Well, the polling places mentioned are in Center City and North Philly, mostly. Those are (especially N. Philly) primarily districts where the Democratic registration would be especially high, so that (to me) indicates they could be GOP votes that were planted. Don't know, and Drudge doesn't tell us. I've been unable to confirm it as well, and Drudge is known for his share of whoppers, but this is a very disturbing report indeed...
Submitted this, but in case it gets rejected, Matt Drudge is reporting that about 2,000 votes were "planted" in Philadelphia-area voting machines before the polling places opened this morning. I guess it would be un-Drudgelike to mention which candidate the votes favored, but regardless, here's the abstract as of thirty seconds ago:
Before voting even began in Philadelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers at Ward 30, division 11, at 905 S. 20th St., Grand Court. Police were called and surrounded the location... Developing...
I can think of at least a few reasons Osama would like Bush to get re-elected:
- He's still alive - He's still able to plan and carry out attacks - Recruitment is probably at an all-time high thanks to the Iraq war - His captured/killed deputies have been replaced (this "75 percent" figure is apparently directly from George Bush's ass) - Al-Qaeda is probably operating in MORE countries and is hence more decentralized than before 9/11
These are all known, with maybe the exception of the last one, which anyone who believes Richard Clarke might know what he's talking about will also be inclined to believe is true.
What the GOP argument seems to be is, "Kerry will be a pussy and will pull out of Iraq, stop hunting terrorists," etc. Which is completely unknown and, I would argue, unreasonable, but you're all entitled to your opinions. I think the Republicans basically try to reason this out because they think they know what Kerry will do. I'm saying we already know what Bush and Bin Laden have done. Bang-up job in Iraq and Afghanistan (omg but tehre holding elections now wtf lol) but we still haven't caught the guy, and the fact that he's distributing video and has any ability to speak, let alone taunt Americans, is hideous.
So the proposed GOP solution - vote for Bush, he'll keep us safe. Okay. Here's what Cheney said about a week ago on Mr. BL:
"We haven't seen much of him. You'll notice there haven't been any Bin Laden tapes running on the air where he's out broadcasting messages, frankly, because we think he's probably in a deep hole someplace, in hiding."
So as you can see, I'm completely on board with that one.
The big question, as always with this age group, is still turnout. Zogby predicts the group accounts for 12% or more(!) of the electorate, so they could play a huge factor in determining the election. And Zogby adds (which you conveniently left off) that there are zero undecideds. Suspect or not, Zogby declares that to mean "this group is definitely going to vote."
The "bullying" did not come at the advent of the war in Afghanistan, though some might argue it did. The majority of it deals with Iraq, something I think you'd be hard-pressed to make a case about to the rest of the world. No one is saying Hussein and the Baathists were "good" people or anything of that nature. However that was NOT the rationale for invading Iraq - it was WMDs, a case we have not proven and staked our credibility on.
I'm for eliminating terrorists, don't put me in this with-us-or-against-us groupthink. But I'd like to do so legally and honestly, if possible, and with the support of other allies - something you earn, not force.
Yeah, don't discount the effect of a candidate showing meaningful support building at this late stage of the game. Remember that the pundits yesterday were tripping over themselves to see Bush eke out a 2 point lead in national polling (which means nothing in the Electoral College and is well within the margin of error).
I think that the rest of the world's hatred for him only proves their loopiness.
I disagree. If you'd read Tanenbaum's assessment of European attitudes of Bush (and his remarkably refreshing attitude towards American leadership in the world) you'd find that, while people may loathe Bush, they are not "loopy," they simply see American power as resting in the hands of an international bully.
I for one will be voting for Kerry not because we are unpopular, but because I desire to see America lead the world again, which we cannot do under the current administration.
I think he meant the majority of Bush's support comes from the Midwest, where states like Arkansas and Missouri and Iowa, while contested heavily, will need to be carried by either candidate if they hope to win decisively. Bush's support in the deep south and western US (save the west coast) is not usually contested as these represent the Republican base.
