I imagine that they will update their exhbits as new potential technologies emerge, or as potential technologies become unfeasable. Museums change, update and improve their exhibits all of the time to deal wth changing issues and to encourage repeat visitations.
Way to alienate te most important part of the equation in your argument. The end users are the people who determine the content of their videogames. By ignoring them, you ignore the most powerful voice for change that you could harness. The companies and retailers that produce, distribute and sell these games do so because the gamers demand a certain product with a certain content. Without a dialogue with the end users, he will never advance his position.
I managed to get into the WoW open beta, via fileplanet, but WoW's site is down so I can't create an account. I think fileplanet probably ran out of Beta keys in the first hour. My roommate wasn't able to get one and she was there right at the start. Supposedly more Beta keys will be given out either via Fileplanet or the WoW site itself, in the coming days.
This article gives me no reason to believe that this has anything to do with the government, or the current administration. Maybe image search has some "issues" or maybe Google is just looking out for their market share and shareholder value.
We use the Inka-Dot system here in California (in some places). Basically a punch card style ballot with the punch replaced with an ink dispensing pen, much like a punch. They get optically scanned, I get a receipt, and I trust the vote. I think this is the safest system out there. Doing a recount is easy, if necessary, and optical scanners have well documented QA history.
This system seems to deliver the kind of service everyone wants, and I bet it's a lot cheaper than those Diebolds.
Both the candidates focus on narrow bands of their careers. Just like Kerry wanted to come across and appealing to moderates, Bush doesn't want us to talk about his association with extreme right wing groups. Both candidates played to the middle.
Regarding Kerry's statements about WMD in Iraq. It is well known that the information that was presented to Congress was exremely "massaged" to carry that point of view. Before the war, many people chose to believe those conclusions, despite the obviousness that the tail was wagging the dog. I don't hold Kerry in particularily high regard, I just hold him in vastly higher regard than I hold Bush.
Regardless whether either of them believed that Iraq had WMD's neither of them supported the war and the way that it was carried out. There is a big difference between giving a president the authority to use force, as a negotiating lever, with war as an absolute last resort, and the wanton, arbitrary use of said force.
The WMD thing was an ongoing effort, within both the Clinton and Bush administration to maintain the sanctions, and later, by Bush, to invade and occupy Iraq. I have serious issues with the way in which the current administration very selectively decided to believe any data, regardless of how disputed, in making its case for war. Eagerness to go to war is a despicable trait, and the administration appears to have an almost unhealthy fascination with the usage of military force, and relatively little awareness of the outcomes of such use.
You are by no means breaking my illusion. That doesn't mean that the Bush administration did not knowingly lie to both themselves and the American people. That is an impeachable offense.
I am not aware of any statistical data that indicates that likely Kerry voters were less informed than Bush supporters on key issues. I have seen data that indicates there were signifigant numbers of Bush supporters who made their presidential choice based on absolute misinformation. I am not coming out here in favour of either candidate, it is not good for the electorate when a large portion of voters who support either candidate are misinformed.
Yes, all(there are more than 2, btw) parties court the ignorant as much as possible. They court anyone who can fill out a ballot. Given the extreme efforts of key members of the Bush administration to keep afloat many of these erroneous(sp) ideas (WMD in Iraq, Saddam responsible for 9/11, only Bush is against gay marriage, consequences of Bush tax policy, etc...) I would say that they have not gone out of their way to make sure that their supporters are aware of the truth. It would look, to a neutral and objective obvserver, that the Republican administration wants the electorate to be misinformed on specific issues and in ways that support their positions and actions. That is not good for a free society, or a democracy.
I wish all Americans feel like you do. However, winners or percieved winners generally aren't as selfless. At the same time losers generally look to find reasons outside of themselves for their loss. More at stake than the presidency here is the nature of our democracy and how well it is managed.
I am an extreme lefty and I have been listening to "black helicopter types" all week at my office, they sound so sad and make almost no sense. I think they are usually even more mis/underinformed than the block of Bush voters who believe that Saddam had WMD or that he executed 9/11.
It think both parties could take your advice about alienating and insulting people. Just 3 days after the election and I am already seeing pro-Bush vandalism/graffitti gloating about the election and calling Kerry supporters a variety of insults around town. I have total respect for the conservative values the the Republican party espouses, I just don't want them forced down my throat.
Not to upset you, but you may not take marching orders from Karl Rove, but Bush sure does. I don't think a lot of folks on the left are half as put-off by Bush's personal rhetoric and positions, than the folks (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rove, etc...) that he surrounds himself with.
