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  1. Re:On a similar note: on How Computers Work... in 1971 · · Score: 1

    Recently, I purchased the missing volumes off of eBay and they are fantastic. I only wish I had the enthusiasm to actually still sit and type out my programs any more. One text adventure had about 10 pages full of encrypted hexadecimal that you had to type in by hand, perfectly, for it to work! I don't miss those days...

    Couldn't you scan and OCR it? Of course the problem would then be getting the data into the Speccy. If it's a 128 you have a serial port at your disoposal.

    Might be a fun project.

  2. Re:Correlations on 3D Election Results Map by County · · Score: 1

    It looks like ArcGlobe to me. You can extrude polygonal shapes based on database values or calculations.

  3. Re:All I need now on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have a rich father with influence.

  4. Re:George Bush ignores the way of Christ on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, you're worshipping the wrong Messiah.

    You need Supply Side Jesus.

  5. Re:A very similar study regarding Fox News watcher on Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You provided an editorial piece by a member of Bush's administration and an article from the Republican mouthpiece Newsmax. Do you have anything that's unbiased. Maybe something that uses facts?

  6. Diebold on E-Voting Problems Are Mostly User Error, Says ITAA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take a look here:
    http://www.itaa.org/about/members.cfm

    Diebold is one of their member companies. This group is just shilling for the e-voting machine manufacturers.

  7. Re:you have it exactly backwards on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    Take a look at Chart A:
    http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_1-02.html

    Dubya is that you? Are you changing the facts again to fit your arguments again?

  8. Re:The only thing I worry about... on Real Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    He also referred to Gore having claimed to invent the internet (which, as we know, is a deliberate misrepresentation of what Gore actually said).

    Gore let him get away with it. He'll try the same thing with Kerry. Hopefully Kerry will call him on it.

  9. Re:It's the content, stupid on Senate Hacker Blames Boss · · Score: 1

    I disagree about why they singled out Estrada's race in that memo.

    They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.

    The way I read this is that he would be difficult to block because he has a "minimal paper trail", ie. no skeletons in the closet, and he is latino ie. it would be politically difficult for the Democrats to block a nominee that is from a racial minority.

    They then go on to say that the reason for blocking him is to stop him making it to the US Supreme Court.

  10. Re:It's All A Mystery... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of it depends on your local state laws. For instance, in Texas it's illegal for an employer to force a salaried/exempt employee to do unpaid overtime. But it is legal for the employer to fire the employee for refusing.

  11. Re:questions have been raised on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1

    Michael Moore has an email address which he reads and responds to. I sent him an email back in 2000 and he responded to me. Of course, he probably gets a lot more sent to it these days.

  12. Re:bah on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except that sometimes they do.

    From here:

    In 1984, a questionnaire was sent to four ex-Finance Ministers, four Chairmen of multinational firms, four students at Oxford and four London Dustmen (referred to in the U.S. as Garbage men).

    Ten years later the predictions were compared to the actual results and the British Garbage men outperformed the ex-Finance Ministers and the Oxford students while equaling the foresight of the multinational business executives on a number of key economic predictions. (The Economist, June 3, 1995)

  13. Re:Anyone else think this was politically motivate on Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    He brought it up at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. If you'd read either of the articles you'd have seen that.

    This would be the best time and place to reveal his experience if he wants to effect change in a system which clearly has flaws.

    > Or maybe it never really happened...

    Riiiight... so he was lying along with all those other people (including Tom Ridge).

  14. Re:It turned me off on How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam? · · Score: 1

    I got two purportedly from the Kerry campaign. They were very well designed but were fakes. Here's a brief analysis of the same spam as I received.

    So, in short, someone is spamming in Kerry's name. Whether it's to garner support for him or lose it, I don't know.

  15. Re:Good on Congress Cuts NASA's Budget On Apollo Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you get the idea that the Reagan debt disappeared.
    To quote this site : "The National Debt has not gone down (from year to year) since the end of the Dwight Eisenhower administration."

  16. Re:non technical people? on E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'? · · Score: 1

    According to this: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.asp?id=2449 Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is being sued by Republican-leaning counties because he blocked the use of these broken machines.

    It looks to me that the Democrats did kick off the idea, they realised it wasn't going to fly and tried to stop use of the unverified machines.

    Quite what the Republicans' motives are in using an unverifiable voting process I don't know.

  17. Patriotism on BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative Commons · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's a few quotations to be going on with:

    Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
    ~George Bernard Shaw

    PATRIOTISM, n.
    Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
    In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
    ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

  18. ObFamilyGuyQuote on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chris Griffin: Where do you think you go when you die?
    Southern boy: I learned from church that if you're good you go to heaven but if you're bad, you go to a place where the dead believe they're still living and they pray for death but death won't come.
    Chris Griffin: UPN?

  19. Re:Are we safe yet? on Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site · · Score: 1

    The case is ongoing. You aren't allowed to publish details of ongoing cases that could taint a potential jury pool, and there's no doubt in my mind that that was the entire point of the ACLU's press release.

    Scott Peterson called, he'd like you as his lawyer.

  20. Re:Biodiesel baby on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    Two more:

    - It's sustainable (oil will run out sometime)
    - It doesn't increase the net atmospheric carbon

    Burning fossil fuels releases carbon (CO, CO2) into the atmosphere that had previously been stored for millions of years.

  21. Re:Father Jack... on Ireland Rejects E-Voting for Upcoming Elections · · Score: 1

    DRINK!
    FECK!
    GIRLS!
    VOTE!

  22. 1K Adventure on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This one used to tie people up for a few minutes...

    10 PRINT "You are in a cave."
    20 PRINT "Go N, S, E OR W?"
    30 INPUT A$
    40 GOTO 10

  23. Re:Very interesting because... on US Government Upgrades RAM · · Score: 1, Informative

    -1 Offtopic

    The US destabilised the democratically elected government there through a campaign of disinformation, then supplied arms to a gang of murders and criminals based in the Dominican Republic and sent them on a killing spree across the border into Haiti, forced the elected (and popular) president onto a plane under threats of death to himself and his family, flew him to a backwater African nation out of reach from the media and orchestrated a bloody coup. They then sent in troops to protect the leaders of said coup from any kind of popular uprising against them.

    What was your point again?

  24. Re:Who to believe? on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 1

    Actually it's called Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Other scientists have since formulated their own theories on the mechanism that drives the FACT of evolution.

  25. Re:SEC? on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 1

    Martha makes a much bigger front page splash to mask the deeds of Kenny Boy Lay and his ilk than Darl ever would. Martha is about the government looking like it's doing something whilst letting the real criminals off the hook.