SCO could offer to "settle" out of court with Google stock at a guaranteed price prior to the IPO. They would then have a serious amount of cash they could use to go after less fortunate companies.
but that hasn't stopped some people from claiming that we have managed to cause "global warming". We aren't accurate 30 days out, nor a quarter, yet we are expect to believe we can be accurate 50 to 100 years? We cannot seem to predict the ozone hole! (which isn't there right now...)
One volcanoe, a bunch of wildfires, or a hurricane does things to the environment we can lay little claim in judging to their fullest extent yet we claim to know our effect?
As you put it, we don't know jack about that giant shiny object in the sky, let alone all its effects on our planet.
Man is anything but humble, let alone when some of those men have an ajenda to push. Environmentalist or Corporate love humility, for the other guy.
Your overly emotional tirade needs to stop. After reading a few of your comments here all I can say is...
Grow up and participate in the ADULT world. Your exactly the type of person who gets laughed at. I bet your easily tweaked about other subjects as well. It would be absolutely hilarious watching you attempt to argue your point with intelligent people - in other words you would be "toast".
Your lack of understanding and inability to follow the stories you rant about is astounding.
The Martha Stewart case is quickly progressing because they ALREADY have people to pin statements on her. They have the lackeys lined up. This is not the case in the Enron scenario.
Next, little old guilty Enron was doing its worst financial activities during the 90s, under a President whose administration also have high level contacts with Enron. An administration with Global Crossing contacts at the highest levels.
Guess what, thats the way it all works. If you think you can separate business from government your in a dreamland. Your abject hate for Bush distorts your view of why things progress as they do. Do yourself a favor, GET OVER IT.
They will get Kenneth Lay, they just know damn well they will have to have so many nails that he cannot escape. Just like other rich or celebrity people there are so many freaking loopholes available that time is one thing prosecutors CAN rely on.
Worse half the idiots replying and getting moderated up in this thread ignore something. Volusia wasn't about touch screen voting. They had a recount. There were no cases of minorities being blocked from voting - and that includes anyone coming forward to that Democrat led investigation. Get real, if there were it would have never left the airwaves. What we experience now is all the Bush haters looking for ANY reason, no matter how inane, to lay claim they were cheated. They cannot stand that they lost, hence they go into an unrealistic frenzy about it. I love the line about he didn't win the popular vote, guess what, neither did Kennedy - hell Kennedy lost by a bigger margin. Guess tomorrow someone will claim Bush killed Kennedy.
Finally, don't look for salvation in either the Democrats or Republicans. They both suck, if your not voting for people who will make a difference, regardless of their ability to win, you are throwing your vote away. Its the mentality of voting against someone that keeps the other jerks in power.
I made that mistake when I vote AGAINST Gore... to me it was a vote of the lesser two evils. I learned my lesson, next time I doubt there will be a Republican or Democrat getting my vote unless they prove they are worth it.
They are following the standard practice that worked well on the Mob.
Start at the bottom and go up... Kenneth Lay will get his due.
Your viewpoint is obviously slanted by the "Hate Bush by any means" school of thought which is damning most of the Democratic party from putting up some good candidates and platforms.
Its a good bet that the spectacular filmed crash of the Concorde greatly accelerated the demise of that program.
Compare that to how many jumbo jets have gone down and it points out something, if its flashy, and it goes wrong, then its doomed. If its nearly a commodity people just shrug their shoulders and move on.
Sorry but its far from Corporate control, its a world of special intrest. Just as the US Congress is controlled by special intrest, having long lost a will or need to obey the public intrest so goes the EU.
The EU "constitution" is a perfect example of Special Intrest and no public intrest.
E-Voting is yet another form of this, most of the people against e-voting as a means are only so because they cannot exploit it. They don't care that its not auditable, they can't abuse it yet. They would prefer it to be without a trail, so the dead can vote again, people vote twice, and etc.
When you have politicians stand up and say picture IDs are not required for voting how can you expect them to care about fraud in e-voting?
Nah, I have yet to find a local record store, except those dealing with used records, who are lower priced than Wal-Mart.
As for censoring, it might not be Wal-Mart that does it directly, but they do not sell the same versions of the CDs that other retailers do.
Their version of Liz Phair's newest CD is labeled as "edited". I guess it would be interesting to see just what kind of editing that was done.
I would suspect the F-word was taken out of her current playing single, but that is also editted out on local top 40 stations.
