I'm a collector. I like collecting. I can only imagine what I'd collect if I had a terabyte of storage. It's not really a matter of whether I'd use it or not, but having it just in case.
Doing away with a lot of the precincts, replacing them with voting centers. Won't this create a problem for those who may wind up having to travel further?
I remember finding stuff on the web stating that politicians tend to have a higher I.Q. than average. Some say politicians are just great liars, no offense (especially to good politicians). It kind of makes you wonder.
A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable: the margin of reality; has crossed the margin of civilized behavior.
An amount allowed beyond what is needed: a small margin of safety. See Synonyms at room.
A measure, quantity, or degree of difference: a margin of 500 votes.
Provisional ballots that weren't originally counted
Ballots that were spit out and set aside
Diebold optical machines wrongly counting the bubbled in sheet
There's going to be a hand recount if I'm not mistaken. 42 votes is within a margin of error especially with the anomalies with provisional ballots or whatever.
Does anyone think the plurality system is partly responsible for such a close race?
IRC is special when compared to Instant Messenging. IM tends to be a one on one thing, something that requires third parties to be invited to.
IRC tends to be much bigger. There are channels and private messages. Plus the big thing about IRC, are the channel modes +i and +s. So if they're talking bots to monitor all channels, yeah right, they're not going to hit the right ones.
At least with VHS VCRs, you can fastfoward through the opening advertisements. With DVD players, you cannot. It's annoying, it's anti-user friendly, and there's just way too much greed overall.
Unfortunately, until something big happens, this will be the way it is.
And VHS VCRs aren't dead. Low income people will still be purchasing them for dirt cheap prices. And not all VHS material is on DVD format yet. Besides home movies, there's stuff that's been bought on VHS years back that hasn't been out on DVD yet.
I'm more or less okay with it if they simply embed the printed material so it can be traced to a specific printer.
But if they involve any more information than it came from such and such printer, that's crossing the line. Crossing the line would be embedding any personal information, computer information, etc.
Who's responsibility should it be to prevent automated spyware? Microsoft's or the computer user's? I mean, Microsoft could do more to prevent stuff being installed so easily by accident.
Microsoft "updates" to fix "problems" shouldn't mess up someone's computer. Microsoft should fix it so third party software cannot rewrite stuff in such a way that upgrades aren't feasible.
I'm not going to go into detail of all the problems I have with my computer, as it would prove pointless anyways.
I just wanted to make this comment. One of the SP2 versions trashed my computer so bad when I ran it. And I'm still suffering from the effects. Such effects include freezing on websites for minutes at a time. Installing it also took my computer like 10 minutes to boot if I remember correctly.
If you can get an anti-virus program, do it. It's better than nothing.
I hate third party ads. www.tvtome.com serves one malicious ad, unless they took care of it already. If I remember correctly, the "ad" kept asking me to do something, in which I had to end up killing the IE6 process to stop it. But I run an ad blocking program most of the time. I really hope websites switch to text ads, like Google does.
The problem with energy saving lights, fluorescent I think. Those spiral shape ones.
In my opinion, they tend to burn out faster than the regular ones. Or maybe they are easier to burn out, if where they're located is often used, i.e. people coming and going, people flipping the switch off and on all the time.
You cannot use dimmer switches with fluorescent ones I think, without risk of damaging them. Or maybe I'm thinking of those three-way light sockets.
I liked using a regular 25 watt or so light for the hallway. That burned out, and now I'm using an energy saving one, that is bright as a 60 watt I think, but uses like 12 watts of power. Although I'm saving energy, I do now have the problem of too much light shining.
I run a light 24/7 because the hallway is dark, and there's only one light switch in the hallway. I have multiple solutions, I just need the money. And energy is pretty cheap per kilowatt too, I think less than a cent per kilowatt hour.
1. Installing a switch at the other end, so flipping the switch toggles the light on/off. Hassle if I'm carrying something, but would save energy.
2. Find a motion detector, if they work with the energy saving light bulb I use now. The heat that's put off from regular bulbs is a bit dangerous I think. And energy saving light bulbs don't necessary like being flipped on/off, and I found this out after they tend to die quicker than normal ones.
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Kind of like how they separate first class from the rest?
Divide up the seats into a cell phone and non-cell phone section. Kind of like a non-smoking and smoking section they have in restaurants.
I'm a collector. I like collecting. I can only imagine what I'd collect if I had a terabyte of storage. It's not really a matter of whether I'd use it or not, but having it just in case.
Doing away with a lot of the precincts, replacing them with voting centers. Won't this create a problem for those who may wind up having to travel further?
Anyone ever bother reading their privacy policy? I don't feel safe after reading various bits.
You're saying I'm creating arbitrary meanings for phrases.
q dr=all&q=%22margin+of+error%22+votes should explain a lot more
If you need the definition for "margin" of error, these might help
A measure, quantity, or degree of difference: a margin of 500 votes.
