And that isn't any different than the fools who say "God did it 6000 years ago".
Bullshit. There is a huge difference between someone who denies the evidence in front of their eyes, and someone who accepts the beliefs of their ancestors when there is no contradictory evidence. To me their beliefs are factually-incorrect fairytales, but then almost everyone believes something that cannot be proven.
So now we just need to breed smaller mice. Be careful though; while cell phones cause cancer in mice, we have no idea what mice in cell phones may cause.
While books in China have always contained Chinese characters, and Asian publishers have no problem incorporating Roman characters into their books, the opposite is true of Western publishers. This is why most works dealing with China in Western languages lack Chinese characters.
No, the reason for this difference is that University students in China are quite likely to know some English, and University students in American are practically guaranteed to know zero Chinese (unless they are first or second generation Chinese immigrants).
Likely Asia Pacific, shortened in speach usually as 'Asia-Pac'.
I hereby nominate the term 'As-Pac'. Please make sure that you give the 's' the same 'zh' pronunciation that you would if you were pronouncing the word 'Asia'.
This only works if your ID is machine readable, and one of the ones that the machine recognizes. Right now, there are at least hundreds of forms of ID that allow you to vote. Your idea would require us to limit voters to one or two forms of ID that the machine expects. The machines would also have to be as good as humans at catching fake IDs (not going to happen). Also, instead of narrowing the record of John Smith's voting down to a location and approximate time, you have narrowed it down to a specific machine and transaction. That is a serious threat to anonymity.
there has been extensive media coverage of voter machine problems
No. There has been extensive media coverage of Jon Benet Ramsey, liquid carry-on bans, Mel Gibson, internet predators, etc. Diebold has been very mildly criticized a few times on TV News programs, almost never mentioning the Diebold CEO's connections to the Republican Party.
Your token idea, which seems to remove the need for a voter to show ID at the poll, is a very bad idea. How hard do you think it would be for me to buy 800 tokens from poor voters for $10 each? Then my party faithful friends get three tokens each. At least today, if you try to buy someone's vote, they are free to take your money, walk into the polls, and vote for whomever they want. When you show up to vote, the fact that you have voted needs to be recorded.
It's common knowledge that government projects are always over budget...
That's true for large corporations as well. I worked as a contractor in the Chicago area (not for Anderson Consulting), and had one customer (pharma) tell me that they brought in Anderson for $3m/month for over 2 years, and got 'nothing' for their expense. I saw the same thing with other companies, including one of the largest building-controls companies in the world. It seems that size is the killer, and the reason that federal govt projects are so expensive and delayed is because of the size (not the nature) of the organization.
I consider the modern "pivot tables" (OOo calls them "Data Pilots") to be nothing more than a second-class immitation of Improv, and one of the most powerful features of modern spreadsheet software.
Learning how to read English is mimicry, done wrong. Speech is sound, not notation. The ear is the proper organ for speech, not the eye. All of those 'authors' writing down their words in funny notation are the death of both oratory and understanding. And much meaning is lost from, say, The Gettysburg Address, when written versus the beautifully performed original.
Ban the written word. If you don't learn your history, science, medicine, fiction, etc. orally from a teacher, then you are a lazy know-nothing.
Commerical production of any sort screws this just slightly by removing most of the plants which would have been next year's fertilizer.
That is a good point, but it is probably flip-flopped for psychoactive MJ growers, versus industrial hemp growers. Industrial hemp growers want the fibers from the stalks, which make up the majority (vast?) of the mass of the plant, and probably account for most of the nutrient use (and thus storage). MJ growers want leaves and buds, the stalks can either remain to grow more leaves, or be ploughed-under to replensish the soil (depending on whether new stalks produce more/better leaves than old denuded stalks). So since little of the mass of the plant is removed, the nutrient deficiency should be reduced (back to where 70% of the nutrients remain on-site)?
but you don't hear me spouting off the details on the web
Shout them far and wide! Maybe if 10 million Internet users point out a security flaw, our CIA, FBI, ATF or NSA will wake up and say, "Maybe we should start defending against that." September 11th could have been prevented if our Intelligence Agencies had put this item on the news once a month for 3 months before: "Intelligence sources indicate that terrorists are trying to hijack planes and fly them into American builds. In light of this development, the FAA has changed their advice to crew and passengers on how to handle a hijacking. Do not cooperate with the hijackers, assuming that we will be able to handle the situation once the plane is on the ground. If anyone attempts to hijack a flight that you are on, please kill them. Don't worry about your personal safety; if you don't kill them, they *will* kill you. Thank you and good night."
Sure, locked and reinforced cockpit doors are a good idea, but just warning the passengers would have been enough. You might notice that the new 'liquid explosives' plan calls for the detonation of the explosives, and not an attempt to hijack the planes.
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Bullshit. There is a huge difference between someone who denies the evidence in front of their eyes, and someone who accepts the beliefs of their ancestors when there is no contradictory evidence. To me their beliefs are factually-incorrect fairytales, but then almost everyone believes something that cannot be proven.
