Did you manage to buy your PS3 during a time that they DIDN'T offer 5 free Blu-Ray movies buy sending in a form? I don't think I've ever seen that deal NOT in place.
Does that channel broadcast its analog and digital signals from the same tower? If not, then maybe the digital tower just fell down and the analog one didn't. Or if they are on the same tower then maybe the lines carrying the digital signal to the tower were damaged and the analog ones weren't. There are many possibilities other than just degradation of the signal that could have come into play during a storm as powerful as Hurricane Katrina.
Truthfully, the constitution doesn't seem to say anything about HOW the electors are chosen. Just that they must be chosen. A state could decide to draw names from a hat and that wouldn't be breaking any federal laws. The idea of taking any voting power away from 'the people' and giving it to the State governments would go over about as well as a return to slavery in Atlanta, GA. I can't say that I completely disagree with you given the current voter apathy that many people seem to have but I probably would vote against it given the chance because I know that I am an informed voter.
I must admit, I didn't think about that particular reason for the electoral college to exist. However, I do agree with you in wondering why we haven't seen the House of Representatives permanently increase in size since 1911. We have about 400 million people in this country that's approximately 1 representative per 919,540 people. Even though HR 1905 which was passed by the House, would give DC a voting representative (finally) and give Utah another representative bringing the total to 437, that wouldn't be much better. However, one representative per 100,000 people would be about 4000 Representatives at a salary of $165,800 apiece...$660,800,000 per year. Maybe there's a middle-ground somewhere. I'd consider it to be something to think about at least.
All of my data about the US House is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_House_of_Representatives and I verified the info about HR 1905 at the Library of Congress' website http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR1905:
When the last presidential election was decided 50.7% (Bush) to 48.3% (Kerry) and the one before that was 47.87% (Bush) to 48.38% (Gore), you have about half (or more) of the population that doesn't want the person who's in the White House to be there. If that's not a recipe for a victim mentality I don't know what is. Truthfully, I just see it as being a reason to get rid of the electoral college. It was necessary before technology allowed us to quickly tabulate votes from each state but I just don't see the need for it in the 21st century.
My 2004 election percentage information was taken from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922901.html and the 2000 information is from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html.
I'm not sure if this is a federal statute or just Arizona state law but Illegal immigrants in the county containing Phoenix have been given 6 month jail sentences for being in the US illegally in recent months. None have completed their sentences yet however, I must guess that they'll be deported after the completion of their sentences.
In addition to those reasons, IIRC UAV's such as the Predator are unmanned but only in that they don't have a pilot/crew aboard. They are remote controlled. Personally I'd rather have a human ALWAYS in the loop between 'target acquired' and 'bombs away'/'fire missile'. That's the best way to avoid death by computer error.
I use GPG to encrypt any e-mail that I don't want read by anyone other than the recipient. I don't know what the problem is. I don't blame the mailbox provider for shortcomings with encryption. That's up to us end-users, in my opinion.
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Of my 4 accounts (Personal, Professional, Spam Catcher , and Experimental) Only my newest one has IMAP access...that's quite odd ^_^
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That probably just refreshed your pages to bring up the IMAP option. Switching from English(US) to English(UK), saving the changes, and changing back, did absolutely nothing for me ^_^
So, all that someone how wanted to ride a motorcycle without a helmet but not donate organs would have to do is use various drugs then. Drink a lot, smoke a lot, be a paid subject for various new medicines, do whatever it takes to get your organs rejected. Then you have circumvented the law ^_^
Truthfully, I am against laws to protect people from themselves. If someone is operating a motorcycle without a helmet and is involved in an accident, the other driver's insurance, assuming the other driver was at fault of course, should have a capped payout based on an approximation of how much of the injury would have been avoided with proper helmet use. I believe that it should be the same way with seatbelt usage. That way, someone else not wearing a helmet or seatbelt doesn't become MY problem and if I choose to do dangerous things I don't have to worry about causing others undue financial harm.
