Don't be stupid. 80% of the "genius" Indians are illiterate. Most Indians don't even get past the 4th grade, let alone the 6th. They can't even save their tigers or prevent Polio. They aren't even a 3rd world country. More like 4th world.
Yeah, the huge biotech companies should have...and should now...fund their own research.
Why is it that every other industry has to pay for research or people scream corporate subsidy, but biotech wants the taxpayers to cough up money out of their pockets instead of using a little of their profits. Sounds like the greed liberals usually decry when it fits their agenda. In this case their real agenda is to bash the government. Nothing to stop the biotech companies from paying for this. (Ethics and morality are not legally constraining.)
Too true!
Psst. Here's the real inconvenient truth...First, the entire world's media would have you believe that global warming is "settled science". According to the media, anyone who denies this "obvious truth" are lunatics akin to creationists. And because of the 'fact' of global warming the expenditure of trillions of dollars siphoned from the world (mostly US) economy is justified. More than justified. Mandated to save humanity. Now for the real truth: humanity is not the cause of global warming. It is all bogus. You've been brainwashed. Hahaha. You say, "Oho, not me. I are smart. The media can not fool me."
Yeah, right. People still think DDT is harmful to humans. (Wrong.) Was the Corvair really unsafe at any speed? What about the 'population bomb' and 'Y2K' and 'peak oil'? The media loves crisis. The media loves to scare. It sells newspapers and movie tickets. Don't feel bad. Anyone can be influenced by the relentless media pressure to conform. Just remember: Question Authority. Think Different(ly). If something is hyped, it is probably nonsense.
OR maybe he's a Republican.
Where are the headlines, the protests, the outrage from the last election?/. has been harping on how fraudulent electronic machines are, how easliy hacked
for months. Yet, no one has suggested ANY fraud (except for this small town).
According to/. there MUST have been lots and lots of hacking. Yet nothing is heard
now but.... silence. Perhaps it is because the party/. types wanted to win, won.
So now there wasn't any fraud after all.
Truth is, all the electronic voting machine hacking conspiracy stuff was a set up to
whine about election results that didn't go the way people wanted. As bogus as
the Y2K crisis. Sure, there could always be human vote fraud with whatever voting equipment. The ACORN members who were arrested in Misouri are
one example. But since they're Democrats, we don't hear a word on this/. about it.
Sure. If the hacker wants to go to prison.
Why is it that no one trusts election officials to store machines securely and guard them against manipulation during the voting process, but they seem to fully trust that old paper ballot cards will be stored securely, transported, and guarded during the voting process and that no surprise ballot cards won't also mysteriously appear? If we distrust our government with one method the other is probably just as untrustworthy. Somehow for a couple hundred years we've managed to successfully hold most elections. The government is a reflection of the electorate. Maybe it is really our fellow citizens we don't trust.
In any case, I am certain that if the elections don't come out they way some want they will yell fraud. If they do come out they way they want, they are equally sure to say the election was fair.
There are in fact elected officials responsible for conducting elections. Each state has a "Secretary of State" whose responsibilities include election oversight and certification of results for all elections, even federal elections conducted within the respective US state.
Time and again there has been voting fraud via traditional voting methods (such as inelligible persons voting or people voting multiple times in multiple places). However, there has NEVER been any fraud (i.e. hacking) associated with newer voting machines. Do not believe all the/. fantasies. If the hackers on this page are so expert, why don't they come up with an ultra secure system, instead of endlessly complaining about fictitious stolen elections? I doubt these people vote anyway.
Unfortunately, the task of a poll worker is thankless. They only work at polls once or twice a year, are usually elderly volunteers (and thus they are not likely to be as technologically savvy), they have little training, work for little or no pay, are forced to deal with complex and ever changing rules, are criticized for everything beyond their control (running out of materials, broken voting machines, etc.), and on top of all that accused of everything from bias to discrimination to vote crimes when all they are trying to do is help the democratic system work. Please be kind to your poll workers who suffer and slave for you.
Exactly! The President signed a LAW passed by Congress. Nothing unilateral like a Clinton Executive Order. When the next Katrina happens it will allow the military to help. Sounds very humanitarian to me. Only people making it out as something sinister are the ones playing politics.
In one breath you say the replacement is JWT, in the next factually mention that it is near-infrared, not visible light... so it isn't a true "replacement".
To respond to others above about making repairs... what's "already done" is that the HST replacement optics have already been built and paid for long ago and have been in storage for years. The only thing not already paid for is the repair mission itself.
Yeah. Occam's Razor. The article specifically says that fierce storms may be to blame and that the water has already begun to freeze. So why jump to "global warming". OCCAM'S RAZOR!!
