The first ammendment is designed to protect your ability to say things. It says nothing about your ability not to say things. other ammendments have things to say about that domain.
It is more important for criminals to be caught and tried than it is for sensationalists to be able to write about the criminals' exploits.
It appears to have become that, despite the fact that the book itself is clearly NOT about a dictatorship. indeed, the specific form of government was essencially irrelevant.
For instance, if you use the words, right wing before the word radio, you can create the impression that radio talk shows are somehow biased or deceitfully biased. It'd be like if we used blanket statements like, "left wing web logs" or "idiot poster" when talking about slashdot.
Although the actual statement made by Al Gore had nothing to do with funding, it was clearly an attempt by him to take credit for the internet's creation, despite the fact that this was really an ancillary effect of the funding Mr. Gore actually voted for. The statement reveals that Gore is the worst kind of liar: he uses statements that are technically true to craft mistaken impressions.
Ironically, this is pretty much the opposite of your post, which uses mistaken impressions and jingoistic terminology to make a statement that is, in fact, profoundly true.
They don't have a vested interest in giving the right result. They have a vested interest in giving the result their customers (i.e. the tv networks) want. If those customers are interested in using the polls as a tool to influence public opinion rather than as one to simply report it, then there is no reason to assume that correctness is anywhere near the top of the goals list.
Even if the bias averages out over enough separate polls, that statistic is really a poll of polls and subject to exactly the same kinds of sampling problems as the original polls themselves.
In an election, there's only one poll that counts, and that poll is neither a random sampling, nor a scientifically conducted demographically chosen sampling. The poll that counts measures the entire dataset. everyone. It is not subject to statistical anomalies because it is not a stastical poll. It is THE COUNT.
If you are unwilling to consider the possibility that there was a conspiracy to present biased exit poll results, why should you expect others to be open to your claim of a conspiracy to affect the actual election results? Certainly the former would be both easier to accomplish, and also (perhaps more importantly) not a crime.
The implications of either case are, of course, profound. To leave one uninvestigaged because the other is extremely serious is irresponsible.
VHS was technically superior to betamax. It had roughly the same quality, was functionally nearly the same technology, but had much longer tapes.
Similarly, CDMA is superior to GSM, which is basically TDMA. The only thing remotely "superior" about GSM is that is more tolerant to varying relative power levels. A situation which is basically irrelevant in this age of cheap signal strength metering.
at least 50% of your examples are incorrect based on either mistaken "common wisdom" or some kind of weird european fanboism.
And I guarantee that consumers will not have to choose between BluRay and HD-DVD, for the simple reason that the disks are hardware compatible in all the ways that matter. Combo drives a la CDR+/- will ultimately be the norm. Each studio therefore will eventually release on either both formats, the format they're contracturally bound to, or whatever they feel is best for their film. For the vast majority of films, it will not matter what format is used. "The Lake House" would be just as unentertaining even if released in uncompressed bitmap format on a stack of hard disks.
I, for one, look forward to the day when we by fuel by the kcal instead of by the gallon. Why are we using liquid measures at all for a substance which is not under strict temperature controls? I feel like i'm getting ripped off every time I buy gasoline in the summertime...
veggie oil modders don't use fresh oil for their vehicles though. They tend to beg used oil off restaurants and pretty much get it for free. At least that's what i'm told. I'm also told that their vehicles invariably smell like a fast food joint.
You are operating under the tacit assumption that the exit polls themselves weren't rigged. Which if your leveling a charge of elections rigging using those polls as your primary piece of evidence, you would be irresponsable to dismiss the possibility that the polls themselves were rigged.
Certainly it is extremely easy to rig such polls. All you have to do is choose a sampling which favors a demographic which favors the result you're interested in, and calling that sampling, "scientific."
But in addition to the "war on terrorism" we're involved in closing up the results of an actual war in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're also contemplating the consequences of getting involved in North Korea and Iran, and one of our allies is functionally at war with Lebanon due to their official government's support of another terrorist organization.
