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  1. Re:Why isn't this already a requirement? on WI Bill Would Require E-Voting Paper Trail, Source · · Score: 1

    In truth Diebold has long sold electronic voting machines with printed receipts. They cost more and are worthless for anything but making the voter feel good, which is why most places don't get them.

    Also how would a paper receipt stop any rigging of the votes? The paper is worthless for accountablity once the voter has it in thier hands. It would be a feel good item that just destroies some trees and creates more garbage that needs to be cleaned up.

  2. Re:Paper, we don't need no stinking on WI Bill Would Require E-Voting Paper Trail, Source · · Score: 1

    FYI,
    During the last election where you had thoses rare occurances of problems with electronic machines, none of thme were made by Diebold. Also the companies that did have problems had ties with the Democrat party.

  3. Re:We're not persuing this as fast as we can becau on Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1

    It is certain that the election of George W. Bush has hindered the goal of finding a cure to spinal cord injury. He has shut down a major source of funding in an area of research that, as we can see from this article, is directly relevant to finding a cure.
    In now way is it certain since President Bush was the first president to push for and get funds for stem cell research. If something did not exist before he came into office he should could not of shut it down.
    Also the stem cells used in this research are available from adults they were pulled from embryonic rats because it is easy to get them that way. This was not research on a human it was a rat(never mind the liberal mantra of boy=rat=insect).
    Lets hope we continue to get Presidents who take a moral and ethic stance on some stuff, we do not need someone who is so willing to stand up to science that are not willing to allow medical experiments of prisoners as Kerry was.

  4. Re:We're not persuing this as fast as we can becau on Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1

    There was alot of research done in the Nazi concentration camps that was used after the war and you are benifiting from now. This includes research in the area of shoes and cloth and distribution of weight across the human body, to resusitation of human after being frozen and electrical damage; also research in high altitude. TB, the effects of people who are exposed to large amounts of sea water.
    Also during the 1980s some of the nazi research of poisoning of people caused a big debate on if it should be used or not. The decision to say that the ethics said it should not be used caused great political problem for the former Bush administration.

  5. Re:stem cells on Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1

    Well a couple of things wrong with your statement and the facts.
    1) President Bush was the first president to push for funding using stem cells.
    2) The research from this article did get government funding.

  6. Re:Spinal vs. Embryonic stem cells? on Stem Cells Mend Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1

    Because most of the time embryonic stem cell are mentioned primarily for the marketing value.

    embryonic stems cell have huge amounts of problems with them including uncontrolled growth rates(aka cancer).

    As for why embryonic rats were uses is because it was easier to extract the items neede in quantities and because the subjects where not human(never mind the liberal chant that a boy=rat=bug). The same items could be extracted from an adult which produces them at a constant rate.

  7. Re:Scientists have responsed to Braton. on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 1

    realclimate is anything but apolitical.
    it is a site built up and paid for by a PR firm that has caused the Alar scare and other things of that nature.
    What the PR firm does is set up people and web site which it fully pays for and thens get people who support the view of thier clients. Theses people are not directly paid to do the work, smart idea to so they can keep claiming that they are not paid. However what happens is that the PR firm then uses theses people for court cases and pass them around at various junkets as experts who run a site for no money. For theses junkets and other things they get paid big bucks.
    If you can get in and don't mind spending some initial time the pay offs in the end are excellent.

  8. Re:War of Foo! on U.S. High Level Anti-Piracy Post Created · · Score: 1

    If you look at the information from the travel industry the number of Chineses traveling to Europe and US for recreation is increase by large percents; however the really interesting thing on this is that Chineses recreation travelers have taken over the spot as the people with the most amount of spending money.
    So there are large amounts of Chinese that could purchase software at the legal price.

  9. Re:And this is why... on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    His actual quote was
    " But our finding relates to a collaborative effort, the lack of evidence for a collaborative effort to attack the United States. We're not saying that there were no contacts of any kind or description.