I was in the early phases of the JTL Beta. After a few weeks of testing I found it so buggy, and more importantly, so boring and badly implemented, that I stopped testing. So did a lot of other testers. They had to send out bulk E-mails to testers, begging us to come back, because their test population, especially veteran testers like me, had dwindled so much.
The gameplay of JTL is so mind numbingly bad that it is a major turn off. I used to lead a 120+ member guild in SWG until I started testing JTL. The total suckiness of JTL has decimated server population, and veteran players are leaving in droves for EQ2 and WoW. Luckily, I am moving over to WoW (Beta is great, game is real polished) with some mates from my SWG server.
I actually abandoned SWG while in the JTL beta to go play Eve Online. JTL is not, nor will it be the savior of SWG. Players are still leaving servers in droves.
I think the key problem with easy to tamper with, difficult to audit voting systems, is that it makes it difficult to trust the results of any election.
Remember, the electors have not yet cast their votes, we are in the wierd area between the votes to choose electors and the actual election of the president. I woulnd't be suprised to see more of this same kind of issue coming up in the coming weeks. This does not make me feel comfortable with the electoral process in general, regardless of the outcome.
It's not about naming foreign leaders. It's about not knowing the basic realities of 9/11, the war on terror, the war in Iraq, the state of the economy and how Bush's tax position relates to it.
I don't give a damn if folks can't name people. What does concern me is when people believe that the war in Iraq is warranted, because they erroneously believe that Saddamn Hussein is in any way responsible for 9/11 or Al Queda. To name a single common misconception.
The issue isn't all of Bush's supporters, it is the block of them that are misinformed and put him over the top. There are many intelligent people who support Bush, and the Rebulican party. Unfortunately, at this time a lot of their support comes from a portion of the populace that is mis or underinformed on key issues, both domestically and internationally.
A lot of pre-election data was gathered on this subject. As usual the more educated someone is (in terms of degrees) the more likely they were to support progressive/democratic candidates, such as Kerry. Data in previous elections mirrors this trend, so no suprise there. Don't be too quick to equate education with intelligence, though. They are two very seperate things.
Also, along a different line, Bush supporters were vastly more likely to be grossly misinformed about key facts involving terrorism, the war in Iraq, and the positions of both candidates. In numerous surveys/studies I saw data that basically said "a greater number of Bush supporters than Kerry supporters have absolutely no idea what the facts are regarding the current state of the world."
I chalk a Bush win in this election up to 2 things.
1) A poor relationship between the electorate and the facts at issue in the election.
2) The tremendous political engine of the evangelical Christian population in the midwest.
As an interested party, I have taken a look at a lot of the "vote fraud/machine error" data that is getting passed around. Very little of what I have seen looks conclusively like fraud. Yes there is such a thing a vote "spoliage" and yes there were some obvious problems with voting machines. But there is no "smoking gun" out there, as far as I can tell.
That said, I am deeply concerned about the potential for fraud and failure that these new machines present. More important than nitpicking over a decided election is making sure that we continue to demand the highest quality voting systems we can get. If current trends continue, I believe that it is inevitable that a serious incident involving fraud or failure will occur in an important election, in the near future.
I would trust a system like that more than I do the current one. I don't think a modern presidential election is something that can be adequately resolved in a period of hours. I believe in representative government, but my fear is that a system like thatr would just end up favouring the ruling party in congress.
I don't think they are going to do anything that displeases their masters in the red states. We are going to have ugly, bad for the economy corn subsidies for a long time.
I know. I don't even have speakers for my PC. I only use headphones when I want to hear something. When playing a MMO, I am on chat with my guild, I generally have the sound off.
If you don't like their payment plan for the level of service you want, you don't have to buy their product. Most hard core MMO players probably spend less than folks who play many different games. In my house we have Gamefly for all of our console games, and we rarely buy PC games, since we mostly play a single MMO. We probably spend less on games than we did before we played MMOs.
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Yeah, but it looks lke folks might get to keep their open beta characters.
As the other poster said, this is a service that is available in Sweeden. I feel comfortable saying that Sweeden has good working wages, relative to both the U.S. and China.
I don't think it has anthing to do with the cheapness of wages in China, it has more to do with their desire to be competitive as business by providing good service. In the states, retail businesses are staffed by undertrained, underpaid employees, and service and personal attention seems not to be a priority.
Although not a technilogical breakthrough, I am super jealous that you can get pants hemmed in-store, in minutes. I am 5' 3" and I have to have all of my pants hemmed. I have a sewing machine, and can do this myslef, but I hate doing it. Either start doing this or I'm moving to China, Dammit!
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Mrs. Pacman was hawt! I totally dig chicks wearing nothing but polka dot bows on their heads.
