Skip to main content

Home/ Government Diigo/ Group items tagged map

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Jakson Cole

CNN 2012 Electoral Map -- Elections & Politics from CNN.com - 6 views

  •  
    The CNN Electoral Map is CNN's best estimate of the key states that will likely decide the 2012 presidential election. The map will be updated as the campaign progresses. Use the map to predict which candidate will win each state and see who reaches 270 electoral votes first.
  •  
    This is a great example of how the upcoming election will be decided. Take a look at Iowa (one of the few states where the race is too close to call) Iowan voters will really count this election!
  •  
    Seniors this is our year to vote! our next four years of American Government is entirely up to you and who you vote for or if you vote at all. Get Obama out of office and please get someone better in. I Know that every vote counts, especially yours.
Bryan Pregon

France convicts Google Maps for unfair competition - 2 views

  •  
    French courts... "unfair business practice" to give information for free... hmmm.
Bryan Pregon

North Carolina federal court throws out congressional map - CNNPolitics - 0 views

  •  
    "A panel of three federal judges in North Carolina ruled Monday the state's congressional map is an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander that favors Republicans, and said it may require districts to be redrawn before the November elections."
Bryan Pregon

Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional - 0 views

  •  
    "The panel unanimously declared the current map an "unconstitutional partisan gerrymander," saying the GOP-controlled Ohio Legislature put the Democrats at a disadvantage by packing lots of them into four districts and scattering the rest across the remaining 12."
Bryan Pregon

No new map for Ohio till 2022 after U.S. Supreme Court gerrymandering decision - 1 views

  •  
    "No new maps for Ohio till 2022 after U.S. Supreme Court gerrymandering decision"
Bryan Pregon

Google's Driverless Cars Permitted by New California Law- Bloomberg - 3 views

  •  
    That's really cool! I would like to ride in one of these! Although I probably won't be able to for quite some time.
  • ...2 more comments...
  •  
    that sounds cool but what would happen if the car malfunctioned and the driver wasnt able to gain control?
  •  
    it would be a good idea but will take huge amounts of time to make.
  •  
    Personally, I would not want one, for it to run on detailed maps, and be able to override and read every factor of driving, it would require the internet. Assuming it is using google maps, what if it cannot connect to the internet? That's dangerous. To add, like ever machine, there is going to be an error, and this will probably raise accident rates.
  •  
    . . . Google in general honestly kind of scares me. Like, yeah, the Chromes and Docs and stuff are beneficial for school things, but they don't have to try to take over the world. (And Payton brought up a good point with the car needing to be connected to the internet to work.) Also, has anyone heard about how Google asks you for your real name instead of allowing you to use a screen name (or something like that)? I remember, I think it was two days ago, that I was going to post a comment on a YouTube video that I had watched with my YouTube account that I've had since 2007, and then Google was all like, "Oh hey want to show your real name instead of your screen name?" and I was like, "Heck no." And there have been times where they purposely log me out of my Google account, and then when I sign back in, they ask for my cell phone number and I click skip because I'm not giving my number to Google. It's for some stupid information loss thing or whatever. But who knows if they're actually protecting your personal information and your privacy?
Bryan Pregon

Super Tuesday 2012 Results MAP (REAL-TIME RESULTS) - 16 views

  •  
    Mitt Romney had a great day yesterday according to the results.
Bryan Pregon

Supreme Court to hear partisan gerrymandering case - CNNPolitics.com - 1 views

  •  
    "The court has said that too much partisanship in map drawing is illegal, but it has never said how much is too much. Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, told CNN that this case could have "enormous ramifications.""
rjones9315

Maps: Tracking the Path of Hurricane Irma - 2 views

  •  
    Do you think it is right that there are people raising air plan ticket cost, water cases cost, and other essentials like that?
Jeremy Vogel

