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Sigh.

This is, annoyingly, the *exact* same topic as the Verizon post earlier today and it is the exact same, terribly old news that people (including me have been discussing since back in November, when SBC chair Whitacre made comments to business week about forcing google to pay to access their network.

Don't get me wrong, this is an interesting topic. I'm in favor of continuing to discuss it. But the Businessweek, the nation and several other sources get it totally wrong by ignoring the technical realities (as I tried to explain earlier today).

There is already a two-tier network, people. There are legitimate questions about how much further (and in exactly what ways) it should be extended, but people who opine about these matters unhindered by data would do better to read and think a bit first.

I don't have a good link to the actual details of his system as it was originally demonstrated at Comdex in 1990. Here's a bit of background info though: Sadly, in Businessweek.

I guess the article would not have been published a day later, as the sky is falling down as we speak.

The scary part is -- "Google Disappoints With 86% Higher Fourth Quarter Revenue", I think an "Even" between "Disappoints" and "With" would be appropriate. That's the problem, everyone has high expectation on Google now that even one slight mistake will be scrutinized and punished.

A year ago, people were finding (or creating) reasons to buy Google shares, now people are finding excuses to sell those shares.

Here is a better one:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan 2006/tc20060109_432937.htm?campaign_id=topStories_ ssi_5

The actual article is here:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_06 /b3970001.htm

Business Week also has a podcast where they talk with the author of the story to provide a litte more depth. It was a fairly entertaining discussion where they discuss a little of the history of how it all came about and the relationship between Steve Jobs and Disney.

I'd say Gates because Melinda and Bill have such lovely children

They both helped give us GNU and Linux, which will eventually benefit everyone.

Linus is also a great manager and both he and Richard won the 1998 EFF Pioneer Award.

Free is the best charity of all.

Because of monopoly issues, Microsoft was forced to disclose complete and accurate interface information to allow non-Microsoft workgroup servers to receive full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers. The European Commission/courts/... did not force them to licence the source. However, the European Commission deems the disclosure of Microsoft's documentation so far insufficient.

Microsoft's press announcement even states that Microsoft goes beyond the EU decision with this voluntary move to licence (for a price) Windows source code to for the technologies covered by the European Commission's Decision of March 2004.

In the Business Week article, Microsoft's chief counsel Brad Smith warns that which "open source advocates will not be allowed to publish for free". This probably means one will have to sign non-disclosure agreements in order to see the source, and who knows what will be in there. And as already mentioned, we also don't know the licence fee yet.

Here's a link about the Lernout&Hauspie Fallout... http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_37/b3698218.ht m Plus there was a much more detailed Wall street journal Article (very well written, BTW), but seems now to be either in the Archives of the WSJ or unavailable to me. This was a mini-enron-like story.

Did you actually follow the links, or are you just bitching about the URL? Because, you know, they didn't write either of those. One is from the Washington Post, and one is from the Arizona Republic.

You posted four links, documenting gifts (skybox seats, plane tickets, and hotel fares) which you claimed Abramoff gave to Republicans, but not Democrats.

I responded and provided a number of links 1, 2, 3, 4) showing that every single item you mentioned had been given to Republicans and Democrats alike -- sometimes moreso to the latter than the former (you expressed outrage, for instance, that Tom DeLay got to sit in Abramoff's skybox, yet Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) got the skybox all to himself to hold a fundraiser in, and has yet to reimburse anyone for this gift).

Game over, man.

The average movie costs $64 million to make and $39 million to market, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. Movies with budgets over $100 million commonly just break even at the box office.

"In the last five years maybe six pictures out of 1000 recouped their cost in the theatrical marketplace," says Nick Counter, president of the studio alliance. "Today the hits have to make up for all the losses."

That is the pattern. Democrats got campaign contributes from random groups trying to make their case like they always did. As did Republicans. Some of these groups were serious about influencing people, so they hired various lobbists. Sometimes the lobbist they picked was Abramoff.

Republicans also got free unreported trips, free unreported flights, free unreported skyboxes, and reported money directly from Abramoff. Democrats did not. It is those things that, for example, Ney is indeed under investigation for.

Actually, I'd like to go into more depth on this one, since even on your own terms your claim here is false on its face. Let's look at some of the gifts Democrats got directly from Jack Abramoff, shall we:

• Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev) -- Beneficiary of a fund-raising dinner held in his honor at Abramoff's request by Abramoff employee Edward Ayoob
• Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) -- received the same free skybox seats that you claim it was a crime for Republicans to receive.
• Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) -- not only received the same skybox seats, he held two fundraisers in Abramoff's skybox, for which he never reimbursed anyone.
• Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) -- received free plane tickets and hotel fares, the same thing you have just told us it was a crime for Tom DeLay to receive.
• Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) -- received the same (see same link)

In other words, even if we took your own absurd definitions at face value, Democrats are guilty of everything you accuse Republicans of.

