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Japan is Bizzaro World
Is this the opposite of this "Stupid Town" built in America?
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Re:Heapin' helpin' o' salt, folks.
The government can indeed force someone to reveal their sources. There is no "right to silence" in the Constitution. There is only the right to not testify against yourself. You can be thrown in jail for refusing to testify when the judicial system wants to know something that you know. Journalists are protected in some states by shield laws, but there is currently no federal protection. A law is in the works, but I doubt it's ironclad. According to the Supremes, the first amendment doesn't protect reporters directly, but the government has to show a "compelling interest" in getting the information that they're trying to compel from the reporter.
If the government shows compelling interest, the reporter can go to jail for not complying.
You rush to the defense of Stevens because you believe his reputation suffered due to unfair accusations. Interesting how much less respect you accord Mark Begich's reputation, when his only offense was running against Stevens while he was having legal troubles.
You also claim that the prosecution -- done by the Department of Justice, under the direction of Bush appointees -- was politically motivated. Could you elaborate on who in the Bush DoJ was motivated by the desire to remove a Republican senator? Could you explain how this partisan attack on a Republican happened, when the Bush Justice Department was seven times more likely to investigate Democrats than Republicans?
You claim that Stevens has been exonerated. Not technically true. His conviction was thrown out as a mistrial. That's not the same thing as receiving a not guilty verdict. A not guilty verdict would mean that the same charges could never be brought against Stevens again. In this case, the government could have requested a retrial on the same charges. One of the reasons they didn't was because Stevens is now merely a very, very, very old private citizen. If there was a good chance of him recovering his Senate seat, he'd almost certainly be getting what he really deserves: a fair trial, untainted by the prosecutorial misconduct of the last trial.
Ted Stevens, "one of the few honest politicians in the Senate?" I'll be laughing about that one for weeks.
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Re:How reliable is the data?
You are wrong. Feel free the read this which showed the servers were enabled in both places. In fact there is no reason to outsource the election results webpage to a partisan group. If your theory is that OARnet (think supercomputing) can't handle the traffic... (uh??) and they can't install servers into the Ohio IT (uh??).. If that is your theory than why was this TN partisan company used for a primary election in 2006? And why were the county results still sent to Smartech in Nov 2006 when the DNS never changed, and the webserver was the regular old Ohio IT one? Just RTFA.
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Not new news
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Old news link covering this.
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Breaking News: ePluribus Published this 11/7/06Since the original Netcraft hit, we're probably responsible for most all of the updates to that data since the first half of 2005. When we started forcing robtex to crawl the Smartech IP space, there were probably 30 to 50 domains known to the robtex database so it's been our priming that has populated robtex for the most part. We tracked the story back to Bush-loyalist Mike Connell once we discovered that he runs two companies, one for his "Who's who of Republican Politics", the second to create a "non-partisan, woman-owned, small business" to be able to get inside of dot gov. We learned of this in March 2005 and have been following him ever since. The several stories linked here will provide a much better context for your questions, speculations, dismissals, and so on. There's much more to come, we've only scratched the surface with these stories. Enjoy! Related stories
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Exactly right
ePluribus Media reported this story back in Nov 2006 -- "Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again"
The NetCraft IP funny business was noted, and the election.sos.state.oh.us was updated and checked on from 2005 onwards, that is why you can look at NetCraft today on see a history of it. The list of domains hosted on SMARTech were also added to Robtex by querying a list of servers with a long list and adding to it over the years.
This was posted by some asshat who read the Free Press article The GOP's cyber election hit squad and is trying to take credit. -
Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Original Ohio Election Story HERE: check dataRead the original stories at ePluribusMedia, they will probably help answer some of your questions. Related stories
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Re:The implications of this terrifies me. $
This is horrible to leave out the actual reporting on this and only link to the NetCraft "smoking gun". The mods here really, really suck.
This was first reported on by ePluribus Media back in Nov. 2006
Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again
And again summarized yesterday by Columbus Free Press
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Re:How reliable is the data?What a horrible version of this story to pick. There are many submission with the whole story, but only this one is chosen.. How very
This was submitted yesterday when this was still news:
"The Free Press is reporting how the IT company that provides Rove's emails and RNC websites, also hosted Ohio's 2004 election results. The country results were sent to Ohio's Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell, and those results were hosted on a SMARTech webserver in TN. Blackwell had the IT guys switch the DNS on election night in order to accomplish a man-in-the-middle exploit on election results."
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Would like to clarify a few things.I worked briefly as a social worker where I saw many clients who had disabilities more severe than mine, and needed more than was then being done even with the ADA. Those are the people who I was referring to when I said about damn tine.
However, this was before computers were as widely used as they are now. And, technology has to catch up so everyone will benefit, not just a few. As a matter of fact, in my instance, advances in technology are wonderful.
I am a traumatic brain injury survivor and due to neurological damage, I have a difficult time writing legibly w/a pen. (In addition to extremely painful headaches caused by shrill noises, problems concentrating and several other things.) So, email and computer use are great for me, as is having a cell phone, because the ringtones don't give me a headache while a land-line does. (These are some of the reasons why I couldn't work--in social work, case notes have to be written by hand and signed, the damn phones in the office never stopped ringing--I headaches and was exhausted constantly. There are others.)
Plus, computer use is more widespead today--that reminds me of a couple things. Many people with disabiities go online as there is not much else for a person on disability to do. (re: computers, many people with disabilities are self-taught by reading tech sites.) So, it seems to me that a business that has a site on the net should want to make their site accessible to as many as possible. I have a question for you about this:
Business that choose not to cater to those with disabilities will pay by bad PR and reduced patronage by disabled persons.
One of the criteria for the ADA, Rehab Act, and more to apply to a business is that the business receive federal funds. (From my social work days, I know for a fact Target gets Federal funds.) So, why should taxpayers subsidize a business that does not allow a segment of the population to access them? If the market were truly free, there would be no need for any federal sudsidies to any business. Those are your tax dollars I'm talking about. So, why don't people get all riled up about that money being wasted on corporate welfare?On another note, the first time I booted linux, I was amazed that it didn't have all of the crap everywhere--made it so much easier for me to concentrate as I didn't get a headache after an hour or so. (Still haven't decided which one I like best. Also have some hardware problems that I'm putting off fixing--that's another story.) I enjoy writing for the sake of writing, as do many people. Here's a writing sample re: Medicare D that is only the tip of the iceberg re: how screwed up the computer system is.
Thanks for your thoughts.
-Terri
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Re:Why don't you...
Um, you don't need to run for President to make a difference. And you don't need to run in a minority party (ie. irrelevant outside a parliamentary system), either.
Cases in point:
Stephen Thibodeau (inspired by DailyKos)
(also inspired by DailyKos)
And I've seen more announce their campaigns for offices small and large on DailyKos.
Now, you may scoff, they'll just become corrupted. Perhaps eventually. But you have to get the power to do something before you can do it. All steps forward in America have come from some person or group grabbing some power and making the change, and sometimes those somebodies have been "fresh" politicians.
And if you say, "good for them, but I'm a conservative" - well, hey, surely with all the "traditional conservative" and "libertarian conservative" criticism of Bush and his administration lately, surely many such people will start running for offices large and small to exert power on the Republican Party and "take it back?" Surely all is not lost?