I'm pretty sure voter turnout -- absentee -- is very high in local nursing homes.
I wonder if the voters know how they voted. Or that they "voted".
In St. Louis City (not part of St. Louis County) election anomalies got an election's result voided and, IIRC, criminal charges filed. The guy who nearly got screwed over by those "anomalies" got elected to the state legislature. Oopsie!
Which reminds me, I've been meaning to compare the absentee vote in St. Louis County with the "presentee" vote. I suspect they'll not match very closely, for some unexplained reason.
If for some inexplicable reason you want to try to beat me to it, here are the links to the absentee numbers and the final unofficial numbers.
it's not so good at dealing with different file types. Improving that would be nice.
When I create an RTF document in Write/Wordpad and want to check for spelling errors in Libre office,it screws up the bullet lists.
Bullet lists.
This isn't a huge Word document which automatically generates a table of contents and an index, or a doc made by an obsolete program from the '80s. It's a two-pager made in a well-established standard-ish format, with nothing fancier in it than indenting, centering, bullet lists and maybe some bold text.
Is is foolish to use RTF in this day and age? Should an unwise format choice on the user's part excuse such failure? Am I an ungrateful whiner, considering the price of Libre Office? Calc works pretty well, after all.
Close. Citi agreed to buy only the cash and easily converted to cash parts of wachovia. That left the government holding all the crappy baggage. The government asked WF to take the whole mess and WF agreed.
"Asked". "Agreed".
Maybe they were eager to do this, and maybe they were made an offer they couldn't refuse. I rather doubt there was time enough to do anything resembling the due diligence needed when buying such a dumpster fire.
When regulators fail, the answer is always more regulation.
That makes as much sense as taxing imports, and then subsidizing an industry that exports because it was hurt by the obvious inevitable effects of the import taxes.
After the first few times you see or read or hear a news story which you know is crap because you were there or the story is on a topic you know well or whatever, you realize you shouldn't believe 100% anything from the news unless you get it corroborated.
And if your corroboration comes from a news outlet that gets its feed from the same one you're trying to corroborate, it's the same as no corroboration at all.
I misinterpreted the headline "Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign" as Facebook has been identified has having been carrying out a political influence campaign.
They wouldn't do such a thing, now would they?
No more than Twitter would.
OK, that may not have been the best way to put it.
The light rail system that operates in St. Louis County, St. Louis City, and Madison County, Illinois has had some serious crime problems, because of a pissing contest between the agency that operates it and St. Louis County government.
Definitely time for a new County Prosecutor.
Some prosecutors view the job as a stepping-stone to higher office, and this is usually seen as a bad thing. Maybe not so much this time. McCulloch has been St. Louis County Prosecutor for years. He was in office before Michael Brown was born.
Political parties are groups of people. Individual people change over time, which can affect what the group is like in the short term.
And which people belong to the group changes over time, as people become less involved or die, and new people join.
Nobody with a lick of sense and even a slight knowledge of history would say that the Democratic Party of Stephen Douglas is the same as the Democratic Party of Harry Truman is the same as the Democratic Party of Barack Obama, or that the Republican Party of John C. Fremont is the same as the Republican Party of Ulysses S. Grant is the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan is the Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Pay the pilots more and the shortage will go away.
Yep. And/or make the job more appealing other ways: fewer hours, longer intervals between flights, whatever.
That's the compensation side. There's also helping prospective employees meet the flight hours requirement, so they can become actual employees.
Passenger airlines could perhaps make some kind of a deal with air cargo shippers, so pilots could get experience hours on cargo planes (which I assume have less rigorous experience requirements for their pilots).
Or they could foot the bill for some of the prospective employee's training costs, with the pilot not paying it back if they work for the airline for x number of years.
Each airline wants pilots, and as does the airline industry as a whole. If they don't do something to get them, they won't be airlines any more, just owners of idle used airplanes. "Ain't nobody want that!"
