Well, making an egg timer is not much harder than wiring up a 555 and 4017 decade counter... EE 101 stuff, really. So if there is a will, there will be a way.
The good news is that a bomb on the inside on a Muslim (swallowed or rectally inserted) is unlikely to do much damage to those on the outside: the fast-flying metal/glass fragments is what kills, not the shockwave per se.
The bad news is that something IS going on at the moment, with a whole bunch of Mulsims buying up cell phones by the 1000's:
Memorizing numeric sequences and poetry seems to help delay the onset Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia. Also, drinking over 7 cups of coffee (or Cola) seems to prevent Parkinson's.
Your joke is not funny, you see. At $77/bl I can bet the hypothetical oil buddies would be pretty pleased right now, so how can you claim they would want W out?
So here are a bunch of loyal Democrats that turn to Sen. Lieberman's website in order to show their support, get tips on registering/voting, donate some time or money, even. The site is 'friend-dotted', and what does Joe do?
Does he move site to a better server? Does he upgrade the hosting plan? No, he turns to his base and says (paraphrasing here) Fuck you assholes for crashing my website; you all hate me; the other guy is a jerk that sicced yall on my tubes. Then he demands Lamont cry 'I am not a thief' over the incident.
I am not a Democrat, but I am amazed at how Sen. Lieberman keeps biting the Koolaid base hand that feeds him.
I guess if you give fuck you to your base, the base lobs that fuck you right back at ya. Hence his loss today.
You are missing the point. The machines need voter-viewable paper trail.
And no, the voters should never get a receit (so they can't sell their vote). So the way a meaningful paper trail would work is the user e-votes, the machines prints out a ticket, shows it to the user, then drops it in the box.
Just think of a line-printer in a glass cage: you get to see what it does, and once printed, it cannot un-print easily. A bulletproof glass, if security is a concern:)
I was just saying that corn doesn't go everywhere, so it will have to be different plants. What the GPP meant to ask was whether enough solar energy could be farmed into ethanol.
When faced with a bad Government we have two choices: live with it, or change it. There are exactly two ways to cause change: legal (within the system's rules, e.g. voting), or extralegal (e.g. a revolution).
What that means is: if the system does not allow for adequate changes from within, it may be our duty to force those changes from the outside! But if the system can and does allow ways to effect the changes you need, you should try those!
Instead the stentorian cravens such as yourself bitch about things you can actually affect, just can't be bothered to. Voting has worked in the past, has worked recently, and, no thanks to traitors like you, will work in the near future.
Our very future depends on our participation.
On a personal note, I encourage you to relax and take it easy; it is quite plain you, notwithstanding all your bloated ego, don't got what it takes.
Well, what do you expect? You expect every Joe Sixpack to be able to run for President as an independent, and win?
That's not how it's done. Start at the local level. Hell, start running for schoolboard. Local elections are local enough that the big players just don't care. Once your 'third party' has local legislatures under control, move up! Plus having local control can also help you do lots of 'neat' things like redistricting.
How about you ask Sen. Joe Lieberman? This multi-term democrat in a 70+% blue state is in much trouble now, all because of a small-time, grass-roots group of kooky liberals that hate him because he is not liberal enough, apparently.
Same thing was almost pulled-off by a few anti-abortion evangelicals on a republican senator Specter in PA in 2004.
It just shows you how much power a few dedicated people can still have.
This year is actually the best year to stir things up since republicans are unhappy about the gas prices, budget deficits, and Iraq war, while the democrats are unhappy about the flag-burning gay couples that hate America.
Also, tampering with paper records requires immediate access to the container; which is not easy to obtain for 1000's of machines with all the pollwatchers and cameras around. You will need to involve 1000's of people: some are bound to talk AND with the paper trail, their claims will be easy to investigate and escalate.
For example, CandidateA wants to cheat; her hackers change the e-vote results, but those results will be transmitted within minutes of the polls closing, and made part of an official permanent record. She then needs to coordinate 1000s of people to switch the boxed paper records to match EXACTLY what the e-vote records say. Logistically, this is impossible to accomplish.
You want a third source verification? Instead of a thermal printer, use a ribbon-printer. Collect the used ribbons and store those under a separate oversight, e.g. Fed-Ex those to ACLU or PNAC.
In America, the Government is the People. All of us. You and me. We get to voice our opintion on things. If we do not like something, we change it by voting.
