Meaning it's their responsibility to take the action, not that they operate in a functional vaccum with no oversight or responsibility to take orders. You're welcome to read my other post on the letter of the Florida law. I've grown tired of trying to show reality to people determined to hold on to a fanciful interpretation of the facts.
You should read your own quotes. That repeatedly says "the database" which is defined in (1) as a database maintained BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS. Their responsibility is to notify the voter and deal with appeals, not to vet the database for accuracy.
Sure, it's theoretically within the definition of their duties to notify every single name flagged by the state even if the state says "Everybody named Smith was convicted of a felony." But the fact that the db is crap isn't their fault or responsibility.
What part of "statewide voter registration database" do you find unclear? To claim that the DoE doesn't have the authority to remove someone from the list in disingenuous. Is it theoretically possible for the actual polling place to use a list that is not in line with what DoE sends out? Of course. Would they find themselves on the wrong side of the law were they to disregard DoE's orders? Also of course.
All of which is really besides the point that if DoE is sending out a list they've got an obligation to MAKE SURE IT'S NOT A TOTAL WORK OF FICTION. How anyone keeps a straight face why suggesting that the local supervisors shouldn't remotely trust what DoE sends out is beyond me.
Those flip-book punch ballots had been in use in Florida for years but that layout was an anomaly. In my years voting there I'd never seen a single voting issue split across two sides. You can look at the ballot over at Tog's site for some idea.
Personally I agree that there's a certain standard of effort people should be held to with something as important as voting. However I think there's also a standard we should hold to in trying to accurately collect the voter's intention. If we really don't give a shit about the answer we shouldn't ask the question since we're going to be held to the results.
As far as the electoral college system I'd encourage you to read a number of the articles in defense of it. There may be some issues but the ones we'd create in simply abolishing it without compensating for state size and population in elections would be worse.
Most importantly, your claim that the felon list was in any way just a suggestion is flat out 100% untrue. You can see the law for yourself at http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?App_mod e=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0097/ch0097.htm which clearly states that the chief election officer is ordered to (11) Create and maintain a statewide voter registration database.
Even if your claim wasn't completely false, the number 1 responsibility for the DoE is right there at the top: Obtain and maintain uniformity in the application, operation, and interpretation of the election laws. So if they were just sending out material (which they aren't) and not following up on it they would be derelict in their duty.
The Department of Elections has a huge role in the election proceedings and although their role is often refered to as "advisory" it's advice you're given whether you want it or not and which you have to take. Under "Procedures on complaints of violations of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002" the statement is "The department shall have sole jurisdiction over complaints filed under the provisions of this section."
Meaning, you have a problem with us? Take it up with us and we'll decide if it's worth investigating. "This section provides the sole avenue of redress for alleged violations of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and does not give rise to any other cause of action."
As far as the butterfly ballot, who laid it out is irrelevant. I lived in Florda at the time and I can assure you in months of chatter about it I didn't once hear anyone claim it was a partisan trick. You can draw your own conclusion about whether it's important to compensate for the inability of the voter to communicate their real desire, but the thing was a shit design. You can actually see it - if you can stand to confront your obsessively held position with actual facts - here along with designer Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini's commentary.
I have no interest in conversations about the election being "stolen" and think they are counterproductive. But the idea that there's just this mass democrat anarchy and the republican election officers in Tallahassee had nothing to do with the fuckupedness (I doubt those clowns were togeter enough to create that situation deliberately) is nonsense.
Hacking is just making a system do something it wasn't designed to do
Yeah, just like "telegraphing your punch" means to tap out "your punch" in morse code, right? All you clowns who want to insist that a word means something other than how 95% of the population uses and understands it are of course free to do so, but you'd be well advised not to be annoyed/surprised/confused when people don't understand what you think you mean when you use it.
Audible.com. But the price is extreme - to get CarTalk, for example, is $4 each, $10 a month, or you can buy the $45 a year plan. For 4 hours per month.
