The average guy is at least as likely to tell the truth as an elite expert.
Absolutely true, and completely irrelevant. [Encyclo|Wiki]pediae deal in facts, not "truth". By definition, elite experts are much better equipped to write factual information than the average guy.
This doesn't mean that Wiki are doomed; everyone is knowledgeable about something, so they can contribute to those articles that they are expert in, and simply read the rest without editing. In this way, the community can build a valuable encyclopedia.
Voters get phone call claiming Kerry supports gay marriage (before you get on me about Schwarzkopf, that story's already been discredited. Apparently "someone" took a legitimate endorsement message from General McPeak, and spliced it to sound like Schwarzkopf made the endorsement)
I eagerly await your list of examples of similar shenanigans committed by the democrats.
Otherwise, your claim of equivalence amounts to FoxNews "fair and balanced" hot air.
"Sure the Republicans have a concerted effort in place to systematically disenfranchise thousands of voters in all battleground states, but the dems are doing questionable things too! Like what? I'll tell you like what, like getting people registered and then getting them to vote, that's what! It's an outrage!"
If you look at Tanenbaum's site, the most recent poll shows Bush up by 15 pts. However, in the previous several, it's more like 4-5 pts. Some people consider local polls more accurate than state polls conducted by national entities. The last AZ Daily Star poll (Oct. 26th) had Bush up 47-42. Anything below 50% is bad news for an incumbent.
So, if the most recent poll truly reflects the AZ electorate, then I agree the spread is very large. However, I wouldn't say 3rd party is a "safe" anti-Bush alternative in AZ by any means.
It's pretty interesting (in an wretch-inducing way) that a core Republican strategy is to keep people from voting. The lengths to which they apparently will go to achieve this end makes one wonder how they can sleep at night...
Wisconsin: Flyers distributed in poor neighborhoods, falsely warning people that they cannot vote if they have unpaid parking tickets, unpaid rent, any relatives in jail, etc, etc.
Wisconsin: Republicans claim that 37,000 democratic registrations are invalid, because the voters did not return registered mail sent by repub. party (same happened in Ohio).
Ohio: Republican attempts to intimidate and delay voters at the polls have thankfully been outlawed by a federal judge (though I am not holding my breath that they will fully comply, and what about other states?)
Ohio: Democrats were sent letters falsely informing them that their voter registration is invalid, and they are ineligible to vote.
West Virginia: Democrats were phoned by Repub HQ, falsely told they are ineligible to vote.
Ohio: Democratic party phone banking station had its phone line intentionally cut.
Wisconsin: College republicans distributed flyers in UW dorms, falsely telling students they could vote in any precinct they chose (similar misinformation ocurring at U.Arizona dorms).
Michigan: Republicans calling democrats, urging them to "stand up for gay marriage" by voting for Kerry, who will "legalize gay marriage", a right "that we all want". And don't vote for Bush who will "outlaw gay marriage".
Alabama: Taking a page from "The Onion", flyers distributed in poor neighborhoods, encouraging voters to go to the polls on November 3rd.
and on and on and on...
What contempt they have for the American people and the democratic process. It's sickening.
I believe "macroevolution" as used by most ID adherents means "speciation", nothing to do with the primordial soup. It's essentially a strategy to minimize the impact of biology on their belief system: "Ok, I grant you that selective breeding made all the breeds of domestic dogs and cats, but no amount of breeding can turn a dog into a cat! Silly scientists! Each animal created in its kind, blah blah blah..."
In fact, the scientific theory of evolution has *nothing* to say about the origin of life; it is simply about the diversification and specialization of life through the process of natural selection.
Is this the same Major who said he never saw an IAEA seal on any of the bunkers he visited? The same Major who said he blew up "munitions" and couldn't say if any of it was the high-grade explosives that are in question? The same Major who said he was at Al Qaqaa 5 days before the embedded KSTP TV crew shot video of US Soldiers at Al Qaqaa breaking IAEA seals, opening the bunkers, and examining the barrels of the high explosives still contained therein? Same guy? How can you conclude from his testimony that the explosives had been detonated?
No, KHTML will be used in Safari and it'll mature through Safari.
I wouldn't be too sure about this. Think of Apple's WebCore as a fork of KHTML; they are no longer one and the same.
Once the slashdotting subsides, go to the linked article and search for "So what is happening with Safari Patches?" (can't expand the discussion right now; they've gone static to face the/. horde).
Apple has already changed WebCore enough that backporting changes to KHTML is very non-trivial. As usual, we are starved for developers, especially when the task is simply porting someone else's code, rather than solving problems for yourself. Many devs would much rather do the latter, even if "results" come more slowly.
The top post completely missed the point of the press release.
VLBI has been getting this kind of angular resolution for decades, this is not news. The news is that they've combined the signals from telescopes positioned across the globe in *real time*, which is a first.
