Actually the electoral vote was never in question and it was a by-the-constitution election despite the worst efforts of the Florida Supreme Court to subvert the election laws set by the Florida legislature. The electoral college members are not required to vote for their slated candidate, i.e., faithless elector, therefor they were quite capable of "righting any wrong". Since none did and all media recounts utilizing Florida election law found Bush to be the victor, I think my knowledge of history in this matter is quite sound.
Correction: The Electoral College of the United States elected President Bush over former Vice President Gore, 271 to 266. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of the US Constitution so you may properly understand the method that a President is elected in the United States. The public is never involved in directly electing a President. The public only votes for a slate of electors from their state.
If you are scared that watching a football game turns Americans into right-wing, talk radio loving, blood thursty robots completely ignorant of their surroundings, you can imagine how it scares me that you take your lesuire time to transcribed left-wing political screeds. It's only a game. It doesn't cost you dime to watch it either. How much did that Chomsky video set you back?
There isn't a conspiracy of CBS, Budweiser, Apple, Xerox, GM, Ford, Dorritos, Pepsi, Miller Lite and the Partnership for a Drug Free America (Well, ok, maybe there) trying to distract you while the Government kills kitty cats, push grannies down stairs and tell poor people they can't have any money. It can do that quite well on its own right in front of us. No distractions needed. We just pick and choose which ones we most want to be pissed about.
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Actually having CBS not air the commercial has allowed more people to see the ad. MoveOn should be jumping for joy that CBS denied the ad buy. It has brought more attention to their message and allowed them to air the ad for free on various news shows. You are even helping out MoveOn by publicizing the ad here on Slashdot.
CBS is making a smart business decision not to air this ad. Why should CBS want to bring in unneeded controversy into the Super Bowl that would distract from the game? Since it has a product that is in high demand for advertisers, CBS can pick and choose which advertisers it wants to fill in those 30 second gaps between plays. Also, if you are spending $2 million an ad as advertiser would you want your commercial message to be drowned out by adjacent partisan political message? Heck no! This would make it hard for CBS to sell the ad space next to the MoveOn ad.
This isn't political censorship, its smart business on the part of CBS.
I take offense to your remark. I'm not the least bit racist.
Except when it comes to having an Black man playing the role of Ford Prefect. Jeez, can't Blacks come from outer space like white folk? I thought we got past this with Uhura in TOS.
It's not strange, just imagine Chicken George in Roots being played by Jim Carrey. It makes perfect sense. You are just being racist with you anglo-centric mind.
All I see is Libertarian, Republican and Democrat. Where are the other parties? Green? Socialist Workers? Communist?
You have got to be kidding! Greens, Socialist Workers and Communist are ANTI-CAPITALISTS! Signing up with the biggest online capitalist tool would be make them look silly and go completely against their political beliefs.
However, somehow I don't believe that you will be convienced, of course if the shoe was on the other foot, I bet you would be calling it treason in a time of war.
No, I would be calling Republicans dumbasses for not securing a Windows share after a nice enough Democrat told them that their shares were completely open to all using the common server. Since the Republicans told the Democrats that they could see their political files, I really don't think you can call it spying. Spies generally don't tell the people they are watching that they are watching them. Makes you a really poor spy if you do. And you are right we do have the right to rifle through Senatorial committee files and phone messages. It's called FOIA. Try it sometime, it's fun!
But your use of BOLD to highlight words was truly effective. I was almost convinced you had a point. Now I understand that you are trying to manufacture a scandal where one does not exist. Are things really that bad for Democrats?
I never said that Republicans wouldn't do it or haven't done it. All I am saying is if they do, their political documents stored on taxpayer funded systems are open to the public for review, including Democratic members of Congress.