If you match up their versions with radio versions I wonder how different they really are? Are they upholding their own standards or broadcast standards?
Wal-Mart did a good job as marketing themselves as family-friendly. That is nothing to hold against them. It is a business choice.
Liz Phair CD at Wal-Mart link. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp? cat=411 8&dept=4104&product_id=2276667&path=0:4104:4118:50 96:40235
I am still trying to figure out what was going on his Jackson's head when he had Faramir drag the hobbits all the way to Osgilliath...and then pops a Ringwraith out to nearly snatch Frodo...
He might be "pulling it off"... but that just means the door is left open for someone 10-20 years down the road to try and do it again.
This would go from a software change at the local level to a software change required across nearly all industries.
Too many are trapped into the geographical thinking about area codes. Look at all the business systems that are setup based on area code. When the system was changed to permit digits other than 1 and 0 as the second portion of an area code there were many ramifications outside of the telephone industry.
Another concern, long distance interstate is separate from long distrance intrastate, or intra exchange.
What we really need is for the FTC to set down a new standard declaring that the area code is no longer geographically based. From that we can then end up with numbers unique to people and have true telco freedom.
Of course the side concern is that with one number anti-spam laws will need to be really strong and they will have to include stopping politicians and charities from calling too.
A few articles have detailed the problem, and it all revolves around area codes. Without expressed limits what would stop some idiot from New York wanting to transfer his line to his new California home?
Perhaps if the phone system could ditch area codes as geographical representation. It should not be too hard, in Atlanta we have 4 area codes all covering the same LARGE area (largest free calling zone in US)
The UN has not prevented a world war, claiming that is like claiming it has prevented anyone from taking over the moon.
The UN has done a great job of standing by while many more millions have died. It has no power to enforce peace unless all members of the security council decide otherwise. NATO has done quite a bit more in enforcing peace than the UN.
The UN turned a blind eye, along with much of the world, to the genocide in Africa in the mid 90s. The UN also ignores Chechnya, Tibet, and anything else that China and the USSR don't want inteference with. They did a great job of ignoring Afghanistan back in the late 70s.
The UN is only as effective as the Security Council allows it. The UN only has money to spend because the US gives it money. No other countries are willing to step up their dues, yet all scream righteously when the US holds back.
The General Assembly is nothing but proof that a bunch of nut-case dictatorships know how to abuse a democratic process. Witness all the anti-Israel and US crap that comes from it, witness their Human Rights commission which is lead by Libya, has Iraq and Iran as members.
The UN was relevant, trouble is that too many countries were given a voice that have no business doing such.
You cannot begin to count the number of 100K+ employees the Federal and State Governments have. Worse are the costs associated with their pensions, which is would turn the stomach of most people if they knew about it.
To top it off, if those pension funds lose money because of bad investments the public must pay into the fund via their taxes to make up the difference (recent case in Virigina proved that one)
Compare school administrators to teachers. We have a number of 120K jobs in one school district, and not one is a teaching job.
Sorry, I don't care where a business wastes it money, they have to earn it back. There should be no condemnation of highly paid businessmen provided it does not occur through fraud or account tricks. If we don't like it we can just not buy from that company. The same isn't true of the government.
They made a point about longshoreman in California, but missed out on recent changes by Gray Davis to public servants that makes that pay not look overly obscene.
Matrox put themselves in obscurity.
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Yes he should have had Matrox listed.
However, Matrox has shown one thing since the days of Millenium cards... and that is they don't care about the consumer market.
They left the consumer behind to go for the business market and it has done them well. As for 3d gaming, they were irrelevant back in the days of 3dfx because 3dfx marketed their cards and their API to the people that mattered; developers.
Matrox has had superior technology a lot of times, their problem is it rarely does anything people really want. (and a handful of geeks doesn't count)
I know of lots of problems with Nvidia drivers, trouble was, most were never the official release.
In fact, its common on many message boards for people to be guinea pigs for the lastest dot release.
This is actually another great thing about Nvidia (I don't know if ATI ever followed suit - I avoid their cards like the plague after my friends experience) in that you can get all these special versions to toy with. Sure your helping them debug it, but hey, you benefit too.
That oil money gives these corrupt leaders the ability to buy the weapons needed to keep their people in line. It goes to pay off groups that would have otherwise taken their hostility out on those leaders.
Yeah it will cause social problems when the money is pulled out from under these governments, however considering the state of most of them, and their people, I don't think it can get worse.
These societies are the results of unchecked human rights abuses backed by enough money to either shut everyone up or kill those that don't keep quiet.
