Hey, in City of Death, the Doctor specifically says/writes, "Never mind the mess on the panels..." He never refers to it as canvas. I know this having recently watched the episode waiting for this exact "mistake".
1. And you thought CDs were expensive before...
2. The only music to be produced will be the kind no one wants to pirate... Think 90's boy bands.
3. ????
4. Profit!
You might know Watts as the head of the surfacestations.org project, which contends that the surface warming trend recorded in the U.S. is the result of various data collection problems like the urban heat island effect. But now it looks like that warming trend was overstated--weakening the very purpose of the surfacestations project.
Maybe you should read Anthony's blog before you jump to conclusions. Anthony makes no such claim. What he has repeatedly stated as the purpose of the SurfaceStations.org site is to do a complete census of all the USHCN sites. He has explicitly stated over and over again that we can make no conclusions about the USHCN network until this census is complete.
Anthony Watts works for a university and is doing this because, while the USHCN and the NOAA have already done such a photographic survey -- they refuse to make those surveys public. Many of the 230+ stations already surveyed do not comply with the published standards for such stations.
Anthony's point is that the network appears to be shoddily maintained, a horrible thought in an era where billions of dollars of government spending are being decided based on the data from these stations. Why not spend a few million dollars bringing all of the sites into compliance before we decide to make long-term decisions based on them?
By the way, my favorite picture so far is the Stevenson Screen with the jet exhaust of a MIG fighter jet parked next to it...
Exactly. When I was in college (many moons ago) and weightlifting, I was measured with an 11% body fat (on the low end for "highly athletic") and weighed 205 pounds with a height of 5' 8". According to BMI, that's morbidly obese and I'd have been paying extra. Explain how an athlete who can bench press 400# and leg press 1200# is in extra danger of keeling over dead?
The BMI values are a total load of crapola. I've been checked since, and to get down to my "ideal" BMI would require me to reach a -12% body fat. (That's negative 12% -- also known as dead.)
I have one for my (currently vaporware) MAME cabinet, and I was playing with it on a temporary mount. If you wanted to, you could set up the buttons for one-handed use. I found the left button can be set where your thumb hangs over the ball, and right button where your little finger hangs off the right side of the ball (and middle button and the top) and you can get it working one-handed. The clearances get pretty tight because of the massive base on the Happ trackball, but I could see setting up a permanent desk surface that way with the trackball built in.
The upside is -- you'll never break your trackball by accidentally bumping it off the desk (You listening Logitech?)
For a really big trackball...
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Admittedly, they make them for the video gaming world, but they are just USB (or PS2) trackballs. You can mount them directly into a table top. Nothing like a 3" trackball to work from.
Funny, I still have two DirecTivo boxes and they both work fine. If they told you that the don't support each other any more, then they're lying. In fact, I was able to pull a "new" DirecTivo off of Ebay and install it and they still activated it without any problems or questions.
It's a salamander, thus the original name of "Gerrymander" because of Elbridge Gerry. From the Wikipedia article on Gerrymandering:
The word "gerrymander" is named for the Governor of Massachusetts Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 - November 23, 1814), and is a blend of his name with the word "salamander," which was used to describe the appearance of a tortuous electoral district pressed through the Massachusetts legislature in 1812 by Jeffersonian democrats, in order to disadvantage their electoral opponents in the upcoming senatorial election, and reluctantly signed into law by Gerry.
In fact, looking at my keyboard, it's probably time to do it again.
Just make sure not to use drying heat, and don't put other things in there with the keyboard (like regular dishes) run it on the light cycle if you have one, and, if you live in the viciously dry mountain air of Colorado, you can use it again in an hour or two. I'd usually throw them in about 9:00 at night, open the door of the dishwasher when it was done and I could use them again in the morning.
The only time it ever failed was when my son spilled an entire 32 oz cup of coke into his keyboard (don't ask) and I forgot to turn off the drying heat. It looked fine, felt fine, smelled clean, but it never even recognized as being plugged in after that. I figure I melted some useful component off the board.
On top of all this, what does an IP address look like in RAM anyway. Answer: 4 bytes of random data. It's usually stored internally as 4 bytes of data, one to represent each of the bytes in the quad.
Basically, every four byte sequence in the computer can correspond to a (probably valid, as the IP4 space is 75% full) IP address. This will let them sue just about the entire world for using TorrentSpy.
I think that your comparison is fallacious. A more apt comparison would be if I made a set of CD's with music that I own, ripped to MP3 for my use and then burned to a CD. I then take a stack of those CD's and place them in my truck, tucked into the CD holder I have strapped to the visor. Then, when I park my car, I leave the window rolled down.