The probelem with the "win quickly and get out" philsophy is that our objective in Afghanistan ans Iraq was to create a situation in which those governments no longer created an environment conducive to the care and nurturing of terrorist organizations. Unfortunately, situations in both of those countries dictate that complete and decisive victory over their conventional militaries was simply not sufficient to accomplish those goals. Consequently, we are committed to a military presence for the forseable future.
Furthermore, did anyone honestly support the war without understanding that the actual conventional fighting would be the easy part?
It's not hard at all for a machine vote to be both secure and anonymous. All you need to do is create a unique id for every vote and give that ID to the voter. After the election results are tallied, allow voters check their votes online by entering in those IDs. Perhaps a master ID for each ballot would be convenient as well, but it is important that individual votes can be checked against the database.
For the next step is to allow the database to be distributed to interested parties. Voters could then submit vote-ids to relevant organizations (parties, or PACs, for instance a vote against gun control could be sent to the NRA), which would then check the votes submitted by their members against the portion of the database they are interested in. This is necessary to prevent fraud from occuring in detail (i.e. correctly reporting an individuals votes to that individual, but maintaining a separate database full of fraudulent votes.)
But you're right, you still need the original hand-marked ballots in the case where the system detects fraud, because it doesn't by itself actually do anything to mitigate said fraud. (it also doesn't do anything if voter remorse motivates people to lie about their original votes)
Indeed. It is embarassing. For instance in his sentence, "bad" modifies the verb, "mangled." If you put "badly" in there, then you'd be saying that the mangling was done badly—not very well mangled at all—rather than that the mangled word itself was particulary bad. It changes the meaning from a poorly constructed sentence of questionable grammar which gets the point across into a sentence of inarguably correct grammar but unambiguously incorrect meaning.
Just because his sentence doesn't look quite right doesn't mean that your correction was not actually worse.
Here we have a forum for discussing the news, we've got a generally good thing going here, with interesting comments and articles (some duplicated, but so what? we discuss the dupes anyway, and sometimes there's new information to be vetted.) and even some heated flamewars, which are still respectable as the participants are generally genuinely passionate about their positions.
Why, after we've bothered to create this 'community' does someone feel the need to crap all over it like this? What possesses people to notice something nice others have done and think, "I must destroy this?"
Why even say, "I hope i'm not offending anyone" in the same breath that offends pretty much everyone?
Seems like you didn't actually read 1984. If you did, you'd notice that it turned out to be a conspiracy so vast, the victims were actively a part of it. The whole thing had gotten so far out of control, even the party powerful were really just pawns in some massive superorganism of mediocrity. The biggest victim perhaps was imagination, as anything outside of a very narrow expected behavior for any particular caste resulted in extremely ignoble death. In fact, some expected behavior was punished in the same way just to keep the gears rolling.
1984 wasn't about a struggle between man and the machine. man became the machine. It was the ultimate in the authorities NOT knowing what to do with their power, so they just used it.
Of course I don't expect very many slashdotters to do anything more than say "oh some kind of surveillance. I heard there was surveillance in 1984, therefore this is just like it."
Surveillance wasn't what made oceana so terrible to live in. "Common sense" was.
In fact, if you really examine your efforts mr. enchanter, I think you'll find that you are, at best, breaking even with the greens. It's not really your fault though, in a mature mmorpg economy, the finished goods are always worth less than the materials to produce them, for the simple reason of the experience points garnered making them. This is exacerbated by the problem that there is no variation in quality of similar finished goods. every +1 sword of witty remarks is exactly the same as every other one.
There are a few ways to combat this, but they all involve a complexity that probably cannot be sustained in a mass-produced artificial environment.
How would you propose testing this specific tool then? If it does what it is supposed to do, it would be extremely significant. Synthetic blood means no risk of bloodbourne pathogens being transmitted to the patient through that vector. In addition to the alleviation of the current donated blood supply (when was the last time you gave blood, btw?)
Obviously, you need to do a lot of paperwork for ordinary clinical trials, say.. cancer treatments. But emergency medicine is an area where it's always going to be difficult to obtain adequate permissions. Especially improvements that only really make sense in an emergency situations. Should that mean we make no attempts?
