I'd also like to toss in this little quote I just ran across:
It is important to note that of all the civil liberties we take for granted today as a part of the Bill of Rights, the importance of habeas corpus is illustrated by the fact that it was the sole liberty thought important enough to be included in the original text of the Constitution. source: http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#HABCOR
I wasn't saying that all gun nuts were rednecks, nor that all rednecks or gun nuts voted for the shrubbery. The vast majority of the union seem to be pro-shrub, though.
Oh. Well, then. Separate browsers, or multiple copies of Firefox with different profiles. I've used the later to log in with two different accounts on some websites, and it wasn't that difficult to set up with FF 2. The only irritating part about it was that I couldn't just click on links in IRC or such, but had to copy and paste them.
That isn't neccessary. The Constitution is an enumeration of powers expressly granted to the federal government by The People. Any powers not EXPRESSLY given to the government by the Constitution do not exist. The People have all of the rights, and have expressly listed what they allow a government to do.
(from the Declaration of Independence) We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governements are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such a Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The founding fathers, as demonstrated in the above quote, believe that ALL power of the government is given to it by the governed. Amendment IX of the Constitution (one of the ten amendments that make up the "Bill of Rights") goes on to state:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
and Amendment X:
The powers note delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In other words, what I have already stated. The United States Government does not have any powers not expressly given to it by the people, nor does the Constitution GRANT rights to The People.
More like the "gun-loving rednecks" are behind the current administration 100%. Even to the point of making statements that "we should turn the entirity of Iraq into a glass parking lot" and "if you don't agree with the president, you are a communist."
I use GAIM as my IM client, and I am able to log in to multiple yahoo accounts at the same time using it, with no problem. Others on the same NAT'ed LAN can also connect to yahoo during the same time. There is nothing that prevents you from logging in to multiple yahoo accounts from the same computer except artificial limitations put in place by the official Yahoo IM client.
Most machines that I am aware of will allow you to tell the machine "yes, I really meant that" after it rejects the ballot. The part that is a major screwup, though, is that, according to my state's helpful demonstration videos about how the three voting tabulation systems in use in the state (OPTECH, ES&S M100, and Diebold ACCUVOTE) all say you can tell the machine to take the ballot anyway, but that the "messed up" parts of the ballot will not be counted.
My county used to use that OPTECH "complete the arrow" system for the longest time. I think they were even used on the primaries. However, today I go in and find the ballot is now a "fill in the oval" ballot, with "Election Systems & Software" printed in small print at the bottom. After I got to work, I looked on the ES&S site and found that we were using the M100 machine in my county. The machine seemed ok, but upon reading the "Product Fact Sheet," I was a bit uneasy. In a section titled "Fast Election Reporting" was the following (emphasis mine):
Immediately upon poll closing, the Model 100's internal thermal printer prints out vote totals and enables election officials to immediately transmit results to election central. The Model 100 comes equipped with dual PCMCIA slots, an optional wireless modem for transmitting results, two external serial ports and one parallel port allowing the connection of a wide array of external components. All election definition programs, actual vote tallies, and audit logs are retained securely on the PCMCIA memory card within each Model 100 unit.
WTF? Why does it need all this crap? The only thing I know is that the machine sucked my ballot in, and then a few seconds later, the ballot count on the LCD display increased by one.
Also from the "Product Fact Sheet":
The Model 100 with its rugged, stainless steel chassis features two independent, lockable ballot containers that provide a separate storage location and optional electronic divertor for ballots containing write-ins. An emergency ballot compartment is also included to securely store ballots in the unlikely event of unit failure or ballot disputes. Up to six hours of continuous precinct counter operation is delivered by a maintenance-free, sealed battery charged by an internal power supply. An internal thermal printer is provided in order to print election results and document an audit log of all unit transactions.
Why does it have separate boxes? Also, what happens when 6 hours are up? I don't remember if my polling place had it plugged into the wall, but I do know the polls are open for 13 hours, which is well past the 6 hour estimate.
Not to mention people that believe that disagreeing with the president means that you are a communist. Why the hell does the average U.S. citizen have to be a fucking retard?
Well how about when you are watching a show or movie on TNT and they show an ad for another show that takes up 25% of the damn screen.
You may notice, if you re-read my post, that I mentioned this:
I for one prefer the "annoying 2 to 4 minute commercial break" to the annoying ads for other shows on the channel that they pop up over the show you are watching and credit squishing.
Yeah, I probably could have worded it better.
