I recently saw a surge from about 15 spams a day to well over 200. So, I got a spamcop account, and changed my email to go there, and then from there I forward it to where I read my email. Now I'm back down to about 15 per day. Spamcop catches the rest, and they land in my 'held mail' folder, where it takes about 10 seconds to report as much spam as I want. In the email account where I actually read my email, I pushed up the sensitivity of the spam filters, and now I see maybe two a day in my inbox. I just report the rest to spamcop.
Maybe we need bots to fight the bots. Bot Wars. In a galaxy far, far, away...
The e-voting machines were predominantly placed in heavily democrat-leaning districts, by DEMOCRAT elections supervisors.
Actually, if you read the accounts of the Ohio election, republicans placed the majority of the e-voting machines, led by the republican secretary Blackwell who pushed hard to get Diebold machines put in voting places. That in combination to the fact republicans where the ones making the decisions to place e-voting machinge in Ohio make the 'purchased by democrats to strengthen rigging claims' tenuous there. But, even if Democrats did make the decision to use e-voting machines, linking that to a hidden agenda of wanting to blame the machines is logically an ad-hoc theory, albeit an interesting one.
However, I don't think the earlier quoted correlation studies were done in Ohio voting districts. Given the various illegal stunts pulled by Blackwell, Noe, and other republicans in addition to the placement of e-voting machines would doubtless cloud any correlation between e-voting machines and bush-leaning districts, so any kind of e-rigging claims in Ohio can't likely be substantiated.
Correlating manufacturer/party contributions with extent of likelihood of that manufacturer's machine to lean in a party's favor would really be interesting.
"Do you want to use software that is being driven, or at least led by this guy? Do you want to invest your business in this guy?"
Well, I think that if the article gives that impression, its misleading to say the very least. The very nature of the OSS 'movement' if you want to call it that, is that its driven more by users and developers and less by individual leaders. At best, rms drove EMACS at one point in time as a principle maintainer, and that's about the extent of it in terms of who 'drives' or 'leads' what at this point in OSS.
That's the simple and accurate picture.
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I can see your point, and no doubt rms probably rubbed the guy the wrong way at some point. Even so, for Forbes to publish an article that basically calls someone a fat booger-picking asshole can't exactly polish their image as a publication of journalistic integrity. Even a lay-person can't help but get that impression from ingesting the string of third-grader descriptives found in the article. I would have thought that at least an editor would know what ad hominem is.
from TFFA: "Stallman won't comment on any of this because he was upset by a previous story written by this writer"
Sounds like quasi-journalistic sour grapes to me. Interesting that Forbes chose to publish what amounts to little more than a long digg comment. The editors must owe Lyons ('article' writer) a favor. At any rate, what's a cantankerous, finger-wagging, freewheeling, corpulent, slovenly, scraggly-haired, hair-in-his-soup, bizzare, bad-singing, orwellian doubletalking, robe-wearing, animal-jumping, rock-abusing, carot-eating, bovine-spotting, air-breathing, water-drinking, land-crawling, soap-in-his-eyes-blinking, wax-in-his-ears, book-reading, greasy good-for-nothing to say about such allegations?
To be certain, politicians from all parties have tried to rig elections - republicans have just been the most successful to date. They're very well organized. Maybe the party that cheats best should win.
Does anyone know if 'richer' counties are more likely to get electronic voting machines then 'poor' counties? In ohio, poor inner city areas had electronic voting machines (which didn't work, and lacked paper backups, sadly).
From the referenced url: '"Electronic voting machines also caused widespread problems in Florida, where Bush bested Kerry by 381,000 votes. When statistical experts from the University of California examined the state's official tally, they discovered a disturbing pattern: "The data show with 99.0 percent certainty that a county's use of electronic voting is associated with a disproportionate increase in votes for President Bush. Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004."'
'Charles Stewart III, an MIT professor who specializes in voter behavior and methodology, was initially skeptical of the study - but was unable to find any flaw in the results. "You can't break it - I've tried," he told The Washington Post. "There's something funky in the results from the electronic-machine Democratic counties."'
You did not just combine the words "hippy" and "neo-con" in one sentence. That is an oxymoron, like "you're a genious."
You cannot possibly believe that the CIA was smuggling drugs. That's just retarded.
And to say we will spend 15 years cleaning up Iraq is dumb, the most pessimistic projections by anyone who could be considered knowledgeable indicate Iraqis will be able to take over all security in their country within two years.
Please pay no attention to the moonbat.
Ad hominem, anyone? Click the link and try reading it before freaking out. In case you can't read or are afraid to, the then head of the DEA Judge Bonner has pointed out that the CIA was smuggling drugs - the DEA has caught them on more than one occasion. Bonner must have been a moonbat. Pay no attention to those annoying facts... just move along.
