Looks more like we should just choose up corporate sides and use those for political boundaries. It is increasingly obvious that in most all countries around the world, the banking/industrial/military establishment runs the show, and these are by default now almost all transnational organizations. This is where the real political power lies, so why do we keep deluding ourselves that these obviously hacked and controlled "votes" actually have much meaning?
Let's just eliminate the redundant middleman of political governments and borders. Let's trash the expensive and unneeded bureaucracies. Then we can "vote" at the shareholders meetings instead. It's what the globalists want,they tell us that most openly, they could care less about who you are or where you live, you can see that, they could care less about borders, they move freely around and do whatever they want to do. Why not do the same?
...merely by humans insisting on living by the teeming millions in huge packed concentrated heat and pollution sink urban areas. You not only get the same effects of "wind disruption" by all the construction and thermal mass from the concrete, etc, but it's here, now, not theoretical in the mysterious future,and the effects are measurably greater. But LOOK, we are all still here!
I invite any meterologist here to confirm (or debunk if you can) this microclimate effect-which isn't all that "micro" in a lot of areas.
The real bottom line is--we are humans, we got a right to live and BE human.
Yes, our lives will cause some disturbance to "the planet". SO WHAT? The best we can do is a compromise, live as humans with our eletricity but be smart about it.
If you can get your power by a combo of big climate change + big pollution,(we burn crap now, remember greenhouse gasses and pollutants that get into the air and soil and water? And all that heat we make with the electricty produced, it gets turned into that after doing our stuff we want it to do) goes OUTSIDE eventually causing e-vile climate change or we get the electric power we want by noticeable but much less severe climate change and much less the pollution.
Hmm, lemme cogitate on that... I say it's a no brainer, I vote "get the electricity but do it smarter with less planetary FUBAR and less pollution".
Put a few million more rust belt workers back to work manufacturing. Put another million more installers and maintenance techs to work. There, gimme my props, I helped solve "outsourcing" and "job creation" to a big degree as well.
It's a win/win/win for wind
Wind gennys are not that hard, they are big electric motors with propellers on them basically. That's it. Nothing magical about it. The tech has been around a long time. We had a thriving wind electric generation business in the early 1900s in this nation. We can build these things and they work. You can make them from tiny (I own a 300 watter you can easily hold in one hand) all the way to humongous, each one able to power hundreds of average homes. Right now it's in the low single digits of total electric production in the US, but it IS there, it is roughly equivalent to "linux on the desktop" with deployment (kinda sorta). And if you look at the graphs, it's climbing outtasight.
... in the plan for Microsoft to go to war against it's rivals in the courts and in the media. They plan on using their patent portfolio as a big stick, and start whacking with it, over and over again, because A-they *have to* now, they have no choice because they are rapidly losing mindshare in the IT world, and B-they can because of the way the "law" is setup and C-they can maintain the "shock and awe" whacking in the courts and in the media for a long time. They could easily devote some incredible sum to the task and not break sweat and their shareholders would love it because they are being "protected" and the company would be "proactive" for them, etc.. Expect a lawsuit and propoganda and governmental lobbying blitz soon.
Reduce the cost and propoganda blitz, outlaw corporate contributions to political parties and candidates for office. They are bribes, let's call them what they are.
Along that line, drop the contribution level that a single named human can contribute,(down to 100$ or something small like that) and make it illegal to contribute to a candidate running for office in an election you are not privy too legally.
Force the inclusion into debates broadcast on public airwaves with all candidates that have gotten on the ballot in enough states to theoretically get an electoral win, and make the ballot requirements uniform across the states.
Hold the news organizations to the spirit of the FCC regs where their parent corporations are required to be at least somewhat in the public interest. Their "license" is provisional, it is not granted *solely* so they can make profit. They must provide news that cover ALL the candidates in their normal mix.
And my favorite, somewhere, sometime, someplace, we need a brave public prosecutior to open grand jury proceedings to investigate the DNC and the RNC under the RICO statutes. Enough's enough on this hijacked government. We have what, IMO, is in essence two criminal gangs who have co-opted government to the point of ownership of the public government and have betrayed the public trust. The loose term "corruption" applies.