5 : measure or degree of difference
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&as_
I remember finding stuff on the web stating that politicians tend to have a higher I.Q. than average. Some say politicians are just great liars, no offense (especially to good politicians). It kind of makes you wonder.
I'm not here to trade insults. If you need the definition of "margin" go find a dictionary.
If they join the IRC network like anyone else, and join the channel like anyone else, no problem there.
You said it wasn't margin of error. I said it was. I gave you a definition of "margin". I'm not here for sarcasm.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=margin
A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable: the margin of reality; has crossed the margin of civilized behavior.
An amount allowed beyond what is needed: a small margin of safety. See Synonyms at room.
A measure, quantity, or degree of difference: a margin of 500 votes.
The "margin" of error could be said to be this...
Provisional ballots that weren't originally counted
Ballots that were spit out and set aside
Diebold optical machines wrongly counting the bubbled in sheet
I think I'll be satisfied with whomever wins as long as the hand recount is done properly. One more time is all we should really need.
I said hand recount. 0.0015% is a very small difference, well within the margin of error.
There's going to be a hand recount if I'm not mistaken. 42 votes is within a margin of error especially with the anomalies with provisional ballots or whatever.
Does anyone think the plurality system is partly responsible for such a close race?
I think the method of tapping is one of the main questions.
That would be a huge invasion of privacy.
IRC is special when compared to Instant Messenging. IM tends to be a one on one thing, something that requires third parties to be invited to.
IRC tends to be much bigger. There are channels and private messages. Plus the big thing about IRC, are the channel modes +i and +s. So if they're talking bots to monitor all channels, yeah right, they're not going to hit the right ones.
At least with VHS VCRs, you can fastfoward through the opening advertisements. With DVD players, you cannot. It's annoying, it's anti-user friendly, and there's just way too much greed overall.
Unfortunately, until something big happens, this will be the way it is.
And VHS VCRs aren't dead. Low income people will still be purchasing them for dirt cheap prices. And not all VHS material is on DVD format yet. Besides home movies, there's stuff that's been bought on VHS years back that hasn't been out on DVD yet.
I'm more or less okay with it if they simply embed the printed material so it can be traced to a specific printer.
But if they involve any more information than it came from such and such printer, that's crossing the line. Crossing the line would be embedding any personal information, computer information, etc.
Who's responsibility should it be to prevent automated spyware? Microsoft's or the computer user's? I mean, Microsoft could do more to prevent stuff being installed so easily by accident.
Microsoft "updates" to fix "problems" shouldn't mess up someone's computer. Microsoft should fix it so third party software cannot rewrite stuff in such a way that upgrades aren't feasible.
I'm not going to go into detail of all the problems I have with my computer, as it would prove pointless anyways.
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I just wanted to make this comment. One of the SP2 versions trashed my computer so bad when I ran it. And I'm still suffering from the effects. Such effects include freezing on websites for minutes at a time. Installing it also took my computer like 10 minutes to boot if I remember correctly.
If you can get an anti-virus program, do it. It's better than nothing.
I hate third party ads. www.tvtome.com serves one malicious ad, unless they took care of it already. If I remember correctly, the "ad" kept asking me to do something, in which I had to end up killing the IE6 process to stop it. But I run an ad blocking program most of the time. I really hope websites switch to text ads, like Google does.
The problem with energy saving lights, fluorescent I think. Those spiral shape ones.
In my opinion, they tend to burn out faster than the regular ones. Or maybe they are easier to burn out, if where they're located is often used, i.e. people coming and going, people flipping the switch off and on all the time.
You cannot use dimmer switches with fluorescent ones I think, without risk of damaging them. Or maybe I'm thinking of those three-way light sockets.
I liked using a regular 25 watt or so light for the hallway. That burned out, and now I'm using an energy saving one, that is bright as a 60 watt I think, but uses like 12 watts of power. Although I'm saving energy, I do now have the problem of too much light shining.
Oops, I was way off. I think I looked at the rebate stuff before. Yeah, I think it's more close to your price than my price.
I think it also depends on the time of year and environmental factors affecting the power output concerning the resale of electricity.
I run a light 24/7 because the hallway is dark, and there's only one light switch in the hallway. I have multiple solutions, I just need the money. And energy is pretty cheap per kilowatt too, I think less than a cent per kilowatt hour.
1. Installing a switch at the other end, so flipping the switch toggles the light on/off. Hassle if I'm carrying something, but would save energy.
2. Find a motion detector, if they work with the energy saving light bulb I use now. The heat that's put off from regular bulbs is a bit dangerous I think. And energy saving light bulbs don't necessary like being flipped on/off, and I found this out after they tend to die quicker than normal ones.