Another reason not to purchase it as a main/vacation home is that the locals play off the tourism thing a LOT. Those gypsy women can be nasty if you take away from of their income.
They'll shut up after you stick a few of their heads on stakes. MwahahHAHAHAHAHA!
The killer app for this will be to add real-time traffic conditions, and traffic cams, to the GPS mapping system in your car.
Every day on the way home I exit from the freeway one exit early because about 20% of the time traffic is backed up and it takes 30 min to get to the next exit. When traffic isn't backed up staying on the freeway saves 10 minutes. But for me arriving at a predictable time is more important that trying to beat the odds. If I could access a traffic cam from my car a few minutes before I got to that exit it would be soooo cool.
The downside is once there is significant adoption of this tech then everybody will know about that crash that has the freeway tied up, and having the info won't help me because everybody else will already be clogging up the alternate routes.
60 calories and 0 nutritional value. How is that a good thing?
Wonder bread is to wheat as high fructose corn syrup is to corn.
Wonder has almost no fiber. It is almost pure starch which is quickly converted into sugar in you digestive system. If you have low blood sugar and need a boost NOW eating a slice of wonder is faster than eating a powered sugar donut.
The only practical way to do this is to utilize the army of users to police the site. Set up some kind of tagging or flagging system where users can flag a video as "copyrighted music" or "copyrighted video." Perhaps a meta-moderation system on top of the base level can assure smooth functioning. At the top a smaller army of actual people will have to make decisions about fair use etc. This site, and craigslist employ similar strategies relatively effectively.
It'll be the first ever web2.0 social snitching system!
I remember in about 1995 they had a cover with a big smiley face and it said, "The Long Boom."
They were predicting a constantly booming economy for the next 25 years. Even then I thought it was naive.
I remember when I was about 12 years old, my Dad was trying to talk me into seeing this movie about an archeologist searching for some ancient jewish artifact. I couldn't imagine anything more boring sounding. "Dad, I don't wanna see some dumb archeology movie, it sounds boooooring! I don't care if Han Solo is in it. It's still gonna be dumb!"
Well he and my Mom dragged me along to see it anyway. We were a bit late because of my foot dragging. We walked into the Villa Theater (huge wraparound screen that made IMAX look like a video ipod) right as the Paramount trademark was fading to the jungle mountain. I'm getting chills up my back remembering it. That might have been the most pure unadulterated FUN I ever had in a movie theater.
but it certainly doesn't equate to a 70MPH-to-zero panic stop in a limited space.
You have obviously never driven on 880 through the East Bay between 6am and 8pm.
In my opinion you can frequently blame random mass panic stops on on guy who's already home snacking and watching the tube, because the guy to blame is an idiot traffic engineer that works for the state, and they get to go home at 3:30pm.
Seriously..
In all the years I've driven I've decided that traffic flow is analagous to a special case of internal compressible flow. That is the mechanical engineering way to say it's like supersonic air flow in a pipe. The special case is that there is no friction with the walls of the pipe and that the pipe is very small in diameter. When traffic is at a sufficient density and speed, a constriction, or obsruction can cause a shock to occur. On one side of the shock traffic is "supersonic," on the other side it's crawling along, and at the shock everyone is standing on their brakes hoping they won't get rear ended by that idtiot in the SUV with the cell phone and starbucks. Shocks can be static. This tends to occur when there is no change in total mass flow rate across the shock. A moving shock occurs when there is a change in mass flow across the shock. If total trafic flow rate is slower downstream of a shock then the shock will move backward through traffic until it reaches an equilibrium point. Sometimes you get a bad phenomena that I call cascading shocks. That's when some constriction causes a shock for just a moment. That shock, if the traffic is of sufficient density and speed, travels backwards through traffic, but since the source is temporary, or periodic, traffic accelerates again (since gas flows don't accelerate on thier own, that is where the analogy breaks down). Then the disturbance occurs again and another shock starts moving backwards through traffic. One example of this that I can think of is on 880 south approaching the San Mateo Bridge turn off. 880 tends to be very fast and very high density. There is a carpool lane. Frequently a jerk waits as long as possible in the carpool lane before frantically changing across all the lanes to exit to the Bridge. This causes a moving shock, and so does the next jerk... This is why on that freeway everybody will be doing 70 one moment and the next everyone is standing on their brakes, hoping the sphincter will hold. A moment later everyone is going 70 again, and sure enough here comes another panic stop.
So clearly in flow that has a critcal density and speed, any sufficiently large perterbation can cause a traffic slowdown. Chaotic effects clearly come into play.