When you book your ticket they'd ask you which kind of seating you want, with or without cellphone conversations allowed. Except on Southwest Airlines. They have first come first served seating ^_^
Interesting that you mention that here. There is a Firefox extension called FireGPG mentioned here on slashdot once before. It allows you to sign and/or encrypt e-mails using the Gmail web interface. If you want both the convenience of a web interface and the safety of GPG encryption that's the way to go ^_^
You must remember, in the USA only the federal government is a complete representative democracy. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but at the federal lever the people only elect their Representative, Senator, and the President. Truthfully, in the Constitution as originally written, the Senators were chosen by the state legislatures not by the electorate. All of the various voter referendums are at the State or local levels. Our federal government has never, in my knowledge, put a referendum on the ballot.
The meter is defined as the distance light (in a vacuum) travels in 1/299,792,458th of one second because light travels 299,792,458 meters per second as classically defined so they just reversed it and made it the standard. Just like the second is defined as "...the duration of exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of 0 K." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit/
In fact the Kilogram is the only SI base unit still defined by a physical object.
I believe that the DMCA put an end to that. IIRC, IANAL, the DMCA provision making it illegal to bypass encryption measures makes it quite illegal to decrypt a DVD even for personal use. It's quite unfortunate that my rights to use something that I bought in the (non-commercial) way of my choosing have been limited so much. It's actually kind of infuriating now that I think about it....
Some banks, CitiBank comes to mind here, already do this on their credit cards. Every CitiBank card has the cardholders picture on it. It's simple but it's a nice extra line of defense, when the cashier bothers to look at the card. I've seen people easily use the cards of others in the past. They were authorized to use them but, seeing a woman named Shiela use a Credit Card belonging to a man named Mario (non-married different last names) when the Credit Card says Check ID on the back without even a second glance by the cashier makes me what to pay for that fraud insurance after all....
Don't forget, a select few DVD's actually don't let you skip the previews either. It's only happened to me once though, and that one time was a few years back. Maybe none of the studios do that anymore (I hope).
I actually like this idea. I get *some* exercise but not nearly as much as I should (BMI of 25.8). However, if I could be working on my computer while letting my body exercise by itself, I'd be eternally grateful.
Interesting, I get a chance to use a bit of my random legal knowledge ^_^
It has already been stated that the second amendment of the US Constitution reads: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Now look at US Code TITLE 10 - Subtitle A - PART I - CHAPTER 13 - 311 which reads in part:
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
So, is a militia created by Federal law considered well-regulated? I'd think so. Note I'm not what one would consider a gun-nut but I do, when I get bored or something, wander through some of the deeper sections of the US Code to see what I can get away with if something were to happen ^_^
Truthfully that counts as a spoiler too. It shows who doesn't die ^_^ And as far as those pictures go I'm at the beginning of chapter eighteen now and it's ok page 30 really sucks and I had to find a pdf transcription of Chapters 1-10 for that but all is well. I'm still buying the book (after all, I have the other six on my bookshelf) and I'll have fun debating at borders Friday night on if reading it on the computer from jpg's or reading it from the book the first time is better per say. I say that since I eat when I read a book at least I won't get barbecue sauce on this one like book six >_
I've had that problem before.... Most likely ntkrnl.dll or hal.dll is corrupted in the System32 directory. This has happened to two of my Windows XP builds and one of my friends XP builds. No idea why it happens but try replacing both of those dll's with the copies from your install disk and you should be fine ^_^
When were you involved in FIRST? With the exception of this years competition (autonomous mode wasn't really strategically necessary this year) the autonomous modes for 2005 and 2006 seemed to be quite interesting really. Also, while custom circuits cannot directly communicate with the mechanical parts, if a team has a good programmer (I've seen some teams do this) you can make the motors act as though they are directly connected to the custom devices. In addition, the provided function is just so that teams who don't have the experience to fully program the robot can compete too. I've even seen people rewrite the entire code. Lastly, while there are teams that have their robots designed and built completely by their engineers, this in NOT what FIRST recommends. FIRST recommends that the engineers and mentors allow the students to design the robot and the mentors be more of a 'reality check' and to offer assistance when necessary (for example teaching/helping students to use dangerous machinery). Now I've gone and started to rant...sorry about that. I guess we can tell that I help out with a FIRST robotics team can't we ^_^
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Did you manage to buy your PS3 during a time that they DIDN'T offer 5 free Blu-Ray movies buy sending in a form? I don't think I've ever seen that deal NOT in place.