Did Clinton lie under oath? I seem to recall that he made sure to work out ahead of time with the investigators that the term "sexual relations" meant intercourse *exclusively*. He then wagged his finger and claimed (truthfully, as far as anyone knows) that he "never had sexual relations [i.e., intercourse] with that woman".
Slick Willie strikes again. Too bad for him such nuances only matter in fair trials, not media circuses.
So you're tolerant to others, as long as they're not intolerant, and when they are you're intolerant of them? That's a completely unfounded inference from three words in my sig. Fighting intolerance does not require that one be intolerant themselves.
Nope, no irony there. Ignoring your sarcasm, I agree. See also the AC reply to your post.
You may find it interesting to know that my sig is a simple paraphrase of the actual dictionary definition of the word liberal, specifically definitions 1a and 1b.
(dear mods: I have self-applied a -1, Offtopic mod)
Congratulations! You win today's "Most Extremely Pedantic Post" award! You had stiff competition, including these two magnificent runners-up:
"actually, I did read the article, and it wasn't f---ing; that's quite impossible considering it isn't a sexual animal!"
"FYI, at no time in Soviet Russia (or anywhere else, really) did computers (Gentoo or otherwise) compile humans. Gentoo didn't even exist before the Soviet Union collapsed!"
No, its not going to crawl through a Ih8tebu5h's livejournal entry for 'news' or other blogger oriented 'news'.
No, the article shows that Google News *does* use popular blogs in its results; in fact that's the whole point of the story: that searching for "John Kerry" on Google News presents you with an inordinate number of anti-Kerry rants on conservative blogs, rather than the "mainstream" news results that you get when searching for "George Bush".
The article doesn't try to infer some kind of conspiracy from this; rather, it's probably due to the fact that bloggers typically repeat the full name throughout their articles ("John Kerry is unfit for command! John Kerry is flippity-floppity, and John Kerry speaks French!"), whereas actual news articles tend to revert to "Mr. Kerry" or simply "Kerry". It is mildly interesting that GN indexes these political blogs, though.
(3) the intent of my sig is to provoke the question: "Given the definition of the word 'liberal', how has our society reached a point where the word is mostly employed as an insult?".
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"Kliper", eh? I'm sure any resemblance to the McDonnell-Douglas Delta Clipper is purely coincidental.
It's like deja-vu all over again!
just to be pedantic, there are no propellant tanks on HST. Propellants leave icky residue on optics.
The average guy is at least as likely to tell the truth as an elite expert.
Absolutely true, and completely irrelevant. [Encyclo|Wiki]pediae deal in facts, not "truth". By definition, elite experts are much better equipped to write factual information than the average guy.
This doesn't mean that Wiki are doomed; everyone is knowledgeable about something, so they can contribute to those articles that they are expert in, and simply read the rest without editing. In this way, the community can build a valuable encyclopedia.
Here you go:
Flyer distributed in African American neighborhoods in Milwaukee
Repubs challenge 37,180 registrations in Milwaukee (this is a new challenge, on top of the 5600 cases you cited)
Repub attempt to disenfranchise over 20,000 Ohioans thrown out of court (mentioned as similar strategy to Wisconsin item)
photo of fraudulent letter sent to Ohio democrats
West Virginia fraudulent phone calls
College republicans distribute false voting flyers at UW Madison
Voters get phone call claiming Kerry supports gay marriage (before you get on me about Schwarzkopf, that story's already been discredited. Apparently "someone" took a legitimate endorsement message from General McPeak, and spliced it to sound like Schwarzkopf made the endorsement)
Scan of flyer distributed in Jefferson Co., Alabama
Here's a bonus fraudulent letter sent to African American voters in South Carolina
God bless America, eh buddy?
I eagerly await your list of examples of similar shenanigans committed by the democrats.
Otherwise, your claim of equivalence amounts to FoxNews "fair and balanced" hot air.
"Sure the Republicans have a concerted effort in place to systematically disenfranchise thousands of voters in all battleground states, but the dems are doing questionable things too! Like what? I'll tell you like what, like getting people registered and then getting them to vote, that's what! It's an outrage!"
whatever...
hmm....does it rhyme with "boil"?
If you look at Tanenbaum's site, the most recent poll shows Bush up by 15 pts. However, in the previous several, it's more like 4-5 pts. Some people consider local polls more accurate than state polls conducted by national entities. The last AZ Daily Star poll (Oct. 26th) had Bush up 47-42. Anything below 50% is bad news for an incumbent.
So, if the most recent poll truly reflects the AZ electorate, then I agree the spread is very large. However, I wouldn't say 3rd party is a "safe" anti-Bush alternative in AZ by any means.
and on and on and on...
What contempt they have for the American people and the democratic process. It's sickening.
