all spam overnight all by itself therefore it's pointless.
No shit. Just click on my handle and look at what the mods have done to me over the weekend for daring to suggest some faintly liberal ideas.
It's a good point. The UK public sector has a terrible reputation for botching large-scale IT projects.
Seriously though, I've seen a lot of anti-tax, pro-car-at-the-expense-of-the-train posts getting modded all the way up to five.
I'd never thought of that. Maybe there's hope for us yet.