So basically they want to get people to work for free? This sounds like a new management trend in the making. What better way to improve profits than to drive resource costs to zero?
James Pacenza, 58, of Montgomery, says he visits chat rooms to treat traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an Army patrol in Vietnam.
Wonder how his traumatic stress has been treated since 1969?
the Greens, the Libertarians, and the Socialists. Yes, the Socialists have done a hell of a lot--just look throughout History, especially Labor History, better yet, read "The Jungle". It demonstrates a complete failure of the free market. Third parties are really working to protect voters rights, while the democrats make speeches and then push it all under the rug and a majority of the republicans who deny a problem exists!
Way I understand it, is that neither has been adequately addressed, despite all of the work that has been done (Ed Felton, Bev Harris, bradblog, the HBO documentary, RFK Jr, and countless others) that specifically states what the problems are w/the technology that is used. Instead, Diebold is whining "Trust us.", while collecting megabucks and going on their merry way.
If I'm reading the parent correctly, the interpreters charge more than his wife does, so in effect, his wife would be paying the deaf people to be clients.
Sorry, no. In light of the fact that his wife was the "psychologist of choice" for the deaf community, there was absolutely nothing stopping his wife from taking a sign-language course, so payment for an interpreter would not be necessary. (In fact, it was her responsibility, if she was being paid via a government agency, i.e., vocational rehabilitation, for example.) If his wife did NOT, she should NOT have been seeing deaf clients. I used to be a social worker and my caseload briefly included deaf clients (first two weeks on the job). We would sit at a computer terminal, do Q&A's necessary for an intake, then I would print out a copy for the file. Then cases were transferred to a person who knew sign language. (Something in important in the "long story short" was omitted.)
I can tell you that there is something missing that from the "long story short".
Republican Bob Ney of Ohio resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, three weeks after pleading guilty in the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal.
The primary author and steward of HAVA was Rep. Bob Ney, the GOP chairman of the powerful U.S. House Administration Committee. Ney had close ties to the now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose firm received at least $275,000 from Diebold to lobby for its touch-screen machines.
Ney also made sure that Diebold and other companies would not be required to equip their machines with printers to provide paper records that could be verified by voters. In a clever twist, HAVA effectively pressures every precinct to provide at least one voting device that has no paper trail - supposedly so that vision-impaired citizens can vote in secrecy. The provision was backed by two little-known advocacy groups: the National Federation of the Blind, which accepted $1 million from Diebold to build a new research institute, and the American Association of People with Disabilities, which pocketed at least $26,000 from voting-machine companies. The NFB maintained that a paper voting receipt would jeopardize its members' civil rights - a position not shared by other groups that advocate for the blind.
Also, other people with different disabilies are effectively disenfranchised, as their need for accomodations while voting is not being addressed. Second, many, if not most people with disabilities who vote, don't care whether or not they vote in privacy. (Their concern is "what will an elected official actually do for people with disabilities", other than give speeches.)
NO lawsuit! First Amendment and New York Times v. US--no prior restraint, which resulted in the removal of an injunction against the New York Times for publishing the first in a series re: the Pentagon Papers! Diebold is trying to pull the same kind of crap AND they don't have a leg to stand on.
I really, really wish there was a "none of the above" option. And, if that option got the majority of votes... the election would be run again... with the parties from the previous election barred from participating in the rerun election. (Because, theoretically, they ran their "best" candidate and they were overwhelmingly voted against... so any other candidate... being less "better" would fare as badly.)
No, the PARTIES and the LOBBYISTS ran who they THOUGHT was the best salesman to give the best pitch to voters to get elected, but, do the opposite after "winning". If this was a true democracy, a "none of the above" option would be in place, as there are more people in this country who don't vote than their are who do. Now I wonder if something along the lines of a parliamentary system is needed.
A nation's prime minister ("PM") is almost always the leader of the majority party in the lower house of parliament, but only holds his or her office as long as the "confidence of the house" is maintained. If members of parliament lose faith in the leader for whatever reason, they can often call a vote of no confidence and force the PM to resign. This can be particularly dangerous to a government when the distribution of seats is relatively even, in which case a new election is often called shortly thereafter.
Only difference be that the vote of "no confidence" would be by the people and only the people, at any time for any reason. People don't like legistlation, signing statements, executive orders, appointments, cronies having too many questionable ties to an imprisoned lobbyist? Time for an election as to whether or not there is confidence in the government. One way to remind politicians that they work for the people, and the people don't owe them a vote, campaign contribution, or anything!
Come on, who pays a politicians salary and benefits and perks? Who really "works" for who?
No case better demonstrates the dangers posed by electronic voting machines than the experience of Maryland. As in Georgia, officials there granted Diebold control over much of the state's election systems during the 2002 midterm elections. (In the interests of disclosure, my sister was a candidate for governor that year and lost by a margin consistent with pre-election polls.) On Election Night, when Chris Hood accompanied Diebold president Bob Urosevich and marketing director Mark Radke to the tabulation center in Montgomery County where the votes would be added up, he was stunned to find the room empty. "Not a single Maryland election official was there to retrieve the memory cards," he recalls. As cards containing every vote in the county began arriving in canvas bags, the Diebold executives plugged them into a group of touch-screen tabulators linked into a central server, which was also controlled by a Diebold employee.