[Paul Otellini]'s also is the first non-engineer to run the company. Otellini studied economics in college at the University of San Francisco and then joined Intel in 1974, straight out of B-school at the University of California at Berkeley. Many of the new employees he's bringing on aren't typical Intel hires either. They include software developers, sociologists, ethnographers, even doctors to help develop products. He lays particular emphasis on marketing expertise because he thinks the only way Intel can succeed in new markets is by communicating more clearly what the technology can do for customers. "To sell technology now, you have to do it in a way where it's much more simple," says Otellini. "You can't talk about the bits and the bytes."

The changes have created some angst among employees. In particular, many high-level engineers working on PC products feel they've been stripped of their star status. "The desktop group used to rule the company, and we liked it that way," says one former chip designer, adding that some engineers now feel "directionless." Other employees are simply uncomfortable with the new emphasis on marketing. "There definitely are people who are highly skeptical, who think this is all fluff, all just gloss -- that if you make good technology, you don't need the glitz," says Genevieve Bell, an in-house ethnographer who researches how people in emerging markets like China and India use technology.

"You also need to take into account that Intel measures power handing of their processors at 75% peak performance where AMD measures at 100% peak performance. This is why the Pentium D while on paper doesnt look like its burning that much more power than an Athlon X2, but it actually burns a lot more.

Doesn't our buddy Bill Gates own a lot of copyrights of classic art?
The Art of Being Bill Gates

He's not known to share.

Yahoo Auctions beat Ebay to the Japanese market by only 5 months, and it has dominated there.

You must work for Dreamworks.

Here's a decent accounting of what happened between "A Bug's Life" and "Antz".

http://www.businessweek.com/1998/47/b3605013.htm

Too lazy to use html, it's Sunday.

Business Week recently did an article on alternatives to e-mail, which discussed wikis. The point of the article is that wikis are increasinly being used to replace e-mail as a collaboration tool (IM is also discussed). Anyone who as ever sent around an e-mail requesting comments from multiple people understands that technique's limitations. Nothing really new in the article, but it does indicate more mainstream adoption. It also gives some examples of companies who are using the technology (and how).

Reguardless, he'll still have clout, and there's been talk of him being put on the board of Directors. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan200 6/nf20060120_2325_db016.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

Target buy prices from wall street analysts rangfe fromn $480 to $560.

Some morons never learn. Here's a reminder for you.

" ...Granted, Enron took a slide along with the rest of the market on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, but in general, analysts are expecting great things from a company that has been in the vanguard of developing the deregulated wholesale power market...

Carol Coale, an analyst at Prudential Securities, has a 12-month target price of $102 a share -- an upside potential of nearly 60%. For investors who think the market will be bottoming out soon, now might be a good time to consider a growth stock like this at a relatively cheap price."

From http://www.blizzard.com/press/060119.shtml

World of Warcraft's Customer Definition
World of Warcraft customers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or purchased a prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the installation box bundled with one free month access. Internet Game Room players that have accessed the game over the last seven days are also counted as customers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired pre-paid cards. Customers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.

And JFYI, World of Warcraft was the best-selling PC game of 2005 in the U.S., according to "NDP Group":

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D8F6N8L0A.htm? campaign_id=apn_tech_up&chan=tc

Many companies are scared shitless that they will be targeted under civil rights laws because they appeared to (but actually dont, they just hire the most qualified people who happen to be asian or white for the most part) discriminate against blacks or if they fire a black worker for doing poorly.

Now would be a good time to provide newspaper accounts of such things. Yes, I'm sure if this happened, many would be unreported. But surely there is one good man or woman out there who will speak up with a specific example?

While you're digging that up (no, angry bloggers don't count) perhaps you'd like to read the socialist-communist-worker's party's political organ, Businessweek, whose 2001 article claimed "in an increasingly multicultural U.S., harassment of minorities is on the rise".

There is definitely a subculture of minorities out there who like to use their minority status as a crutch and leveraging tool in the workplace.

Perhaps. Whenever there is a law, even a just law like EOA, there will be people who will try to use it for their personal gain. What is without doubt it that there is a subculture of white people who have gained and retain a significant advantage in the workplace on account of their race.

This article is an example of lousy game journalism. The game journalist simply copy and pastes the NPD numbers without verifying if any of it is true or not.