As for 15 years to rebuild Iraq, look at the job we've done so far. How long did it take to rebuild countries with relatively stable societal underpinnings like those in Europe and Asia after WWII? 15 years, given the history of nation-building, is highly optimistic. Or is it the idea that we'll be able to build a nice calm democratic country out of diametrically opposing violent factions in a few quick years retarded? We might be able to rebuild some of the buildings and bridges, but the country?
The idea that in less that 15 years we'll be able to resolve differences that have a violent history going back nearly 1500 years more qualifies as 'retarded'.
As for the term 'hippie neo-cons', neo-cons want a little isolated society all to themselves and reject the norms of a democratic society - not entirely unlike hippies back in the 60's who also wanted a society to themselves. The difference is that neo-cons want to take society captive, and hippies wanted to separate from it. That, and neo-cons are organized and aggressive. So yeah, in retrospect, 'hippie neo-con' doesn't fit nearly as well as 'sociopathic neo-cons', although that's redundant.
The 'war' on drugs best illustrates how the US government works. One group of governmental entities confiscates illegal drugs, and another, the CIA, imports them. At one point in time, the CIA (cocain importing agency) was smuggling 21 tons of cocain into the USA per year. This during the administration of George Bush Sr., who supported/declared 'war' on drugs to the public. Now his kid, not nearly as smart as he is, is making a mess of Iraq the the USA will need to spend the next 15 years cleaning up and all but publicly soiling his shorts to the rest of the world.
Right now, the USA is a good place to live, economically speaking. That's because most people work hard as dogs (most, not all). As the population ages and declines (we're all too busy to reproduce and can't afford it anyway), how exactly can a government turned against itself and run by a bunch of hippie neo-cons help a situation like that? The fall of the roman empire comes to mind.
"You are also required to choose one activity from a list that includes gay sex, non-hetero sex and mutual masturbation with your brother."
And whining like an anonymous coward about things you don't like on/.
"Scouts also must choose one activity from a list that includes visiting a movie studio to see how many people can be harmed by film piracy. They also can create public service announcements urging others not to steal movies or music." And complete a lobotomy.
Do they also have merit badges for not thinking independently? Or one for having your IQ reduced to a single digit and being converted to a near-mindless automaton?
As if a telemarketer will need a computer to tell them I'm pissed off when I feed them a stream of obsenities for calling my mobile phone. Oh wait, I guess the retarded telemarketers might need a computer for that. Oh wait, that catagory includes all telemarketers, and the rocket scientists who thought that annoying people was a good way to get them to buy stuff.
"I do not even want to think of the consequences of Vista turning itself off in enterprise situations such as airline reservations or a hospital full of patients on life support."
The Vista cop will likely cache authentication like so many other things. And, airlines, hospitals, and other large organizations won't be moving to vista with any gusto anyway.
Still, the mere idea of a self-disabling software product make me want to use something else even more than a product that breaks down just because its poorly [designed | built].
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This product indeed burns calories, and this shouldn't be surprising, because what Coke did here is basically steal the most active ingredients from green tea, which most certainly do burn calories. Personally, I'd recommend you just drink green tea instead. It's more powerful, healthier, and cheaper. In fact, I'd recommend you eat more functional, natural, healthy food in general. You'll get these slightly beneficial effects from many sources then."
If they had a verson of diet coke that sent you running to the sh*tter every few minutes, then it'd make you burn more calories than you get from it, and you'd lose weight. Plus the running might improve your general conditioning, and help wean you from WOW, the chief cause of geek obesity.
"MS cares about their customers and their potential customers"
That they care about potential customers is why they might want to know about people with a windows box running something other than windows. MS has always had a deep paranoid streak with respect to urban legends of a kid in a garage coming up with the 'next big thing' and displacing them. It is as irrational as it sounds, but they've always seemed to act as though that were a potential threat.
"All in all, GP is not at all wrong when claiming Microsoft's crappy programming puts bread on his table; he's the glazier."
I see your point. I think, though, if MS suddenly produced good software, the people who now fix the same problems over and over again might find opportunities in more mentally stimulating venues.
"BRUSSELS Microsoft accelerated its efforts to persuade European lawmakers that it was changing how it does business by announcing Tuesday that it would give away software to enable computers to run multiple operating systems at the same time. and insure other operating systems run more slowly than windows, as well as report back to MS who's not running windows and why.
"The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine."
Umm... IIRC in the novel the morloks basically ran the planet and fed on the better-looking but helpless and dimwitted Eloi. So in the future the dimwitted underclass will end up running society and subjugating the better-looking upperclass?
Actually, I feel much better now. Now, where are my made-from-real-swedes Swedish meatballs for lunch?
I think there is room for optimism. I have heard that more and more artists are starting their own record labels and circumventing the record industry to get their music out to people, and to get a bigger share of the revenue.
