sorry, I was there at the recount in WA state. Electronic voting is no more accurate, and without an audit trail, is even less reliable, than optical scanned ballots.
Because absentee voters get a paper ballot that is not only delivered by a trusted source - the US Post Office - who have a verified date/time stamp - and that the ballots can be audited, traced, and verified - now THAT is a reason to register permanent absentee.
After all, if we were to believe that Diebold intended to permit certain people to steal our votes, their CEO would have given $100,000 to a specific Presidential candidate and promised "to deliver the votes nationwide" to him.
Oh.
Wait.
They did.
Ok, it's starting to concern me - originally, I could tune out the conspiracy theorists, but now they're starting to sound sane, and that worries me.
Seriously, next thing you know, you'll be telling me that information just wants to be expensive and that spam is good for me.
But I'd trust Microsoft offering free hardware and software about as much as I'd trust someone "accidentally" phoning me and leaving me a message about this insider stock tip she just "happened" to pass on...
When you go to the main Nintendo Wii site (not sure, think is something like wii.nintendo.com but could be wrong), you end up seeing more than 100 other games, for many different genres.
Sure, Red Steel swordplay and Mario Galaxy are two games I'll probably buy, but it was the other games on that list that were the coolest thing since laser-sliced bread.
1. Live below your means - use the free bus pass you got with your tuition and don't get a car - or if you do, get a Vespa or something with 100 mpg or better. Realize that happy hour is when beer is cheap, but leave before it gets expensive. Realize that, if you have a girlfriend, there are tons of cheap things you can do that are fun - parks, garage sales, whatever.
2. Never invest in stocks - use that for money you don't need for five or more years. Bonds are for 3-5 years. T-bills (Canadian treasuries are even better and just as safe) are for 1-3 years. Money market is for money you always have say $1000 in an account - and gets a good rate of return.
3. Credit unions cost the least for loans, and credit cards, and give the highest rate of return on savings and checking. Use one - chances are you qualify for at least three nearby. Ask the financial aid office - they know about this stuff.
Oh, and bonus answer - never keep more than $20 in your wallet (get it in $5 bills, you'll spend it slower). Use the extra space for condoms.
Heart attacks and strokes - very large number. Easily gullible people who have heart attack or stroke brought on by unwarranted fear and stress from terror alerts - based on what I've read in medical journals, probably fairly high.
Number dead from terrorist attacks in North America - um, I'm sorry, can't think of many, other than NYC.
More people probably died from heat stroke from global warming in North America this year than from terrorist attacks as well.
Now, you can go live in fear. Me, since I've actually been on counter-terrorism ops and know exactly what the relevant risks are, I'm much more concerned about crossing the street, thanks much.
To expand on that a little, mitochondria in animals seem very likely to be bacteria that have been engulfed and now form a symbiotic relationship with the cell, since mitochondria have their own DNA (and a slightly different code for converting DNA -> RNA -> protein) and reproduce themselves independently of the cell's nuclear DNA (hence the discussion of 'maternal DNA' since you only get maternal mitochondria.)
Not only that, but they function as little power cells, and when they stop working well, you get things like Parkinsons that impact the cells which use more energy the most (e.g. brain cells and muscle cells).
no, I'm using the rule of thumb in determining the spin of electrons and current, based on the rule where you grasp the wire (coated) with your fingers, your thumb pointing in the direction of the flow (pos to neg) and the fingers show how the magnetic pulse flows.
Still, my original premise is used by many scientists - we don't ignore initial studies, but we usually demand at least two additional independent studies before we take something seriously. Many papers can propose things that on further study, have more to do with the methodology used or the collection techniques than the actual observation of an effect.
Try to remember that fusion has always been said to be 10-20 years in the future, since the 1950s, for commercial use, and that cold fusion... well... let's just say investing in it would have hurt more than Enron.
I beg to disagree, based on research I conducted back in the late 70s and early 80s, and my personal experience in hydroelectric dam construction, irrigation, and operations, including power transmission.
Hydroelectric power generation is renewable, however, all forms of power generation involve side impacts, such as siltation (the buildup of silt behind dams, which must either be removed (used for topsoil replacement, especially in alpine soils) or further dams built (a method used in a number of countries to build flat farmland areas), salination impacts due to irrigation (which can be reduced by drip irrigation and time-sensistive irrigation (don't irrigate when it's hot and sunny)), etc.
Hydroelectric energy is generated by turbines which are moved by the water cycle - which is primarily powered by snow/ice that melts, flows into rivers, powers the turbines, goes to the ocean, and in all forms of usage is evaporated (unless split for fuel cell energy storage or chemical usage) to return to the cycle - a less reliable method involves the lack of snows, but this requires large cachement basins and is less efficient.
Every form of energy creation involves inefficiencies and transmission reductions. Batteries involve the use of specific metals and other destructive methods, which involve smelting (something I've done on a large scale at Tek Cominco) as well as alloys (ditto).
Now, there are fish impacts, but from an energy perspective, that is a side effect, not part of the actual energy creation process. Coal involves a number of destructive and humanly dangerous methods in its usage as well (which I can attest to, due to experience in mining and ownership of Peabody Coal IPO shares).