And egads, just get rid of black box voting, it is NOT needed and a large amount of the available evidence points to a severe and on purpose fraud.
..but..uhh..not to appear too lame because I probably don't understand it.. but...could this be used in conjunction with someting like bittorrent so that big files like ISOs or whatnot could be shared easier cross platform? Do you understand what I am asking? An Esperanto for computers with large numbers of people working all over?
...no, not urdu to engrish or klingon, I mean GUI to CLI then to AUI. I'd really like to see a program that would let me see what any random button mashing or input in a GUI interface *does* in the form of a normal scripting command and also to see the hierarchial tree of files accessed in real time. It can be "focus" based on the other apps. This is a learning tool. An exploration tool. A linux useability and make-more-practical tool.
And I'll second the request from down the thread, a speech to text and text to speech, eventually leading to speech to speech,diggit, the dang talking computar. Audio User Interface. You get one of them babies, you'll be set, in like flint, leet, topdog. People freeking talk to each other, they DON'T stand next to each other and type at each other. We are audio visual creatures, tactile is down the list of senses. And don't forget the aging of the population and how arthritis and whatnot screws up your typing ability, let alone how it even affects younger folks who do it a lot.. Big ole useability hint there to anyone looking for an actual folding money market of some kind.
I used to have a little mac classic proggie, forget the name, but actually worked well, you could request apps on and off, etc, verbally. Something like that, but *more*. First, the speech to text, because THEN not only is it handy for those with disabilities who want to compute, but you could use the text output to run the computer.
Buy one share of stock x thousands of people doing that = lot of legit complaining to upper management that can't be ignored.
I figured we'd start to see stuff like this more and more right after the royal appointment of the president this time. Just like they held off on the wasting of huge urban civilian areas in Iraq, delivering democracy in the form of 500 lb bombs, the regime in power now will use pressure, covert and overt to get it's way. I am betting that google went along with some back channel demands. The ability to index the web, have access to millions of peoples emails easily and spider them eventually, etc, is not lost on the official spook agencies. They have search capabilities, and they probably also want googles search capabilities-or blocking searches as the case may be. I've seen it with google news as well in searches I have run before.
Next step we might see the neocon technofeudalists want to drag out the alien and sedition act. It was used before to stifle dissent and to censor. And I have heard neocon radio show hosts and commentators advocate that this be done now, along with putting "protesters" in "camps".
This google crap just goes along with the whole mindset and tone of the goombahs "in charge" of this nation now, oh yes, they are "leaders", a buncha "fuerhers" is more like it.
Once again don't trust huge transnational corporations. Look at what they do, not what they say.
..is obvious. The tally is not human readable. It has to be filtered through the computers programming. Programming can make any output reflect any input. The amount of money and power that is represented by controlling the US government is simpy staggering. It is the largest potential jackpot a criminally bent individual or group can approach. The temptation is overwhelming,and now *they* have the complete technical ability to achieve that goal and to get away with it, the perfect crime.
A traditional paper ballot in a locked box is human readable/countable by anyone who can count at the end of the day. It requires very little in the form of specialised skills or hardware. It is very inexpensive. Challenges can be mounted and results verified quickly and transparently. Once you get into machine reading, whether tabulated bubbles or punched out cards or pure digitial like with the diebold machines-then you have your potential problems, and with the last few elections we can see we have new problems, and they look a lot more like "on purpose" troubles than accidental. They especially look on purpose given the revelations of what was found on diebolds website and published, and with other anecdotals showing some rather distrubing intent as to election honesty. The consortium pushing electronic closed source computer voting is a who's who of the mega-profits from tax money and governmental contracts military industrial complex. This is three serious alarm bells to anyone really thinking about this subject.
The old way had it's faults, but computerised has introduced faults above and beyond that can not be addressed without trusting what is inherently untrustworthy by it's design criteria.
