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samuel4242 writes " Some of the Creative Commons folks wrapped a skin around the Internet Archive to create the P2P-Politics site filled with ads about this election. You've heard of this election, right? It's an interesting spin on the notion of P2P because the ads themselves are cached on the Internet Archives big servers, but email forwards links from P to P. Sort of like passing a pointer instead of the data structure. Some of the ads are thoughtful, some include stars, and some are a bit scary. For some reason, there seem to be very few from the Bush supporters and it's anyone's guess why."
Bush is as smart as a lima bean. Kerry is as smart as a pinto bean.
If you vote for either of them, you're wasting a vote. Third party all the way. Peroutka, Badnarik, Nader, Cobb...they all are vastly superior to Bush and Kerry.
the Political Inquirer
well if there were this story likely wouldn't have been published on the /. homepage. i hate bush, but i hate bias as news more.
let's see, this post was.... FLAMEBAIT for the logon name INSIGHTFUL for making paralells between 1984 and the Bush Regime REDUNDANT for making paralells between 1984 and the Bush Regime OFFTOPIC for obvious reasons
You gotta love a site that doesn't appear to support Firefox.
It said I lacked the proper plugin. I even installed the latest version of Quicktime and it still didn't work.
Peroutka isn't.
I'd venture to say he is. From his site:
And we have John Kerry just saying he will do the same thing Bush is doing, only "better" and "stronger". You be the judge.
I'm assuming your objection to Peroutka is based on the fact that he's very conservative. Well, I'd rather have a real conservative in office than one of the neo-conservative or neo-liberal douchebags on the major party tickets. I don't agree with Peroutka's positions on seperation of church and state, women in the military, and his very strict anti-abortion platform (I support exemptions when the mother's life is in danger). But at least this guy seems to have a conscience.
What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind. -Zappa
The coward is correct about Peroutka. I was going to say that I would give Bush four more terms before letting this nutjob take the helm, but then I realized that the moment he took office, everyone would stop taking the presidency seriously. Having a complete loon occupying the White House would just be harmless entertainment.
t ting-elected. Try hopping over to Votepair.org, and support your candidate without turning him into a dreaded spoiler.
If you see any difference between the two candidates at all, and you're in a close state, you should vote for the lesser evil, not the guy-you-really-want-but-doesn't-have-a-shot-at-ge
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
hmmm... "Adolph Hitler".... "You liberals are submissive and are only valueable as slaves"..."the best people will float to the top and the people at the bottom belong there because they arent as valueeable"....
Been reading a little to much Nietzche lately?
Oh and for an elitist, you're a pretty bad speller.
Hey, it's almost Halloween; don't leave out Bobby Pickett's Monster Slash , a rework of his 1962 Monster Mash that sings the praises of Bush's environmental policy. You'll need flash to see the movie. Enjoy!
Most of them are from the "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest from moveon.org. The Bush campaign hasn't had a comperable contest.
They're mpegs.
I view source, copy out the address, and use wget. That way I also get to keep the file.
I ripped these older Presidential debates from various websites. It was a pain to get them. Dowload the torrent here or here or here
Low quality Real Video files ripped from streamings from the web.
If you have other debates, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, Presidential and/or VP, or higher-quality of the above, PLEASE POST!
But he's got a Badwin as a viceprez! How bad can it be?
I hope it's either Stephen or Alec. The other 90 Baldwins in Hollywood haven't done anything interesting.
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I found Jesus, would rather vote for Bush than Kerry (Although I see Peroutka and Badnarik as better choices and will vote for one of them), and use the Internet. Know at least a hundred people like that too.
the Political Inquirer
You might not like Kerry, but you can hardly fault his intelligence. How can you back that up? Then again, if you're voting for someone who is only a spoiler for Kerry, and therefore tacitly reelecting Bush, maybe you're not so smart yourself. The smart person who rejects Bush and Kerry votes for Kerry, because he's not destroying the country, and donates time and money to a third party. So next time the party can increase its chances not only of winning, but of breaking the party duopoly. Just voting for them merely makes you part of the 0.5% that keeps them a laughingstock in our sad system that makes elections a choice not among candidates, but among possible winners.
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No, Kerry has made clear that he won't shoehorn Iraq into the "forever war" on Terror. Unlike Bush, Kerry doesn't have the criminally vested interests in oil, Halliburton and neocon apocalypse. Bush will lead us into a draft the same way he's led us into a permanent recession, busted budget, and completely divided country: by "accident", somebody else's fault.
Just to indulge the inanity of considering voting for Peroutka: he's running on the "GOD FAMILY REPUBLIC" ticket (his words). Bush isn't zealously rightwing enough for this crank. For this wingnut, Bush is "pro-abortion", the Christian Coalition is failing to "properly educate God's people", and approaches the US as a christian kingdom he'd rule benevolently. C'mon - these people deserve to run, because the functionally insane deserve to vote. But you don't have to join them.
