Uh, you might be more insightful than you think. Russians came up with an invention methodology by analyzing massive numbers of patents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ. It's used mostly for finding solutions in those white spaces, but could be adapted to find the white spaces.
It goes back to the founding of the US as something of a federation of states. Each state would be able to send a delegation to form the electoral college, which would in turn elect the vice president and president. The formula for how many delegates a state could send was designed to balance the concerns of small states that they might be too small to have any meaningful influence. So each state sends delegates equal to their number of house representatives (which is based on population) plus their number of senators (always 2).
Most, if not all, states have a winner takes all system (all delegates will be supporters of the popular vote in that state). Not doing so diminishes that state's importance in a presidential election, so it's pretty much universal. So what you get is a situation where it is possible for a president to be elected by winning just enough votes in just enough states to get enough electoral college delegates to win, but without having to have the popular vote. And it's happened several times. For example, Bill Clinton won with 43% of the popular vote but 69% of the electoral college. Won fair and square. Bush won under the same rules in 2000. People can debate the fair part, but pointing out that Gore won the popular vote really doesn't mean much. It's all about the electoral college.
I married a woman from Kentucky and moved there. I tell people she married me to get new genes in the family. It so happens some of her relatives didn't have to change last names when getting married.
Once reason for the virtual machine with Android may be that Google isn't going to be vetting apps as much as Apple. So apps will need some sort of sandbox environment for now.
We can hope that someday native apps will be common once there is a robust way of reducing the chance of rogue ones slipping through. Maybe something like what the linux distributions use to control and update apps.
Minutes are well defined by a standard, but we still need to think of an easily measurable and reproducible WTF. For instance, waking up some place you don't recognize after drinking 10 shots of tequila the night before. Nope, still too much potential variability. How about pouring 1 liter of water at 0C onto a sleeping person's face? Hmmm. There's got to be something better.
A corollary, supported by some studies, is that Americans tend to enjoy work more. The accomplishment plus the socialization. Different strokes for different folks.
Worse, they are using "netizen" to describe people who aren't on the internet. Kind of like calling someone a pilot if they would someday like to fly a plane.
In the state my wife teaches in (un-named to avoid literacy jokes), there is the approved book list. Schools can buy off-list, but have to forgo state funds. Which is what her school did.
Wow, I didn't know about that. And I live 30 minutes from Indiana.
My wife is a teacher with a few stories of book abuse. Given some of the terrible things students do to books (which then have to be replaced), I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise someone thought of a way to balance the books.
This appears to be for highschool, which loans books to students for free. Not much reason for students to download books. And kind of hard for the state to get away with it. This is more along the lines of "We're going to write our own physics book. With gambling and hookers. Wait, forget the last part. Just the physics book."
They are just charging extra for access to all the Ubuntu program repositories. That's not free, you know. That's a valuable service not provided by MS so Dell needs to charge more to pay for it.
Knowing our cat missed his (always looking for them), we put a pair of 1/4" galvanized nuts on his collar. Didn't have brass ones to give him. But he seemed just as happy.
Gave us a laugh every time we'd hear him jingling down the hall. And luckily my wife never suggested we do the same to me.
Call me old fashion, but the one person - one vote system still appeals to me. Trying to increase ones effective voting power feels more like Jim Crow rational: "We're the good guys, so we should have disproportionate power."
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For example, never ever have 2.1 kids. It's suspiciously normal. Go with 2, maybe 3, to blend in.
Take off the limits placed by congress!
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In essence, solar costs about $.30/kwh. http://www.solarbuzz.com/SolarPrices.htm Location is important. Costs more in Germany, less in California. http://www.solarbuzz.com/statsCosts.htm. This competes against under $.10/kwh in the US for other sources. But there are variations around the world and even within the US http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
It's a toss up between the Hulk and tacos.
Images of Grand Theft Airplane: Inyo National Forest. Poor dude getting jacked at 10,000 ft.
Uh, you might be more insightful than you think. Russians came up with an invention methodology by analyzing massive numbers of patents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ. It's used mostly for finding solutions in those white spaces, but could be adapted to find the white spaces.
