"Are you honestly comparing polling these days with polling in the days of Dewey and Truman? You had ONE paper back then calling it a little early and getting it wrong. You have DOZENS of polls showing Obama with a double digit lead.
Truman was behind in ALL the polling that year - far behind. That one reporter in that one newspaper jumped the gun, and it became emblematic of political overconfidence and journalistic sloppiness, but the Chicago Tribune wasn't the lone voice in the wilderness.
The Republican base is as fired up as they can possibly get, have you listened to them foaming at the mouth as their leaders egg them on to violence and hate? The Republican 'base' is a tiny group of wingnuts, Republicans have always had to sway independents.
Nice try on the ad hominem, but by that criteria the Democrat base is a bunch of communist union thugs who coerce their own people into voting Democrat "or else". Oh, and do you have a cite for "egg them on to violence and hate?" I listen to the news pretty regularly - NPR, if you must know - and haven't heard anything of the sort.
There is also nothing that will stop tens of millions of new voters, who are screened out by traditional polling methods, from coming out to vote for Obama.
That is also the group LEAST likely to actually vote, registered or not. They MAY come to the polls in historic numbers, but they haven't in the past. Hell, the "Obama Girl" didn't even vote in the primary - she was sick (although apparently well enough to attend a party the night of the primary). It's easy to stop for 5 minutes and fill out a form between classes when some cute girl/guy asks you to - is that same cutie going to drive you to the polls?
I love your unsubtle attempt at reverse psychology, too. Hilariously desperate!
Whew, way to miss the sarcasm, or do you really think that I'm so stupid as to believe I could convince you that you are incorrect? In your desire to convince yourself that the coming Democrat landslide is assured you have come up with a contrived argument as to why the press dislikes Obama, faulting them for not trumpeting his impending victory in spite of every J-school grad having the "Dewey Defeats Truman" photo taught in Journalism 101.
But there are other possible explanations: the press isn't in the tank for Obama, but they certainly don't want to look like fools if something unforeseen happens to tank Obama's popularity OR they are in the tank for Obama and they don't want to jinx him. Go look up William of Ockham - he lived hundreds of years ago but he'd think that I'm more likely right than you are.
I don't think we've won the presidency. Someone filled out "Mickey Mouse" on a registration card and handed it to ACORN. It's illegal for ACORN to throw those cards in the trash, so Mickey Mouse got registered.
ACORN is, in the least, being disingenuous when they use that explanation. ACORN hires people to go get registrations done, and incentivises the quantity of ballots brought in, and then provides lax supervision of the methods their employees use. There is also evidence that ACORN had set quotas of forms to be collected, encouraging fraud. Also, while they may be required to turn all the cards in, ACORN's practice is to dump all of the cards into the county office in one shot, overwhelming them. ACORN "flags" the ones that they have found fraudulent, but that gets lost in the flood.
Since we're all now afraid of dead people and Mickey Mouse showing up to vote, we're dumping hundreds of thousands of voters from Democratic-leaning districts in swing states, because that must be where Mickey Mouse lives.
No, it's because ACORN chooses to run its drives in those districts, and since a significant portion of the registrations that have passed through ACORN's hands have been found to be suspect, ALL have been tainted, and now must be reviewed in closer detail. So because ACORN chooses to focus on getting as many Democrat registrations as possible by whatever means necessary, so as to inflate their own importance and create a sense of debt to them from the Democrats, they have impugned ALL of what they are doing.
Oh, and the registrations aren't being "dumped"; they are being more closely scrutinized. If ACORN wouldn't have told their people "make your quota or get fired" (testimony in Ohio from 2 former employees), then they wouldn't be in this situation.
They don't love Obama, if they did, they would be crowing about how the election is already in the bag. Democrates have over 270 electoral votes, within the margin of polling error. It's a done deal, we've won the presidency. The only question is, will Democrats take a filibuster proof supermajority in both houses?
If the media were really liberal, instead of greedy, they would tell the truth. But a tight race means more viewers, so they continue to make it seem closer than it is.
I would be THRILLED if the media declared Obama the victor - it would guarantee a McCain victory. It would fire up the Republican base and depress the Democrats turnout - why bother voting when the election is in the bag? 19 days is a looooong time, especially this year. THAT's why the media hasn't done so - it would hurt Obama, and could not possibly help him.