The broken part is that there's only one activity in the entire game that is "profitable." hunting/mining. People that need gold, but have lost interest in this aspect are pretty much up a creek without the goldsellers.
Why would you WANT your tivo data private? In an ad-supported model, the best thing for the networks is to have as large a sample size as possible to determine proper pricing.. and the best thing for the viewers is to be counted as accurately as possible, large samples are a benefit there as well.
or for linux users who like to play video games. or use any windows-only app in addition to their linux-ing. linux isn't a philosophy, it's a toolbox. If the tool you need isn't in your toolbox, there's no reason not to augment it with another toolbox.
Of course, the best solution is to just let windows have the mbr, install grub onto a floppy and set the boot order to floppy first. Then you can use the floppy drive as a "hardware boot switch." insert the floppy when you want linux, turn on the machine, and go make yourself some tea. No need to hang around waiting for all the powerup nonsense just so you can pick which os you want.
If the bottle isn't enough insulation to keep your beer cool, you probably don't like beer as much as you think you do. And if you don't like beer, why are you drinking it at all?
Not only didn't they do it without help, they didn't even do it at all. Did you read the little box at the bottom?
The patent for the PSVI is real, but that's as far as it goes. Now that April 1st has come and gone, we'll admit that this article is absolutely untrue...for now.
Actor is unheard of, or at least, not yet well known. Somehow lands a part on a show that turns out to be quite popular. Actor becomes well-known as a result. Actor decides to quit doing the thing that made him famous (and probably the biggest project of his career as well) to do some nebulous other thing. often ne'er to be seen again. Sometimes it kills the show too.
This is why I like Stargate. Those guys seem to get it. It's as if they know that that's the coolest thing they're likely to do in their careers and they're willing to see it through. and enjoy it as well.
Assuming that supercaps or fuel cells are safe in this regard. I'd assume there'd be a lot of mechanical stress due to the electric charge in the former.
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The first ammendment is designed to protect your ability to say things. It says nothing about your ability not to say things. other ammendments have things to say about that domain.
It is more important for criminals to be caught and tried than it is for sensationalists to be able to write about the criminals' exploits.
It appears to have become that, despite the fact that the book itself is clearly NOT about a dictatorship. indeed, the specific form of government was essencially irrelevant.
For instance, if you use the words, right wing before the word radio, you can create the impression that radio talk shows are somehow biased or deceitfully biased. It'd be like if we used blanket statements like, "left wing web logs" or "idiot poster" when talking about slashdot.
Although the actual statement made by Al Gore had nothing to do with funding, it was clearly an attempt by him to take credit for the internet's creation, despite the fact that this was really an ancillary effect of the funding Mr. Gore actually voted for. The statement reveals that Gore is the worst kind of liar: he uses statements that are technically true to craft mistaken impressions.
Ironically, this is pretty much the opposite of your post, which uses mistaken impressions and jingoistic terminology to make a statement that is, in fact, profoundly true.
They don't have a vested interest in giving the right result. They have a vested interest in giving the result their customers (i.e. the tv networks) want. If those customers are interested in using the polls as a tool to influence public opinion rather than as one to simply report it, then there is no reason to assume that correctness is anywhere near the top of the goals list.
Even if the bias averages out over enough separate polls, that statistic is really a poll of polls and subject to exactly the same kinds of sampling problems as the original polls themselves.
In an election, there's only one poll that counts, and that poll is neither a random sampling, nor a scientifically conducted demographically chosen sampling. The poll that counts measures the entire dataset. everyone. It is not subject to statistical anomalies because it is not a stastical poll. It is THE COUNT.
If you are unwilling to consider the possibility that there was a conspiracy to present biased exit poll results, why should you expect others to be open to your claim of a conspiracy to affect the actual election results? Certainly the former would be both easier to accomplish, and also (perhaps more importantly) not a crime.
The implications of either case are, of course, profound. To leave one uninvestigaged because the other is extremely serious is irresponsible.
