I find most of the people who run for office in local elections to be very real, very accessible people. I've really enjoyed being able to vote for and elect people who are genuinely friends and neighbors. Whenever people claim that voting doesn't matter, I assume they don't actually participate in politics, or know any of the candidates personally.
As for the article, this is exactly why we need a secret ballot, and exactly why no public or private party should be allowed to offer consideration in exchange for suffrage.
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My point was, in the 60s there was a nascent counterculture which had obvious causes in common, but which was led in a distributed fashion by people who were generally modeling their philosophy on the ideas of commitment to peaceable means. I wouldn't count too much on that same spirit being prevalent today.
You were in the military, but I assume not before 1973. You at least have some appreciation for the infrastructure that would be required, and the changes to the induction and training processes that would have to be made, before the military could deal with large numbers of people who *really* don't want to be there.
1. They seem to practice less age discrimination than other stores. 2. They do business with Chinese manufacturers, keeping a certain pressure on their quality control. (Go to Africa, and compare the stuff THEY get from China to the stuff the US gets from China.) 3. They build stores in places that previously had no retail market at all.
The military has a very high "police ratio" NOW, imagine what would happen if they had to deal with large numbers of people who *really* don't want to be there.
Oh, and I wouldn't necessarily count on the anti-draft/anti-war movement to be like the 60s, devoted to peaceful means, etc.
Vietnam protesters just happened to be intersected with a counterculture that was discovering Eastern religions, drugs that ramped down aggression levels, and so on. Do people today share the same values? What do you think will happen when you start drafting the counterculture of the inner-city? I'd encourage you to prepare for three things: 1. Extreme violence among the recruits on training bases, 2. Organized violence targeting commanders, and 3. A civil war with a rebellion force that has been trained, organized, and equipped by tax money.
"This reminds me of a running argument I have with my retired father. He complains about NASA being a waste of his tax dollars while he sits in front of a satelite TV. Refuses to see the irony."
Which irony is that? The one about Soviet technology making communication satellites a reality, or the one where he thinks he pays taxes even though he's retired?
>I think the congressional Democrat's numbers are low because they have completely failed to rein in the Bush administration,
Another, scarier way to think about this is, imagine if the Congress was another Republican Rubber Stamp. What if this *is* the Bush administration "reined in?" What if it was WORSE!
There's a long history of Dallas School Superintendents abusing their position.
I grew up in a house that was built by a former DISD Super. It was blatant. The bricks, the flooring, panels, electrical fixtures, doors, you name it, all from school materials, and this was very obvious to anyone of the right generation. Anywhere you looked in our house, you saw things that were characteristic of the local schools built in the 1940s. People would remark on it, my parents would say it was built by (I'm trying to remember his name), and the understanding would be clear. Now, maybe he somehow bought all those building materials from the school district's vendors; I'm not saying there was any corruption involved.
>Maybe I just didn't follow you, but I think your drug argument ignores the development/testing cost of making drugs.
It's because there are such deep wells of money available that there are such costs associated with drug development.
The actual researchers who make the discoveries and do the development and testing don't make much. Academic institutions get excited over, and compete for, grants in the five figure range.
Far more money goes into marketing and litigation than into science.
If the big pharma money wasn't there, even if the patent protection wasn't there, the research would continue. The people who actually do that research don't benefit from the money *now*, but they still work.
>It took literally -decades- for courts to even establish that yes, smoking is directly related to lung-cancer
This example is problematic. Scientific conjectures that smoking and lung cancer were connected, date back to 1929. But experimental toxicology did not lead to solid conclusions until 1996 when Beckman researchers finally connected the molecular evidence.
I don't really understand what "courts" have to do with science, but whatever. It was a difficult problem, research-wise. A lot of other discoveries had to be made connecting environmental / occupational factors to specific cancers before this was really well understood.
Now the anecdotal evidence was compelling, and clearly the tobacco companies had to be ordered by courts to accept the anecdotal evidence. But even when the first Surgeon General's warning went on the packs stating that smoking was *known* to cause cancer, it really was still not understood *how* it caused cancer. So the warning was as political as it was scientific.
>Yeah that's democracy for you, a bunch of unelected political bosses deciding whether to even give someone a *chance* for people to vote for them.
