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The rate of violent crime in the USA in 2002 was about 2500 per 100,000 people. (Source: USA Today)

The rate of serious violent crime in the USA in 2002 was about 500 per 100,000 (Source: FBI). Note that this only includes murder and manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault ("a reckless attack with intent to injure seriously (as with a deadly weapon)"), and so does not include all of the "minor assaults" that made up the majority of the Canadian violent crime rate.

In fact, those "simple assaults" happen at the rate of 1550 per 100,000 (Source: USDOJ), demonstrating why the comparable US violent crime rate is indeed the 2500 per 100,000 reported by USAToday, and not the artificially low number you used.

As the site you pulled your numbers from stated:

Different nations use different criteria to define "murder" and "serious assault," therefore ability to use this data to compare between nations is limited...

Using more comparable numbers seems to give very different results than you had suggested: Canada's violent crime rate is 40% of America's.

Like I said, Des Moines is the only place I heard about. I'd be interested to see where else they polled at. They claimed 48% from eastern Iowa (our population center). If you look at this map http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vot e2004/countymap.htm you'll see that they got 76% of the states polls from the "blue" counties and 24% from the "red" counties.

Like, Salon's headline at the moment - "Winning on fear itself, the GOP is ready to take the country even farther right."

How does this qualify as hate speech? The president campaigned on the spectre of terror, while his losing war in Iraq is breeding far more terrorists than we've ever encountered before. Daily homicide bombings, Iraqis, journalists, diplomats and relief workers fearing for their lives, not only from the terrorists but the American soldiers themselves.

The GOP *is* fully prepared to take the country further to the right, starting with the now-imminent Supreme Court replacements. No conspiracy, long in planning.

Again, what is hateful about these observations? The other half of the country doesn't want their rights further diluted, while the half that just reelected Bush seems plain happy about it. It's bizzare.

...who overwhelmingly support Bush.

(I can't remember where I saw it (and if anyone can find it, that would be great) - but one of these military voting surveys had 75% of the military who had been to Iraq approving of Bush's handling of it.)

But don't let the facts stand in the way of a good argument. By all means, trot out the dead marines if it makes you feel good about your position.

They believe in what they're doing over there. Why don't you?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/election .main/index.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A195 10-2004Nov2.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/politics/campaig n/04electcnd.html?ei=5094&en=ba992171a995deaf&hp=& ex=1099544400&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage?hp&adxnnlx =1099500521-xBRX+5Tp7qQqEOM/W4qi0w
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vot e2004/president.htm

Some politicians sell their votes.

Some sell their souls.

Art Small is selling...

Everything you need to run a grass-roots campaign for U.S. Senate!

USA Today has a pretty good viewer's guide for tonight's coverage as well, calling out specific counties in the key states to watch. Apparently the networks will be reporting on results at the county level where it actually matters.

In Charlottesville we use eSlate, which unfortunately has the appearance at least of being unverifiable. (Nevertheless, we are the best city in the US!)

We were split into 3 sections by last name, with my section (middle section - started with H, don't recall where it ended) having the longest line. Nevertheless, I was in and out in under 10 minutes. There were clearly observers present, but they did not seem the least bit intimidating to me, but of course we're Charlottesville, where everyone is nice, public transit actually works, and the weather is always perfect! (OK, maybe I'm overstating it a bit.)

According to the Des Moines Register poll out late Saturday evening, 27 percent of Iowa adults have already voted. And among those Kerry leads 52 percent to 41 percent.

relevent links:

Salon War Room Report
Gallup Poll original data (I think this is the correct data set)
USA Today story

All news stories merely mention this in passing.....

According to the Des Moines Register poll out late Saturday evening, 27 percent of Iowa adults have already voted. And among those Kerry leads 52 percent to 41 percent.

relevent links:

Salon War Room Report [salon.com]
Gallup Poll original data [gallup.com]
USA Today story [usatoday.com]

All news stories merely mention this in passing.....

According to the Des Moines Register poll out late Saturday evening, 27 percent of Iowa adults have already voted. And among those Kerry leads 52 percent to 41 percent.

relevent links:

Salon War Room Report
Gallup Poll original data
USA Today story

All news stories merely mention this in passing.....

Link for proof that Kerry voted against first gulf war
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Links proving we are still hunting Osama
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You call me insane? We are fighting Terrorism all over the world. We are trying to find Osama. We are destroying his terror network. I would say there's no disputing it, but people who don't like GWBs religious beliefs will argue anything no matter how crazy. Whose insane if you think you can't find any evidence that there are mass graves? Whose insane if you think terrorism didn't exist or doesn't exist in Iraq? Whose insane if you don't think fighting the war in Iraq doesn't help in the war on Terror? What rock have you been hiding under? Maybe its the CBS, CNN, NY Times, LA Times, ABC News, or USA Today rock. Hmm.. That can't be it.. I used some of those links in my proofs above.

