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Bush making a good decision...I must not understand the issue fully
:snip Sounds like a case of the latter
Stop being a moron and become informed on issues!
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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/psz-24.11.01-0 00/

of course that is in german, so use this babelfish link

US Army wants allegedly no Windows XP

US armed forces are to have decided against the use of the new Microsoft operating system Windows XP. By its on-line registration the Redmonder software company would get too much information about the computers and software of the American Department of Defense into the hands. That again would be a violation of the government regulations to data security. The pentagon is to have cancelled therefore the purchase of PCS, on which Windows XP is installed. How it is called further, the Ministry of Defense wants also in the future to acquire no licenses for Windows XP.

All this maintains anyhow Charles R. Smith, Cyberwar Cyberwar-Kolumnist of the NewsMax appearing in the Web . He sees himself as one of the prominent American experts for Cyber technology and their meaning for the war, the terrorism, the data security and the daily life. Charles Smith says about itself, he has good contacts since the cold war to the US Army, which was he with " Games Programs " supplied. Today he is a president and CEO von Softwar, its own consulting firm, writes additionally for the " USAF information of throwing AR journal " and maintains as a journalist regular contacts to American secret service sets.

The press department of the American Department of Defense did not want to acknowledge Charles Smith in the fact that Windows XP was generally gebannt in the area of the US Army. Windows XP is new on the market. One must regard that only once. The pentagon became general on the fact however always notes that the software used there does not contain back doors, traps, viruses and Trojaner.

Manufacturer Microsoft does not take the security doubts of authorities and enterprises on the light shoulder. The software giant has therefore a " Corporate edition " of its new operating system in the delivery program, which does without the on-line registration

Are you still under the impression that the US constitution is still in force? Unfortunately, that is questionable at best in and of itself.

Richard,

I agree with you wholeheartedly on protecting our civil liberties.

You are wrong about Vietnam. You realize why America was over there? To prevent the Communist North Vietnamese from taking over the "Free" South Vietnamese, and initiating the usual "reign of terror" that accompanies communist dictatorships. The problem was that congress couldn't stand to support the President in doing his job. And that is the same problem that Bush is facing now!

You have a Senate Majority Leader and a bunch of liberals in the media who cannot stand to give support to the President in this time of crisis. Take a look at this and this and also this

Richard,

I agree with you wholeheartedly on protecting our civil liberties.

You are wrong about Vietnam. You realize why America was over there? To prevent the Communist North Vietnamese from taking over the "Free" South Vietnamese, and initiating the usual "reign of terror" that accompanies communist dictatorships. The problem was that congress couldn't stand to support the President in doing his job. And that is the same problem that Bush is facing now!

You have a Senate Majority Leader and a bunch of liberals in the media who cannot stand to give support to the President in this time of crisis. Take a look at this and this and also this

Richard,

I agree with you wholeheartedly on protecting our civil liberties.

You are wrong about Vietnam. You realize why America was over there? To prevent the Communist North Vietnamese from taking over the "Free" South Vietnamese, and initiating the usual "reign of terror" that accompanies communist dictatorships. The problem was that congress couldn't stand to support the President in doing his job. And that is the same problem that Bush is facing now!

You have a Senate Majority Leader and a bunch of liberals in the media who cannot stand to give support to the President in this time of crisis. Take a look at this and this and also this

For all those individuals who are not aware of the situation, there are numerous executive orders
and laws(the biggest one passed in 1947, IIRC the National Security Act) which lay out and govern the functioning of the government in a state of emergency.

In Bush's case, he is practically required to keep moving until such time that the emergency is over. Again IIRC, during any instance where there are large number of government officials in a small area such as a State of the Union Address,
at least one of the four top officials in the chain of command is taken to another location...just in case.

Amazing how I learned this back in Junior High in Civics class and yet most of the media and the obviously superior and brilliant John Katz are not aware of these simple facts.

For a some discussion visit Continuity of Government - United States Nuclear Forces.

Newsmax has a discussion of accused spy Hanssen allegedly revealing these plans to the Russians located here.

There is a short blurb located here.

CF

I don't feel like making any comments... None are necessary. Here are the last few news sites I can find that aren't flooded offline.

Study: US Science booksrife with errors!
Popular textbooks used by 85% of US Middle-School kids, contain gross mistakes
Could be reason US students so dumb in science!