...anecdotal evidence of this coming out today. We AREN'T seeing the offical Dem party contesting ANYTHING. I was just watching the toob a little while ago, OBVIOUS very high Dem voting places with like TWO machines for the voters. Lines out the door and down the block. My little town, heavby duty in the middle of a redzone, has a bit over 100 eligible voters, that's it, and we had 5 machines. FIVE. E-voting machines that were recording R votes when they were cast as D votes. Networks changing exit polling numbers and projections for no apparent statistical reason. Allegedlyall the polls wrong. And the higher level Ds are all sitting down and shutting up about it, despite the pre vote rhetoric of having all these lawyers warming up in the bullpen, and etc. It's the great clam-up! It's like the "not me" ghost who ate the last cookies! Who did it? NOT ME!!11!! They are just gone, honest! I'm still standing here staring at the huge instant complete lack of interest being pushed by the Dem machine over this. Hence, my earlier conclusions. Had to be a very high level setup, which was suspicioned before, but I think the events of the last 24 hours prove it.
Great theater to watch really. I guess that's part of the entertainment export market. The *New* Economy!
...that at super high levels of the Dem party that a controlled loss this election cycle was in their best interest? Look at political reality coming down the pike. The dollar is going to be devalued, severely, no way around it now if we want to export whatever pitiful remnanats of manufactired goods we still make, along with our agricultural surplus. The price of gasoline and diesel at the pump has been held artifically low because of the election, with current barrels of credu over 50$, by all rights pump prices should be closet to 3.50$. Iraq is a near rout, the only thing they have left is aerial bombardment of large areas of civilian packed cities as any sort of effective military tactic. Basically, localised small scale intense genocide. The government spending is so out of control that there is no fix for it. Private foreclosures and bankruptcies are at a 30 year high and climbing. The pension bubble is looming large, I mean really large. Real good paying jobs are evaporating, being replaced with lower paying jobs at less than full time hours with zero benefits.
All that and more is what is facing the "new and recently elected" regime. Envy them?
And that's where all the blame is being to be aimed at as each one of those factors keeps hammering on the US population.
Now, if you were the grand exalted political strategist for the Dems, would you A-take on this task now and be *stuck* with a lot of the manure that is going to be sticking to everything, or B-let the other side absorb it for at least two more years so they get good and completely covered with it?
And don't think this can't happen, in the 64 election I worked as a goldwater dude, I saw the eastern establishment Republicans not only seize control but purposely lose the election, it was a major insider coup of convenience, a double/double cross. It was simply an amazing education for me in realpolitik. They, the coup plotters who are still running the R party now, sabotaged their own election, because they knew that the US couldn't absorb a major war, a moon race, and an expansion of the welfare state all at once, plus try to slide in advanced corporatism and global profits. So they took a dive, and that is exactly what happened, they threw an election on purpose.
What goes around comes around, this election looks like that is what the high level Dems did, I mean really, Kerry was about the most dismal choice they could have made out of their lineup they had in the primaries. You could see them pushing him in subtle ways, both with what they did and how they controlled the propoganda and spin in the media. You really don't think that was accidental, do you? Of course it wasn't, so therefore, there's only one possible reason for it, and I just outlined what that is.
...really. I don't swear much or often, but that was quite nice. I'll add to it, it's not just the 51%, it's the other 48% who wasted their vote as well-clearly now, they wasted it, and voted to try and compromise "this time" so they can "work to make it better" the next 4 years. I've seen it election after election after election, over and over and over again. Keep voting for the two headed demon, that's who gets in.
There's only a small few percent of us out here, whether we call ourselves greens, libertarians, progressives, constitutionalists, reformers, independents, who make an effort to REALLY have some change, to vote for ANYTHING but an R&D dictatorship, the same dictatorship and cooperative criminal junta which has RULED over the US for generations now. We are of both the left and the right, but one thing we agree on,and a place we can get together on and start to work more effectively from, is the point that that gangster R&D nonsense is EVIL AND STUPID AND A BIG FAT WASTE OF TIME.
Oh, BTW, don't go "to the wall" easily. Even if it gets down to just anyone "you" alone, fight the creeping fascism, I know I plan on it.
