So it's ok for the US Senate to be drawn geographically but not for the New York State Senate?
Apparently so...since the Constitution explicitly states exactly how the US Senate is selected.
WTF was that ruling for other than a urban power grab?
Well, it ended up helping out the urban centers, no doubt. However, I highly doubt Douglas, et al. were sitting around the table deciding on that merit. It was just a very poor reading of the 14th Amendment.
FWIW, I agree with both of those, subject to certain other reforms that must be passed in the same package.
That's an interesting hypothesis. I think it has to do more with the fact that in America, we're much bigger on punishment than rehabilitation. That is to say, we enjoy using the stick much more than the carrot than most other western societies.
Civil courts are for punishment. Criminal court is for rehabilitation.
You may very well be right, but I've always thought that the worst a copyright holder can do in cases of infringement is require the network operator to divulge the information required to file suit against the alleged infringer.
"Great. And what do you expect me to do about it?"
You are not liable for anything your users do on the network. If you are operating a service like youtube, you'd have a DMCA takedown request. Taking down the allegedly infringing content puts you in the clear. End of story. If you aren't, then you really don't have to comply with anything they say. The RIAA doesn't sue ISPs for damages. They sue the person doing the infringing.
A court proceeding would be limited to requiring you to divulge who owned the equipment associated with that IP address. That's about it. Neither you nor your organization have anything to worry about.
If you could theoretically "grow" a human and ensure via drugs or other methods that they were brain dead, I don't see why growing such a person would be unethical.
Rights are based on consciousness and free will. Not DNA. I suppose in a roundabout way, I'm saying if you never knew you had it, you won't miss it.
To be fair, if you decided to use NTLDR instead of GRUB and you delete your Windows partition, the system is rendered unbootable as well. So in this instance, Ubuntu is no worse (or better) than Windows.
FreeBSD does do an excellent job by making the bootloader small enough to fit in the MBR.
Point taken on the erosion of privacy, but celebrities hardly have any privacy. Many celebrities are tailed 24/7 by the paparazzi.
Imagine every time you left your house, you had people following you around, asking you questions about what some tabloid rag said about you, and taking enough pictures of you to leave you blind.
Yes, there is no expectation of privacy when in public, but we also don't expect to be accosted by a bunch of sleazeball photographers every time we head out to the market for a gallon of milk.
The extra commerce they get for each square that already produces one will undoubtedly be used to research Ecology, which will allow them to build a Solar Plant. No need to worry about pollution.
Scalia, who happens to be one of my favorite SCOTUS justices, is very reliable to uphold the originalist meaning of the Constitution. That is, unless he doesn't like the behavior that the law criminalizes.
See Gonzales v. Raich for a specific case where he throws his philosophy out the window because he doesn't like the idea of people getting high.
If I'm not mistaken there are at least 50 different bodies in the US running the national elections?
Ha! That'd be nice.
A great deal of the election is run at the county level. Ohio alone has 88 counties.
Our Secretary of State is in charge of the election and gives local boards of election orders as to how the law should be carried out. However, our Secretary of State is a partisan elected position. In 2004, our SoS was a co-chair for President Bush's re-election campaign. This time around we have a Democrat who isn't as bad as the last guy, but is still doing her best to help our her team whilst still obeying the letter of the law.
Too many people these days demand to be entertained while they get their news or political spin of the day. I see a market for this, but I don't know how large of one.
Canonical doesn't make money off of giving away Ubuntu. They make money off supporting it, just like every other major Linux vendor in the universe.
So you can either hire enough people to create an OS and support it or hire enough people to support someone else's OS, where they bear the costs of creating it.
How many server admins are using a non-LTS version of Ubuntu because the Debian release cycle is too unpredictable? You only get 18 months of support for those. Debian stable will always give you more than that.
It's my opinion that Ubuntu is not "server-grade" software. Debian stable is. However, the efficacy of Ubuntu isn't the point at hand.
He did say, however, that if they concentrated on the server edition of Ubuntu that they could be profitable in two years.
The server version, otherwise known as Debian.