Wrong. BASIC has been standardized! See:
* ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard for Minimal BASIC:
o ANSI X3.60-1978 "FOR MINIMAL BASIC"
o ISO/IEC 6373:1984 "DATA PROCESSING - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - MINIMAL BASIC"
* ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard for Full BASIC:
o ANSI X3.113-1987 "PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FULL BASIC"
o ISO/IEC 10279:1991 "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - FULL BASIC"
* ANSI/ISO/IEC Addendum Defining Modules:
o ANSI X3.113 INTERPRETATIONS-1992 "BASIC TECHNICAL INFORMATION BULLETIN # 1 INTERPRETATIONS OF ANSI 03.113-1987"
o ISO/IEC 10279:1991/ Amd 1:1994 "MODULES AND SINGLE CHARACTER INPUT ENHANCEMENT"
Your real problem was TRS-80 BASIC wasn't standard. True, there are many dialects. The best was DEC's BASIC-PLUS, especially the later versions.
Ever hear of a checksum? Change a vote, checksum doesn't match. I am sure there are more sophisticated ways to make the system if not tamper-proof, then tamper alarmed.
"Anyone" can read a ballot? Ever hear of 'hanging chads'? Also, if anyone can read it, then anyone can write it. What percent can even attempt electronic tampering short-circuiting even the simplest of controls?.01%? That's probably too high.
Of course it is all a joke. #1 NSA survelliance has been well known since the late 1970s. Anyone who thinks this is new is a young punk born sometime after 1980 who never read a newspaper or had an intelligent conversation until 1990 and then had the misfortune of coming of age in the Clinton administration, master of the big lie.
#2 The headline is misleading. Once again these are INTERNATIONAL communications between someone in a foreign country and someone in the US. That's a lot different than two US Citizens being spied on in real time making a land line call across town.
NO law insures privacy for international calls especially from a government trying to protect us from mass murderers.
I know you are being sarcastic, but are you also being ignorant? The WTC was bombed in 1993 which by my calculation pre-dates the Oklahoma City bombing by over 2 years.
After Warren dies and sometime (perhaps 20 or 30 years from now) Bill Gates dies, Melinda will be in charge of how both their money is spent. Then eventually one of their kids, etc. But sooner or later the goals of the foundation will be hijacked by a liberal group of administrators as has happend with the Ford foundation and the John D & Katerine T Foundation, much to the dismay of the founders and ultra-liberal group will be handing out money to all kinds of pet socialist projects. It sounds good now... fifty years from now it will be a cruel joke played upon the world. With interest, that money could swell to a trillion dollars. All in the hands of left wing kooks. wow, how wonderful (NOT)
Not to mention sales tax and defered tax if he has a regular IRA and is taking the tax break. Then there's capital gains tax and the AMT and eventually the death tax and gasoline and telephone excise taxes...
Actually, I remember when the California sales tax was only 5%. It was raised to 6% when Ronald Reagan was Governor on an 'emergency/temporary' basis. I'm still waiting for the sales tax to go back to 5%.
Of course, we'll always have the permanent 'deficit reduction' 4.6% Clinton gas excise tax. Nobody even remember this one.
Wrong. Only fools who took Engineering thought they were automatically great programmers... these are the people who didn't even know De Morgan's laws, etc. Yes, there were forward thinking Universities that had true CS programs even in the 1960s that were more science than MIS. True, many major colleges unfortunately thought that people should just major in Math or Engineering or Business and did not have true CS degrees. CS (and Programming) WERE worthy in the 60's and 70's... but many didn't know enough to know it.
And you are an asshole. I am well aware of attempts to build other GPS systems. Fact is 99.99999% of everyone using GPS has no problem with US control right now. Why assume I don't know about those other potential systems? Because you have an agenda to twist my post. I made no statement like "No one else is building their own". Whether other countries build their own has NOTHING to do with the fact that the current system works very well and has made billions of people around the world very happy. To think that Russia or Europe would freely give their service to the entire world with as little control as the US has rationaly put on theirs is naive and ignorant. Of course the Russians would shut down their system if an enemy could use it to their advantage. Duh. They are all-benevolent. Naturally, it wouldn't matter if they did shut their's down because we'd still have the current GPS.
Compare it to Global Positioning...works well for everyone in the world, but is under US control. Would you really rather have a country like North Korea or China (which BTW censors internet content) in control?
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As long as you don't record sound (which could be "wire tapping") as well without posting a notice !
Isn't this the same as IDIC: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" ? Increased entrophy?
See the Alec Guinness film The Man in the White Suit.... the textile industry might not like this.
