Although that is certainly a possibility, it makes little sense given the counties that chose to use the paperless systems. At least here in florida, most (actually, I think all of them, but I may be mistaken) of the touch-screen voting machines were in heavily Democrat counties. Since democrats chose them -- the decision to change machines is done at the county level, the conclusion to draw is that any conspiracy was a conspiracy to claim vote fraud after the election.
I choose to believe that the supervisors of elections are simply not farsighted or devious enough to actually engineer post-election hysterics, especially when the alternative explanation; namely that they were looking for ways to reduce environmental impact and deal with a chronic shortage of elections volunteers -- is so vastly more likely.
Neither "Google Earth" nor "Google Maps" is satellite data. Ok, that's not entirely correct: some of the data came from satellites, but much of the closest in information comes from overflight pictures. It is simply impractical to use satellites to obtain detailed close up pictures over the scale needed for say.. continental coverage (or at least, has been until very recently.)
Assuming that there even are satellite images for the highest resolutions for either of those services, it should be possible to differentiate between the two by analyzing the perspective in each cell. It might even be possible to do this by eye, rather than complicated image-measurement techniques. I haven't attempted to do this myself, but it occurs to me that it might be an interesting project.
so "begs the question" literally means, "asks earnestly for or of the question" which is a bit convoluted, but perfectly valid way of stating, "raises the question."
It so happens that "begging the question" is ALSO a logical fallacy with a meaning separate from the literal meaning of the phrase. I frankly fail to understand how the literal meaning of a phrase could ever be considered to be an incorrect usage. Uncommon perhaps, but certainly not incorrect. The irony (and I'm using that word in a common, but literally incorrect sense) is that "raises the question" is by far the more common meaning attached to the phrase, "begs the question."
If you don't have anything nice to say, at least don't say something irrelevant for the purpose of being mean.
IIRC, they offered models that had a paper trail, but for whatever reason those models cost more than the non-paper trail models. Many counties opted for the cheaper models for whatever reason.
My guess is that they assumed or were told that the electronic machines would allow them to go "paperless" as in "paperless office" and they failed to consider the ramifications wrt. voting
The characters in question are incapable of having any kind of sex at all, rendering the roleplay aspect pretty much moot. The races in question appear to reproduce by pan-dimensional soul recruitment, and may seem to share the same soul to boot.
You can get a cheapo 5.1 DVD/ theater combo for somewhere between $60 and $80 at walmart. (i dunno, maybe even less now..) Although underpowered for any real space, it works fine for the tiny living room I have it in, and sounds much clearer than the underpowered* sound systems many theaters have.
*the SPEAKERS are underpowered. the amps however are not. The resulting overmodulated crappyness is unpleasant to say the least.
that fact is, audio is a pretty mature technology now, so high quality gear is available very inexpensively.
Free love. the phrase is "Free Love." They had it during the 60s, but they got greedy and mixed it with drugs. By the time they realized what was going on, the disaster was unavoidable: many children were born with the name "Flower Child" or "Earth child" somesuch psuedoaboriginal rediculousness. Fortunately a few kept enough of their heads to at least make it a middle name.
Ronald Reagan was not President at any time during the past 15 years, which was the scope of the original statement. Furthermore, the president's job re: spending is rather limited. He can advocate, approve, or veto and hope for no override, but that's about it. All spending bills must originate in the House, so the Senate's power is pretty limited there as well. Therefore, in matters of deficits/surpluses, the blame/credit is heavily biased towards the house.
no, you've missed something. in parent's version, chug() would never be called because a new beer is by definition full. Examining the beer constructor for proof is left as an exercise to the reader.
The "study" that proves how much better the substance is was conducted by the company selling the stuff? And their principle argument seems to be that some other fellow who promotes the stuff seems to be popular?
Dr. Mowrey is a self-proclaimed expert on herbal remedies from around the world. His work is quoted by everyone selling mate.
