There have been a lot of issues with how the votes were "officially" counted and what those "official" numbers are.
The other issue is how Florida's electoral votes are cast. I believe they all go to whomever wins the popular vote in Florida. That is why you see 25 votes for Bush there, but none for Gore, despite their numbers being only about 500 votes apart out of over 5 million votes cast between them.
Which is why the debate was so intense at the time.
There were a number of instances that seemed to indicate that people who would probably vote for Gore were being prevented from voting.
Then the USSC got involved a lot sooner than it had to. This was purely a Florida issue and up to Florida to resolve.
Of course, given that Bush's brother was the government in Florida, the results would probably have been the same.
But not necessarily.
Do you want to hear some valid complaints about him?
#1. Yellow cake
#2. No "WMD's" have been found despite claims that we knew they were there.
Patriotism means knowing that your country is better than all those other countries because it is the country you were born in.
Patriotism means hating all those other countries that have people who don't see things the same way you do.
Patriotism means hating all those other people in your own country that don't see things the same way you do. Those people should just leave your country and move to one of those other countries.
A true patriot is never wrong.
You just didn't understand what s/he said or s/he was only repeating something that someone else told him/her.
A true patriot has no problem waving a US flag imported from China and made by prison labour.
Most of the stupid ones are kids out for a joy ride. Something like this would be great. You could find your car soon after you notice it was stolen.
But for everyone out to really steal your car, they'll just cut whatever they need to to kill the transmitter.
Those that don't know when they start stealing cars will learn while they're in prison.
I think it is a good idea. It will help with most of the joy riding crimes. But I think it wouldn't last very long. More on that soon.
But it isn't a solution to professional criminals. They will know about the systems and how to bypass them.
Not to mention that once it was known, would you, personally, take any steps to disable it? If you did, you'd have to be careful not to break the system that allows you to find your car after the joy riders have taken it.
Once you know about it, the kids doing the joy riding will soon learn of it and be able to take the same precautions as the professionals.
Unless they change the system or location fairly frequently.
Background: SCO hasn't had a new release in years and they are still years behind on 64-bit.
SCO's business is dead. New deployments are going to Linux or Microsoft or Sun.
My guess is that this was ORIGINALLY an attempt to get IBM to buy them out and shut them up.
But SCO messed that up so badly that IBM decided to face them in court.
So, the SCO execs have a failed company and not much hope for an easy buy out.
So the decided to pump-n-dump their stock. That way they can realize SOME profit.
So SCO goes public with all sorts of claims, people seem willing to buy SCO stock on the "lottery" principle.
SCO execs dump their stock as fast as they can. That's on the record.
But the SEC doesn't like pump-n-dump schemes.
SCO has to do something so the SEC doesn't start digging.
So now you have SCO making strange claim after strange claim after even stranger claims.
That's why SCO is taking venture capital funding for stock.
That's why SCO is paying their lawyers in stock.
All they have to pay for the things they need is stock.
So they have to keep the stock price up.
But repeating the same claims over and over has a diminishing rate of return. People don't buy your stock in 4th quarter if you keep repeating the claims you made in 2nd quarter.
You need new claims. Something to fire the imagination. Something to get those "journalists" calling you again and printing your words.
Something like....... announcing ANOTHER lawsuit.
But don't actually file one. SCO cannot afford to split their legal department.
Just threaten to file one. That's just as good for those "journalists".
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Exactly.
There's usually an election coming up.
If the clowns in DC don't want to support you, write some more letters and find someone running for office who will.
Then get all your friends and their friends and their friend's friends out and VOTE.
Sure, you'll be on the government's list for your anti-American activities.
Sure, copies of those letters you've sent will show up in those governmental files.
Sure, there will be agents sent to investigate you.
But there's a very good chance you won't be killed.
When you look at that in an historical perspective, it really doesn't get any easier.
I fully support the private ownership of weapons.
There is a world shortage of hyphens.
Please give generously of all your unused negative signs, dashes and minus signs that we may recycle them into desperately needed hyphens.
I'm fine with the cops PROACTIVELY having extra troops on hand and dispersed throughout the crowd.
I'm fine with the cops PROACTIVELY having vehicles strategically placed to remove any individuals who break the law.
I'm fine with the cops PROACTIVELY having cells set aside for possible law breakers.
I'm fine with the cops PROACTIVELY having riot gear assigned prior to any demonstrations.
I am NOT fine with cops spying on citizens that have NOT broken ANY laws.
The laws that we HAD were a result of past abuses by the authorities.
Now we're seeing those protections removed.
Do a google search on:
fbi bomb bari
Educate yourself about your government's activities.
Citing web pages is a really dumb thing to do.
....
But if that's the only reference to the data, and you must have that reference, then you'll need to save a copy of it.
That way, if the reference does vanish, you'll still have a copy that you can "fair use" as a citation.
But "fair use" depends upon our copyright laws which are subject to change.
Even making the original copy of the web page might violate the future copyright laws.
Which brings me back to
"Citing web pages is a really dumb thing to do."
"Do you think because you print it out it suddenly becomes a more stable reference?"