But I encourage you strongly to keep telling everyone how the election is already won.
Ah, yes, I forgot - Obama is perfection incarnate, so any criticism of him is by definition "bias". Likewise McCain is evil on a stick, so unless the media is crucifying him 24/7 they are coddling him.
Keep singing, canary - by the time you stop, others will have figured out who Obama really is, but you'll already have been thrown aside, you purpose served.
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Heh...One of my favorite musical memories is listening to that track at full, bleeding eardrum volume on my headphones and not hearing my supervisor knock on the door (this was in school and I was an RA). I finally figured it out and opened the door, and she asked me what I was listening to. She had never heard of it and I told her what the only lyrics were. She said "Ohhhh..." and backed out of the room slowly.
Right wingers have an objection to throwing money into third world shitholes with no possibility of it's return and no possibility of it doing any good for the people of the countries.
Left wingers have an objection to throwing money at developing countries with strings attached, because it is inherently paternalistic and materialistic. the money should be granted as aid with no strings, not loans.
Either way, both the World Bank and the IMF have failed at whatever charter they ever had, and need to be dissolved.
"And the term "sniper rifle" is such a hard one to get people to get their heads around in the proper context of the art of a legitimate sniper."
Another favorite is "high powered assault rifle". By definition, "assault rifles" fire low to medium powered cartridges. It's like accusing someone of being a criminal mastermind on the basis of their status as a "high functioning" Down's syndrome victim.
"I don't know where you live but 50s are legal in the state of Pennsylvania."
Actually, Cal. 50's are legal in most states, I believe California being the only exception.
True story: Ronnie Barret, maker of the most popular.50 Caliber rifles, attended a hearing for California legislators where a State Police rep held up a Barret firearm as an example of the types of weapons that should not be allowed into civilian hands because there is no purpose for them other than blah, blah, blah. Barret gave his testimony, but the rifles were banned anyway.
Fast forward a few months - Barret receives a rifle into his shop for repair from the California State Police. It happens to be the very same rifle held up by the rep at the hearings. Yes, the police were holding out one of their own weapons as an example of items that should be banned.
Ronnie kept the rifle (I think - he may have returned it since) and wrote an open letter to the SP stating that he would not do business with a state agency that would deny it's citizens the very same firearms that the police find so effective. He has not sold or repaired another rifle for he State of California since.
Oh and the standard military "sniper rifle" is a Remington Model 700, of which there are millions in teh hands of deer hunters all over the US. Have fun banning those.
"If the media thought Obama would be hurt by it, they'd be beating it over his head like a drum, not ignoring it. This is because the media loves a horserace, and since Obama passed Hillary in the primaries they've been highly negative towards him."
I'm not sure what media you are viewing, but most of what I'm seeing is that most of the media is fully in the Obama camp - I don't even think they are trying to hide it anymore. For instance, yesterday on NPR, Obama "revealed" his plan to change bankruptcy law, while McCain "trotted out" his plan to buy individual mortgages - and then proceeded to beat on McCain for his plan, while not even making commentary on Obama's.
As for the NRA, you say "to some extent Obama". Have you been following the election at all? The NRA is beating on Obama mercilessly, including TV ads which the Obama campaign threatened to sue TV stations over.
"Canadians need as much protection against American bad foreign policy as Americans!"
So now Obama's Net Neutrality policy is going to protect Canadians from bad Americanforeign policy?
Look, just cut to the chase - Obama is going to heal the sick, cure the lame, and raise the dead. Nations will tremble before him and daisies will spring from his footsteps. He is The Chosen One. That's where this is going, isn't it?
I thought you low UID guys were supposed to be wise - more like senile at this point.
So Obama is going to protect Canadians' free speech right? That's AWESOME.
But what is he going to do here in the US (you know, the country where he wants to be President) where Net Neutrality has to do with ISP's treating traffic from certain providers differently than others? 'Cause that's what it means here in the States.
I get the feeling that Breathed was "inspired" by Trudeau and the resurrection of "Doonesbury", which happened about the same time. I recall that Bloom County, while not overtly political, certainly let Breathed viewpoint through. At some point he decided that viewpoint should be the primary, and Opus became simply Breathed's mouthpiece.
