Microsoft increasingly looks like the US, Soviet Russia and other empires on their way to colapse. Unable to change, they are spending more and more resources on protecting their turf, than on letting the world change them. Microsoft, like George W Bush, is insisting that others play by their rules, unable to even imagine that the days are over where nobody has any choice but to say Yes and Amen to whatever comes out of Washington. Sadly, both BG and GB are still pretty powerful, but with every day, they are hated and laughed at more than yesterday.
The Charlston Gazette reported on 8/20 Sproul & Associates in West
Virginia started a voter registration campaign where ONLY republicans
were registered -- not Democrats -- apparently in violation of the
West Virginia law. (The article is reported here).
There have been reports posted on the internet from Pennsylvania (on
September 17) and Maryland (on September 16) of the the same
organization -- Sproul & Associates -- pretending to be workers from
the non-partisan America Votes, and registering ONLY Republicans. To
obtain locations to set up shop, Sproul and Associates apparently lied
to puiblic librarians about being non-partisan. (The internet
postings, that took place on a librarian network, are reported here.
On September 22, Sproul and Associates did the same thing in Oregon.
This is a plain violation of Oregon law, according to Oregon
Secretary of State Bill Bradbury in an interview with Northwest Cable
News. See here. It also
appears that another Republican group engaged in "bait and switch
registration", at least according to the Daily Vanguard.
And then, of course, there is the widely-reported story from South
Dakota, where the nephew of Thune, the Republican challenger to Tom
Daschle, has been caught fraudulently obtaining absentee ballots for
Republicans. A criminal investigation is pending.
Top
Republicans have been forced to resign.
What it appears here is that there are reliable reports of GOP
operatives in at least SIX states engaging in sytematic and repeated
attempts at voter fraud. From only registering republicans, to
falsifying absentee ballot requests, to destroying democratic voter
applications, this appears to be a coordinated effort at all levels to
swing the election illegally to the Republicans. In fact, things are
so bad that former SD goveror Janklow has issued a public statement
saying that the national GOP is encouraging voter fraud.
So, sorry, it's not both parties. It's the Republicans. Show me anything comparable done by Democrats, and I'll eat my own shit and vote shit, err... Bush.
It's not part of KDE because it's not for KDE, not based on any KDE technology, doesn't need KDE, and KDE doesn't need it. Not *everything* has to be part of KDE;-)
understood. but i somehow question the wisdom of on the one hand including yet another terminal, e-mail client, audio player, text editor,... when xterm, mozilla, xmms, xemacs work perfectly well, but on the other hand not making these sort of things a lot more user friendly. just my 2 cents.
thanks. that's very nice! why is it not part of a standard KDE build? or of a Fedora distro? seems to me like something like this belongs into the base functionality.
1. UNINSTALL! Maybe I am a moron, but I find it impossible to cleanly and completely uninstall non-packaged stuff.
2. Build interface. That is, I can build most non-packaged software with configure, make, make install, but of course I am too lazy to check where the stuff ends up by default and to pass the appropriate configure parameters. KDE is for lazy people like me, so where is the mechanism that keeps my machine clean even for non-packaged software?
3. While we are at it, I am tired of recursively finding out from configure what the dependency chain is. If I want to install something, I want to install the dependencies as well. And no, I don't want to RTFM.
4. A complete equivalent to M$ Money.
5. I shouldn't have to care whether an app is a GNOME app or a KDE app.
6. Other than that: looks great, when is it out packaged for Fedora?
... it used to religion (hell, in Texas it STILL IS), then a house and a car for everyone, then MTV and CNN, well, and now it's the Internet that serves only one purpose: keep us entertained and drugged up on a worldwide scale, so that every country grows an army of./ geeks that thinks the latest gadgets are more important than politics.
i almost got my girlfriend an ipod for xmas, but i am holding back. her birthday is in march, maybe by then i can get an ipod that can do live music recordings of her singing. i used to have an archos recorder, but it was quite flaky and then died.... ah well...
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Microsoft increasingly looks like the US, Soviet Russia and other empires on their way to colapse. Unable to change, they are spending more and more resources on protecting their turf, than on letting the world change them. Microsoft, like George W Bush, is insisting that others play by their rules, unable to even imagine that the days are over where nobody has any choice but to say Yes and Amen to whatever comes out of Washington. Sadly, both BG and GB are still pretty powerful, but with every day, they are hated and laughed at more than yesterday.
