It's closed-door rulemaking the old-fashioned way.
Democratic nations should be petitioning against the negotiations and attempting to recall council member representatives on that basis.
Before it's too late...
it is democratic as long as the people doing the negociations are democraticly elected. That is called representative democracy. "We the people" can punish the leaders if they f- up by not re-electing them.
Doing this behind closed doors makes it quicker and i have complete faith that it will either be published or leaked to the public otherwise when the negotiations are over.
In the Netherlands (where i live), it is common that after elections they start coalitiontalks behind closed doors, But every time one of the parties leaks information to the press to pressure the other party.
It is this leaking that shifts the balance away from the electoral result, So actually i believe that leaking does more harm to the democratic process than the fact that they do it behind closed doors.
I would rather have had that they did not die at all.
Good things and bad come from every major event, I don't mind them using gathered data and doing something positive with it, what i do mind is the shameless plug on this day.
bit shamefull to abuse this day, on which the world remembers the victims of this horrible disaster to make these statements how usefull it could be for science.
It is almost like they are happy the attacks took place.
Well according to the bible, there are different ways of being a christian that can all be correct.
Not so. If you can read Galatians (the whole letter, rather than one verse without context) and conclude that it's not about how salvation by works is a perversion of the gospel, which is really about faith, then you've completely misread it.
So you say that being loving and caring is not commanded in gal 5:14?
Similarly with Romans. The point of Romans 2 is not that knowledge of the law saves, but that knowledge of the law condemns because it reveals our sinfulness, therefore we have need of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.
Rom 2:14 says that you do not need to know the law, if your heart is pure you will follow the law without knowing it. How can you so completely misread my posting?
Who are we to judge the correctness of anyones believes? My advice is not to worry to much about who is correct and who isn't. As long as you do the right thing.
How can you do the right thing when you don't know what it is? Surely in order to do it, you have to worry about who is correct?
As long as you are loving and caring (follow gal 5:14) you can be incorrect about everything else and still be a good christian. So nitpicking points awarded, if you would ever meet a christian that states that christianity is about crushing other people to death, then you might worry about who is correct.
in the following verses you can read that although christians are allowed to eat anything, sometimes if other christians object, they better can't eat it. Rom 14,21 | 1 Kor 8,13 | 1 Kor 10,28 thats why i say there is more than one way to be a good christian.
Well according to the bible, there are different ways of being a christian that can all be correct.
Most importantly you must be loving and caring. That is the only law left according to galatian 5:14
You do not even need to believe in God or Jesus, according to Romans 2:14, just to follow the(ir) law.
But then on the other hand, who am i to judge. Who are we to judge the correctness of anyones believes? My advice is not to worry to much about who is correct and who isn't. As long as you do the right thing. Most differences of opinion are about irrelevant stuff anyway.
To you i have a question in return, do you think there is any scientist on the face of the earth that completely understands the theory of relativity? "have a perfect understanding of" to paraphrase you.
it is believed that the first 5 books of the bible (the pentateuch: genesis, exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy ) were sent down to Moses around the same time he got the stone tablets. They were past the stone-age back then and most of it was probably written on papyrus.
|Actually, it is likely impossible to track. Later today its bound to be a totally different |value because our dollar value fluctuates on a near daily basis based on economy.
You (parent) suggest that the systems (diebold) that are currently being used do meet the hava standards? I think given the short timespan (5 days) they came up with a nice thingy.
Transparency is a great good. If you ask me, those diebold machines were an instant non-starter. But they were used anyway. (and were still with the last primaries). You can make a list of flaws of this thing, but the only thing on that list that wont be on diebolds list is that everyone has access to the code. But oops, even that one is one diebolds list, after some worker left sources unattended at a public ftp server. (someone found them using the advanced technique of typing "diebold source" into google).
There maybe some things still wrong with it, but the nature of OSS is that they get fixed way quieker.
We live in a different age then our forefathers. I think it is better to drop the idea that the representative represents the people in his district. We rarely meet them. Rather let them represent idea's. I think it would be better if you could vote for the person that you think represents your idea's most, whether or not he/she lived in your district.
Then give those elected votingpower proportional to how many people voted for them.
The fact that third party candidate are called spoilers is a indicator that the system is not fair. The article states that any system where voters have even the slightest influence on the process should be called democratic. I disagree.