I don't think parent was talking about Ds and Rs, rather the underlying philosophies apparantly ignored by each. But to answer your questions,
Over the last fifteen years,
Remember that spending bills originate in the house, which has been under republican control for the past 11 years, so they're going to get credit/blame for the vast majority of spending related events.
which party was responsible for most of the cuts in government and which was responsible for most of the expansion of government?
The answer to both is the Republican Party.
Which party had a surplus and which has record deficits?
again, the Republican party on both counts.
*unless you're talking about percent of GDP. Then the Democrats win the deficit record.
Which is surveilling you in direct opposition to laws passed to prevent warrantless surveillance and which party is fighting that surveillance?
ahh. well the last 15 years include 8 years of clinton in the exectuive office. Since your question refers to executive action, the answer is that both parties are roughly equal in that regard, but under clinton, the agencies were not allowed to share information with each other. Also under clinton, 1 family was killed for not denouncing white supremecism enough (IIRC, the main offence was that he refused to spy on his neghbors), and 1 crazy cult was raided and burned for being creepy (also for having some firearms which maybe had not had proper tax paid on them), but at least he didn't wrongfully imprison any of them.
Also, it is imporant to remember, that at no time during the past 15 years was there ever an actual surplus. The surplus you refer to was a projected surplus slated to occur a few years into the bush presidency IF the economy continued grow at 1999 levels. One of Bush's campaign points for 2000 was that the economy was entering into a recession, and so those projections could not remain accurate. Not surprisingly, when he turned out to be correct, he got most of the blame for that as well.
some are, many aren't. It depends on the wording, claims, industry, state, and if a quick google search is any indication, what the court had for breakfast may enter into it as well. In many indutries they simply haven't been tested, so they're a kind of craps shoot. But if you ran such a business, some chance at protection is better than none, and at the very least, the form will make skittish individuals think twice about engaging in your activity.
That's a red herring. additional nuclear plants can easily be built to conform to existing infrastructure using current technology. PVs on every roof aren't enough to power the houses under them without massive batteries, not only for operation at night, but also for operation on cloudy days, and during the winter. How much energy is required to create those pvs and batteries? what is the environmental impact of their producition and periodic replacement?
It is not immediately clear to me that decentralized power generation is all that superior to centralized power generation, and any form of generation that relies on a heat engine to work is going to benefit from efficiencies of scale for at least the following reasons: tolerances: fittings have much tighter tolerances percentwise the bigger they get due to machining capabilities carnot efficiency: a large plant can achieve a Thot much higher than a small plant can practicaly achieve, and can often be located conveniently close to a Tcold significantly lower than can be found within a reasonable distance of any given local or household plant. for instance a deep lake or a river perhaps.
In fact, even solar power benefits from efficiencies of scale like this. a solar dynamic power plant of sufficient size is going to be far more efficient than the equivalent area covered in PV cells, in a region which has little cloud cover. At a cost of efficiency (but perhaps an increase in safety), the daily flux can be averaged out using wax or thermal salts to store energy in their phase change for later use in the generating plant. I'd like to see PV try that...
If it is demonstrably more efficient to decentralize the power plants, I'm certainly in favor of the redundancy that can be potentially had, but it certainly wasn't the case when the power companies were established (or they wouldn't have been. ).
Which implies the need for threaded moderation: meta meta moderation of entire threads, or at least application of moderation to the parent coment applied to child comments...
IIRC, pascal was invented as a teaching language. No one was ever supposed to do anything serious with it. But.. that's what makes it so great for learning.
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we do? where?
Glad to see Bush's advice didn't fall on deaf ears.
It's not like we have a choice right now.
wait.. so because we can't do something, we shouldn't try to figure out a way that we can?
They cannot. If a marriage is not consummated, is just an extravagent fancy-dress cake-eating party.
Although that is certainly a possibility, it makes little sense given the counties that chose to use the paperless systems. At least here in florida, most (actually, I think all of them, but I may be mistaken) of the touch-screen voting machines were in heavily Democrat counties. Since democrats chose them -- the decision to change machines is done at the county level, the conclusion to draw is that any conspiracy was a conspiracy to claim vote fraud after the election.
