Nothing odd about it. The Australian author, writing for an Australian audience, refers to his own currency as 'dollars' and refers to the American currency as 'US dollars.'
It's like in Ireland (pre-Euro days) when we talked about 'pounds' (meaning Irish pounds) and 'pounds sterling' (meaning British pounds.) In the UK they talk about 'pounds' (meaning pounds sterling) and refered to the old Irish currency as 'Irish pounds.'
Nobody puts the nationality on their own currency in everyday speech. Where's the confusion?
In 2000, 5 of the 12 directors of Diebold, a leading voting machine manufacturer, made donations totaling $94,750 to predominately Republican politicians;
Former Florida Secretary of State Sandra Mortham (R) and Former State Election Supervisor of California Lou Dedier (R) both have ties to Election Systems and Software (ES&S), one of our nation's leading voting machine manufacturers and tabulators. Sandra Mortham was a lobbyist for ES&S and the Florida Association of Counties during the same time period. The Florida Association of Counties made $300,000 in commissions from the sale of ES&S's voting machines;
In Georgia's most recent election, William Wingate, a lobbyist for ES&S, contributed $7,000 to Gov. Roy Barnes (D), $1,000 to Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor (D), and $500 to Secretary of State Cathy Cox (D);
Michael McCarthy is the Chairman of the McCarthy Group, of which ES&S is a subsidiary. According to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings, McCarthy is also the Primary Campaign Treasurer for Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who (according to FEC filings) is also financially tied to the McCarthy Group by substantial investments (valued between one and five million dollars). According to officials at Nebraska's Election Administration, ES&S machines tallied around 85 percent of votes cast in Hagel's 1996 and 2002 senatorial races.
Occasionally, politicians have used their ties to voting machine companies for fraud and illegal activities:
Former Louisiana State Elections Official Jerry Fowler (D), is currently serving five years in prison for charges related to taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from voting machine scandals.
Bill McCuen (D), former Arkansas Secretary of State, pled guilty to felony charges that he took bribes, evaded taxes, and accepted kickbacks. Part of the case involved Business Records Corp. (now merged with ES&S) for recording corporate and voter registration records.
Not to mention people who want to hear new stuff but don't want to go to the trouble of trawling through endless lists of downloadable music. It makes perfect sense to leave it up to expert radio DJs like Pete Tong who have a nose for the best new music.
For the UK-impaired, Pete Tong is a dance DJ with BBC Radio 1 and is also well-known on the club circuit.
Radio also has the benefit of mixing music with chat, weather and news reports. A bit more interesting than an MP3 playlist.
"Video killed the radio star" was way off. "Napster and American Idol killed the radio star" is so far off base you'd need the Hubble Space Telescope to read it. I can't believe that garbage like this gets serious attention.
And another thing, where are all these/.ers that have supposedly been asking "who needs radio?"
I was just reading the very same thing this weekend in The Economist. There was a similar study carried out by some guy from the University of Massachussetts. From their article:
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ROMANTICS in the coal-mining industry (or, at least, their public-relations flacks) sometimes refer to the black rock that powered the industrial revolution as "buried sunshine". As far as the energy in it is concerned, that is precisely true. It is all the result of photosynthesis. But, perhaps surprisingly, just how much photosynthesis it results from has never been the subject of enquiry.
That has now changed. Jeffrey Dukes, of the University of Massachusetts, in Boston, has attempted to do the sums and work out how much photosynthetic effort lies behind the useful energy that people are able to extract from coal, oil and natural gas--fossil fuels that ultimately derive from the bodies of long-deceased organisms.
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THE Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil." This intriguing prediction is often heard in energy circles these days. If greens were the only people to be expressing such thoughts, the notion might be dismissed as Utopian. However, the quotation is from Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a Saudi Arabian who served as his country's oil minister three decades ago. His words are rich in irony. Sheikh Yamani first came to the world's attention during the Arab oil embargo of the United States, which began three decades ago this week and whose effects altered the course of modern economic and political history. Coming from such a source, the prediction, one assumes, can hardly be a case of wishful thinking."
So there you have it. No bleeding-hearted wooly liberalism required. Even a Saudi Oil expert sees the writing on the energy wall.
I think you've got something there. As the article says:
America's leaders are still concerning themselves almost exclusively with increasing the supply of oil, rather than with curbing the demand for it while increasing the supply of alternatives.
This seems to be a fundamental flaw in American thinking. We are always looking for simple solutions to complex problems, always dealing with the symptoms rather than the cause. It's like what Americans call 'traffic relief,' the practice of building wider and wider and wider roads in a never-ending attempt to meet the insatiable demand for roadspace when the real cause of the traffic, single-use zoning, remains.