Selective memory. The article first mentioned that the Post reviewed the tape from Fox News and determined it wasn't a pen. Regardless of what Kerry's spokesman said, there wasn't any spin since we're dealing with a videotape, which is, at least in my mind, incontrovertible evidence. If the Post is willing to say it's a pen on the record, Kerry's spokesman doesn't need to spin it, which was what was implied. You could've just as easily said the Post made the determination so it didn't sound like campaign spin.
My point was that Fox would've LOVED to seize upon something that ultimately THEY provided the basis for (video coverage). Of course your tape is the same, everyone used the Fox feeds. And the Post has an outlier if they want, since they love to Kerry-bash like there's no tomorrow. But they say a study of the (heavily right-predisposed) Fox Network's video revealed it was a pen, so I'm inclined to believe there's no story here.
They were indeed, but let's not pretend this is at all controversial. I imagine FNC would've been on the front lines or at least other right wing pundits would've taken a swing at this had the footage revealed something other than a pen.
Israel has a similar system, where practically every distinct combination of political views is represented by at least one candidate. Usually the elected officials don't earn a majority of votes, but yeah, it'd be nice to back a candidate you are completely on board with instead of someone who mostly represents a modicum of your views and whose views aren't completely at odds with your only other obvious choice.
[a pen]...which is what Kerry's people said it was
No, not Kerry's people, you linked the NY Post, one of the more conservative-leaning newspapers in the nation. And if you'd RTFA, you'd know that they reviewed footage from Fox News, the preeminent right-leaning news channel. The paper's "finding"?
But the mystery was solved when The Post reviewed a Fox News Channel feed from Thursday's debate: Kerry pulled out . . . a black pen.
All the Post did was repeat rumor and speculation on the internet. Not surprisingly, it's a Kerry spin attempt in pudge's view.
Oh please. Not since the Vietnam war has America been so bitterly divided politically, with each party's lunatic fringe trying to out-do the other. I for one am just as likely to believe this story as I am the memory hole video about a missile hitting the Pentagon on 9/11.
Would committing a felony but having it purged from your record count.
Not officially, but don't think that an expunged record is gone forever. There are still docket records, case numbers, a long trail of paperwork and legal agreements that constitute an expungement.
Getting arrested for a felony but ultimately having your record expunged usually indicates the charges were dropped, though this is not always the case. Expunged records are supposed to be destroyed. In practice this can mean they are merely set aside from active records, and thus, in an exhaustive search, would probably turn up sooner or later. Your lawyer will also not discuss any details of an expunged case, but you could see a nice turn of circumstantial evidence brought against you in a security clearance check.
There is a pretty high probability George W. was arrested for Cocaine possession in Texas in his youth.
Expunged, most likely. And as you've seen, it came out in the press and Kitty Kelly's biography, and most people shrug it off either as untrue or unimportant. Americans seem apathetic enough to ignore most of the charges levelled against politicians as spin or unreliable smears. Considering the amount of lying most politicians do anyway, this isn't surprising. I think you could nearly get away with killing someone in your past and still get into office, but probably not stay there (Gary Condit).
I've heard all the typical rhetoric from the DNC and Kerry campaign about "stopping the tax incentives for companies who outsource jobs." The message, if not the proposal, seems to indicate targeting those who were spurned by the dot-com bust and who are struggling in the current state of the high tech industry.
But a vote for Kerry can't be considered a vote to stop outsourcing, can it? Can we really reverse the trend of high-paying jobs outsourced to India, etc, and will that translate to better, high-paying jobs in the US? The question for me is, how exactly do you portend staving off outsourcing as a campaign plank, other than a completely transparent attempt to capture votes from disgruntled former high-tech employees?
Sure, flipping burgers sucks when you were making $100k/yr with stock options, but what exactly is the point, here? Can any candidate deliver on a promise like that?