There are several major blacklist providers, like Spamassassin. I think it would be very worthwhile to publish a monthly list of the names and ADDRESSES of the top 10 spammers. Get it in one of those colorful charts the put in USA Today and other major dailys. This would publicize the problem, put a face on the problem, and put real fear into the hearts of the perpetrators.
Another thought... Hasn't anyone tried setting a few honeypots and then sue for the per spam fines? If you got damages from suits like that you could really make some $$ (until the spammers sent their thugs with baseball bats after you!).
If they made the false statement under oath it would be perjury and someone should be under indictment by now. If the statement was made by a lawyer without the letter being present why the F!@# didn't the judge ask to see the letter in any of the other cases!?!?! And the lawyer should be held in contempt of court.
So what we have here is 4 possibilities:
1) the RIAA committed perjury and will probably get away with no punishment
2) the RIAA lied to the court (not under oath) and will probably never be held in contempt
3) the judge is incompetent
4) the judge is complicit
This kind of thing really pisses me off, and I don't even steal music online!
The same thing has happened to me. I don't have a TV at all. I use netflix to rent DVDs of TV shows that I want to watch. I cannot stand listening to radio excpet NPR and Pacifica (and NPR has started running advertisements as well! (Pacifica is annoying in it's own special ways)). If I am at someone elses home and they are watching TV I am usually very annoyed with the frequency, volume, and length of ads. I'll usually leave the room and talk to someone who isn't a slave to the the tube.
I've made special effort to protect my 3 year old from persistant advertising. There is a growing consensus that advertising contributes to many social ills in children, including obesity, anorexia, alchohol consumption, early sex.
Apparently, on average, children see 40,000 ads per year on TV alone! Now advertsising is common in schools. All those ads may be good for buisness but I'll do what I must to protect my boy from this mental poison.
I expect that 99% of computer owners that have compromised windoze machines do not know that their machines have been compromised. Each person who owns a PC that is involved should be notified.
"Your computer has been compromised and is being used for criminal activities. Now that you have been notified, you will be held responsible for future criminal activity involving your computer. Here are instructions for regaining control of your computer..."
This new rule applies to companies that are involved in federal litigation. Email is discoverable, and if you're being sued you'd better not destroy evidence. I usually get upset when some new invasive law comes down, but this is a no-brainer. If you're worried about privacy intrusion or even discoverability then implement a policy of deleting old emails. Don't keep anything older than 1 month or 6 months. If you need a copy print it and put it in the project file. This way when the subpeonea shows up you have minimal exposure. Frankly if you start deleting stuff after the subpeona, you ought to go to jail.
Actually this time just RTFA isn't enough. You need to read the whitepaper as well.
It appears that at least one federal agency has not turned to the dark side. The draft NIST white paper recommends a voter verifiable paper audit trail that is also the ballot of record, AND robust auditing. I was very pleased to read it. I hope the final document isn't watered down, and I hope this or something similar is implemented in time for the 2008 election.
The premise of the whitepaper is that no software dependent system for counting votes (like a touchscreen with no paper ballot) can be fully vetted, and that they should never be used without a software independent record for use in mandatory statistically robust audits.
In other election reform news... There is an organization that has been a key mover in the election reform movement called electionarchive.org. They did a lot of very interesting statistical analysis of the 2004 elections and found some startling results. They have made a very solid list of 15 legislative recommendations. They can be found here:
here is a list of the electionarchive.org recommendations
1.Manual Audits
2.Voter Service Reports
3.Auditable Voting Systems
4.Fund Manual Audits and Voter Service Reports
5.Teeth (enforcement)
6.Public Election Records
7.Election Monitoring Website
8.Submission of Reports
9.Public Disclosure of Voting System Software
10.Prohibit Certain Network Connections
11.Qualifications for Technical Guidelines Development Committee
12.Public Right to Observe
13.Vote Count Audit and Recount Committee
14.Repository for Voting System Disclosure
15.Prohibit Practices that Disenfranchise Voters
The grandparent poster was not talking about the floating ice on the Arctic Ocean. He was talking about the permafrost in places like Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
It is suprising that methane has stabilized. There was a paper published this summer stating that melting permafrost was releasing methane at a much higher rate than expected. This would mean that some other source of methane would have to be slowing. If this is true it is good news indeed. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
Oh and the previous poster who made the condescending comment about the "doom and gloom" crowd... I am someone whom you would probably lump into that crowd. Notice how I said that this is good news? I don't think many people WANT catastrophic global climate change but people are concerned about the very real possibility.
