You're close, but the number was more like 537,850, and his total gave him I believe the second highest popular vote total ever. Bush wasn't even in the top five. The outrage here is why wasn't our antiquated electoral college thrown out as a result of this travesty? There was plenty of hype about it after Kennedy beat Nixon (won electoral college by a close race, won popular vote by over 100,000). That's right, people were more upset about the EC when it almost failed than when it did fail.
If you want a voting scandal, the whole electronic voting thing has to completely blow up to come close to the travesty of the electoral college. It's not even second on my list. That's the set of rules designed to minimize voter turnout to under 50%. Why do we vote on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November? Because it made the most sense for 18th century farmers, that's why. It either should be on a weekend, or, more importantly, a national holiday.
Nonetheless, the electronic voting scandal should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country until it is addressed. But it won't be. There will be hue and cry, and then there will be acceptance, and then we'll all forget about it.
Five reasons why I stopped reading CNet.
Don't get me wrong, CNet is still my favorite PC cheerleader on the web. So, before you send me rants for putting down CNet, read my list, and realize that I used to love CNet a lot (OK, I lied).
1. Page download times are longer than my homepage. True, my homepage is about 600 bytes of html with pink type over a turquoise background saying, "look, Mom, I'm on the internet," but it loads two to three times as fast as any CNet page.
2. Cannot surf CNet while taking a shower. Although I cannot prove this, I believe that reading CNet articles while taking a shower can hurt your browser, and even your whole computer. Experts say this is impossible, but listen to me instead. If you want to read while in the shower, a plastic laminated copy of your local paper would be a far better choice.
3. CNet is expensive. I spend over $40 a month on my internet connection, and I wonder why. I could go see five movies, drink over ten lattes, or hang out at the cigar store reading foreign magazines until they chase me out of there - for less money than it takes to connect me to CNet.
4. I want porn from CNet. I heard there's lots of porn on the internet, but none of it is available on CNet. Clearly CNet is not your best choice for porn. There are millions of other sites that are only too happy to exchange porn for your credit card numbers.
5. I want choice in my computer industry news sources. When I read CNet, by defiinition, I am not reading hundreds of other high quality news sources. But I want those news sources. The only way I can do this, I found, is to stop reading CNet, and go to one of the other sites. What a shame!
Of course, if you don't care about load times, aren't fond of showering, have $40/month to blow, don't like porn, and don't want to read something else at the same time, CNet is the way to go. While not ideal for most humans, it's hands down the best Dell-sponsored shill you can read.
Can I ask you what you think Apple should have done? The iPod can only be synched to one program. By downloading iTunes, the user expects to use it with his/her iPod. iTunes switched the iPod synch to iTunes. Musicmatch continues to exist on the user's computer, just without iPod connectivity (and it never had the ability to copy its DRM files to the iPod anyway.)
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You're close, but the number was more like 537,850, and his total gave him I believe the second highest popular vote total ever. Bush wasn't even in the top five. The outrage here is why wasn't our antiquated electoral college thrown out as a result of this travesty? There was plenty of hype about it after Kennedy beat Nixon (won electoral college by a close race, won popular vote by over 100,000). That's right, people were more upset about the EC when it almost failed than when it did fail.
If you want a voting scandal, the whole electronic voting thing has to completely blow up to come close to the travesty of the electoral college. It's not even second on my list. That's the set of rules designed to minimize voter turnout to under 50%. Why do we vote on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November? Because it made the most sense for 18th century farmers, that's why. It either should be on a weekend, or, more importantly, a national holiday.
Nonetheless, the electronic voting scandal should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country until it is addressed. But it won't be. There will be hue and cry, and then there will be acceptance, and then we'll all forget about it.
Five reasons why I stopped reading CNet.
Don't get me wrong, CNet is still my favorite PC cheerleader on the web. So, before you send me rants for putting down CNet, read my list, and realize that I used to love CNet a lot (OK, I lied).
1. Page download times are longer than my homepage. True, my homepage is about 600 bytes of html with pink type over a turquoise background saying, "look, Mom, I'm on the internet," but it loads two to three times as fast as any CNet page.
2. Cannot surf CNet while taking a shower. Although I cannot prove this, I believe that reading CNet articles while taking a shower can hurt your browser, and even your whole computer. Experts say this is impossible, but listen to me instead. If you want to read while in the shower, a plastic laminated copy of your local paper would be a far better choice.
3. CNet is expensive. I spend over $40 a month on my internet connection, and I wonder why. I could go see five movies, drink over ten lattes, or hang out at the cigar store reading foreign magazines until they chase me out of there - for less money than it takes to connect me to CNet.
4. I want porn from CNet. I heard there's lots of porn on the internet, but none of it is available on CNet. Clearly CNet is not your best choice for porn. There are millions of other sites that are only too happy to exchange porn for your credit card numbers.
5. I want choice in my computer industry news sources. When I read CNet, by defiinition, I am not reading hundreds of other high quality news sources. But I want those news sources. The only way I can do this, I found, is to stop reading CNet, and go to one of the other sites. What a shame!
Of course, if you don't care about load times, aren't fond of showering, have $40/month to blow, don't like porn, and don't want to read something else at the same time, CNet is the way to go. While not ideal for most humans, it's hands down the best Dell-sponsored shill you can read.
Can I ask you what you think Apple should have done? The iPod can only be synched to one program. By downloading iTunes, the user expects to use it with his/her iPod. iTunes switched the iPod synch to iTunes. Musicmatch continues to exist on the user's computer, just without iPod connectivity (and it never had the ability to copy its DRM files to the iPod anyway.)