Your argument in the midst of the rage from the Left claiming that the Electoral College is the *only* thing preventing a Democrat victory.
And the Democrats, by your claim, would result in "all the straight people to be able to make being gay a crime", and actually doing so?
I'd like to explore your reality, just for the entertainment value, but I'm afraid I would be disappointed. It would be be past surreal, well on to fantasy.
And that is why a non-Republican won the election.
Trump may be a registered Republican, but so many others also are acting like anything BUT Republicans that arguing their policies and intentions is pointless.
We use the Big Room method to gather and settle on project requirements. This is the basis for the design.
Appropriate review to re prioritize into the simplistic 'must have', 'ought to have', 'would like to have' takes less time than you might expect.
Then the estimates, systems analysts, and dev team members start estimating the work. Of course, this is where 'would like to have' dies. Those should never get out of Big Room, but hope springs eternal.
Then the project is timelined, a word never spoken, but that's the process. Dependencies identified, order of development decided, and rough deadlines declared.
Now it gets sliced into sprints. It is here the sausage gets made, and it's ugly, when 'must have' gets re-ordered to accommodate the available resources...
And it's already gone to hell at this point.
We were sold on the agile concept of not planning too far ahead. Sadly, this is sort of like filling your car's gas tank with just enough fuel to get to the next station. Any delay, unexpected conditions, or just a heavy foot leaves you just that short of the next pump. What this means is of course dependent on whether it's a few hundred yards short on a cloudless summer day or a few miles short in the midst of a snowstorm. And whether AAA comes out that far. No, they do not go everywhere there is paved road.
When my Agile team keeps putting work into backlog because it takes to many points, they are pretending I will believe them - when they merely intend to re prioritize the work requested.
The scrum master(s) will blame resource constraints, ignoring business demands for backlogged work to be completed.
The Product Owner will then report they have insufficient resources and cannot deliver required, 'must have' features.
Then we get the work done, spread across three sprints (!), and it is flawed. Not merely poor quality, but both defective in key functionality which renders the feature unusable, but also breaks other features. Module programming and testing is obviously not done, but the team blames the test environment, then the development environment, both of which are now entirely under their control.
Mind you, this differs from our Waterfall process in that:
- We now are denied work on a weekly basis instead of waiting months to be told features are delayed further, usually more months. - Failures in installation result in either a fast follower in 3-10 days, rather than retraction and months waiting for repeating the work. - Our requests are denied weekly instead of quarterly. - The Product Owner is now plainly in league with development to ensure the work never exceeds the resources permitted to be made available, which have no direct or observable relationship to the budget.
Yes, our Agile implementation is not optimal. But it delivers failure in a MUCH shorter time frame than Waterfall did.
So the simple way to discredit the alternative media is to false-flag it.
Plant bogus stories around, watch the wackos bite and republish. Promote the wackos. Pretend they are mainstream. Refute the stories, claim the high ground, and poof, we need the reputable media to protect us from the nefarious forces of evil seeking to delude us into wrong thinking.
It should be apparent by now that the Leftist media is not merely untrustworthy, it's actively deceiving us whenever the ends justify the means.
So why is Elon on their radar? Did he fail to say something despicable about Trump?
NO optical scan ballot I ever used had a problem with hanging or any other sort of chads.
It is attractive to automate voting and reduce the cost and trouble of ballots, but none of the systems I've seen are without troubles.
Mechanical tabulators were infamous in some places for the ease of flicking the party ticket lever (voting for all affiliated with one party) and ensuring the parties were taken care of all the way down ballot.
Electronic machines have some legendary and by now well known problems. Brazil seems to have simple, reliable machines, but do these work when there are 30-40 choices to be made? And touch screens are now causing problems that are sufficient to discontinue their use.
Then we can consider the uncertainties of tabulating data. In an era where credit reporting is regularly suspect, cryptography is no longer assured of security, and workers misplace data devices, this is just not yet ready for prime time. It should be, but it is not. Government is not yet competent enough to conduct electronic voting reliably, certainly more reliably than scanned ballots.
And clearly the example in 2000 should by now render the use of tab (punch) card machines unacceptable, as the resulting ballot is almost too fragile to survive the initial count. Again, the annoyance of paper.
" The intention is that the driving mode will be adopted in a similar manner to the airplane mode common to most smartphones and connected devices, which restricts radio communications while airborne."
Um, no, Airplane Mode restricts radio communication when it is enabled. By a user.
And my phone can't tell if it's airborne or not unless it lost all personalization and app settings again, thank you HTC and Google..