Mod parent up. Why is it everyone thinks they know better when it comes to Apple? I'm sure the guy didn't intend for this to be a Dvorak article, but aren't we talking about a multi-billion dollar company that just completely sold out its initial stock of iPod Minis? Think there aren't a hundred Fortune 500 companies that would love to trade places with Apple? You'd be wrong.
Hard to see this as anything but good for Iraq. I like this step, but it'd go a ways further to rebuild their basic infrastructure (approx. 40% of Iraq still lacks potable water, electricity continues to be problematic to maintain, etc) - but with restrictions to basic freedom of information like the Great Firewall of China, I welcome any steps a free Iraq wants to take toward joining the online community.
Total sales, including the PC port, were about 2.5 million. This was a pretty common tale, too, many programs (including visicalc) had some history on the apple 2 series before being ported for the PC.
Don't forget DB Master for the Apple II. Sold several million copies - a modernized version of it is still used in public works offices around the world, even 20 years later.
The original author still does DB work for this company.
On a network, the key is to have precise time. That is, the exact same not-neccessarily-correct time on every single computer on the network.
NTP seeks to find coordinated universal time (UTC), that is, the "one true time" as a basis for every local time on the planet. NTP is composed of several stratums of time servers which try to determine UTC using a complex series of algorithms to measure "drift" and deviation from UTC between servers and stratums.
If you need to set your wristwatch, you look at a wall clock for reference, right? If you have a network of wall clocks across 24 time zones, you choose one as a reference and set the rest accordingly. That reference clock might be an atomic clock or a swatch watch; it doesn't particularly matter where the timekeeper is located, only that your relative distance and time differential is measured precisely. In UTC, this is UT1, the 0-median (like Greenwich Mean Time - the time at 0 longitude).
ntpdate and ntpq -pn will give you an idea of the drag between your clock and the timeserver you are connected to - theoretically, when one hour has elapsed on one clock, all clocks should should strike the hour at the same time. Since this is not possible to an infinite degree of precision, the "drag" is the amount of time it takes your clock to "catch up" and strike the hour, whether it's early or late for the period, typically the hour. Extend that out to a year, or more appropriately, several years, and you'll find even clusters of atomic clocks that strike midnight, January 1st in a leap year several nanoseconds ahead of the astronomical date change. Every year, several "leap seconds" are added to account for the differential.
Anyway, the idea is to get your server to acquire, yes, a "not-necessarily-correct time" from a variety of sources and determine the most likely time for your geographic location, usually within a few nanoseconds, and then broadcast that time for every machine on your network to syndicate. The result is not absolute perfection, but a logical use of network resources to acquire a mostly-correct time.
You'd want to set up an NTP server (maybe several) that poll stratum-2 or -3 servers for the time, and ntpd to syndicate the time for the rest of your network. Win XP, Mac OS X, etc. machines can grab the correct time every reboot, or every network logon, or whatever you prefer. The result will invariably result in a slight adjustment every time a client "re-ups" for the right time, but it should be more than sufficient for the accurate synchornization of network-wide tasks.
If you're interested in best-practice scenerios with NTP, you should really check out www.ntp.org.
You will definitely want to use either the continent or country code versions of pool.ntp.org, otherwise you might end up sychronizing with a very distant timeserver, resulting in more NTP jitter and less accurate time.
Not only that, but as the good folks at the pool point out:
If your Internet provider has a timeserver, or if you know of a good timeserver near you, you should use that and not this list - you'll probably get better time and you'll use fewer network resources. If you know only one timeserver near you, you can of course use that and two from pool.ntp.org or so.
So check with your ISP and see if you could just hit the pool as a potential backup resource. Of course, if you're on Comcast like me, you might be out of luck looking for an internal NTP server.