It goes back to the founding of the US as something of a federation of states. Each state would be able to send a delegation to form the electoral college, which would in turn elect the vice president and president. The formula for how many delegates a state could send was designed to balance the concerns of small states that they might be too small to have any meaningful influence. So each state sends delegates equal to their number of house representatives (which is based on population) plus their number of senators (always 2).
Most, if not all, states have a winner takes all system (all delegates will be supporters of the popular vote in that state). Not doing so diminishes that state's importance in a presidential election, so it's pretty much universal. So what you get is a situation where it is possible for a president to be elected by winning just enough votes in just enough states to get enough electoral college delegates to win, but without having to have the popular vote. And it's happened several times. For example, Bill Clinton won with 43% of the popular vote but 69% of the electoral college. Won fair and square. Bush won under the same rules in 2000. People can debate the fair part, but pointing out that Gore won the popular vote really doesn't mean much. It's all about the electoral college.
For more infomation, consult your local digital library: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
I married a woman from Kentucky and moved there. I tell people she married me to get new genes in the family. It so happens some of her relatives didn't have to change last names when getting married.
-- flips watch over -- Hmmm, Danish watch with Japanese movement. Now I'm really confused. Can I still count on New Zealand having a lot of sheep?
Once reason for the virtual machine with Android may be that Google isn't going to be vetting apps as much as Apple. So apps will need some sort of sandbox environment for now.
We can hope that someday native apps will be common once there is a robust way of reducing the chance of rogue ones slipping through. Maybe something like what the linux distributions use to control and update apps.
Sort of a tangent, but about 8% our genome is made up of viruses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus. The ones produced by pregnancy must be over 200 million years old.
Minutes are well defined by a standard, but we still need to think of an easily measurable and reproducible WTF. For instance, waking up some place you don't recognize after drinking 10 shots of tequila the night before. Nope, still too much potential variability. How about pouring 1 liter of water at 0C onto a sleeping person's face? Hmmm. There's got to be something better.
A corollary, supported by some studies, is that Americans tend to enjoy work more. The accomplishment plus the socialization. Different strokes for different folks.
Prediction 1: Sales of coat hangers will soar as people build their own antennas http://uhfhdtvantenna.blogspot.com/
Prediction 2: Sales of coat hangers will see a second spike as people realize they needed metal coat hangers.
Worse, they are using "netizen" to describe people who aren't on the internet. Kind of like calling someone a pilot if they would someday like to fly a plane.
No way! I'm not shaving my head and working at any more communes! They never give you a proper W2.
Curse you, Comedy Central! Why must you make us fail by laughing?
In the state my wife teaches in (un-named to avoid literacy jokes), there is the approved book list. Schools can buy off-list, but have to forgo state funds. Which is what her school did.
Wow, I didn't know about that. And I live 30 minutes from Indiana.
My wife is a teacher with a few stories of book abuse. Given some of the terrible things students do to books (which then have to be replaced), I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise someone thought of a way to balance the books.
This appears to be for highschool, which loans books to students for free. Not much reason for students to download books. And kind of hard for the state to get away with it. This is more along the lines of "We're going to write our own physics book. With gambling and hookers. Wait, forget the last part. Just the physics book."
They are just charging extra for access to all the Ubuntu program repositories. That's not free, you know. That's a valuable service not provided by MS so Dell needs to charge more to pay for it.
Given that a whole genera of you subject is, uh, in suspension, you should have known that your project wouldn't amount to squat.
but not actress?
Knowing our cat missed his (always looking for them), we put a pair of 1/4" galvanized nuts on his collar. Didn't have brass ones to give him. But he seemed just as happy.
Gave us a laugh every time we'd hear him jingling down the hall. And luckily my wife never suggested we do the same to me.
Call me old fashion, but the one person - one vote system still appeals to me. Trying to increase ones effective voting power feels more like Jim Crow rational: "We're the good guys, so we should have disproportionate power."