Why oh why are there so many people here with reading difficulties? Here is what McCain said:
"The odds of defeating spam by legislation
ALONE is extremely low."
The keyword here is ALONE. This bill is one of many tools being used in the war on spam. If we all took the attitude of "well this action isn't going to be a magic quick-fix cure-all therefore we shouldn't bother with it" then everyone would give up and we'd be getting thousands of v1agra ads in our inboxes every hour.
Come on people! Credit where it's due! Every little helps! Spam filters alone are not going to kill spam. Legislation alone is not going to kill spam. Actions taken by ISPs alone are not going to kill spam. It is the combination of these efforts that is going to make the difference.
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Can Microsoft learn to be a hardware designer? Does such a thing even exist in the sacred screeds of horizontal business model textbooks?"
There are a few places in that article where the author says that M$ doesn't make hardware. What's this X Box thing then? And what about this SPOT technology that they're promising is going to be the biggest thing since WAP?
Well the one that really kills ME is all those mouse manuals that tell you that if your mouse is sticking, you should take out the ball and clean it. Aaaaaarrrgh! Why do they go on telling us this year in year out? It's the rollers inside the mouse that gather all the shit and have to be cleaned!
The idea that the Qwerty layout was designed to slow typists down is a myth.
Qwerty keyboards were designed so that the frequently-used letters did not activate two hammers side-by-side on a mechanical typewriter in close succession, which would cause the mechanism to jam.
There is no evidence that an alphabetical keyboard is any faster than a qwerty keyboard. In the contrary, year in year out we still get some device manufacturers trying to foist their alphabetical keybords on us. They serve no purpose but to slow expert typists down to the speed of beginners.
There are alternative layouts available, such as the Dvorak layout which is said to be more efficient than even the qwerty layout and reduces strain. More info here.
I could have sworn that they were afterburning turbofans. I wouldn't imagine old turbojets would have the power to push a plane as big as that through the sound barrier.
Translation: "Hundreds of innocent people were not really thrown off the electoral rolls in Florida in 2000, and only Republicans are allowed to complain about bias."
I would have imagined that the US forces would have taken responsibility for enforcing law and order following the fall of Saddam. Instead they allowed billions of dollars of damage to be done to public property that now has to be repaired. Guess who's going to foot the bill for that little oversight?
Your failure to deal with the other points is noted.
Still a lack of running water. Still no steady supply of electricity. Still no government. Still no free elections. Still no law and order.
Actually lots of WMDs have been found, you just don't want to count _those_ WMDs.
This is completely incorrect. The weapons inspectors currently in Iraq have been there for longer than Hans Blix and his team were. Their recently-published intirim report found that NO WMDs have been found.
Notice how it whimpered away? It had no legs b/c it was shit
It wimpered away because this famous "liberal biased media" that the right keeps telling me about has once again failed to publish this. This story is huge outside the US. The British and Canadian press have been all over this issue ever since it emerged that Bush stole the 2000 election. "It was shit" and other such abusive language seems to be the only answer that the American right has to the growing mountain of evidence that proves that we are in the midst of a right wing coup d'etat. America needs to wake up to the dictatorship that is currently emerging by stealth.
*Sigh* indeed. "Ex felons?" If you'd followed my link you'd have seen that people removed from the electoral rolls had committed misdemeanors out of state like littering and jaywalking. Others had been removed just because they shared the same name as an ex felon. Gore lost by 537 votes. This had every impact on the election.
Oh, and what state did this list of "criminals" come from? I'll give you a clue. It's a big state with lots of oil wells and cowboy hats.
Tell that to the hundreds of blacks and latinos who turned up at the polls in the 2000 Florida election only to be told that they had been scrubbed from the electoral rolls by the Bush family. Tell that to the people who cannot unseat an incumbant because of the ludicrous situation that allows politicians to gerrymander their own electoral districts.
The day when capital punishment is abolished in the US and when elections are not rigged will be the day when anyone stateside is in a position to criticise China for its human rights abuses and lack of representative democracy.
The analogy with the Ford case is a bit weak. The auto manufacturers' cartel had a patent on something that was already common-knowledge. Two German fellas called Benz & Daimler had already invented the 'carriage that propelled itself with an internal combustion engine.' How those eejits got a patent on it is beyond me, a bit like Amazon and their 'one-click ordering' method.
The music industry is quite different. It takes a lot of creativity to write music and the artist should benefit from their work in the same way that a book author should benefit from his. The difficulty arises in that books lend themselves to the printed format that is hard to copy and expensive to distribute. Music lends itself to the electronic format that is easy to copy and cheap to distribute.
