While all is good and dandy, calling 2004 just another typically rigged election is like calling Hurricane Katrina just another hurricane.
No, never ever ever ever have exit polls differed so widely from results as they did in 2000 and again in 2004. None of the above comments addresses this issue with its proper weight. Not in JFK's win in Illinois back in the early 60's, never.
To put it another way, Ukraine voters overthrew their elected leader via protests in the streets over much smaller statistical differences between exit polling and actual vote counts as their primary proof of fraud. Maybe that makes them the home of the brave. Not sure what it makes us...certainly neither brave nor free.
To call 2000 and 2004 anything like election as usuall in the US is to call Hiroshima and Nagasaki just another couple bombing runs.
For the statistically inept, this may make no sense. But rest assured, this was a whole new level of vote rigging--and it took electronic voting machines to bring it about.
This issue trumps all others because if the present admin was fraudulently elected, that means the present government in the US is illigitimate.
But remember the slashdotted research that reports evidence of cumulative genetic brain damage from using electromagnetic devices such as hair dryers and electric razors around your brain.
They keep reporting that cellphones do not cause cancer, but I have yet to hear that cell phones do not cause cumulative genetic damage in the brain.
Anyone else come across such a study? Does the lack of such research speak volumes about the topic or is it just not interesting info to researchers?
This also could be a sign that children think much more about a task than do chimps. I remember in high school math learning how to do things with all these extra steps that made no sense until I started learning more advanced math concepts and then understood those extra steps to be extremely important.
But if I wasn't able to comprehend that there may be more to what I'm doing than what I currently understand--if I didn't have the ability to know that I might not know everything, then I would have skipped them, never learned them, and had a bitch of a time later.
Your body rarely stays still enough for you *NOT* to see in stereo vision. Your 18 ft was debunked by modern perception theory. Even just the slight variation of rocking back and forth creates stereo vision much further than 18 ft.
Plus visual memory allows you to, like NASA does with all of their space photos, see composite images, to merger images you have seen from one angle with another angle giving you not a "faked" version of stereoptics, but a "composite" version.
Or at least that is most recently what is being taught in Perception classes in grad schools.
My neighbor is a petroleum engineer. She worked for Texaco for 20 years on the problem of getting usable oil from the sand oil. They got nowhere. Nothing. Nada. No progress whatsoever. And that was just trying to get the oil/sand out of whatever they shipped it in effificently--much less actually getting it to a refineable state.
She laughed out loud when I suggested that it was just a matter of finding a technological solution to help us use sand oil. She is willing to bet that personal cold fusion devices will be ubiquitous long before they figure out how to refine sand oil into useable fuel at anything close to a reasonable cost.
There is something to be said about the fact that all the trending analysis businesses want to engage in can be done without the need to cross-reference this data with the names, SS#s, etc.
BTW, what I want to know is why the MPAA and RAII get to hold rights on movie and song distribution, yet citizens don't "own" the rights to their own name. If you don't own the rights to your own name, what can you own?
Unless of course you are buying your DVD's on the web from a business that had no brick-n-mortar in your state. Then there would not necessarily be no tax collected at all.
Reason is the only mag to which I subscribe. You would think I agree with you. But recent Supreme Court rulings (eminent domain) along with dozens of entertainers losing their jobs for speaking their minds are the first steps towards such a state.
Fascism is sneaky and the institutions I once thought would make facism moot are no longer as untouchable as I once thought they were.
That's what happens when dissenting voices are ridiculed and the messengers attacked instead of the message. This is not limited to one party or the other (although the draconian rules lobbyists must now adhere to really does imabalance the power structures in Wshington).
his administration has made criticising the messenger an art form. Rarely do they address they message.
And that *is* one easy way for this to get out of hand. Okay, coupled with an international emergency that makes us all scared and crazy and turn off our intellect and let our lizard brains take control.
If we had done that a few years ago, we'd likely have Bin Lauden, Afghanistan would be a much more peaceful place, and Saddam would have every reason to fear the international buildup of support for his ouster.
Ironically, innovation is equally lacking from corporate sponsered apps as well. Most innovation comes where nothing exists. Once something exists, everything else copies: OSS or corporate-sponsered software.
Windows? MacOS? Copies. Office? Copied. All Browsers? NCSA Mosaic copies.
So the real point here is the only truly innovative work in software came out of DARPA, from science researchers at univeristies, or students who didn't know any better.
While this is important to mention, a more even approach would be to weigh whether your biggest risk is from outside crackers (and thus excellent passwords are most important) or from inside crackers (and thus onsight security is most important).
I strongly urge you to use no more than one hand at a time if you intend to play with anything near that box.
Also, whatever you do, don't stand directly in front of a panel in disrepair. I've seen fireballs shoot out of properly configured boxes, much less improperly wired ones.
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Hmm. How about voting for the weaker party. That way you have the most checks and balances and the best chance at a smaller gov't.
But that aside, Let me ask you this: If you vote for a guy who wins overwhelmingly, isn't that a bigger waset of a vote than voting for a third-party?