What's wrong with Congress? It's not big enough - 4 views

  •  
    "But how did our national legislature get to the point where only 10% of Americans approve of its actions?" "The answer: Congress no longer represents the will of the people, and it hasn't for a very long time."
  • ...6 more comments...
  •  
    With the way this is set up, i think its a well though out article. at first, i thought more people, more power, but its really to let the little guy have a voice, which i think is the biggest problem with the government today. A lack of connection.. Anybody agree with that?
  •  
    George Washington warned us in his farewell address to avoid political parties. Now look at where they have gotten us. A House and Senate gridlocked in a partisan conflict in which none of the average people they are supposed to represent are even acknowledged.
  •  
    I agree with the general idea of this. I think a Congress of 3,000 people is extreme, but I definitely agree that Congress should be expanded. We have a populations of over 300 million and only 435 people in the House, and that proportion is pretty ridiculous. There is definitely a lack of connection between representatives, because it is impossible to connect with nearly a million people.
  •  
    The problem with this is that at this point it may be too late to get a smooth, efficient transition to any other form than the one we have, and the few ways there are to acheive this goal either involve massive chaos, which most find undesireable, or change so slow that we will never be satisfied with the transition's results, whether they achieve our preferred outcomes. Also, the shift could cause exploitation of congress that would be even worse for the people than our current predicament. So really, we are almost as well off just starting from the roots and reconstructing in the new way, despite the many downsides.... At least as far as I can tell. I can't say I have given the topic much thought.
  •  
    I agree with the article and these comments because the House is supposed to represent "normal" Americans and and they wouldn't be able to do that with so few representatives.
  •  
    Alex I have to disagree that the few ways to do this would cause chaos or move slowly. With the current setup we redraw districts and move them from one state to another based on population data received from the census every ten years. So lets say that today we decide to double the number of representatives to 870 starting in 2020 (the next census year). That would mean we would have 8 years to figure out the math, which can't be all that difficult in my opinion if they are able to do it every ten years when they redistrict, to find out how many congressional districts each state gets. Then when the new state district maps are drawn in 2020 after the census instead of drawing 435 districts we would draw 870. This way could work because we already move districts from state to state with population changes so states have experienced additional congressional districts being added to their district maps. I hope this made sense, it did in my head.
  •  
    It did in fact make good sense. I concede that the physical transition, so to speak, would be fairly simple, however I am more concerned that the math would not be that simple to adjust and still aquire the desired results. I can't say that I have a lot of reasonably credible sources, but as a citizen, my concerns would be that the transition would just cause the same issues, but with twice the ammount of people being paid to do the job. As far as I could tell, there is no way to be certain that the adjustment would work as desired, so my question is: do you have a method that would ensure that we would not just be paying twice the price for the same job with the comfort of more poeple doing it? I don't think I saw anything regarding that, so I hope that is a reasonable question.
  •  
    I think Congress is just bossy............ that is why they are not big enough..
Bryan Pregon

Iowa officials release proposed redistricting maps - 1 views

  •  
    "DES MOINES, Iowa (WOWT) - Proposed changes for Iowa's lawmaking districts were released by the Temporary Redistricting Advisory Commission on Thursday."
Payton Whiteaker