I choose to believe that the supervisors of elections are simply not farsighted or devious enough to actually engineer post-election hysterics, especially when the alternative explanation; namely that they were looking for ways to reduce environmental impact and deal with a chronic shortage of elections volunteers -- is so vastly more likely.
Neither "Google Earth" nor "Google Maps" is satellite data. Ok, that's not entirely correct: some of the data came from satellites, but much of the closest in information comes from overflight pictures. It is simply impractical to use satellites to obtain detailed close up pictures over the scale needed for say.. continental coverage (or at least, has been until very recently.)
Assuming that there even are satellite images for the highest resolutions for either of those services, it should be possible to differentiate between the two by analyzing the perspective in each cell. It might even be possible to do this by eye, rather than complicated image-measurement techniques. I haven't attempted to do this myself, but it occurs to me that it might be an interesting project.
Beg:
2) To ask earnestly for or of
so "begs the question" literally means, "asks earnestly for or of the question"
which is a bit convoluted, but perfectly valid way of stating, "raises the question."
It so happens that "begging the question" is ALSO a logical fallacy with a meaning separate from the literal meaning of the phrase. I frankly fail to understand how the literal meaning of a phrase could ever be considered to be an incorrect usage. Uncommon perhaps, but certainly not incorrect. The irony (and I'm using that word in a common, but literally incorrect sense) is that "raises the question" is by far the more common meaning attached to the phrase, "begs the question."
If you don't have anything nice to say, at least don't say something irrelevant for the purpose of being mean.
IIRC, they offered models that had a paper trail, but for whatever reason those models cost more than the non-paper trail models. Many counties opted for the cheaper models for whatever reason.
My guess is that they assumed or were told that the electronic machines would allow them to go "paperless" as in "paperless office" and they failed to consider the ramifications wrt. voting
The characters in question are incapable of having any kind of sex at all, rendering the roleplay aspect pretty much moot. The races in question appear to reproduce by pan-dimensional soul recruitment, and may seem to share the same soul to boot.
how about, a pop and a popcorn each. and buy the tickets via one of those overpriced internet things like fandango or moviephone...
You can get a cheapo 5.1 DVD/ theater combo for somewhere between $60 and $80 at walmart. (i dunno, maybe even less now..) Although underpowered for any real space, it works fine for the tiny living room I have it in, and sounds much clearer than the underpowered* sound systems many theaters have.
*the SPEAKERS are underpowered. the amps however are not. The resulting overmodulated crappyness is unpleasant to say the least.
that fact is, audio is a pretty mature technology now, so high quality gear is available very inexpensively.
think about it though.. how often to gun stores get robbed? Well who'd knock over a liquor store if it also sold guns and claymores?
Free love. the phrase is "Free Love." They had it during the 60s, but they got greedy and mixed it with drugs. By the time they realized what was going on, the disaster was unavoidable: many children were born with the name "Flower Child" or "Earth child" somesuch psuedoaboriginal rediculousness. Fortunately a few kept enough of their heads to at least make it a middle name.
Ronald Reagan was not President at any time during the past 15 years, which was the scope of the original statement. Furthermore, the president's job re: spending is rather limited. He can advocate, approve, or veto and hope for no override, but that's about it. All spending bills must originate in the House, so the Senate's power is pretty limited there as well. Therefore, in matters of deficits/surpluses, the blame/credit is heavily biased towards the house.
Hey it looks like you were right. I have been erroneously been blaming Reno for that family's deaths this entire time.
no, you've missed something. in parent's version, chug() would never be called because a new beer is by definition full. Examining the beer constructor for proof is left as an exercise to the reader.
The "study" that proves how much better the substance is was conducted by the company selling the stuff? And their principle argument seems to be that some other fellow who promotes the stuff seems to be popular?
Dr. Mowrey is a self-proclaimed expert on herbal remedies from around the world. His work is quoted by everyone selling mate.
emphasis mine.
