I used to be of the mindset that if you need to be encouraged to vote, you shouldn't be voting. But I've since changed my mind.
No one is born realizing the importance of voting. Somewhere, you are socialized, and you come to believe that voting is important. Maybe it was due to school, or family, or friends. But not everyone has that experience. Some people come from families were there was no pattern of voting. Or their schools sucked and never talked about it.
So that's why I do support these "unconventional" methods. And I think you should, too. When a large segment of the population feels disconnected from their government, the entire society becomes unstable.
Bill Clinton would have knocked this one out of the park. There was nothing special in his actions following 9/11. He looked like a deer in headlights during the attacks and afterwars.
He doesn't waffle on the issues
"I'm not going to support the 9/11 commision....ok, maybe I will. I'm not going to create the Department of Homeland security....oh wait, that bastard Lieberman is going to get the credit, so I will."
George is unpolished
He's lazy and unprepared. It shows zero respect for his audience.
George is a personally moral man
We're still talking about the guy who mocked a born-again Christian after he put her to death, right? Just making sure.
He tells us we can succeed, not that we will fail
Well, he often tells us we'll fail if we don't stick with him and do things his way.
Don't have a link handy, but there was a study a recently showing that Bush supporters have a very shaky understanding of their president's position on a number of issues. Basically, they correctly say that he is pro-life and for tax cuts. On all the other issues - Kyoto, stem cell research, the environment, working conditions, trade - they are dead wrong about his position. Kerry supporters, bu contrast, had a much more accurate perception of what their candidate stands for. I stand by my "fantasy world" comment.
I keep reading stories like this, hoping the American public will finally "get it". But it never happens. Richard Clarke, the 9/11 commision, Abu Ghraib, whatever. If it's not there kid in Iraq, they don't care. We just need to face it: about 45% of this country is going to support Bush no matter what. I'm not saying people should switch to Kerry, but if you still support Bush at this point, you must have constructed a very elaborate little fantasy world in your head.
lol. But sriously, the JPEG artifacts cause the values to be *slightly* off on some pixels. But I encourage you to cut out the A square and drag it next to the B square. When they're next to each other, they look exactly the same.
I've always wondered about this. We know about those grid illusions where the intersections appear to be darker than they are, or the "rotation" illusion in the article. But can you undo the illusion? Can you offset the color and remove the "dark intersection" problem? Can you curve shapes the opposite way and undo illusions of curve?
Check out this image. The squares marked "A" and "B" are the same shade of grey. If you don't believe me, open the page in a paint program and check out the colors.
...has definitely lowered the discourse on Slashdot. 90% of the people who post just want to get modded to +5 funny. It would probably be better to retire the Funny modifier for a couple weeks so people can practice posting useful comments.
I agree. This is one of the most useful Slashdot articles in a long time. As someone who has just re-entered the world of basic electronics, I find myself bookmarking like crazy this morning.
The two main things I don't like about Hotmail are:
1) It converts linsk in emails to JavaScript, for some inexplicable reason. When using Firefox, you can't open the link in a new tab. You have to click on it directly. Frustrating.
2) The pages load in a jerky manner. Like you say, it loads kind of slow, but the buttons are moving around all over the place as it loads, increasing the chance you'll accidentally click the wrong menu button.
That reminds me...I used a program called GEMs a long time ago. I was working on a computer that controlled the systems for a hydroponic greenhouse. I can't remember exactly what GEMs was. It might have been the OS. Has anyone ever used that? Google is no help here.
The last existing site I knew that actively blocked non-IE browsers was buymusic.com. I just visited them and they seem to have gotten their act together. I have no problems with any public sites these days. My company's intranet still has some issues, though.
First, I don't actually hold Bush responsible for the economy. BUT, if Bush is going to claim that $500 billion deficits are a neccesary evil for fighting an economic slow down, I'm going to demand results. This economy is NOT worth what we've paid for it in long-term debt. More competent politicians (such as Robert Rubin) could have gotten much more "bang for the buck" with the money Bush has squandered.
I think DailyKos consistently has the most informed and intelligent contributors. Yeah, you get the occasional wackos, but welcome to the internet.
I've actually been looking for a conservative version of DKos, just to see how civil right-wingers discuss issues. The Free Republic is completely out of the question and is often host to frothing maniacs.
Speaking of hobbies, I want to lean more about electronics and circuit theory. Does anyone recommend specific learning kits? I've seen some at Radio Shack and other places. I don't have any place to solder and I don't want to electrocute myself, so I'd like to start out with some kind of kit.
Kerry is not a flip-flopper. He was never called a flip-flopper before this election. Anyone who calls him a flip-flopper is just demonstrating the power of negative advertising.
The country is making a choice between a candidate with strong socialist leanings (wanting to nationalize healthcare) and one with more capitalist ones (Medicare expansion notwithstanding).
Bush's position on health care is hardly capitalistic; it's protectionist. One of the reasons drugs cost so much is because people can't import them from foreign countries such as Canada.
There are many arguments against a popular vote, but for me, the most compelling is that the President is not supposed to be the leader of the people of the United States of America, but the leader of the United States of America.
But with the electoral college, the President acts like the leader of the United States of Ohio, Missouri, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Also, it encourages people like Bush to make stupid-ass comments such as "What would you expect from a senator from Massachusetts?", without feeling like he is alienating potential voters.
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I used to be of the mindset that if you need to be encouraged to vote, you shouldn't be voting. But I've since changed my mind.
No one is born realizing the importance of voting. Somewhere, you are socialized, and you come to believe that voting is important. Maybe it was due to school, or family, or friends. But not everyone has that experience. Some people come from families were there was no pattern of voting. Or their schools sucked and never talked about it.