All Things Considered will set you back $70 a year. At that point I think a $70 shark would be a better deal, personally.
I'm pretty sure that the lion's share of them are available in AAC format which can be played on Ipods and possibly other mp3 portables...
Sadly, you are pretty wrong. CarTalk is real audio, streaming only. I hassled about with StreamBox to xfer the show once. Too much trouble to do regularly. Diane Rehm, same thing. All Things Considered? Real or WM, neither saveable in any way I can figure out in less than 10 minutes.
I'm not convinced I want to spend $70 to deal with this issue yet but there's no simple (much less scriptable) way to grab all those NPR shows and push them onto my ipod easily.
Yeah, all sympathies to those impacted but I have to say the first thing that came to my mind was Denis Leary saying "I mean
Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter."
Don't even waste your time, FD. Society has villified Stella and will not hear reason or be persuaded by facts. Comfort yourself with the quiet irony that the canonical story that claims to be about frivolous lawsuits is actually one about continued corportate neglect and recklessness.
Hasn't DirecTV ditched that? It's a shame - the top 50 booksales was lame but the local weather one was great. Even cable subscribers have to wait for "on the 8s" but this was instant.
the US when averaged out, is not very dense. Sure there are some dense areas, and that is where the tests and pilot programs and prototypes are tried out...
Only in a direct vs indirect manner. If you're a shareholder you're paying for that CEO in reduced dividends. If you're an employee at that company it's money that can't be spent on you and if it's an airline it's possible they've failed to fund your pension with that money, at least in part.
But that aside, you should ask yourself what the consequences are of not spending that money. You could certainly save money in your personal life by never paying $20 to change the oil in your car but what's the cost going to be in a few years? Not paying competitive salaries in critical areas has consequences as well, including potentially huge losses in the area of stifled innovation, after-the-fact research, lawsuits etc etc etc.
Why do the same clowns who defend CEO pay by saying "That's the salary required to attract qualified candidates!" suddenly forget that standard when we talk about making civil service jobs competitive with the private sector?
The article mentions, in fact, that the minimum 'charge' is 0.1 seconds even if the client returns '0' so an exactly 0 time match is impossible.
Another poster's implied dismissal of low time games as 'smack-the-clock' speed chess seems to disregard what is implied in the article - that many people play low-time games because it's commonly believed that you cannot cheat on them. It's not what I think of as chess but if it's widely used for that reason this find is significant.
Shuttle Program == USA Government Manned Space Program.
You're all wrong, shuttle program == orbital program. The shuttle accomplishes nothing directly in the way of space exploration and almost nothing as an indirect contribution. The best thing you can say it does for the issue of space exploration is to keep space in the mind of the average citizen, which is does poorly, and operate as a limited platform for space experimentation.
It's not even the best we've got - the exciting stuff of late has come from probes launched years ago - not on the shuttle - and the Mars landers.
Let's not get our knickers in a twist here, ya? The shuttle program is in its twilight years regardless but it's not the end-all be-all. There's a Return to Flight program.
I'm pretty sure the implication was auto-reporting meters, jeanyus.
However that's a non-starter in most occassions. The safety regulations & liability when it comes to any type of electronics are pretty severe. Putting a device requiring voltage into a currently mechanical water meter would require at the very least a huge amount of vetting and more likely simply wouldn't be doable at all.
From the standpoint of cost savings, however, a number of people here are missing the larger picture. Having those employees reading meters isn't just a matter of their salaries (and benefits), there's paying for their transport, liability for their actions and the actions against them, support infrastructure to deal with cases when they are unable to get to the meters to read them (overgrown bushes, dogs, locked gates).
For that reason you're going to see the electric companies go to auto-reporting meters as time goes on. They don't have the power issues, obviously, and many have experimented very successfully with what you could call ethernet-over-power so they have a transmission medium built in to the devices.
It's neat but I'm a little fuzzy on the necessity. The replaced bit was 7cm/3in more or less and previously it was a titanium insert. The article repeatedly stated that "now he can" chew.