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Well, the polling places mentioned are in Center City and North Philly, mostly. Those are (especially N. Philly) primarily districts where the Democratic registration would be especially high, so that (to me) indicates they could be GOP votes that were planted. Don't know, and Drudge doesn't tell us. I've been unable to confirm it as well, and Drudge is known for his share of whoppers, but this is a very disturbing report indeed...
Submitted this, but in case it gets rejected, Matt Drudge is reporting that about 2,000 votes were "planted" in Philadelphia-area voting machines before the polling places opened this morning. I guess it would be un-Drudgelike to mention which candidate the votes favored, but regardless, here's the abstract as of thirty seconds ago:
Before voting even began in Philadelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers at Ward 30, division 11, at 905 S. 20th St., Grand Court. Police were called and surrounded the location... Developing...
Okay, I'll bite:
I can think of at least a few reasons Osama would like Bush to get re-elected:
- He's still alive
- He's still able to plan and carry out attacks
- Recruitment is probably at an all-time high thanks to the Iraq war
- His captured/killed deputies have been replaced (this "75 percent" figure is apparently directly from George Bush's ass)
- Al-Qaeda is probably operating in MORE countries and is hence more decentralized than before 9/11
These are all known, with maybe the exception of the last one, which anyone who believes Richard Clarke might know what he's talking about will also be inclined to believe is true.
What the GOP argument seems to be is, "Kerry will be a pussy and will pull out of Iraq, stop hunting terrorists," etc. Which is completely unknown and, I would argue, unreasonable, but you're all entitled to your opinions. I think the Republicans basically try to reason this out because they think they know what Kerry will do. I'm saying we already know what Bush and Bin Laden have done. Bang-up job in Iraq and Afghanistan (omg but tehre holding elections now wtf lol) but we still haven't caught the guy, and the fact that he's distributing video and has any ability to speak, let alone taunt Americans, is hideous.
So the proposed GOP solution - vote for Bush, he'll keep us safe. Okay. Here's what Cheney said about a week ago on Mr. BL:
"We haven't seen much of him. You'll notice there haven't been any Bin Laden tapes running on the air where he's out broadcasting messages, frankly, because we think he's probably in a deep hole someplace, in hiding."
So as you can see, I'm completely on board with that one.
The big question, as always with this age group, is still turnout. Zogby predicts the group accounts for 12% or more(!) of the electorate, so they could play a huge factor in determining the election. And Zogby adds (which you conveniently left off) that there are zero undecideds. Suspect or not, Zogby declares that to mean "this group is definitely going to vote."
Don't be so quick to discount this poll.
The "bullying" did not come at the advent of the war in Afghanistan, though some might argue it did. The majority of it deals with Iraq, something I think you'd be hard-pressed to make a case about to the rest of the world. No one is saying Hussein and the Baathists were "good" people or anything of that nature. However that was NOT the rationale for invading Iraq - it was WMDs, a case we have not proven and staked our credibility on.
I'm for eliminating terrorists, don't put me in this with-us-or-against-us groupthink. But I'd like to do so legally and honestly, if possible, and with the support of other allies - something you earn, not force.
Yeah, don't discount the effect of a candidate showing meaningful support building at this late stage of the game. Remember that the pundits yesterday were tripping over themselves to see Bush eke out a 2 point lead in national polling (which means nothing in the Electoral College and is well within the margin of error).
Politics is all about perception.
I disagree. If you'd read Tanenbaum's assessment of European attitudes of Bush (and his remarkably refreshing attitude towards American leadership in the world) you'd find that, while people may loathe Bush, they are not "loopy," they simply see American power as resting in the hands of an international bully.
I for one will be voting for Kerry not because we are unpopular, but because I desire to see America lead the world again, which we cannot do under the current administration.
I think he meant the majority of Bush's support comes from the Midwest, where states like Arkansas and Missouri and Iowa, while contested heavily, will need to be carried by either candidate if they hope to win decisively. Bush's support in the deep south and western US (save the west coast) is not usually contested as these represent the Republican base.
