*giggle* I wonder if the town board will have to pay a fee to put the word Sturgis on the stationary before this is all over.
The name 'Sturgis' is so closely associated with the rally that I wonder how easy it would be to clear the 'moron in a hurry' bar. Would they be able to win a trademark case against, say, Sturgis Beef Jerky?
It indicates that NASA is the original source of the photo (ie. taken by a NASA employee). NASA images, unless otherwise noted, are not copyright protected. It is unlawful to claim copyright on those images.
You may want to read the article before taking any bets.
The article explains that the votes cast on two machines for a constable race were recorded as votes in a Democratic primary for one of the district's State House seats. So all of the misplaced votes went to Democrats. Plus, setting this scheme up would require knowing the results for the constable race beforehand on those two machines. Sorry, Wolfy, no conspiracy this time, just more poor system design and/or implementation.
That's quite a stretch to go from returning search hits to active support of abortion in other countries. Active, to me, would require Johns Hopkins to also endorse particular articles. Plus, it's circumventable. According to the link, abortion articles are still returned if other search phrases are used. In the end, this doesn't prevent abortions, it only encourages ignorance about abortions.
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The open window analogy might be made more correct by saying that the CDs were copies of the original, purchased CDs, or by saying that the "thief" makes a copy and returns the copied CD.
It's true, the context is in the original article. It's been my experience, however, that quotations have their own context.
So now you claim that the reader should not treat this quote as having its own context, but instead re-attach the original context from the article. Again, it appears that I am in need of having more explained to me than others because I see no reason to do this. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me, then?
I don't understand because I am not familiar enough with the minutia of copyright law
AC, that is perhaps one of the most ridiculous examples of quote mining I've ever seen. Your misquote conveniently removed some important context. Here, I've put it back in for you:
While [Beckerman] suggested I don't understand because I am not familiar enough with the minutia of copyright law...
Mr. Beckerman suggested that Mike was unfamiliar with the minutia of copyright law, not Mike himself.
That ain't gonna happen. For example, CBS will get tons of money from advertisers during the NCAA men's basketball championship tournaments. Plus, they probably paid a ton of money for the rights to broadcast the games - which I assume they would not get back if they boycotted them. There's no way they'd consider not covering them.
It's all about the money - unless, of course, you happen to be an NCAA athlete ;).
If T-Mobile had maintained that it was just a technical issue on Twitter's end, I would have to agree that the customers have over-reacted. However, it seems that T-Mobile pushed the Net Neutrality button by responding instead that they blocked the service as a matter of policy.
I agree. My suspicion is that the voters were unaware of their responsibility to verify the ballot, even with a displayed message asking if they were satisfied with their vote. Unless the message expressly tells the voter to check the printed ballot, they may not even be aware that an attempt to print one was made, and assume that the message is simply a kind of "Are you sure?" double check (as in MS Office, where closing a document with unsaved changes provokes the appearance of such a warning).
I realize that even in the best of cases, this can't always be helped. Just like the MS Office unsaved changes warning, some people won't actually read the message, and just select whatever, no matter what they've been told or how many times it's been demonstrated to them. But I think that with explicit displays, reminders, and print-issue detection, they'd be able to improve that verified bad ballot rate.
Voters may not be aware that, in these cases, they have the responsibility to verify that a legible receipt was printed. One way to avoid this is to have the screen display a message reminding each voter to check the receipt.
However, Diebold, or whoever was responsible for the programming of these machines should have provided print device issue handling (physical jam, low toner, out of receipt paper, etc.) in the first place. Discounting the ballot to be printed, disabling voting until the issue is resolved, and instructing the voter to alert a poll official and re-cast their vote at another machine or after the issue is resolved come to mind as sensible things that voting machines like should do.
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The name 'Sturgis' is so closely associated with the rally that I wonder how easy it would be to clear the 'moron in a hurry' bar. Would they be able to win a trademark case against, say, Sturgis Beef Jerky?
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Guidlines for use of NASA materials.
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Stop whining already.
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Basketball ives...
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The article explains that the votes cast on two machines for a constable race were recorded as votes in a Democratic primary for one of the district's State House seats. So all of the misplaced votes went to Democrats. Plus, setting this scheme up would require knowing the results for the constable race beforehand on those two machines. Sorry, Wolfy, no conspiracy this time, just more poor system design and/or implementation.
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This helps no one.
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So now you claim that the reader should not treat this quote as having its own context, but instead re-attach the original context from the article. Again, it appears that I am in need of having more explained to me than others because I see no reason to do this. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me, then?
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AC, that is perhaps one of the most ridiculous examples of quote mining I've ever seen. Your misquote conveniently removed some important context. Here, I've put it back in for you:
While [Beckerman] suggested I don't understand because I am not familiar enough with the minutia of copyright law...
Mr. Beckerman suggested that Mike was unfamiliar with the minutia of copyright law, not Mike himself.
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It's all about the money - unless, of course, you happen to be an NCAA athlete ;).
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Who screamed Net Neutrality?
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I realize that even in the best of cases, this can't always be helped. Just like the MS Office unsaved changes warning, some people won't actually read the message, and just select whatever, no matter what they've been told or how many times it's been demonstrated to them. But I think that with explicit displays, reminders, and print-issue detection, they'd be able to improve that verified bad ballot rate.
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Voter Responsibility?
However, Diebold, or whoever was responsible for the programming of these machines should have provided print device issue handling (physical jam, low toner, out of receipt paper, etc.) in the first place. Discounting the ballot to be printed, disabling voting until the issue is resolved, and instructing the voter to alert a poll official and re-cast their vote at another machine or after the issue is resolved come to mind as sensible things that voting machines like should do.
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