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Outsiders also need to understand that tactical party registrations are relatively common in certain election districts in order to access a particular party primary ballot.

You really can't read a whole lot into party registration information. It frequently doesn't reflect voters' real politics at all.

America actually has a long tradition of presidents and presidential candidates getting shot. That's why the secret service is as well funded as it is. Statistically, President is actually a pretty dangerous job for exactly this reason.

When the general election comes around, your ballot is still secret. So you can publicly declare a registration for the Republican party, but then vote secretly for the Democratic candidate. (Or vice versa)

In the UK, if you want to have some effect on which candidates are selected by a party, you usually have to join the party and go to meetings and stuff. In the US, parties mostly use public primary elections to select candidates, and the primary elections are run by the same government bodies that run the general election. That's why the voter registration cares about the party.

For example, synaptic is a long running front end for apt that has the buttons for update and upgrade.

Now that's a dispersed operation.

Jeebus louiebus.

The union voted internally on a resolution, and then union leadership held a press conference following that resolution? What else is the guy supposed to do, but represent the will of his constituents?

Specifically, the location is fairly far away from China and the South China Sea. So that by itself represents a level of blue water capability that the PLAN has not been well known for.

Barns have physical dimensions of area, even though they are used to express probability distributions. So you can imagine "the broad side of a barn" as being so many square meters, but then scale it way way down to a particle physics equivalent, and you get the barn. Which apparently roughly represents "the broad side of a uranium nucleus".

They famously only got the engineering set built because Roddenberry insisted on writing it into the pilot episode.

Replicators, just like the holodeck and the transporters convert energy into matter. They don't need any base matter.

According to stuff like the Star Trek Technical Manual, this is not true.

Transporters work by disassembling you into your constituent particles, transporting those particles to the destination, and then reassembling them. It takes a lot of energy to do that, but officially anyway your particles are the same particles before and after.

Replicator works by transporting base nutrient stocks out of tanks into the replicator terminal, but this time it rearranges the nutrient stocks according to whatever the target recipe is

You're saying those are freakin oubliettes?

It really is junk fake Latin.