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there seem to be very few from the Bush supporters and it's anyone's guess why
Don't worry. They'll learn to to use computers as soon as they're allowed to.
Ouch, my karma.
Hulk check out Puny Human P2P web site.
Hulk notice no ads for Hulk.
Hulk is running for President
Hulk is getting angry - may SMASH Puny Human P2P site - GRRRRR!!!!!
This email/WWW wrapper is exactly what the email MIME header "Content-disposition:" is for. You send me a message, including "Content-disposition: " including some state arguments describing the object that the URL points to. When I read (not just receive) the message, my email reader gets the object at the URL, subject to my preferences, including "retrieve on receive". If your URL points to coral or some other web cache, or your proxy caches URLs for your entire organization, the URL persists, or your email reader just caches it. This way, the sender sends "attachments" only to those who want it, when we want it. And instead of just including URLs in messages, there's a well defined behavior for encoding and retrieving them, that the UI makes seamless.
;).
Content-disposition has been part of the MIME standard for a decade, during which the WWW and URLs have passed it by, to their mutual detriment. I've never seen a good, certainly not popular, email client that implemented it. I'd hack it into my Evolution source code, but I don't know if Ximian/Novell would integrate it, and it's worthless unless both ends use it. I wish the Net would catch up with MIME - and not just to stop it from its incessant "walking against the wind"
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Corddry: How does one report the facts in an unbiased way when the facts themselves are biased?
Stewart: Im sorry, Rob, did you say the facts are biased?
Corddry: Thats right Jon. From the names of our fallen soldiers to the gradual withdrawal of our allies to the growing insurgency, its become all too clear that facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda.
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He's a troll. A troll 'for' the left. I think he despises Bush as much as I do, but has adopted the tactic of pretending to speak for the Bush side in as offensive a manner as possible in an effort to discredit them. To each their own, I suppose.
I'd like to think that this administration's record speaks quite adequately to their inadequacy, but seeing as how almost half of us intend to vote for these assclowns, perhaps not.
Carry on then.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Having a complete loon occupying the White House would just be harmless entertainment.
You must be new here.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Why draw attention to your disinformation campaign?
... that Rome fell on a monday.
http://www.mvp-seattle.org/pages/pageFascism.htm
Maybe voting for Kerry over Bush will only delay the inevitable.
There's a hilarious Mad Magazine spoof of the Bush campaign and how it might treat Jesus Christ. http://www.dailykos.com/images/user/3/jesusbush.jp g
However, it does a good job of raising a serious issue, though: Bush talks like a Christian, but he doesn't act according to Christian values. Humility? Charity? Turning the other cheek? Compassion? Love of your fellow man? Hardly.
OOG THE CAVEMAN you are not.
Unbelievable that someone hasn't belted you with the obligatory "You must be new here" comment. Slashdot isn't unbiased news, nor does it pretend to be. The "News for Nerds" subtitle nonwithstanding, it's a discussion community that tends to focus on some topics more than others.
If you have half a brain, you'll get your real news from a variety of international sources and try to sort through the bias to see the facts.
Don't blame Slashdot for your own stupidity.
Those who support George W. Bush probably are not book readers. They cannot have seen these 3 movies and read these 35 books: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Thinking about the presidential campaign has caused me to discover something I didn't know before. Most people have little idea of the activities of their government. Instead, they believe the sound bites.
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Government data compares Democrat and Republican economics.
Funny, people only use the most popular verses (which are usually taken out of context anyway) to support claims to not being Christian-like. The Bible says turn the other cheek, and America's turned cheeks plenty of times when a few Americans died here and a few there, but I think we have run out and we needed to attack terrorism.
the Political Inquirer
As a result of your ability to grasp basic logic, and then accusing others of same, your posting priveleges and breathing rights have been revoked. Continuation of such is in violation of L-4678-B, often known as Catch 22. Have a nice rest of your life.
Dept of Stupidity Eradication
Support more choices in goverment-Vote 3rd party.
you type like a
total fucking moron
please stop with
the non sensical spacing
thank you very much
you nutless wonder
also note
your refusal to use caps
which i am mocking in this post
is a femine typing trait
i believe you are lacking testosterone
talk to your doctor
Anyone who plays city of heroes go to Pinnicle server and Atlas city. There you will see "Vote Bush 2004" character actively advertising and has been for some time.
Some of the players have taken offense by it, and created rebuttal characters but it appears that the advert is intentionally there.
Fellowship 9/11 (Runtime: 14:49)
The official site is fellowship911.comI believe Juanita