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Seismometers just seems a cool way of detecting and confirming tornadoes. http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/contentbe/dispatch/2006/03/28/20060328-C4-00.html

BTW, the Blue Ash tornado they mention actually woke me up. I remember hearing a train-like sound and thinking "I hope that's not a tornado. I don't want to sleep in the bathtub." Turns out the sucker must have been descending as it went over me. Touched down about a mile away, but the path points right back to where I lived.

Not only does it say "A Division of the Columbus Dispatch" at the top right of the page and is also listed under the article writer's name, but the exact same article exists on columbusdispatch.com

. Throwing in "post" just indicates a lack of verification.

There is no Columbus Post Dispatch. It is the Columbus Dispatch.
It says "Columbus Dispatch" on the fucking byline.
It says "Columbus Dispatch" on the publications' title.
It says "Columbus Dispatch" on the URL.

Cite your fucking sources properly.

Is it possible that people can refuse to use the Diebold machines when they get to the poll? Can't we just say, "give me the paper ballot?"

Yes we can

i Do agree that the police and everyone overraceted, but at the same time there was a bag left in one of the subway stops that was suspicious, and at the same time they find these weird looking things that look like its possible there is a pipe bomb on the bottom of it...

i am glad that they did overreact because a bomb can look a lot less high tech than that...

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/2007/02/01/hoax01x 200.jpg - athf bomb

http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/pipebomb. jpg - real pipe bomb...

not that they are very similar, but you can see where the concern is...

what can you do... people are right, it was a good publicity stunt, but at the same time it was stupid to do that without letting someone know that you are going to be putting these things all over the city...

im glad they overreacted and im also glad that turner owned up and paid out because it would have just looked stupid if it went to court, and i do think that those 2 idiots should be arrested because they saw what was going on in the news and didnt tell anyone...

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/national/national. php?story=190762

He's also pro PowerPoint, except when Al Gore uses it.

Frosty is quite the activist.

This guy has beaten every troll on slashdot by redefining Frosty piss.

His wife 'Gayla' was (thankfully) brutally beaten in the election for City Council. She's also got something to hide, as she can't fill out a simple questionaire. Sadly, Frosty should talk to his wife more, as she's for 'common sense decisions' (Warning: Picture of Gayla at bottom)

Board Member Dave Larson (who's a lawyer, btw) was the one who made the decision to 'ban' the movie, though Frosty's been squeaking his wheel on other topics at school board meetings for awhile. You can email Dave here!

Give Frosty a call and tell him you find his ideas intriguing and ask to subscribe to his newsletter! Frosty Hardison - Federal Way, WA - (253) 528-0343

Or just buy him something from this sad Amazon wishlist. After all, "The more citizen comment you have the better off we are."

So Ohio will start screwing everyone and say it's because of the gays - no, that won't backfire at all..

It is not always intentional. In 2004, Ohio was one of the states which passed an anti-gay marriage amendment. Today, the Ohio Supreme Court heard arguments on whether or not the domestic violence laws still apply to non-married people in Ohio.

Backfire? Well, Ohio did just vote in a whole bunch of Democrats; lots of reasons for that though. I think in the end, the public will remain easily manipulated through fear, and people will continue to use fear to manipulate them.

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

This is a federal court judge, they're appointed for life.

And before you go praising how wunnerful it is to vote for judges, you might look at this http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?sto ry=216202.

One judge found for the sides that gave him campaign money 91% of the time. That's a despicable record.

"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

This is the most naive, despicably un-American sentiment of all the tripe that's thrown around in this charade that is post-9/11 paranoia.

I'm sorry for being ad hominem, but please, try to use your imagination here.

This sheep-like "nothing bad happens to good people" mentality is the type of smug, head-in-the-sand mentality that destroys free society. My folks emigrated from behind the "Iron Curtain" in the late 60s exactly to escape the sort of propoganda and easy government-sanctioned persecution that I see creeping up all around us. Let me tell you stories about family and friends fired, harrassed, jailed, and yeah, even tortured because their actions were "misinterpreted", Sometimes they were released without apology a few months later, sometimes not. Sometimes the reason for the police action was political. Sometimes they were framed by competitors. Sometimes they were "snitched" on by neighbors with vendettas. Sometimes they just had the wrong guy. When paranoia rules and every out-of-step behavior is potentially subversive (or "terroristic") it's pretty easy to wreak havoc with people's lives, either intentionally or not.

But that doesn't happen here, right? You wouldn't get labeled terrorist and jailed indefinitely for something as silly as trolling unsavory websites right? Or be charged with a crime and have your property destroyed because you had a stupid bumper sticker, right? And we'd never get so paranoid about air travel as to make a mother drink her own breast milk to prove its safe before boarding a plane, or maybe create a secret no-fly list that is impossible to audit or even acknowledge but sometimes bars toddlers from flying because they might be terrorists (along with hundreds of others, including members of Congress), right? I mean, these are good people who didn't do anything wrong. I can't imagine that there'd be a slew of kafkaesque civil rights abuses that an internal Justice Dept. investigation might uncover, right? (I won't even touch domestic wiretapping) I mean, those who have nothing to fear have nothing to hide, right? Right.

These are just small examples, and maybe not even very good one. And maybe you'll never inconvenienced like the couple in this story. But who knows. Maybe you'll be the victim of identity theft, or even framed.. Maybe you'll have to engage in some bizzare but innocent behavior. Maybe you'll want to voice an unpopular opinion, or go read/hear someone else's horrible and unpopular opinion. Or maybe it'll just be some bureaucratic "oops". But, if it does happen, and YOU find yourself interrogated by the FBI, or forced to explain some blotch on your record for the rest of your life, or maybe even jailed without charge for a few months, then you come tell me how, sure, maybe you lost three months of your life in a cell being molested by thugs, but hey, at the end, everyone figured out it was just a big mistake. So really, it was OK. We're all safer for it. God bless America.

In one precinct, Bush's tally was supersized by a computer glitch

Jim Woods
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A computer error involving one voting-machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.
Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B, which votes at New Life Church on Stygler Road. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there.
The remaining 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president.
Damschroder said he received some calls yesterday from people who saw the error when reading the list of poll results on the election board's Web site.
"It's why the results on election night are unofficial," Damschroder said.
The error would have been discovered when the official canvass for the election is performed, he said.
Election workers will start certifying the official election results later this month. The final, official tally will be available by the end of the month.
This is what happened, Damschroder said:...

IMHO, i'm glad that slashdot has started offering this section. I've been able to introduce /. to a whole different group of people. My sister who doesn't know geek from greek has really found the /. articles on politics interesting, insightful, and enjoyable to read.

Now can we all stop complaining and post some interesting tech-politics discussion?! Since i'm in one of the "battle ground" states (who isn't?!) our local paper had a nice site for offering top 25 issues and showing how you align with the four candidates in ohio... you don't live in ohio? try it anyway, it still gives you an interesting idea of where your ideals actually fall. now if i only had some mod points.... ;)