Well, in that case, Iran is a democratic country (a list pre-approved by the clergy of candidates) Or former east germany. (garanteed 50% of the parliament for the communist party, other 50% up for vote)
If a system favors 1 party, we usually call it a dictatorship. If it favors 2 parties, it is suddenly fair and thus the "western style democracy"? People living in Texas don't have much reason to go vote. The outcome is pretty much set to be republican. Why bother going to the polls then? Turnout is tradionally low in Texas. This makes the argument: "Gore won the popular vote" also less valid. If in all the guaranteed R states everybody would have gone to the polls, i wouldn't know if Gore would still have won the popular vote.
Dividing up the country in seats to vote on favors the 2 party system. In California they are working on a law to split the electoral college like the Californian vote is split up, but if that is not done throughout the country that's not fair either. The electoral college is from a time where small states feared to be ignored. Now it's almost the reverse. Iowa and NH get way more attention than the bigger states. It is outdated. I hope C will have the guts and give their ec to the winner of the national popular vote. That would propel everybody in the US to get their butts to the booth. (And make presidential elections more fair).
Edison just patented the idea of running current through a wire to make it hot and glow in that way. He wasn't original in that aspect, it was one of basic science demonstrations to burn up a wire with electricity. He just patented it for use of lighting, but he did not have a working lightbulb or anything else beyond the common science demo.
Then when someone else invented de glass lightbulb to prevent oxidation, he claimed his wire glowing patent and became rich and famous.
This technique will cause more problems then it will solve. You should not be waiting to do maintenance until the bridge is on the verge of collapse (when it would be detected.)
It is the amount of money diverted away from say levies in new orleans or bridges across the country and diverted toward the global war on terrorism. The question is, what will prevent more deaths?
Making such complex systems and calibrating them will drain more money from the already negative cookey jar, so i think it would be better to just fix every bridge.
My problem with this kind of entertainment is that it pretends to be science. Discovery channel profiles itself as a scientific TV channel, but then mostly puts out shows on building cars/motorbikes.
The mythbusters supposed to be the science component of this channel. Don't get me wrong, it is a nice show to watch. But to have these two as representatives of the science community?
Statistics are amidst the most abused science subject. It doesn't surprise me that mythbusters would abuse it as well. Apparently some of the crowd here don't care so much about truthfinding. But i think it is rather annoying when they are mangling up science.
Basicly, their science is not that superior to the science they are trying to bust. I would like discovery to drop the everest climbing, bike building programs, and put in some science.
z80 assembly is the last programming language i learned. I made games for ti83+
saying that you don't need knowledge about assembly language because the compiler does it for you is like saying that you dont need to know addition because your calculator can do it for you. That you have a tool to do it faster is nice, but understanding what is going on is better.
It makes you think much more structured. You have to know where you want to go 5 lines ahead. However, in practice the difference with other languages is small, because most of the actual work is done in calls to the OS or libraries.
And you dont need to understand assembly to make a good emulator. Just have to be able to copy everything from the assembly reference manual.
I went and voted wednesday, but my interrest in politics make unnessesary to rely on a tool like this. How ever, i did fill it out and it had the good direction.
In the netherlands, the biggest party got only 27% of the votes, the other partys are even smaller. I think the more partys the better, because more different viewpoints can be assessed. I cant see how in the states only two political partys can really represent so many different opinions.
this election the house gained 2 new partys but only lost 1.
We proove that different political partys can work together to form a good, more internally balanced, government.
Looking for a 3 party solution, because biggest 2 together make only 48%
Ow wow, the law inforcement used the data they stole from the search engines for something that they can allow to get public.
Is this why they had to have this data?
What i see is that the west is moving to simular internet controls already in place in china.
Once upon a time people needed more justification then porn to do stuff like this.
FTA: "Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential."
Most of the article is plain old microsoft propaganda.
1. internet is unreliable for ping time.
If they would want to listen to reliable packet intervals it should be at the first hop. If they could compromise the first hop would they still bother to use this timing interval technique?
2. in a keyboard? and what if the user doesn't press a button only once every 2 seconds. The spies do not know when the user presses the button, they see only packets at different intervals. it's not unfeasable, but unlikely the user wouldn't notice the delays required.
This article feels to me like a grumpy old man complaining about "them kids these days".
From the article:
The faults of youth are retained along with the virtues, he believes. These include short attention span, sensation and novelty-seeking, short cycles of arbitrary fashion and a sense of cultural shallowness.
I think without sensation and novelty seeking columbo wouldn't have set sail into the unknown.
having a rapid changing culture doesn't make it shallow. Naughty humor is also almost as old as rockpainting. never dropped in popularity since.
I feel exactly the opposite of Bruce Charlton, i think that our youngsters are more and more forced to act as adults. They get the mobile phone for free and the bill follows a month later. Often far above the months earn of the spotfaced kid. In the netherlands the school systems are also growing towards more personal responsibility for the students.