Officials Ban 8-Year-Old's Science Fair ExperimentProject
Suggested That Kids Prefer White Barbie Doll To Black Barbie Doll
Father Claims Her Freedom Of Expression Was Violated

BRITISH TO TEACH 4 YEAR OLDS HOMOSEXUALITY / ANAL SEX
teachers "not to try to promote any type of family or home life as the norm"

University of Florida: BLACK ENROLLMENT DROPS 50% WITHOUT RACE-PREFERENCES
They just can't cut-it without special treatment!

TEACHER ARRESTED FORASSAULTING and ENDANGERING STUDENTS
Tied children up; tied shoes around necks!

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EXPOSED IN GRADES FRAUD
Professor exposes intentional "Grade Inflation"
Harvard Grads not nearly as smart as once thought?

Cuba offers free Medical School toUS Students
. . . as long as they pledge allegiance to Communism

Vanguard News Network

Way way bigger lead over what we have. The USSR (gone now - but not forgotten) has had an operational national ABM system since 1980. Read this.

The fact that you think your deviant, perverted lifestyle is ok proves that you have been brainwashed. Either that or you're logging in from BizzaroWorld. So a person with high standards and a clean life is a "slug". Hmm... "Slugs" like me didn't turn a beautiful city like San Fran into a cesspool, transport and spread deadly diseases to the N. American continent, rape 13-year old boys to death, etc. Statistically, your life will be much shorter than mine due to the diseases and mental problems associated with your lifesstyle choice. I guess the "slug" will have the last laugh after all.

BTW, the PHBs at the top don't listen much to the code monkeys doing the work or the middle managers in between, so going to them is an even bigger waste of my time.

Easy: They *bought* it with illegal camaign contributions, doantions, and "sales" of Chinese building materials through the Clintons and their cronies: Look at these links for more info

The next time someone breaks into my house they are highly unlikely to be carrying a gun, because I live in a society that isn't obsessed with them.

thats fine. if someone were to break into my house they would be greatly slowed down by a bullet weather or not they had a gun. see how this works? as an example look at south africa. in the last couple years they passed laws banning guns. now the only people who have guns are the criminals.

you really dont understand the colonies comment? you do realize that at one point in time britan controlled the us colonies and abused them to the point where they had to remove the british. here in the us we refer to that as the revolutionary war. to prevent the citizens from being rolled over by the government, the right to bear arms was written into our constitution. that is why i find it humorous when a person from britan comments on how we have an irrational desire to have the right to bear arms.

The problems with laws ALLOWING guns is you end up with one of the highest gun shot deaths per capita. Britain has something like 1/1000 of the PER CAPITA death by gunshots compared to the USA. Why? Because people don't have guns. What is it you can't understand about that?

vague numbers, do you have any references?

do you really think that if someone wants to kill alot of people not having a gun will stop them? honestly if i wanted to kill alot of people i could make explosives from common chemicals that would make the worst school shooting to date look harmless.

use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that

The slashbox perhaps isn't a good example, because that genre is all about user preferences, but what if CNN were to start selling you space to put 5 headlines per day in? You maintain the data via whatever means you like. The data gets pulled from your site and links to your site, giving you tons of hits and links back to your site.

If you want to know if it works, as the guys over at newsmax.com. It looks like they're selling headline space. (See the headlines that start with "Adv:" and are usually about hair loss treatment.)

it talks about the "cowboy" attitude of the Chinese pilot that brought down the US plane. here

I believe Jesse Jackson is, at heart, a good man. However, many of his actions are divisive and destructive to our culture. Jackson accuses anyone and everyone of racism, from Bill Clinton (true!) to GWB and everybody in between. He is a laughingstock because he has destroyed his own credibility by endlessly dishing out baseless accusations over the years. The more he rants, the more people hate him -- it's a self-fulfilling prophecy and is a recipe for instant racists.

Source for the 15,000 number (it's not the number of voters registered to "Reform party", rather the number registered as the "Independent Party")

Here is the article, judge for yourself:

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In Palm Beach County, the Reform Party's Buchanan received 3,407 votes - 1 percent of the vote - at the final tally.

In neighboring Broward County, which Democrats argue has similar demographics to Palm Beach County, Buchanan pulled just 789 votes - close to 0 percent of the vote.

But NewsMax.com reviewed Board of Elections records for both counties.