We aren't looking for terrorist, so how will this card further increase our risk?
Until the government gets off its PC centric ass and starts looking for terrorist instead of weapons we might just as well mark airline tickets as shoe bomb permits.
It wasn't a shoe bomb or razor blade that flew airliners into buidlings.
This card just falls under the current "safety" situation. We want to feel safe, we just aren't willing to do what is needed to be safe.
Let them have their quick checkin card, its not like their time is more important than their safety anyway.
I have received over 100 messages in the last 24 hours. Less than a dozen made it through to me.
I had one request for passage of mail, which I accepted as I knew what it was about.
In the whole time I have used Earthlink's challenge system only two businesses have requested permission to be added to my link.
None of the big delivery or sales sites have asked, but I did add them as my daily summary of blocked "suspicious" mail was large.
Earthlink has two categories. know and suspected. it is from suspected that permissions can be asked about. their known spam category does not send out notifications of blocked mail
Getting my permission requires the user/company to follow a link and ask for it. It uses the standard picture challenge technique that some advanced systems can defeat.
In the end I love it, I no longer have to filter at my end. I also have cut down my spam to zero.
I have yet to experience a case of repeated requests. I know I can block them permanently, so unless they roll addresses all the time all they could be at most is a request hassle.
PS: This system is great for those who have grand parents who don't need to see that seedy side of the net. You can setup their address books for them and even review their spam online if they give you the passwords.
There are other costs associated with software than the upfront cost paid. This article does not account for those costs. Second, for those under SA you don't see the big costs of upgrading.
Costs that come up when switch. Testing (QA) on the new product, mainly to help develop some means of support across the organization; ie standards. You also have to determine the best install of the package and how to deliver it. (is it easy to push?)
Training. Sure it might LOOK like package X. The key is finding the quirks that generate support calls and find solutions.
Prior investment. If it works, its even cheaper to not upgrade and keep the old stuff.
You cannot directly change the sound out mechanism in iTunes. You have to go to Control Panel->Quicktime to do that, not very intuitive.
You also cannot do the simple things found in winamp in regards to keeping the program on the desktop, namely - keep it as an icon in the system tray, keep the program always on top (for the small version)
You cannot change the first column of the database display, it is ALWAYS the track name.
You also cannot have multiple sorts of the database display (at least I have yet to figure it out)
Cannot copy playlists off your iPod to the iTunes db, and I could not get it to copy those from MusicMatch (might be user error on last part)
At least they did not totally abscond with Windows UI rules like MusicMatch did, MM was a source of annoyance throughout my use of it.
I don't seem to recall this many investigations, procescutions, and leaks since the days of Reagan near the time of the S&L crisis.
Seems to me a lot of companines are now coming under scrutiny from a combination of things. Public sentitment, investor anger, and a Justice department that does act.
Yes they allow some things to slip by, but do the other 3 groups.
Remember, the DOJ just isn't in Washington. Ashcroft is a favorite whipping boy because he is the most visible part. He gets credit for some things (though he does do a great job of not taking credit for what the field does) but he gets blamed for many things he isn't involved in. (can you say Philly?)
The first being that I said that a last month push was made because the results were so close.
Zogby had different results in November, showing Cleland and Chamliss nearly neck to neck. The margin of error and undecideds easily account for the victory of Perdue.
Being a Georgia voter, and having friends at work whose spouses were teachers it was pretty much evident that it was very close.
People were not voting for a Republican Govenor, they were voting against Barnes. You would not understand the loathing people felt for him unless you lived here and saw it all the time.
Chambliss won out in the end simply because it was a major push. That and Cleland not getting any real support (mainly because he didn't earn it). Remember, Cleland didn't get in by landslide and his voting record was nearly directly opposite of his campaign. Combined with Zell Miller's record it makes you wonder what state Cleland came from. He tried the sympathy card late in the race, but that didn't get far as people saw it for what it was.
Finally, the Democrat party was reeling over some big name political issues in Georgia, and these combined with King Roys (Barnes) arrogance brought the whole Democratic establishment. See, Cynthia lost here as well... as did her father, and those events will play out for years.
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SCO could offer to "settle" out of court with Google stock at a guaranteed price prior to the IPO. They would then have a serious amount of cash they could use to go after less fortunate companies.
but that hasn't stopped some people from claiming that we have managed to cause "global warming". We aren't accurate 30 days out, nor a quarter, yet we are expect to believe we can be accurate 50 to 100 years? We cannot seem to predict the ozone hole! (which isn't there right now...)
