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Messing with Texas"? Come on...its normal for the business to be done this way when you are buying lots of land from many sellers. It has, after all, been done before...

Random note: I weaseled my way into an advance launch of the PlayStation 3 in Beverly Hills Tuesday. It doesn't come out until Nov. 17. With that said, trust me on the following three words: buy Sony stock. ... Also, they list the price in the $500-700 range but that does NOT include the retainer for the divorce attorney. Which I'm going to need if I get this thing. Good God. The glory days of Intellivision football seem like they happened about 2,500 years ago.

Here http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2639 246 Fixed for you. Its called Media Spin. Allchin also addressed concerns that Vista would be inherently insecure. The OS has already suffered so-called "pen" or penetration testing during its development, and is the first product to go through Microsoft's secure development lifecycle program, he said. "Thousands" of applications have been tested against the software. Allchin's own son uses a prerelease version of Vista without any antivirus software, Allchin said, although he advised customers not to do the same.

It's a lot harder to get a good picture of things when you boil it all down to one number. It's simply not recognizing the fact that almost every election year is different and multi-faceted. I'm going to assume you would consider 1994 congressional elections in which the Republicans gained 54 house seats to be significant? Again, the entire house was up for grabs. But let's use your metric.

1994: Republicans win 230 seats, Democrats win 204 seats.
2006: Republicans win 203 seats, Democrats win 232 seats.
(the above is assuming that of the 10 seats still not called will fall to those who are currently ahead)

It's pretty easy to do the math just at a glance? You see how the Dems won MORE races in 2006 than the Republicans did in 1994? So, by your metric, this election was an even more clear message to the GOP than the 1994 election was to the Democrats, right?

FYI, on the above I had to make some assumtions on those last 10 races. Even if I assume all 10 go to Republicans, that still makes only 206 to the Republicans and 229 to the Democrats. This changes it to be a 52.64% victory for Democrats compared to the 52.87% victory for the GOP in 1994.

Hopefully, you realize what a silly metric it was.

More telling is just how one-sided and widespread the victory was. Not only did the Democrats gain control of the House, quite probably the Senate, the governorships, and they switched the control of the state legislatures form 20 GOP, 19 Dem, 10 divided to 23 Dem, 16 GOP and 10 divided.

The only across the board win is the passing of all the gay marriage bans in states that were unlikely to ever allow gay marriage to begin with. Additionally, this takes a great GOP turnout booster out of play for the 2008 presidential election.

Read the following for more historical changes this election. Phrases like "first time since 1994" or even "first time since 1922" abound.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=26 39441

All of this when one to two years ago, EVERYONE was predicting the Democrats would complete flounder through the next election, hoping only not to shrink their minorities any more than they already were.

If you still can't figure out that these results are one of those most significant in the last quarter century or so, it's because you actively don't want to.

The space station is being built again. India is planning manned missions into space. A shift in power in the US Government. Now we're creating a Universal Translator! How exciting these times we live in.

How about the mysterious outages of all of the Campaign Phone Lines of George Allen(R-VA) the day before and day of the election?

Or the VRWC rigging the electronic voting machines to not allow anyone to vote for the GOP candidate in NJ? http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=election s&id=4737362

Amazing thing about conspiracies, you can find them wherever you look.

Based on my experience with one of the issues you mentioned (abortion), your theory that 70% of people are between 60 to 70 (i.e. closer to Dems) is factually incorrect. Almost any poll that asks a more detailed question on abortion than "are you pro-life or pro-choice" shows that more people are in line with the Republican view. For example: http://www.nrlc.org/Polling/zogbyapril2004.pdf I realize that this poll was sponsored by the NRLC, but it was easiest for me to find, and I've seen these results over and over again if you ask people detailed questions about what should be legal and what shouldn't. (Note that only a small fraction of abortions are a result of rape, incest, or threat to the life of the mother, so it is fair to count people who think abortion should only be legal in those circumstances as closer to Republicans, many of whom support those exceptions as well.)

There certainly is an issue of phrasing of the question affecting the results, as polls that ask if abortion should be legal in all or most cases show a majority pro-choice, but questions asking if abortion should be legal just to end an unwanted pregnancy show a majority pro-life. For example: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/aborti on_poll030122.html

http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=316580&pag e=1

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Republicans engaged in phone jamming in 2004:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=18 29056

a Republican official was CONVICTED of this, too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/05/16/AR2006051601712.html

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:ppVgafEcNaYJ: www.guidemag.com/magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm%3 FID%3DA2E247F1-CB55-4215-9F96211CDCD52F41&hl=en&lr =&strip=1

Apparently the ISP got cutoff because of Perverted Justice, which is funded by NBC.

