Actually, we do have one person, one vote. It's just there are no national elections in the United States only state elections so it's "one person (in a state), one vote (in a state)".
Bottom line - we have to register to vote because only U.S. citizens (without a felony criminal conviction) are allowed to vote. It's a different mind-set in America. People would rebel if they had to "register with their municipality" for no compelling reason, even after several years of Homeland Security.
There's no Federal requirement I can find that requires voters to be US citizens. In fact, historically, several states have allowed some aliens to vote. For example, Wisconsin allowed immigrants who had lived in the state for one year and stated their intention to become citizens could vote from 1848 through 1908.
Also, how is getting your driver's license from the local country clerk/DMV not registering with your municipality?
Maybe so, but a New Jersey judge has no authority to do so. Article I Section 4 and Article II Section 1 of the US Constitution give ultimate authority over the time of elections to Congress. The Congressional and Presidential elections must occur the Tuesday after the first Monday in November according to 2 USC 1, 2 USC 7 and 3 USC 1 (3 USC 2 seems to give a little wriggle room, but only for Electors).
To me the problem isn't the electoral college. The electoral college is actually a pretty neat technique to protect geographic minorities. It gives a bit of extra weight to low population regions.
No, the problem is the entrenched two party system that makes impractical a real third choice. Just getting rid of the electoral college won't fix that. What we need it a moved away from the outdated first-past-the-post system of voting to something that encourages additional views, such as range voting, approval voting, etc.
None. Oh, there were probably some CO2 gains (stipulating anthropogenic climate change from CO2) from transporting the ribs and wood. But the act of smoking itself?
Burning wood (or any other biofuel) is essentially carbon neutral if you're not burning the wood faster than it's replaced. Maybe just a claw if there was some other heat source besides the burning wood.
1600 lbs on the first stage does not equal a 1600 lbs reduction in payload-to-orbit. Only the first stage needs to lift this. The later stages will not.
Still, I think it might be better to address the cause of the vibration rather than the symptom.
Shortly after 9/11 (Oct. 2001) a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC issued me a pass to carry all of my photography equipment (ok, no tripod or lights, just an SLR body and about 5 lenses in a Lowepro) throughout the museum. And I didn't need to ask for it: he just signed off on it when he saw I had the equipment.
Or, and this is key, the "inferior" solution has some other, non-technical superiority. For example, content. A couple of studios dropping a format in favor of another in the middle of a format war will probably kill the dropped format.
Most of us don't even have hidef TVs. Without a high definition television, BluRay is worthless.
Not true. There's also the improved audio quality over DVD, which was enough for me. I'll probably get an HDTV at some point, but for now the audio quality does it for me.
Considering that just about everything on YouTube is copyrighted I'd say it's a slam dunk more copyrighted material is viewed.
Remember: in the US that video of your kid you put up is copyrighted immediately upon creation, to you, the creator. So, the only non-copyrighted material would be material on which the copyright has expired or material explicitly placed in the public domain.
Now, saying the majority of material viewed is without the copyright owners' consent is a different matter.
And is it really "almost all"? Water is a product of many common metabolic chemical reactions (e.g. the catabolism of glucose produces 6 water molecules per glucose molecule catabolized). Similarly, water is destroyed in photosynthesis to produce glucose.
I'd imagine a sizable proportion of the world water supply has taken part in these processes at some point or other.
The Eurozone itself passed the US in GDP earlier this year due to exchange rate changes so they're pretty close in size. The 2007 GDP figures will show the Eurozone GDP as larger when the Euro is above about US$1.56. Right now it's at about US$1.575.
I've a friend affected by this. His settlement was in the low 5-figures and included back overtime pay and damages/interest. The back pay was taxed and (IIRC) the rest was not, which is what leads me to believe part of it was classified as damages.
What I wonder regards many of his coworkers. The coworkers in the same positions but didn't join the class because they didn't think it worthwhile. They don't get the settlement and get the pay cut?
"For further clarification, the US Constitution makes it clear that international treaties ratified by congress become the law of the United States."
With the implied limitation treaties do not override the Constitution.
"Because Americans do NOT travel, to the point of rarely leaving within 100 miles of where they live."
BS. Oh, many of us probably never leave the country (not too surprising: how many Europeans have left Europe?), but 100 miles? C'mon. This has been common since at least the 1950s. Heck, from where I live, it's not unusual to take long weekend in the ranges from Chicago to St. Louis to D.C. to Atlanta. And trips off the continent are not uncommon.
The *only* difference is that the iPhone has no visible indicator of being on when the screen is black. How is that different than any other cell phone out there? At the very least, with my current phone (a RIZR) standby is indistinguishable from off. And the RAZRs as well (ok, the LCD display is still on when in standby, but the backlight is off so one needs to really look to see it's in standby). One of those two cases also applies to every other cell phone I can think of.
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Actually, we do have one person, one vote. It's just there are no national elections in the United States only state elections so it's "one person (in a state), one vote (in a state)".
Bottom line - we have to register to vote because only U.S. citizens (without a felony criminal conviction) are allowed to vote. It's a different mind-set in America. People would rebel if they had to "register with their municipality" for no compelling reason, even after several years of Homeland Security.