If the decision was in doubt, I'd certainly vote Kerry
You should vote Kerry then, because AZ is in play. I'm in AZ too; voter turnout can make the difference here.
I believe "macroevolution" as used by most ID adherents means "speciation", nothing to do with the primordial soup. It's essentially a strategy to minimize the impact of biology on their belief system: "Ok, I grant you that selective breeding made all the breeds of domestic dogs and cats, but no amount of breeding can turn a dog into a cat! Silly scientists! Each animal created in its kind, blah blah blah..."
In fact, the scientific theory of evolution has *nothing* to say about the origin of life; it is simply about the diversification and specialization of life through the process of natural selection.
Is this the same Major who said he never saw an IAEA seal on any of the bunkers he visited? The same Major who said he blew up "munitions" and couldn't say if any of it was the high-grade explosives that are in question? The same Major who said he was at Al Qaqaa 5 days before the embedded KSTP TV crew shot video of US Soldiers at Al Qaqaa breaking IAEA seals, opening the bunkers, and examining the barrels of the high explosives still contained therein? Same guy? How can you conclude from his testimony that the explosives had been detonated?
No, KHTML will be used in Safari and it'll mature through Safari.
/. horde).
I wouldn't be too sure about this. Think of Apple's WebCore as a fork of KHTML; they are no longer one and the same.
Once the slashdotting subsides, go to the linked article and search for "So what is happening with Safari Patches?" (can't expand the discussion right now; they've gone static to face the
Apple has already changed WebCore enough that backporting changes to KHTML is very non-trivial. As usual, we are starved for developers, especially when the task is simply porting someone else's code, rather than solving problems for yourself. Many devs would much rather do the latter, even if "results" come more slowly.
The top post completely missed the point of the press release.
VLBI has been getting this kind of angular resolution for decades, this is not news. The news is that they've combined the signals from telescopes positioned across the globe in *real time*, which is a first.
Well, since those sites are apparently covering news that is more to your liking, perhaps you should consider "slumming" with us...
boilerplate sig troll response
Thanks for playing!
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
Ok, so that's bad. That's Egon-bad.
Did Clinton lie under oath? I seem to recall that he made sure to work out ahead of time with the investigators that the term "sexual relations" meant intercourse *exclusively*. He then wagged his finger and claimed (truthfully, as far as anyone knows) that he "never had sexual relations [i.e., intercourse] with that woman".
Slick Willie strikes again. Too bad for him such nuances only matter in fair trials, not media circuses.
for the record, I didn't use the word "rant" in the original article submission, and nor does PJ use it in the linked article.
Ah, another sig troll. Hooray.
So you're tolerant to others, as long as they're not intolerant, and when they are you're intolerant of them?
That's a completely unfounded inference from three words in my sig. Fighting intolerance does not require that one be intolerant themselves.
Nope, no irony there.
Ignoring your sarcasm, I agree. See also the AC reply to your post.
You may find it interesting to know that my sig is a simple paraphrase of the actual dictionary definition of the word liberal, specifically definitions 1a and 1b.
(dear mods: I have self-applied a -1, Offtopic mod)
PJ has an excellent analysis of this case and what software pantents mean for the industry over at Groklaw this morning.
Kidding aside, the linked article spells 'than' correctly, so it's a misquote.
Congratulations! You win today's "Most Extremely Pedantic Post" award! You had stiff competition, including these two magnificent runners-up:
"actually, I did read the article, and it wasn't f---ing; that's quite impossible considering it isn't a sexual animal!"
"FYI, at no time in Soviet Russia (or anywhere else, really) did computers (Gentoo or otherwise) compile humans. Gentoo didn't even exist before the Soviet Union collapsed!"
Congratulations again, and keep up the good work!
The desperation revealed by the shamelessness of that mailing is rather interesting...
No, its not going to crawl through a Ih8tebu5h's livejournal entry for 'news' or other blogger oriented 'news'.
No, the article shows that Google News *does* use popular blogs in its results; in fact that's the whole point of the story: that searching for "John Kerry" on Google News presents you with an inordinate number of anti-Kerry rants on conservative blogs, rather than the "mainstream" news results that you get when searching for "George Bush".
The article doesn't try to infer some kind of conspiracy from this; rather, it's probably due to the fact that bloggers typically repeat the full name throughout their articles ("John Kerry is unfit for command! John Kerry is flippity-floppity, and John Kerry speaks French!"), whereas actual news articles tend to revert to "Mr. Kerry" or simply "Kerry". It is mildly interesting that GN indexes these political blogs, though.
(1) expressing disagreement with someone is not intolerance
(2) my sig is a paraphrase of the dictionary.com definition of liberal ; specifically definitions 1a and 1b.
(3) the intent of my sig is to provoke the question: "Given the definition of the word 'liberal', how has our society reached a point where the word is mostly employed as an insult?".