    We're quite sure on the basis of the evidence we have that there was not an operational tie between Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government on the one hand and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida on the other with regard to attacks on the United States. "

    If you read the actual report they go into way they were coroporating including training camp and Iraq providing papers and transportation for some people who were involved in the 9/11 attack.(however there is no reason to believe that Saddam actually knew what they were planning)

  10. Re:QUESTION FOR ALL LIBERALS on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    right to due process
    US PATRIOT ACT does not have anything dealing with lower that. If anything it requires more levels protection because it requires the recording and tracking of various police actions.

    right to a fair trial
    An other that the US PATROIT ACT does not have anything about.
    freedom of speech
    I am guessing you are talking about how if you are servered with an order from a judge for a search of record you control and the judge added the provision you cannot talk about it you are upset that you cannot call up the suspect and legally sell the information to them for a defined and resonable amount of time?
    This type of provision existed before the US PATRIOT ACT, during the 90s it was added to other crimes and the US PATRIOT ACT it was added to a few more. So it is hardly a right you have had all your life.

  11. Re:QUESTION FOR ALL LIBERALS on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Who would foolish enough to mark this as insightful?
    Funny or fantasy yes, since it has basis in reality.

  12. Re:QUESTION FOR ALL LIBERALS on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Come on lets update this for the modern age.

    First they came for the people who did not wear helmet while on a motorcycle and no one protested.
    Then they came for the smokers.
    Then they came for the owners of gun and no one protested.
    Then they came for the drivers of large vehicles and no one protested.
    Then they came for me, and there was No One Left to protest.

  13. Re:QUESTION FOR ALL LIBERALS on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    I've been affected by it because freedoms that I enjoyed my entire life have been stripped away from me.
    Name three.

  14. Re:Whats happening now won't be felt for a long ti on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Not sure about the Canadian law but the US PATRIOT ACT does not allow the "ability to imprision people indefinately without charge or proof or anything of the sort".
    Also a part of the US PATRIOT ACT requires that certain provisions in it be reported when used and reported to congress on a regular basis, the reason that you don't hear about them is because they have not been used. The things that people bring up, library searchs, no-notify search and bug placing and others have already existed for other crimes. The US PATRIOT ACT just extended thier use into crimes that dealed with terrorism. Which is the reason police pushed for them.

  15. Re:Calm down people... on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Not sure if there has been another bill in the Senate Intelligence Committee but the one they have been discussing would allow the FBI to take records without subpoenas only in the event that they came across them in the course of normal events and they had no other way of securing them. In much the same way that the FBI can currently break into a house without a warrent if they hear someone in the house yell "Help me, she is tring to kill me".
    As it was the FBI would be required to prove that they had to take immediate action to secure the record, once that was proved they would then have to prove that they could of gotten records using normal means. If they cannot prove both there is no using of the records.

  16. Re:It's for the children! on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    The case of Abdullah al-Muhajir(aka Jose Padilla) does not fall under any part of the US PATRIOT ACT, it all has do with article 4.1.2 of the Third Geneva Convention.

  17. Re:It's for the children! on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    The case of Abdullah al-Muhajir(aka Jose Padilla) is a wierd one but does not fall under any part of the US PATRIOT ACT, it all has do with article 4.1.2 of the Third Geneva Convention.
    With each order of a judge saying he should be charged or freed you have had the appeals court say that is not the case. Then to top it off his lawyer has made a bunch of mistakes in paperwork and process including filing in the wrong location with forced to supreme court to kick it back, adding more delays.
    Finally making its way through the court systems and a decision on his status should be make.