Now, the comparison to the RIAA's case is -- a police officer walks up to my truck, reaches in and takes the disks out of the visor.
And then he arrests me.
And *I* get charged with a crime.
If that's the legal definition of distributing copyrighted materials, then we have a much bigger problem with our legal system then just the RIAA.
Not to mention that a rapidly cooling surface (low temp) would create a thick "skin" for the bubble, and the lower atmospheric pressure would make an equivalent amount of gas make a much larger bubble.
My only problem with the caldera feature is that most of them have near vertical walls. I also wouldn't expect a caldera in the middle of a lava flow from another caldera.
In this case, it looks like what we see is a thin crust over a large void space. Another thought I'd had was a large "bubble" that broke through the surface, or whose top had fallen in.
1. the opening would be elongated along the axis of the tube
Possibly, but only if the size of the hole is similar to the size of the tube. If this is a shot through the "ceiling" and doesn't come close to the walls, (and if the Dena guess of 130m for the diameter of the cave is close) then this could easily be just a punched "skylight". If the tube is, in fact, even larger, then it might very well be possible to see no difference in the edges. Lava tubes, at least from the data I've seen, tend to have mostly flat ceilings and are not purely cylindrical.
2. it should be more cracked and irregular since there would be little surface erosion to smooth things out
Actually, I'd expect that with only gravity to do it's work, and if it was caused by a meteor impact, that the shape would be almost perfectly circular, with any further cracks being either covered by the pervasive Martian dust (see the Spirit and Opportunity data.) Also, impacts in stone tend not to make many cracks (see this image for an example of how cement breaks. Admittedly volcanic basalt is not concrete, but the idea is similar. Also, how long has this cave been here? A thousand years, a million, a billion? It could be just about any of the above.
3. lava tubes tend to be fairly shallow so the bottom should be visible
Lava tubes tend to be shallow on Earth. However the Ape Cave lava tube in Washington is clearly at least as deep as it is wide [See here], and since we can't see walls on a 100m wide image, we can assume (and I know all about that word) that it might easily be 100m deep. Also, seeing the bottom depends on lots of factors. What is the angle of the sun (hard to tell from the lack of shadows) and the resulting angle to the spacecraft. There's a lot of ways to get near zero light, even given a cave only 50 meters deep.
4. lava tubes tend to be curved and smooth inside, so you'd expect more reflection
Lava tubes on Earth. Which are a few thousand years old. Look at Ape Cave in the above image and show me "smooth and shiny." I see bumpy and cracked. What happens when you expose basalt to ionizing radiation? Mars, lacking in a major magnetic field, allows a lot of radiation to impact the surface. What does that do to basalt? On the moon it makes it dark and bumpy. (see regolith)
5. the walls would be visible on two sides and at least one of them should be getting sunlight
Again, only if this hole spanned the width of the tube because of natural collapse. Lower gravity on Mars means you can have much larger air-supported structures. Lack of water or an erosion cycle means that the tube is less likely to collapse on its own. As some one else stated, these structures could act totally differently on Mars than on Earth. Perhaps on Mars, the thin, cold atmosphere leads to near immediate radiative cooling of the surface and almost all lava flows were under the surface. Once you form an insulating skin that prevents outgassing to proceed to the surface, it could be possible that a large gap would form between the ceiling of the flow and the current lava flow even without a noticable down-slope flow pool. Maybe the entire lava field is just the surface of one big bubble.
It's always dangerous to extrapolate Earth features to other planets and expect there to be no difference. This is a fascinating feature that deserves further study.
Either that, or the Martians are cloaking their secret base. One of the two...
Given the fact that it's on the side of a volcano, and the fact that it's in the middle of a lava field, the most likely answer is that it opens into a lava tube. Most likely a small meteorite hit the center of the circle and caused a circular fracture that fell into the underlying tube.
We know you tried this at least once...
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Clearly then, you'd be the one to ask... What happens when you enter "Jessica Alba" into Flickr and use photosynth?
Modern large steam turbines, as used in power plants, typically have an efficiency in the 90%+ range. Thermocouples are well below this (I've seen ratings below 10% for the temperature range of steam/ambient.)
Steam turbines are probably one of the most efficient pieces of technology in the power generation industry. More power is lost in the transmission lines (typically 7.5% per 100 miles) than the steam turbines lose.