And I just saw this article on Fark: "Dateline NBC" finally kills itself a pedophile

Oh ye of little faith. Click here for for a nerdy beauty and contemplate adding Mr. Easterbrook to your weekly reading: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=ea sterbrook/060919#cheerleader

Even better, judges were dismissed in the case if they seemed to be too nice to him:
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was replaced Tuesday amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government interference in the highly sensitive case.

Now, it's pretty obvious that Saddam wasn't a nice guy. It's just that this trial seems to be so politically well-timed with an outcome that was predetermined from the beginning.

CHeck this out wow http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2609 065&page=1 news No wonder i like opensource, we should be able to create a comunity sponsired project in direct oposition ti diebold, s%*t we do a better job than them at least.

i've never paid for cable or satellite. the service has just never seemed to offer me any value: while there's some decent content, it's overwhelmed by noise, and i'm not willing to schedule my life around the box. today, i watch several programs regularly, however.

take, for example, Lost, Jericho, and Heroes. three different networks, prime-time big-money shows, and each of their networks distributes the latest episode online for free. sure, it's in some stupid flash player, which diminishes the experience (prevents portability, inhibits replay, and - particularly the ABC player - can be buggy), but that's a huge shift in outlook on the part of the major networks from even two years ago. the official distributions contain commercials, but that's a trade-off well worth it (ABC's model is particularly nice: watch 'em once, then scroll around however you want, including watching the whole show straight through without interruption). i have no idea what the user population of these sorts of services are today, but i strongly believe they'll continue to grow.

then there's DVD series. i've watched far more "television" shows via DVD in the past year than i have off broadcast+cable+satellite in the past five (like i said, i don't have "television" in the normal sense). there's some unanswered questions about this as an model in itself - how do you know which shows to watch? where's the up-front production money come from? - but, again, that model seriously diminishes the "need" for "traditional" television. and i'm certainly not alone on this front: this is a very big market already.

and this is just the officially sanctioned means. if i remember correctly, ABC lets you watch back episodes through their player, NBC not; bittorrent to the rescue. eztv even specializes in exactly this sort of television content shifting.

then there's iTunes. their pricing model is informative. personally, i think it's too high: i've bought some short movies, but wouldn't pay that much for a television show/season. however, when you look at what people actually pay for cable/satallite - which can easily top $100/month - it's actually not a bad deal, by the numbers. if the quality was higher, i might be inclined to get, say, Lost and Battlestar Galactica this way; alternately, if the current product was available for, say, $20-25/season.

the "slow erosion of traditional television broadcasting" is already upon us, and is only going to accelerate with increased broadband adoption and data rates. and good riddance.

See for yourself.

Great solution to the problem of voter fraud.

See ya later America!

Unfortunately, from the sound of things, their role will only be involved in voter intimidation or access to polling places.

But wait, good news everybody! Wan Kim, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, has said that people shouldn't be concerned about electronic voting machines. Why? Because many groups have reviewed the machines, including the National Assocation of Secretaries of State.

"Regardless of what machine a voter votes on Election Day -- and there will be dozens and dozens of different type of machines across the country that are being used -- they have confidence that once the results of those elections are certified, you can bet on those results as being correct, because of the safeguards in place."

Hey Kim, why don't you send a few folks down to Florida to see what's going on then come back and say those words with a straight face. It doesn't matter if the votes are certified if the machines didn't record the proper votes in the first place.

The phone is too expensive to give to children, but
Disney markets something similar that is affordable.

http://disneymobile.go.com/disneymobile/home.do (DisneyMobile)

Parents who want to give their kids some freedom but still
know where they are snap these up. Sneaky kids ditch them
(send them home with friends).

I blogged this recently:

1. The simplest (but most insecure) way to sell a track online is to simply edit the PayPal "Thank You" page on the site to include a link to the track. Basically what will happen is when someone buys something from your website, they click the "add to cart" button which takes them to the PayPal shopping cart where they fill in their billing information and buy. Once the transaction is complete, PayPal sends the customer back to a "thank you" page on their server. So, by changing that page to include a link to the track they can download it. (Now, I'm not sure how this would work if they bought a tee shirt or something else. - maybe they'd just get the mp3 for free in that case?) Anyway, the issue with this is that they can copy the link to that thank you page and give it to their friends who can then go to that page and download it all they want. (Probably not a huge deal at this level, but they may lose sales.)
   