One volcanoe, a bunch of wildfires, or a hurricane does things to the environment we can lay little claim in judging to their fullest extent yet we claim to know our effect?
As you put it, we don't know jack about that giant shiny object in the sky, let alone all its effects on our planet.
Man is anything but humble, let alone when some of those men have an ajenda to push. Environmentalist or Corporate love humility, for the other guy.
Your overly emotional tirade needs to stop. After reading a few of your comments here all I can say is...
Grow up and participate in the ADULT world. Your exactly the type of person who gets laughed at. I bet your easily tweaked about other subjects as well. It would be absolutely hilarious watching you attempt to argue your point with intelligent people - in other words you would be "toast".
Your lack of understanding and inability to follow the stories you rant about is astounding.
The Martha Stewart case is quickly progressing because they ALREADY have people to pin statements on her. They have the lackeys lined up. This is not the case in the Enron scenario.
Next, little old guilty Enron was doing its worst financial activities during the 90s, under a President whose administration also have high level contacts with Enron. An administration with Global Crossing contacts at the highest levels.
Guess what, thats the way it all works. If you think you can separate business from government your in a dreamland. Your abject hate for Bush distorts your view of why things progress as they do. Do yourself a favor, GET OVER IT.
They will get Kenneth Lay, they just know damn well they will have to have so many nails that he cannot escape. Just like other rich or celebrity people there are so many freaking loopholes available that time is one thing prosecutors CAN rely on.
Worse half the idiots replying and getting moderated up in this thread ignore something. Volusia wasn't about touch screen voting. They had a recount. There were no cases of minorities being blocked from voting - and that includes anyone coming forward to that Democrat led investigation. Get real, if there were it would have never left the airwaves. What we experience now is all the Bush haters looking for ANY reason, no matter how inane, to lay claim they were cheated. They cannot stand that they lost, hence they go into an unrealistic frenzy about it. I love the line about he didn't win the popular vote, guess what, neither did Kennedy - hell Kennedy lost by a bigger margin. Guess tomorrow someone will claim Bush killed Kennedy.
Finally, don't look for salvation in either the Democrats or Republicans. They both suck, if your not voting for people who will make a difference, regardless of their ability to win, you are throwing your vote away. Its the mentality of voting against someone that keeps the other jerks in power.
I made that mistake when I vote AGAINST Gore... to me it was a vote of the lesser two evils. I learned my lesson, next time I doubt there will be a Republican or Democrat getting my vote unless they prove they are worth it.
They are following the standard practice that worked well on the Mob.
Start at the bottom and go up... Kenneth Lay will get his due.
Your viewpoint is obviously slanted by the "Hate Bush by any means" school of thought which is damning most of the Democratic party from putting up some good candidates and platforms.
Its a good bet that the spectacular filmed crash of the Concorde greatly accelerated the demise of that program.
Compare that to how many jumbo jets have gone down and it points out something, if its flashy, and it goes wrong, then its doomed. If its nearly a commodity people just shrug their shoulders and move on.
Sorry but its far from Corporate control, its a world of special intrest. Just as the US Congress is controlled by special intrest, having long lost a will or need to obey the public intrest so goes the EU.
The EU "constitution" is a perfect example of Special Intrest and no public intrest.
E-Voting is yet another form of this, most of the people against e-voting as a means are only so because they cannot exploit it. They don't care that its not auditable, they can't abuse it yet. They would prefer it to be without a trail, so the dead can vote again, people vote twice, and etc.
When you have politicians stand up and say picture IDs are not required for voting how can you expect them to care about fraud in e-voting?
Nah, I have yet to find a local record store, except those dealing with used records, who are lower priced than Wal-Mart.
? cat=411 8&dept=4104&product_id=2276667&path=0:4104:4118:50 96:40235
As for censoring, it might not be Wal-Mart that does it directly, but they do not sell the same versions of the CDs that other retailers do.
Their version of Liz Phair's newest CD is labeled as "edited". I guess it would be interesting to see just what kind of editing that was done.
I would suspect the F-word was taken out of her current playing single, but that is also editted out on local top 40 stations.
If you match up their versions with radio versions I wonder how different they really are? Are they upholding their own standards or broadcast standards?
Wal-Mart did a good job as marketing themselves as family-friendly. That is nothing to hold against them. It is a business choice.