I find it amusing that you claim Cheney is hated by the general public "even more than Bush" when a recent poll found that only 11% of the American "general public" can name the Vice President.
If we assume that 75% of those people truly despise Cheney, that gives you a whopping 8% of the public calling for impeachment. The other 92% are against it or apathetic. If you really think that the MSM's reporting (reaching a whopping 20% of the population) is going to change that, you're wildly mistaken.
It seems to me (and this is my opinion) that you're suffering from what I call "echo-chamber syndrome." I'm willing to bet you spend a lot of time on left-leaning blog sites like DailyKOS and Democratic Underground. Since that's your main source of news, you think of Cheney as a raving mad-man with a huge amount of vitriol spewed in his direction. The people I know who barely know who he is remember him best from the VP debate in 2004, where he and Edwards faced off and Edwards looked like a raving lunatic, and Cheney looked like a calm, patient, fatherly debater who addressed each point one by one with calm and logic, and looked almost like he felt sorry for Edward's poor debating skills.
Trust me, 8% does not an impeachment make. Besides, most of the people will basically be of the opinion, "Why bother? He's only got one year left in office. By the time the trial is over he'll be out anyway."
Nice try, but that website is not reading all of the law as it should be read:
"Bush's margin of victory in Florida is slim enough to trigger an automatic recount under 102.141(4) of the Florida Election Code"
First of all, 102.141(4) deals with when the ballots should be turned over to the state election board. They meant 102.141(6) which deals with automatic recounts. However, this entire law only applies to County Canvassing Boards, and Gore won Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Volusia counties by a wide margin, not the less than 1/2 of 1% that is required by that law, so the point here is moot. The ballots had to be transfered to the state level and the recount demanded from there:
"The Elections Canvassing Commission is the board responsible for ordering federal, state, and multicounty recounts."
This can not be done until all counties have submitted their formal vote totals.
The second part (the one you site) clearly states that Al Gore's demand for manual recounts was out of order. He did not wait for two recounts, and further, he is not a member of the board responsible for the results. (Emphasis in below text is mine -- ellipsis remove text relevant to judge retention and ballot measures -- full text available on here.)
"If the second set of unofficial returns pursuant to s. 102.141 indicates that a candidate for any office was defeated or eliminated by one-quarter of a percent or less of the votes cast for such office...the board responsible for certifying the results of the vote on such race...shall order a manual recount of the overvotes and undervotes cast in the entire geographic jurisdiction of such office.... A manual recount may not be ordered, however, if the number of overvotes, undervotes, and provisional ballots is fewer than the number of votes needed to change the outcome of the election."
Again -- when we apply this law at the county level -- in none of Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, or Volusia counties was there enough under, over, or provisional votes to overturn the outcome of the election, as Gore had won all of those counties handily. None of these counties should have recounted. His "request" was, therefore, out-of-order and illegal. He is not even granted the right to make such a request under the law.
However, had we applied this law at the state level -- had the vote counts been passed to the state level -- this statute would have immediately compelled a state-wide ("...in the entire geographic jurisdiction of such office...") recount of all the votes. Gore blocked this by focusing on five counties and preventing them from sending formal counts to the state of Florida Election Canvassing Committee.
Finally, the statute 102.112 sets forth a clear and unmutable deadline for counties to report results to the state. Had the counties reported those results to the Elections Canvassing Commission, it would have triggered an automatic state-wide recount. Gore, Valucia county, and Palm Beach county specifically blocked this, basically by taking the Secretary of State to court and claiming that the law, as written, was illegal. They lose the case.
The Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, under 102.112(3), is specifically instructed to ignore late returns, and she indicates she will comply with the law as written. This is when the FSC steps in and prohibits her from certifying the election. Thus blocking the automatic triggering of the state-wide recount.
At the same time, Gore and the Florida Democratic party sue to ensure that 16,000 plus military ballots are invalidated and 16,000 men and women serving in harm's way are disenfranchised because they didn't get a postmark on their ballot, knowing full well that most APO's do not postmark mail.
Finally the FSC sets November 26th as the new deadline for certification. Palm-Beach county says that they can't b
I just had the urge to write that out, since it's such a large number to simply ignore as the parent poster did. I normally am the first to complain about numbers written out. I must have been in a weird mood.
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Hey, in City of Death, the Doctor specifically says/writes, "Never mind the mess on the panels..." He never refers to it as canvas. I know this having recently watched the episode waiting for this exact "mistake".
All this talk about time becoming a spatial dimension and realities collapsing is making my brane hurt.
Yeah, I said it.