Does that channel broadcast its analog and digital signals from the same tower? If not, then maybe the digital tower just fell down and the analog one didn't. Or if they are on the same tower then maybe the lines carrying the digital signal to the tower were damaged and the analog ones weren't. There are many possibilities other than just degradation of the signal that could have come into play during a storm as powerful as Hurricane Katrina.
Truthfully, the constitution doesn't seem to say anything about HOW the electors are chosen. Just that they must be chosen. A state could decide to draw names from a hat and that wouldn't be breaking any federal laws. The idea of taking any voting power away from 'the people' and giving it to the State governments would go over about as well as a return to slavery in Atlanta, GA. I can't say that I completely disagree with you given the current voter apathy that many people seem to have but I probably would vote against it given the chance because I know that I am an informed voter.
I must admit, I didn't think about that particular reason for the electoral college to exist. However, I do agree with you in wondering why we haven't seen the House of Representatives permanently increase in size since 1911. We have about 400 million people in this country that's approximately 1 representative per 919,540 people. Even though HR 1905 which was passed by the House, would give DC a voting representative (finally) and give Utah another representative bringing the total to 437, that wouldn't be much better. However, one representative per 100,000 people would be about 4000 Representatives at a salary of $165,800 apiece...$660,800,000 per year. Maybe there's a middle-ground somewhere. I'd consider it to be something to think about at least. All of my data about the US House is from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_House_of_Representatives and I verified the info about HR 1905 at the Library of Congress' website http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR1905:
When the last presidential election was decided 50.7% (Bush) to 48.3% (Kerry) and the one before that was 47.87% (Bush) to 48.38% (Gore), you have about half (or more) of the population that doesn't want the person who's in the White House to be there. If that's not a recipe for a victim mentality I don't know what is. Truthfully, I just see it as being a reason to get rid of the electoral college. It was necessary before technology allowed us to quickly tabulate votes from each state but I just don't see the need for it in the 21st century. My 2004 election percentage information was taken from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922901.html and the 2000 information is from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html.
I'm not sure if this is a federal statute or just Arizona state law but Illegal immigrants in the county containing Phoenix have been given 6 month jail sentences for being in the US illegally in recent months. None have completed their sentences yet however, I must guess that they'll be deported after the completion of their sentences.
In addition to those reasons, IIRC UAV's such as the Predator are unmanned but only in that they don't have a pilot/crew aboard. They are remote controlled. Personally I'd rather have a human ALWAYS in the loop between 'target acquired' and 'bombs away'/'fire missile'. That's the best way to avoid death by computer error.
I'd actually use this recent MT if anything in this thread "go for t3h h3dz"
I use GPG to encrypt any e-mail that I don't want read by anyone other than the recipient. I don't know what the problem is. I don't blame the mailbox provider for shortcomings with encryption. That's up to us end-users, in my opinion.
Of my 4 accounts (Personal, Professional, Spam Catcher , and Experimental) Only my newest one has IMAP access...that's quite odd ^_^
That probably just refreshed your pages to bring up the IMAP option. Switching from English(US) to English(UK), saving the changes, and changing back, did absolutely nothing for me ^_^
So, all that someone how wanted to ride a motorcycle without a helmet but not donate organs would have to do is use various drugs then. Drink a lot, smoke a lot, be a paid subject for various new medicines, do whatever it takes to get your organs rejected. Then you have circumvented the law ^_^
Truthfully, I am against laws to protect people from themselves. If someone is operating a motorcycle without a helmet and is involved in an accident, the other driver's insurance, assuming the other driver was at fault of course, should have a capped payout based on an approximation of how much of the injury would have been avoided with proper helmet use. I believe that it should be the same way with seatbelt usage. That way, someone else not wearing a helmet or seatbelt doesn't become MY problem and if I choose to do dangerous things I don't have to worry about causing others undue financial harm.
