Instant run-off would have you selecting second and third choices; for the candidate that gets the least votes, his voters go to their second choice, then the next lowest is eliminated, until there is only one.
2) I pick YOU UP. I unzip YOUR PANTS. I roughly jam my cock up your ass. As the students are watching I sodomize you for several minutes until I give my "O" face to the class.
Thanks for posting the contents of your India factbook from the 50s.
India, despite honouring itself as the largest democracy in the world, is - on the ground, at least - an exemplar of the class system.
Your higher classes are the rich families who go to boarding schools then usually foreign universities. The "better" ones may train as doctors, lawyers, etc., but many dabble in politics, where they take advantage of the pretty much universal corruption (especially in poorer areas) and ease with which one can lie to a mostly uneducated set of voters. I have a few family friends in this class.. some have minor royal titles (good enough to get HM The Queen to visit their wedidngs etc.). For them, money by Indian standards is no object, and while they may be socially restricted by tradition - childhood arranged marriage, for example - there's nothing that can't be wrangled out of with $ appropriately channeled to make it look like everyone's still behaving. The unwanted wife becomes a minor tax to pay and ignore.
Maybe you can tell us how many friends you have in the illiterate, uneducated,... class so that we can truly assess your intimacy with the issues at hand.
What's more interesting, however, is the gap between the small middle class and the often illiterate, uneducated, unhealthy, dirt-poor, often racially inferior (by Indian standards) remainder. If you were you, in India, as a regular middle class Joe, you would have servants. I can't emphasise the extent to which a man's attitude to his fellow man changes when he keeps a gaggle of servants:
...
In the USA and Western Europe, the significant quibble is - contrary to the perception of the average (Slashdotting) progressive political activist, whose opinions align with only a minority - between working and middle classes. As the blue collar moves up to white, or unionises, he increases costs and competition for the existing white. But in India, there is such a deep, desperate blue collar pool that the whites are under no threat.
Maybe the Indian friends you have display such tendencies. I grew up in a middle class Indian family, and the domestic help worked with us only because both my parents worked long hours. Our domestic help was not suppressed or bought to work, she was as good as a nanny, a member of the family. It was to her benefit that she could find a job with her lack of education, and when it came to her children to be educated, my mother was the first person she looked to for guidance. (As an aside, the middle class is not small anymore).
In India, the primary concern is - as in any feudal state - that of the higher classes for the power of the middle. Laws must be written for arbitrary application to any undesirables in this class, while preserving that squeaky clean image for the ignorant voting proletariat that keeps them on your side.
{{Citation needed}}
This is merely one such law.
Finally, I have no idea what your diatribe relates to the porn law. Worse still, it smacks of the common argument that I see atleast once on everySlashdotarticle featuring India. What surprises me is that those comments were rated down rapidly, while yours was rated "5 Informative", which it certainly is not. (This common argument can be summarised as: "Look at the other systemic evils in India. Club it with this latest article. Hence any worthy achievement by India has the blood of oppressed people on its hands. Which we in the first world will not and cannot appreciate.")
Actually I had sex while on conference calls a few times. Thank god for mute, both for my sake and for the sake of coworkers. My ex was a screamer. Good memories, I tell you.
Your boss called to say the mute button was broken. Oh, and clear your desk by tomorrow!
For that matter, I've never thought twice about using a credit card at a fastfood restaurant with people in the line behind me using their phones.. this totally opened my eyes today.
Contrary to Internet folklore, Dr. Kamerschen is NOT the author of "Tax Cuts: A Simple Lesson in Economics" or "Bar Stool Economics" or anything similar to that. Additionally, he does NOT know who wrote it and he has no opinion on its merits.
Neither you nor the OP RTFAed right. Groups of conservatives holding demonstrations against Kambhaksh is miles apart from nationwide public support for his conviction.
An excellent lie, intentional or not, to help spread the fallacy that the average Afghan is backward-minded.