I believe that we can take action now that can minimize the effects of climate change. A fairly recent ban on CFCs has resulted in an average reduction in the size of the antarctic ozone hole (though it was very big this summer.) The very cool thing about seizing the initiative on this front is that if done right we can stimulate new manufacturing (solar) in the US, stimulate construction, reduce our dependence on dwindling oil supplies, AND "save the world." Or we can sit on our hands and let the opportunity pass.
Your comment is filled with so many mistruths about Bill O'Reilly that it is evident you glean your information about him from forums and not reality.
Apparently you failed to read my retraction only two articles down from the original.
I was wrong about Mr. O'Reilly's stance on many issues (except for the "shutup" bit). I stopped paying attention to him in about 2003 when he WAS a significant proponent of pro-war propaganda.
My comments regarding the belief, which is sometimes called young earth creationism, is far from ignorant. The earth was not created a mere 7,500 years ago like a large number of people espouse. The physical evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. I consider young earth creationism to be on the same intellectual level as the idea that the earth is flat. It is simply wrong. This is not elitist. It is simply a comparison of facts to beliefs. It is fair to say that I hold the belief of young earth creationism in contempt. It is not fair to say that I have contempt for religious believers in general. On that point you are making the same type of erroneous assumption that I made in my first post.
My original comment thoroughly deserves to be modded down as flambait.
Her second husband was an experimental composer. He used banks of syncronized player pianos to make music (the predecessor of electronica?). She adapted that technology (putting synchronized player piano rolls in a torpedo radio and the guidance radio which controlled the fequency) to invent what we now call spread spectrum. The idea was rejected by the military and she was told she could make the best contribution to the war effort by acting. So she was brilliant and misunderstood.
I definitely agree here. A high school education certainly doesn't provide the opportunities that it used to (nor does a BA or BS for that matter).
The reason for that is not because the degree is worth less but because there is less opportunities to go around. Our whole economy has been sold off to the god of "global free trade." Of course there is nothing free about it, it's just a catchy name.
Well I stand corrected. I was painting him with the same broad (and maybe unfair) brush that he frequently paints others with.
Of course while the CIA was negligent in the lead up to war, we seem to have skipped over the whole issue (as a nation) of the manipulation of intelligence and recycling of discredited intelligence by the administration itself (in the Office of Special Plans in particular.)
As far as the shut up issue. Rent and watch the documentary "Outfoxed." There is a hilarious bit where they show him saying "I've never said 'shut up' on the air." Then they procede to show him saying and yelling it dozens of times.
I still say he is a blowhard and his opinion on youth culture (or online culture) carries no weight.
we found WMDs in Iraq;
we're winning in Iraq;
the world was created by God approximately 7,500 years ago;
evolution is a liberal fabrication designed to undermine the true faith;
global warming isn't happening, and if it is then it is good for you;
lying about an extra-marital affair is a greater crime than torture, agressive wars, or illegal spying;
any fact can be refuted by yelling !!SHUT-UP!! really loudly; AND...
people who get their news online are more detached from reality than people who watch Fox news.
I think he's just cranky because so many of those people "who don't deal with reality -- ever" booted his party out of power in congress with a fraud-proof landslide!
You acquire a surplus ATM somewhere. You program it to read and record the magnetic strip info, and to record the PIN number that the sucker enters. You program it to put up a message like, "Sorry, this machine is temporarily out of cash." Put the machine in a public place for a while. Retrieve the stolen info... profit!!!
Or here's another fun one. Back a truck through the front of a 7-11. Hop out put the whole atm in the bed. Drive off, and cut it open at your leisure... profit!!
I would have made a great criminal if it weren't for those morals my parents instilled in me.
Well too bad that your fiscally conservative but socially reasonable north east republicans in the house and senate voted repeatedly for the radical and outrageous crap that the nutjobs have put us through in the last 6 years.
The crap I refer to would include: almost doubling the debt limit to about 9 TRILLION dollars, eliminating habeus corpus, torture, overturning the posse comitatus act, giving the prez and his designees the power to declare ANYONE an enemy combatant without recourse or review, torture, war, the medicare prescrip drug debacle, torture, billions of dollars in tax give-backs to the rich, no tax break for me, and did I mention torture?
It is the civic duty of an American Citizen to cast an informed vote. If you aren't informed, don't give me any pathetic excuses, GET INFORMED. Watching TV news does not count in my personal opinion. Read read read. Research. Get involved. Learn the issues before election day. Stop with the excuses. Just do it.