Does Zonk have access to a grammar reference, or an editor's guide? Yeah, I'm sacrificing karma for this.
1. And you thought CDs were expensive before...
2. The only music to be produced will be the kind no one wants to pirate... Think 90's boy bands.
3. ????
4. Profit!
Sorry, that last one just slipped in there.
You might know Watts as the head of the surfacestations.org project, which contends that the surface warming trend recorded in the U.S. is the result of various data collection problems like the urban heat island effect. But now it looks like that warming trend was overstated--weakening the very purpose of the surfacestations project.
Maybe you should read Anthony's blog before you jump to conclusions. Anthony makes no such claim. What he has repeatedly stated as the purpose of the SurfaceStations.org site is to do a complete census of all the USHCN sites. He has explicitly stated over and over again that we can make no conclusions about the USHCN network until this census is complete.
Anthony Watts works for a university and is doing this because, while the USHCN and the NOAA have already done such a photographic survey -- they refuse to make those surveys public. Many of the 230+ stations already surveyed do not comply with the published standards for such stations.
Anthony's point is that the network appears to be shoddily maintained, a horrible thought in an era where billions of dollars of government spending are being decided based on the data from these stations. Why not spend a few million dollars bringing all of the sites into compliance before we decide to make long-term decisions based on them?
By the way, my favorite picture so far is the Stevenson Screen with the jet exhaust of a MIG fighter jet parked next to it...
Exactly. When I was in college (many moons ago) and weightlifting, I was measured with an 11% body fat (on the low end for "highly athletic") and weighed 205 pounds with a height of 5' 8". According to BMI, that's morbidly obese and I'd have been paying extra. Explain how an athlete who can bench press 400# and leg press 1200# is in extra danger of keeling over dead?
The BMI values are a total load of crapola. I've been checked since, and to get down to my "ideal" BMI would require me to reach a -12% body fat. (That's negative 12% -- also known as dead.)
I have one for my (currently vaporware) MAME cabinet, and I was playing with it on a temporary mount. If you wanted to, you could set up the buttons for one-handed use. I found the left button can be set where your thumb hangs over the ball, and right button where your little finger hangs off the right side of the ball (and middle button and the top) and you can get it working one-handed. The clearances get pretty tight because of the massive base on the Happ trackball, but I could see setting up a permanent desk surface that way with the trackball built in.
The upside is -- you'll never break your trackball by accidentally bumping it off the desk (You listening Logitech?)
...try looking at HAPP controls http://www.happcontrols.com/trackballs/trackballs. htm.
Admittedly, they make them for the video gaming world, but they are just USB (or PS2) trackballs. You can mount them directly into a table top. Nothing like a 3" trackball to work from.
Funny, I still have two DirecTivo boxes and they both work fine. If they told you that the don't support each other any more, then they're lying. In fact, I was able to pull a "new" DirecTivo off of Ebay and install it and they still activated it without any problems or questions.
Yes, and nothing like losing a minute of the show because of a false positive... I'll take a 30 second fast-skip button any day.
It's a salamander, thus the original name of "Gerrymander" because of Elbridge Gerry. From the Wikipedia article on Gerrymandering:
The word "gerrymander" is named for the Governor of Massachusetts Elbridge Gerry (July 17, 1744 - November 23, 1814), and is a blend of his name with the word "salamander," which was used to describe the appearance of a tortuous electoral district pressed through the Massachusetts legislature in 1812 by Jeffersonian democrats, in order to disadvantage their electoral opponents in the upcoming senatorial election, and reluctantly signed into law by Gerry.
In fact, looking at my keyboard, it's probably time to do it again.
Just make sure not to use drying heat, and don't put other things in there with the keyboard (like regular dishes) run it on the light cycle if you have one, and, if you live in the viciously dry mountain air of Colorado, you can use it again in an hour or two. I'd usually throw them in about 9:00 at night, open the door of the dishwasher when it was done and I could use them again in the morning.
The only time it ever failed was when my son spilled an entire 32 oz cup of coke into his keyboard (don't ask) and I forgot to turn off the drying heat. It looked fine, felt fine, smelled clean, but it never even recognized as being plugged in after that. I figure I melted some useful component off the board.
That would be, "Your comparison is fellatious."
Sorry, I can't believe I actually typed that...
On top of all this, what does an IP address look like in RAM anyway. Answer: 4 bytes of random data. It's usually stored internally as 4 bytes of data, one to represent each of the bytes in the quad.
Basically, every four byte sequence in the computer can correspond to a (probably valid, as the IP4 space is 75% full) IP address. This will let them sue just about the entire world for using TorrentSpy.