...papers there. I like the paragraph synopsis for each PDF as well, to help you pick out what you are interested in before downloading. Much better than just the normal crapshoot single sentence title.
you are welcome, glad you like my research and analysis. Basically I do what I do because I am a skeptic. When it comes to big orgs and big corps and big govs pronouncements, I am skeptical by nature, so I like to look deeper. And it's funny, but being a skeptic like that a lot of times help you find out stuff that appears on the surface level to get a tinfoil hat label, but that's it, only on the surface. Smoke=fire most of the time.
..and this is more severe. I was checking up on the counts so far, and realised that my machine skipped a whole page of ballot initiatives. I had forgotten how many there were, I saw two and I think there were 8 or so total. Either it skipped a page or I REALLY spaced out. I admit it's my fault,I should have rememberd, and had a checklist with me (I try to remember, obviously I blew it) but still...seems weird to me. And those data lines connected, going away to who knows where...and no backup paper trail either... I just don't like them. Up to one election ago I voted with a piece of paper that got dropped into a wooden box. Seemed to work OK. I like computers, but not for voting, not this system anyway. And the cost? I voted in a tiny rural firehouse, just barely enough room to garage two small near antique firetrucks, which is what they own. Just the cost of those ballot machines in there (5 total diebold machines) would pay for say a significant part of their yearly fuel bill or something.
My voting today (Georgia/diebold machine) had one apparent mechanical and/or software glitch. Inserting my card into the diebold machine, I got a click.... no start screen. I had to shove it in again, then got another click, then the machine went to the start screen for voting. I don't know what the significance of that is. I double checked my vote before recording it, and it looked OK. I did a write in, so I'll be checking later on when the stats are available to see if it was counted. In 2002, it *wasn't*.
Who did I vote for? More like WHAT I voted for, why the best form of government there is, and that is gridlock!
enough I say! There needs to be the grand ultimate no holds barred OS hacker challenge! Each OS fanclub gets to put one as equal as possible machine on the net, with a provided IP. 24 hours opened to attack, no DDoS, actual penetration attacks. Set up a directory inside with a file called "hackmeplz", the hackers have to add their tag to that file to prove they were there. Hackers or hacker groups have to pre register, with a hashed sig for verification of who they be,and they are the only ones allowed to try.
And here's the twist, the fanclubs are also the hackers, they not only have to try and own the other teams boxes, they have to defend their box!
Once and for all, let's see who's got the OS and the skillz!
oh well, I'll check it tomorrow, want to see the purty pics and stuff. I have a contender for the bash.org desk like area mess, but inside the box I like *neat n clean*. Why the two philsophies and practice dichotomy I do not know, just is comfy for me.
Of course, by tomorrow we might be in the midst of a good old fashioned rest of the world styled massive revolution, so it might not matter!
I am thinking of eliminating the middleman and just writing in "Mr. Diebold" in all the races, then..my guy wins!
I actually hope there are thousands of lawsuits. Besides helping to expose both the D and R partys shenanigans, I want to have them bust up diebold and those other election fraud companies forever, and get rid of the notion of pre hacked black box voting elections, and shakeup the population to stop being such utter sheep when it comes to something as important as this. If it takes a thousand lawsuits, better that than the alternative, which would be a full dictatorship shortly once these machines are entrenched all over and legitimised by an "accepted vote tally" and they know they can get away with it. 2002 was a test, and they "got away with it". If they do the same in 2004, that's it, it's over.
This is my opinion of course, but I think it has a lot of merit based on what we know so far.
thanks for the tip. I have heard this before, so maybe I will try it now. I'm on dialup so that is a consideration, and the older machines only have floppy drives, although I could open them up and just hang a cd drive on them temporary..I *would* like to try a network install though, never have done that, pick a long weekend I guess...
old "air cooled" VWs DID have radiators-for the oil. Those engines run at 315F, so oil cooling is critical. It's under the tin shroud, maybe why you never saw one. When you hot rod one of those engines, one of the first things you do is to install an adapter in place of the original tiny oil cooler, and run a remotely mounted larger radiator.
So, please forward my 5 clams to the EFF, because it *can* be done.;)
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Looks more like we should just choose up corporate sides and use those for political boundaries. It is increasingly obvious that in most all countries around the world, the banking/industrial/military establishment runs the show, and these are by default now almost all transnational organizations. This is where the real political power lies, so why do we keep deluding ourselves that these obviously hacked and controlled "votes" actually have much meaning?