Or perhaps, you live in one of the countries of our "allies" and have this information suppressed so you don't support this war.

Link for proof that Kerry voted against first gulf war
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Links proving we are still hunting Osama
link link link link

You call me insane? We are fighting Terrorism all over the world. We are trying to find Osama. We are destroying his terror network. I would say there's no disputing it, but people who don't like GWBs religious beliefs will argue anything no matter how crazy. Whose insane if you think you can't find any evidence that there are mass graves? Whose insane if you think terrorism didn't exist or doesn't exist in Iraq? Whose insane if you don't think fighting the war in Iraq doesn't help in the war on Terror? What rock have you been hiding under? Maybe its the CBS, CNN, NY Times, LA Times, ABC News, or USA Today rock. Hmm.. That can't be it.. I used some of those links in my proofs above.

Or perhaps, you live in one of the countries of our "allies" and have this information suppressed so you don't support this war.

At a rally in Miami, Bush appealed to Cuban-Americans by describing his support for the ouster of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "We will continue to press hard and ensure that the gift of freedom finally reaches the men and women of Cuba," Bush said as the crowd chanted, "Viva Bush." He added, "I strongly believe the people of Cuba should be free from the tyrant."
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nat ion/president/2004-11-01-bush-campaign_x.htm (Or google news it)

"A federal judge in New York City on Wednesday found Iraq among those liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and awarded nearly $104 million to the families of two men who died in the World Trade Center."

USATODAY: Lawsuit ruling finds Iraq partly responsible for 9/11

CBS NEWS: Lawsuit: Iraq Involved In 9/11 Conspiracy

Out of the three video steaming formats, which of them allow you to put them on repeat? ;-)
I've got a whole lab of hosts sitting here doing very little for the next wee while...

You're not advocating criminal activity, now are you?

A Bush vote is 12,000 peoples' blood on YOUR hands

Here's a better link for body counts in Iraq. It almost seems like you're advocating support for a guy who voted to allow Hussein to conquer Kuwait and extend his body count across the Arabian peninsula.

Don't underestimate the pressure of foreign law for international organizations. Think of the problems Yahoo had with selling Nazi artefacts to France on their international site, which they where actually forbidden to do in a court ruling. Although I do absolutely not agree with the idea that web content providers should have to abide to law everywhere on our globe (imagine what this could mean if getting common case), I do understand that this may not only be a matter of "trying to please other governments".

I really hope that Project Gutenberg will win this case (which surely is in it's favor), as they are doing a fantastic thing, both for spreading the very idea of free literature and providing the huge library.

Perhaps - Blacks no longer their allegiance to an organization that refers to them as 'Colored People'

Old news

Yes, let's review:

1. Enron http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012802.ht m and http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2001/tst121701.ht m and http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/23 /133051.shtml,
2. Global Crossing http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/15 /154416.shtml,
3. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART ICLE_ID=33024,
4. Tyco (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_5 1/b3813001.htm,
5. WorldCom (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2311-20 02Jun29,
6. Adelphia Communications (http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2004-07-09-ri gas-timeline_x.htm),
7. the list goes on and on.

As you say, it was a historic economic impact. We're still feeling the consequences of it today.

The United States isn't a huge social welfare program. President's don't create jobs. If you'd quit swallowing that Leftist Damnocratic Propoganda long enough to take a look at what's really going on, you might not be so ignorant of the facts.

Fact is we're coming out of a recession which was brought about by bad Clinton Economic Policies, and then exacerbated by the attack of 9/11/01, which flushed upwards of 500 billion dollars out of our Economy.

This post is especially ignorant ...

Yes, your post is especially ignorant. Take the time to read the links and do some discovery for yourself, and quit swallowing propaganda, and even you too can learn the truth about our current Clinton Inspired economic woes.

It's been interesting to watch the debate on electric fields and the effect on biologic systems.

There's some evidence that shows there's an association with cancer and some evidence that shows that it's perfectly safe. Long time cell phone users appear to be at risk for benign tumors. Now this study shows there's a possibly beneficial effect.

Personally, the idea that there's any effect at all makes me somewhat nervous. I spend eight hours a day a couple feet away from EMF generators, as do most of the Slashdot crowd. Knowing that my computers might be tweaking my neurons or altering my DNA, however slightly, doesn't exactly fill me with glee.

It wasn't Timmy this time. It was Taco.

Yeah, I mean, why cover statues? It's not like anyone would be offen...

You know what, perhaps Nintendo was right.

Enjoy.

Enjoy.

And in some cases, they are receiving training from our workers.

100 Facts and 1 Opinion

by JUDD LEGUM

[from the November 8, 2004 issue]

Click here to download, circulate and distribute a PDF version of this article.