So now we just need to breed smaller mice. Be careful though; while cell phones cause cancer in mice, we have no idea what mice in cell phones may cause.
No, the reason for this difference is that University students in China are quite likely to know some English, and University students in American are practically guaranteed to know zero Chinese (unless they are first or second generation Chinese immigrants).
I hereby nominate the term 'As-Pac'. Please make sure that you give the 's' the same 'zh' pronunciation that you would if you were pronouncing the word 'Asia'.
This only works if your ID is machine readable, and one of the ones that the machine recognizes. Right now, there are at least hundreds of forms of ID that allow you to vote. Your idea would require us to limit voters to one or two forms of ID that the machine expects. The machines would also have to be as good as humans at catching fake IDs (not going to happen). Also, instead of narrowing the record of John Smith's voting down to a location and approximate time, you have narrowed it down to a specific machine and transaction. That is a serious threat to anonymity.
No. There has been extensive media coverage of Jon Benet Ramsey, liquid carry-on bans, Mel Gibson, internet predators, etc. Diebold has been very mildly criticized a few times on TV News programs, almost never mentioning the Diebold CEO's connections to the Republican Party.
Your token idea, which seems to remove the need for a voter to show ID at the poll, is a very bad idea. How hard do you think it would be for me to buy 800 tokens from poor voters for $10 each? Then my party faithful friends get three tokens each. At least today, if you try to buy someone's vote, they are free to take your money, walk into the polls, and vote for whomever they want. When you show up to vote, the fact that you have voted needs to be recorded.
The really smart kid will make a tinfoil GPS coozie.
No, too many armed crazies in Montana. Stick with Iraq or Afghanistan.
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
After all, two seconds of Michael Bolton is just about enough.
The article (ok, at least the summary) ignores the fact that we have oil-producing algae that grow in salt walter.
I hereby submit my patent and trademark applications (on /., of course) for NanoNuggets(tm).
Actually, the 'E' is the intial intial, but ESR cannot be 'an initial', they are his initials (plural).
That's true for large corporations as well. I worked as a contractor in the Chicago area (not for Anderson Consulting), and had one customer (pharma) tell me that they brought in Anderson for $3m/month for over 2 years, and got 'nothing' for their expense. I saw the same thing with other companies, including one of the largest building-controls companies in the world. It seems that size is the killer, and the reason that federal govt projects are so expensive and delayed is because of the size (not the nature) of the organization.
Well if they use a potato fork, AOL could be the most lucrative Gold Farmers in history.
I loved Lotus Improv. It was amazing in it's day.
no spreadsheets followed its "innovations"
I consider the modern "pivot tables" (OOo calls them "Data Pilots") to be nothing more than a second-class immitation of Improv, and one of the most powerful features of modern spreadsheet software.
If you can find some way to remove the lingering bits of the Spice Girls catalog from by brain, I'll pay you.
Ban the written word. If you don't learn your history, science, medicine, fiction, etc. orally from a teacher, then you are a lazy know-nothing.
That is a good point, but it is probably flip-flopped for psychoactive MJ growers, versus industrial hemp growers. Industrial hemp growers want the fibers from the stalks, which make up the majority (vast?) of the mass of the plant, and probably account for most of the nutrient use (and thus storage). MJ growers want leaves and buds, the stalks can either remain to grow more leaves, or be ploughed-under to replensish the soil (depending on whether new stalks produce more/better leaves than old denuded stalks). So since little of the mass of the plant is removed, the nutrient deficiency should be reduced (back to where 70% of the nutrients remain on-site)?
Silly gamer! It's so much easier to change the unit: "I'm getting 13 frames per hour".
Shout them far and wide! Maybe if 10 million Internet users point out a security flaw, our CIA, FBI, ATF or NSA will wake up and say, "Maybe we should start defending against that." September 11th could have been prevented if our Intelligence Agencies had put this item on the news once a month for 3 months before: "Intelligence sources indicate that terrorists are trying to hijack planes and fly them into American builds. In light of this development, the FAA has changed their advice to crew and passengers on how to handle a hijacking. Do not cooperate with the hijackers, assuming that we will be able to handle the situation once the plane is on the ground. If anyone attempts to hijack a flight that you are on, please kill them. Don't worry about your personal safety; if you don't kill them, they *will* kill you. Thank you and good night."
Sure, locked and reinforced cockpit doors are a good idea, but just warning the passengers would have been enough. You might notice that the new 'liquid explosives' plan calls for the detonation of the explosives, and not an attempt to hijack the planes.
Right now, you are paying over $30,000 per prisoner per year to keep him and his ilk in jail. What exactly are you 'getting' for your money?
We said 'legalize', not 'grant a monopoly to Atzanteol'. Competition will lower the prices.
And thus a source of large bribes for national, regional, and local officials in dozens of countries.