Don't be stupid. 80% of the "genius" Indians are illiterate. Most Indians don't even get past the 4th grade, let alone the 6th. They can't even save their tigers or prevent Polio. They aren't even a 3rd world country. More like 4th world.
Yeah, the huge biotech companies should have...and should now...fund their own research. Why is it that every other industry has to pay for research or people scream corporate subsidy, but biotech wants the taxpayers to cough up money out of their pockets instead of using a little of their profits. Sounds like the greed liberals usually decry when it fits their agenda. In this case their real agenda is to bash the government. Nothing to stop the biotech companies from paying for this. (Ethics and morality are not legally constraining.)
Too true! Psst. Here's the real inconvenient truth...First, the entire world's media would have you believe that global warming is "settled science". According to the media, anyone who denies this "obvious truth" are lunatics akin to creationists. And because of the 'fact' of global warming the expenditure of trillions of dollars siphoned from the world (mostly US) economy is justified. More than justified. Mandated to save humanity. Now for the real truth: humanity is not the cause of global warming. It is all bogus. You've been brainwashed. Hahaha. You say, "Oho, not me. I are smart. The media can not fool me." Yeah, right. People still think DDT is harmful to humans. (Wrong.) Was the Corvair really unsafe at any speed? What about the 'population bomb' and 'Y2K' and 'peak oil'? The media loves crisis. The media loves to scare. It sells newspapers and movie tickets. Don't feel bad. Anyone can be influenced by the relentless media pressure to conform. Just remember: Question Authority. Think Different(ly). If something is hyped, it is probably nonsense.
OR maybe he's a Republican. Where are the headlines, the protests, the outrage from the last election? /. has been harping on how fraudulent electronic machines are, how easliy hacked
for months. Yet, no one has suggested ANY fraud (except for this small town).
According to /. there MUST have been lots and lots of hacking. Yet nothing is heard
now but.... silence. Perhaps it is because the party /. types wanted to win, won.
So now there wasn't any fraud after all.
Truth is, all the electronic voting machine hacking conspiracy stuff was a set up to
whine about election results that didn't go the way people wanted. As bogus as
the Y2K crisis. Sure, there could always be human vote fraud with whatever voting equipment. The ACORN members who were arrested in Misouri are
one example. But since they're Democrats, we don't hear a word on this /. about it.
Sure. If the hacker wants to go to prison. Why is it that no one trusts election officials to store machines securely and guard them against manipulation during the voting process, but they seem to fully trust that old paper ballot cards will be stored securely, transported, and guarded during the voting process and that no surprise ballot cards won't also mysteriously appear? If we distrust our government with one method the other is probably just as untrustworthy. Somehow for a couple hundred years we've managed to successfully hold most elections. The government is a reflection of the electorate. Maybe it is really our fellow citizens we don't trust. In any case, I am certain that if the elections don't come out they way some want they will yell fraud. If they do come out they way they want, they are equally sure to say the election was fair.
There are in fact elected officials responsible for conducting elections. Each state has a "Secretary of State" whose responsibilities include election oversight and certification of results for all elections, even federal elections conducted within the respective US state. Time and again there has been voting fraud via traditional voting methods (such as inelligible persons voting or people voting multiple times in multiple places). However, there has NEVER been any fraud (i.e. hacking) associated with newer voting machines. Do not believe all the /. fantasies. If the hackers on this page are so expert, why don't they come up with an ultra secure system, instead of endlessly complaining about fictitious stolen elections? I doubt these people vote anyway.
Unfortunately, the task of a poll worker is thankless. They only work at polls once or twice a year, are usually elderly volunteers (and thus they are not likely to be as technologically savvy), they have little training, work for little or no pay, are forced to deal with complex and ever changing rules, are criticized for everything beyond their control (running out of materials, broken voting machines, etc.), and on top of all that accused of everything from bias to discrimination to vote crimes when all they are trying to do is help the democratic system work. Please be kind to your poll workers who suffer and slave for you.
Exactly! The President signed a LAW passed by Congress. Nothing unilateral like a Clinton Executive Order.
When the next Katrina happens it will allow the military to help. Sounds very humanitarian to me.
Only people making it out as something sinister are the ones playing politics.
In one breath you say the replacement is JWT, in the next factually mention that it is near-infrared, not visible light... so it isn't a true "replacement".
To respond to others above about making repairs... what's "already done" is that the HST replacement optics have already been built and paid for long ago and have been in storage for years. The only thing not already paid for is the repair mission itself.
Yeah. Occam's Razor. The article specifically says that fierce storms may be to blame and that the water has already begun to freeze. So why jump to "global warming". OCCAM'S RAZOR!!
