but rather a stonewalling of any challenge to the system that does not have transparency and verifiability. It's not that these voting systems CAN'T be configured to ensure that tampering is difficult, and easily detected; it's that both the vendors and the state governments in many battleground states (including one governed by the President's brother) ACTIVELY OPPOSE such changes.
Electronic voting machines are the new tool for rigging elections. Instead of insisting manufacturers build in safeguards like printers to ensure that recounts are possible, the governor pushed to have Florida election law changed to not require recounts any longer.
You watch this issue. It'll be a nasty fight. The record number of people registering to vote aren't flocking to the county seat because they're happy: people in this country are apathetic when things are going the way they like. I don't see how Bush can win legally with the massive number of people turning out to register for the first time.
You have it wrong. This episode wasn't about the POLITICAL process in the U.S. It was about the idiocy and whoring in the MEDIA that does not serve the public interest or advance the public discourse.
The Daily Show does not mock POLITICS as much as it mocks the MEDIA's coverage of politics. If we had a viable news media in this country, The Daily Show would cease to exist.
The supporters of states' rights are the ones who are calling for a Constitutional amendment to stop those wicked, wicked homosexuals from getting married because some states are actually considering legalization of such hideous acts.
Hey, you're right. The Iraqis did get totally fucked over by Saddam. They won't mind if a bunch of foreigners overthrow the government and start treating them slightly less badly.
And let me see if I've got this straight. Saddam was a brutal ruler for over two decades. He gassed an ethnic minority with gas provided by the US (Reagan was President, Rumsfeld was SecDef) sprayed from US-provided helicopters. Saddam filled the infamous mass graves with Shi'a encouraged to rise up against him by George HW Bush, who left them to die when they heeded him and called on him for aid.
Now, because Saddam brutalized these people, it made it OK for the US troops to do the same thing to them? The general who submitted the report that was later leaked to the New Yorker (Taguba) pointed out that 60% of the people in there were no threat to anyone.
Go spin your wheel of justifications for war in Iraq and let me know what you hit. Remember, WMD is out, and apparently so is liberation, since you don't give a shit about those people.
It is truly amazing that this lunatic proclaims himself the Messiah, and is treated with deference and respect by members of Congress. Why is anybody taking this guy's phone calls?
The acts committed were specifically designed to traumatize Muslim men by attacking social taboos. Not only did they know what they were doing, they were trained, after a fashion, to do it. Rumsfeld could not give McCain a straight answer on Friday as to who was in command and gave the orders to the MPs.
And why was a brigadier general in Military Intelligence (Karpinski) given command of MPs, anyway? This looks deliberate.
At least the rape rooms are shut down... err, under new management...
I'm reminded of Thomas Nast, the cartoonist whose work in Harper's Weekly brought down Boss Tweed in 1870s New York. Tweed's timeless lament: ?Stop them damn pictures. I don?t care so much what the papers write about me. My constituents can?t read. But, damn it, they can see pictures.? Looks like 130 years and ubiquitous public education hasn't done much to improve the masses, but the power of images remains.
I'll be inflammatory. The naked partisanship of the president of Diebold combined with the insecure nature of the Diebold product, and the contentious nature of the last presidential election, and the current low approval ratings of President Bush, leads to reasonable doubts about the trustworthiness of Diebold.
For an administration that stressed its goal to remove even the appearance of impropriety, it's a poor political move to approve the use of such machines.
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but rather a stonewalling of any challenge to the system that does not have transparency and verifiability. It's not that these voting systems CAN'T be configured to ensure that tampering is difficult, and easily detected; it's that both the vendors and the state governments in many battleground states (including one governed by the President's brother) ACTIVELY OPPOSE such changes.
Electronic voting machines are the new tool for rigging elections. Instead of insisting manufacturers build in safeguards like printers to ensure that recounts are possible, the governor pushed to have Florida election law changed to not require recounts any longer.
You watch this issue. It'll be a nasty fight. The record number of people registering to vote aren't flocking to the county seat because they're happy: people in this country are apathetic when things are going the way they like. I don't see how Bush can win legally with the massive number of people turning out to register for the first time.
You have it wrong. This episode wasn't about the POLITICAL process in the U.S. It was about the idiocy and whoring in the MEDIA that does not serve the public interest or advance the public discourse.
The Daily Show does not mock POLITICS as much as it mocks the MEDIA's coverage of politics. If we had a viable news media in this country, The Daily Show would cease to exist.
Nice try, though.
Spelling error aside...
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
What thorough contemplation is there in politics these days?
It's violating the rights of a sacred corporation!
The supporters of states' rights are the ones who are calling for a Constitutional amendment to stop those wicked, wicked homosexuals from getting married because some states are actually considering legalization of such hideous acts.
Ask the 19th century. Or Gordon Gekko. Or Kenneth Lay.
You want a gun? Join a well-regulated militia.
Hey, you're right. The Iraqis did get totally fucked over by Saddam. They won't mind if a bunch of foreigners overthrow the government and start treating them slightly less badly.
The shredder is a media-created myth.
And let me see if I've got this straight. Saddam was a brutal ruler for over two decades. He gassed an ethnic minority with gas provided by the US (Reagan was President, Rumsfeld was SecDef) sprayed from US-provided helicopters. Saddam filled the infamous mass graves with Shi'a encouraged to rise up against him by George HW Bush, who left them to die when they heeded him and called on him for aid.
Now, because Saddam brutalized these people, it made it OK for the US troops to do the same thing to them? The general who submitted the report that was later leaked to the New Yorker (Taguba) pointed out that 60% of the people in there were no threat to anyone.
Go spin your wheel of justifications for war in Iraq and let me know what you hit. Remember, WMD is out, and apparently so is liberation, since you don't give a shit about those people.
It is truly amazing that this lunatic proclaims himself the Messiah, and is treated with deference and respect by members of Congress. Why is anybody taking this guy's phone calls?
Oh, it's because they also take his money.
Iwo Jima was an image the government wanted you to see.
The acts committed were specifically designed to traumatize Muslim men by attacking social taboos. Not only did they know what they were doing, they were trained, after a fashion, to do it. Rumsfeld could not give McCain a straight answer on Friday as to who was in command and gave the orders to the MPs. And why was a brigadier general in Military Intelligence (Karpinski) given command of MPs, anyway? This looks deliberate. At least the rape rooms are shut down... err, under new management...
I'm reminded of Thomas Nast, the cartoonist whose work in Harper's Weekly brought down Boss Tweed in 1870s New York. Tweed's timeless lament: ?Stop them damn pictures. I don?t care so much what the papers write about me. My constituents can?t read. But, damn it, they can see pictures.? Looks like 130 years and ubiquitous public education hasn't done much to improve the masses, but the power of images remains.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/florida.html
The Supreme Court of the US overruled the Supreme Court of Florida and halted the recount.
Apparently the President does. Ask the guys at Camp X-Ray
I'll be inflammatory. The naked partisanship of the president of Diebold combined with the insecure nature of the Diebold product, and the contentious nature of the last presidential election, and the current low approval ratings of President Bush, leads to reasonable doubts about the trustworthiness of Diebold.
For an administration that stressed its goal to remove even the appearance of impropriety, it's a poor political move to approve the use of such machines.
not true
One of their head guys says their main directive is "Don't be evil" in terms of efforts.
Maybe you should do your job/get a job/stop pointing out that you have free time to read Slashdot at your leisure and I don't...
Well done! Effective, and compassionate, at the same time.
Yo quiero Taco Bell!
More likely a bunch of unwashed geeks in funny clothes...
IBM sold the hard drive business because it was an unprofitable venture. Drives are commodities at this point.