TBS is also pretty irritating. A few years ago, they had these ads that had a crack of a bat and a roaring crowd, followed by a baseball starting out so large it obscured the screen for a frame or two and eventually shrinking down into the lower left corner, with a broken glass effect around it. On this was information about some upcoming baseball event. Then a hand reached up from the bottom of the screen, grabbed the ball, and pulled it out, holding it there for a second or two, with a broken hole graphic where it was, with TV snow inside it. Then the hand disappeared off the bottom of the screen and the snowy hole disappeared.
What made that one particularly irritating were the sound effects, and the fact that they obscured the entire image.
Then there is SciFi, who have all manner of these overlay ads when the come back from commercials. One had shadow people walking around, half the height of the screen, before settling down and showing WTF they were bugging us about.
I for one prefer the "annoying 2 to 4 minute commercial break" to the annoying ads for other shows on the channel that they pop up over the show you are watching and credit squishing.
The show Max Headroom was rather prophetic in many regards, when it comes to TV, I've noticed recently. Credit squishing so they can play an ad for another show or something while they run and credit speedups both reduce the chance of a viewer changing the channel. Last night, TNT aired the movie Sleepy Hollow twice, back to back. The second showing started on one side of a squish, while the credits for the first showing were speeding along on the right-hand side.
Perhaps you get CBC in your cable lineup in your area of Michigan, but we don't over here on the western side of the lower penninsula. Which part of Michigan are you in? I somehow think your phone number is in the 906 area code...
If anyone cares, the city council for the area where Wal-Mart wants to build that supercenter approved the rezoning, essentially giving them the green light.
Wow. You make such a convincing rebuttal to your parent post. You MUST be right. There is no other option. Everyone but you is completely wrong on the subject. Keep up the good work.
(everyone's sarcasm meters should have just gone off the scale.)
The effect a new Wal-Mart store has on the local economy all depends on the size of the local economy to begin with. I live in the second largest metropolitan area in my state. The largest one dwarfs my area. We have three Wal-Mart stores in this metropolitan area. The larger stores are managing to stay competitive to these stores, but a number of smaller stores have gone out of business. Since we don't (yet) have a "superstore", the grocery stores have managed to survive. A number of those larger stores that are still in business happen to sell groceries in addition to "hard line" (electronics, toys, furniture, etc) and "soft line" (clothing, etc) items. Wal-Mart is attempting to replace their first local store with a "superstore". The community around that store is fighting against it, but mostly because they don't want to have to deal with the increase in traffic. (Wal-Mart wants to put a back exit onto a residential street. This probably is not a good idea.) The local economy here was strong enough to survive Wal-Mart's arrival, but they are still trying to put their competition out of business.
Smaller towns are not as lucky. They generally wind up exactly like you described. The effects also depend on if they come in with general merchanise store, or with a "superstore". The latter would have a much more profound effect on the local economy of a small town than a general merchandise store would, simply because they have more businesses they compete with.
Additionally, I have heard many people say that Wal-Mart comes in and is willing to take a loss at their new stores just to be able to undercut the competition. They make up for it in their many other stores. Once they undercut the competition by enough for long enough, the competition gives up and closes. And when the competition is gone, Wal-Mart is able to bring the prices back up to where they are making a profit again.
Then there is how they bully their suppliers into lowering prices until they hemmorage. As an example, Levi Jeans used to operate entirely within the United States. Then, they wound up having to get into Wal-Mart stores, simply because the stores that carried their products were going out of business. Wal-Mart demanded lower prices. Levi Jeans couldn't deliver a lower price with their current operation, and as a result had to close their US plants and move production to other countries with cheap labor. Additionally, their jeans are made from a much more lightweight denim than they used to be. Wal-Mart goes by the philosophy that if your product remains the same after a year, you WILL lower the price or they'll drop your product. Look at Toothpaste. New varieties of toothpaste come out much more frequently now than they did 10 to 15 years ago. Hmm, I wonder why...
VHS has the same vertical resolution as DVD, but it only has about 200 "horizontal lines" of resolution (similar to columns), which is really crappy. SVHS (the tape format, not the mislabeled S-Video cables) has around 400 "horizontal lines" of resolution, which is twice as good as VHS, but still well below the 720 pixel width of DVD. DVD still outputs 59.974 fields per second, same as VHS, at least in NTSC land.
My grandmother is perfectly happy with her 21 inch or so SDTV/VCR combo with a cheap DVD player. She doesn't watch much TV, mostly stuff on PBS and such, or stuff she has on VHS or DVD, like Dr Zhivago and Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea. She doesn't care at all about HDTV and the high-def DVD format war.