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I recently saw a surge from about 15 spams a day to well over 200. So, I got a spamcop account, and changed my email to go there, and then from there I forward it to where I read my email. Now I'm back down to about 15 per day. Spamcop catches the rest, and they land in my 'held mail' folder, where it takes about 10 seconds to report as much spam as I want. In the email account where I actually read my email, I pushed up the sensitivity of the spam filters, and now I see maybe two a day in my inbox. I just report the rest to spamcop.
Maybe we need bots to fight the bots. Bot Wars. In a galaxy far, far, away...
The google cache still works. It was also popular on Digg.com earlier.
Maybe they got the idea from the airline industry, who in turn might have gotten it from the USA Dept of homerland security.
The e-voting machines were predominantly placed in heavily democrat-leaning districts, by DEMOCRAT elections supervisors.
Actually, if you read the accounts of the Ohio election, republicans placed the majority of the e-voting machines, led by the republican secretary Blackwell who pushed hard to get Diebold machines put in voting places. That in combination to the fact republicans where the ones making the decisions to place e-voting machinge in Ohio make the 'purchased by democrats to strengthen rigging claims' tenuous there. But, even if Democrats did make the decision to use e-voting machines, linking that to a hidden agenda of wanting to blame the machines is logically an ad-hoc theory, albeit an interesting one.
However, I don't think the earlier quoted correlation studies were done in Ohio voting districts. Given the various illegal stunts pulled by Blackwell, Noe, and other republicans in addition to the placement of e-voting machines would doubtless cloud any correlation between e-voting machines and bush-leaning districts, so any kind of e-rigging claims in Ohio can't likely be substantiated.
Correlating manufacturer/party contributions with extent of likelihood of that manufacturer's machine to lean in a party's favor would really be interesting.
"Do you want to use software that is being driven, or at least led by this guy? Do you want to invest your business in this guy?"
Well, I think that if the article gives that impression, its misleading to say the very least. The very nature of the OSS 'movement' if you want to call it that, is that its driven more by users and developers and less by individual leaders. At best, rms drove EMACS at one point in time as a principle maintainer, and that's about the extent of it in terms of who 'drives' or 'leads' what at this point in OSS.
That's the simple and accurate picture.
I can see your point, and no doubt rms probably rubbed the guy the wrong way at some point. Even so, for Forbes to publish an article that basically calls someone a fat booger-picking asshole can't exactly polish their image as a publication of journalistic integrity. Even a lay-person can't help but get that impression from ingesting the string of third-grader descriptives found in the article. I would have thought that at least an editor would know what ad hominem is.
from TFFA: "Stallman won't comment on any of this because he was upset by a previous story written by this writer"
Sounds like quasi-journalistic sour grapes to me. Interesting that Forbes chose to publish what amounts to little more than a long digg comment. The editors must owe Lyons ('article' writer) a favor. At any rate, what's a cantankerous, finger-wagging, freewheeling, corpulent, slovenly, scraggly-haired, hair-in-his-soup, bizzare, bad-singing, orwellian doubletalking, robe-wearing, animal-jumping, rock-abusing, carot-eating, bovine-spotting, air-breathing, water-drinking, land-crawling, soap-in-his-eyes-blinking, wax-in-his-ears, book-reading, greasy good-for-nothing to say about such allegations?
To be certain, politicians from all parties have tried to rig elections - republicans have just been the most successful to date. They're very well organized. Maybe the party that cheats best should win.
Does anyone know if 'richer' counties are more likely to get electronic voting machines then 'poor' counties? In ohio, poor inner city areas had electronic voting machines (which didn't work, and lacked paper backups, sadly).
Its already been done.
From the referenced url: '"Electronic voting machines also caused widespread problems in Florida, where Bush bested Kerry by 381,000 votes. When statistical experts from the University of California examined the state's official tally, they discovered a disturbing pattern: "The data show with 99.0 percent certainty that a county's use of electronic voting is associated with a disproportionate increase in votes for President Bush. Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004."'
'Charles Stewart III, an MIT professor who specializes in voter behavior and methodology, was initially skeptical of the study - but was unable to find any flaw in the results. "You can't break it - I've tried," he told The Washington Post. "There's something funky in the results from the electronic-machine Democratic counties."'
Ad hominem, anyone? Click the link and try reading it before freaking out. In case you can't read or are afraid to, the then head of the DEA Judge Bonner has pointed out that the CIA was smuggling drugs - the DEA has caught them on more than one occasion. Bonner must have been a moonbat. Pay no attention to those annoying facts
As for 15 years to rebuild Iraq, look at the job we've done so far. How long did it take to rebuild countries with relatively stable societal underpinnings like those in Europe and Asia after WWII? 15 years, given the history of nation-building, is highly optimistic. Or is it the idea that we'll be able to build a nice calm democratic country out of diametrically opposing violent factions in a few quick years retarded? We might be able to rebuild some of the buildings and bridges, but the country?