   
2. So, there seems to be other people out there who want to do the same thing and there are several services that help out by simplifying and securing this process by providing an easy way to restrict the downloading of the track to only those who purchased it through PayPal. (The two listed below simply work with your existing PayPal account.) It looks like it would be pretty cheap to use either of these setups. (Actually they both offer either 1 week or 1 month free which might be enough time in my friend's case!)
   
   These two services allow you to upload the digital files you wish to sell to their server and enter you PayPal account information. They'll then accept the "Buy" button links from your website and pass them off to PayPal's standard interface for payment. PayPal then returns to their site for the "Thank You" page and a secure, limited time download URL is provided to the purchaser.
   

• EJunkie (Pricing)
• PayLoadz and PayLoadz Express (Pricing)
  
  Simple, straightforward and to the point!
  

"just about as liberal as it gets when it comes to free speech - you are allowed to say anything you want about a group, but you are never allowed to call for violence"

But you are allowed to shoot someone as long as the gun manufacturers get imdemnified againsd being sued by the surviving relatives.

You do have freedom of speech, just as long as you don't exercise it. Now that the commie label can't be used to demonize whole groups, it's saving us from the terr'rists that's the pretext. Now y'all don't go accusing me of being in cahoots with people who think like the following.

'you accuse us of being warlike, intolerant and un-peacefull, in that case we must kill you', signed Abd-AL-Latif

Here's some people exercising their right to free speech.

Lawyer gets locked up for defending client.

Nurse gets fined for bumper sticker.

Librarian served with lifetime gag order.

was Re:greater or lesser evil

blah blah blah.

You may not agree to their views, or his, but you have to respect their rights to voice their opinion and not be made to participate in what they consider murder.

>That won't get me arrested

Wearing a Kerry/Edwards button can get you arrested.

Oh, under the Espionage Act, leaking classified information has to include intent to harm the US in order to be a felony.

Hummm, I think you have been free market/profit motive theory indoctrinated.

I used to believe the free market is always best in every situations theoretical redirect as well. I was raised that way. However, after I chanced to read a few follow up studies and have got out and learnt to think on my own, I have come to believe the scientific approach is the only way to go: a theory, while it might be a good starting point, is only as good as it works in reality.

Under this measure, ya ya, ra ra, free market is always the best has a lot of answering to do. For example, a quick google for "cost of healthcare canada us" paints an interesting picture: the administration overhead costs in US and Canada are 31% and 17% respectively; the per capital expenses for health care is $2548 and $1886 (USD) respectively; the average life expectancy is 77.0 and 79.3 respectively; and the Harris polled population satisfaction relative to other industrialized nations is least and most respectively.

It should, at least, give one pause for thought.

PS: I know we feel invested in our viewpoints (which, ironically, are not usually ours in any sense of the word, but, rather, those of our parent's and our early educator's), however, there is nothing inconsistent or wrong with changing them as we feel fit. My favourite philosopher quote is something to the effect of "of course I don't feel the same as I did yesterday -- today I know more."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/462311
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID =10515
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_and_American _health_care_systems_compared
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/health/healthwatch/canada .html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/US/healthcar e031020_poll.html

(and so on)

ABC News is running a poll titled Is Your Vote Safe? that asks:

"Are you confident that your vote is safe and will be counted in the election?"

Oddly, this poll seems to be suffering some voting irregularities itself. Repeatedly refreshing the results yields this strange sequence:

approx 12:30am, 10-23-06
no: 738 yes: 101 ns: 86 tot: 925

12:53am
no: 743 yes: 101 ns: 87 tot: 931

12:54am
no: 737 yes: 101 ns: 86 tot: 924

12:55am
no: 746 yes: 101 ns: 88 tot: 935

12:56am
no: 670 yes: 84 ns: 80 tot: 834

12:57am
no: 721 yes: 99 ns: 85 tot: 905

12:58am
no: 734 yes: 101 ns: 86 tot: 921

With all the vulnerabilities in voting machines, it amazes me that the states do not mandate paper trails. Someone wouldn't even need access to the source code to start changing votes. For example, in this report from ABC News on October 1st, they discuss a method to almost invisibly manipulate both votes recorded and logs, all with only a couple minutes access to a voting machine.

Here's an excerpt:
In a paper last month, "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine," (available at http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/) Princeton computer professor Edward W. Felten and two graduate students Ariel J. Feldman and J. Alex Halderman discussed a common Diebold machine. They showed that anyone who gets access to the machine and its memory card for literally a minute or two could easily install the group's invisible vote-stealing software on the machine. (Poll workers and others have unsupervised access for much longer periods.) Changing all logs, counters, and associated records to reflect the bogus vote count that it generates, the software installed by the infected memory card (similar to a floppy disk) would be undetectable. In fact, the software would delete itself at the end of Election Day.