Sure, the computer won't go against its programming. But you forget, compilers have occasional bugs which then put bugs in the program it compiles. You also forget that you would need trustworthy people to write and verify your computer program.
Verifying that someone doesn't vote twice and such is not the only issue. You also need to be certain that the programming in the computer isn't skipping votes or failing to record vote, either intentionally or due to some stupid bug. You also need to be certain that it isn't adding votes, intentionally or accidentally.
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I'd also like to toss in this little quote I just ran across:
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It is important to note that of all the civil liberties we take for granted today as a part of the Bill of Rights, the importance of habeas corpus is illustrated by the fact that it was the sole liberty thought important enough to be included in the original text of the Constitution.
source: http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#HABCO
I wasn't saying that all gun nuts were rednecks, nor that all rednecks or gun nuts voted for the shrubbery. The vast majority of the union seem to be pro-shrub, though.
Oh. Well, then. Separate browsers, or multiple copies of Firefox with different profiles. I've used the later to log in with two different accounts on some websites, and it wasn't that difficult to set up with FF 2. The only irritating part about it was that I couldn't just click on links in IRC or such, but had to copy and paste them.
That isn't neccessary. The Constitution is an enumeration of powers expressly granted to the federal government by The People. Any powers not EXPRESSLY given to the government by the Constitution do not exist. The People have all of the rights, and have expressly listed what they allow a government to do.
(from the Declaration of Independence)
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governements are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such a Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The founding fathers, as demonstrated in the above quote, believe that ALL power of the government is given to it by the governed. Amendment IX of the Constitution (one of the ten amendments that make up the "Bill of Rights") goes on to state:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
and Amendment X:
The powers note delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In other words, what I have already stated. The United States Government does not have any powers not expressly given to it by the people, nor does the Constitution GRANT rights to The People.
More like the "gun-loving rednecks" are behind the current administration 100%. Even to the point of making statements that "we should turn the entirity of Iraq into a glass parking lot" and "if you don't agree with the president, you are a communist."
*bashes his head on his keyboard*
I use GAIM as my IM client, and I am able to log in to multiple yahoo accounts at the same time using it, with no problem. Others on the same NAT'ed LAN can also connect to yahoo during the same time. There is nothing that prevents you from logging in to multiple yahoo accounts from the same computer except artificial limitations put in place by the official Yahoo IM client.
Why isn't the porn (even the softcore porn) separated out from the normal movies?
You have been reported to minilove for thoughtcrime.
Most machines that I am aware of will allow you to tell the machine "yes, I really meant that" after it rejects the ballot. The part that is a major screwup, though, is that, according to my state's helpful demonstration videos about how the three voting tabulation systems in use in the state (OPTECH, ES&S M100, and Diebold ACCUVOTE) all say you can tell the machine to take the ballot anyway, but that the "messed up" parts of the ballot will not be counted.
WTF? Why does it need all this crap? The only thing I know is that the machine sucked my ballot in, and then a few seconds later, the ballot count on the LCD display increased by one.
Also from the "Product Fact Sheet":
Why does it have separate boxes? Also, what happens when 6 hours are up? I don't remember if my polling place had it plugged into the wall, but I do know the polls are open for 13 hours, which is well past the 6 hour estimate.
That's John Cleese, you insensitive clod!
Not to mention people that believe that disagreeing with the president means that you are a communist. Why the hell does the average U.S. citizen have to be a fucking retard?
I only really catch SG-1, SGA, and BSG, and the crap was during SG-1.
Well how about when you are watching a show or movie on TNT and they show an ad for another show that takes up 25% of the damn screen.
You may notice, if you re-read my post, that I mentioned this:
I for one prefer the "annoying 2 to 4 minute commercial break" to the annoying ads for other shows on the channel that they pop up over the show you are watching and credit squishing.
Yeah, I probably could have worded it better.
TBS is also pretty irritating. A few years ago, they had these ads that had a crack of a bat and a roaring crowd, followed by a baseball starting out so large it obscured the screen for a frame or two and eventually shrinking down into the lower left corner, with a broken glass effect around it. On this was information about some upcoming baseball event. Then a hand reached up from the bottom of the screen, grabbed the ball, and pulled it out, holding it there for a second or two, with a broken hole graphic where it was, with TV snow inside it. Then the hand disappeared off the bottom of the screen and the snowy hole disappeared.
What made that one particularly irritating were the sound effects, and the fact that they obscured the entire image.
Then there is SciFi, who have all manner of these overlay ads when the come back from commercials. One had shadow people walking around, half the height of the screen, before settling down and showing WTF they were bugging us about.