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The killer app for this will be to add real-time traffic conditions, and traffic cams, to the GPS mapping system in your car. Every day on the way home I exit from the freeway one exit early because about 20% of the time traffic is backed up and it takes 30 min to get to the next exit. When traffic isn't backed up staying on the freeway saves 10 minutes. But for me arriving at a predictable time is more important that trying to beat the odds. If I could access a traffic cam from my car a few minutes before I got to that exit it would be soooo cool.
The downside is once there is significant adoption of this tech then everybody will know about that crash that has the freeway tied up, and having the info won't help me because everybody else will already be clogging up the alternate routes.
60 calories and 0 nutritional value. How is that a good thing? Wonder bread is to wheat as high fructose corn syrup is to corn. Wonder has almost no fiber. It is almost pure starch which is quickly converted into sugar in you digestive system. If you have low blood sugar and need a boost NOW eating a slice of wonder is faster than eating a powered sugar donut.
I don't disagree at all. I was simply waxing nostalgic about a great film from my childhood.
The only practical way to do this is to utilize the army of users to police the site. Set up some kind of tagging or flagging system where users can flag a video as "copyrighted music" or "copyrighted video." Perhaps a meta-moderation system on top of the base level can assure smooth functioning. At the top a smaller army of actual people will have to make decisions about fair use etc. This site, and craigslist employ similar strategies relatively effectively. It'll be the first ever web2.0 social snitching system!
I remember in about 1995 they had a cover with a big smiley face and it said, "The Long Boom." They were predicting a constantly booming economy for the next 25 years. Even then I thought it was naive.
I remember when I was about 12 years old, my Dad was trying to talk me into seeing this movie about an archeologist searching for some ancient jewish artifact. I couldn't imagine anything more boring sounding. "Dad, I don't wanna see some dumb archeology movie, it sounds boooooring! I don't care if Han Solo is in it. It's still gonna be dumb!" Well he and my Mom dragged me along to see it anyway. We were a bit late because of my foot dragging. We walked into the Villa Theater (huge wraparound screen that made IMAX look like a video ipod) right as the Paramount trademark was fading to the jungle mountain. I'm getting chills up my back remembering it. That might have been the most pure unadulterated FUN I ever had in a movie theater.
You have obviously never driven on 880 through the East Bay between 6am and 8pm.
In my opinion you can frequently blame random mass panic stops on on guy who's already home snacking and watching the tube, because the guy to blame is an idiot traffic engineer that works for the state, and they get to go home at 3:30pm.
Seriously..
In all the years I've driven I've decided that traffic flow is analagous to a special case of internal compressible flow. That is the mechanical engineering way to say it's like supersonic air flow in a pipe. The special case is that there is no friction with the walls of the pipe and that the pipe is very small in diameter. When traffic is at a sufficient density and speed, a constriction, or obsruction can cause a shock to occur. On one side of the shock traffic is "supersonic," on the other side it's crawling along, and at the shock everyone is standing on their brakes hoping they won't get rear ended by that idtiot in the SUV with the cell phone and starbucks. Shocks can be static. This tends to occur when there is no change in total mass flow rate across the shock. A moving shock occurs when there is a change in mass flow across the shock. If total trafic flow rate is slower downstream of a shock then the shock will move backward through traffic until it reaches an equilibrium point. Sometimes you get a bad phenomena that I call cascading shocks. That's when some constriction causes a shock for just a moment. That shock, if the traffic is of sufficient density and speed, travels backwards through traffic, but since the source is temporary, or periodic, traffic accelerates again (since gas flows don't accelerate on thier own, that is where the analogy breaks down). Then the disturbance occurs again and another shock starts moving backwards through traffic. One example of this that I can think of is on 880 south approaching the San Mateo Bridge turn off. 880 tends to be very fast and very high density. There is a carpool lane. Frequently a jerk waits as long as possible in the carpool lane before frantically changing across all the lanes to exit to the Bridge. This causes a moving shock, and so does the next jerk... This is why on that freeway everybody will be doing 70 one moment and the next everyone is standing on their brakes, hoping the sphincter will hold. A moment later everyone is going 70 again, and sure enough here comes another panic stop.
So clearly in flow that has a critcal density and speed, any sufficiently large perterbation can cause a traffic slowdown. Chaotic effects clearly come into play.