....almost, getting pretty dang close.
Let's just eliminate the redundant middleman of political governments and borders. Let's trash the expensive and unneeded bureaucracies. Then we can "vote" at the shareholders meetings instead. It's what the globalists want,they tell us that most openly, they could care less about who you are or where you live, you can see that, they could care less about borders, they move freely around and do whatever they want to do. Why not do the same?
Cynical? Yes. Realistic?
...merely by humans insisting on living by the teeming millions in huge packed concentrated heat and pollution sink urban areas. You not only get the same effects of "wind disruption" by all the construction and thermal mass from the concrete, etc, but it's here, now, not theoretical in the mysterious future,and the effects are measurably greater. But LOOK, we are all still here!
I invite any meterologist here to confirm (or debunk if you can) this microclimate effect-which isn't all that "micro" in a lot of areas.
The real bottom line is--we are humans, we got a right to live and BE human.
Yes, our lives will cause some disturbance to "the planet". SO WHAT? The best we can do is a compromise, live as humans with our eletricity but be smart about it.
If you can get your power by a combo of big climate change + big pollution,(we burn crap now, remember greenhouse gasses and pollutants that get into the air and soil and water? And all that heat we make with the electricty produced, it gets turned into that after doing our stuff we want it to do) goes OUTSIDE eventually causing e-vile climate change or we get the electric power we want by noticeable but much less severe climate change and much less the pollution.
Hmm, lemme cogitate on that... I say it's a no brainer, I vote "get the electricity but do it smarter with less planetary FUBAR and less pollution".
Put a few million more rust belt workers back to work manufacturing. Put another million more installers and maintenance techs to work. There, gimme my props, I helped solve "outsourcing" and "job creation" to a big degree as well.
It's a win/win/win for wind
Wind gennys are not that hard, they are big electric motors with propellers on them basically. That's it. Nothing magical about it. The tech has been around a long time. We had a thriving wind electric generation business in the early 1900s in this nation. We can build these things and they work. You can make them from tiny (I own a 300 watter you can easily hold in one hand) all the way to humongous, each one able to power hundreds of average homes. Right now it's in the low single digits of total electric production in the US, but it IS there, it is roughly equivalent to "linux on the desktop" with deployment (kinda sorta). And if you look at the graphs, it's climbing outtasight.
IMO, good deal, more power!
... in the plan for Microsoft to go to war against it's rivals in the courts and in the media. They plan on using their patent portfolio as a big stick, and start whacking with it, over and over again, because A-they *have to* now, they have no choice because they are rapidly losing mindshare in the IT world, and B-they can because of the way the "law" is setup and C-they can maintain the "shock and awe" whacking in the courts and in the media for a long time. They could easily devote some incredible sum to the task and not break sweat and their shareholders would love it because they are being "protected" and the company would be "proactive" for them, etc.. Expect a lawsuit and propoganda and governmental lobbying blitz soon.
Reduce the cost and propoganda blitz, outlaw corporate contributions to political parties and candidates for office. They are bribes, let's call them what they are.
Along that line, drop the contribution level that a single named human can contribute,(down to 100$ or something small like that) and make it illegal to contribute to a candidate running for office in an election you are not privy too legally.
Force the inclusion into debates broadcast on public airwaves with all candidates that have gotten on the ballot in enough states to theoretically get an electoral win, and make the ballot requirements uniform across the states.
Hold the news organizations to the spirit of the FCC regs where their parent corporations are required to be at least somewhat in the public interest. Their "license" is provisional, it is not granted *solely* so they can make profit. They must provide news that cover ALL the candidates in their normal mix.
And my favorite, somewhere, sometime, someplace, we need a brave public prosecutior to open grand jury proceedings to investigate the DNC and the RNC under the RICO statutes. Enough's enough on this hijacked government. We have what, IMO, is in essence two criminal gangs who have co-opted government to the point of ownership of the public government and have betrayed the public trust. The loose term "corruption" applies.
And egads, just get rid of black box voting, it is NOT needed and a large amount of the available evidence points to a severe and on purpose fraud.
