The problem is that congress can't amend the constitution on its own - amendments have to pass 2/3 of the state legislatures as well, and more than 1/3 of the states have something to lose from seeing it go away. The electoral college is also a money-saver for both parties (at the expense of truly national elections and the spirit of representative democracy in general), as presidential campaigns can be restricted to a handful of battleground states instead of being truly national (I lived in New York City in 2000, and didn't see a SINGLE ad for either presidential candidate on television).
I read a little while back about a way to get rid of the electoral college without amending the constitution, though - states can assign their electoral votes according to any process they choose. If enough states passed legislation that their electoral votes go to the winner of the nationwide popular vote, the outcome of the election would de facto hinge on the popular, not the electoral vote. As few as 11 states would be needed to make this happen, although the 'safe' states with huge numbers of electoral votes are unlikely to go along, so more would likely be needed.
Sounds like someone needs to take a couple days to write some documentation for the fantastic kludge they've put together at the office. Maybe that humanities person with an MBA can help you write it in a clear and concise manner.
You're innocent until proven guilty.
Actually, the law in this country is that she's neither, since it's a civil case. The jury would find either for the plaintiff or the defendant.
Smart people pay $58.25 plus shipping for a composite A/V cable? Are any of these smart people in the market for some pocket lint (only $9) or empty beer bottles (with KegFlex! - $87.43)?
Fifty years ago, "spontaneous pediatric edema" was a recognized diagnosis in the American medical establishment. Would you like to go back to that world, where everyone looked the other way?
Red Hat DID sue them for a preliminary injunction against claiming such things back in 2003. The case has been in deep-freeze in a Delaware court ever since. At this point, it's cheaper for Red Hat to sit back and watch IBM and Novell's legal teams stretch SCO on the rack.
Another interesting aspect is that KBR, now a subsidiary of Halliburton, WAS built up from nothing on the career arc of another vice president - Lyndon Baines Johnson. They bankrolled his campaigns, and he got them sweetheart backroom deals, some of which were blatantly illegal (such as building a dam on public land they had no title to, and basically expropriating it from the state since their dam was now on it). This continued throughout his career, up to and including KBR's role as a major contractor in the Vietnam war.
Because the carriers currently control the platform, and charge so much that there are very few adopters (which leaves the 'potential' revenue forever potential). For example, Verizon's navigator service looks useful, but damned if I'm going to pay $144/year for mapquest on my phone.
An ad-supported google maps on a phone that they don't charge end-users for would be very popular, and they could charge business users for fancier functionality like ACT synchronization, Nextel-style employee tracking, etc.
And let's not forget people have been going on and on about Google building it's own computers, operating systems, etc., and yet none of these things has appeared.
It does take some indeterminate amount of time for the friend connection to be made, however. I've never had one of the names become ungrayed without a night with the power off intervening, but then again, I don't have as much time for Wii-ing as I'd like.
So communist East Germany and Czechoslovakia enjoyed majority popular support? Iraq wasn't propped up by the US to contain Iran? Pinochet was such a nice guy he was simply invited to rule? The majority of the Saudi population are well-off under the rule of the Saud family? The North Korean population?
Your thesis only makes sense if countries are totally isolated from one another, and access to the financial/military levers of power are equally available to all.
My use case tends to be complex architectural drawings on very large paper sizes, which adobe reader sits there drawing over and over and over for minutes at a time. I don't have any experience with using it as you describe.
Sorry, you need to extend that era through Quake 1, as it was nothing short of revolutionary. It introduced TCP/IP pick-up-and-play multiplayer and publisher-condoned modding, and singlehandedly created the market for hardware-accelerated 3D on the desktop.
And your bank(s), brokerage, or any other place that pays you interest. And any entity that pays you as a consultant. And any of those entities' accountants.
If you consult for small businesses, your SSN is laying around on W9 forms god knows where, protected by god knows who.
The loss of productivity is a one-time cost, though, and you limit your analysis to a single year. Is it a net loss over 5 years? And what if moving the apps to the browser means desktops don't need to be replaced every three years?
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Word, Excel, Powerpoint, The NT Kernel (Even if they did hire Dave Cutler to do it), and the Intellimouse Explorer.
Were you homeschooled? The core of the Earth is iron. It's the reason we have a strong magnetic field.
I read a little while back about a way to get rid of the electoral college without amending the constitution, though - states can assign their electoral votes according to any process they choose. If enough states passed legislation that their electoral votes go to the winner of the nationwide popular vote, the outcome of the election would de facto hinge on the popular, not the electoral vote. As few as 11 states would be needed to make this happen, although the 'safe' states with huge numbers of electoral votes are unlikely to go along, so more would likely be needed.
Acme/FreshDirect/Peapod, if you're in the Eastern USA. Order online, they bring it by in a truck.
Sounds like someone needs to take a couple days to write some documentation for the fantastic kludge they've put together at the office. Maybe that humanities person with an MBA can help you write it in a clear and concise manner.
You're innocent until proven guilty. Actually, the law in this country is that she's neither, since it's a civil case. The jury would find either for the plaintiff or the defendant.
Smart people pay $58.25 plus shipping for a composite A/V cable? Are any of these smart people in the market for some pocket lint (only $9) or empty beer bottles (with KegFlex! - $87.43)?
Then why does the Museum of Modern Art in New York (among many others) have a large collection of tables and chairs?
Fifty years ago, "spontaneous pediatric edema" was a recognized diagnosis in the American medical establishment. Would you like to go back to that world, where everyone looked the other way?
Red Hat DID sue them for a preliminary injunction against claiming such things back in 2003. The case has been in deep-freeze in a Delaware court ever since. At this point, it's cheaper for Red Hat to sit back and watch IBM and Novell's legal teams stretch SCO on the rack.
Well, there's most of the cost savings right there - she used Ramen!
There's a macabre symmetry to it all.
Because the carriers currently control the platform, and charge so much that there are very few adopters (which leaves the 'potential' revenue forever potential). For example, Verizon's navigator service looks useful, but damned if I'm going to pay $144/year for mapquest on my phone. An ad-supported google maps on a phone that they don't charge end-users for would be very popular, and they could charge business users for fancier functionality like ACT synchronization, Nextel-style employee tracking, etc.
What's the Google Box, then?
It does take some indeterminate amount of time for the friend connection to be made, however. I've never had one of the names become ungrayed without a night with the power off intervening, but then again, I don't have as much time for Wii-ing as I'd like.
Your thesis only makes sense if countries are totally isolated from one another, and access to the financial/military levers of power are equally available to all.
My use case tends to be complex architectural drawings on very large paper sizes, which adobe reader sits there drawing over and over and over for minutes at a time. I don't have any experience with using it as you describe.
Sorry, you need to extend that era through Quake 1, as it was nothing short of revolutionary. It introduced TCP/IP pick-up-and-play multiplayer and publisher-condoned modding, and singlehandedly created the market for hardware-accelerated 3D on the desktop.
And both are left in a cloud of dust by Foxit.
How does the size of South Korea compare to, say, the size of the Boston-Washington DC corridor?
If you consult for small businesses, your SSN is laying around on W9 forms god knows where, protected by god knows who.
They're all transitional species.
Don't forget crossing sea level... both ways.
I beg to differ.
The loss of productivity is a one-time cost, though, and you limit your analysis to a single year. Is it a net loss over 5 years? And what if moving the apps to the browser means desktops don't need to be replaced every three years?