"You seem to misunderstand what Net Neutrality is. Net Neutrality is the principle that telecoms can't favor one type of net traffic over another. Since the telecoms are in a sense the gatekeepers of net access, then they have the technological power to do this."
Thereby perpetuating the myth the Telecoms have been trying to spread.
Net Neutrality is NOT about discriminating against types of traffic, it's about discriminating based on the SOURCE of that traffic. It has it's seeds in comments made by ATT and others about how they own the pipes and how Google and other heavy producers should pay them for the privilege of their content traveling over ATT's lines.
Since this is nonsensical in it's face, the telcos and cablecos have spun it so that Net Neutrality is about "types" of traffic and managing QOS. This gave them natural allies in the **AA's, and set up the straw man where people who are arguing against net neutrality are just Bittorrent users pissed that their speeds are down.
I won't bother with your first point - I'm surprised people can't see Obama's hand at the back of your mouth when you say stuff.
But as for the second, "You have to pay people to go after those that would try to strip public privacy away or try to curtail democracy. Obama appears to want the USA to compete freely with other countries, but in a positive way." What on earth does that have to do with Net Neutrality in EITHER of it's interpretations?
because that might give something for an undecided voter to hold against them. And the news media is aiding an abetting - they can get more words out of a vague question than one that can be answered.
For instance, one of the topics where the candidates differ greatly is on firearms and 2A issues. But it has flat-out been ignored in this campaign. The liberal interpretation of this is that guns just aren't all that important with everything else going on; the conservative interpretation is that gun issues can only hurt Obama - there's a lot of pickup trucks out there with gun racks and union stickers - so the debate moderators aren't bringing it up. The more realistic interpretation is that guns have become like abortion - folks on both sides have hardened and are sure votes, and the general public has settled on a "fundamental right with restrictions" stance and just don't really care right now. They may care on an individual basis later, when Susie gets knocked up or Johnnie gets mugged, but as a whole the populace has reached equilibrium.
Or Net Neutrality is just too obscure for Jane "I just captioned my first lolcat!" Doe. (Yes, that's an actual quote from my daughter. I died a little bit inside.)
"On September 19, 2008, a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that CSIRO patent claims are invalid and Buffalo is getting a new trial."
The Circuit court did no such thing - it ruled that the judge had erred in issuing a summary judgment, and it needed to go back to trial. NOWHERE in the link does it say that the Appellate Court ruled on the validity of the patent.
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Truman was behind in ALL the polling that year - far behind. That one reporter in that one newspaper jumped the gun, and it became emblematic of political overconfidence and journalistic sloppiness, but the Chicago Tribune wasn't the lone voice in the wilderness.
Nice try on the ad hominem, but by that criteria the Democrat base is a bunch of communist union thugs who coerce their own people into voting Democrat "or else". Oh, and do you have a cite for "egg them on to violence and hate?" I listen to the news pretty regularly - NPR, if you must know - and haven't heard anything of the sort.
That is also the group LEAST likely to actually vote, registered or not. They MAY come to the polls in historic numbers, but they haven't in the past. Hell, the "Obama Girl" didn't even vote in the primary - she was sick (although apparently well enough to attend a party the night of the primary). It's easy to stop for 5 minutes and fill out a form between classes when some cute girl/guy asks you to - is that same cutie going to drive you to the polls?
ACORN is, in the least, being disingenuous when they use that explanation. ACORN hires people to go get registrations done, and incentivises the quantity of ballots brought in, and then provides lax supervision of the methods their employees use. There is also evidence that ACORN had set quotas of forms to be collected, encouraging fraud. Also, while they may be required to turn all the cards in, ACORN's practice is to dump all of the cards into the county office in one shot, overwhelming them. ACORN "flags" the ones that they have found fraudulent, but that gets lost in the flood.
No, it's because ACORN chooses to run its drives in those districts, and since a significant portion of the registrations that have passed through ACORN's hands have been found to be suspect, ALL have been tainted, and now must be reviewed in closer detail. So because ACORN chooses to focus on getting as many Democrat registrations as possible by whatever means necessary, so as to inflate their own importance and create a sense of debt to them from the Democrats, they have impugned ALL of what they are doing.
Oh, and the registrations aren't being "dumped"; they are being more closely scrutinized. If ACORN wouldn't have told their people "make your quota or get fired" (testimony in Ohio from 2 former employees), then they wouldn't be in this situation.