..but..uhh..not to appear too lame because I probably don't understand it.. but...could this be used in conjunction with someting like bittorrent so that big files like ISOs or whatnot could be shared easier cross platform? Do you understand what I am asking? An Esperanto for computers with large numbers of people working all over?
...no, not urdu to engrish or klingon, I mean GUI to CLI then to AUI. I'd really like to see a program that would let me see what any random button mashing or input in a GUI interface *does* in the form of a normal scripting command and also to see the hierarchial tree of files accessed in real time. It can be "focus" based on the other apps. This is a learning tool. An exploration tool. A linux useability and make-more-practical tool.
And I'll second the request from down the thread, a speech to text and text to speech, eventually leading to speech to speech,diggit, the dang talking computar. Audio User Interface. You get one of them babies, you'll be set, in like flint, leet, topdog. People freeking talk to each other, they DON'T stand next to each other and type at each other. We are audio visual creatures, tactile is down the list of senses. And don't forget the aging of the population and how arthritis and whatnot screws up your typing ability, let alone how it even affects younger folks who do it a lot.. Big ole useability hint there to anyone looking for an actual folding money market of some kind.
I used to have a little mac classic proggie, forget the name, but actually worked well, you could request apps on and off, etc, verbally. Something like that, but *more*. First, the speech to text, because THEN not only is it handy for those with disabilities who want to compute, but you could use the text output to run the computer.
Buy one share of stock x thousands of people doing that = lot of legit complaining to upper management that can't be ignored.
I figured we'd start to see stuff like this more and more right after the royal appointment of the president this time. Just like they held off on the wasting of huge urban civilian areas in Iraq, delivering democracy in the form of 500 lb bombs, the regime in power now will use pressure, covert and overt to get it's way. I am betting that google went along with some back channel demands. The ability to index the web, have access to millions of peoples emails easily and spider them eventually, etc, is not lost on the official spook agencies. They have search capabilities, and they probably also want googles search capabilities-or blocking searches as the case may be. I've seen it with google news as well in searches I have run before.
Next step we might see the neocon technofeudalists want to drag out the alien and sedition act. It was used before to stifle dissent and to censor. And I have heard neocon radio show hosts and commentators advocate that this be done now, along with putting "protesters" in "camps".
This google crap just goes along with the whole mindset and tone of the goombahs "in charge" of this nation now, oh yes, they are "leaders", a buncha "fuerhers" is more like it.
Once again don't trust huge transnational corporations. Look at what they do, not what they say.
..is obvious. The tally is not human readable. It has to be filtered through the computers programming. Programming can make any output reflect any input. The amount of money and power that is represented by controlling the US government is simpy staggering. It is the largest potential jackpot a criminally bent individual or group can approach. The temptation is overwhelming,and now *they* have the complete technical ability to achieve that goal and to get away with it, the perfect crime.
A traditional paper ballot in a locked box is human readable/countable by anyone who can count at the end of the day. It requires very little in the form of specialised skills or hardware. It is very inexpensive. Challenges can be mounted and results verified quickly and transparently. Once you get into machine reading, whether tabulated bubbles or punched out cards or pure digitial like with the diebold machines-then you have your potential problems, and with the last few elections we can see we have new problems, and they look a lot more like "on purpose" troubles than accidental. They especially look on purpose given the revelations of what was found on diebolds website and published, and with other anecdotals showing some rather distrubing intent as to election honesty. The consortium pushing electronic closed source computer voting is a who's who of the mega-profits from tax money and governmental contracts military industrial complex. This is three serious alarm bells to anyone really thinking about this subject.
The old way had it's faults, but computerised has introduced faults above and beyond that can not be addressed without trusting what is inherently untrustworthy by it's design criteria.