  18. Re:And this is why... on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness that 50% were correct and knew that Iraq had ties with al-Qaeda. "I don't think there's any doubt but that there were some contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden's people." (9-11 Commission Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton)

    However I am guess you mean with respect to the 9/11 attack, and there as President Bush has said at numerious times "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11 attacks."
    Sidenote:
    The majority of the people think that Iraq had knowledge and help with 9/11 attack voted for Kerry or classified themselves as democrates or independants(possibility of not voting). Thoses that classified themselves as Republicans who voted for Bush and believed this was a very small percent.
    Now it gets really interesting is when you start comparing the amount with the time line. The number of people who said this was the case increased while the movie "fahrenheit 9/11" was gaining in popularity and hit a near record high after the DVD had been released. It has been dropping since then and as of March 2005 was back to the lows.

  19. Re:Coming to America on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 3, Informative

    The FEC did let loose any "trail balloon" about delaying the elections.
    An office of the Justice department was ordered to do a paper on that and what would be required to delay the popular vote by a week or two at the most. It came down to that congress would have to approve the delay,the constitution does not place a date it is a federal law done by Congress and the President. Then a whole bunch of state laws would have to be changed, such as Florida's state law that says the vote has to be in place by a certain date in December.
    Overall a smart idea to have it research, but from the research it was quickly determined that it was impractical to do anything about, and just hope and pray that some attack did not prevent a large number of people from participating in the election.

    The information on that paper is easy to find and was publicly available at the time it was made a big thing in the press. So are you just using it as a non-issue to spew your hate speech or did you not care about the issue enough to do anything besides read about it at some kookie conspiracy web site?

  20. Re:Why the IAFC is against the change on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1

    Not sure about that but in some time zone I am pretty sure you just summoned an ancient one.

  21. Re:MySpace on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 1

    The same people who think Saddam Hussein somehow was involved in 9/11.
    Since when is Foxnews widly watched by Democrates?
    If you go read the full reports(you will need an upper end libary or work in place that gets them) of the companies ask this question the majority of the people think this was the case voted for Kerry or classified themselves as democrates or independants(possibility of not voting). Thoses that classified themselves as Republicans who voted for Bush and believed this was a very small percent.
    Now it gets really interesting is when you start comparing the amount with the time line. The number of people who said this was the case increased while the movie "fahrenheit 9/11" was gaining in popularity and hit a near record high after the DVD had been released. It has been dropping since then and as of March was back to the lows.

  22. Re:The problem isn't piracy... on BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music · · Score: 1

    In most countries this is both a criminal and civil crime.
    Usally criminal charges are available only if you broke the copywrite law for profit, or you have large amounts and number of items. However this can vary by country, and you have to meet certain requirements to go from civil to criminal.

  23. Re:great move on Monolith Layoffs In Wake of MXO Deal · · Score: 1

    The only thing I see SOE getting from it is the DC MMORPG. With CoH having a decent population, and a Marvel MMORPG in the works SOE needed hero based one and the the DC name is really about it if you want instant name recognition.
    The rights MxO really does not add much, and I would not be surprise if it was more a packaged deal, if you want the DC MMORPG you have to take MxO.
    As for station access, according to the head of SOE, early this year, they have around 30,000 people that subscribe to it.Unless the players of MxO are already playing some other SOE game they will not be subscribing to it, and with all the bad reviews of MxO most people who have station access are not going to waste money purchasing the box so they can play it.

  24. Re:Was This The Plan? on Monolith Layoffs In Wake of MXO Deal · · Score: 1

    But they had one of the premiere properties, The Matrix.
    Only until movie #2 was released, after that point the product line was dead.
    If the movies had stayed on par with the first then The matrix online would of had a huge amount of sales, after all look at SWG and how many copies it sold by the name only. However with the last 2 movies killing the product line it also killed huge amounts of interest in the games.

  25. Re:It's none of those things on Dvorak Sees MS Conspiracy Against BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    How do you think that all the newspaper articles on this all appeared one day?
    Somehow the site got into the media and to a bunch of newspaper companies all for publishing at the same day, and all of them use the articles using the same terms.
    While not official FUD or even an announcement of a product microsoft public relations or press agency probably did put out something.