VHS was technically superior to betamax. It had roughly the same quality, was functionally nearly the same technology, but had much longer tapes.
Similarly, CDMA is superior to GSM, which is basically TDMA. The only thing remotely "superior" about GSM is that is more tolerant to varying relative power levels. A situation which is basically irrelevant in this age of cheap signal strength metering.
at least 50% of your examples are incorrect based on either mistaken "common wisdom" or some kind of weird european fanboism.
And I guarantee that consumers will not have to choose between BluRay and HD-DVD, for the simple reason that the disks are hardware compatible in all the ways that matter. Combo drives a la CDR+/- will ultimately be the norm. Each studio therefore will eventually release on either both formats, the format they're contracturally bound to, or whatever they feel is best for their film. For the vast majority of films, it will not matter what format is used. "The Lake House" would be just as unentertaining even if released in uncompressed bitmap format on a stack of hard disks.
I, for one, look forward to the day when we by fuel by the kcal instead of by the gallon. Why are we using liquid measures at all for a substance which is not under strict temperature controls? I feel like i'm getting ripped off every time I buy gasoline in the summertime...
veggie oil modders don't use fresh oil for their vehicles though. They tend to beg used oil off restaurants and pretty much get it for free. At least that's what i'm told. I'm also told that their vehicles invariably smell like a fast food joint.
You are operating under the tacit assumption that the exit polls themselves weren't rigged. Which if your leveling a charge of elections rigging using those polls as your primary piece of evidence, you would be irresponsable to dismiss the possibility that the polls themselves were rigged.
Certainly it is extremely easy to rig such polls. All you have to do is choose a sampling which favors a demographic which favors the result you're interested in, and calling that sampling, "scientific."
But in addition to the "war on terrorism" we're involved in closing up the results of an actual war in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're also contemplating the consequences of getting involved in North Korea and Iran, and one of our allies is functionally at war with Lebanon due to their official government's support of another terrorist organization.
The probelem with the "win quickly and get out" philsophy is that our objective in Afghanistan ans Iraq was to create a situation in which those governments no longer created an environment conducive to the care and nurturing of terrorist organizations. Unfortunately, situations in both of those countries dictate that complete and decisive victory over their conventional militaries was simply not sufficient to accomplish those goals. Consequently, we are committed to a military presence for the forseable future.
Furthermore, did anyone honestly support the war without understanding that the actual conventional fighting would be the easy part?
It's not hard at all for a machine vote to be both secure and anonymous. All you need to do is create a unique id for every vote and give that ID to the voter. After the election results are tallied, allow voters check their votes online by entering in those IDs. Perhaps a master ID for each ballot would be convenient as well, but it is important that individual votes can be checked against the database.
For the next step is to allow the database to be distributed to interested parties. Voters could then submit vote-ids to relevant organizations (parties, or PACs, for instance a vote against gun control could be sent to the NRA), which would then check the votes submitted by their members against the portion of the database they are interested in. This is necessary to prevent fraud from occuring in detail (i.e. correctly reporting an individuals votes to that individual, but maintaining a separate database full of fraudulent votes.)
But you're right, you still need the original hand-marked ballots in the case where the system detects fraud, because it doesn't by itself actually do anything to mitigate said fraud. (it also doesn't do anything if voter remorse motivates people to lie about their original votes)
Indeed. It is embarassing. For instance in his sentence, "bad" modifies the verb, "mangled." If you put "badly" in there, then you'd be saying that the mangling was done badly—not very well mangled at all—rather than that the mangled word itself was particulary bad. It changes the meaning from a poorly constructed sentence of questionable grammar which gets the point across into a sentence of inarguably correct grammar but unambiguously incorrect meaning.
Just because his sentence doesn't look quite right doesn't mean that your correction was not actually worse.
Here we have a forum for discussing the news, we've got a generally good thing going here, with interesting comments and articles (some duplicated, but so what? we discuss the dupes anyway, and sometimes there's new information to be vetted.) and even some heated flamewars, which are still respectable as the participants are generally genuinely passionate about their positions.