He's trying to get on a political party's primary ballot. It's absolutely right that the party organization gets to decide this. How would you like it if all the Republicans or other fringe party candidates were able to force themselves onto the Democratic primary ticket?
>Wow, you've never really seen how store security works, have you?
When I worked in loss prevention, we had a case where a store employee was charged with assault for detaining a shoplifter. He lost his job and cost the company quite a bit of money -- more, probably, than the total income over his career would have been.
>"Security Manager Joe saw this guy lifting some cds..we stopped them outside of the store and found the cds"
It works out well when you are *right*. You only need to get it wrong once.
"Analog audio distorts more smoothly (no hard clips), and handles time-compression/expansion and pitch shifting much better than digital. But in the end, the cost of high-quality analog devices far outweighs the cost of high-quality digital devices, and the benefits for using analog are slim to none for a listener."
Fair enough. In the audio realm, I don't think in consumer terms. I think in terms of production. I have a different theory that the thing people like about listening to vinyl is (was) the RIAA/IEC eq in the preamp that simulates the very low and very high ends that were removed from the signal in the cutting engineering stage. I know a little too much about this, and I *really* don't want to show my age;-)
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I find most of the people who run for office in local elections to be very real, very accessible people.
I've really enjoyed being able to vote for and elect people who are genuinely friends and neighbors. Whenever people
claim that voting doesn't matter, I assume they don't actually participate in politics, or know any of the candidates
personally.
As for the article, this is exactly why we need a secret ballot, and exactly why no public or private party should be allowed
to offer consideration in exchange for suffrage.
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My point was, in the 60s there was a nascent counterculture which had obvious causes in common, but which was led in a distributed fashion by people who were generally modeling their philosophy on the ideas of commitment to peaceable means. I wouldn't count too much on that same spirit being prevalent today.
You were in the military, but I assume not before 1973. You at least have some appreciation for the infrastructure that would be required, and the changes to the induction and training processes that would have to be made, before the military could deal with large numbers of people who *really* don't want to be there.
I think it would be sheer chaos.
>Negative opinion of your allies? What allies?
Every country that has a military force, that has not sent that force to liberate Iraq from US occupation, is an ally of the US.
If management from the director level on down works around the clock, so will I.
Wal*Mart = Bad?
Why?
1. They seem to practice less age discrimination than other stores.
2. They do business with Chinese manufacturers, keeping a certain pressure on their quality control. (Go to Africa, and compare the stuff THEY get from China to the stuff the US gets from China.)
3. They build stores in places that previously had no retail market at all.
I'm sure there's more.
The military has a very high "police ratio" NOW, imagine what would happen if they had to deal with large numbers of people who *really* don't want to be there.
Oh, and I wouldn't necessarily count on the anti-draft/anti-war movement to be like the 60s, devoted to peaceful means, etc.
Vietnam protesters just happened to be intersected with a counterculture that was discovering Eastern religions, drugs that ramped down aggression levels, and so on. Do people today share the same values? What do you think will happen when you start drafting the counterculture of the inner-city? I'd encourage you to prepare for three things: 1. Extreme violence among the recruits on training bases, 2. Organized violence targeting commanders, and 3. A civil war with a rebellion force that has been trained, organized, and equipped by tax money.
"This reminds me of a running argument I have with my retired father. He complains about NASA being a waste of his tax dollars while he sits in front of a satelite TV. Refuses to see the irony."
Which irony is that? The one about Soviet technology making communication satellites a reality,
or the one where he thinks he pays taxes even though he's retired?
>I think the congressional Democrat's numbers are low because they have completely failed to rein in the Bush administration,
Another, scarier way to think about this is, imagine if the Congress was another Republican Rubber Stamp. What if this *is*
the Bush administration "reined in?" What if it was WORSE!
Maybe they knew the teacher was a perv and you disrupted an ongoing investigation.
There's a long history of Dallas School Superintendents abusing their position.
I grew up in a house that was built by a former DISD Super. It was blatant. The bricks, the flooring, panels, electrical fixtures, doors, you name it, all from school materials, and this was very obvious to anyone of the right generation. Anywhere you looked in our house, you saw things that were characteristic of the local schools built in the 1940s. People would remark on it, my parents would say it was built by (I'm trying to remember his name), and the understanding would be clear. Now, maybe he somehow bought all those building materials from the school district's vendors; I'm not saying there was any corruption involved.