After reading these conspiracy theories of Republican treachery, I have to laugh. If you read the article close enough, it appears what happened is that the Democrats' tech created shares on a Windows server without applying appropriate user rights to them, i.e., an open share. The Democrats were using Government equipment to store political documents (at the cost of the taxpayers) where they discussed strategies to derail judicial nominees to satisfy their beloved special interest groups and tick off the Republicans' beloved special interest groups. The Republican techie caught on that all these political and non-governmental documents were open for all to see. The Democrats were told this and chose to stick their head in the sand and continue to leave their political playbook available for anyone to read.
This isn't another Watergate for the Republicans, this is a StupidGate for the Democrats. Not only were the Democrats using taxpayer funds to pay for the production and storage of their political documents, they were giving Republicans free access to them. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. The DNC's private servers would have been a better place to put these non-governmental documents, not on a taxpayer funded server. Everyone of those documents belong to the people of the United States which members of the Republican party in the Judiciary are...
What an ass Carly Fiorina is. I don't it is a good marketing tactic to tell American's "Fuck Off" we don't want you to work for us because God didn't promise you a job. I doubt any American thinks God has promised them jobs.
This is the sort of asinine comment that will forever stick in my mind about HP. The last thing I want to do is buy a printer, scanner, digital camera or computer from a company that has this sort of self-centered, nut job running it.
I resolve to pay my Linux fee to SCO. But then again I am drunk right now and might start using FreeBSD. Who cares if it is dead and all, they got a depeguinator which sounds pretty cool at this point in inebriation.
How could anyone give a loved one a Windows XP installed PC? Give 'em a Mac so you don't have to waste your time patching it for worms, virii and trojans not to mention all the damn adware out there. It's also a gift for you! Once I gave my parents a Mac for Christmas a year ago, they don't call me asking why &%$$%#$^ computer doesn't WORK!!!
Osama Ain't Livin is more like it. Why haven't we seen him on a video tape since Tora Bora? He used to love sending out home videos up and until Tora Bora.
In this morning's New York Post, John Podhoretz's column, Cell Hell, gives a good insight of what customers are facing switching from AT&T. I don't think I will be switching from T-Mobile, not because T-Mobile is a great cell phone company, its that all cell phone companies suck. I have learned to with the suckage of T-Mobile and don't want to waste my time relearning the suckage of another. It's really a sad state of affairs in the cell phone provider industry.
This would make setting up a wireless network a lot simpler."
How freaking simple can it be now?
1) Insert Airport Extreme Card into PowerBook 12"
2) Turn on PowerBook 12"
3) Select Network from Airport menu & Enter WEP if needed
4) Wirelessly communicat
Nice troll. Even Mike Hawash admits he is guilty of being a terrorist conspirator. I suggest next time you want to bash President Bush and Administration, you look outside your "clickish" group for information so you don't end up with egg on your face.
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Actually the electoral vote was never in question and it was a by-the-constitution election despite the worst efforts of the Florida Supreme Court to subvert the election laws set by the Florida legislature. The electoral college members are not required to vote for their slated candidate, i.e., faithless elector, therefor they were quite capable of "righting any wrong". Since none did and all media recounts utilizing Florida election law found Bush to be the victor, I think my knowledge of history in this matter is quite sound.
Correction: The Electoral College of the United States elected President Bush over former Vice President Gore, 271 to 266. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of the US Constitution so you may properly understand the method that a President is elected in the United States. The public is never involved in directly electing a President. The public only votes for a slate of electors from their state.
There isn't a conspiracy of CBS, Budweiser, Apple, Xerox, GM, Ford, Dorritos, Pepsi, Miller Lite and the Partnership for a Drug Free America (Well, ok, maybe there) trying to distract you while the Government kills kitty cats, push grannies down stairs and tell poor people they can't have any money. It can do that quite well on its own right in front of us. No distractions needed. We just pick and choose which ones we most want to be pissed about.
CBS is making a smart business decision not to air this ad. Why should CBS want to bring in unneeded controversy into the Super Bowl that would distract from the game? Since it has a product that is in high demand for advertisers, CBS can pick and choose which advertisers it wants to fill in those 30 second gaps between plays. Also, if you are spending $2 million an ad as advertiser would you want your commercial message to be drowned out by adjacent partisan political message? Heck no! This would make it hard for CBS to sell the ad space next to the MoveOn ad.