Why, after we've bothered to create this 'community' does someone feel the need to crap all over it like this? What possesses people to notice something nice others have done and think, "I must destroy this?"
Why even say, "I hope i'm not offending anyone" in the same breath that offends pretty much everyone?
Seems like you didn't actually read 1984. If you did, you'd notice that it turned out to be a conspiracy so vast, the victims were actively a part of it. The whole thing had gotten so far out of control, even the party powerful were really just pawns in some massive superorganism of mediocrity. The biggest victim perhaps was imagination, as anything outside of a very narrow expected behavior for any particular caste resulted in extremely ignoble death. In fact, some expected behavior was punished in the same way just to keep the gears rolling.
1984 wasn't about a struggle between man and the machine. man became the machine. It was the ultimate in the authorities NOT knowing what to do with their power, so they just used it.
Of course I don't expect very many slashdotters to do anything more than say "oh some kind of surveillance. I heard there was surveillance in 1984, therefore this is just like it."
Surveillance wasn't what made oceana so terrible to live in. "Common sense" was.
you're just mining plants.
In fact, if you really examine your efforts mr. enchanter, I think you'll find that you are, at best, breaking even with the greens. It's not really your fault though, in a mature mmorpg economy, the finished goods are always worth less than the materials to produce them, for the simple reason of the experience points garnered making them. This is exacerbated by the problem that there is no variation in quality of similar finished goods. every +1 sword of witty remarks is exactly the same as every other one.
There are a few ways to combat this, but they all involve a complexity that probably cannot be sustained in a mass-produced artificial environment.
How would you propose testing this specific tool then? If it does what it is supposed to do, it would be extremely significant. Synthetic blood means no risk of bloodbourne pathogens being transmitted to the patient through that vector. In addition to the alleviation of the current donated blood supply (when was the last time you gave blood, btw?)
Obviously, you need to do a lot of paperwork for ordinary clinical trials, say.. cancer treatments. But emergency medicine is an area where it's always going to be difficult to obtain adequate permissions. Especially improvements that only really make sense in an emergency situations. Should that mean we make no attempts?
The broken part is that there's only one activity in the entire game that is "profitable." hunting/mining. People that need gold, but have lost interest in this aspect are pretty much up a creek without the goldsellers.
Why would you WANT your tivo data private? In an ad-supported model, the best thing for the networks is to have as large a sample size as possible to determine proper pricing.. and the best thing for the viewers is to be counted as accurately as possible, large samples are a benefit there as well.
or for linux users who like to play video games. or use any windows-only app in addition to their linux-ing. linux isn't a philosophy, it's a toolbox. If the tool you need isn't in your toolbox, there's no reason not to augment it with another toolbox.
Of course, the best solution is to just let windows have the mbr, install grub onto a floppy and set the boot order to floppy first. Then you can use the floppy drive as a "hardware boot switch." insert the floppy when you want linux, turn on the machine, and go make yourself some tea. No need to hang around waiting for all the powerup nonsense just so you can pick which os you want.
If the bottle isn't enough insulation to keep your beer cool, you probably don't like beer as much as you think you do. And if you don't like beer, why are you drinking it at all?
hmm.
Has journalism ever been considered and presented as a respectable profession by anyone other than journalists?
No publicity is bad publicity. Just having their name out there and repeated will help office sales.
Indeed, I never understood this phenomenon:
Actor is unheard of, or at least, not yet well known. Somehow lands a part on a show that turns out to be quite popular. Actor becomes well-known as a result. Actor decides to quit doing the thing that made him famous (and probably the biggest project of his career as well) to do some nebulous other thing. often ne'er to be seen again. Sometimes it kills the show too.
This is why I like Stargate. Those guys seem to get it. It's as if they know that that's the coolest thing they're likely to do in their careers and they're willing to see it through. and enjoy it as well.
Assuming that supercaps or fuel cells are safe in this regard. I'd assume there'd be a lot of mechanical stress due to the electric charge in the former.