Three words: "Dewey Defeats Truman" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman
I would be THRILLED if the media declared Obama the victor - it would guarantee a McCain victory. It would fire up the Republican base and depress the Democrats turnout - why bother voting when the election is in the bag? 19 days is a looooong time, especially this year. THAT's why the media hasn't done so - it would hurt Obama, and could not possibly help him.
But I encourage you strongly to keep telling everyone how the election is already won.
"I'm just here to say these two young slashdotters have definitely seen the truth, though they still have a lot to learn from us 3 digit IDers."
I dunno - I had a discussion with a 2 digit UID owner yesterday and I think he was senile.
Ah, yes, I forgot - Obama is perfection incarnate, so any criticism of him is by definition "bias". Likewise McCain is evil on a stick, so unless the media is crucifying him 24/7 they are coddling him.
Keep singing, canary - by the time you stop, others will have figured out who Obama really is, but you'll already have been thrown aside, you purpose served.
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Heh...One of my favorite musical memories is listening to that track at full, bleeding eardrum volume on my headphones and not hearing my supervisor knock on the door (this was in school and I was an RA). I finally figured it out and opened the door, and she asked me what I was listening to. She had never heard of it and I told her what the only lyrics were. She said "Ohhhh..." and backed out of the room slowly.
No, there's a fundamental difference.
Right wingers have an objection to throwing money into third world shitholes with no possibility of it's return and no possibility of it doing any good for the people of the countries.
Left wingers have an objection to throwing money at developing countries with strings attached, because it is inherently paternalistic and materialistic. the money should be granted as aid with no strings, not loans.
Either way, both the World Bank and the IMF have failed at whatever charter they ever had, and need to be dissolved.
"And the term "sniper rifle" is such a hard one to get people to get their heads around in the proper context of the art of a legitimate sniper."
Another favorite is "high powered assault rifle". By definition, "assault rifles" fire low to medium powered cartridges. It's like accusing someone of being a criminal mastermind on the basis of their status as a "high functioning" Down's syndrome victim.
"I don't know where you live but 50s are legal in the state of Pennsylvania."
Actually, Cal. 50's are legal in most states, I believe California being the only exception.
True story: Ronnie Barret, maker of the most popular .50 Caliber rifles, attended a hearing for California legislators where a State Police rep held up a Barret firearm as an example of the types of weapons that should not be allowed into civilian hands because there is no purpose for them other than blah, blah, blah. Barret gave his testimony, but the rifles were banned anyway.
Fast forward a few months - Barret receives a rifle into his shop for repair from the California State Police. It happens to be the very same rifle held up by the rep at the hearings. Yes, the police were holding out one of their own weapons as an example of items that should be banned.
Ronnie kept the rifle (I think - he may have returned it since) and wrote an open letter to the SP stating that he would not do business with a state agency that would deny it's citizens the very same firearms that the police find so effective. He has not sold or repaired another rifle for he State of California since.
Oh and the standard military "sniper rifle" is a Remington Model 700, of which there are millions in teh hands of deer hunters all over the US. Have fun banning those.
"If the media thought Obama would be hurt by it, they'd be beating it over his head like a drum, not ignoring it. This is because the media loves a horserace, and since Obama passed Hillary in the primaries they've been highly negative towards him."
I'm not sure what media you are viewing, but most of what I'm seeing is that most of the media is fully in the Obama camp - I don't even think they are trying to hide it anymore. For instance, yesterday on NPR, Obama "revealed" his plan to change bankruptcy law, while McCain "trotted out" his plan to buy individual mortgages - and then proceeded to beat on McCain for his plan, while not even making commentary on Obama's.
As for the NRA, you say "to some extent Obama". Have you been following the election at all? The NRA is beating on Obama mercilessly, including TV ads which the Obama campaign threatened to sue TV stations over.
"Canadians need as much protection against American bad foreign policy as Americans!"
So now Obama's Net Neutrality policy is going to protect Canadians from bad Americanforeign policy?
Look, just cut to the chase - Obama is going to heal the sick, cure the lame, and raise the dead. Nations will tremble before him and daisies will spring from his footsteps. He is The Chosen One. That's where this is going, isn't it?
I thought you low UID guys were supposed to be wise - more like senile at this point.