I'm an Obama supporter living in Texas and I think this is actually a great thing to have both McCain and Obama's names removed from the ballot. Texas is a very conservative state, which makes my vote here virtually worthless. But if neither is on the ballot, then the chances of Obama winning the state because of write-ins or Barr (or another 3rd party candidate) winning because their name is on the ballot increases. Basically if John McCain doesn't win Texas, its a very deep blow for him and this lawsuit is pretty much the only shot we have at it.
When will we abolish this stupid electoral college?
I do believe that if the election was decided by popular vote, Democrats would fare much worse. They dont win blue states as convincingly as Republicans sweep red states county-by-county.
It's usually only the idiots who believe that science answers questions like "what ought we to do." Science is just a method for observing natural phenomenon. It cannot satisfactorally answer many fundamental philosophical questions that form the basis of law, morality and human interaction.
You seem to forget the soft sciences - sociology, psychology, political science, etc which attempt to make arguments explaining law, morality and human interaction. Since the 1950s, game theory is being used to model human actions through a action-outcome-payoff paradigm.
I'd rather listen and analyze to these arguments, than listen to the vague advice of the most popular nice man from the last n millennia.
What's wrong with Google providing bogus data to Viacom? Is this data even externally audited that Google cant fake the stats, and give Viacom a DVD filled with random bits.
Then again, why does Google need to give Viacom the complete anonymized logs, access time and all? It should simply return a group query result:
Simpsons: 7000000000 hits overall American Idol: 2 hits overrall American Idol 2: 1 hit overall American Idol 3: 0 hits overall
In most states and in most insurance categories, the maximum profitability margins of the insurance companies are regulated, as they should be. In all such states you can rest assured that the price of buying insurance is within ~15% of the cost of providing said insurance.
Nevertheless, their profit margins are far higher than 15% since they use the fine print to come up with spurious excuses to not cover you when you do actually need it.
Healthy foods would have a much easier time competing in the (admittedly imperfect, but efficient and decentralized) market if the government interfered less than it did.
Bang on. If I may add to that, farm subsidies are a good thing, but the government should be subsidising other foods and to a lesser degree. Make growing corn less profitable, and fruit orchards more profitable.
so businesses don't have to obey laws outside of the country they're from? Cool, I'm incorporating and gonna start stomping on all those MS OOXML idiots around the world who voted for it.
I think the more interesting question is: if the IP request was illegal/unconstitutional, and/or Google was not required to cooperate in giving that information, would they still give it?
I have a feeling that
they didnt need to fork this information over (no mention of a warrant even), and
Slashdot Mirror
What happens incase of a tie for the lowest 2?
Also, I am not sure getting cats to stop cable-chewing rats is such a good idea!
Mod parent informative, and greatgrandparent funny.
What, /. has geology nerds too?
There are no work visas to apply for if you want to move to India.
None, zero, zip.
I call BS.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/597004.html
Why do you assume OP is male?
Thanks for posting the contents of your India factbook from the 50s.
India, despite honouring itself as the largest democracy in the world, is - on the ground, at least - an exemplar of the class system.
Your higher classes are the rich families who go to boarding schools then usually foreign universities. The "better" ones may train as doctors, lawyers, etc., but many dabble in politics, where they take advantage of the pretty much universal corruption (especially in poorer areas) and ease with which one can lie to a mostly uneducated set of voters. I have a few family friends in this class.. some have minor royal titles (good enough to get HM The Queen to visit their wedidngs etc.). For them, money by Indian standards is no object, and while they may be socially restricted by tradition - childhood arranged marriage, for example - there's nothing that can't be wrangled out of with $ appropriately channeled to make it look like everyone's still behaving. The unwanted wife becomes a minor tax to pay and ignore.
Maybe you can tell us how many friends you have in the illiterate, uneducated, ... class so that we can truly assess your intimacy with the issues at hand.
What's more interesting, however, is the gap between the small middle class and the often illiterate, uneducated, unhealthy, dirt-poor, often racially inferior (by Indian standards) remainder. If you were you, in India, as a regular middle class Joe, you would have servants. I can't emphasise the extent to which a man's attitude to his fellow man changes when he keeps a gaggle of servants:
In the USA and Western Europe, the significant quibble is - contrary to the perception of the average (Slashdotting) progressive political activist, whose opinions align with only a minority - between working and middle classes. As the blue collar moves up to white, or unionises, he increases costs and competition for the existing white. But in India, there is such a deep, desperate blue collar pool that the whites are under no threat.