There are several major blacklist providers, like Spamassassin. I think it would be very worthwhile to publish a monthly list of the names and ADDRESSES of the top 10 spammers. Get it in one of those colorful charts the put in USA Today and other major dailys. This would publicize the problem, put a face on the problem, and put real fear into the hearts of the perpetrators. Another thought... Hasn't anyone tried setting a few honeypots and then sue for the per spam fines? If you got damages from suits like that you could really make some $$ (until the spammers sent their thugs with baseball bats after you!).
If they made the false statement under oath it would be perjury and someone should be under indictment by now. If the statement was made by a lawyer without the letter being present why the F!@# didn't the judge ask to see the letter in any of the other cases!?!?! And the lawyer should be held in contempt of court.
So what we have here is 4 possibilities:
1) the RIAA committed perjury and will probably get away with no punishment
2) the RIAA lied to the court (not under oath) and will probably never be held in contempt
3) the judge is incompetent
4) the judge is complicit
This kind of thing really pisses me off, and I don't even steal music online!
The same thing has happened to me. I don't have a TV at all. I use netflix to rent DVDs of TV shows that I want to watch. I cannot stand listening to radio excpet NPR and Pacifica (and NPR has started running advertisements as well! (Pacifica is annoying in it's own special ways)). If I am at someone elses home and they are watching TV I am usually very annoyed with the frequency, volume, and length of ads. I'll usually leave the room and talk to someone who isn't a slave to the the tube.
6 462.asp
I've made special effort to protect my 3 year old from persistant advertising. There is a growing consensus that advertising contributes to many social ills in children, including obesity, anorexia, alchohol consumption, early sex.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061204/106
Apparently, on average, children see 40,000 ads per year on TV alone! Now advertsising is common in schools. All those ads may be good for buisness but I'll do what I must to protect my boy from this mental poison.
I expect that 99% of computer owners that have compromised windoze machines do not know that their machines have been compromised. Each person who owns a PC that is involved should be notified.
"Your computer has been compromised and is being used for criminal activities. Now that you have been notified, you will be held responsible for future criminal activity involving your computer. Here are instructions for regaining control of your computer..."
This new rule applies to companies that are involved in federal litigation. Email is discoverable, and if you're being sued you'd better not destroy evidence. I usually get upset when some new invasive law comes down, but this is a no-brainer. If you're worried about privacy intrusion or even discoverability then implement a policy of deleting old emails. Don't keep anything older than 1 month or 6 months. If you need a copy print it and put it in the project file. This way when the subpeonea shows up you have minimal exposure. Frankly if you start deleting stuff after the subpeona, you ought to go to jail.
Actually this time just RTFA isn't enough. You need to read the whitepaper as well.
e gislationProposal.pdf
It appears that at least one federal agency has not turned to the dark side. The draft NIST white paper recommends a voter verifiable paper audit trail that is also the ballot of record, AND robust auditing. I was very pleased to read it. I hope the final document isn't watered down, and I hope this or something similar is implemented in time for the 2008 election.
The premise of the whitepaper is that no software dependent system for counting votes (like a touchscreen with no paper ballot) can be fully vetted, and that they should never be used without a software independent record for use in mandatory statistically robust audits.
In other election reform news... There is an organization that has been a key mover in the election reform movement called electionarchive.org. They did a lot of very interesting statistical analysis of the 2004 elections and found some startling results. They have made a very solid list of 15 legislative recommendations. They can be found here:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/EI-FederalL
here is a list of the electionarchive.org recommendations
1.Manual Audits
2.Voter Service Reports
3.Auditable Voting Systems
4.Fund Manual Audits and Voter Service Reports
5.Teeth (enforcement)
6.Public Election Records
7.Election Monitoring Website
8.Submission of Reports
9.Public Disclosure of Voting System Software
10.Prohibit Certain Network Connections
11.Qualifications for Technical Guidelines Development Committee
12.Public Right to Observe
13.Vote Count Audit and Recount Committee
14.Repository for Voting System Disclosure
15.Prohibit Practices that Disenfranchise Voters
The grandparent poster was not talking about the floating ice on the Arctic Ocean. He was talking about the permafrost in places like Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
It is suprising that methane has stabilized. There was a paper published this summer stating that melting permafrost was releasing methane at a much higher rate than expected. This would mean that some other source of methane would have to be slowing. If this is true it is good news indeed. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
Oh and the previous poster who made the condescending comment about the "doom and gloom" crowd... I am someone whom you would probably lump into that crowd. Notice how I said that this is good news? I don't think many people WANT catastrophic global climate change but people are concerned about the very real possibility.