...anecdotal evidence of this coming out today. We AREN'T seeing the offical Dem party contesting ANYTHING. I was just watching the toob a little while ago, OBVIOUS very high Dem voting places with like TWO machines for the voters. Lines out the door and down the block. My little town, heavby duty in the middle of a redzone, has a bit over 100 eligible voters, that's it, and we had 5 machines. FIVE. E-voting machines that were recording R votes when they were cast as D votes. Networks changing exit polling numbers and projections for no apparent statistical reason. Allegedlyall the polls wrong. And the higher level Ds are all sitting down and shutting up about it, despite the pre vote rhetoric of having all these lawyers warming up in the bullpen, and etc. It's the great clam-up! It's like the "not me" ghost who ate the last cookies! Who did it? NOT ME!!11!! They are just gone, honest! I'm still standing here staring at the huge instant complete lack of interest being pushed by the Dem machine over this. Hence, my earlier conclusions. Had to be a very high level setup, which was suspicioned before, but I think the events of the last 24 hours prove it.
Great theater to watch really. I guess that's part of the entertainment export market. The *New* Economy!
...have no influence in Japanese big business or government...or so Jon Lovitz told me.
Yes, I find it interesting also.
...that at super high levels of the Dem party that a controlled loss this election cycle was in their best interest? Look at political reality coming down the pike. The dollar is going to be devalued, severely, no way around it now if we want to export whatever pitiful remnanats of manufactired goods we still make, along with our agricultural surplus. The price of gasoline and diesel at the pump has been held artifically low because of the election, with current barrels of credu over 50$, by all rights pump prices should be closet to 3.50$. Iraq is a near rout, the only thing they have left is aerial bombardment of large areas of civilian packed cities as any sort of effective military tactic. Basically, localised small scale intense genocide. The government spending is so out of control that there is no fix for it. Private foreclosures and bankruptcies are at a 30 year high and climbing. The pension bubble is looming large, I mean really large. Real good paying jobs are evaporating, being replaced with lower paying jobs at less than full time hours with zero benefits.
All that and more is what is facing the "new and recently elected" regime. Envy them?
And that's where all the blame is being to be aimed at as each one of those factors keeps hammering on the US population.
Now, if you were the grand exalted political strategist for the Dems, would you A-take on this task now and be *stuck* with a lot of the manure that is going to be sticking to everything, or B-let the other side absorb it for at least two more years so they get good and completely covered with it?
And don't think this can't happen, in the 64 election I worked as a goldwater dude, I saw the eastern establishment Republicans not only seize control but purposely lose the election, it was a major insider coup of convenience, a double/double cross. It was simply an amazing education for me in realpolitik. They, the coup plotters who are still running the R party now, sabotaged their own election, because they knew that the US couldn't absorb a major war, a moon race, and an expansion of the welfare state all at once, plus try to slide in advanced corporatism and global profits. So they took a dive, and that is exactly what happened, they threw an election on purpose.
What goes around comes around, this election looks like that is what the high level Dems did, I mean really, Kerry was about the most dismal choice they could have made out of their lineup they had in the primaries. You could see them pushing him in subtle ways, both with what they did and how they controlled the propoganda and spin in the media. You really don't think that was accidental, do you? Of course it wasn't, so therefore, there's only one possible reason for it, and I just outlined what that is.
...really. I don't swear much or often, but that was quite nice. I'll add to it, it's not just the 51%, it's the other 48% who wasted their vote as well-clearly now, they wasted it, and voted to try and compromise "this time" so they can "work to make it better" the next 4 years. I've seen it election after election after election, over and over and over again. Keep voting for the two headed demon, that's who gets in.
There's only a small few percent of us out here, whether we call ourselves greens, libertarians, progressives, constitutionalists, reformers, independents, who make an effort to REALLY have some change, to vote for ANYTHING but an R&D dictatorship, the same dictatorship and cooperative criminal junta which has RULED over the US for generations now. We are of both the left and the right, but one thing we agree on,and a place we can get together on and start to work more effectively from, is the point that that gangster R&D nonsense is EVIL AND STUPID AND A BIG FAT WASTE OF TIME.
Oh, BTW, don't go "to the wall" easily. Even if it gets down to just anyone "you" alone, fight the creeping fascism, I know I plan on it.
...papers there. I like the paragraph synopsis for each PDF as well, to help you pick out what you are interested in before downloading. Much better than just the normal crapshoot single sentence title.
hacked elections and diebold. Your sister is correct.
you are welcome, glad you like my research and analysis. Basically I do what I do because I am a skeptic. When it comes to big orgs and big corps and big govs pronouncements, I am skeptical by nature, so I like to look deeper. And it's funny, but being a skeptic like that a lot of times help you find out stuff that appears on the surface level to get a tinfoil hat label, but that's it, only on the surface. Smoke=fire most of the time.