Next time, let's not pretend that up is down. Heck, the solar radiation that drives this entire process comes from a finite source, the sun, which will expand and absorb the Earth way before it runs out of energy, but our seas will boil over before that day.
I for one live in the Pacific Northwest, where more than 90 percent of our energy supply comes from renewable hydroelectric energy, and we also have massive wind farms too.
I used to live in British Columbia, Canada, where - again - we used hydroelectric power.
Some people live in the EU, where by 2012 more than 20 percent of all energy will come from renewable sources like wind power, biomass, solar, and so on. France, for one, gets most of its power from nuclear fission, which while having horrendous waste byproducts, is supposedly less polluting. Some places like Scotland and Norway use tidal power.
Most of these don't add carbon to the atmosphere and in fact help calm down the overabundance of energy stored in our oceans that is one of the side effects of global warming (technically global massive temperature oscillation, as it can get really cold really fast just as much as really hot really fast, both locally and globally, when you start messing with the global weather patterns).
So, just because when you drive an electric car it means you burnt coal, doesn't mean when I drive an electric car it burnt coal. In my case, it runs on snow turned into river water.
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sorry, I disagree as to your perspective about the recounts, just as the Libertarians who were there disagree with your perspective.
At least we HAD paper ballots to recount.
sorry, I was there at the recount in WA state. Electronic voting is no more accurate, and without an audit trail, is even less reliable, than optical scanned ballots.
Because absentee voters get a paper ballot that is not only delivered by a trusted source - the US Post Office - who have a verified date/time stamp - and that the ballots can be audited, traced, and verified - now THAT is a reason to register permanent absentee.
Today.
Doesn't mean they will.
After all, if we were to believe that Diebold intended to permit certain people to steal our votes, their CEO would have given $100,000 to a specific Presidential candidate and promised "to deliver the votes nationwide" to him.
Oh.
Wait.
They did.
Ok, it's starting to concern me - originally, I could tune out the conspiracy theorists, but now they're starting to sound sane, and that worries me.
World of Wiicraft: You get to play as a Plumber, a Sword Elf, a Giant Mushroom, or ... um sorry lost track after the mushroom ... think it's magic.
And then charge Microsoft money.
...
Seriously, next thing you know, you'll be telling me that information just wants to be expensive and that spam is good for me.
But I'd trust Microsoft offering free hardware and software about as much as I'd trust someone "accidentally" phoning me and leaving me a message about this insider stock tip she just "happened" to pass on
When you go to the main Nintendo Wii site (not sure, think is something like wii.nintendo.com but could be wrong), you end up seeing more than 100 other games, for many different genres.
Sure, Red Steel swordplay and Mario Galaxy are two games I'll probably buy, but it was the other games on that list that were the coolest thing since laser-sliced bread.
1. Live below your means - use the free bus pass you got with your tuition and don't get a car - or if you do, get a Vespa or something with 100 mpg or better. Realize that happy hour is when beer is cheap, but leave before it gets expensive. Realize that, if you have a girlfriend, there are tons of cheap things you can do that are fun - parks, garage sales, whatever.
2. Never invest in stocks - use that for money you don't need for five or more years. Bonds are for 3-5 years. T-bills (Canadian treasuries are even better and just as safe) are for 1-3 years. Money market is for money you always have say $1000 in an account - and gets a good rate of return.
3. Credit unions cost the least for loans, and credit cards, and give the highest rate of return on savings and checking. Use one - chances are you qualify for at least three nearby. Ask the financial aid office - they know about this stuff.
Oh, and bonus answer - never keep more than $20 in your wallet (get it in $5 bills, you'll spend it slower). Use the extra space for condoms.
Well, let's just do the numbers, shall we?
Heart attacks and strokes - very large number. Easily gullible people who have heart attack or stroke brought on by unwarranted fear and stress from terror alerts - based on what I've read in medical journals, probably fairly high.
Number dead from terrorist attacks in North America - um, I'm sorry, can't think of many, other than NYC.
More people probably died from heat stroke from global warming in North America this year than from terrorist attacks as well.
Now, you can go live in fear. Me, since I've actually been on counter-terrorism ops and know exactly what the relevant risks are, I'm much more concerned about crossing the street, thanks much.
combining a mouse and a thermometer.
or a cardio-pulmonary resusciatater and a mouse.
from other people we've stolen the identity of.
Well, you wanted realism, right?
More people die from heart attacks and strokes induced by terror alerts than die from terrorist attacks in North America.
Fact.
Yet we leave our ports wide open.
Is that it forces you to rebuy all the DVD movies you have in the Blu-Ray format.
...
If you chose HD-DVD, you could still play your DVD movies and videos.
Just think of all the money flowing into Sony's and NVidia's pockets from that!
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. oh, wait, maybe what's best for Sony and NVidia isn't what's best for the consumer
is that once you're on, it's almost impossible to get off of it.