I believe that we can take action now that can minimize the effects of climate change. A fairly recent ban on CFCs has resulted in an average reduction in the size of the antarctic ozone hole (though it was very big this summer.) The very cool thing about seizing the initiative on this front is that if done right we can stimulate new manufacturing (solar) in the US, stimulate construction, reduce our dependence on dwindling oil supplies, AND "save the world." Or we can sit on our hands and let the opportunity pass.
I was wrong about Mr. O'Reilly's stance on many issues (except for the "shutup" bit). I stopped paying attention to him in about 2003 when he WAS a significant proponent of pro-war propaganda.
My comments regarding the belief, which is sometimes called young earth creationism, is far from ignorant. The earth was not created a mere 7,500 years ago like a large number of people espouse. The physical evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. I consider young earth creationism to be on the same intellectual level as the idea that the earth is flat. It is simply wrong. This is not elitist. It is simply a comparison of facts to beliefs. It is fair to say that I hold the belief of young earth creationism in contempt. It is not fair to say that I have contempt for religious believers in general. On that point you are making the same type of erroneous assumption that I made in my first post.
My original comment thoroughly deserves to be modded down as flambait.
I second the motion for Hedy Lamarr.
Her second husband was an experimental composer. He used banks of syncronized player pianos to make music (the predecessor of electronica?). She adapted that technology (putting synchronized player piano rolls in a torpedo radio and the guidance radio which controlled the fequency) to invent what we now call spread spectrum. The idea was rejected by the military and she was told she could make the best contribution to the war effort by acting. So she was brilliant and misunderstood.
AND she was definately hotter that paris hilton.
http://www.hedylamarr.com/about/image3.htm
The reason for that is not because the degree is worth less but because there is less opportunities to go around. Our whole economy has been sold off to the god of "global free trade." Of course there is nothing free about it, it's just a catchy name.
Well I stand corrected. I was painting him with the same broad (and maybe unfair) brush that he frequently paints others with.
Of course while the CIA was negligent in the lead up to war, we seem to have skipped over the whole issue (as a nation) of the manipulation of intelligence and recycling of discredited intelligence by the administration itself (in the Office of Special Plans in particular.)
As far as the shut up issue. Rent and watch the documentary "Outfoxed." There is a hilarious bit where they show him saying "I've never said 'shut up' on the air." Then they procede to show him saying and yelling it dozens of times.
I still say he is a blowhard and his opinion on youth culture (or online culture) carries no weight.
In Bill O'Reilley's reality:
/. waste time on this blowhard?
we found WMDs in Iraq;
we're winning in Iraq;
the world was created by God approximately 7,500 years ago;
evolution is a liberal fabrication designed to undermine the true faith;
global warming isn't happening, and if it is then it is good for you;
lying about an extra-marital affair is a greater crime than torture, agressive wars, or illegal spying;
any fact can be refuted by yelling !!SHUT-UP!! really loudly; AND...
people who get their news online are more detached from reality than people who watch Fox news.
I think he's just cranky because so many of those people "who don't deal with reality -- ever" booted his party out of power in congress with a fraud-proof landslide!
Why would
You acquire a surplus ATM somewhere. You program it to read and record the magnetic strip info, and to record the PIN number that the sucker enters. You program it to put up a message like, "Sorry, this machine is temporarily out of cash." Put the machine in a public place for a while. Retrieve the stolen info... profit!!!
Or here's another fun one. Back a truck through the front of a 7-11. Hop out put the whole atm in the bed. Drive off, and cut it open at your leisure... profit!!
I would have made a great criminal if it weren't for those morals my parents instilled in me.
In California a candidate must register as a write-in candidate. Votes for a non-registered write-in are not counted.
Well too bad that your fiscally conservative but socially reasonable north east republicans in the house and senate voted repeatedly for the radical and outrageous crap that the nutjobs have put us through in the last 6 years.
The crap I refer to would include: almost doubling the debt limit to about 9 TRILLION dollars, eliminating habeus corpus, torture, overturning the posse comitatus act, giving the prez and his designees the power to declare ANYONE an enemy combatant without recourse or review, torture, war, the medicare prescrip drug debacle, torture, billions of dollars in tax give-backs to the rich, no tax break for me, and did I mention torture?
I'm sick and tired of these astronomy stories that don't show a picture of the phenomena in question. What gives?
It is the civic duty of an American Citizen to cast an informed vote. If you aren't informed, don't give me any pathetic excuses, GET INFORMED. Watching TV news does not count in my personal opinion. Read read read. Research. Get involved. Learn the issues before election day. Stop with the excuses. Just do it.