"Nearly six years into his presidency, the Bush space policy has been long overdue," he says in an e-mail to ABC News. "Despite fears that it would mark a bold new initiative to weaponize space, it largely codifies previously announced changes from Clinton space policies of a decade ago."

You obviously hate "religious fundies" because that is a deragotory term the way you used it, you "hate" folks because of their religion!

How about those "everything hispanic is just so damn cool" sites, the bronze warrior aztlan overlord la raza reconquista sites?(despite them all wanting to move here and theior own nations are cesspools)

The US attorney general is a member of a hispanic separatist organization!

You have to be 100% pro gay or be classed as a hater. You have to be 100% zionist and pro everything israel does or you are a "hater"

>Peaceful, lawful protests are not a crime.

Didn't used to be. Read http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2224683&page =1 for what's happening now.

>The crimes are planning terrorist attacks, conducting terrorist attacks, and supporting terrorists with tangible resources

The key question there is how the government defines supporting terrorists. In December 2001, the Attorney General testified to Congress "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists".

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.

"We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police.

"They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."

Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system, which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat.

However, by one tiny chip of compromise after another, one infinitesimal shift to accommodate a "reasonable response" after another, a group of people can turn into "The (choose ethnic group) Problem" and suddenly it's okay to treat people as things, the only capital crime there is. You never quite know where you cross the line and suddenly you have become the enemy your grandparents fought war, bloody war to prevent from turning the future into a long night of horror.

This is utter bull. The crimes are planning terrorist attacks, conducting terrorist attacks, and supporting terrorists with tangible resources, or treason

Voting against President Clinton or Bush is not a crime.

Complaining against government policy in the newspapers or to your representative is not a crime.

Peaceful, lawful protests are not a crime. (Ya, ya, I know.)

Civil disobedience can be a crime, but one which is generally lightly punished.

Taking up arms against the United States is a crime.

Blowing up, shooting, stabbing, poisoning, or otherwise killing or plotting to kill Americans is a crime.

Donating to charity acting as a front to funnel money to terrorist organizations is a crime. (See Hamas) Those charities are generally designated in public records.

These aren't hard lines to understand, or avoid. (When in doubt, leave the bomb or gun at home.)

With so many in America taking the route of wanting to put kids in padded rooms so they can not hurt themselves or each other, the backlash from what I would call "normal" America is giving rise to the popularity of the UFC.

This can be seen from the following article.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bu ckheit/060905

If kids are not allowed to play tag, where does it end?

And when was the last time any of them actually died?

I think I hear the sound of your head being extracted from your ass.

Actually, back when he weight 180 he was in pretty good shape. Now he's 196 and has 17% body fat. Not a lard-ass, of course, but not ultra-fit either. Back when he was in Austin, he was in much better shape. More details in this ABC News report. It was commented that he was "pretty good for a man who just turned 60." Not "damn good for anyone, even better than his bodyguards."

There are numerous studies, that show married people are generally happier and live longer.

I screwed up the URL's sorry.....here they are corrected

http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041644.cfm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Depression/story?id=2 298049
http://www.apa.org/releases/married_happy.html
http://pewresearch.org/social/pack.php?PackID=1

There are numerous studies, that show married people are generally happier and live longer.
http://www.family.org/cforum/briefs/a0041644.cfm/
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Depression/story?id=2 298049/
http://www.apa.org/releases/married_happy.html/
http://pewresearch.org/social/pack.php?PackID=1/

Thanks from all of us for your dedication to free speech. Are you aware of some other enemies of free speech who are currently active?

600 million people were supposed to simultaneously jump on July 20th to alter the earths orbit to prevent global warming. Only after the fact did anybody bother to tell us this could lead to our extinction. Oh no!

Stupid people are funny.

Here's a link to some of the media coverage from last month:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id= 4558883

abc7:

Hans Reiser, in turn, denied that movies were to blame for their son's nightmares and accused his wife of having an extramarital affair with Sean Sturgeon, a former friend of his, and that Sturgeon was a danger to the children. ... Sturgeon said he became romantically involved with Nina Reiser only when her husband made it clear that the couple were through.

SFGate.com:

Nina Reiser's boyfriend, Anthony Zografos...

How many boyfriends did she have within two years of divorcing Reiser?

Their system works well for them and illustrates what Christianity *should* be. I don't mean the physical trappings, the dress, the low-tech, the separation. I mean the state of the spirit and how adherence to spiritual principles provides certain guidance even when the bad old world busts in and murders your family members.

Here, this one is just for you.

More news at http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id= 4563722

Lots of interesting "soap opera" information in there about the divorce, extramarital affairs, possible fraud, organized crime threats, etc.

