Reminds me of the time "Dateline NBC" got busted when they used sparklers to make sure that a truck with "Sidesattle gas tanks" caught fire when hit right in the gas tanks. They said in the show that a spark from the headlight set off the gas but faild to mention that they had sparklers there too.
Whenever an article is posted that gives a clear way to dogpile on GWB groupthink tries to take over and it turns into a Bushbashfest.
Jeez, the guy will be out of office in less than 3 years and Congress will be paralyzed for the last year or so that leads up to the next presidential election.
"The constitution gives the president the right to ignore any attempt by congress to control the actions of the military. So, what's stopping him from deploying the military to maintain *order* on US soil - to keep America "safe"? "
All it takes is a majority of the House and 2/3 of the Senate to remove the President.
Nutters can blather on all they want about how Bush had distroyed the contry and is a Dictator etc. but he still can't do anything he wants. Congress can stop him in an extream case with removal from office and in a less extream case with removal of funding or legislation.
Right now his supporters control Congress but they are quite aware that there is an election comming too.
Lets not forget the effect of the gerrymander. The House was supposed to represent the people but since House districts are drawn in such a way that 98% of the members are reelected each year the Senate is actually filling the role that the House was originally intended.
House was supposed to represent the people and the Senate was supposed to represent the State. Now the State legislature indirectly picks the house members by gerrymandering districts.
In my district I have a congressman that has served since the 80s except for 2 years when he was booted out in '94(the republican takeover year). He won it back in '96 and in the last redrawing, the legislature redrew it to make sure he didn't loose again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the capacity to go boom almost innate in any form of chemical fuel storage? Gasoline is always a spark away from exploding-- would hydrogen be any worse?
We have such a machine in Canada. It works very very well. It's called a number 2 pencil.
I live in an area of the US that uses something similar. The ballot is usually a piece of cardstock paper about the size of standard leagal size paper. The selection is made by using a black magic marker and connecting the ends of an arrow pointing to the selection (Sometimes the ballot uses both sides of the card). Once completed you feed it into a machine and leave.
The nice thing about it is the ballots are counted by the machine and can easily be re-fed in for a recount or hand counted if needed.
What does the speed limit have to do with the amount of control a driver has?
I am not an expert on how much control you loose but at 15MPH over the speed limit means your going 22' farther per second then you would if you were going the speedlimit. That gives you more time to react if something does happen. So in a neighborhood 22' might be a long way when a car suddenly pulls out in front of you or a kid runs out in front of your car. Then there is the fact that the stopping distance will be longer when going faster too.
I have been in a neighborhood and had a kid run out in front of me and thought, I sure am glad I wasn't going a lot faster.
Back when I was 16, a buddy of mine flipped his moms car when he swerved to miss a bag that blew accross the road but he said he thought it was a dog. A more expireance driver would have probibly not been going as fast and probibly would have opted to run over a dog/bag rather than attempt a dangerous evasive manuver. If a kid runs out in front of you the split second desicion becomes harder (hit the kid or swerve into a tree or into a parked car or into the oposing lane where there may be a car coming so that 22' per second from going slower would come in handy)
Varies from state to state. In New Jersey, which has some of the most densely-trafficked roads and most agressive motorists in the country, I believe that at age 17 one can apply for a limited permit, which allows one to operate a vehicle when accompanied by an experienced driver, and at age 18 apply for a permit which allows unaccompanied driving.
There is full reciprocity between states in the US though so somone with a valid license at age 16 in their home state would be able to drive in a state that didn't grant 16 year olds drivers licenses.
"US senators were originally chosen by the State legislatures, it wasn't until the 17th Amendment was fully ratified in 1913 that popular election of senators became practise."
Now that the legislatures can't pick the Senators, the gerrymander the House districts to give the party in power disproportionate representation in the House.
"Arguably things have gone downhill since, althought the 6-year term for senators vs 2 years for representatives does help a bit -- the latter are pretty much campaigning all the time."
I am not sure how much the term length helps. Because of the gerrymander, 90+% of US House races are uncompetitive or unopposed while a larger percentage of Senators have to actually campaign to keep their seats because there is no way to gerrymander a whole state.
My Congressman has searved since the mid 80s with the exception of two years after the '94 election when he was voted out but he came back two years later. In the last redistricting they fixed his district up so he wouldn't have to worry again. As the saying goes, he would have to be caught in bed with either a dead hooker or a live boy.