So that's why I do support these "unconventional" methods. And I think you should, too. When a large segment of the population feels disconnected from their government, the entire society becomes unstable.
His response in the days after 9/11
Bill Clinton would have knocked this one out of the park. There was nothing special in his actions following 9/11. He looked like a deer in headlights during the attacks and afterwars.
He doesn't waffle on the issues
"I'm not going to support the 9/11 commision....ok, maybe I will. I'm not going to create the Department of Homeland security....oh wait, that bastard Lieberman is going to get the credit, so I will."
George is unpolished
He's lazy and unprepared. It shows zero respect for his audience.
George is a personally moral man
We're still talking about the guy who mocked a born-again Christian after he put her to death, right? Just making sure.
He tells us we can succeed, not that we will fail
Well, he often tells us we'll fail if we don't stick with him and do things his way.
Don't have a link handy, but there was a study a recently showing that Bush supporters have a very shaky understanding of their president's position on a number of issues. Basically, they correctly say that he is pro-life and for tax cuts. On all the other issues - Kyoto, stem cell research, the environment, working conditions, trade - they are dead wrong about his position. Kerry supporters, bu contrast, had a much more accurate perception of what their candidate stands for. I stand by my "fantasy world" comment.
I keep reading stories like this, hoping the American public will finally "get it". But it never happens. Richard Clarke, the 9/11 commision, Abu Ghraib, whatever. If it's not there kid in Iraq, they don't care. We just need to face it: about 45% of this country is going to support Bush no matter what. I'm not saying people should switch to Kerry, but if you still support Bush at this point, you must have constructed a very elaborate little fantasy world in your head.
lol. But sriously, the JPEG artifacts cause the values to be *slightly* off on some pixels. But I encourage you to cut out the A square and drag it next to the B square. When they're next to each other, they look exactly the same.
I've always wondered about this. We know about those grid illusions where the intersections appear to be darker than they are, or the "rotation" illusion in the article. But can you undo the illusion? Can you offset the color and remove the "dark intersection" problem? Can you curve shapes the opposite way and undo illusions of curve?
Check out this image. The squares marked "A" and "B" are the same shade of grey. If you don't believe me, open the page in a paint program and check out the colors.
...has definitely lowered the discourse on Slashdot. 90% of the people who post just want to get modded to +5 funny. It would probably be better to retire the Funny modifier for a couple weeks so people can practice posting useful comments.
it's the truth. If your question has the word "If" in it, Bush will just say, "I don't answer hypotheticals."
I agree. This is one of the most useful Slashdot articles in a long time. As someone who has just re-entered the world of basic electronics, I find myself bookmarking like crazy this morning.
Thanks. I thought it was called "GEMS", which was why I couldn't find anything.
The two main things I don't like about Hotmail are:
1) It converts linsk in emails to JavaScript, for some inexplicable reason. When using Firefox, you can't open the link in a new tab. You have to click on it directly. Frustrating.
2) The pages load in a jerky manner. Like you say, it loads kind of slow, but the buttons are moving around all over the place as it loads, increasing the chance you'll accidentally click the wrong menu button.
That reminds me...I used a program called GEMs a long time ago. I was working on a computer that controlled the systems for a hydroponic greenhouse. I can't remember exactly what GEMs was. It might have been the OS. Has anyone ever used that? Google is no help here.
Why would that be a good thing? If the page I originally bookmarked is gone, I want an error message, not a redirection to something similar.
The last existing site I knew that actively blocked non-IE browsers was buymusic.com. I just visited them and they seem to have gotten their act together. I have no problems with any public sites these days. My company's intranet still has some issues, though.
Not to brag, but I did. And it was more than inflation.
First, I don't actually hold Bush responsible for the economy. BUT, if Bush is going to claim that $500 billion deficits are a neccesary evil for fighting an economic slow down, I'm going to demand results. This economy is NOT worth what we've paid for it in long-term debt. More competent politicians (such as Robert Rubin) could have gotten much more "bang for the buck" with the money Bush has squandered.
That might be because Kerry decided to run on his Vietnam service and his 15 positions on Iraq.
OK, I'll bite. Give me at least one example where Kerry has "flip flopped" on Iraq.
I think DailyKos consistently has the most informed and intelligent contributors. Yeah, you get the occasional wackos, but welcome to the internet.
I've actually been looking for a conservative version of DKos, just to see how civil right-wingers discuss issues. The Free Republic is completely out of the question and is often host to frothing maniacs.
Thanks for the info! I looked at that book on Amazon and added it to my bookmarks.
Speaking of hobbies, I want to lean more about electronics and circuit theory. Does anyone recommend specific learning kits? I've seen some at Radio Shack and other places. I don't have any place to solder and I don't want to electrocute myself, so I'd like to start out with some kind of kit.
Kerry is not a flip-flopper. He was never called a flip-flopper before this election. Anyone who calls him a flip-flopper is just demonstrating the power of negative advertising.
The country is making a choice between a candidate with strong socialist leanings (wanting to nationalize healthcare) and one with more capitalist ones (Medicare expansion notwithstanding).
Bush's position on health care is hardly capitalistic; it's protectionist. One of the reasons drugs cost so much is because people can't import them from foreign countries such as Canada.
There are many arguments against a popular vote, but for me, the most compelling is that the President is not supposed to be the leader of the people of the United States of America, but the leader of the United States of America.
But with the electoral college, the President acts like the leader of the United States of Ohio, Missouri, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Also, it encourages people like Bush to make stupid-ass comments such as "What would you expect from a senator from Massachusetts?", without feeling like he is alienating potential voters.
Awesome. I wasn't going to upgrade just yet, but now I think I will.