Hasn't this gone full circle? The Debian release cycle is too long and uncertain so out comes Ubuntu. Ubuntu takes from unstable, fixes some bugs, adds some polish and makes a decent desktop OS. Now Ubuntu wants to concentrate on the server which is exactly what Debian stable is for? Please. Canonical would be better served by just supporting Debian.
In many states, write-in votes are not tallied unless someone has registered as a write-in candidate. The reasoning is that if "Joe Smith" wins as a write-in, the board of elections has no way to know which "Joe Smith" we intended to vote for.
In my home state of Ohio, if no write-in is declared, there is no space to write-in a candidate. Undervotes are not counted in any meaningful way, so as long as one person votes for the lone candidate in a particular race, that person wins.
If you submitted an exhaustive proof (excluding pigeonholing) for an exam in a number/proof theory class, you'd most likely receive a rather poor grade for the lack of elegance, even if technically a valid proof.
Indeed you would. I had a professor for Advanced Linear Algebra who was fond of docking points for proofs that were overly wordy albeit technically correct.
A link to a state's revised code pointing out where in the law it states that the election division can refuse to count valid votes would make a believer out of me.
there is no way--at least one that I know--to verify that your ballot was processed and counted.
I believe you are correct. If you are not physically in line of sight of your ballot at all times, you can't ever really know. However, you can be reasonably sure if you drop your vote in a ballot box and then are present for the opening and counting of the ballots.
There is an offhand way of getting a reasonable probability that your ballot was counted by voting for an obscure candidate and checking the returns for your precinct/county. I recall that I voted for an obscure write-in candidate in 2004 for US Senate. I checked the returns and noticed exactly one vote for that person in my county. I can reasonably assume that my ballot was cast as less than 300 people voted for that candidate statewide. Admittedly, this isn't a very workable solution and even then, only works with an extremely obscure candidate. I voted for Badnarik in that election as well, and IIRC, he got 7 votes in my precinct alone.
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Right now, it is essentially a way to get a small comment on the front page.
Those of us who dislike comments are, however, forced to view them.
Come on, Bruce.
Its slashdot for God's sake. If you can't laugh at someone's death here where can you?
FWIW, I didn't care one way or the other for Roland, but I'm still sorry to hear of his passing.
Apparently so...since the Constitution explicitly states exactly how the US Senate is selected.
Well, it ended up helping out the urban centers, no doubt. However, I highly doubt Douglas, et al. were sitting around the table deciding on that merit. It was just a very poor reading of the 14th Amendment.
FWIW, I agree with both of those, subject to certain other reforms that must be passed in the same package.
That's an interesting hypothesis. I think it has to do more with the fact that in America, we're much bigger on punishment than rehabilitation. That is to say, we enjoy using the stick much more than the carrot than most other western societies.
Civil courts are for punishment. Criminal court is for rehabilitation.
Point taken.
Link?
You may very well be right, but I've always thought that the worst a copyright holder can do in cases of infringement is require the network operator to divulge the information required to file suit against the alleged infringer.
"Great. And what do you expect me to do about it?"
You are not liable for anything your users do on the network. If you are operating a service like youtube, you'd have a DMCA takedown request. Taking down the allegedly infringing content puts you in the clear. End of story. If you aren't, then you really don't have to comply with anything they say. The RIAA doesn't sue ISPs for damages. They sue the person doing the infringing.
A court proceeding would be limited to requiring you to divulge who owned the equipment associated with that IP address. That's about it. Neither you nor your organization have anything to worry about.
I meant to reply to the GP (larryau).
Only if they had consciousness.
If you could theoretically "grow" a human and ensure via drugs or other methods that they were brain dead, I don't see why growing such a person would be unethical.
Rights are based on consciousness and free will. Not DNA. I suppose in a roundabout way, I'm saying if you never knew you had it, you won't miss it.
To be fair, if you decided to use NTLDR instead of GRUB and you delete your Windows partition, the system is rendered unbootable as well. So in this instance, Ubuntu is no worse (or better) than Windows.
FreeBSD does do an excellent job by making the bootloader small enough to fit in the MBR.
If this isn't a wakeup call to Congress that our patent system is entirely and completely broken, I don't know what is.
