You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:
Five paid Democratic campaign workers slashed hundreds of tires on rented GOP get-out-the-vote vans the day before the 2004 election.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discovered multiple-thousand-vote discrepancies in the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast in a number of Wisconsin municipalities in the 2004 election.
In the 2000 election, the FBI was called in to investigate thousands of votes from invalid addresses cast in Milwaukee.
In 2004, the GOP challenged thousands of invalid addresses [The article plays the race card -- good reporting there, Washington Post] based on undeliverable mail from the voter registration rolls in Wisconsin and Ohio. Their challenges were all struck down.
In 2000, two illegal aliens went to Racine, WI, told the registrar they were illegal aliens, and then were allowed to register anyways.
Recently, state Senate candidate Donovan Riley was fined and had his bar license revoked for voting twice in the 2004 election: first in the morning at his vacation house in Oconomowoc, WI and then later in the afternoon at his main residence in Chicago. The only reason he was discovered was his candidacy for state Senate -- which makes me wonder seriously how often this sort of thing takes place. There is no checking between neighboring states, and with a big chunk of Wisconsin's population just a couple hours' drive from Chicago and Minneapolis, it would even be theoretically possible to vote in Minneapolis in the morning, Madison in the afternoon and Rockford in the evening -- would anybody know?
In 2000, a wealthy DNC donor was caught giving cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for their votes. While not demonstrably illegal, it certainly represents shady tactics.
Governor Jim doyle has repeatedly vetoed voter ID propositions proposed by the Republican-controlled state assembly. I don't understand opposition to such a reasonable requirement that could go a long way towards improving election integrity.
Kerry won Wisconsin by just.38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just.22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.
GOP actually stands for "Grand Old Party", though I agree with your sentiment. Copyright seems to be one of those odd issues that rarely follows party lines.
MANCHESTER, N.H. --Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday that First Amendment rights need to be expanded and cited the elimination of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms as one solution.
... (later in the article)
Noting the thwarted London terrorist attacks this summer, Gingrich said there should be a Geneva Convention for such actions that makes those people subject to "a totally different set of rules."
From this Globe article (hardly a conservative-friendly paper) it appears Gingrich's "totally different set of rules" has not to do with freedom of speech, but with the Geneva Convention as applied to terrorists, which is a whole 'nother bag of worms in and of itself; however, the question remains as to how the OP managed to spin what seem to be two separate points into one decidedly negative message.
Does anyone have the actual transcript of his speech there so we can figure out who's full of BS and who's not? Think about it -- if the man is even THINKING of running for President in '08, he certainly isn't going to get elected if he runs on a platform of RESTRICTING basic freedom of speech.
That's a good point -- it seems like this would make a lot of sense integrated into the normal browser-based Google Maps app so that you can have a look at traffic and perhaps decide to change your route before leaving the house or office.
So, shedding light on these security problems "irks" some vendors. How about the sysadmins and users who are stuck wasting their time patching problems that should have been fixed months ago, or before release? What about people who have had data compromised or destroyed by exploits brought to the public eye in this report?
While I realize that many of these bugs are not critical security issues, my hat is off to Moore for having the rocks to continue his effort in the face of "irked" vendors and hax0rs. Producing better software is far more important.
There's something to be said for being on the bleeding edge, I suppose; to some people, money is no object, and not all of them live in their parents' basements. This technology is marketed towards the Alienware crowd that has no problem dropping $5,000 on a flashy all-out computer system. The rest of us are probably not going to be gaming on a quad-SLI system any time soon.
I agree, however, that the bleeding edge becomes sub-par so quickly that it's like buying a brand-new car -- it loses some absurd percentage of its value the moment you drive it off the lot.
In my opinion, it's a much better idea to buy out of the midrange, then upgrade. Most modern games don't even make full use of the power of the latest graphics card technology anyways. A $200 graphics card now and a $200 graphics card a couple years down the line will enable you to play all the games released during that period with relatively good performance while remaining very cost-effective, especially if you take advantage of opportunities like ATI's Trade-Up program.
I've moved all my domains off of GoDaddy because of just this sort of thing:
High-pressure advertising on all GoDaddy websites -- even when logged in as a customer,
I actually received a piece of real (USPS) junk mail from them, which is totally unacceptable and contained no option to stop receiving real mail,
They took weeks to process a couple of my domain transfer requests
The kind of pressure GoDaddy places on their customers would make any normal person uncomfortable if it were a real brick-and-mortar store, so what makes being an online merchant any different? There are plenty of registrars that do a fantastic job of advertising without blasting you into the ground with ads.