The idea that in less that 15 years we'll be able to resolve differences that have a violent history going back nearly 1500 years more qualifies as 'retarded'.
As for the term 'hippie neo-cons', neo-cons want a little isolated society all to themselves and reject the norms of a democratic society - not entirely unlike hippies back in the 60's who also wanted a society to themselves. The difference is that neo-cons want to take society captive, and hippies wanted to separate from it. That, and neo-cons are organized and aggressive. So yeah, in retrospect, 'hippie neo-con' doesn't fit nearly as well as 'sociopathic neo-cons', although that's redundant.
The 'war' on drugs best illustrates how the US government works. One group of governmental entities confiscates illegal drugs, and another, the CIA, imports them. At one point in time, the CIA (cocain importing agency) was smuggling 21 tons of cocain into the USA per year. This during the administration of George Bush Sr., who supported/declared 'war' on drugs to the public. Now his kid, not nearly as smart as he is, is making a mess of Iraq the the USA will need to spend the next 15 years cleaning up and all but publicly soiling his shorts to the rest of the world.
Right now, the USA is a good place to live, economically speaking. That's because most people work hard as dogs (most, not all). As the population ages and declines (we're all too busy to reproduce and can't afford it anyway), how exactly can a government turned against itself and run by a bunch of hippie neo-cons help a situation like that? The fall of the roman empire comes to mind.
"You are also required to choose one activity from a list that includes gay sex, non-hetero sex and mutual masturbation with your brother." /.
And whining like an anonymous coward about things you don't like on
"Scouts also must choose one activity from a list that includes visiting a movie studio to see how many people can be harmed by film piracy. They also can create public service announcements urging others not to steal movies or music." And complete a lobotomy.
Do they also have merit badges for not thinking independently? Or one for having your IQ reduced to a single digit and being converted to a near-mindless automaton?
As if a telemarketer will need a computer to tell them I'm pissed off when I feed them a stream of obsenities for calling my mobile phone. Oh wait, I guess the retarded telemarketers might need a computer for that. Oh wait, that catagory includes all telemarketers, and the rocket scientists who thought that annoying people was a good way to get them to buy stuff.
"I do not even want to think of the consequences of Vista turning itself off in enterprise situations such as airline reservations or a hospital full of patients on life support."
The Vista cop will likely cache authentication like so many other things. And, airlines, hospitals, and other large organizations won't be moving to vista with any gusto anyway.
Still, the mere idea of a self-disabling software product make me want to use something else even more than a product that breaks down just because its poorly [designed | built].
" This product indeed burns calories, and this shouldn't be surprising, because what Coke did here is basically steal the most active ingredients from green tea, which most certainly do burn calories. Personally, I'd recommend you just drink green tea instead. It's more powerful, healthier, and cheaper. In fact, I'd recommend you eat more functional, natural, healthy food in general. You'll get these slightly beneficial effects from many sources then."
If they had a verson of diet coke that sent you running to the sh*tter every few minutes, then it'd make you burn more calories than you get from it, and you'd lose weight. Plus the running might improve your general conditioning, and help wean you from WOW, the chief cause of geek obesity.
"MS cares about their customers and their potential customers"
That they care about potential customers is why they might want to know about people with a windows box running something other than windows. MS has always had a deep paranoid streak with respect to urban legends of a kid in a garage coming up with the 'next big thing' and displacing them. It is as irrational as it sounds, but they've always seemed to act as though that were a potential threat.
"All in all, GP is not at all wrong when claiming Microsoft's crappy programming puts bread on his table; he's the glazier."
I see your point. I think, though, if MS suddenly produced good software, the people who now fix the same problems over and over again might find opportunities in more mentally stimulating venues.
"BRUSSELS Microsoft accelerated its efforts to persuade European lawmakers that it was changing how it does business by announcing Tuesday that it would give away software to enable computers to run multiple operating systems at the same time. and insure other operating systems run more slowly than windows, as well as report back to MS who's not running windows and why.
Doh!
Microsoft's negligent software practices doesn't create work - it just creates bad software. See the broken windows fallacy.
"The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine."
Umm... IIRC in the novel the morloks basically ran the planet and fed on the better-looking but helpless and dimwitted Eloi. So in the future the dimwitted underclass will end up running society and subjugating the better-looking upperclass?
Actually, I feel much better now. Now, where are my made-from-real-swedes Swedish meatballs for lunch?
If you're running windows, you don't get rooted. Instead you get administered.
"Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive?"
yes.
I think there is room for optimism. I have heard that more and more artists are starting their own record labels and circumventing the record industry to get their music out to people, and to get a bigger share of the revenue.