Yeah, there should've been at least a dozen "BSD is dying" trolls by now.
Selective memory. The article first mentioned that the Post reviewed the tape from Fox News and determined it wasn't a pen. Regardless of what Kerry's spokesman said, there wasn't any spin since we're dealing with a videotape, which is, at least in my mind, incontrovertible evidence. If the Post is willing to say it's a pen on the record, Kerry's spokesman doesn't need to spin it, which was what was implied. You could've just as easily said the Post made the determination so it didn't sound like campaign spin.
My point was that Fox would've LOVED to seize upon something that ultimately THEY provided the basis for (video coverage). Of course your tape is the same, everyone used the Fox feeds. And the Post has an outlier if they want, since they love to Kerry-bash like there's no tomorrow. But they say a study of the (heavily right-predisposed) Fox Network's video revealed it was a pen, so I'm inclined to believe there's no story here.
They were indeed, but let's not pretend this is at all controversial. I imagine FNC would've been on the front lines or at least other right wing pundits would've taken a swing at this had the footage revealed something other than a pen.
Israel has a similar system, where practically every distinct combination of political views is represented by at least one candidate. Usually the elected officials don't earn a majority of votes, but yeah, it'd be nice to back a candidate you are completely on board with instead of someone who mostly represents a modicum of your views and whose views aren't completely at odds with your only other obvious choice.
[a pen] ...which is what Kerry's people said it was
No, not Kerry's people, you linked the NY Post, one of the more conservative-leaning newspapers in the nation. And if you'd RTFA, you'd know that they reviewed footage from Fox News, the preeminent right-leaning news channel. The paper's "finding"?
But the mystery was solved when The Post reviewed a Fox News Channel feed from Thursday's debate: Kerry pulled out . . . a black pen.
All the Post did was repeat rumor and speculation on the internet. Not surprisingly, it's a Kerry spin attempt in pudge's view.
Okay.
Oh please. Not since the Vietnam war has America been so bitterly divided politically, with each party's lunatic fringe trying to out-do the other. I for one am just as likely to believe this story as I am the memory hole video about a missile hitting the Pentagon on 9/11.
Would committing a felony but having it purged from your record count.
Not officially, but don't think that an expunged record is gone forever. There are still docket records, case numbers, a long trail of paperwork and legal agreements that constitute an expungement.
Getting arrested for a felony but ultimately having your record expunged usually indicates the charges were dropped, though this is not always the case. Expunged records are supposed to be destroyed. In practice this can mean they are merely set aside from active records, and thus, in an exhaustive search, would probably turn up sooner or later. Your lawyer will also not discuss any details of an expunged case, but you could see a nice turn of circumstantial evidence brought against you in a security clearance check.
There is a pretty high probability George W. was arrested for Cocaine possession in Texas in his youth.
Expunged, most likely. And as you've seen, it came out in the press and Kitty Kelly's biography, and most people shrug it off either as untrue or unimportant. Americans seem apathetic enough to ignore most of the charges levelled against politicians as spin or unreliable smears. Considering the amount of lying most politicians do anyway, this isn't surprising. I think you could nearly get away with killing someone in your past and still get into office, but probably not stay there (Gary Condit).
I've heard all the typical rhetoric from the DNC and Kerry campaign about "stopping the tax incentives for companies who outsource jobs." The message, if not the proposal, seems to indicate targeting those who were spurned by the dot-com bust and who are struggling in the current state of the high tech industry.
But a vote for Kerry can't be considered a vote to stop outsourcing, can it? Can we really reverse the trend of high-paying jobs outsourced to India, etc, and will that translate to better, high-paying jobs in the US? The question for me is, how exactly do you portend staving off outsourcing as a campaign plank, other than a completely transparent attempt to capture votes from disgruntled former high-tech employees?
Sure, flipping burgers sucks when you were making $100k/yr with stock options, but what exactly is the point, here? Can any candidate deliver on a promise like that?
