The Constitution calls for an “Enumeration” of people. Enumeration is a tally… i.e. 1, 2, 3…300 million. Race, sex, age, phone #, are all extra-constitutional variables tagging along for the ride.
The penalty for disclosing the census’s valuable marketing data is $250K or 5 years in prison. You know… the same penalty that has successfully prevented home videos from ever being copied.
Gov’t propaganda encourages people to fill out the census to get their “fair share” of gov’t funds. This creates incentive to over-tally, introducing bias and blocking the supposed goal of an accurate enumeration.
It's creepy.
Other than constitutionality, no good arguments have been provided against statistical sampling, which offers equivalent results for a fraction of the cost.
Move over foursquare... new greatest app time. And I don't need to do anything to enjoy it except fall asleep.
With a skeptical eye, I downloaded Sleep Cycle, which purports to analyze your body's biorhythms while you sleep and "wake you up when you are in the lightest sleep phase." This is supposed to make waking up more enjoyable.
So does it work? Here's two days of graphs:
Shockingly accurate. That's exactly how it happened. I can't attest to whether the alarm wakes you in a more peaceful phase, because I've been awake before the alarm went off both times, and because thugs are never truly at peace. But last night (right graph), I did in fact only sleep for three hours before waking up to yell at neighborhood fences. Wahoo! I may be a touch crazy today, but at least my apps are working.
Congrats to Andrew Cleland for making Schrödinger's cat visible to the naked eye. They successfully put a visible paddle into a quantum superposition between a rest and moving state.
Of course, it's worth pointing out that they're too late. This feat was already accomplished by 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who managed to simultaneously hold two or more conflicting views on the same issue.
Gerrit's recent post implies that the US senate is the only legislative body with hot legislative bodies. To counter that, I hereby present my list of the ten sexiest members of Israel's legislature, the Knesset:
World famous statesman and wit, known for such sayings as:
"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions"
Also served as visual inspiration for the character Keith Olbermann plays on the satirical news show "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."
I was stunned to learn that a popular thing for dames do in the absence of dudes is debate who is the "Sexiest Senator." The hands-down favorite, according to off-the-record sources, is Scott Brown (R-MA, 2010-?).
Yeah, sure, I guess he's kind of cute... if noses shaped like portly tulip bulbs are your sort of thing.
Ladies... as always, you should've just asked me first, because I always happen to carry around my definitive list of sexiest senators.
His progressive and isolationist policies are enough to drive most wild. But for the rest of us, his devil-may-care tendency to take off his fashionable hat and showcase his fine head of hair drops our underoos to our toes.
Everyone loves a man in uniform. Lt. Col. Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II served proudly in the Confederate army before being serving as Jefferson Davis' diplomatic envoy to Russia, England, and France.
You should all congratulate him and celebrate by treating yourself to a hearty rabbit stew (but be careful, both Rabbit Starvation and Rabbit Fever are real concerns).
And in case you've forgotten how terrible rabbits can be, please direct your attention to the following documentary:
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