2.13.2004
a few things...
downloaded mIRC. Installed, tried to find #chadshaus, and I believe I connected, but nobody was there.... How do I connect to this channel?
How do I use mIRC for more than 30 days? Do I need to pay or is there a crack?
Chad, what is your current IP? I would like to connect to your FTP server and download the K-lite exe. I found a version on the internet, but it needs the original installer to block the ads. Don't ask me why. Tried to get it from Kazaa.com, but I can't access their download page. Don't ask me why.
Work still sucks, and gets suckier every day. Now I can't write more programs because the ones I did write put too much of a load on the database server. I knew they generated a lot of queries, but I didn't realize that it would cause a problem. I mean, really. In 2004, why can't a capable server keep up with 15 or 20 queries at a time?
So I have a moratorium on programming at the moment. Not that I was getting a whole lot done at 3 am anyways.
So now I just sit, mostly. They will shut down the plant tonight at 10:15, so then there really will be nothing to do. Go get a good book, I guess.
About electoral college... I personally think it should be done away with and the IRV system put in its place. It depends more on the intelligence of the voter (it is ever so slightly harder to understand), but the quibbling over hanging chads and tactical votes would disappear into the distance. But there were a few things about the electoral college system to clear up. Electors are not elected in themselves, they are appointed by each party or candidate in an election. They are not legally bound to cast their electoral vote for the winner, but nobody has ever gone against what the popular vote in their state was. In the vast majority of the cases, the popular vote agrees with the electoral vote, but there are possibilites (such as the last election) where a candidate did not receive the popular vote but because of the winning of strategic states, (such as Florida) they came out on top. And there has been some argument in different circles about the Florida election, that things did not proceed correctly. I don't know all of the details (but then, nobody every knows all of the details), but there was a Democratically sponsored investigation into the Florida election and its results, and it came to the conclusion that Bush actually won Florida by more than was orginally reported, what with absentee ballots, hanging chads and all. I don't remember the exact numbers but it was more than the original couple of hundred. Still and EXTREMELY close race by any standard, but the final outcome was uncontested. That has no bearing on the correctness or incorrectness of the proceedings to get to that conclusion, just that it upholds the conclusion.
So, yeah. The electoral college will eventually disappear, I think. It will just take time. What replaces it is uncertain, but I vote (hee hee!:)) for IRV.
mo l8r
downloaded mIRC. Installed, tried to find #chadshaus, and I believe I connected, but nobody was there.... How do I connect to this channel?
How do I use mIRC for more than 30 days? Do I need to pay or is there a crack?
Chad, what is your current IP? I would like to connect to your FTP server and download the K-lite exe. I found a version on the internet, but it needs the original installer to block the ads. Don't ask me why. Tried to get it from Kazaa.com, but I can't access their download page. Don't ask me why.
Work still sucks, and gets suckier every day. Now I can't write more programs because the ones I did write put too much of a load on the database server. I knew they generated a lot of queries, but I didn't realize that it would cause a problem. I mean, really. In 2004, why can't a capable server keep up with 15 or 20 queries at a time?
So I have a moratorium on programming at the moment. Not that I was getting a whole lot done at 3 am anyways.
So now I just sit, mostly. They will shut down the plant tonight at 10:15, so then there really will be nothing to do. Go get a good book, I guess.
About electoral college... I personally think it should be done away with and the IRV system put in its place. It depends more on the intelligence of the voter (it is ever so slightly harder to understand), but the quibbling over hanging chads and tactical votes would disappear into the distance. But there were a few things about the electoral college system to clear up. Electors are not elected in themselves, they are appointed by each party or candidate in an election. They are not legally bound to cast their electoral vote for the winner, but nobody has ever gone against what the popular vote in their state was. In the vast majority of the cases, the popular vote agrees with the electoral vote, but there are possibilites (such as the last election) where a candidate did not receive the popular vote but because of the winning of strategic states, (such as Florida) they came out on top. And there has been some argument in different circles about the Florida election, that things did not proceed correctly. I don't know all of the details (but then, nobody every knows all of the details), but there was a Democratically sponsored investigation into the Florida election and its results, and it came to the conclusion that Bush actually won Florida by more than was orginally reported, what with absentee ballots, hanging chads and all. I don't remember the exact numbers but it was more than the original couple of hundred. Still and EXTREMELY close race by any standard, but the final outcome was uncontested. That has no bearing on the correctness or incorrectness of the proceedings to get to that conclusion, just that it upholds the conclusion.
So, yeah. The electoral college will eventually disappear, I think. It will just take time. What replaces it is uncertain, but I vote (hee hee!:)) for IRV.
mo l8r
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