I think we should start a petition to get him a cameo in the next Rockstar bloodbath.
I imagine that they will update their exhbits as new potential technologies emerge, or as potential technologies become unfeasable. Museums change, update and improve their exhibits all of the time to deal wth changing issues and to encourage repeat visitations.
Way to alienate te most important part of the equation in your argument. The end users are the people who determine the content of their videogames. By ignoring them, you ignore the most powerful voice for change that you could harness. The companies and retailers that produce, distribute and sell these games do so because the gamers demand a certain product with a certain content. Without a dialogue with the end users, he will never advance his position.
I managed to get into the WoW open beta, via fileplanet, but WoW's site is down so I can't create an account. I think fileplanet probably ran out of Beta keys in the first hour. My roommate wasn't able to get one and she was there right at the start. Supposedly more Beta keys will be given out either via Fileplanet or the WoW site itself, in the coming days.
This article gives me no reason to believe that this has anything to do with the government, or the current administration. Maybe image search has some "issues" or maybe Google is just looking out for their market share and shareholder value.
We use the Inka-Dot system here in California (in some places). Basically a punch card style ballot with the punch replaced with an ink dispensing pen, much like a punch. They get optically scanned, I get a receipt, and I trust the vote. I think this is the safest system out there. Doing a recount is easy, if necessary, and optical scanners have well documented QA history. This system seems to deliver the kind of service everyone wants, and I bet it's a lot cheaper than those Diebolds.
Both the candidates focus on narrow bands of their careers. Just like Kerry wanted to come across and appealing to moderates, Bush doesn't want us to talk about his association with extreme right wing groups. Both candidates played to the middle. Regarding Kerry's statements about WMD in Iraq. It is well known that the information that was presented to Congress was exremely "massaged" to carry that point of view. Before the war, many people chose to believe those conclusions, despite the obviousness that the tail was wagging the dog. I don't hold Kerry in particularily high regard, I just hold him in vastly higher regard than I hold Bush. Regardless whether either of them believed that Iraq had WMD's neither of them supported the war and the way that it was carried out. There is a big difference between giving a president the authority to use force, as a negotiating lever, with war as an absolute last resort, and the wanton, arbitrary use of said force. The WMD thing was an ongoing effort, within both the Clinton and Bush administration to maintain the sanctions, and later, by Bush, to invade and occupy Iraq. I have serious issues with the way in which the current administration very selectively decided to believe any data, regardless of how disputed, in making its case for war. Eagerness to go to war is a despicable trait, and the administration appears to have an almost unhealthy fascination with the usage of military force, and relatively little awareness of the outcomes of such use. You are by no means breaking my illusion. That doesn't mean that the Bush administration did not knowingly lie to both themselves and the American people. That is an impeachable offense.
I am not aware of any statistical data that indicates that likely Kerry voters were less informed than Bush supporters on key issues. I have seen data that indicates there were signifigant numbers of Bush supporters who made their presidential choice based on absolute misinformation. I am not coming out here in favour of either candidate, it is not good for the electorate when a large portion of voters who support either candidate are misinformed.
Yes, all(there are more than 2, btw) parties court the ignorant as much as possible. They court anyone who can fill out a ballot. Given the extreme efforts of key members of the Bush administration to keep afloat many of these erroneous(sp) ideas (WMD in Iraq, Saddam responsible for 9/11, only Bush is against gay marriage, consequences of Bush tax policy, etc...) I would say that they have not gone out of their way to make sure that their supporters are aware of the truth. It would look, to a neutral and objective obvserver, that the Republican administration wants the electorate to be misinformed on specific issues and in ways that support their positions and actions. That is not good for a free society, or a democracy.
I wish all Americans feel like you do. However, winners or percieved winners generally aren't as selfless. At the same time losers generally look to find reasons outside of themselves for their loss. More at stake than the presidency here is the nature of our democracy and how well it is managed.
I am an extreme lefty and I have been listening to "black helicopter types" all week at my office, they sound so sad and make almost no sense. I think they are usually even more mis/underinformed than the block of Bush voters who believe that Saddam had WMD or that he executed 9/11.
It think both parties could take your advice about alienating and insulting people. Just 3 days after the election and I am already seeing pro-Bush vandalism/graffitti gloating about the election and calling Kerry supporters a variety of insults around town. I have total respect for the conservative values the the Republican party espouses, I just don't want them forced down my throat.
Not to upset you, but you may not take marching orders from Karl Rove, but Bush sure does. I don't think a lot of folks on the left are half as put-off by Bush's personal rhetoric and positions, than the folks (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rove, etc...) that he surrounds himself with.
