Even so, the evidence that something went extremely wrong last fall is copious, and not hard to find. Much of it was noted at the time, albeit by local papers and haphazardly. Concerning the decisive contest in Ohio, the evidence is lucidly compiled in a single congressional report, which, for the last half-year, has been available to anyone inclined to read it. It is a veritable arsenal of "smoking guns"--and yet its findings may be less extraordinary than the fact that no one in this country seems to care about them.
There's a lot more interesting reading (at the least) at that link.
If you choose to randomly conduct exit polls in a district with 80% low-income black voters, that won't magically remove the demographics from the constituency -- 80% of your exit poll voters will be low-income and black.
You have no idea what an exit poll is, do you? None of this has anything whatsoever to do with the fact that exit polls can measure the accracy of voting completely independently of demographics.
If every single voter coming out of a certain polling place says they voted for X and the vote-count at that place shows only votes for Y, then there's something fishy going on -- and it is fishy completely independent of the demographics. It is fishy whether the voters are black or white, poor or rich, old or young.
Electronic voting removes what semblance of vote verifiability existed with paper votes (real recounts) while enabling easy, broad tampering.
Well, the supreme court has already declared the counting of votes illegal, so it doesn't really matter whether there's any kind of verifiable count anywhere.
1) Yes, distance is cruically important in these measurements. There's no points in having gazillions of petabyte data transfer if it can only done from one corner of the lab to the other. Which is why all credible speed-of-information-transfer articles include a number with units of [ (bits / second) * distance].
2) The record is still held by the transmissions from Voyager II's encounter with Neptune.
This is close, but not quite true. All Mozilla, SeaMonkey and Firefox code is tri-licensed (MPL/GPL/LGPL), no exceptions.
To be hones here, I have not the slightest idea what this sentence is supposed to mean. What on earth is a "tri-license"? Are these three identical? If they are, why are all three needed? If they aren't which one applies in a case where they disagree? Who gets to decide?
Y'now, Microsofts license can be summarized in a single sentence: "Your ass is ours and we'll sue you if you do something we don't like". Short and to the point. What good is "open software" if I need three people with law degrees to figure out which of a number of mutually incompatibe documents governs what I'm about to do and what rules it stipulates?
How about a Firefox extension that, at random time intervals, randomly requests one of the page links?
Yeah, that would be cool. The "randomly chosen page links" would include advertising, of course, so I'd be earning AdSense click revenue every time someone just visits my site, even if they never actually click on something.
Why this still was unacceptable for the Bush administration is up for speculation (no evidence? he would be more useful as a boogey man? this way he could be tortured and killed without a trial? invasion of Afghanistan fits the plans outlined by "a new american century"?... ).
For a clue to the puzzle, one could also have a look at a map for the first time in one's life and examine what country the US might be wanting to target if they put down a foot in Afghanistan first and Iraq second. Both of these were attacked under bogus pretenses and if the American public weren't so utterly, mindwrenchingly retarded, it would really not be too hard for them to notice the country right between the two, that constitutes a rather obvious target of the whole thrust.
And 3200 people, of no fault of their own, died by the hands of cowards.
It continues to puzzle me where Americans, who kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians by dropping bombs onto them from great altitude, out of airplanes, without any threat to the health or well-being of the bomber, get the gall to use the term "coward" in reference to people who were willing to die for the completion of their mission. Whatever the 9/11-perpetrators were, they were most ceratinly not cowards.
Either my data is outdated or yours is: last I checked it was the US, Russia, Germany, Japan, California, France... making it the 5th-largest economy on the planet.
While we are talking lawsuit, what's the logical argument/premise going to be for filing the suit?
Lawsuits are not filed on "logical premises". Lawsuits are filed when someone beaks a law.
The real solution from an automotive perspective is to federally mandate gas milage standards that are more stringent than where they are now,
What good is a (federal or otherwise) mandate when you have already decided up front that you cannot hold people to that mandate? California has clean-air mandates and if/when you willfully ignore them, you get your ass hauled to court.