I fully empathize with people from Kraplickistan living under a dictatorship. If you live in America however, you have no excuses if you chose not to participate.
Say you don't like the good folks at the White House; who's stopping you from writing to your Senator, going door-to-door to get the vote out, starting up a collection for your favorite party. Starting up your own damn party, if you don't like any existing one.
Yes, I understand it is hard work, and it is much easier to sit at home instead of trying to change the system, but at least folks like you should have the courtesy not to stop being a whiney little bitch!
Apathetic jerks like yourself make me sick to my stomach!
Why don't you verify it yourself using a little bit of common sense:
Sunlight energy: 1kW/m2 at noon measured at ray-perpendicular plane USA land area: 9,161,923,000,000 m2, adjust this for sun angle (Rearth=4,000 miles) Daylight hours/day: use your best judgement here.
From this, calculate how much sunlight energy hits the US of A per day.
Corn sunray-biomass efficiency 5-10% Fermentation efficiency (sugars/cellulose to EtOH): 30-70%
From this, calculate how much sunlight energy hits the US of A per day. How much of the energy can be converted into Ethanol?
Now compare the total energy convertable to ethanol with the oil energy currently consumed:
USA oil consumption: 20,000,000 bbl/day Metric: 159 liters/bbl Oil energy: about 15 kWh/kg; density: about 0.8 kg/L
One man's "flaw" is another man's "feature". But really, hacking is not a problem if there is a paper trail mechanism in place.
Is it that hard to put a thermal printer behind a glass shield: a voter can view his vote on paper tape. The current record is hidden when the tape is fed-forward for the next voter.
Random spot-checks can ensure that a machine reported same number of e-votes as paper-votes. Say, check 500 machines at random, if they all function correctly, accept the electronic results for the whole country.
Females are mean, nasty, egocentric furies bent of World domination
The reason why girl-avatars get more stuff is because males are generous to females. The reason male-avatars do not get more stuff is because females are stingy and treat males like shit!
Online gaming has helped uncover the century-old conspiracy: females wish to exploit male generosity to climb to the top, giving little in return for our help.
I think where you fail is postulating that mere need and hardship entitle one to get 'free stuff'.
Why do we believe in giving poor children free insurance, food, and education? Because they are entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" AND because they will provide to us a good return on investment: that little snotnose may grow up to be the next Tesla, Einstein, von Braun, Clinton(you liberals love him), Gates, or Torvalds. In any case, they are more likely to become productive members of the society
Why do we not let hobos redress their need and hardship by anally penetrating our wifes and children at will? Because, while they are entitled to get their freak on via "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" clause, such activity will unduely violate OUR rights AND will provide no return on investment.
A bit crude, but illustrates the point I hope.
Actually, I do agree with you that at present, raising the minimum wage a little might be beneficial.
Do you agree that IF the antitrust laws are to be applied, the system also NEEDS patent/IP/copyright laws? (or else you end us with a stagnant Kraplikistan of middle ages).
In a 'free market' scenario, patents will still exist in that the Monopoly will have the power to enforce its own 'patents' without the help of the government. Agreed?
In that case, the middle-ground would be some antitrust regulations, with some very light patent/IP protections (to ensure the adequate return on R&D investment)?
pricing themselves out of the mass market requires that there be a competition, which is a 'free market' cannot persist.
In a libertarian paradise the Monopoly-in-charge (and there will always arise a monopoly!) will certainly be able to afford to buy off the competitors (or send them to sleep with the fishes).
And this is why there must be some (limited, but enforceable) antitrust laws.
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Well, making an egg timer is not much harder than wiring up a 555 and 4017 decade counter... EE 101 stuff, really. So if there is a will, there will be a way.
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The good news is that a bomb on the inside on a Muslim (swallowed or rectally inserted) is unlikely to do much damage to those on the outside: the fast-flying metal/glass fragments is what kills, not the shockwave per se.
The bad news is that something IS going on at the moment, with a whole bunch of Mulsims buying up cell phones by the 1000's:
http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=5269589
And a whole bunch of them coming into the country and hiding:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/hagmann081006
Just in time for Iran's UN deadline (August 22) or our Midterm election?
You know, that election in 90 days ain't gonna win itself.
So yeah, I say time to drop the toothpaste and pick up the Terror Level crank.