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It's closed-door rulemaking the old-fashioned way.
Democratic nations should be petitioning against the negotiations and attempting to recall council member representatives on that basis.
Before it's too late...
it is democratic as long as the people doing the negociations are democraticly elected. That is called representative democracy. "We the people" can punish the leaders if they f- up by not re-electing them.
Doing this behind closed doors makes it quicker and i have complete faith that it will either be published or leaked to the public otherwise when the negotiations are over.
In the Netherlands (where i live), it is common that after elections they start coalitiontalks behind closed doors, But every time one of the parties leaks information to the press to pressure the other party.
It is this leaking that shifts the balance away from the electoral result, So actually i believe that leaking does more harm to the democratic process than the fact that they do it behind closed doors.
I would rather have had that they did not die at all.
Good things and bad come from every major event, I don't mind them using gathered data and doing something positive with it, what i do mind is the shameless plug on this day.
bit shamefull to abuse this day, on which the world remembers the victims of this horrible disaster to make these statements how usefull it could be for science.
It is almost like they are happy the attacks took place.
No. Throw chairs!
Who is the current chair at Microsoft?
Not so. If you can read Galatians (the whole letter, rather than one verse without context) and conclude that it's not about how salvation by works is a perversion of the gospel, which is really about faith, then you've completely misread it.
So you say that being loving and caring is not commanded in gal 5:14?
Similarly with Romans. The point of Romans 2 is not that knowledge of the law saves, but that knowledge of the law condemns because it reveals our sinfulness, therefore we have need of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.
Rom 2:14 says that you do not need to know the law, if your heart is pure you will follow the law without knowing it. How can you so completely misread my posting?
How can you do the right thing when you don't know what it is? Surely in order to do it, you have to worry about who is correct?
As long as you are loving and caring (follow gal 5:14) you can be incorrect about everything else and still be a good christian. So nitpicking points awarded, if you would ever meet a christian that states that christianity is about crushing other people to death, then you might worry about who is correct. in the following verses you can read that although christians are allowed to eat anything, sometimes if other christians object, they better can't eat it. Rom 14,21 | 1 Kor 8,13 | 1 Kor 10,28 thats why i say there is more than one way to be a good christian.
Well according to the bible, there are different ways of being a christian that can all be correct.
Most importantly you must be loving and caring. That is the only law left according to galatian 5:14
You do not even need to believe in God or Jesus, according to Romans 2:14, just to follow the(ir) law.
But then on the other hand, who am i to judge. Who are we to judge the correctness of anyones believes? My advice is not to worry to much about who is correct and who isn't. As long as you do the right thing. Most differences of opinion are about irrelevant stuff anyway.
To you i have a question in return, do you think there is any scientist on the face of the earth that completely understands the theory of relativity? "have a perfect understanding of" to paraphrase you.
it is believed that the first 5 books of the bible (the pentateuch: genesis, exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy ) were sent down to Moses around the same time he got the stone tablets. They were past the stone-age back then and most of it was probably written on papyrus.
is so pre-internet.
patents are harming innovation in stead of protecting them. Copyright is enough.
First the embedded reporters disappeared, how can we get any thrustworthy information about the battlefield now? can't we handle the truth?
|Actually, it is likely impossible to track. Later today its bound to be a totally different
|value because our dollar value fluctuates on a near daily basis based on economy.
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=899000000&from=EUR&to=USD&submit=Convert
You (parent) suggest that the systems (diebold) that are currently being used do meet the hava standards? I think given the short timespan (5 days) they came up with a nice thingy. Transparency is a great good. If you ask me, those diebold machines were an instant non-starter. But they were used anyway. (and were still with the last primaries). You can make a list of flaws of this thing, but the only thing on that list that wont be on diebolds list is that everyone has access to the code. But oops, even that one is one diebolds list, after some worker left sources unattended at a public ftp server. (someone found them using the advanced technique of typing "diebold source" into google). There maybe some things still wrong with it, but the nature of OSS is that they get fixed way quieker.
We live in a different age then our forefathers. I think it is better to drop the idea that the representative represents the people in his district. We rarely meet them. Rather let them represent idea's. I think it would be better if you could vote for the person that you think represents your idea's most, whether or not he/she lived in your district.
Then give those elected votingpower proportional to how many people voted for them.
The fact that third party candidate are called spoilers is a indicator that the system is not fair. The article states that any system where voters have even the slightest influence on the process should be called democratic. I disagree.