Except on Southwest Airlines. They have first come first served seating ^_^
Interesting that you mention that here. There is a Firefox extension called FireGPG mentioned here on slashdot once before. It allows you to sign and/or encrypt e-mails using the Gmail web interface. If you want both the convenience of a web interface and the safety of GPG encryption that's the way to go ^_^
Wow, that story fits quite well with the GP post. I've never actually read that Asimov work thanks for posting it ^_^
You must remember, in the USA only the federal government is a complete representative democracy. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but at the federal lever the people only elect their Representative, Senator, and the President. Truthfully, in the Constitution as originally written, the Senators were chosen by the state legislatures not by the electorate. All of the various voter referendums are at the State or local levels. Our federal government has never, in my knowledge, put a referendum on the ballot.
The meter is defined as the distance light (in a vacuum) travels in 1/299,792,458th of one second because light travels 299,792,458 meters per second as classically defined so they just reversed it and made it the standard. Just like the second is defined as "...the duration of exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of 0 K." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit/ In fact the Kilogram is the only SI base unit still defined by a physical object.
I believe that the DMCA put an end to that. IIRC, IANAL, the DMCA provision making it illegal to bypass encryption measures makes it quite illegal to decrypt a DVD even for personal use. It's quite unfortunate that my rights to use something that I bought in the (non-commercial) way of my choosing have been limited so much. It's actually kind of infuriating now that I think about it....
Some banks, CitiBank comes to mind here, already do this on their credit cards. Every CitiBank card has the cardholders picture on it. It's simple but it's a nice extra line of defense, when the cashier bothers to look at the card. I've seen people easily use the cards of others in the past. They were authorized to use them but, seeing a woman named Shiela use a Credit Card belonging to a man named Mario (non-married different last names) when the Credit Card says Check ID on the back without even a second glance by the cashier makes me what to pay for that fraud insurance after all....
Don't forget, a select few DVD's actually don't let you skip the previews either. It's only happened to me once though, and that one time was a few years back. Maybe none of the studios do that anymore (I hope).
I actually like this idea. I get *some* exercise but not nearly as much as I should (BMI of 25.8). However, if I could be working on my computer while letting my body exercise by itself, I'd be eternally grateful.
It has already been stated that the second amendment of the US Constitution reads: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Now look at US Code TITLE 10 - Subtitle A - PART I - CHAPTER 13 - 311 which reads in part:(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
So, is a militia created by Federal law considered well-regulated? I'd think so. Note I'm not what one would consider a gun-nut but I do, when I get bored or something, wander through some of the deeper sections of the US Code to see what I can get away with if something were to happen ^_^
Truthfully that counts as a spoiler too. It shows who doesn't die ^_^ And as far as those pictures go I'm at the beginning of chapter eighteen now and it's ok page 30 really sucks and I had to find a pdf transcription of Chapters 1-10 for that but all is well. I'm still buying the book (after all, I have the other six on my bookshelf) and I'll have fun debating at borders Friday night on if reading it on the computer from jpg's or reading it from the book the first time is better per say. I say that since I eat when I read a book at least I won't get barbecue sauce on this one like book six >_
I've had that problem before.... Most likely ntkrnl.dll or hal.dll is corrupted in the System32 directory. This has happened to two of my Windows XP builds and one of my friends XP builds. No idea why it happens but try replacing both of those dll's with the copies from your install disk and you should be fine ^_^
When were you involved in FIRST? With the exception of this years competition (autonomous mode wasn't really strategically necessary this year) the autonomous modes for 2005 and 2006 seemed to be quite interesting really. Also, while custom circuits cannot directly communicate with the mechanical parts, if a team has a good programmer (I've seen some teams do this) you can make the motors act as though they are directly connected to the custom devices. In addition, the provided function is just so that teams who don't have the experience to fully program the robot can compete too. I've even seen people rewrite the entire code. Lastly, while there are teams that have their robots designed and built completely by their engineers, this in NOT what FIRST recommends. FIRST recommends that the engineers and mentors allow the students to design the robot and the mentors be more of a 'reality check' and to offer assistance when necessary (for example teaching/helping students to use dangerous machinery). Now I've gone and started to rant...sorry about that. I guess we can tell that I help out with a FIRST robotics team can't we ^_^