Gaming causing issues - 1 views

  •  
    There is a game called League of Legends that was developed over 2 years ago. This game is gaining massive popularity, primarily because those who succeed enough at this game get payed to play. For example, George Liu, a 23 year old resident of California makes over 500 dollars a day to play this game for 6 hours a day, 4-5 days a week. This is not even the highest they pay. Similar to sports, this is a team game. Recently, like all sports, they began to hold a 3 week "season playoff" game in which the winning team would receive 1 million dollars (Split between 5 people), and anyone who made it to the finals, left with at least 5 grand in there pocket, not to mention an all expenses payed trip to 3 locations in which they would host the game play. Sounds like fun right, getting payed to play a game you like? What's not fun, cheating. North America's #1 team was eliminated the first game, by the Korean team. Many claim the game play to be unfair, claims of map hacking, and many other claims of cheating have been made. So, an internationally popular game is taking away prize money which will be donated to charity, but the issues of this are so dramatic. So many opinions have been formed, that this is getting a little out of hand, over a game.
  • ...3 more comments...
  •  
    This is interesting... There are a couple of games that have done promotions where players can make money by playing, however I rarely hear about a game that does anything even remotely close to this. From reading the report/official ruling, there was a lot of screen hacking going on. I'm not really sure why it is possible for the players to screen hack, (aka screen cheating) but I suppose it is possible that there is a good reason. I will have to look into this in more depth to see what all is going on, but this strikes me as extremely interesting.
  •  
    I find it interesting that there are over 11million accounts active every month, and more then half of them are from America. This means that about about 1 in every 56 people play this game in the united states. Knowing that this is expanding, (And 11million accounts before published in the popular game informer magazine) I am curious to see if this game is going to cause some sort of international relations to develop, for better or worse. It would be interesting to say the least, that gaming fixed the issues between north and south Korea, primarily since both countries were in the season finals for this game.
  •  
    That would be pretty interesting to read in a history book, but from the way this article sounds, it seems like the game could only make international relations worse, assuming the different countries were on different teams. (I suppose were they a single team, it could certainly bolster better relations of a few nations)
  •  
    i think its crazy how much funding there is toward this game. i can understand the riot because people can get passionate about anything, but they're spending a lot just for a single game.
  •  
    It's a world-wide competitive game. I mean, I see football players making more then these guys are giving away. Alex, the American teams nationality was from the same nation that had beat them.
xolson974

Obama to huddle with Democrats on protecting his signature health care law - 13 views

  •  
    President Obama will meet behind closed doors Wednesday morning with congressional Democrats to map out a strategy to defend the Affordable Care Act and other health care policies - the very day Republicans will begin debate on getting rid of the sweeping 2010 health-care law.
  • ...7 more comments...
  •  
    Obamacare has been sometimes helpful but it has also crashed our country.
  •  
    What exactly did it do to "crash" our country, and how did it do so?
  •  
    I agree with Landon, in many ways, Obamacare has crashed our country, but it is always to look at the solutions to our problems, our options, and most importantly, look optimistically at the ways Obamacare has helped us. I think a big one is children can now stay on their parents' insurance until age 26. It has helped 5.7 million young adults over the past five years!
  •  
    they meet on how to defend the act and how to help it protect other forms of people.
  •  
    "Other executive actions, including those providing new safeguards for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans and curbing greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, could also come under fire" this in addition to obamacare being repealed does not make much sense to me. Along with the anti abortion deal. It seems like this is less of a "whats best for america" situation and more of a " erase obama and his administration" kind of deal. not a fan
  •  
    I agree with Landon, and Jamie. In many ways obamOcare has helped us, but it hasn't in others.
  •  
    Obamacare has done nothing but ruin the country by raising the price of healthcare, Obamacare should be removed and let healthcare actually be affordable.
  •  
    Obamacare has done nothing for us. Prices are through the roof. its not affordable at all. You cant keep your health insurance company. They tell you who you have. Drugs are more expensive. We need a full repeal and replace!
  •  
    Maybe Obamacare has ruined things in our country but there is also a lot of positive things it has done.
jasminemarie16

Child marriage - 3 views

  •  
    that's just crazy and wrong
  • ...6 more comments...
  •  
    that's messed up and sick that a 40 year old would marry a 8 year old
  •  
    This is total BS an 8 year old and a 40 year old man.? Forreal.? Yemen should be like blew off the map. No but forreal people shoudnt have kids
  •  
    That is just crazy
  •  
    That gross, and wrong of the lady to do that!
  •  
    Seriously nasty. Sometimes other cultures look so ridiculous.
  •  
    This is sick. Its a reason why Americans can't marry someone that much younger. It's just wrong in so many ways!
  •  
    I get other cultures have different beliefs and we all do and believe things differently, but that's not okay. She's crazy young, her body will not be ready for that in years. Unacceptable.
  •  
    Every child should live their childhood instead of worrying about who they are going to marry soon.
1 - 16 of 16
Showing 20 items per page