Incest/rape is a boogy man. While it probably happens to a very small extent in all societies, it is against the social norm of virtually all societies and cultures for the last 500 years.

Did you read the article? How another article verifying this story from ABC News? Have you researched this or are you just pulling this argument out of your ass to be a contrarian?

However, rape, incest, and sexual deviancy fears are very useful to disparage a religion, culture, or group. From the old Nazi propoganda posters of charactures of "hooked-nose" Jews stealing away virtuous German woman, to the stereotypes in deep south U.S. about black men without sexual control, or the alternate stereotype of the inbred redneck, to the Communist propoganda about "Homosexual Capitalism"... over an over again you see stereotypes or generalizations about sex being used to disparage or spread fear about a certain group.

Yer knee's jerkin pretty hard there. Any insinuation that the Amish might not be so pious by bringing up very real civil rights violations is trying to scapegoat? Uh, yeah prosecuting civil rights violations is just like what the Nazi's did to the Jews and the Klan did to blacks. Got any more amazing feats of equivocation in that bag o'tricks?

As for spreading fear, I'm sorry but it's a simple fact that people fear rape, just like they fear death. Not to distract you too much from your horseshit abstraction, but rape is a very real thing that people fear. WTF, are you on the PA tourist board or something?

There is absolutly no evidence that rape, molestation, or incest is any more common amoung Amish than any other group of people.

You really are talking out of your ass now. Where is the assertion that these incidents are more common? The assertion is that these civil rights violations are not stopped. Victims are not protected from their assailants within this community due to it's specific belief that all sins are equal. You really should get that knee checked out.

However, Amish are a religious minority, and they largely exist outside the realm of government control, corporate consumerist advertising, and modern day "political correctness".

Yeah cause keeping rapists away from their victims is something we just invented after we all got "politically correct". This idea that the Amish are somehow above criticism due to their lifestyle choice is beyond contempt. Polygamists who force 14 year old girls to marry senior citizens and kick teenage boys out on the street are a religious minority too, what's your fucking point? Are you actually insinuating that these gross violations of basic civil rights are to be overlooked because of some kook's religious beliefs? What if I suddenly decide the righteous hand of God is mine to smite sinners and go on a rampage? Any objections there? By your logic, am I not justified by my deep religious convictions and my determination to live "outside the mainstream"? I'm afraid you may be the one trying to inject some sort of "political correctness" here.

As one of the last groups to resist becoming assimilated into the rest of society and to come under control of the power elite, there is an agenda to disparage them, to undercut peoples respect for their lifestyle, and for building popular support for the final destruction and assimilation of the Amish people. The people with that agenda, both in the government and the media have been spreading FUD about the Amish being a bunch of perverts, based on a handful of isolated cases that were not really any different than what happens every day to non-Amish people.

Right, cause no one has anything better to do than worry about some farmers in the midwest who drive buggies and still churn butter by hand. Just out of curiosity, who are these people that are out to destroy the Amish, is it t

"1) I'm taking a sickie really and I don't feel like working and look the business has provided me with a good excuse."

Hehe. 20/20 is presently covering "Social Slothing", including the guy who was in school for thirteen years.

What's wrong is that the premises make it a waste of money.

"software that would let the government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas.

Such a 'sentiment analysis' is intended to identify potential threats to the nation"

Intelligence gathering is wasted if the audience doesn't know the difference between negative opinions and threats.

It's also creepy if the people running it have been known to drop bombs on news outlet offices, allegedly plan to bomb a TV station's headquarteres, launch an air strike on their office and kill their bureau chief, and shell a Reuters office with a tank.

Now that the world has read the despicable instant messages from Rep. Foley

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=25095 86&page=1

thats not it, thats AOL'd dumbed down edited crap.

here is the full log:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=2509586

As they say, "Viewer discretion advised" . . . . probably not work safe:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=2509586

UNDERSTAND THIS YOU ARROGANT, GREEDY BASTARDS, /no one/ wants to fucking download your DRM'ed/non-DRM'ed bullshit movies and music.

Is that so? From a recent press release:

The iTunes Store also features the world's largest catalog of online music with over 3.5 million songs and has sold a stunning 1.5 billion songs, making it the world's most popular digital music store.

Just because the Slashdot crowd doesn't like something doesn't mean that average consumers have the same view. Get over yourself and UNDERTAND THIS, the RIAA and MPAA don't give a flying fuck about what you think. You are not their target customer.

If these space elevators do take off, would they need their own air traffic control at each one? Imagine a plane clipping one of these things while people are going up? Tower of Terror would lose all it's business.