If you gave me half an hour to build up my health and collect "Extra [X] Potions", I could play indefinitely on one quarter. My record was 10 1/2 hours on the Wizard. The last half hour was spent suiciding, because the owners were trying to close the arcade.
How is "Mickey" going to get a valid SSN# or driver's license number? Without one of those, most states (all, AFAIK) won't approve his voter registration.
ACORN and other voter registration groups are REQUIRED to submit all signed forms to the state, even if they're incomplete, obviously fraudulent, etc. They can flag suspected forms to call them to the state's attention, but the state makes the final call over whether the voter is legitimate--which is the way it should be. Otherwise, registration groups might throw out forms based on political party or other criteria.
If "Mickey" can vote, that means he either has a fake identity, or his registration was approved without state oversight. In neither case is the voter registration organization culpable.
Obama has formed a "truth squad" in Missouri to refute factual inaccuracies spread by his opponents. McCain and Palin have already done the same in other states.
Some of the members of the squad are in law enforcement, or are prosecutors; McCain and Palin have done the same thing on their squads. McCain's South Carolina primary "Truth Squad" included Attorney General Henry McMaster and Seventh Circuit Solicitor Trey Gowdy, a prosecutor. The recently created "Palin Truth Squad" includes District Attorney of Dona Ana County (NM) Susana Martinez.
No member of Obama's squad is threatening to use their legal powers to arrest or prosecute his critics, and in fact, it's unclear how they'd do so, since libel and slander are civil matters in the US.
If it DOES have a chilling effect on Obama's critics, we should expect that McCain's & Palin's truth squads have the same effect, but neither the Obama campaign nor McCain's primary opponents expressed any concerns or complaints. For Matt Blunt to cry "foul" when his own side uses identical tactics is disingenuous and hypocritical.
Could it be that we're in a false vacuum, and a billion years ago a civilization 6-10 billion light years away found a way to trigger a vacuum metastability event?
When the news is over, you then get Democrat party talking points andpolicy thinly disguised as sitcoms and Dramas (west wing, etc)
If you're talking about the major US political party, you mean "Democratic Party". Accidentally leaving off the "-ic" makes you seem lazy and ignorant, and deliberately doing so labels you a knee-jerk partisan shill.
Not that we should expect anything better from an AC...
In this case, 5 years + 3 months + 5 days only =/= 535 base 10, or base anything else, so to try to convert it directly to some other base is fruitless.
There are actually (5*365+1) + (31+30+31) + 5 = 1923 days.
Sadly, there's not an integer X such that 6X^2 + 6X + 6 = 1923.
Even if we try to pick an arbitrary "annum" and "lunum" length, we can't get 6 "anni", 6 "luni" and 6 days out of 1923 if our "anni" and "luni" are of integral day length, since 1923 isn't divisible by 6.
BUT...if we define a lunum as 29 days, define an annum as 10 luni, and declare a "leap annum" every other year, then 6 anni + 6 luni + 6 days = 1923.
Of course, that would be silly, and a waste of time to calculate, unless you're getting paid for it, like I am.
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By then, the ocean will be too acidic for coral.
If you gave me half an hour to build up my health and collect "Extra [X] Potions", I could play indefinitely on one quarter. My record was 10 1/2 hours on the Wizard. The last half hour was spent suiciding, because the owners were trying to close the arcade.
How is "Mickey" going to get a valid SSN# or driver's license number? Without one of those, most states (all, AFAIK) won't approve his voter registration.
ACORN and other voter registration groups are REQUIRED to submit all signed forms to the state, even if they're incomplete, obviously fraudulent, etc. They can flag suspected forms to call them to the state's attention, but the state makes the final call over whether the voter is legitimate--which is the way it should be. Otherwise, registration groups might throw out forms based on political party or other criteria.
If "Mickey" can vote, that means he either has a fake identity, or his registration was approved without state oversight. In neither case is the voter registration organization culpable.
For a less partisan take on the issue, look here.
Obama has formed a "truth squad" in Missouri to refute factual inaccuracies spread by his opponents. McCain and Palin have already done the same in other states.
Some of the members of the squad are in law enforcement, or are prosecutors; McCain and Palin have done the same thing on their squads. McCain's South Carolina primary "Truth Squad" included Attorney General Henry McMaster and Seventh Circuit Solicitor Trey Gowdy, a prosecutor. The recently created "Palin Truth Squad" includes District Attorney of Dona Ana County (NM) Susana Martinez.
No member of Obama's squad is threatening to use their legal powers to arrest or prosecute his critics, and in fact, it's unclear how they'd do so, since libel and slander are civil matters in the US.
If it DOES have a chilling effect on Obama's critics, we should expect that McCain's & Palin's truth squads have the same effect, but neither the Obama campaign nor McCain's primary opponents expressed any concerns or complaints. For Matt Blunt to cry "foul" when his own side uses identical tactics is disingenuous and hypocritical.
They're, their, don't loose you're temper, reign it in!
The " mark is inches, not cm.
Well-written screeds like this are the reason I read /.
Could it be that we're in a false vacuum, and a billion years ago a civilization 6-10 billion light years away found a way to trigger a vacuum metastability event?
If you're talking about the major US political party, you mean "Democratic Party". Accidentally leaving off the "-ic" makes you seem lazy and ignorant, and deliberately doing so labels you a knee-jerk partisan shill.
Not that we should expect anything better from an AC...In this case, 5 years + 3 months + 5 days only =/= 535 base 10, or base anything else, so to try to convert it directly to some other base is fruitless. There are actually (5*365+1) + (31+30+31) + 5 = 1923 days. Sadly, there's not an integer X such that 6X^2 + 6X + 6 = 1923. Even if we try to pick an arbitrary "annum" and "lunum" length, we can't get 6 "anni", 6 "luni" and 6 days out of 1923 if our "anni" and "luni" are of integral day length, since 1923 isn't divisible by 6. BUT...if we define a lunum as 29 days, define an annum as 10 luni, and declare a "leap annum" every other year, then 6 anni + 6 luni + 6 days = 1923. Of course, that would be silly, and a waste of time to calculate, unless you're getting paid for it, like I am.
...both "fud" and "notfud", to save everyone else the trouble?
I predict a spring 2006 launch in the Australian market, in early- to mid-December.