Records show that Palm Beach County is not similiar to Broward County in voter registration. There are far more members of the Independent Party in Palm Beach County than in Broward County.

According to the Florida supervisor of elections, Broward County has only 119 members of the Independent Party.

Palm Beach County, on the other hand, has a whopping 14,551 members of the Independent Party.

In fact, it has the highest Independent registration in Florida.

Buchanan received 1 percent of the vote in Palm Beach County. In all the counties in Florida where there is significant Independent Party membership, Buchanan got a similiar 1 percent.

Palm Beach County gave Buchanan no more support proportionally than any other county with high Independent Party registration

If there *was* a usability issue - that had its time and place to be discussed and fixed.

If it wasn't at the right point, then it can't be now. Shouldn't be. The second-guessing of the system never ends. Do we need to check all the other close states? Perhaps people didn't MEAN to vote for Gore. Maybe people who MEANT to vote for Buchanan voted for Gore!

We don't know. There was a review period.
http://www.newsma x.c om/archives/articles/2000/11/8/161334.shtml

Nielsen doesn't go so far as to say that this is specifcally what cost Gore the election, but with 19K incorrectly filled out ballots in two counties, I'd say it's a pretty fair guess.

Nielsen's a smart guy. And he knows that you can't tell, with the info we have.

http://www.newsm ax. com/archives/articles/2000/11/8/161334.shtml

Seems that there are lot of independant voters - who might well be legitimate Buchanan supporters.

The fact that 19k versus 3k punched 2 boxes on the Senate also isn't statically proven - the Presidental vote historically gets a lot more, people abstain on other races that they don't know/care about. So that, in and of by itself doesn't mean that there WAS an error. Further, I don't know if it checked WHICH two where punched. I don't think it does.

So rather than grousing about how dumb people are, why not design a ballot that doesn't skew the result?

Because its after the fact.

And because everybody had a chance to object before the election. If nobody did... Well, we've got checks and balances, and if they're unused....

Then you can't complain that they didn't catch problems.

Addison

If there *was* a usability issue - that had its time and place to be discussed and fixed.

If it wasn't at the right point, then it can't be now. Shouldn't be. The second-guessing of the system never ends. Do we need to check all the other close states? Perhaps people didn't MEAN to vote for Gore. Maybe people who MEANT to vote for Buchanan voted for Gore!

We don't know. There was a review period.
http://www.newsma x.c om/archives/articles/2000/11/8/161334.shtml

Nielsen doesn't go so far as to say that this is specifcally what cost Gore the election, but with 19K incorrectly filled out ballots in two counties, I'd say it's a pretty fair guess.

Nielsen's a smart guy. And he knows that you can't tell, with the info we have.

http://www.newsm ax. com/archives/articles/2000/11/8/161334.shtml

Seems that there are lot of independant voters - who might well be legitimate Buchanan supporters.

The fact that 19k versus 3k punched 2 boxes on the Senate also isn't statically proven - the Presidental vote historically gets a lot more, people abstain on other races that they don't know/care about. So that, in and of by itself doesn't mean that there WAS an error. Further, I don't know if it checked WHICH two where punched. I don't think it does.

So rather than grousing about how dumb people are, why not design a ballot that doesn't skew the result?

Because its after the fact.

And because everybody had a chance to object before the election. If nobody did... Well, we've got checks and balances, and if they're unused....

Then you can't complain that they didn't catch problems.

Addison

A democracy fundamentally depends on an informed electorate to hold its representatives and public officials to account, but what if the electorate not only is uninformed, but is incapable of being sufficiently well informed to exercise control? Jeffrey Friedman of Harvard University argues that this is indeed the case: poll after poll shows that, on any given significant political issue, the majority of the American public is profoundly ignorant of the most basic relevant facts. This phenomenon is even more pronounced for women, who tend to be more unaware of national issues. The majority of Americans base their voting on non-factual criteria such as blind loyalty to party or social group, or to whether a candidate is sufficiently "caring", "trustworthy", or "presidential," and the oft-lamented spin-doctors and sound bites are an inevitable result. This is not to denigrate American citizens: since the 1930's, the politcal sphere has expanded tremendously, and is now beyond the ability of most educated people to fully understand. If the educational system cannot prepare citizens to control their government, the sphere of government must be reduced to be within their control.

I think perhaps you should research some of your remarks and accusations about Bush. *shakes head* Here, Here, or Here.