I was in the early phases of the JTL Beta. After a few weeks of testing I found it so buggy, and more importantly, so boring and badly implemented, that I stopped testing. So did a lot of other testers. They had to send out bulk E-mails to testers, begging us to come back, because their test population, especially veteran testers like me, had dwindled so much.
The gameplay of JTL is so mind numbingly bad that it is a major turn off. I used to lead a 120+ member guild in SWG until I started testing JTL. The total suckiness of JTL has decimated server population, and veteran players are leaving in droves for EQ2 and WoW. Luckily, I am moving over to WoW (Beta is great, game is real polished) with some mates from my SWG server.
I actually abandoned SWG while in the JTL beta to go play Eve Online. JTL is not, nor will it be the savior of SWG. Players are still leaving servers in droves.
I think the key problem with easy to tamper with, difficult to audit voting systems, is that it makes it difficult to trust the results of any election.
Remember, the electors have not yet cast their votes, we are in the wierd area between the votes to choose electors and the actual election of the president. I woulnd't be suprised to see more of this same kind of issue coming up in the coming weeks. This does not make me feel comfortable with the electoral process in general, regardless of the outcome.
It's not about naming foreign leaders. It's about not knowing the basic realities of 9/11, the war on terror, the war in Iraq, the state of the economy and how Bush's tax position relates to it.
I don't give a damn if folks can't name people. What does concern me is when people believe that the war in Iraq is warranted, because they erroneously believe that Saddamn Hussein is in any way responsible for 9/11 or Al Queda. To name a single common misconception.
The issue isn't all of Bush's supporters, it is the block of them that are misinformed and put him over the top. There are many intelligent people who support Bush, and the Rebulican party. Unfortunately, at this time a lot of their support comes from a portion of the populace that is mis or underinformed on key issues, both domestically and internationally.
Yes.
A lot of pre-election data was gathered on this subject. As usual the more educated someone is (in terms of degrees) the more likely they were to support progressive/democratic candidates, such as Kerry. Data in previous elections mirrors this trend, so no suprise there. Don't be too quick to equate education with intelligence, though. They are two very seperate things.
Also, along a different line, Bush supporters were vastly more likely to be grossly misinformed about key facts involving terrorism, the war in Iraq, and the positions of both candidates. In numerous surveys/studies I saw data that basically said "a greater number of Bush supporters than Kerry supporters have absolutely no idea what the facts are regarding the current state of the world."
I chalk a Bush win in this election up to 2 things.
1) A poor relationship between the electorate and the facts at issue in the election.
2) The tremendous political engine of the evangelical Christian population in the midwest.
As an interested party, I have taken a look at a lot of the "vote fraud/machine error" data that is getting passed around. Very little of what I have seen looks conclusively like fraud. Yes there is such a thing a vote "spoliage" and yes there were some obvious problems with voting machines. But there is no "smoking gun" out there, as far as I can tell. That said, I am deeply concerned about the potential for fraud and failure that these new machines present. More important than nitpicking over a decided election is making sure that we continue to demand the highest quality voting systems we can get. If current trends continue, I believe that it is inevitable that a serious incident involving fraud or failure will occur in an important election, in the near future.
I would trust a system like that more than I do the current one. I don't think a modern presidential election is something that can be adequately resolved in a period of hours. I believe in representative government, but my fear is that a system like thatr would just end up favouring the ruling party in congress.
I don't think they are going to do anything that displeases their masters in the red states. We are going to have ugly, bad for the economy corn subsidies for a long time.
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I know. I don't even have speakers for my PC. I only use headphones when I want to hear something. When playing a MMO, I am on chat with my guild, I generally have the sound off.
If you don't like their payment plan for the level of service you want, you don't have to buy their product. Most hard core MMO players probably spend less than folks who play many different games. In my house we have Gamefly for all of our console games, and we rarely buy PC games, since we mostly play a single MMO. We probably spend less on games than we did before we played MMOs.
Yeah, but it looks lke folks might get to keep their open beta characters.
As the other poster said, this is a service that is available in Sweeden. I feel comfortable saying that Sweeden has good working wages, relative to both the U.S. and China. I don't think it has anthing to do with the cheapness of wages in China, it has more to do with their desire to be competitive as business by providing good service. In the states, retail businesses are staffed by undertrained, underpaid employees, and service and personal attention seems not to be a priority.
Although not a technilogical breakthrough, I am super jealous that you can get pants hemmed in-store, in minutes. I am 5' 3" and I have to have all of my pants hemmed. I have a sewing machine, and can do this myslef, but I hate doing it. Either start doing this or I'm moving to China, Dammit!