"We had BIW representatives on our college campus 10 years ago telling us all about the wonderful things the DDX program (which eventually became the single-ship Zumwalt class) could do."
I doubt this. Everyone I know (EVERYONE, including former Navy Liason) at BIW never ever championed or justified Navy designs or plans. They built boats. They just built boats. They identified problems and solved them, usually ahead of schedule and under budget. They pointed out recognizable deficiencies, adapted to changing requirements and designs, and made things happen.
But they never cheerleaded for the Navy. They built boats.
And even back in 1985, software was killing people, gruesomely. Probably before.
And it was testing that failed back then. Nothing much changes. Agile process has given project managers a way to avoid testing as a function, and so there is no real testing. Hilarity ensues.
The debate on abandoning the Electoral College seems to break down to choosing the President via a national election to diminish the individual states' influence.
Understanding this leads many states to reject this idea.
I am entirely opposed to national election because it would, I believe, render most states impotent in presidential elections and would destroy the balance of power among the states. It would do precisely what the Electoral College was interned to prevent; cause a tyranny of the majority nearly permanent. And as a Republic of states, this would change this nation so as to make it unrecognizable on many respects.
No. I reject it. The current system does in fact preserve the Union.
It's a safe bet that nation-states look to influence EVERTHING they can in America, CONSTANTLY.
This is a non-story, pimped to us by a corrupt media, desperately trying to strip credibility from our votes. Fat chance. They have already lost our trust. They just don't act like it yet, and may never.
Notice the stories that the EU is trying to describe Facebook as a media company? Now to admit the New York Times is a political organization. And admit the truth.
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Your argument in the midst of the rage from the Left claiming that the Electoral College is the *only* thing preventing a Democrat victory.
And the Democrats, by your claim, would result in "all the straight people to be able to make being gay a crime", and actually doing so?
I'd like to explore your reality, just for the entertainment value, but I'm afraid I would be disappointed. It would be be past surreal, well on to fantasy.
And that is why a non-Republican won the election.
Trump may be a registered Republican, but so many others also are acting like anything BUT Republicans that arguing their policies and intentions is pointless.
Something like the Mercury/Gemini development process.
Of course the Russians never had to go past LEO, so they avoided the paradigm shift needed to make a Lunar capable vessel.
You may be able to delver the copyright statement in a day.
The user login process? Maybe the CHA button.
We use the Big Room method to gather and settle on project requirements. This is the basis for the design.
Appropriate review to re prioritize into the simplistic 'must have', 'ought to have', 'would like to have' takes less time than you might expect.
Then the estimates, systems analysts, and dev team members start estimating the work. Of course, this is where 'would like to have' dies. Those should never get out of Big Room, but hope springs eternal.
Then the project is timelined, a word never spoken, but that's the process. Dependencies identified, order of development decided, and rough deadlines declared.
Now it gets sliced into sprints. It is here the sausage gets made, and it's ugly, when 'must have' gets re-ordered to accommodate the available resources...
And it's already gone to hell at this point.
We were sold on the agile concept of not planning too far ahead. Sadly, this is sort of like filling your car's gas tank with just enough fuel to get to the next station. Any delay, unexpected conditions, or just a heavy foot leaves you just that short of the next pump. What this means is of course dependent on whether it's a few hundred yards short on a cloudless summer day or a few miles short in the midst of a snowstorm. And whether AAA comes out that far. No, they do not go everywhere there is paved road.
When my Agile team keeps putting work into backlog because it takes to many points, they are pretending I will believe them - when they merely intend to re prioritize the work requested.
The scrum master(s) will blame resource constraints, ignoring business demands for backlogged work to be completed.
The Product Owner will then report they have insufficient resources and cannot deliver required, 'must have' features.
Then we get the work done, spread across three sprints (!), and it is flawed. Not merely poor quality, but both defective in key functionality which renders the feature unusable, but also breaks other features. Module programming and testing is obviously not done, but the team blames the test environment, then the development environment, both of which are now entirely under their control.
Mind you, this differs from our Waterfall process in that:
- We now are denied work on a weekly basis instead of waiting months to be told features are delayed further, usually more months.
- Failures in installation result in either a fast follower in 3-10 days, rather than retraction and months waiting for repeating the work.
- Our requests are denied weekly instead of quarterly.
- The Product Owner is now plainly in league with development to ensure the work never exceeds the resources permitted to be made available, which have no direct or observable relationship to the budget.
Yes, our Agile implementation is not optimal. But it delivers failure in a MUCH shorter time frame than Waterfall did.