Well, not quite... really only Madison and downtown Milwaukee are liberal bastions. Both the state Senate and Assembly here in Wisconsin are controlled by Republicans, which is why this bill has come into law in the first place. Well-documented voter fraud took place in Milwaukee during the 2000 and 2004 elections -- and the state Democratic party's unwillingness to address voter fraud issues with real solutions like a statewide ID (which, while not a panacea, would certainly help curb fraud) is really something to behold.
I do applaud Doyle for his signing of this bill. Now let's see some more real progress on the issue of voter fraud in Wisconsin.:)
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You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:
Kerry won Wisconsin by just .38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just .22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.
GOP actually stands for "Grand Old Party", though I agree with your sentiment. Copyright seems to be one of those odd issues that rarely follows party lines.
As usual, there is more than meets the eye, especially when the original article is from the "Union Leader"..
From a fairly robust article in the Boston Globe I dug up with a quick Google News search for "Gingrich":
MANCHESTER, N.H. --Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday that First Amendment rights need to be expanded and cited the elimination of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms as one solution.
Noting the thwarted London terrorist attacks this summer, Gingrich said there should be a Geneva Convention for such actions that makes those people subject to "a totally different set of rules."
From this Globe article (hardly a conservative-friendly paper) it appears Gingrich's "totally different set of rules" has not to do with freedom of speech, but with the Geneva Convention as applied to terrorists, which is a whole 'nother bag of worms in and of itself; however, the question remains as to how the OP managed to spin what seem to be two separate points into one decidedly negative message.
Does anyone have the actual transcript of his speech there so we can figure out who's full of BS and who's not? Think about it -- if the man is even THINKING of running for President in '08, he certainly isn't going to get elected if he runs on a platform of RESTRICTING basic freedom of speech.
And that, kids, is why we use the 'Preview' button. Durr.
I, for one, welcome our new overl[b]oooooo[/b]rds.
That's a good point -- it seems like this would make a lot of sense integrated into the normal browser-based Google Maps app so that you can have a look at traffic and perhaps decide to change your route before leaving the house or office.
at least Microsoft doesn't play favorites!
So, shedding light on these security problems "irks" some vendors. How about the sysadmins and users who are stuck wasting their time patching problems that should have been fixed months ago, or before release? What about people who have had data compromised or destroyed by exploits brought to the public eye in this report?
While I realize that many of these bugs are not critical security issues, my hat is off to Moore for having the rocks to continue his effort in the face of "irked" vendors and hax0rs. Producing better software is far more important.
Get a load of these guys! Some "geniuses"...
The check is in the mail..
In other news, your statement next month will carry a $1,000.00 Cost Recovery Fee. Better think twice before buying that huge trampoline.
There's something to be said for being on the bleeding edge, I suppose; to some people, money is no object, and not all of them live in their parents' basements. This technology is marketed towards the Alienware crowd that has no problem dropping $5,000 on a flashy all-out computer system. The rest of us are probably not going to be gaming on a quad-SLI system any time soon.
I agree, however, that the bleeding edge becomes sub-par so quickly that it's like buying a brand-new car -- it loses some absurd percentage of its value the moment you drive it off the lot.
In my opinion, it's a much better idea to buy out of the midrange, then upgrade. Most modern games don't even make full use of the power of the latest graphics card technology anyways. A $200 graphics card now and a $200 graphics card a couple years down the line will enable you to play all the games released during that period with relatively good performance while remaining very cost-effective, especially if you take advantage of opportunities like ATI's Trade-Up program.
Fuck Everything, We're Doing FOUR Graphics Cards
Someone's been playing a mage, I see.. :p
They better not hit the sites of any of my future summer homes!
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Sure. RegisterFly.. if you have a suggestion as to someone better as well I'm always open! :)
I've moved all my domains off of GoDaddy because of just this sort of thing:
The kind of pressure GoDaddy places on their customers would make any normal person uncomfortable if it were a real brick-and-mortar store, so what makes being an online merchant any different? There are plenty of registrars that do a fantastic job of advertising without blasting you into the ground with ads.
Well, not quite... really only Madison and downtown Milwaukee are liberal bastions. Both the state Senate and Assembly here in Wisconsin are controlled by Republicans, which is why this bill has come into law in the first place. Well-documented voter fraud took place in Milwaukee during the 2000 and 2004 elections -- and the state Democratic party's unwillingness to address voter fraud issues with real solutions like a statewide ID (which, while not a panacea, would certainly help curb fraud) is really something to behold.
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I do applaud Doyle for his signing of this bill. Now let's see some more real progress on the issue of voter fraud in Wisconsin.