..and this is more severe. I was checking up on the counts so far, and realised that my machine skipped a whole page of ballot initiatives. I had forgotten how many there were, I saw two and I think there were 8 or so total. Either it skipped a page or I REALLY spaced out. I admit it's my fault,I should have rememberd, and had a checklist with me (I try to remember, obviously I blew it) but still...seems weird to me. And those data lines connected, going away to who knows where...and no backup paper trail either... I just don't like them. Up to one election ago I voted with a piece of paper that got dropped into a wooden box. Seemed to work OK. I like computers, but not for voting, not this system anyway. And the cost? I voted in a tiny rural firehouse, just barely enough room to garage two small near antique firetrucks, which is what they own. Just the cost of those ballot machines in there (5 total diebold machines) would pay for say a significant part of their yearly fuel bill or something.
My voting today (Georgia/diebold machine) had one apparent mechanical and/or software glitch. Inserting my card into the diebold machine, I got a click.... no start screen. I had to shove it in again, then got another click, then the machine went to the start screen for voting. I don't know what the significance of that is. I double checked my vote before recording it, and it looked OK. I did a write in, so I'll be checking later on when the stats are available to see if it was counted. In 2002, it *wasn't*.
Who did I vote for? More like WHAT I voted for, why the best form of government there is, and that is gridlock!
enough I say! There needs to be the grand ultimate no holds barred OS hacker challenge! Each OS fanclub gets to put one as equal as possible machine on the net, with a provided IP. 24 hours opened to attack, no DDoS, actual penetration attacks. Set up a directory inside with a file called "hackmeplz", the hackers have to add their tag to that file to prove they were there. Hackers or hacker groups have to pre register, with a hashed sig for verification of who they be,and they are the only ones allowed to try.
And here's the twist, the fanclubs are also the hackers, they not only have to try and own the other teams boxes, they have to defend their box!
Once and for all, let's see who's got the OS and the skillz!
... cablegami. Or w1r3zF|_|
oh well, I'll check it tomorrow, want to see the purty pics and stuff. I have a contender for the bash.org desk like area mess, but inside the box I like *neat n clean*. Why the two philsophies and practice dichotomy I do not know, just is comfy for me.
Of course, by tomorrow we might be in the midst of a good old fashioned rest of the world styled massive revolution, so it might not matter!
I am thinking of eliminating the middleman and just writing in "Mr. Diebold" in all the races, then..my guy wins!
...back to work on that asteroid magnet....
MUAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I actually hope there are thousands of lawsuits. Besides helping to expose both the D and R partys shenanigans, I want to have them bust up diebold and those other election fraud companies forever, and get rid of the notion of pre hacked black box voting elections, and shakeup the population to stop being such utter sheep when it comes to something as important as this. If it takes a thousand lawsuits, better that than the alternative, which would be a full dictatorship shortly once these machines are entrenched all over and legitimised by an "accepted vote tally" and they know they can get away with it. 2002 was a test, and they "got away with it". If they do the same in 2004, that's it, it's over.
This is my opinion of course, but I think it has a lot of merit based on what we know so far.
...contact cement with the same silver particles stirred into it?
thanks for the tip. I have heard this before, so maybe I will try it now. I'm on dialup so that is a consideration, and the older machines only have floppy drives, although I could open them up and just hang a cd drive on them temporary..I *would* like to try a network install though, never have done that, pick a long weekend I guess...
old "air cooled" VWs DID have radiators-for the oil. Those engines run at 315F, so oil cooling is critical. It's under the tin shroud, maybe why you never saw one. When you hot rod one of those engines, one of the first things you do is to install an adapter in place of the original tiny oil cooler, and run a remotely mounted larger radiator.
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So, please forward my 5 clams to the EFF, because it *can* be done.
--just a guess, but maybe he's on a PDA writing and posting and it looks cool there on the dinky screen. I do not know that, though.