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Back that up. By definition, half has an IQ below median, but if we had one guy with a very low negative IQ (e.g. -100000000000000000000), 90% of us could be above average.
-There is no such thing as a "negative IQ".
-IQ is scaled such that it is gaussian around a certain mean. Half the people tested are below the average by definition of IQ. If you ever test a distribution that is not gaussian, then you are not testing IQ but something else.
Nah -- screw athletics. They only make money because they can appeal to a large number of low-income folks. Since the per-person travel costs are so high, you'll have to start at the upscale end of the ladder: Blue Man Group in space, Cirque de Soleil in weightlessness -- that kind of thing. You want to attract the people who'd not just be willing, but actually able to afford $200k to see Barry Manilow floating around.
There's two seperate questions here:
* Are random searches effective, full stop?
There's a much more apropos question that comes even before that one: are searches effective. Any searches?
The answer is: No, of course not. If we had had 100% full-body cavity strip-searches of every single passenger on 9/11/2001, NOTHING WOULD HAVE CHANGED. Not one of these smokescreens the TSA has been putting up would have made one iota of difference. Not one of the smokescreens the FBI or the White House have been throwing up would have changed a thing. If someone wanted to replicate 9/11/01 tomorrow, they could do so. There's no mechanism in place to prevent any one of the events of that day from happening again.
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I'm going to go with the path of least resistence here and say, "Because there's nothing to report."
This is quoted from None dare call it stolen:
There's a lot more interesting reading (at the least) at that link.
Because there is no evidence.
Yes, there is. The US propaganda machinery (aka "the press") just won't tell you about it.
If you choose to randomly conduct exit polls in a district with 80% low-income black voters, that won't magically remove the demographics from the constituency -- 80% of your exit poll voters will be low-income and black.
You have no idea what an exit poll is, do you? None of this has anything whatsoever to do with the fact that exit polls can measure the accracy of voting completely independently of demographics.
If every single voter coming out of a certain polling place says they voted for X and the vote-count at that place shows only votes for Y, then there's something fishy going on -- and it is fishy completely independent of the demographics. It is fishy whether the voters are black or white, poor or rich, old or young.
Electronic voting removes what semblance of vote verifiability existed with paper votes (real recounts) while enabling easy, broad tampering.
Well, the supreme court has already declared the counting of votes illegal, so it doesn't really matter whether there's any kind of verifiable count anywhere.
How about the Web 2.0 part
Web 2.0 is so last year. This year it's Web 2.0 two.
1) Yes, distance is cruically important in these measurements. There's no points in having gazillions of petabyte data transfer if it can only done from one corner of the lab to the other. Which is why all credible speed-of-information-transfer articles include a number with units of [ (bits / second) * distance].
2) The record is still held by the transmissions from Voyager II's encounter with Neptune.
This is close, but not quite true. All Mozilla, SeaMonkey and Firefox code is tri-licensed (MPL/GPL/LGPL), no exceptions.
To be hones here, I have not the slightest idea what this sentence is supposed to mean. What on earth is a "tri-license"? Are these three identical? If they are, why are all three needed? If they aren't which one applies in a case where they disagree? Who gets to decide?
Y'now, Microsofts license can be summarized in a single sentence: "Your ass is ours and we'll sue you if you do something we don't like". Short and to the point. What good is "open software" if I need three people with law degrees to figure out which of a number of mutually incompatibe documents governs what I'm about to do and what rules it stipulates?
It is nothing but common sense with math.
Yes, that's what physics is: A well-organized, well-documented common sense with math.
How about a Firefox extension that, at random time intervals, randomly requests one of the page links?
Yeah, that would be cool. The "randomly chosen page links" would include advertising, of course, so I'd be earning AdSense click revenue every time someone just visits my site, even if they never actually click on something.