Wrong. BASIC has been standardized! See: * ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard for Minimal BASIC: o ANSI X3.60-1978 "FOR MINIMAL BASIC" o ISO/IEC 6373:1984 "DATA PROCESSING - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - MINIMAL BASIC" * ANSI/ISO/IEC Standard for Full BASIC: o ANSI X3.113-1987 "PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FULL BASIC" o ISO/IEC 10279:1991 "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - FULL BASIC" * ANSI/ISO/IEC Addendum Defining Modules: o ANSI X3.113 INTERPRETATIONS-1992 "BASIC TECHNICAL INFORMATION BULLETIN # 1 INTERPRETATIONS OF ANSI 03.113-1987" o ISO/IEC 10279:1991/ Amd 1:1994 "MODULES AND SINGLE CHARACTER INPUT ENHANCEMENT" Your real problem was TRS-80 BASIC wasn't standard. True, there are many dialects. The best was DEC's BASIC-PLUS, especially the later versions.
Ever hear of a checksum? Change a vote, checksum doesn't match. I am sure there are more sophisticated ways to make the system if not tamper-proof, then tamper alarmed.
.01%? That's probably too high.
"Anyone" can read a ballot? Ever hear of 'hanging chads'? Also, if anyone can read it, then anyone can write it.
What percent can even attempt electronic tampering short-circuiting even the simplest of controls?
Of course it is all a joke. #1 NSA survelliance has been well known since the late 1970s. Anyone who thinks this is new is a young punk born sometime after 1980 who never read a newspaper or had an intelligent conversation until 1990 and then had the misfortune of coming of age in the Clinton administration, master of the big lie. #2 The headline is misleading. Once again these are INTERNATIONAL communications between someone in a foreign country and someone in the US. That's a lot different than two US Citizens being spied on in real time making a land line call across town. NO law insures privacy for international calls especially from a government trying to protect us from mass murderers.
The recordings were made to voice mail boxes. Duh. Sorry to disappoint you. No mystery/conspiracy there.
I know you are being sarcastic, but are you also being ignorant? The WTC was bombed in 1993 which by my calculation pre-dates the Oklahoma City bombing by over 2 years.
After Warren dies and sometime (perhaps 20 or 30 years from now) Bill Gates dies, Melinda will be in charge of how both their money is spent. Then eventually one of their kids, etc. But sooner or later the goals of the foundation will be hijacked by a liberal group of administrators as has happend with the Ford foundation and the John D & Katerine T Foundation, much to the dismay of the founders and ultra-liberal group will be handing out money to all kinds of pet socialist projects. It sounds good now... fifty years from now it will be a cruel joke played upon the world. With interest, that money could swell to a trillion dollars. All in the hands of left wing kooks. wow, how wonderful (NOT)
Not to mention sales tax and defered tax if he has a regular IRA and is taking the tax break. Then there's capital gains tax and the AMT and eventually the death tax and gasoline and telephone excise taxes...
Actually, I remember when the California sales tax was only 5%. It was raised to 6% when Ronald Reagan was Governor on an 'emergency/temporary' basis. I'm still waiting for the sales tax to go back to 5%. Of course, we'll always have the permanent 'deficit reduction' 4.6% Clinton gas excise tax. Nobody even remember this one.
Wrong. Only fools who took Engineering thought they were automatically great programmers... these are the people who didn't even know De Morgan's laws, etc. Yes, there were forward thinking Universities that had true CS programs even in the 1960s that were more science than MIS. True, many major colleges unfortunately thought that people should just major in Math or Engineering or Business and did not have true CS degrees. CS (and Programming) WERE worthy in the 60's and 70's... but many didn't know enough to know it.
And you are an asshole. I am well aware of attempts to build other GPS systems. Fact is 99.99999% of everyone using GPS has no problem with US control right now. Why assume I don't know about those other potential systems? Because you have an agenda to twist my post. I made no statement like "No one else is building their own". Whether other countries build their own has NOTHING to do with the fact that the current system works very well and has made billions of people around the world very happy. To think that Russia or Europe would freely give their service to the entire world with as little control as the US has rationaly put on theirs is naive and ignorant. Of course the Russians would shut down their system if an enemy could use it to their advantage. Duh. They are all-benevolent. Naturally, it wouldn't matter if they did shut their's down because we'd still have the current GPS.
Compare it to Global Positioning...works well for everyone in the world, but is under US control. Would you really rather have a country like North Korea or China (which BTW censors internet content) in control?
Bradley C. Edwards proposes a site near the Galapagos Islands because it is near the equator and has near-perfect weather for this.
Wrong. FDR did NOT expand the SC. It was expanded at one point up to 10 and then decreased to 7 members and has been set to 9 members since 1869.