Luckily, we have some journalists who DO check out these numbers. Business Week found that PC Gaming sales were solid and growing. If NPD is so far off on this, how far off is it on console sales?

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec20 05/id20051220_720594.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech

Google Inc. (GOOG ) this fall purchased about a dozen pages of ad space from niche publications such as PC Magazine and Budget Living. Google then divvied up the space and sold it in small pieces, often four to seven per page, to its network of several hundred thousand advertisers -- most of whom can't afford pricey magazine ads on their own. Now Google says the trial program, dubbed Google Publication Ads, is taking off, with hundreds of publications inquiring about it. The company is expanding the trial from four publications to scores of them, likely to include both niche and general interest titles.

However, a closer look at Google's foray into magazine ads suggests it could be in for a tough slog. Sure, plenty of publishers are clamoring to snare ad dollars from Google. But a BusinessWeek analysis of Google's pilot, including interviews with 10 advertisers and two publishers, indicates that advertisers haven't warmed to the program so far. Only one of 10 advertisers interviewed by BusinessWeek said their print ad performed well enough to recoup the money it cost. And eight of the 10 were unhappy enough with the results that they say they're unlikely to do further print advertising with Google.

This is the problem with CEO's and their big mouths:

--

From: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_16 /b3728067.htm

Q: What is the future of Apple Computer?
A: Silicon Graphics.

Q: That bad?
A: Maybe it's a little bit different. But if you look at proprietary computer companies, whether it's Digital or Silicon Graphics (SGI ) or Apple (AAPL ), I think the fates are all relatively similar. We know how the movie ends. It's just a question of what happens in the middle. Apple has a very little customer base. If you look at the economics, it has been extremely hard for Apple to get a return on its R&D with a shrinking volume base. It's not to say that Apple's products aren't innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it's very hard for them to swim against that tide.

Q: If you were running Apple, is there anything you could do to change that?
A: I would never take that job.

--
I would love to hear his response to those questions today...

Business Week... April 16th 2001:
Q: That bad?
A: Maybe it's a little bit different. But if you look at proprietary computer companies, whether it's Digital or Silicon Graphics (SGI ) or Apple (AAPL ), I think the fates are all relatively similar. We know how the movie ends. It's just a question of what happens in the middle. Apple has a very little customer base. If you look at the economics, it has been extremely hard for Apple to get a return on its R&D with a shrinking volume base. It's not to say that Apple's products aren't innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it's very hard for them to swim against that tide.

Q: If you were running Apple, is there anything you could do to change that?
A: I would never take that job.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_16 /b3728067.htm

Don't get me wrong, I think that Apple can produce a winner in any tech area if it set its collective mind and resources to it. But, in my opinion, I don't really think this is something Apple would want to try.

It's kind of incredible you can miss the complete disconnect between these two sentences.

The reason you think they can produce a winner at everything is because they only produce the things they've designed that are winners. Steve Jobs himself says "it comes from saying no to 1,000 things".

I'm sure we can all come up with product ideas so absurd that even Apple couldn't make them not suck. The reason Apple's stuff does not suck is because they're not wasting time trying to sell the sucky stuff.

Will the dual processor nature of these Intels make emulators like Qemu faster? XP in Virtual PC on a G4 is barely useable for Internet Explorer. I'm hoping Mactel means faster emulation and XP in Qemu on OS X with good performance.
No, the dual processor nature will not.

However, the Intel nature most definitely WILL.

Rather than a 5:1 performance slowdown, expect 1.2 or 1.1:1

x86 is easy to virutalize on x86. The problem with Qemu is running x86 code on PPC. In fact, these new Intel Core Duo's have VT, which is Intel's transparent virtualization technology. You'll be able to have Linux, OS X, and Windows Vista all running simulataneously, with the only performance degredation being resource starvation. This means minimal overhead; just the same amount of numbers being crunched per second, distributed among your running processes.

Proof of vanderpool (VT)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core
http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/story.xhtml?stor y_id=40711

Xen and Vanderpool:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/ar chives/2005/06/the_way_of_xen.html

I hate to use a cliche, but the future is now.

Funny,

I have worked for close to 30 years, and I have found lately that the bottom line is king .

A lot of the reason ppl are being hired from overseas is cost, not quality .

Don't get me wrong, some are quality ppl, I met some good and some bad while at cisco systems .

There is a perception that americans are fat and lazy, and I have met them too, but then again
I have met ppl that were awesome, but were paid very little because they were young .

I also see that older ppl are generally not accepted into the tech sector as being
considered unable to embrace new things and stuck in their ways .