"Natural" materials may usually be better and too much detail about the whys and wherefors may be beyond the scope of the article but I'da liked some details about why the titanium insert wasn't up to the task.
Ah, the insight that can be offered by someone who knows a whole dozen spanish words, most of which can't be said in polite company. Sorry Charley, the Nova myth is just that - false.
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You may want to just go for the Torque engine that Tribes2 and on uses. It's not free but it's full featured and well reviewed.
Meaning it's their responsibility to take the action, not that they operate in a functional vaccum with no oversight or responsibility to take orders. You're welcome to read my other post on the letter of the Florida law. I've grown tired of trying to show reality to people determined to hold on to a fanciful interpretation of the facts.
Sure, it's theoretically within the definition of their duties to notify every single name flagged by the state even if the state says "Everybody named Smith was convicted of a felony." But the fact that the db is crap isn't their fault or responsibility.
All of which is really besides the point that if DoE is sending out a list they've got an obligation to MAKE SURE IT'S NOT A TOTAL WORK OF FICTION. How anyone keeps a straight face why suggesting that the local supervisors shouldn't remotely trust what DoE sends out is beyond me.
Personally I agree that there's a certain standard of effort people should be held to with something as important as voting. However I think there's also a standard we should hold to in trying to accurately collect the voter's intention. If we really don't give a shit about the answer we shouldn't ask the question since we're going to be held to the results.
As far as the electoral college system I'd encourage you to read a number of the articles in defense of it. There may be some issues but the ones we'd create in simply abolishing it without compensating for state size and population in elections would be worse.
Most importantly, your claim that the felon list was in any way just a suggestion is flat out 100% untrue. You can see the law for yourself at http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?App_mod e=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0097/ch0097.htm which clearly states that the chief election officer is ordered to (11) Create and maintain a statewide voter registration database.
Even if your claim wasn't completely false, the number 1 responsibility for the DoE is right there at the top: Obtain and maintain uniformity in the application, operation, and interpretation of the election laws. So if they were just sending out material (which they aren't) and not following up on it they would be derelict in their duty.
The Department of Elections has a huge role in the election proceedings and although their role is often refered to as "advisory" it's advice you're given whether you want it or not and which you have to take. Under "Procedures on complaints of violations of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002" the statement is "The department shall have sole jurisdiction over complaints filed under the provisions of this section."
Meaning, you have a problem with us? Take it up with us and we'll decide if it's worth investigating. "This section provides the sole avenue of redress for alleged violations of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and does not give rise to any other cause of action."
As far as the butterfly ballot, who laid it out is irrelevant. I lived in Florda at the time and I can assure you in months of chatter about it I didn't once hear anyone claim it was a partisan trick. You can draw your own conclusion about whether it's important to compensate for the inability of the voter to communicate their real desire, but the thing was a shit design. You can actually see it - if you can stand to confront your obsessively held position with actual facts - here along with designer Bruce 'Tog' Tognazzini's commentary.
I have no interest in conversations about the election being "stolen" and think they are counterproductive. But the idea that there's just this mass democrat anarchy and the republican election officers in Tallahassee had nothing to do with the fuckupedness (I doubt those clowns were togeter enough to create that situation deliberately) is nonsense.
Hacking is just making a system do something it wasn't designed to do Yeah, just like "telegraphing your punch" means to tap out "your punch" in morse code, right? All you clowns who want to insist that a word means something other than how 95% of the population uses and understands it are of course free to do so, but you'd be well advised not to be annoyed/surprised/confused when people don't understand what you think you mean when you use it.
I am pretty sure the dude I share an office with could take care of the majority of NJ single-emm-handedly.
Audible.com. But the price is extreme - to get CarTalk, for example, is $4 each, $10 a month, or you can buy the $45 a year plan. For 4 hours per month.
All Things Considered will set you back $70 a year. At that point I think a $70 shark would be a better deal, personally.