Well, in that case, Iran is a democratic country (a list pre-approved by the clergy of candidates) Or former east germany. (garanteed 50% of the parliament for the communist party, other 50% up for vote)
If a system favors 1 party, we usually call it a dictatorship. If it favors 2 parties, it is suddenly fair and thus the "western style democracy"? People living in Texas don't have much reason to go vote. The outcome is pretty much set to be republican. Why bother going to the polls then? Turnout is tradionally low in Texas. This makes the argument: "Gore won the popular vote" also less valid. If in all the guaranteed R states everybody would have gone to the polls, i wouldn't know if Gore would still have won the popular vote.
Dividing up the country in seats to vote on favors the 2 party system. In California they are working on a law to split the electoral college like the Californian vote is split up, but if that is not done throughout the country that's not fair either. The electoral college is from a time where small states feared to be ignored. Now it's almost the reverse. Iowa and NH get way more attention than the bigger states. It is outdated. I hope C will have the guts and give their ec to the winner of the national popular vote. That would propel everybody in the US to get their butts to the booth. (And make presidential elections more fair).
Edison just patented the idea of running current through a wire to make it hot and glow in that way. He wasn't original in that aspect, it was one of basic science demonstrations to burn up a wire with electricity. He just patented it for use of lighting, but he did not have a working lightbulb or anything else beyond the common science demo. Then when someone else invented de glass lightbulb to prevent oxidation, he claimed his wire glowing patent and became rich and famous.
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my l33tspeak isnt what it used to be.
This technique will cause more problems then it will solve. You should not be waiting to do maintenance until the bridge is on the verge of collapse (when it would be detected.)
It is the amount of money diverted away from say levies in new orleans or bridges across the country and diverted toward the global war on terrorism. The question is, what will prevent more deaths?
Making such complex systems and calibrating them will drain more money from the already negative cookey jar, so i think it would be better to just fix every bridge.
My problem with this kind of entertainment is that it pretends to be science. Discovery channel profiles itself as a scientific TV channel, but then mostly puts out shows on building cars/motorbikes. The mythbusters supposed to be the science component of this channel. Don't get me wrong, it is a nice show to watch. But to have these two as representatives of the science community? Statistics are amidst the most abused science subject. It doesn't surprise me that mythbusters would abuse it as well. Apparently some of the crowd here don't care so much about truthfinding. But i think it is rather annoying when they are mangling up science. Basicly, their science is not that superior to the science they are trying to bust. I would like discovery to drop the everest climbing, bike building programs, and put in some science.
z80 assembly is the last programming language i learned. I made games for ti83+
saying that you don't need knowledge about assembly language because the compiler does it for you is like saying that you dont need to know addition because your calculator can do it for you. That you have a tool to do it faster is nice, but understanding what is going on is better.
It makes you think much more structured. You have to know where you want to go 5 lines ahead. However, in practice the difference with other languages is small, because most of the actual work is done in calls to the OS or libraries.
And you dont need to understand assembly to make a good emulator. Just have to be able to copy everything from the assembly reference manual.
I went and voted wednesday, but my interrest in politics make unnessesary to rely on a tool like this. How ever, i did fill it out and it had the good direction. In the netherlands, the biggest party got only 27% of the votes, the other partys are even smaller. I think the more partys the better, because more different viewpoints can be assessed. I cant see how in the states only two political partys can really represent so many different opinions. this election the house gained 2 new partys but only lost 1. We proove that different political partys can work together to form a good, more internally balanced, government. Looking for a 3 party solution, because biggest 2 together make only 48%
Ow wow, the law inforcement used the data they stole from the search engines for something that they can allow to get public.
Is this why they had to have this data?
What i see is that the west is moving to simular internet controls already in place in china.
Once upon a time people needed more justification then porn to do stuff like this.
i believe it has been possible for over 10 yrs to buy music wirelessly to a mobile phone. Patent industry is mad.
FTA: "Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential."
Most of the article is plain old microsoft propaganda.
isnt food the ultimate front for any dope dealer? I think this is more a dopedealer training crashcourse than anything else....
If they would want to listen to reliable packet intervals it should be at the first hop. If they could compromise the first hop would they still bother to use this timing interval technique?
From the article:
I think without sensation and novelty seeking columbo wouldn't have set sail into the unknown. having a rapid changing culture doesn't make it shallow. Naughty humor is also almost as old as rockpainting. never dropped in popularity since.
I feel exactly the opposite of Bruce Charlton, i think that our youngsters are more and more forced to act as adults. They get the mobile phone for free and the bill follows a month later. Often far above the months earn of the spotfaced kid. In the netherlands the school systems are also growing towards more personal responsibility for the students.