While all is good and dandy, calling 2004 just another typically rigged election is like calling Hurricane Katrina just another hurricane. No, never ever ever ever have exit polls differed so widely from results as they did in 2000 and again in 2004. None of the above comments addresses this issue with its proper weight. Not in JFK's win in Illinois back in the early 60's, never. To put it another way, Ukraine voters overthrew their elected leader via protests in the streets over much smaller statistical differences between exit polling and actual vote counts as their primary proof of fraud. Maybe that makes them the home of the brave. Not sure what it makes us...certainly neither brave nor free. To call 2000 and 2004 anything like election as usuall in the US is to call Hiroshima and Nagasaki just another couple bombing runs. For the statistically inept, this may make no sense. But rest assured, this was a whole new level of vote rigging--and it took electronic voting machines to bring it about. This issue trumps all others because if the present admin was fraudulently elected, that means the present government in the US is illigitimate.
But remember the slashdotted research that reports evidence of cumulative genetic brain damage from using electromagnetic devices such as hair dryers and electric razors around your brain.
They keep reporting that cellphones do not cause cancer, but I have yet to hear that cell phones do not cause cumulative genetic damage in the brain.
Anyone else come across such a study? Does the lack of such research speak volumes about the topic or is it just not interesting info to researchers?
This also could be a sign that children think much more about a task than do chimps. I remember in high school math learning how to do things with all these extra steps that made no sense until I started learning more advanced math concepts and then understood those extra steps to be extremely important.
But if I wasn't able to comprehend that there may be more to what I'm doing than what I currently understand--if I didn't have the ability to know that I might not know everything, then I would have skipped them, never learned them, and had a bitch of a time later.
Your body rarely stays still enough for you *NOT* to see in stereo vision. Your 18 ft was debunked by modern perception theory. Even just the slight variation of rocking back and forth creates stereo vision much further than 18 ft.
Plus visual memory allows you to, like NASA does with all of their space photos, see composite images, to merger images you have seen from one angle with another angle giving you not a "faked" version of stereoptics, but a "composite" version.
Or at least that is most recently what is being taught in Perception classes in grad schools.
My neighbor is a petroleum engineer. She worked for Texaco for 20 years on the problem of getting usable oil from the sand oil. They got nowhere. Nothing. Nada. No progress whatsoever. And that was just trying to get the oil/sand out of whatever they shipped it in effificently--much less actually getting it to a refineable state.
She laughed out loud when I suggested that it was just a matter of finding a technological solution to help us use sand oil. She is willing to bet that personal cold fusion devices will be ubiquitous long before they figure out how to refine sand oil into useable fuel at anything close to a reasonable cost.
There is something to be said about the fact that all the trending analysis businesses want to engage in can be done without the need to cross-reference this data with the names, SS#s, etc.
BTW, what I want to know is why the MPAA and RAII get to hold rights on movie and song distribution, yet citizens don't "own" the rights to their own name. If you don't own the rights to your own name, what can you own?
He is popular simply because of his constant flaming. Like the rest of our media, if it is not instantly controversial, people ignore it.
Like spam, it's too bad people respond to his mindless dribble.
Unless of course you are buying your DVD's on the web from a business that had no brick-n-mortar in your state. Then there would not necessarily be no tax collected at all.
Reason is the only mag to which I subscribe. You would think I agree with you. But recent Supreme Court rulings (eminent domain) along with dozens of entertainers losing their jobs for speaking their minds are the first steps towards such a state.
Fascism is sneaky and the institutions I once thought would make facism moot are no longer as untouchable as I once thought they were.
That's what happens when dissenting voices are ridiculed and the messengers attacked instead of the message. This is not limited to one party or the other (although the draconian rules lobbyists must now adhere to really does imabalance the power structures in Wshington).
his administration has made criticising the messenger an art form. Rarely do they address they message.
And that *is* one easy way for this to get out of hand. Okay, coupled with an international emergency that makes us all scared and crazy and turn off our intellect and let our lizard brains take control.
If we had done that a few years ago, we'd likely have Bin Lauden, Afghanistan would be a much more peaceful place, and Saddam would have every reason to fear the international buildup of support for his ouster.
Ironically, innovation is equally lacking from corporate sponsered apps as well. Most innovation comes where nothing exists. Once something exists, everything else copies: OSS or corporate-sponsered software.
Windows? MacOS? Copies. Office? Copied. All Browsers? NCSA Mosaic copies.
So the real point here is the only truly innovative work in software came out of DARPA, from science researchers at univeristies, or students who didn't know any better.
While this is important to mention, a more even approach would be to weigh whether your biggest risk is from outside crackers (and thus excellent passwords are most important) or from inside crackers (and thus onsight security is most important).
I strongly urge you to use no more than one hand at a time if you intend to play with anything near that box.
Also, whatever you do, don't stand directly in front of a panel in disrepair. I've seen fireballs shoot out of properly configured boxes, much less improperly wired ones.
Seems to me like the real interesting point is whether or not he utilized any code that was open-sourced before becoming part of this other venture.