Sadly, you are pretty wrong. CarTalk is real audio, streaming only. I hassled about with StreamBox to xfer the show once. Too much trouble to do regularly. Diane Rehm, same thing. All Things Considered? Real or WM, neither saveable in any way I can figure out in less than 10 minutes.
I'm not convinced I want to spend $70 to deal with this issue yet but there's no simple (much less scriptable) way to grab all those NPR shows and push them onto my ipod easily.
Would you please concentrate on preparing for friday's debate, Senator Kerry?
Yeah, all sympathies to those impacted but I have to say the first thing that came to my mind was Denis Leary saying "I mean Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter."
Not all movement is progress.
Don't even waste your time, FD. Society has villified Stella and will not hear reason or be persuaded by facts. Comfort yourself with the quiet irony that the canonical story that claims to be about frivolous lawsuits is actually one about continued corportate neglect and recklessness.
Hasn't DirecTV ditched that? It's a shame - the top 50 booksales was lame but the local weather one was great. Even cable subscribers have to wait for "on the 8s" but this was instant.
And where law is made here in DC.
I know I can't be the only person moved to almost hysterical laughter when reading I'm generally a badass on Slashdot....
Only in a direct vs indirect manner. If you're a shareholder you're paying for that CEO in reduced dividends. If you're an employee at that company it's money that can't be spent on you and if it's an airline it's possible they've failed to fund your pension with that money, at least in part.
But that aside, you should ask yourself what the consequences are of not spending that money. You could certainly save money in your personal life by never paying $20 to change the oil in your car but what's the cost going to be in a few years? Not paying competitive salaries in critical areas has consequences as well, including potentially huge losses in the area of stifled innovation, after-the-fact research, lawsuits etc etc etc.
No sense in being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Why do the same clowns who defend CEO pay by saying "That's the salary required to attract qualified candidates!" suddenly forget that standard when we talk about making civil service jobs competitive with the private sector?
The article mentions, in fact, that the minimum 'charge' is 0.1 seconds even if the client returns '0' so an exactly 0 time match is impossible.
Another poster's implied dismissal of low time games as 'smack-the-clock' speed chess seems to disregard what is implied in the article - that many people play low-time games because it's commonly believed that you cannot cheat on them. It's not what I think of as chess but if it's widely used for that reason this find is significant.
Shuttle Program == USA Government Manned Space Program.
You're all wrong, shuttle program == orbital program. The shuttle accomplishes nothing directly in the way of space exploration and almost nothing as an indirect contribution. The best thing you can say it does for the issue of space exploration is to keep space in the mind of the average citizen, which is does poorly, and operate as a limited platform for space experimentation.
It's not even the best we've got - the exciting stuff of late has come from probes launched years ago - not on the shuttle - and the Mars landers.
Let's not get our knickers in a twist here, ya? The shuttle program is in its twilight years regardless but it's not the end-all be-all. There's a Return to Flight program.
I'm pretty sure the implication was auto-reporting meters, jeanyus.
However that's a non-starter in most occassions. The safety regulations & liability when it comes to any type of electronics are pretty severe. Putting a device requiring voltage into a currently mechanical water meter would require at the very least a huge amount of vetting and more likely simply wouldn't be doable at all.
From the standpoint of cost savings, however, a number of people here are missing the larger picture. Having those employees reading meters isn't just a matter of their salaries (and benefits), there's paying for their transport, liability for their actions and the actions against them, support infrastructure to deal with cases when they are unable to get to the meters to read them (overgrown bushes, dogs, locked gates).
For that reason you're going to see the electric companies go to auto-reporting meters as time goes on. They don't have the power issues, obviously, and many have experimented very successfully with what you could call ethernet-over-power so they have a transmission medium built in to the devices.
"Natural" materials may usually be better and too much detail about the whys and wherefors may be beyond the scope of the article but I'da liked some details about why the titanium insert wasn't up to the task.
Ah, the insight that can be offered by someone who knows a whole dozen spanish words, most of which can't be said in polite company. Sorry Charley, the Nova myth is just that - false.