I for one prefer the "annoying 2 to 4 minute commercial break" to the annoying ads for other shows on the channel that they pop up over the show you are watching and credit squishing.
The show Max Headroom was rather prophetic in many regards, when it comes to TV, I've noticed recently. Credit squishing so they can play an ad for another show or something while they run and credit speedups both reduce the chance of a viewer changing the channel. Last night, TNT aired the movie Sleepy Hollow twice, back to back. The second showing started on one side of a squish, while the credits for the first showing were speeding along on the right-hand side.
Perhaps you get CBC in your cable lineup in your area of Michigan, but we don't over here on the western side of the lower penninsula. Which part of Michigan are you in? I somehow think your phone number is in the 906 area code...
Um... I hate to burst your bubble (not really), but the TIVO is just the first commercially-successful device in the DVR category the GP mentioned.
500 years into the future
:(
Thanks... now the theme song for Cleopatra 2525 is stuck in my head.
If anyone cares, the city council for the area where Wal-Mart wants to build that supercenter approved the rezoning, essentially giving them the green light.
Wow. You make such a convincing rebuttal to your parent post. You MUST be right. There is no other option. Everyone but you is completely wrong on the subject. Keep up the good work.
(everyone's sarcasm meters should have just gone off the scale.)
The effect a new Wal-Mart store has on the local economy all depends on the size of the local economy to begin with. I live in the second largest metropolitan area in my state. The largest one dwarfs my area. We have three Wal-Mart stores in this metropolitan area. The larger stores are managing to stay competitive to these stores, but a number of smaller stores have gone out of business. Since we don't (yet) have a "superstore", the grocery stores have managed to survive. A number of those larger stores that are still in business happen to sell groceries in addition to "hard line" (electronics, toys, furniture, etc) and "soft line" (clothing, etc) items. Wal-Mart is attempting to replace their first local store with a "superstore". The community around that store is fighting against it, but mostly because they don't want to have to deal with the increase in traffic. (Wal-Mart wants to put a back exit onto a residential street. This probably is not a good idea.) The local economy here was strong enough to survive Wal-Mart's arrival, but they are still trying to put their competition out of business.
Smaller towns are not as lucky. They generally wind up exactly like you described. The effects also depend on if they come in with general merchanise store, or with a "superstore". The latter would have a much more profound effect on the local economy of a small town than a general merchandise store would, simply because they have more businesses they compete with.
Additionally, I have heard many people say that Wal-Mart comes in and is willing to take a loss at their new stores just to be able to undercut the competition. They make up for it in their many other stores. Once they undercut the competition by enough for long enough, the competition gives up and closes. And when the competition is gone, Wal-Mart is able to bring the prices back up to where they are making a profit again.
Then there is how they bully their suppliers into lowering prices until they hemmorage. As an example, Levi Jeans used to operate entirely within the United States. Then, they wound up having to get into Wal-Mart stores, simply because the stores that carried their products were going out of business. Wal-Mart demanded lower prices. Levi Jeans couldn't deliver a lower price with their current operation, and as a result had to close their US plants and move production to other countries with cheap labor. Additionally, their jeans are made from a much more lightweight denim than they used to be. Wal-Mart goes by the philosophy that if your product remains the same after a year, you WILL lower the price or they'll drop your product. Look at Toothpaste. New varieties of toothpaste come out much more frequently now than they did 10 to 15 years ago. Hmm, I wonder why...
VHS has the same vertical resolution as DVD, but it only has about 200 "horizontal lines" of resolution (similar to columns), which is really crappy. SVHS (the tape format, not the mislabeled S-Video cables) has around 400 "horizontal lines" of resolution, which is twice as good as VHS, but still well below the 720 pixel width of DVD. DVD still outputs 59.974 fields per second, same as VHS, at least in NTSC land.
My grandmother is perfectly happy with her 21 inch or so SDTV/VCR combo with a cheap DVD player. She doesn't watch much TV, mostly stuff on PBS and such, or stuff she has on VHS or DVD, like Dr Zhivago and Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea. She doesn't care at all about HDTV and the high-def DVD format war.
I, for one, am SHOCKED that apparently nobody got this reference...
he needs the project summary reports
Don't you hate TPS reports?
Sure, the computer won't go against its programming. But you forget, compilers have occasional bugs which then put bugs in the program it compiles. You also forget that you would need trustworthy people to write and verify your computer program.
Verifying that someone doesn't vote twice and such is not the only issue. You also need to be certain that the programming in the computer isn't skipping votes or failing to record vote, either intentionally or due to some stupid bug. You also need to be certain that it isn't adding votes, intentionally or accidentally.