IRAQ

1. The Bush Administration has spent more than $140 billion on a war of choice in Iraq.

Source: American Progress

2. The Bush Administration sent troops into battle without adequate body armor or armored Humvees.

Sources: Fox News, The Boston Globe

3. The Bush Administration ignored estimates from Gen. Eric Shinseki that several hundred thousand troops would be required to secure Iraq.

Source: PBS

4. Vice President Cheney said Americans "will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" in Iraq.

Source: The Washington Post

5. During the Bush Administration's war in Iraq, more than 1,000 US troops have lost their lives and more than 7,000 have been injured.

Source: globalsecurity.org

6. In May 2003, President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, stood under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," and triumphantly announced that major combat operations were over in Iraq. Asked if he had any regrets about the stunt, Bush said he would do it all over again.

Source: Yahoo News

7. Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda.

Source: MSNBC , 9-11 Commission

8. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said that high-strength aluminum tubes acquired by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs," warning "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." The government's top nuclear scientists had told the Administration the tubes were "too narrow, too heavy, too long" to be of use in developing nuclear weapons and could be used for other purposes.

Source: New York Times

9. The Bush Administration has spent just $1.1 billion of the $18.4 billion Congress approved for Iraqi reconstruction.

Source: USA Today

10. According to the Administration's handpicked weapon's inspector, Charles Duelfer, there is "no evidence that Hussein had passed illicit weapons material to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations, or had any intent to do so." After the release of the report, Bush continued to insist, "There was a risk--a real risk--that Sa

Salary database

Here's the one that sticks out like a sore thumb: "48% incorrectly believe that evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda have been found, [and] 22% that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq."

In fact, the study authors have their facts wrong. The 9/11 commission concluded ONLY that Iraq and Al Qaeda did not cooperate with regard to the 9/11 attacks. The commission DID CONCLUDE that there were links between Iraq and Al Qaeda in direct contradiction to the assertions of the makers of this study. Source: usa today. The primary link is so well known that it is getting rediculous to assert it doesn't exist: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Also, there were quantities of Sarin gas that were discovered in artillery shells. While this is not WMD on the scale predicted, it is enough to refute the absolutist position taken by this study that no WMD have been found in Iraq. Source: newsmax.

Good bye Carnivore?
James bond wants one of these. The FBI, when they finally figure out what this is, will want it banned. I have dreamed of doing something like this with an applet but this is much slicker and more powerful.
Next questions, can I tunnel through with VOIP? How "special" does my correspondent/recipient have to be for the trail for eavesdroppers to go cold on both ends of the connection?

After actually RTFA, I'm impressed. This could make homicide bombers highly visible, 1/2 mile before they get to their target. I suppose it may also be possible to extend the technology's sensitivity to allow airborne spotting of weapons stashes and bomb-making facilities. Anyone holding a significant amount of C4 is going to be visible from a distance, and the larger the amount, the larger the distance. (Will an ammo dump be visible from orbit?)

If so, this technology could make a lot of terrorist methods difficult or even obsolete. It could also make a lot of survivalists in Idaho unhappy. Anyone with a significant amount of these N compounds (that ammo stash in your basement?) will have a cloud of particles around them.

For those who haven't RTFA, one of the key points is that many (all?) high-power explosives contain certain bonds between nitrogen and 2 oxygen, which are volatile, and constantly emit a cloud of particles that can be picked up with this system. So without (I suppose) some way of hermetically sealing (harder than it seems), then completely decontaminating the outside of the package, you can't really hide the stuff. (Of course, someone will figure out a way...) The system compares the signal from a very narrow 'alarm' band against a broader band to avoid false hits due to other non-explosive compounds. (I wonder if over time they'll need to make this more sophisticated, as the tech war expands in this area.)

The bomb-detection airport equipment presently in use at a few airports (IIRC using neutron-activation?) costs well over $1million per unit, and takes up about 10x12 feet (3x4m) of valuable airport lobby real estate. These two factors have prevented installation in all the airport security checkpoints - none of the gov, the airlines or the airports want to pay for them. It appears the cost of one of these units in a production version would be under $500, so a handheld system is many orders of magnitude better on both size and cost, not to mention portability - scan folks driving up, or getting out of their car. If this system is even reasonably good, a version could be in the hands of airport security folks within a year. No, wait, there's governments involved - three years? It's easy enough and very useful to add these as an additional tool, while testing.

Links on the present methods: CNN, 9/2004, USA Today, 2002.

I'll bet the Israelis have them in test within a couple of weeks, if not already. The US military could certainly begin testing them for use in Iraq and other places immediately, but I don't know if they're that quick on the uptake for new tech.