Maybe the Indian friends you have display such tendencies. I grew up in a middle class Indian family, and the domestic help worked with us only because both my parents worked long hours. Our domestic help was not suppressed or bought to work, she was as good as a nanny, a member of the family. It was to her benefit that she could find a job with her lack of education, and when it came to her children to be educated, my mother was the first person she looked to for guidance. (As an aside, the middle class is not small anymore).
In India, the primary concern is - as in any feudal state - that of the higher classes for the power of the middle. Laws must be written for arbitrary application to any undesirables in this class, while preserving that squeaky clean image for the ignorant voting proletariat that keeps them on your side.
{{Citation needed}}
This is merely one such law.
Finally, I have no idea what your diatribe relates to the porn law. Worse still, it smacks of the common argument that I see atleast once on every Slashdot article featuring India. What surprises me is that those comments were rated down rapidly, while yours was rated "5 Informative", which it certainly is not. (This common argument can be summarised as: "Look at the other systemic evils in India. Club it with this latest article. Hence any worthy achievement by India has the blood of oppressed people on its hands. Which we in the first world will not and cannot appreciate.")
Noone denies that the caste s
Your boss called to say the mute button was broken. Oh, and clear your desk by tomorrow!
Only if someone had taken a picture of him playing it live..
For that matter, I've never thought twice about using a credit card at a fastfood restaurant with people in the line behind me using their phones.. this totally opened my eyes today.
From Prof Kamerschen's homepage:
Contrary to Internet folklore, Dr. Kamerschen is NOT the author of "Tax Cuts: A Simple Lesson in Economics" or "Bar Stool Economics" or anything similar to that. Additionally, he does NOT know who wrote it and he has no opinion on its merits.
Neither you nor the OP RTFAed right. Groups of conservatives holding demonstrations against Kambhaksh is miles apart from nationwide public support for his conviction.
An excellent lie, intentional or not, to help spread the fallacy that the average Afghan is backward-minded.
I do believe that if the election was decided by popular vote, Democrats would fare much worse. They dont win blue states as convincingly as Republicans sweep red states county-by-county.
Your -dad- knows about Google? How old are you? 2?
You seem to forget the soft sciences - sociology, psychology, political science, etc which attempt to make arguments explaining law, morality and human interaction. Since the 1950s, game theory is being used to model human actions through a action-outcome-payoff paradigm.
I'd rather listen and analyze to these arguments, than listen to the vague advice of the most popular nice man from the last n millennia.
And therein lies your problem. Do not jump to assumptions (even about your motherland), if you are not current.
In Communist China, the internet pays for you!
What's wrong with Google providing bogus data to Viacom? Is this data even externally audited that Google cant fake the stats, and give Viacom a DVD filled with random bits.
Then again, why does Google need to give Viacom the complete anonymized logs, access time and all? It should simply return a group query result:
Simpsons: 7000000000 hits overall
American Idol: 2 hits overrall
American Idol 2: 1 hit overall
American Idol 3: 0 hits overall
parent's right, master the universal geek code!
mod parent up.
pay attention people, this is the prosecutor filing charges, not the judge passing a verdict.you should be following this case if it pops up on your screen to WAIT and hear the verdict, not pooping your pants right away.
[[citation needed]]
i dont intent to be trolling, just funny..
Nevertheless, their profit margins are far higher than 15% since they use the fine print to come up with spurious excuses to not cover you when you do actually need it.
Bang on. If I may add to that, farm subsidies are a good thing, but the government should be subsidising other foods and to a lesser degree. Make growing corn less profitable, and fruit orchards more profitable.
TS: "Sir, you seem to be having advanced knowledge of our product. Most of our customers do not require these features."
Nerd: "Bwahahahaha! Click."
I have a feeling that
- they didnt need to fork this information over (no mention of a warrant even), and
- they dont give a shit.
Which is why whatever happened happened.