Some old school telecom ppl got screwed on this HR techno-babble mental mindwash .

They need to just test the ppl, and have technical interviews in addition to the
personality assessment done by HR .

I have seen ppl hired at cisco that were pathethic , and they stayed even after the
DOT bust and ppl that stayed and left were both utterly amazed by it .

For the big corporations the accountants are driving them now, and 3dfx is a good
example of what happens when accountants and marketing droids take over .

Like I said, don't get me wrong, good ppl on both sides of the ocean, but some of the
most experienced ppl in the tech sector are being driven away by new visa workers
just for the cost savings .

As an american you can go apply at some of the foreign IT head hunter shops and no
matter your credentials you won't even get an interview .

They want ppl they can leverage with fear of being sent back home as well, knowing
it is the difference between a 3rd world job or being here making more than they would
in their resident country by far .

The flaw I see in this is that if money is made here, but most of it sent out of the country
to support their family back home, then money that would go into the economy here ends up
being sent out and deflating our economy .

They cry about a trade deficit, but they themselves employ foreign workers who send a great
deal of money home . "Just" sent via Western Union, "just" to mexico $6 billion USD .

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/19/b3526155.htm

I don't know how many ppl from other countries work here, but I know the figure is in the
millions, and I know it is from MANY nations . I also know generally the mexicans make
the least as well . So with that in mind, you can guesstimate the math .

When the corporations whine about the trade deficit, they can keep this in mind .

As for the government puppets protecting US jobs, that is a bunch of BS , and they should
all be flown to hollywood to pick up their oscar awards .

Peace,
Ex-MislTech

maybe you meant the story in businessweek?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06 /b3919001_mz001.htm?campaign_id=nws_insdr_jan28&li nk_position=link1

I couldn't find the story in fast company.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fast+company+elevat or+counterfeit

Here's the skinny - MySpace.com was originally a filesharing site, however that went defunct in 1999.
The MySpace we know today appears to have always been owned by the same people - IntermixMedia (IntermixMedia.com), who were initially called eUniverse and are to all intents and purposes a (viral) marketing company. eUniverse changed their name following accounting troubles which resulted in them being delisted from the Nasdaq, and allegations regarding spyware.
IntermixMedia was subsequently bought by News Corp. for an apparant $580m.

Exactly where the two (three, including Brad Greenspan who left around the time of the troubles with the SEC) guys who apparantly started MySpace come into it all, is at best unclear.

For the list, see here. Check the rightmost column for percentage given: http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2004/0448_philan. pdf Even the metric used here leaves a lot to be desired. A better one would be "How much did you give of what you have left after expenses for a basic, middle-class existence?" By that metric, I'm not sure whether Gates would even be in the upper 50% of Americans.

Tell me about it. Google recently signed a billion-dollar deal with AOL that Microsoft wouldn't sign for ethical reasons.

"An executive involved in the talks said Time Warner asked Microsoft to give AOL similar preferred placement in advertising and in its Web index and that Microsoft refused, calling the request unethical."

... This won't fly. Just look at this. Even though market share is dropping, having > 60% of the number of units sold is still remarkable. And with the whole top 10 being Apple and no. 10 being the large video iPod at a 3.6% share, there is clearly no big competition - just a lot of small competition. The second best companys bestseller is doing worse than 3.6% market share. And the Nano flew in as no. 2 in just half a month. Unbelievable.

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Nickname: Stephan Kinsella
Review: As a practicing patent attorney, I've observed that both proponents and opponents of the patent system use unprincipled, flawed, utilitarian (wealth-maximization) reasoning to support their position. The primarily principled opponents of patents are anti-industrialist, anti-private-property socialists. The solution is to realize that there is a non-socialist, pro-property rights, principled case against patents, as I have laid out in my article Against Intellectual Property, available at Mises.org http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf> .
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SlashDot recently covered another BusinessWeek opinion piece entitled "Cutting Through the Patent Thicket", which argued that "the current U.S. system is harming innovation. A simplified process with stronger patents would encourage economic growth".

Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck not only liked the AOL deal, he also speculated Google could be on the verge of entering the hardware space, with some sort of "Google Cube," a small box with various wireless ports, which could be used to connect a personal computer, stereo, or personal video recorder.

"In fact, Google could over time become more of a hardware company than anything else," Peck wrote in a research note.

Even the exceeding residential land lines part seemed surprisingly backwards to me. My mother is the only one I know of who doesn't have a cell phone. Having a cell phone hasn't been unusual or a status symbol since 1996.