Oops! [Usatoday.com]

From last year (linking Nanowrimo and Lulu and the 'Crap Art' movement):
Instant art movement flourishes on the Web (Reuters)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife /2003-12-03-crapart_x.htm

I thought this to be a perfectly appropriate time, considering we're talking about this exact type of media issue.

But we're not - the hijacker statistic is about the past. It's about what has already happened. The draft statistic is about something that might happen, in the future. Which is not the past, and has not happened yet, and so by definition there can be disagreement about. People being suspicious of Bush's motives is not the same as being ignorant of the perpetrators of the worst terrorist attack on the US mainland.

I'm just going to ignore your challenge about the media saying the attackers were Iraqi, since that's completely not what I said. You're right, many sources did make clear how many of the attackers were Saudis. If I were to argue about why the confusion happened, I would say that those facts were underpromoted, and Bush/Cheney made a lot of implications of connection, and people filled in the gaps with what they wanted to believe.

But I'm not responsible for stating why that confusion happened. It did, and it's pretty clear that it did.

The "Dick Cheney gutting the military" involves the post-cold war draw down when he was secretary of defense. If you're confused, you aren't alone - the republicans blame Clinton for that cutback. Oh, and there was some number fudging on those recruitment goals, which also required lowering standards.

I know you'll think this is a GOP soundbite, but it's the truth: we were already in recession before Bush even took office. Every economist agrees; it was plain as day.

Really! I did not know that the National Bureau of Economic Research was not made up of economists! I guess that means Paul Krugman is not an economist, but Newt Gingrich is.

If you want me to spend my time replying to you, you're going to have to do a better job on your end. Particularly if you're taking the side of Newt Gingrich, who is far more responsible for the recession than Clinton.

This reminds me of a recent article I saw about an ad campaign in foreign countries warning U.S. citizens (and others) that if they have sex with a child there, they may be prosecuted in their home country. So if the U.S. can prosecute citizens for having sex with children in other countries, why can't the U.S. prosecute citizens for other criminal acts, such as breaking privacy laws? While the former crime is a far more heinous act, the later has the potential to hurt the civil rights of a great many more people.

While I have a problem with this whole concept, if the government is committed to prosecuting U.S. crimes committed overseas, let's see it act in other areas of the law.

"Teens aren't willing to make compromises in electronics."

Which democratic candidate is talking to their protestors? The ones who put them in a cage in Boston during the DNC?

I just did.

If you believe that France told you not to invade for any reason other than It would hurt them financially Then you are a fool. And possibly a troll.

IF you believe the book is closed on the existance of WMDs you are un-informed

ANd if you believe there were no links between the Baathists and Al Qaeda you need to read the 9/11 report.

Not that everyone has the money to shell out for one of these things, but the fact that it has 4 wheels might make people less nervous about it.

It would also lead to fewer of these incidents: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolog y/maney/2003-06-17-segway_x.htm

Any politician who claims that his opponent "votes for terrorists" instantly loses any credibility with me.

Too bad they usually win anyway. This is where I start to get disillusioned with American politics -- not when third parties are excluded from the debates. But when idiots like Karl Rove can run an advertisement accusing somebody like John McCain (five + years in the Hanoi Hilton) or Max Cleland (lost three limbs in Vietnam) of being unpatriotic... and it fucking works!

Bah! It's sickening.

Sadly true, here's a link: Reeve dead at 52

This guy has a $150,000 machine that scan 1,500 bound pages per hour. That would certainly help though it sounds expensive . . .

OK, so I did a quick Google search for you to give you an idea of some stories that talk about workers dropping off the lists. It's worse now than it was at the start of the Bubble era, and I cannot believe there is anyone out there looking for work who disagrees with that.

One sample story

Second sample story

Third sample story

The idea is so obvious and self-evident that I'm going to stop here. It's just a waste of time. All those looking for work know what I'm saying. They're living it.

Liberal activists are not exactly known for being the militant types (just ask any Republican)

Except for when they shoot up Republican campaign offices and burn swastikas in Republicans' yards...

"Laura Bush was the one to violate the speed limit by 100KM/r, drunk, and kill that guy"
Well, perhaps not drunk and with speed illedgable but she did kill one person (Michael Douglas).

So how come HIV infection rates in developed countries are still increasing?

http://www.healthscout.com/news/68/516241/main.htm l
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-02-11-hiv -rates-rising_x.htm
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page /0,5478,10058673%255E1702,00.html
http://www.hivdent.org/publicp/ppIHDS122003.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3856963.stm

Some people will fall for any argument if you couch it as an issue of property rights.

Like when political protest was supressed this summer in the name of protecting grass.

If we're lying to the troops so much then why do 80% of the troops support President Bush?

Ah but, the more people who plant to vote, the more people are likely to take interest in the upcoming elections. Take this article for example it shows that tv ratings for the first debate are up 26%. At the same time new voter registration applications are swamping county/state election workers