See here, most voters are far too dumb to know what's good for them. So if we don't scare them a little, who knows how the idiots will vote...
'Energy research' by DoD == testing virtual nukes.
I am just surprized it wasn't KBR that got the contract [lol]
Memorizing numeric sequences and poetry seems to help delay the onset Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia. Also, drinking over 7 cups of coffee (or Cola) seems to prevent Parkinson's.
No kidding!
Thanks
Say, if I compiled my C++ program on linux using the GPL-ed includes and libs, does my program automatically become GPL?
Thanks
There, fixed it for you
Stick to what you are good at, I guess. They got their Tokaji Aszu, we got our The Rockets Red Glare, the Bombs Bursting in Air...
I suggest we amend the Anthemn to include Attitude of Kick-ass, and a Ca-aaaan o' Whoo-ooooop Aaa-ass.
Your joke is not funny, you see. At $77 /bl I can bet the hypothetical oil buddies would be pretty pleased right now, so how can you claim they would want W out?
So here are a bunch of loyal Democrats that turn to Sen. Lieberman's website in order to show their support, get tips on registering/voting, donate some time or money, even. The site is 'friend-dotted', and what does Joe do?
Does he move site to a better server? Does he upgrade the hosting plan? No, he turns to his base and says (paraphrasing here) Fuck you assholes for crashing my website; you all hate me; the other guy is a jerk that sicced yall on my tubes. Then he demands Lamont cry 'I am not a thief' over the incident.
I am not a Democrat, but I am amazed at how Sen. Lieberman keeps biting the Koolaid base hand that feeds him.
I guess if you give fuck you to your base, the base lobs that fuck you right back at ya. Hence his loss today.
Hey, I wonder if NSA/AT&T used Chinese boxes to wiretap citizens?
Warrants or no warrants, but as a patriot, I sure hope they use 100% American?
The noise level does not matter if you collect enough samples. I mean, that was freaking high-school physics' material in my day.
But you probably got better PE and sex-ed instead...
You are missing the point. The machines need voter-viewable paper trail.
:)
And no, the voters should never get a receit (so they can't sell their vote). So the way a meaningful paper trail would work is the user e-votes, the machines prints out a ticket, shows it to the user, then drops it in the box.
Just think of a line-printer in a glass cage: you get to see what it does, and once printed, it cannot un-print easily. A bulletproof glass, if security is a concern
yeah this is quicker.
I was just saying that corn doesn't go everywhere, so it will have to be different plants. What the GPP meant to ask was whether enough solar energy could be farmed into ethanol.
Paraphrasing Thoreau here:
When faced with a bad Government we have two choices: live with it, or change it. There are exactly two ways to cause change: legal (within the system's rules, e.g. voting), or extralegal (e.g. a revolution).
What that means is: if the system does not allow for adequate changes from within, it may be our duty to force those changes from the outside!
But if the system can and does allow ways to effect the changes you need, you should try those!
Instead the stentorian cravens such as yourself bitch about things you can actually affect, just can't be bothered to. Voting has worked in the past, has worked recently, and, no thanks to traitors like you, will work in the near future.
Our very future depends on our participation.
On a personal note, I encourage you to relax and take it easy; it is quite plain you, notwithstanding all your bloated ego, don't got what it takes.
pussy...
Well, what do you expect? You expect every Joe Sixpack to be able to run for President as an independent, and win?
That's not how it's done. Start at the local level. Hell, start running for schoolboard. Local elections are local enough that the big players just don't care. Once your 'third party' has local legislatures under control, move up! Plus having local control can also help you do lots of 'neat' things like redistricting.
How about you ask Sen. Joe Lieberman? This multi-term democrat in a 70+% blue state is in much trouble now, all because of a small-time, grass-roots group of kooky liberals that hate him because he is not liberal enough, apparently.
Same thing was almost pulled-off by a few anti-abortion evangelicals on a republican senator Specter in PA in 2004.
It just shows you how much power a few dedicated people can still have.
This year is actually the best year to stir things up since republicans are unhappy about the gas prices, budget deficits, and Iraq war, while the democrats are unhappy about the flag-burning gay couples that hate America.
Was just going to say that.