Lets not forget that the cashiers do this hundreds of times a day. When somone hits the self check line, they may be doing it the first time ever. I predict that as more and more people use the self checkout more often they will get better at it.
People finally got to where they can work the ATM machines pretty good so we may get to where self checkout will be a snap too.
I can understand having power feed the building from two points and even two seperate dmarks for network connectivity. This would protect you from a failure in one part of your building and maybe even from an overzealous backhoe operator or goundskeeper on your property.
The problem that I could see would be the overzealous backhoe operator down the street where all your power/network stuff ends up going allong the same roadside. Worked somwhere with the dual demark think setup.
I worked in a place that had two buldings connected with a walkway so we ran two of our four T1 lines from one ISP and two from another ISP through the other building but all the lines were in the same ditch half a mile down the road.
I had legos as a kid and the sets usually ended up ploped into a box that held the legos. I think my older brother put one together for me one time to build a fire boat but soon after that I had it totally rearranged into the ultimate Star Blazers Space Battleship!
"Are we to believe that they'll just give it out to the world?"
The Indians are usually quite willing to give away something that would help the animals because it would put them in better standing with their spirit guides. I wonder which tribe developed this? Was it Cherokee or Apache? I bet it was the Shawnee.
"When you hear "you stole my phone, give it back" and you don't do anything about it, you are guilty. Maybe not in the eyes of the law, but a kid in kindergarten knows that you can't take things that aren't yours."
I have a kid in Kindergarten and you are right. I also have a kid in the two year old room at daycare and the property rules for two year olds is:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
ARCNET is the tank of networks protocols. I was once working on an arcnet system and I tripped over the cable and yanked it out of the wall. Would you believe the token jumped out of the cable and ran accross the floor and jumped into the wall.
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Makes me worry about the market getting flooded with cheap chips.
I wonder if you can use the voting machine key to get free goodies at the hotel minibar?
Reminds me of the time "Dateline NBC" got busted when they used sparklers to make sure that a truck with "Sidesattle gas tanks" caught fire when hit right in the gas tanks. They said in the show that a spark from the headlight set off the gas but faild to mention that they had sparklers there too.
Whenever an article is posted that gives a clear way to dogpile on GWB groupthink tries to take over and it turns into a Bushbashfest.
Jeez, the guy will be out of office in less than 3 years and Congress will be paralyzed for the last year or so that leads up to the next presidential election.
"The constitution gives the president the right to ignore any attempt by congress to control the actions of the military. So, what's stopping him from deploying the military to maintain *order* on US soil - to keep America "safe"? "
All it takes is a majority of the House and 2/3 of the Senate to remove the President.
Nutters can blather on all they want about how Bush had distroyed the contry and is a Dictator etc. but he still can't do anything he wants. Congress can stop him in an extream case with removal from office and in a less extream case with removal of funding or legislation.
Right now his supporters control Congress but they are quite aware that there is an election comming too.
Lets not forget the effect of the gerrymander. The House was supposed to represent the people but since House districts are drawn in such a way that 98% of the members are reelected each year the Senate is actually filling the role that the House was originally intended.
House was supposed to represent the people and the Senate was supposed to represent the State. Now the State legislature indirectly picks the house members by gerrymandering districts.
In my district I have a congressman that has served since the 80s except for 2 years when he was booted out in '94(the republican takeover year). He won it back in '96 and in the last redrawing, the legislature redrew it to make sure he didn't loose again.
Fire as a result of car crashes is rare. http://www.autosafety.org/article.php?scid=96&did= 533
3 out of 1000 crashes. I guess gasoline is only going to catch fire if it leaks out after a wreck.
What would a fuel cell be like in a crash? I guess we will have to find out.
I live in an area of the US that uses something similar. The ballot is usually a piece of cardstock paper about the size of standard leagal size paper. The selection is made by using a black magic marker and connecting the ends of an arrow pointing to the selection (Sometimes the ballot uses both sides of the card). Once completed you feed it into a machine and leave.
The nice thing about it is the ballots are counted by the machine and can easily be re-fed in for a recount or hand counted if needed.
No. He was going too slow, should have gotten a turbo model.
Feel free to mod me down for bad taste.