But aside from that, what did the Romans ever do for them?
So Obama is going to protect Canadians' free speech right? That's AWESOME.
But what is he going to do here in the US (you know, the country where he wants to be President) where Net Neutrality has to do with ISP's treating traffic from certain providers differently than others? 'Cause that's what it means here in the States.
I get the feeling that Breathed was "inspired" by Trudeau and the resurrection of "Doonesbury", which happened about the same time. I recall that Bloom County, while not overtly political, certainly let Breathed viewpoint through. At some point he decided that viewpoint should be the primary, and Opus became simply Breathed's mouthpiece.
"You seem to misunderstand what Net Neutrality is. Net Neutrality is the principle that telecoms can't favor one type of net traffic over another. Since the telecoms are in a sense the gatekeepers of net access, then they have the technological power to do this."
Thereby perpetuating the myth the Telecoms have been trying to spread.
Net Neutrality is NOT about discriminating against types of traffic, it's about discriminating based on the SOURCE of that traffic. It has it's seeds in comments made by ATT and others about how they own the pipes and how Google and other heavy producers should pay them for the privilege of their content traveling over ATT's lines.
Since this is nonsensical in it's face, the telcos and cablecos have spun it so that Net Neutrality is about "types" of traffic and managing QOS. This gave them natural allies in the **AA's, and set up the straw man where people who are arguing against net neutrality are just Bittorrent users pissed that their speeds are down.
And you've bought into it.
I won't bother with your first point - I'm surprised people can't see Obama's hand at the back of your mouth when you say stuff.
But as for the second, "You have to pay people to go after those that would try to strip public privacy away or try to curtail democracy. Obama appears to want the USA to compete freely with other countries, but in a positive way." What on earth does that have to do with Net Neutrality in EITHER of it's interpretations?
because that might give something for an undecided voter to hold against them. And the news media is aiding an abetting - they can get more words out of a vague question than one that can be answered.
For instance, one of the topics where the candidates differ greatly is on firearms and 2A issues. But it has flat-out been ignored in this campaign. The liberal interpretation of this is that guns just aren't all that important with everything else going on; the conservative interpretation is that gun issues can only hurt Obama - there's a lot of pickup trucks out there with gun racks and union stickers - so the debate moderators aren't bringing it up. The more realistic interpretation is that guns have become like abortion - folks on both sides have hardened and are sure votes, and the general public has settled on a "fundamental right with restrictions" stance and just don't really care right now. They may care on an individual basis later, when Susie gets knocked up or Johnnie gets mugged, but as a whole the populace has reached equilibrium.
Or Net Neutrality is just too obscure for Jane "I just captioned my first lolcat!" Doe.
(Yes, that's an actual quote from my daughter. I died a little bit inside.)
When Breathed starts running out of money he'll resurrect Opus.
Just like last time.
"Well, "fair use for educational purposes" would apply, except that the "documentary" is pure propaganda. In what sense would fair use be applicable?"
Funny, I was subjected to far more propaganda in my "education" than I ever was by any special interest group.
"For most geeks looking for a girlfriend, that list is followed by the phrase, "Pick any two.""
Hmmm, lets see.
Hair+Vagina-tits - pre-pubescent. No thanks - I like being on THIS side of a jail door.
Hair+Tits-vagina - Pre-op transexual. That's and example of an UNHAPPY surprise.
Tits+Vagina-hair - Sinead O'Connor. RUN!!! RUN AWAY!!!!
"On September 19, 2008, a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that CSIRO patent claims are invalid and Buffalo is getting a new trial."
The Circuit court did no such thing - it ruled that the judge had erred in issuing a summary judgment, and it needed to go back to trial. NOWHERE in the link does it say that the Appellate Court ruled on the validity of the patent.
"No, not really. The problem is unsustainable economic growth. Limit growth and limit globalization and the problem limits itself."
Well, shit - here I thought it was more complex than that.
Getting back on topic, the problem of colonizing Mars is trivial as well - all we need to do is invent FTL travel.
"What's there to study? The causes and remedies of both are very well understood."
Absolutely.
Cause: too many people.
Remedy: Machineguns. LOTS of machineguns.
Oh, wait - that remedy isn't acceptable? Hmmm - maybe this problem is a BIT more complicated on second glance.