I apologise for not having the answer here, but the music industry could make better use of their time and resources in finding ways to add value to their products in the same way that DVDs provide a considerably enhanced user experience beyond just watching a film. CDs that include videos and interactive goodies for your computer are a step in the right direction.
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Carlson is charged with 79 counts of computer-hacking related offenses and also with identity theft.
In 1996, Carlson, who California law enforcement officials believe placed anti-African Americans, anti-Jewish and anti-Latino leaflets into supermarket products, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for vandalizing more than two dozen luxury cars."
Sounds like he's one less Nazi to worry about. Good riddance if he gets locked up.
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Nothing odd about it. The Australian author, writing for an Australian audience, refers to his own currency as 'dollars' and refers to the American currency as 'US dollars.'
It's like in Ireland (pre-Euro days) when we talked about 'pounds' (meaning Irish pounds) and 'pounds sterling' (meaning British pounds.) In the UK they talk about 'pounds' (meaning pounds sterling) and refered to the old Irish currency as 'Irish pounds.'
Nobody puts the nationality on their own currency in everyday speech. Where's the confusion?
Occasionally, politicians have used their ties to voting machine companies for fraud and illegal activities:
- Former Louisiana State Elections Official Jerry Fowler (D), is currently serving five years in prison for charges related to taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks from voting machine scandals.
- Bill McCuen (D), former Arkansas Secretary of State, pled guilty to felony charges that he took bribes, evaded taxes, and accepted kickbacks. Part of the case involved Business Records Corp. (now merged with ES&S) for recording corporate and voter registration records.
Full Story here.For the UK-impaired, Pete Tong is a dance DJ with BBC Radio 1 and is also well-known on the club circuit.
Radio also has the benefit of mixing music with chat, weather and news reports. A bit more interesting than an MP3 playlist.
"Video killed the radio star" was way off. "Napster and American Idol killed the radio star" is so far off base you'd need the Hubble Space Telescope to read it. I can't believe that garbage like this gets serious attention.
And another thing, where are all these
"I'm sorry Dave, please install the latest service pack and reboot your computer."
The Economist also had a large section devoted to ways that governments could use to break out from the tyranny of oil. From that article:
So there you have it. No bleeding-hearted wooly liberalism required. Even a Saudi Oil expert sees the writing on the energy wall.Well at least they don't refer to a liquid as 'gas' like the Americans do when talking about petrol.
Come on people! Credit where it's due! Every little helps! Spam filters alone are not going to kill spam. Legislation alone is not going to kill spam. Actions taken by ISPs alone are not going to kill spam. It is the combination of these efforts that is going to make the difference.
Anyhoo. From the article:
There are a few places in that article where the author says that M$ doesn't make hardware. What's this X Box thing then? And what about this SPOT technology that they're promising is going to be the biggest thing since WAP?Hey, fly Virgin Atlantic and you'll get seat-back entertainment in economy class. Nothing boring about that!
Number of Concordes to have crashed in their entire history: 1. Number of Boeings to have crashed in their entire history:........?
Opposition to Concorde in the US also had a lot to do with it. The 'not-invented-here' lobby can be pretty powerful.
I could have sworn that they were afterburning turbofans. I wouldn't imagine old turbojets would have the power to push a plane as big as that through the sound barrier.
Translation: "Hundreds of innocent people were not really thrown off the electoral rolls in Florida in 2000, and only Republicans are allowed to complain about bias."
Your failure to deal with the other points is noted.
Oh, and what state did this list of "criminals" come from? I'll give you a clue. It's a big state with lots of oil wells and cowboy hats.
The day when capital punishment is abolished in the US and when elections are not rigged will be the day when anyone stateside is in a position to criticise China for its human rights abuses and lack of representative democracy.
The analogy with the Ford case is a bit weak. The auto manufacturers' cartel had a patent on something that was already common-knowledge. Two German fellas called Benz & Daimler had already invented the 'carriage that propelled itself with an internal combustion engine.' How those eejits got a patent on it is beyond me, a bit like Amazon and their 'one-click ordering' method.
The music industry is quite different. It takes a lot of creativity to write music and the artist should benefit from their work in the same way that a book author should benefit from his. The difficulty arises in that books lend themselves to the printed format that is hard to copy and expensive to distribute. Music lends itself to the electronic format that is easy to copy and cheap to distribute.
I apologise for not having the answer here, but the music industry could make better use of their time and resources in finding ways to add value to their products in the same way that DVDs provide a considerably enhanced user experience beyond just watching a film. CDs that include videos and interactive goodies for your computer are a step in the right direction.