(Yes, I did not RTFA. These possibilities may have already been covered.)
Looks like St. Louis was done for just the City of St. Louis. The riverfront and downtown are NS-EW, but there are neighborhoods that are maybe 15 or 30 degrees off that.
And the suburbs -- especially towns that were settled not long after the founding of St. Louis -- have their own layouts.
A pattern that goes back centuries. Every new communication technology, it seems, is used for some sort of sexual purpose.
How many years was it from the first Gutenberg Bible to the first erotic prints? We'll never know, but I bet it was less than 10.
Somebody even wrote a book about it. That, and other uses new technologies always seem to get put to.
Title something like _Drugs, Sex, and Rock And Roll" with a subtitle like "How New Technologies Advance". (I either need to memorize that title or put a link to the book in my favorites. I need the name every few years. Usually on Slashdot.)
Slashdot Mirror
Yet, she is still brighter than 80% of House Republicans.
Setting the bar pretty low there, aren't you?
Yes, I liked it too.
I'm pretty sure voter turnout -- absentee -- is very high in local nursing homes.
I wonder if the voters know how they voted. Or that they "voted".
In St. Louis City (not part of St. Louis County) election anomalies got an election's result voided and, IIRC, criminal charges filed. The guy who nearly got screwed over by those "anomalies" got elected to the state legislature. Oopsie!
Which reminds me, I've been meaning to compare the absentee vote in St. Louis County with the "presentee" vote. I suspect they'll not match very closely, for some unexplained reason.
If for some inexplicable reason you want to try to beat me to it, here are the links to the absentee numbers and the final unofficial numbers.
http://electionresults.stlouisco.com/el180807/EL45_ABS.HTM
http://electionresults.stlouisco.com/el180807/EL45_4.HTM
https://xkcd.com/2030/
Of course, they'd do a fine job of enforcing "Net Neutrality". They wouldn't lie to us about that.
it's not so good at dealing with different file types. Improving that would be nice.
When I create an RTF document in Write/Wordpad and want to check for spelling errors in Libre office,it screws up the bullet lists.
Bullet lists.
This isn't a huge Word document which automatically generates a table of contents and an index, or a doc made by an obsolete program from the '80s. It's a two-pager made in a well-established standard-ish format, with nothing fancier in it than indenting, centering, bullet lists and maybe some bold text.
Is is foolish to use RTF in this day and age? Should an unwise format choice on the user's part excuse such failure? Am I an ungrateful whiner, considering the price of Libre Office? Calc works pretty well, after all.
OK, a "Yes" on the last one.
Close. Citi agreed to buy only the cash and easily converted to cash parts of wachovia. That left the government holding all the crappy baggage. The government asked WF to take the whole mess and WF agreed.
"Asked". "Agreed".
Maybe they were eager to do this, and maybe they were made an offer they couldn't refuse. I rather doubt there was time enough to do anything resembling the due diligence needed when buying such a dumpster fire.
When regulators fail, the answer is always more regulation.
That makes as much sense as taxing imports, and then subsidizing an industry that exports because it was hurt by the obvious inevitable effects of the import taxes.
Nobody would be silly enough to do that.
For certain types of investors, those with a particular category of investment strategy. When they have enough cash.
When they don't have enough cash, they buy lottery tickets instead.
To be completely effective, this law will have to ban brown-bagging.
Will people smuggle lunchesh? Will the city respond by inspecting backpacks and attache cases?
After the first few times you see or read or hear a news story which you know is crap because you were there or the story is on a topic you know well or whatever, you realize you shouldn't believe 100% anything from the news unless you get it corroborated.
And if your corroboration comes from a news outlet that gets its feed from the same one you're trying to corroborate, it's the same as no corroboration at all.
Seems more like a public works project than a serious attempt to go Green....
Which means it's time once again for the apocryphal/semi-apocryphal Milton Friedman anecdote.