The CEO of Diebold is a fundraiser for Bush & Co?
BOTH parties you say? Nonsense. Show me anything even close to what the Republicans are currently doing.
The facts are (just a brief snippet really)
SPROUL & ASSOCIATES is directly financed by the RNC. Nathan Sproul is reported as the director of the Arizona Christian Coalitition.
The Charlston Gazette reported on 8/20 Sproul & Associates in West Virginia started a voter registration campaign where ONLY republicans were registered -- not Democrats -- apparently in violation of the West Virginia law. (The article is reported here).
There have been reports posted on the internet from Pennsylvania (on September 17) and Maryland (on September 16) of the the same organization -- Sproul & Associates -- pretending to be workers from the non-partisan America Votes, and registering ONLY Republicans. To obtain locations to set up shop, Sproul and Associates apparently lied to puiblic librarians about being non-partisan. (The internet postings, that took place on a librarian network, are reported here.
On September 22, Sproul and Associates did the same thing in Oregon. This is a plain violation of Oregon law, according to Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury in an interview with Northwest Cable News. See here. It also appears that another Republican group engaged in "bait and switch registration", at least according to the Daily Vanguard.
A few days ago, CBS reported that an organization in Nevada called Voters Outreach America was THROWING OUT registration forms filled out by people trying to register to vote as Democrats. The American Prospect has reported that Voters Outreach America is under contract with Sproul & Associates.
And then, of course, there is the widely-reported story from South Dakota, where the nephew of Thune, the Republican challenger to Tom Daschle, has been caught fraudulently obtaining absentee ballots for Republicans. A criminal investigation is pending. Top Republicans have been forced to resign.
What it appears here is that there are reliable reports of GOP operatives in at least SIX states engaging in sytematic and repeated attempts at voter fraud. From only registering republicans, to falsifying absentee ballot requests, to destroying democratic voter applications, this appears to be a coordinated effort at all levels to swing the election illegally to the Republicans. In fact, things are so bad that former SD goveror Janklow has issued a public statement saying that the national GOP is encouraging voter fraud.
So, sorry, it's not both parties. It's the Republicans. Show me anything comparable done by Democrats, and I'll eat my own shit and vote shit, err... Bush.
It's not part of KDE because it's not for KDE, not based on any KDE technology, doesn't need KDE, and KDE doesn't need it. Not *everything* has to be part of KDE ;-)
understood. but i somehow question the wisdom of on the one hand including yet another terminal, e-mail client, audio player, text editor,... when xterm, mozilla, xmms, xemacs work perfectly well, but on the other hand not making these sort of things a lot more user friendly. just my 2 cents.
yes, i use yum. a lot of interesting things aren't packaged though, and even if they are, they aren't neccessarily in my yum repositories
I don't really need a GUI interface to rpm; I wouldn't mind one to unpackaged software that I need to compile and install myself.
thanks. that's very nice! why is it not part of a standard KDE build? or of a Fedora distro? seems to me like something like this belongs into the base functionality.
1. UNINSTALL! Maybe I am a moron, but I find it impossible to cleanly and completely uninstall non-packaged stuff. 2. Build interface. That is, I can build most non-packaged software with configure, make, make install, but of course I am too lazy to check where the stuff ends up by default and to pass the appropriate configure parameters. KDE is for lazy people like me, so where is the mechanism that keeps my machine clean even for non-packaged software? 3. While we are at it, I am tired of recursively finding out from configure what the dependency chain is. If I want to install something, I want to install the dependencies as well. And no, I don't want to RTFM. 4. A complete equivalent to M$ Money. 5. I shouldn't have to care whether an app is a GNOME app or a KDE app. 6. Other than that: looks great, when is it out packaged for Fedora?
... it used to religion (hell, in Texas it STILL IS), then a house and a car for everyone, then MTV and CNN, well, and now it's the Internet that serves only one purpose: keep us entertained and drugged up on a worldwide scale, so that every country grows an army of ./ geeks that thinks the latest gadgets are more important than politics.
i almost got my girlfriend an ipod for xmas, but i am holding back. her birthday is in march, maybe by then i can get an ipod that can do live music recordings of her singing. i used to have an archos recorder, but it was quite flaky and then died.... ah well...