There's no Federal requirement I can find that requires voters to be US citizens. In fact, historically, several states have allowed some aliens to vote. For example, Wisconsin allowed immigrants who had lived in the state for one year and stated their intention to become citizens could vote from 1848 through 1908.
Also, how is getting your driver's license from the local country clerk/DMV not registering with your municipality?
Maybe so, but a New Jersey judge has no authority to do so. Article I Section 4 and Article II Section 1 of the US Constitution give ultimate authority over the time of elections to Congress. The Congressional and Presidential elections must occur the Tuesday after the first Monday in November according to 2 USC 1, 2 USC 7 and 3 USC 1 (3 USC 2 seems to give a little wriggle room, but only for Electors).
To me the problem isn't the electoral college. The electoral college is actually a pretty neat technique to protect geographic minorities. It gives a bit of extra weight to low population regions.
No, the problem is the entrenched two party system that makes impractical a real third choice. Just getting rid of the electoral college won't fix that. What we need it a moved away from the outdated first-past-the-post system of voting to something that encourages additional views, such as range voting, approval voting, etc.
None. Oh, there were probably some CO2 gains (stipulating anthropogenic climate change from CO2) from transporting the ribs and wood. But the act of smoking itself?
Burning wood (or any other biofuel) is essentially carbon neutral if you're not burning the wood faster than it's replaced. Maybe just a claw if there was some other heat source besides the burning wood.
However that, to EA, validates this approach particularly w.r.t. the limited installs since they get the sale.
Safedisc, for example, I can certainly live with installed in a VM. But limiting how often I can install a game I paid for on my hardware? No.
It's a shame, too. I'd probably like the game, but I've decided I'll not be playing.
Not as bad as the basic D&D caltrop: those d4s than came in the boxed sets were dangerous!
1600 lbs on the first stage does not equal a 1600 lbs reduction in payload-to-orbit. Only the first stage needs to lift this. The later stages will not. Still, I think it might be better to address the cause of the vibration rather than the symptom.
Shortly after 9/11 (Oct. 2001) a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC issued me a pass to carry all of my photography equipment (ok, no tripod or lights, just an SLR body and about 5 lenses in a Lowepro) throughout the museum. And I didn't need to ask for it: he just signed off on it when he saw I had the equipment.
Or, and this is key, the "inferior" solution has some other, non-technical superiority. For example, content. A couple of studios dropping a format in favor of another in the middle of a format war will probably kill the dropped format.
Most of us don't even have hidef TVs. Without a high definition television, BluRay is worthless.
Not true. There's also the improved audio quality over DVD, which was enough for me. I'll probably get an HDTV at some point, but for now the audio quality does it for me.
Considering that just about everything on YouTube is copyrighted I'd say it's a slam dunk more copyrighted material is viewed.
Remember: in the US that video of your kid you put up is copyrighted immediately upon creation, to you, the creator. So, the only non-copyrighted material would be material on which the copyright has expired or material explicitly placed in the public domain.
Now, saying the majority of material viewed is without the copyright owners' consent is a different matter.
A married couple with their own PayPal accounts that work against a joint checking account?
Is that really "new" water, or just water trapped under ground being released?
Oh, it's certainly not all water, but does vulcanism really produce new water from hydrogen and oxygen?
And is it really "almost all"? Water is a product of many common metabolic chemical reactions (e.g. the catabolism of glucose produces 6 water molecules per glucose molecule catabolized). Similarly, water is destroyed in photosynthesis to produce glucose.
I'd imagine a sizable proportion of the world water supply has taken part in these processes at some point or other.
The Eurozone itself passed the US in GDP earlier this year due to exchange rate changes so they're pretty close in size. The 2007 GDP figures will show the Eurozone GDP as larger when the Euro is above about US$1.56. Right now it's at about US$1.575.
So you feel justified in escalating a non-criminal violation into what is, at the least, a misdemeanor?
And all the Christmas, post-Christmas, President's Day sales are over.
I've a friend affected by this. His settlement was in the low 5-figures and included back overtime pay and damages/interest. The back pay was taxed and (IIRC) the rest was not, which is what leads me to believe part of it was classified as damages.
What I wonder regards many of his coworkers. The coworkers in the same positions but didn't join the class because they didn't think it worthwhile. They don't get the settlement and get the pay cut?
Actually, the Lotus Elise is glued together and is approved in the US.
"Within ten years we no doubt will be seeing some digital cameras with ISO 32000 or higher sensitivities."
No doubt. The Nikon D3 is at ISO 25600 now.
"For further clarification, the US Constitution makes it clear that international treaties ratified by congress become the law of the United States." With the implied limitation treaties do not override the Constitution.
Except the bit from the article that states (I can't replicate: don't have the software) that adding 1 gives 100001.
"Because Americans do NOT travel, to the point of rarely leaving within 100 miles of where they live." BS. Oh, many of us probably never leave the country (not too surprising: how many Europeans have left Europe?), but 100 miles? C'mon. This has been common since at least the 1950s. Heck, from where I live, it's not unusual to take long weekend in the ranges from Chicago to St. Louis to D.C. to Atlanta. And trips off the continent are not uncommon.