I don't think parent was talking about Ds and Rs, rather the underlying philosophies apparantly ignored by each. But to answer your questions,
Over the last fifteen years,
Remember that spending bills originate in the house, which has been under republican control for the past 11 years, so they're going to get credit/blame for the vast majority of spending related events.
which party was responsible for most of the cuts in government and which was responsible for most of the expansion of government?
The answer to both is the Republican Party.
Which party had a surplus and which has record deficits?
again, the Republican party on both counts.
*unless you're talking about percent of GDP. Then the Democrats win the deficit record.
Which is surveilling you in direct opposition to laws passed to prevent warrantless surveillance and which party is fighting that surveillance?
ahh. well the last 15 years include 8 years of clinton in the exectuive office. Since your question refers to executive action, the answer is that both parties are roughly equal in that regard, but under clinton, the agencies were not allowed to share information with each other. Also under clinton, 1 family was killed for not denouncing white supremecism enough (IIRC, the main offence was that he refused to spy on his neghbors), and 1 crazy cult was raided and burned for being creepy (also for having some firearms which maybe had not had proper tax paid on them), but at least he didn't wrongfully imprison any of them.
Also, it is imporant to remember, that at no time during the past 15 years was there ever an actual surplus. The surplus you refer to was a projected surplus slated to occur a few years into the bush presidency IF the economy continued grow at 1999 levels. One of Bush's campaign points for 2000 was that the economy was entering into a recession, and so those projections could not remain accurate. Not surprisingly, when he turned out to be correct, he got most of the blame for that as well.
some are, many aren't. It depends on the wording, claims, industry, state, and if a quick google search is any indication, what the court had for breakfast may enter into it as well. In many indutries they simply haven't been tested, so they're a kind of craps shoot. But if you ran such a business, some chance at protection is better than none, and at the very least, the form will make skittish individuals think twice about engaging in your activity.
Well if you were a 5 1/2 foot talking lobster, you might not think deer were pretter...
then again, we put rubber bands on lobster claws to protect the other lobsters in the tank, not the chefs.
That's a red herring. additional nuclear plants can easily be built to conform to existing infrastructure using current technology. PVs on every roof aren't enough to power the houses under them without massive batteries, not only for operation at night, but also for operation on cloudy days, and during the winter. How much energy is required to create those pvs and batteries? what is the environmental impact of their producition and periodic replacement?
It is not immediately clear to me that decentralized power generation is all that superior to centralized power generation, and any form of generation that relies on a heat engine to work is going to benefit from efficiencies of scale for at least the following reasons: tolerances: fittings have much tighter tolerances percentwise the bigger they get due to machining capabilities
carnot efficiency: a large plant can achieve a Thot much higher than a small plant can practicaly achieve, and can often be located conveniently close to a Tcold significantly lower than can be found within a reasonable distance of any given local or household plant. for instance a deep lake or a river perhaps.
In fact, even solar power benefits from efficiencies of scale like this. a solar dynamic power plant of sufficient size is going to be far more efficient than the equivalent area covered in PV cells, in a region which has little cloud cover. At a cost of efficiency (but perhaps an increase in safety), the daily flux can be averaged out using wax or thermal salts to store energy in their phase change for later use in the generating plant. I'd like to see PV try that...
If it is demonstrably more efficient to decentralize the power plants, I'm certainly in favor of the redundancy that can be potentially had, but it certainly wasn't the case when the power companies were established (or they wouldn't have been. ).
Which implies the need for threaded moderation: meta meta moderation of entire threads, or at least application of moderation to the parent coment applied to child comments...
IIRC, pascal was invented as a teaching language. No one was ever supposed to do anything serious with it. But.. that's what makes it so great for learning.
How efficient is that LiIon battery on the second trip?
You have to dispose of the waste from any hydrocarbon burning plant, too. There is less waste from a nuclear plant
IIRC, there's less nuclear waste from a nuclear plant, and none of it is released into the atmosphere.