Point taken on the erosion of privacy, but celebrities hardly have any privacy. Many celebrities are tailed 24/7 by the paparazzi.
Imagine every time you left your house, you had people following you around, asking you questions about what some tabloid rag said about you, and taking enough pictures of you to leave you blind.
Yes, there is no expectation of privacy when in public, but we also don't expect to be accosted by a bunch of sleazeball photographers every time we head out to the market for a gallon of milk.
The extra commerce they get for each square that already produces one will undoubtedly be used to research Ecology, which will allow them to build a Solar Plant. No need to worry about pollution.
Scalia, who happens to be one of my favorite SCOTUS justices, is very reliable to uphold the originalist meaning of the Constitution. That is, unless he doesn't like the behavior that the law criminalizes.
See Gonzales v. Raich for a specific case where he throws his philosophy out the window because he doesn't like the idea of people getting high.
Ha! That'd be nice.
A great deal of the election is run at the county level. Ohio alone has 88 counties.
Our Secretary of State is in charge of the election and gives local boards of election orders as to how the law should be carried out. However, our Secretary of State is a partisan elected position. In 2004, our SoS was a co-chair for President Bush's re-election campaign. This time around we have a Democrat who isn't as bad as the last guy, but is still doing her best to help our her team whilst still obeying the letter of the law.
Meh.
Too many people these days demand to be entertained while they get their news or political spin of the day. I see a market for this, but I don't know how large of one.
You're serious?
Canonical doesn't make money off of giving away Ubuntu. They make money off supporting it, just like every other major Linux vendor in the universe.
So you can either hire enough people to create an OS and support it or hire enough people to support someone else's OS, where they bear the costs of creating it.
You tell me which sounds cheaper.
How many server admins are using a non-LTS version of Ubuntu because the Debian release cycle is too unpredictable? You only get 18 months of support for those. Debian stable will always give you more than that.
It's my opinion that Ubuntu is not "server-grade" software. Debian stable is. However, the efficacy of Ubuntu isn't the point at hand.
The server version, otherwise known as Debian.
Hasn't this gone full circle? The Debian release cycle is too long and uncertain so out comes Ubuntu. Ubuntu takes from unstable, fixes some bugs, adds some polish and makes a decent desktop OS. Now Ubuntu wants to concentrate on the server which is exactly what Debian stable is for? Please. Canonical would be better served by just supporting Debian.
In many states, write-in votes are not tallied unless someone has registered as a write-in candidate. The reasoning is that if "Joe Smith" wins as a write-in, the board of elections has no way to know which "Joe Smith" we intended to vote for.
In my home state of Ohio, if no write-in is declared, there is no space to write-in a candidate. Undervotes are not counted in any meaningful way, so as long as one person votes for the lone candidate in a particular race, that person wins.
Indeed you would. I had a professor for Advanced Linear Algebra who was fond of docking points for proofs that were overly wordy albeit technically correct.
Again. Link please.
A link to a state's revised code pointing out where in the law it states that the election division can refuse to count valid votes would make a believer out of me.
there is no way--at least one that I know--to verify that your ballot was processed and counted.
I believe you are correct. If you are not physically in line of sight of your ballot at all times, you can't ever really know. However, you can be reasonably sure if you drop your vote in a ballot box and then are present for the opening and counting of the ballots.
There is an offhand way of getting a reasonable probability that your ballot was counted by voting for an obscure candidate and checking the returns for your precinct/county. I recall that I voted for an obscure write-in candidate in 2004 for US Senate. I checked the returns and noticed exactly one vote for that person in my county. I can reasonably assume that my ballot was cast as less than 300 people voted for that candidate statewide. Admittedly, this isn't a very workable solution and even then, only works with an extremely obscure candidate. I voted for Badnarik in that election as well, and IIRC, he got 7 votes in my precinct alone.
Link please. And make sure it specifies that this "typically" happens.
I know they used to do this in Arizona, but not anymore. Especially now when a good deal of people are voting early/absentee.
All that aside, its not like Obama has a shot at WV or even if he did, WV would be the state that put him over the top.
If someone wanted to screw with an election via the machines, they wouldn't do it in WV.