Also, tampering with paper records requires immediate access to the container; which is not easy to obtain for 1000's of machines with all the pollwatchers and cameras around. You will need to involve 1000's of people: some are bound to talk AND with the paper trail, their claims will be easy to investigate and escalate.
For example, CandidateA wants to cheat; her hackers change the e-vote results, but those results will be transmitted within minutes of the polls closing, and made part of an official permanent record. She then needs to coordinate 1000s of people to switch the boxed paper records to match EXACTLY what the e-vote records say. Logistically, this is impossible to accomplish.
You want a third source verification? Instead of a thermal printer, use a ribbon-printer. Collect the used ribbons and store those under a separate oversight, e.g. Fed-Ex those to ACLU or PNAC.
In America, the Government is the People. All of us. You and me. We get to voice our opintion on things. If we do not like something, we change it by voting.
I fully empathize with people from Kraplickistan living under a dictatorship. If you live in America however, you have no excuses if you chose not to participate.
Say you don't like the good folks at the White House; who's stopping you from writing to your Senator, going door-to-door to get the vote out, starting up a collection for your favorite party. Starting up your own damn party, if you don't like any existing one.
Yes, I understand it is hard work, and it is much easier to sit at home instead of trying to change the system, but at least folks like you should have the courtesy not to stop being a whiney little bitch!
Apathetic jerks like yourself make me sick to my stomach!
Why don't you verify it yourself using a little bit of common sense:
Sunlight energy: 1kW/m2 at noon measured at ray-perpendicular plane
USA land area: 9,161,923,000,000 m2, adjust this for sun angle (Rearth=4,000 miles)
Daylight hours/day: use your best judgement here.
From this, calculate how much sunlight energy hits the US of A per day.
Corn sunray-biomass efficiency 5-10%
Fermentation efficiency (sugars/cellulose to EtOH): 30-70%
From this, calculate how much sunlight energy hits the US of A per day.
How much of the energy can be converted into Ethanol?
Now compare the total energy convertable to ethanol with the oil energy currently consumed:
USA oil consumption: 20,000,000 bbl/day
Metric: 159 liters/bbl
Oil energy: about 15 kWh/kg; density: about 0.8 kg/L
One man's "flaw" is another man's "feature". But really, hacking is not a problem if there is a paper trail mechanism in place.
Is it that hard to put a thermal printer behind a glass shield: a voter can view his vote on paper tape. The current record is hidden when the tape is fed-forward for the next voter.
Random spot-checks can ensure that a machine reported same number of e-votes as paper-votes. Say, check 500 machines at random, if they all function correctly, accept the electronic results for the whole country.
You are missing the point:
Females are mean, nasty, egocentric furies bent of World domination
The reason why girl-avatars get more stuff is because males are generous to females. The reason male-avatars do not get more stuff is because females are stingy and treat males like shit!
Online gaming has helped uncover the century-old conspiracy: females wish to exploit male generosity to climb to the top, giving little in return for our help.
What can we do about it?
I think where you fail is postulating that mere need and hardship entitle one to get 'free stuff'.
Why do we believe in giving poor children free insurance, food, and education? Because they are entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" AND because they will provide to us a good return on investment: that little snotnose may grow up to be the next Tesla, Einstein, von Braun, Clinton(you liberals love him), Gates, or Torvalds. In any case, they are more likely to become productive members of the society
Why do we not let hobos redress their need and hardship by anally penetrating our wifes and children at will? Because, while they are entitled to get their freak on via "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" clause, such activity will unduely violate OUR rights AND will provide no return on investment.
A bit crude, but illustrates the point I hope.
Actually, I do agree with you that at present, raising the minimum wage a little might be beneficial.
Do you agree that IF the antitrust laws are to be applied, the system also NEEDS patent/IP/copyright laws? (or else you end us with a stagnant Kraplikistan of middle ages).
In a 'free market' scenario, patents will still exist in that the Monopoly will have the power to enforce its own 'patents' without the help of the government. Agreed?
In that case, the middle-ground would be some antitrust regulations, with some very light patent/IP protections (to ensure the adequate return on R&D investment)?
pricing themselves out of the mass market requires that there be a competition, which is a 'free market' cannot persist.
In a libertarian paradise the Monopoly-in-charge (and there will always arise a monopoly!) will certainly be able to afford to buy off the competitors (or send them to sleep with the fishes).
And this is why there must be some (limited, but enforceable) antitrust laws.