What a crock.
I think that your comparison is fallacious. A more apt comparison would be if I made a set of CD's with music that I own, ripped to MP3 for my use and then burned to a CD. I then take a stack of those CD's and place them in my truck, tucked into the CD holder I have strapped to the visor. Then, when I park my car, I leave the window rolled down.
Now, the comparison to the RIAA's case is -- a police officer walks up to my truck, reaches in and takes the disks out of the visor.
And then he arrests me.
And *I* get charged with a crime.
If that's the legal definition of distributing copyrighted materials, then we have a much bigger problem with our legal system then just the RIAA.
That sentence kind of got away from you there...
Not to mention that a rapidly cooling surface (low temp) would create a thick "skin" for the bubble, and the lower atmospheric pressure would make an equivalent amount of gas make a much larger bubble.
My only problem with the caldera feature is that most of them have near vertical walls. I also wouldn't expect a caldera in the middle of a lava flow from another caldera.
In this case, it looks like what we see is a thin crust over a large void space. Another thought I'd had was a large "bubble" that broke through the surface, or whose top had fallen in.
1. the opening would be elongated along the axis of the tube
Possibly, but only if the size of the hole is similar to the size of the tube. If this is a shot through the "ceiling" and doesn't come close to the walls, (and if the Dena guess of 130m for the diameter of the cave is close) then this could easily be just a punched "skylight". If the tube is, in fact, even larger, then it might very well be possible to see no difference in the edges. Lava tubes, at least from the data I've seen, tend to have mostly flat ceilings and are not purely cylindrical.
2. it should be more cracked and irregular since there would be little surface erosion to smooth things out
Actually, I'd expect that with only gravity to do it's work, and if it was caused by a meteor impact, that the shape would be almost perfectly circular, with any further cracks being either covered by the pervasive Martian dust (see the Spirit and Opportunity data.) Also, impacts in stone tend not to make many cracks (see this image for an example of how cement breaks. Admittedly volcanic basalt is not concrete, but the idea is similar. Also, how long has this cave been here? A thousand years, a million, a billion? It could be just about any of the above.
3. lava tubes tend to be fairly shallow so the bottom should be visible
Lava tubes tend to be shallow on Earth. However the Ape Cave lava tube in Washington is clearly at least as deep as it is wide [See here], and since we can't see walls on a 100m wide image, we can assume (and I know all about that word) that it might easily be 100m deep. Also, seeing the bottom depends on lots of factors. What is the angle of the sun (hard to tell from the lack of shadows) and the resulting angle to the spacecraft. There's a lot of ways to get near zero light, even given a cave only 50 meters deep.
4. lava tubes tend to be curved and smooth inside, so you'd expect more reflection
Lava tubes on Earth. Which are a few thousand years old. Look at Ape Cave in the above image and show me "smooth and shiny." I see bumpy and cracked. What happens when you expose basalt to ionizing radiation? Mars, lacking in a major magnetic field, allows a lot of radiation to impact the surface. What does that do to basalt? On the moon it makes it dark and bumpy. (see regolith)
5. the walls would be visible on two sides and at least one of them should be getting sunlight
Again, only if this hole spanned the width of the tube because of natural collapse. Lower gravity on Mars means you can have much larger air-supported structures. Lack of water or an erosion cycle means that the tube is less likely to collapse on its own. As some one else stated, these structures could act totally differently on Mars than on Earth. Perhaps on Mars, the thin, cold atmosphere leads to near immediate radiative cooling of the surface and almost all lava flows were under the surface. Once you form an insulating skin that prevents outgassing to proceed to the surface, it could be possible that a large gap would form between the ceiling of the flow and the current lava flow even without a noticable down-slope flow pool. Maybe the entire lava field is just the surface of one big bubble.
It's always dangerous to extrapolate Earth features to other planets and expect there to be no difference. This is a fascinating feature that deserves further study.
Either that, or the Martians are cloaking their secret base. One of the two...
Given the fact that it's on the side of a volcano, and the fact that it's in the middle of a lava field, the most likely answer is that it opens into a lava tube. Most likely a small meteorite hit the center of the circle and caused a circular fracture that fell into the underlying tube.
Clearly then, you'd be the one to ask... What happens when you enter "Jessica Alba" into Flickr and use photosynth?
Modern large steam turbines, as used in power plants, typically have an efficiency in the 90%+ range. Thermocouples are well below this (I've seen ratings below 10% for the temperature range of steam/ambient.)