How many Agile programmers does it take to complete a sprint on time?
One, if you commit few enough points.
So the simple way to discredit the alternative media is to false-flag it.
Plant bogus stories around, watch the wackos bite and republish. Promote the wackos. Pretend they are mainstream. Refute the stories, claim the high ground, and poof, we need the reputable media to protect us from the nefarious forces of evil seeking to delude us into wrong thinking.
It should be apparent by now that the Leftist media is not merely untrustworthy, it's actively deceiving us whenever the ends justify the means.
So why is Elon on their radar? Did he fail to say something despicable about Trump?
Leave it to the states. Nothing is improved by moving this process and responsibility to Washington.
Indeed, much will be lost. Like credibility, integrity, and accountability. Nothing given to Washington escapes the taint.
NO optical scan ballot I ever used had a problem with hanging or any other sort of chads.
It is attractive to automate voting and reduce the cost and trouble of ballots, but none of the systems I've seen are without troubles.
Mechanical tabulators were infamous in some places for the ease of flicking the party ticket lever (voting for all affiliated with one party) and ensuring the parties were taken care of all the way down ballot.
Electronic machines have some legendary and by now well known problems. Brazil seems to have simple, reliable machines, but do these work when there are 30-40 choices to be made? And touch screens are now causing problems that are sufficient to discontinue their use.
Then we can consider the uncertainties of tabulating data. In an era where credit reporting is regularly suspect, cryptography is no longer assured of security, and workers misplace data devices, this is just not yet ready for prime time. It should be, but it is not. Government is not yet competent enough to conduct electronic voting reliably, certainly more reliably than scanned ballots.
And clearly the example in 2000 should by now render the use of tab (punch) card machines unacceptable, as the resulting ballot is almost too fragile to survive the initial count. Again, the annoyance of paper.
" The intention is that the driving mode will be adopted in a similar manner to the airplane mode common to most smartphones and connected devices, which restricts radio communications while airborne."
Um, no, Airplane Mode restricts radio communication when it is enabled. By a user.
And my phone can't tell if it's airborne or not unless it lost all personalization and app settings again, thank you HTC and Google..
I'll spell it as they wish. Not my country. Not my choice.
"We had BIW representatives on our college campus 10 years ago telling us all about the wonderful things the DDX program (which eventually became the single-ship Zumwalt class) could do."
I doubt this. Everyone I know (EVERYONE, including former Navy Liason) at BIW never ever championed or justified Navy designs or plans. They built boats. They just built boats. They identified problems and solved them, usually ahead of schedule and under budget. They pointed out recognizable deficiencies, adapted to changing requirements and designs, and made things happen.
But they never cheerleaded for the Navy. They built boats.
And even back in 1985, software was killing people, gruesomely. Probably before.
And it was testing that failed back then. Nothing much changes. Agile process has given project managers a way to avoid testing as a function, and so there is no real testing. Hilarity ensues.
... And so well we've just elected am outsider to redirect it to that task.
Perhaps, but this election seems to have divided between the urban and rural areas.
And Maine became a swing state. That's interesting. Would a candidate ever come to Maine again if the EC didn't exist.
PS - its purpose was never abandoned.
China has no freedom of speech recognized in their constitution. They guarantee no one their right to speak out.
So yes, they would indeed be willing to manage the Internet in a way that would permit governing bodies to deny access and remove content.
In their country, I have nothing much to say about it.
In my country, however, I expect the government to protect and defend my rights, speech being among them.
The debate on abandoning the Electoral College seems to break down to choosing the President via a national election to diminish the individual states' influence.
Understanding this leads many states to reject this idea.
I am entirely opposed to national election because it would, I believe, render most states impotent in presidential elections and would destroy the balance of power among the states. It would do precisely what the Electoral College was interned to prevent; cause a tyranny of the majority nearly permanent. And as a Republic of states, this would change this nation so as to make it unrecognizable on many respects.
No. I reject it. The current system does in fact preserve the Union.
That's not helping you with your iPhone 7, genius.
For the love of God, grow a set.
Well, you're wrong. There is plenty of scholarship on this topic.
And you're proof that our education system has failed.
So you're arguing they are equivalent?
OK.
That.
It's a safe bet that nation-states look to influence EVERTHING they can in America, CONSTANTLY.
This is a non-story, pimped to us by a corrupt media, desperately trying to strip credibility from our votes. Fat chance. They have already lost our trust. They just don't act like it yet, and may never.
Notice the stories that the EU is trying to describe Facebook as a media company? Now to admit the New York Times is a political organization. And admit the truth.