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Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses
ScooterB writes "According to TechDirt, Microsoft has patented having the action of a button determined by how long the button was pressed. From the patent listing, it seems to be targeted towards PDA's and other handhelds." Whether patents like this are the chicken or the egg, this relates to an MSNBC article submitted by prostoalex which says "United States Patent and Trademark Office is overwhelmed with incoming requests," and that "Unless the budgeting increases, the review process for a patent could double to 5 years."
Do you know about the deliberate mass purging of at least 50,000 black people (who vote 90% democrat in Florida) from the voter rolls that was orchestrated by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris (the director of elections in Florida AND a member of George W. Bush's campaign...hmmm)? No of course not. Did you know that whether the vote was 5-4 or 7-2 is irrelevant, because the Supreme Court decision was highly irregular, highly unprecedented, highly flawed and highly unconstitutional?
I've never understood why people voluntarily give themselves login names like "The Confused One" as you have done. Didn't it ever occur to you that name might weaken any argument you make?
I had never heard of TotalFinalELF until I read the book, House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties . That book says that TotalFinalELF is an investor in the Carlyle Group, a company owned by the Bush family and friends. So, whoever is doing the corrupting, they are doing it together.
Funny. Considering that Broward and Miami-Dade were heavily Democratic in their voting wouldn't that undermine your assertion that Gore was hurt by voter purges?
The fact remains that an in-depth analysis of those purges found that as many (or more) people illegally remained ON the roles than got improperly purged. (Some counties ignored the roles all-together, other counties did further checks before purging voters, others simply accepted the names supplied by the state. In all cases, it was up to the county voter officials to decide what to do with the names.)
I suppose we'll start whining about the butter-fly ballot next eh? The ballot that btw, was designed by a Democrat and put into the newspaper weeks before the election for review and comment.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
Correction: TotalFinaELF.
Another article: The United States of Oil. Quote from the article: "The bin Laden family and other members of Saudi Arabia's oil-wealthy elite have contributed mightily to several Bush family ventures, even as the American energy industry helped put Bush in office." [My emphasis]
The issue here is that there is a lot more happening than most U.S. taxpayers suspect. They pay for the U.S. government, and they have a right to a complete understanding.