I just wonder what Google might say about that...
GIF was designed, for logos
Nope.
Why this still was unacceptable for the Bush administration is up for speculation (no evidence? he would be more useful as a boogey man? this way he could be tortured and killed without a trial? invasion of Afghanistan fits the plans outlined by "a new american century"? ... ).
For a clue to the puzzle, one could also have a look at a map for the first time in one's life and examine what country the US might be wanting to target if they put down a foot in Afghanistan first and Iraq second. Both of these were attacked under bogus pretenses and if the American public weren't so utterly, mindwrenchingly retarded, it would really not be too hard for them to notice the country right between the two, that constitutes a rather obvious target of the whole thrust.
All music is world music. I ain't never heard an alien sing a song.
There ya'go: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-744011853 6241933678&q=alien+song
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And 3200 people, of no fault of their own, died by the hands of cowards.
It continues to puzzle me where Americans, who kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians by dropping bombs onto them from great altitude, out of airplanes, without any threat to the health or well-being of the bomber, get the gall to use the term "coward" in reference to people who were willing to die for the completion of their mission. Whatever the 9/11-perpetrators were, they were most ceratinly not cowards.
America has a problem with debt.
We're all born with noting. If you die in debt, you win.
Arrgh -- strike that. Britain, not Russia.
http://www.lao.ca.gov/2002/cal_facts/econ.html
Should'a googled first...
the 8th largest economy in the world.
Either my data is outdated or yours is: last I checked it was the US, Russia, Germany, Japan, California, France... making it the 5th-largest economy on the planet.
While we are talking lawsuit, what's the logical argument/premise going to be for filing the suit?
Lawsuits are not filed on "logical premises". Lawsuits are filed when someone beaks a law.
The real solution from an automotive perspective is to federally mandate gas milage standards that are more stringent than where they are now,
What good is a (federal or otherwise) mandate when you have already decided up front that you cannot hold people to that mandate? California has clean-air mandates and if/when you willfully ignore them, you get your ass hauled to court.
Back that up. By definition, half has an IQ below median, but if we had one guy with a very low negative IQ (e.g. -100000000000000000000), 90% of us could be above average.
-There is no such thing as a "negative IQ".
-IQ is scaled such that it is gaussian around a certain mean. Half the people tested are below the average by definition of IQ. If you ever test a distribution that is not gaussian, then you are not testing IQ but something else.
Phooie, back in my day, I had a hard drive the size of an Arby's that would hold only zero
Zero? You had zeros? We had to use the letter "oh"...
computers hit a "good enough" level a few years ago now it seems,
Yeah - 640k are enough for everybody.
Many scientists believe that oil is produced as mineral and doesnt have anything to do with decayed plant matter.
Ah, "many".
Like, approximately, two or three.
Nah -- screw athletics. They only make money because they can appeal to a large number of low-income folks. Since the per-person travel costs are so high, you'll have to start at the upscale end of the ladder: Blue Man Group in space, Cirque de Soleil in weightlessness -- that kind of thing. You want to attract the people who'd not just be willing, but actually able to afford $200k to see Barry Manilow floating around.
There's two seperate questions here:
* Are random searches effective, full stop?
There's a much more apropos question that comes even before that one: are searches effective. Any searches?
The answer is: No, of course not. If we had had 100% full-body cavity strip-searches of every single passenger on 9/11/2001, NOTHING WOULD HAVE CHANGED. Not one of these smokescreens the TSA has been putting up would have made one iota of difference. Not one of the smokescreens the FBI or the White House have been throwing up would have changed a thing. If someone wanted to replicate 9/11/01 tomorrow, they could do so. There's no mechanism in place to prevent any one of the events of that day from happening again.
Perhaps the civilised part of the US should segregate from the rednecks?
Don't think that we haven't been talking about it.
But then what? Would you rather have Texas as your embarrassing retarded cousin or as a heavily-armed retarded enemy next door?