This isn't political censorship, its smart business on the part of CBS.
According to certain Slashdot posters, only the ones that live an alternative lifestyle.
Except when it comes to having an Black man playing the role of Ford Prefect. Jeez, can't Blacks come from outer space like white folk? I thought we got past this with Uhura in TOS.
It's not strange, just imagine Chicken George in Roots being played by Jim Carrey. It makes perfect sense. You are just being racist with you anglo-centric mind.
Does it support Ogg?
Also spell check and let an unemployed English major review it.
You have got to be kidding! Greens, Socialist Workers and Communist are ANTI-CAPITALISTS! Signing up with the biggest online capitalist tool would be make them look silly and go completely against their political beliefs.
No, I would be calling Republicans dumbasses for not securing a Windows share after a nice enough Democrat told them that their shares were completely open to all using the common server. Since the Republicans told the Democrats that they could see their political files, I really don't think you can call it spying. Spies generally don't tell the people they are watching that they are watching them. Makes you a really poor spy if you do. And you are right we do have the right to rifle through Senatorial committee files and phone messages. It's called FOIA. Try it sometime, it's fun!
But your use of BOLD to highlight words was truly effective. I was almost convinced you had a point. Now I understand that you are trying to manufacture a scandal where one does not exist. Are things really that bad for Democrats?
I never said that Republicans wouldn't do it or haven't done it. All I am saying is if they do, their political documents stored on taxpayer funded systems are open to the public for review, including Democratic members of Congress.
This isn't another Watergate for the Republicans, this is a StupidGate for the Democrats. Not only were the Democrats using taxpayer funds to pay for the production and storage of their political documents, they were giving Republicans free access to them. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. The DNC's private servers would have been a better place to put these non-governmental documents, not on a taxpayer funded server. Everyone of those documents belong to the people of the United States which members of the Republican party in the Judiciary are...
This is the sort of asinine comment that will forever stick in my mind about HP. The last thing I want to do is buy a printer, scanner, digital camera or computer from a company that has this sort of self-centered, nut job running it.
I resolve to pay my Linux fee to SCO. But then again I am drunk right now and might start using FreeBSD. Who cares if it is dead and all, they got a depeguinator which sounds pretty cool at this point in inebriation.
How could anyone give a loved one a Windows XP installed PC? Give 'em a Mac so you don't have to waste your time patching it for worms, virii and trojans not to mention all the damn adware out there. It's also a gift for you! Once I gave my parents a Mac for Christmas a year ago, they don't call me asking why &%$$%#$^ computer doesn't WORK!!!
Savannah wasn't hacked, it was GNU/0wn3d.
So you are saying that Bush has done his job and captured Osama?
Osama Ain't Livin is more like it. Why haven't we seen him on a video tape since Tora Bora? He used to love sending out home videos up and until Tora Bora.
Tongue removed from cheek...
This is one of my favorite O'Reilly books. It is amazing what you can do with a few lines of Perl code and LWP.
In this morning's New York Post, John Podhoretz's column, Cell Hell, gives a good insight of what customers are facing switching from AT&T. I don't think I will be switching from T-Mobile, not because T-Mobile is a great cell phone company, its that all cell phone companies suck. I have learned to with the suckage of T-Mobile and don't want to waste my time relearning the suckage of another. It's really a sad state of affairs in the cell phone provider industry.
How freaking simple can it be now?
1) Insert Airport Extreme Card into PowerBook 12"
2) Turn on PowerBook 12" 3) Select Network from Airport menu & Enter WEP if needed
4) Wirelessly communicat
Whew, I just thought it was the alcohol...
Nice troll. Even Mike Hawash admits he is guilty of being a terrorist conspirator. I suggest next time you want to bash President Bush and Administration, you look outside your "clickish" group for information so you don't end up with egg on your face.