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Steam turbines are probably one of the most efficient pieces of technology in the power generation industry. More power is lost in the transmission lines (typically 7.5% per 100 miles) than the steam turbines lose.
Reference: http://www.engineersedge.com/thermodynamics/power
I find it amusing that you claim Cheney is hated by the general public "even more than Bush" when a recent poll found that only 11% of the American "general public" can name the Vice President.
If we assume that 75% of those people truly despise Cheney, that gives you a whopping 8% of the public calling for impeachment. The other 92% are against it or apathetic. If you really think that the MSM's reporting (reaching a whopping 20% of the population) is going to change that, you're wildly mistaken.
It seems to me (and this is my opinion) that you're suffering from what I call "echo-chamber syndrome." I'm willing to bet you spend a lot of time on left-leaning blog sites like DailyKOS and Democratic Underground. Since that's your main source of news, you think of Cheney as a raving mad-man with a huge amount of vitriol spewed in his direction. The people I know who barely know who he is remember him best from the VP debate in 2004, where he and Edwards faced off and Edwards looked like a raving lunatic, and Cheney looked like a calm, patient, fatherly debater who addressed each point one by one with calm and logic, and looked almost like he felt sorry for Edward's poor debating skills.
Trust me, 8% does not an impeachment make. Besides, most of the people will basically be of the opinion, "Why bother? He's only got one year left in office. By the time the trial is over he'll be out anyway."
Nice try, but that website is not reading all of the law as it should be read:
"Bush's margin of victory in Florida is slim enough to trigger an automatic recount under 102.141(4) of the Florida Election Code"
First of all, 102.141(4) deals with when the ballots should be turned over to the state election board. They meant 102.141(6) which deals with automatic recounts. However, this entire law only applies to County Canvassing Boards, and Gore won Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Volusia counties by a wide margin, not the less than 1/2 of 1% that is required by that law, so the point here is moot. The ballots had to be transfered to the state level and the recount demanded from there:
"The Elections Canvassing Commission is the board responsible for ordering federal, state, and multicounty recounts."
This can not be done until all counties have submitted their formal vote totals.
The second part (the one you site) clearly states that Al Gore's demand for manual recounts was out of order. He did not wait for two recounts, and further, he is not a member of the board responsible for the results. (Emphasis in below text is mine -- ellipsis remove text relevant to judge retention and ballot measures -- full text available on here.)
"If the second set of unofficial returns pursuant to s. 102.141 indicates that a candidate for any office was defeated or eliminated by one-quarter of a percent or less of the votes cast for such office...the board responsible for certifying the results of the vote on such race...shall order a manual recount of the overvotes and undervotes cast in the entire geographic jurisdiction of such office.... A manual recount may not be ordered, however, if the number of overvotes, undervotes, and provisional ballots is fewer than the number of votes needed to change the outcome of the election."
Again -- when we apply this law at the county level -- in none of Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, or Volusia counties was there enough under, over, or provisional votes to overturn the outcome of the election, as Gore had won all of those counties handily. None of these counties should have recounted. His "request" was, therefore, out-of-order and illegal. He is not even granted the right to make such a request under the law.
However, had we applied this law at the state level -- had the vote counts been passed to the state level -- this statute would have immediately compelled a state-wide ("...in the entire geographic jurisdiction of such office...") recount of all the votes. Gore blocked this by focusing on five counties and preventing them from sending formal counts to the state of Florida Election Canvassing Committee.
Finally, the statute 102.112 sets forth a clear and unmutable deadline for counties to report results to the state. Had the counties reported those results to the Elections Canvassing Commission, it would have triggered an automatic state-wide recount. Gore, Valucia county, and Palm Beach county specifically blocked this, basically by taking the Secretary of State to court and claiming that the law, as written, was illegal. They lose the case.
The Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, under 102.112(3), is specifically instructed to ignore late returns, and she indicates she will comply with the law as written. This is when the FSC steps in and prohibits her from certifying the election. Thus blocking the automatic triggering of the state-wide recount.
At the same time, Gore and the Florida Democratic party sue to ensure that 16,000 plus military ballots are invalidated and 16,000 men and women serving in harm's way are disenfranchised because they didn't get a postmark on their ballot, knowing full well that most APO's do not postmark mail.
Finally the FSC sets November 26th as the new deadline for certification. Palm-Beach county says that they can't b
I just had the urge to write that out, since it's such a large number to simply ignore as the parent poster did. I normally am the first to complain about numbers written out. I must have been in a weird mood.