This Business Week article from 1999 claims cell phone penetration was 58% in 1999 in Finland. Apparently 96% of the population had a mobile subscription in 2004. The US isn't that much behind, is it?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_46 /b3908042.htm

or google for "japan cellular 4g"

The Intel brand was ranked #5 for Business Week's 2005 Global Brands Scoreboard just below Coke, Microsoft, IBM & GE, with a brand value of $35.6 billion.

They must have done something right... some combination of image, cost, and core-values. Seems Intel stives to have all employees aligning with these values. That 1994 Pentium bug could have really damaged the brand, but they managed it by apologizing, recalling and replacing at a cost of $300 million.

Hmmm, but as you're posting links you could also post the one to the update where Peter Burrows writes that a source at Apple said: "[...] the EasyPay system will become an ongoing aspect of the Apple retail experience [...] it was considered a big success this holiday shopping season. And Steve Jobs believes that many people who are comfortable buying on-line [...] will actually prefer getting their receipts electronically."

Or would that take the negative spin out of your posting?

Sometimes it didn't work as well as advertised.

But yes, they're going to tweak it and use it anyway.

Was this present at all Apple Stores during the holiday season? I seem to have completely missed it.

Here's the plot.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov 2005/tc20051122_410710.htm

They're more lumbering than stupid, you know.

According to this article in business week, Java is losing momentum.

I teach Object Oriented Programming to engineering students in a university here and our class is still taught using C++. What was said in a former post about learning any OO language will enable you to easily cross over to other languages is true. But, from my experience as a teacher, students will actually only go from hard languages to easier languages. The C++ syntax is such a bitch sometimes that I can't really picture any student going from Java or C# to C++. But, then again, I don't believe any of my students read ./

So my advice to you is this: read the article, then choose either one, and get a good book for the other.

...then learn Java according to this BusinessWeek Article. Apparently LAMP (Perl, Python, and PHP) are the languages (fad?) for the 00's (according to the said article).

But here goes. *deep breath*

I think corporations and government, working in lock-step, are attempting to revert us to a serfdom/feudalist society of landed gentry once again.
Evidence:

• DRM mechanisms preventing ownership of goods
• Recent changes to the bankruptcy laws making it more difficult for a citizen to declare (as an aside, corporate welfare and the like is alive and kicking, and costs more than my mom's bankruptcy ever will; that's just me being bitter I guess)
• CC companies have now been forced (or was it merely a forceful suggestion?) to raise minimum payments. ( One of many links) This comes shortly after the law change. Now, it's sort of coincidence but it's one of those "happy coincidences" that seem to end up with SOMEONE indicted for fraud. Heh.

This question will not die, Why is it that only AC keep asking it?

Look, for the last time and for the non econ majors in the crowd. What's better: selling damn near all you can produce or having a stockpile of unsold goods? If every day kids & parents are going to walmart asking for 360s and can't get them, MS I wish I had your problem. As long as they refill supplies before the other guys lauch their next gen consoles, All will be kosher at Bill's House.

Scarcity has a psycological effect on the buying public. When the trucks roll again, chock full of Xbox360s to those "major cities", you will once again see lines of people queing for them.

Talking Point #1 - The XBox 360 is very scarce and therefore valuable. A kind reader sent us an IM that his local GameSpot store will not have very many 360s to sell and that most pre-orders will arrive AFTER Christmas. Mom and Dad definitely have things that are scarce--jewelry, wine, hair--and will understand this concept. Consider printing out important newspaper articles repeating this claim of scarcity and avoid saying "My friend IMed me that they would be scarce." This will not work. HINT: Remind your parents that by allowing you to purchase this as soon as possible, they will avoid the mad holiday gift buying rush. Also accept the obvious ploy of "We can get it, but you can't open it until later." This, in their eyes, is a way to teach you about patience. This helps them feel better, so accept it.
Source:http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entert ainment/xbox-360-talking-pointsconvincing-the-old- 138223.php

From Moore:"You can challenge the decision, but we made a decision a long time ago that we're going to ship this holiday in the three major regions of the world," Moore stated. "I think when the dust settles, it will be proven to be the right thing, and it will become the default way that you launch a video-game console in our industry."

...
Although there is no official figure, analysts have pegged the initial shipment in the U.S. as somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 units.

Source:http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/conten t/nov2005/id20051121_022008.htm

i wouldnt make cars for a measley 2k profit...

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/ 042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/ 042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_comp any.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/ 042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/m ain632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004 /03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitraki s/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=New s&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.ph p

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.ht m
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel 27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/ 042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates /pfindex.html