I am not an expert on how much control you loose but at 15MPH over the speed limit means your going 22' farther per second then you would if you were going the speedlimit. That gives you more time to react if something does happen. So in a neighborhood 22' might be a long way when a car suddenly pulls out in front of you or a kid runs out in front of your car. Then there is the fact that the stopping distance will be longer when going faster too.
I have been in a neighborhood and had a kid run out in front of me and thought, I sure am glad I wasn't going a lot faster.
Back when I was 16, a buddy of mine flipped his moms car when he swerved to miss a bag that blew accross the road but he said he thought it was a dog. A more expireance driver would have probibly not been going as fast and probibly would have opted to run over a dog/bag rather than attempt a dangerous evasive manuver. If a kid runs out in front of you the split second desicion becomes harder (hit the kid or swerve into a tree or into a parked car or into the oposing lane where there may be a car coming so that 22' per second from going slower would come in handy)
There is full reciprocity between states in the US though so somone with a valid license at age 16 in their home state would be able to drive in a state that didn't grant 16 year olds drivers licenses.
Heck, I work in government and wasting a crap load of money is easy compaired to getting something that costs just a few hundred dollars.
"US senators were originally chosen by the State legislatures, it wasn't until the 17th Amendment was fully ratified in 1913 that popular election of senators became practise."
Now that the legislatures can't pick the Senators, the gerrymander the House districts to give the party in power disproportionate representation in the House.
"Arguably things have gone downhill since, althought the 6-year term for senators vs 2 years for representatives does help a bit -- the latter are pretty much campaigning all the time."
I am not sure how much the term length helps. Because of the gerrymander, 90+% of US House races are uncompetitive or unopposed while a larger percentage of Senators have to actually campaign to keep their seats because there is no way to gerrymander a whole state.
My Congressman has searved since the mid 80s with the exception of two years after the '94 election when he was voted out but he came back two years later. In the last redistricting they fixed his district up so he wouldn't have to worry again. As the saying goes, he would have to be caught in bed with either a dead hooker or a live boy.
Lets not forget that the cashiers do this hundreds of times a day. When somone hits the self check line, they may be doing it the first time ever. I predict that as more and more people use the self checkout more often they will get better at it.
People finally got to where they can work the ATM machines pretty good so we may get to where self checkout will be a snap too.
I can understand having power feed the building from two points and even two seperate dmarks for network connectivity. This would protect you from a failure in one part of your building and maybe even from an overzealous backhoe operator or goundskeeper on your property.
The problem that I could see would be the overzealous backhoe operator down the street where all your power/network stuff ends up going allong the same roadside. Worked somwhere with the dual demark think setup.
I worked in a place that had two buldings connected with a walkway so we ran two of our four T1 lines from one ISP and two from another ISP through the other building but all the lines were in the same ditch half a mile down the road.
I had legos as a kid and the sets usually ended up ploped into a box that held the legos. I think my older brother put one together for me one time to build a fire boat but soon after that I had it totally rearranged into the ultimate Star Blazers Space Battleship!
"Are we to believe that they'll just give it out to the world?"
The Indians are usually quite willing to give away something that would help the animals because it would put them in better standing with their spirit guides. I wonder which tribe developed this? Was it Cherokee or Apache? I bet it was the Shawnee.
Would we have to add in the deaths when the building that housed the old USSR shuttle collapsed killing a few?
The real PROFIT will be when somone figures out a way to grow back missing hair.
"When you hear "you stole my phone, give it back" and you don't do anything about it, you are guilty. Maybe not in the eyes of the law, but a kid in kindergarten knows that you can't take things that aren't yours."
I have a kid in Kindergarten and you are right. I also have a kid in the two year old room at daycare and the property rules for two year olds is:
MINE!!
"Er, don't you mean... apocalypse?"
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
This is a great way to pick Lottery numbers! Powerball here I come!
". if you pass a law that is found to violate the bill of rights and/or the constitution - you should be found guilty of treason "
I think that would be found unconstitutional real fast.
"Learn to speak chinese, because these people are going to take over the world!"
They have let Rock-n-Roll in.
ARCNET is the tank of networks protocols. I was once working on an arcnet system and I tripped over the cable and yanked it out of the wall. Would you believe the token jumped out of the cable and ran accross the floor and jumped into the wall.
Nothing stops ARCNET!