Yes. Because now you have a copy of the source that you're citing.
"Sometimes people doing professional articles have to cite web pages because that's where the information they are talking about is."
And the article was about how the web pages don't stay live so you can't reference them later so the information is not available later.
So, if you're going to use web pages as a citation, you need to have a means of referencing them after they go off-line.
What better way is there than to have a copy of them yourself?
I'm amazed that anyone doing a professional article would even think of citing a web page as a web page.
Why not just print it out?
Not only are web pages transient, but the facts they have are subject to change. This gets back to your "pseudo-science and mis-information" comment.
If you're going to use it in your work, print a copy or save an image of it or something.
Which brings up to "fair use" and copyrights and all kinds of other crap.
I think it would have been a better thing for the legislature to do that, just because it would cause such an uproar.
Sometimes these issues need to be hammered out in public.
And all aspects of voting are included in that.
Rather than the USSC trying to pass a single-use-only decision, we'd have a nation-wide debate on voting.
There have been a lot of issues with how the votes were "officially" counted and what those "official" numbers are.
The other issue is how Florida's electoral votes are cast. I believe they all go to whomever wins the popular vote in Florida. That is why you see 25 votes for Bush there, but none for Gore, despite their numbers being only about 500 votes apart out of over 5 million votes cast between them.
Which is why the debate was so intense at the time.
There were a number of instances that seemed to indicate that people who would probably vote for Gore were being prevented from voting.
Then the USSC got involved a lot sooner than it had to. This was purely a Florida issue and up to Florida to resolve.
Of course, given that Bush's brother was the government in Florida, the results would probably have been the same.
But not necessarily.
Do you want to hear some valid complaints about him?
#1. Yellow cake
#2. No "WMD's" have been found despite claims that we knew they were there.
And so on.
that for the duration of that project, those people have an area that is specifically their's.
They don't have to show up early in the morning to stake a claim to it.
But that does not sound like what the article was talking about.
In the article, they're talking about saving money by not leasing as much space.
You're talking about being able to walk to a building that doesn't have anyone in it.
But that does have an unattended computer or at least a network connection.
In that situation, I'd see people setting up their own offices again. You say that the space is available.
In the article, the space is not available.
Apparently, they were oppressed by their personal space.
Patriotism means knowing that your country is better than all those other countries because it is the country you were born in.
Patriotism means hating all those other countries that have people who don't see things the same way you do.
Patriotism means hating all those other people in your own country that don't see things the same way you do. Those people should just leave your country and move to one of those other countries.
A true patriot is never wrong.
You just didn't understand what s/he said or s/he was only repeating something that someone else told him/her.
A true patriot has no problem waving a US flag imported from China and made by prison labour.
It's a pain because I have to take them off to talk on the phone, but it does drown out the noise from the over-social people.
Most of the stupid ones are kids out for a joy ride. Something like this would be great. You could find your car soon after you notice it was stolen.
But for everyone out to really steal your car, they'll just cut whatever they need to to kill the transmitter.
Those that don't know when they start stealing cars will learn while they're in prison.
I think it is a good idea. It will help with most of the joy riding crimes. But I think it wouldn't last very long. More on that soon.
But it isn't a solution to professional criminals. They will know about the systems and how to bypass them.
Not to mention that once it was known, would you, personally, take any steps to disable it? If you did, you'd have to be careful not to break the system that allows you to find your car after the joy riders have taken it.
Once you know about it, the kids doing the joy riding will soon learn of it and be able to take the same precautions as the professionals.
Unless they change the system or location fairly frequently.
Background:
....... announcing ANOTHER lawsuit.
SCO hasn't had a new release in years and they are still years behind on 64-bit.
SCO's business is dead. New deployments are going to Linux or Microsoft or Sun.
My guess is that this was ORIGINALLY an attempt to get IBM to buy them out and shut them up.
But SCO messed that up so badly that IBM decided to face them in court.
So, the SCO execs have a failed company and not much hope for an easy buy out.
So the decided to pump-n-dump their stock. That way they can realize SOME profit.
So SCO goes public with all sorts of claims, people seem willing to buy SCO stock on the "lottery" principle.
SCO execs dump their stock as fast as they can. That's on the record.
But the SEC doesn't like pump-n-dump schemes.
SCO has to do something so the SEC doesn't start digging.
So now you have SCO making strange claim after strange claim after even stranger claims.
That's why SCO is taking venture capital funding for stock.
That's why SCO is paying their lawyers in stock.
All they have to pay for the things they need is stock.
So they have to keep the stock price up.
But repeating the same claims over and over has a diminishing rate of return. People don't buy your stock in 4th quarter if you keep repeating the claims you made in 2nd quarter.
You need new claims. Something to fire the imagination. Something to get those "journalists" calling you again and printing your words.
Something like
But don't actually file one. SCO cannot afford to split their legal department.
Just threaten to file one. That's just as good for those "journalists".
I guess the litany about suing Linux isn't working for them anymore.
So now they're declaring that they're broadening the cases.
So far, they've only filed one lawsuit.
Until they file another, this is just PR crap.