>Maybe I just didn't follow you, but I think your drug argument ignores the development/testing cost of making drugs.
It's because there are such deep wells of money available that there are such costs associated with drug development.
The actual researchers who make the discoveries and do the development and testing don't make much. Academic institutions get excited over, and compete for, grants in the five figure range.
Far more money goes into marketing and litigation than into science.
If the big pharma money wasn't there, even if the patent protection wasn't there, the research would continue. The people who actually do that research don't benefit from the money *now*, but they still work.
Does it fail in the same way with mv? And if so, is this maybe an expression of some BSD bug?
>It took literally -decades- for courts to even establish that yes, smoking is directly related to lung-cancer
This example is problematic. Scientific conjectures that smoking and lung cancer were connected, date back to 1929. But experimental toxicology did not lead to solid conclusions until 1996 when Beckman researchers finally connected the molecular evidence.
I don't really understand what "courts" have to do with science, but whatever. It was a difficult problem, research-wise. A lot of other discoveries had to be made connecting environmental / occupational factors to specific cancers before this was really well understood.
Now the anecdotal evidence was compelling, and clearly the tobacco companies had to be ordered by courts to accept the anecdotal evidence. But even when the first Surgeon General's warning went on the packs stating that smoking was *known* to cause cancer, it really was still not understood *how* it caused cancer. So the warning was as political as it was scientific.
My local gas station used to sell candy in a box that "looks like" a SNES controller. I wish I'd thought to buy one.
>If they were and I heard this, I would almost certainly leave them. That was my point.
If they actually claimed "router failure" when in fact the cause was armed robbery, I'd be suing for fraud.
Is it legal to not report an armed robbery? I think that should be the difference between a victim and an accessory.
A lot of early adopters got on an academic deal where, for the first weekend, it was $69 instead of $89.
Plenty of Mac users are students, faculty, or staff in schools or academic research institutions, and many of them went for this deal.
>You obviously haven't been following SCO vs IBM very closely.
I have. Not a criminal case. The right to a speedy trial isn't tied as closely to due process in civil cases.
>Yeah that's democracy for you, a bunch of unelected political bosses deciding whether to even give someone a *chance* for people to vote for them.
He's trying to get on a political party's primary ballot. It's absolutely right that the party organization gets to decide this.
How would you like it if all the Republicans or other fringe party candidates were able to force themselves onto the Democratic primary ticket?
>Wow, you've never really seen how store security works, have you?
When I worked in loss prevention, we had a case where a store employee was charged with assault for detaining a shoplifter. He lost his job and cost the company quite a bit of money -- more, probably, than the total income over his career would have been.
>"Security Manager Joe saw this guy lifting some cds..we stopped them outside of the store and found the cds"
It works out well when you are *right*. You only need to get it wrong once.
>shoplifting is a misdemeanor
It's a felony if the item has sufficient value.
>>So much for the right to a fair and speedy trial...
>It's a right the incriminated must invoke.
More likely, the trial is delayed by the defense.
"Analog audio distorts more smoothly (no hard clips), and handles time-compression/expansion and pitch shifting much better than digital. But in the end, the cost of high-quality analog devices far outweighs the cost of high-quality digital devices, and the benefits for using analog are slim to none for a listener."
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Fair enough. In the audio realm, I don't think in consumer terms. I think in terms of production. I have a different theory that the thing people like about listening to vinyl is (was) the RIAA/IEC eq in the preamp that simulates the very low and very high ends that were removed from the signal in the cutting engineering stage. I know a little too much about this, and I *really* don't want to show my age
>[W]e may find that a set problem such as the knapsack is not in the same class as the traveling salesman problem.
That result would make you no less famous than proving P=NP or finding a polynomial-time algorithm for an NP-complete problem.
Good luck with that.
>How hard do you think the manager would have tried to get the hard drive back from me if he saw my Glock 23 on my hip?
If he sees it, it's not "concealed". If you flash it, it's assault.
>Best Buy in the city I live in does not display a sign prohibiting concealed weapons in the store.
If it's private property, they can make this decision ad-hoc.
Did you sleep through your CW permit course or what?