A government official in some Asian country is showing Friedman excavation at a public-works project.
Friedman: Why are they using shovels, instead of bulldozers and other earth-moving equipment?
Official: This is also a jobs program.
Friedman. Oh. Why are they using shovels, instead of teaspoons?
Silly me.
I misinterpreted the headline "Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign" as Facebook has been identified has having been carrying out a political influence campaign.
They wouldn't do such a thing, now would they?
No more than Twitter would.
OK, that may not have been the best way to put it.
Or the transit system becomes more dangerous.
The light rail system that operates in St. Louis County, St. Louis City, and Madison County, Illinois has had some serious crime problems, because of a pissing contest between the agency that operates it and St. Louis County government.
Definitely time for a new County Prosecutor.
Some prosecutors view the job as a stepping-stone to higher office, and this is usually seen as a bad thing. Maybe not so much this time. McCulloch has been St. Louis County Prosecutor for years. He was in office before Michael Brown was born.
Hmm. One of the qualifications for serving in the U.S. House of Representatives is attaining the age of 25.
Coincidence? Or the informal discovery of something later confirmed by formal scientific investigation?
Good thing the opaque envelope was invented before the FBI was created, or they'd be furiously working to get it banned, too.
Can't have criminals and terrorists and -- Think of the children! -- child pornographers and such communicating undetected.
Whataboutism.
I'm so glad we have a word for it.
Political parties are groups of people. Individual people change over time, which can affect what the group is like in the short term.
And which people belong to the group changes over time, as people become less involved or die, and new people join.
Nobody with a lick of sense and even a slight knowledge of history would say that the Democratic Party of Stephen Douglas is the same as the Democratic Party of Harry Truman is the same as the Democratic Party of Barack Obama, or that the Republican Party of John C. Fremont is the same as the Republican Party of Ulysses S. Grant is the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan is the Republican Party of Donald Trump.
Pay the pilots more and the shortage will go away.
Yep. And/or make the job more appealing other ways: fewer hours, longer intervals between flights, whatever.
That's the compensation side. There's also helping prospective employees meet the flight hours requirement, so they can become actual employees.
Passenger airlines could perhaps make some kind of a deal with air cargo shippers, so pilots could get experience hours on cargo planes (which I assume have less rigorous experience requirements for their pilots).
Or they could foot the bill for some of the prospective employee's training costs, with the pilot not paying it back if they work for the airline for x number of years.
Each airline wants pilots, and as does the airline industry as a whole. If they don't do something to get them, they won't be airlines any more, just owners of idle used airplanes. "Ain't nobody want that!"
(Yes, I did not RTFA. These possibilities may have already been covered.)
Sure, FB removed part of the Declaration of Independence. But it put it back later.
But they'd never do that with news, deliberately or accidentally or algorithmically. Right?
Windpower is free! It shouldn't cost anything to decommission those turbines!
And they've been doing so well lately. Every day sets a new record: most days a united Germany hasn't invaded France.
Let's not do anything that will break that streak.
Now, if I only knew how to do that ...
Looks like St. Louis was done for just the City of St. Louis. The riverfront and downtown are NS-EW, but there are neighborhoods that are maybe 15 or 30 degrees off that.
And the suburbs -- especially towns that were settled not long after the founding of St. Louis -- have their own layouts.
A pattern that goes back centuries. Every new communication technology, it seems, is used for some sort of sexual purpose.
How many years was it from the first Gutenberg Bible to the first erotic prints? We'll never know, but I bet it was less than 10.
Somebody even wrote a book about it. That, and other uses new technologies always seem to get put to.
Title something like _Drugs, Sex, and Rock And Roll" with a subtitle like "How New Technologies Advance". (I either need to memorize that title or put a link to the book in my favorites. I need the name every few years. Usually on Slashdot.)
A politician tells lies to spread fear to gain or hold power. Golly! When has that ever happened before?
Sarcasm, right?