Liz Phair CD at Wal-Mart link.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp
I am still trying to figure out what was going on his Jackson's head when he had Faramir drag the hobbits all the way to Osgilliath...and then pops a Ringwraith out to nearly snatch Frodo...
... but that just means the door is left open for someone 10-20 years down the road to try and do it again.
He might be "pulling it off"
This would go from a software change at the local level to a software change required across nearly all industries.
Too many are trapped into the geographical thinking about area codes. Look at all the business systems that are setup based on area code. When the system was changed to permit digits other than 1 and 0 as the second portion of an area code there were many ramifications outside of the telephone industry.
Another concern, long distance interstate is separate from long distrance intrastate, or intra exchange.
What we really need is for the FTC to set down a new standard declaring that the area code is no longer geographically based. From that we can then end up with numbers unique to people and have true telco freedom.
Of course the side concern is that with one number anti-spam laws will need to be really strong and they will have to include stopping politicians and charities from calling too.
A few articles have detailed the problem, and it all revolves around area codes. Without expressed limits what would stop some idiot from New York wanting to transfer his line to his new California home?
Perhaps if the phone system could ditch area codes as geographical representation. It should not be too hard, in Atlanta we have 4 area codes all covering the same LARGE area (largest free calling zone in US)
404,770,678, and 470
That is one of the killer components that is missing. Get people to use it at home and the office will stand a better chance.
The UN has not prevented a world war, claiming that is like claiming it has prevented anyone from taking over the moon.
The UN has done a great job of standing by while many more millions have died. It has no power to enforce peace unless all members of the security council decide otherwise. NATO has done quite a bit more in enforcing peace than the UN.
The UN turned a blind eye, along with much of the world, to the genocide in Africa in the mid 90s. The UN also ignores Chechnya, Tibet, and anything else that China and the USSR don't want inteference with. They did a great job of ignoring Afghanistan back in the late 70s.
The UN is only as effective as the Security Council allows it. The UN only has money to spend because the US gives it money. No other countries are willing to step up their dues, yet all scream righteously when the US holds back.
The General Assembly is nothing but proof that a bunch of nut-case dictatorships know how to abuse a democratic process. Witness all the anti-Israel and US crap that comes from it, witness their Human Rights commission which is lead by Libya, has Iraq and Iran as members.
The UN was relevant, trouble is that too many countries were given a voice that have no business doing such.
You cannot begin to count the number of 100K+ employees the Federal and State Governments have. Worse are the costs associated with their pensions, which is would turn the stomach of most people if they knew about it.
To top it off, if those pension funds lose money because of bad investments the public must pay into the fund via their taxes to make up the difference (recent case in Virigina proved that one)
Compare school administrators to teachers. We have a number of 120K jobs in one school district, and not one is a teaching job.
Sorry, I don't care where a business wastes it money, they have to earn it back. There should be no condemnation of highly paid businessmen provided it does not occur through fraud or account tricks. If we don't like it we can just not buy from that company. The same isn't true of the government.
They made a point about longshoreman in California, but missed out on recent changes by Gray Davis to public servants that makes that pay not look overly obscene.
Yes he should have had Matrox listed.
However, Matrox has shown one thing since the days of Millenium cards... and that is they don't care about the consumer market.
They left the consumer behind to go for the business market and it has done them well. As for 3d gaming, they were irrelevant back in the days of 3dfx because 3dfx marketed their cards and their API to the people that mattered; developers.
Matrox has had superior technology a lot of times, their problem is it rarely does anything people really want. (and a handful of geeks doesn't count)
I know of lots of problems with Nvidia drivers, trouble was, most were never the official release.
In fact, its common on many message boards for people to be guinea pigs for the lastest dot release.
This is actually another great thing about Nvidia (I don't know if ATI ever followed suit - I avoid their cards like the plague after my friends experience) in that you can get all these special versions to toy with. Sure your helping them debug it, but hey, you benefit too.
let alone dragging the hobbits ... of course Sam had that great line, akin to "We should not be here Mr. Frodo"
We have Peter Jackson's LOTR, not Tolkien
In Atlanta there have been several iTMS and iPod ads on a local station. This station is also giving them away in a contest.
It does seem that Apple is getting the word out.
That oil money gives these corrupt leaders the ability to buy the weapons needed to keep their people in line. It goes to pay off groups that would have otherwise taken their hostility out on those leaders.
Yeah it will cause social problems when the money is pulled out from under these governments, however considering the state of most of them, and their people, I don't think it can get worse.