To expand on that a little, mitochondria in animals seem very likely to be bacteria that have been engulfed and now form a symbiotic relationship with the cell, since mitochondria have their own DNA (and a slightly different code for converting DNA -> RNA -> protein) and reproduce themselves independently of the cell's nuclear DNA (hence the discussion of 'maternal DNA' since you only get maternal mitochondria.)
Not only that, but they function as little power cells, and when they stop working well, you get things like Parkinsons that impact the cells which use more energy the most (e.g. brain cells and muscle cells).
no, I'm using the rule of thumb in determining the spin of electrons and current, based on the rule where you grasp the wire (coated) with your fingers, your thumb pointing in the direction of the flow (pos to neg) and the fingers show how the magnetic pulse flows.
Still, my original premise is used by many scientists - we don't ignore initial studies, but we usually demand at least two additional independent studies before we take something seriously. Many papers can propose things that on further study, have more to do with the methodology used or the collection techniques than the actual observation of an effect.
does that help?
Note that a University of Washington researcher said, in the article you posted, "unless I see it replicated somewhere else I won't believe it".
The basic rule of thumb in science is you need to see three studies before you believe it. In general.
Must. Invest. Giant. Gobs. Of. Money.
... well ... let's just say investing in it would have hurt more than Enron.
Try to remember that fusion has always been said to be 10-20 years in the future, since the 1950s, for commercial use, and that cold fusion
What the hell is "bubble fusion"?
It's what happens when you get too thirsty and gulp your bubble tea thru the giant straw - the "bubbles" fuse and get stuck.
I usually shake it a bit and if that doesn't work, try to blow it back into the bubble tea.
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Well, the obvious solution to the problem is for Microsoft to produce even more FPS games.
After all, if noone's buying a platform known for its sports games and FPS games, then obviously they need to make more FPS games.
Oh, and more sports games too. You can never have enough lame golf games!
[caveat - I'm getting a Wii, my last game console was an xBox]
Dude, there's these things called speakers, built into the wand. They make the sounds.
When your lightsaber hits, the sound changes. And continued motion just gets translated into "push" force.
So, in practice, it's more like Episode I, with light sabers twirled to build up momentum.
androgynous figures and how to make them even more so.
Drink green tea, realize that pursuing life as a hentai creator would be more profitable.
Lunch, ponder the reality that the better the game is, the less real work humanity will actually do.
Dinner, think about how it's a shame ritual suicide is not quite as common as it used to be.
Is this (removal of siltation) a real problem though? That's actually a no-brainer and I can't figure out why you included it.
In many places it is.
Some areas that rely to heavily on the specific dam find it hard to bypass it long enough to empty it, or use barges to remove it.
In Egypt and a number of other countries it has caused political instability when they tried to deal with it.
I beg to disagree, based on research I conducted back in the late 70s and early 80s, and my personal experience in hydroelectric dam construction, irrigation, and operations, including power transmission.
Hydroelectric power generation is renewable, however, all forms of power generation involve side impacts, such as siltation (the buildup of silt behind dams, which must either be removed (used for topsoil replacement, especially in alpine soils) or further dams built (a method used in a number of countries to build flat farmland areas), salination impacts due to irrigation (which can be reduced by drip irrigation and time-sensistive irrigation (don't irrigate when it's hot and sunny)), etc.
Hydroelectric energy is generated by turbines which are moved by the water cycle - which is primarily powered by snow/ice that melts, flows into rivers, powers the turbines, goes to the ocean, and in all forms of usage is evaporated (unless split for fuel cell energy storage or chemical usage) to return to the cycle - a less reliable method involves the lack of snows, but this requires large cachement basins and is less efficient.
Every form of energy creation involves inefficiencies and transmission reductions. Batteries involve the use of specific metals and other destructive methods, which involve smelting (something I've done on a large scale at Tek Cominco) as well as alloys (ditto).
Now, there are fish impacts, but from an energy perspective, that is a side effect, not part of the actual energy creation process. Coal involves a number of destructive and humanly dangerous methods in its usage as well (which I can attest to, due to experience in mining and ownership of Peabody Coal IPO shares).
Next time, let's not pretend that up is down. Heck, the solar radiation that drives this entire process comes from a finite source, the sun, which will expand and absorb the Earth way before it runs out of energy, but our seas will boil over before that day.
I for one live in the Pacific Northwest, where more than 90 percent of our energy supply comes from renewable hydroelectric energy, and we also have massive wind farms too.
I used to live in British Columbia, Canada, where - again - we used hydroelectric power.
Some people live in the EU, where by 2012 more than 20 percent of all energy will come from renewable sources like wind power, biomass, solar, and so on. France, for one, gets most of its power from nuclear fission, which while having horrendous waste byproducts, is supposedly less polluting. Some places like Scotland and Norway use tidal power.
Most of these don't add carbon to the atmosphere and in fact help calm down the overabundance of energy stored in our oceans that is one of the side effects of global warming (technically global massive temperature oscillation, as it can get really cold really fast just as much as really hot really fast, both locally and globally, when you start messing with the global weather patterns).
So, just because when you drive an electric car it means you burnt coal, doesn't mean when I drive an electric car it burnt coal. In my case, it runs on snow turned into river water.