Yes, but now you have the Linc. :)
Now if we could just get some championships through the door...
Mod parent up. Why is it everyone thinks they know better when it comes to Apple? I'm sure the guy didn't intend for this to be a Dvorak article, but aren't we talking about a multi-billion dollar company that just completely sold out its initial stock of iPod Minis? Think there aren't a hundred Fortune 500 companies that would love to trade places with Apple? You'd be wrong.
Hard to see this as anything but good for Iraq. I like this step, but it'd go a ways further to rebuild their basic infrastructure (approx. 40% of Iraq still lacks potable water, electricity continues to be problematic to maintain, etc) - but with restrictions to basic freedom of information like the Great Firewall of China, I welcome any steps a free Iraq wants to take toward joining the online community.
Truly, a great idea.
Total sales, including the PC port, were about 2.5 million. This was a pretty common tale, too, many programs (including visicalc) had some history on the apple 2 series before being ported for the PC.
Don't forget DB Master for the Apple II. Sold several million copies - a modernized version of it is still used in public works offices around the world, even 20 years later.
The original author still does DB work for this company.
On a network, the key is to have precise time. That is, the exact same not-neccessarily-correct time on every single computer on the network.
NTP seeks to find coordinated universal time (UTC), that is, the "one true time" as a basis for every local time on the planet. NTP is composed of several stratums of time servers which try to determine UTC using a complex series of algorithms to measure "drift" and deviation from UTC between servers and stratums.
If you need to set your wristwatch, you look at a wall clock for reference, right? If you have a network of wall clocks across 24 time zones, you choose one as a reference and set the rest accordingly. That reference clock might be an atomic clock or a swatch watch; it doesn't particularly matter where the timekeeper is located, only that your relative distance and time differential is measured precisely. In UTC, this is UT1, the 0-median (like Greenwich Mean Time - the time at 0 longitude).
ntpdate and ntpq -pn will give you an idea of the drag between your clock and the timeserver you are connected to - theoretically, when one hour has elapsed on one clock, all clocks should should strike the hour at the same time. Since this is not possible to an infinite degree of precision, the "drag" is the amount of time it takes your clock to "catch up" and strike the hour, whether it's early or late for the period, typically the hour. Extend that out to a year, or more appropriately, several years, and you'll find even clusters of atomic clocks that strike midnight, January 1st in a leap year several nanoseconds ahead of the astronomical date change. Every year, several "leap seconds" are added to account for the differential.
Anyway, the idea is to get your server to acquire, yes, a "not-necessarily-correct time" from a variety of sources and determine the most likely time for your geographic location, usually within a few nanoseconds, and then broadcast that time for every machine on your network to syndicate. The result is not absolute perfection, but a logical use of network resources to acquire a mostly-correct time.
You'd want to set up an NTP server (maybe several) that poll stratum-2 or -3 servers for the time, and ntpd to syndicate the time for the rest of your network. Win XP, Mac OS X, etc. machines can grab the correct time every reboot, or every network logon, or whatever you prefer. The result will invariably result in a slight adjustment every time a client "re-ups" for the right time, but it should be more than sufficient for the accurate synchornization of network-wide tasks.
If you're interested in best-practice scenerios with NTP, you should really check out www.ntp.org.
You will definitely want to use either the continent or country code versions of pool.ntp.org, otherwise you might end up sychronizing with a very distant timeserver, resulting in more NTP jitter and less accurate time.
Not only that, but as the good folks at the pool point out:
If your Internet provider has a timeserver, or if you know of a good timeserver near you, you should use that and not this list - you'll probably get better time and you'll use fewer network resources. If you know only one timeserver near you, you can of course use that and two from pool.ntp.org or so.
So check with your ISP and see if you could just hit the pool as a potential backup resource. Of course, if you're on Comcast like me, you might be out of luck looking for an internal NTP server.
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