These societies are the results of unchecked human rights abuses backed by enough money to either shut everyone up or kill those that don't keep quiet.
We aren't looking for terrorist, so how will this card further increase our risk?
Until the government gets off its PC centric ass and starts looking for terrorist instead of weapons we might just as well mark airline tickets as shoe bomb permits.
It wasn't a shoe bomb or razor blade that flew airliners into buidlings.
This card just falls under the current "safety" situation. We want to feel safe, we just aren't willing to do what is needed to be safe.
Let them have their quick checkin card, its not like their time is more important than their safety anyway.
I have received over 100 messages in the last 24 hours. Less than a dozen made it through to me.
I had one request for passage of mail, which I accepted as I knew what it was about.
In the whole time I have used Earthlink's challenge system only two businesses have requested permission to be added to my link.
None of the big delivery or sales sites have asked, but I did add them as my daily summary of blocked "suspicious" mail was large.
Earthlink has two categories. know and suspected. it is from suspected that permissions can be asked about. their known spam category does not send out notifications of blocked mail
Getting my permission requires the user/company to follow a link and ask for it. It uses the standard picture challenge technique that some advanced systems can defeat.
In the end I love it, I no longer have to filter at my end. I also have cut down my spam to zero.
I have yet to experience a case of repeated requests. I know I can block them permanently, so unless they roll addresses all the time all they could be at most is a request hassle.
PS: This system is great for those who have grand parents who don't need to see that seedy side of the net. You can setup their address books for them and even review their spam online if they give you the passwords.
There are other costs associated with software than the upfront cost paid. This article does not account for those costs. Second, for those under SA you don't see the big costs of upgrading.
Costs that come up when switch.
Testing (QA) on the new product, mainly to help develop some means of support across the organization; ie standards. You also have to determine the best install of the package and how to deliver it. (is it easy to push?)
Training. Sure it might LOOK like package X. The key is finding the quirks that generate support calls and find solutions.
Prior investment. If it works, its even cheaper to not upgrade and keep the old stuff.
You cannot directly change the sound out mechanism in iTunes. You have to go to Control Panel->Quicktime to do that, not very intuitive.
You also cannot do the simple things found in winamp in regards to keeping the program on the desktop, namely - keep it as an icon in the system tray, keep the program always on top (for the small version)
You cannot change the first column of the database display, it is ALWAYS the track name.
You also cannot have multiple sorts of the database display (at least I have yet to figure it out)
Cannot copy playlists off your iPod to the iTunes db, and I could not get it to copy those from MusicMatch (might be user error on last part)
At least they did not totally abscond with Windows UI rules like MusicMatch did, MM was a source of annoyance throughout my use of it.
Separating the genders has shown benefits in middle school classrooms. It also removes many barriers.
As for females being slighted, I doubt it. Seems to me our society isn't as dense as it used to be.
Come, join the real world.
I don't seem to recall this many investigations, procescutions, and leaks since the days of Reagan near the time of the S&L crisis.
Seems to me a lot of companines are now coming under scrutiny from a combination of things. Public sentitment, investor anger, and a Justice department that does act.
Yes they allow some things to slip by, but do the other 3 groups.
Remember, the DOJ just isn't in Washington. Ashcroft is a favorite whipping boy because he is the most visible part. He gets credit for some things (though he does do a great job of not taking credit for what the field does) but he gets blamed for many things he isn't involved in. (can you say Philly?)
The first being that I said that a last month push was made because the results were so close.
Zogby had different results in November, showing Cleland and Chamliss nearly neck to neck. The margin of error and undecideds easily account for the victory of Perdue.
Being a Georgia voter, and having friends at work whose spouses were teachers it was pretty much evident that it was very close.
People were not voting for a Republican Govenor, they were voting against Barnes. You would not understand the loathing people felt for him unless you lived here and saw it all the time.
Chambliss won out in the end simply because it was a major push. That and Cleland not getting any real support (mainly because he didn't earn it). Remember, Cleland didn't get in by landslide and his voting record was nearly directly opposite of his campaign. Combined with Zell Miller's record it makes you wonder what state Cleland came from. He tried the sympathy card late in the race, but that didn't get far as people saw it for what it was.
Finally, the Democrat party was reeling over some big name political issues in Georgia, and these combined with King Roys (Barnes) arrogance brought the whole Democratic establishment. See, Cynthia lost here as well... as did her father, and those events will play out for years.
Georgia didn't need a king.