"It would have been very easy for any one of us to take a contaminated card out of our pocket, put it into the system, and download some malicious code that would then end up in the server, impacting every other vote that went in, before and after," says Hood. "We had absolute control of the tabulations.
Now I am getting extremely curious about the code(s) that could be in a server used to tabulate the results. Also, what about the security of the servers and the software that is used. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least 2 people locally who could interpret a source code. (I'm not a programmer.)
Diebold Election Systems shipped Maryland flawed electronic voting machines that were used in the 2004 election, then quietly replaced the malfunctioning components last year, documents and interviews show.
Gilles W. Burger, chairman of the State Board of Elections, said this week that he and fellow members were initially told that Diebold was performing a "technical refresher" of the voting machines during July and August last year. He later learned that the refresher was really the repair of a flaw discovered by Diebold about three years earlier but not disclosed to him and other board members.
Yeah, right, EVERY motherboard goes/is defective and needs to be replaced!
And, Diebold sent a reply to Rolling Stone re: the article, and not once was Maryland mentioned.
Solution: Release ALL souce codes. Diebold, Sequoia, et al, have to prove that ALL of their software is properly written, instead of whining "trade secrets" and answer ANY and ALL questions.
I've worked for an agency that receives government money and here is the amount of paperwork necessary to get payment: one copy for the file (which goes to adminsitration), one for billing, one for the state, one for the feds, one for an additional funder (if applicable), one for the vendor. And no one knows about the replacement of motherboards?
The first defense against electoral corruption is a strong turn-out, so get out there and vote.
If I vote, I would vote third party or write-in a candidate who has no chance in hell of winning. Democrats want my vote, they have to prove they deserve it. (And, there are a hell of a lot of people--not just in my district--who aren't voting due to the lousy candidates running.)
Final thought: think its possible third party votes and write-ins are "flipped/tabulated incorrectly"? I sure do.
I have NOT missed any election since I was 18! Now, for the first time in my life, I am actually giving very serious thought to NOT voting! I've had it!
BTW, not your comment, all of these damn articles re: election/vote theft.
Gilles W. Burger, chairman of the State Board of Elections, said this week that he and fellow members were initially told that Diebold was performing a "technical refresher" of the voting machines during July and August last year. He later learned that the refresher was really the repair of a flaw discovered by Diebold about three years earlier but not disclosed to him and other board members. The "motherboard" of each unit - the main circuit board that holds all of the machine's critical parts - had a glitch that could cause the machines to freeze.
Second:
"The government should know who owns our voting machines; that is a national security concern," said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, who asked the Bush administration in May to review the Sequoia takeover.
The US Constitution established Congress as America's premier arm of government. George Bush, Dick Cheney, and their neoconservative allies used 9/11 to turn Congress into a rubber stamp like the old Supreme Soviet. Look at the embarrassing Republican leaders in Congress, the world's greatest legislature, and the heir to the great Roman Senate:
The shambling Senate leader, Dennis Hastert, was a wrestling coach. The once feared House leader, Tom Delay, was a cockroach exterminator before going to Congress. They were barely worthy of political office in Dogpatch, Texas, never mind Washington.
Both Republicans and Democrats are steeped in Washington's endemic corruption and influence peddling due to the constant need to raise campaign funds by kow-towing to special interests. Members of both parties voted like clapping seals for the Iraq War. But Republicans took the lead in promoting and sustaining that totally unnecessary conflict, now estimated to likely cost upwards of $1 trillion before it is lost.
Q--Now, if fighting supposed terrorism, is so damn important, why the hell even bother w/Chavex?
Q--How do Bush, Cheney and their cronies make their money?
Both elementary and secondary school. And there is a lot of truth to this statement.
teachers at private schools get paid less, but generally they're happier working there than in the public system.
My high school English teacher used to teach in the public school system and quit due to all the bs that he had to put up with. (What I did learn/develop a clear and concise writng style, thanks to him.) And this was years ago, and I do know its worse for the teachers in public schools now.
A good friend's wife is a teacher in the public school system, ironically the same school that I would have attended, had I attended public schools. (I grew up in a rough part of town and my family was not affluent.)
It's similar to being a social worker. (I used to be one until budgets were cut.) The students/clients have all the rights and the teacher/worker has none. So much time is wasted on administrative bullshit/paperwork, and justifying whatever you have to do, no matter what the circumstances. You are constantly required to do more with less, which makes both jobs damn near impossible, and increases the rate of burnout. And, in both fields, there are the constantly increasing requirements for CEU's--hell, when you are not working, you're taking a totally useless class or studying, just so you have the damn credential that is suddenly required. Plus, the pay sucks. And you have to pay good people who know their jobs decently, or they will say, "See ya!"
My late sister and brother-in-law were also teachers in the public school system. Both quit and went into other fields.
Back to my friend's wife--I don't know how she hangs on. If it was me, I would have walked and thrown away a pension years ago. (Especially after what I heard.) Fact of the matter is that there are many teachers out there who are really dedicated--same with social workers, who battle the stereotype of bureaucrats as they are overburdened with paperwork, and are lucky if they can spend 10 minutes per client. In light of the latter, I am glad that I am out. But, I do miss it sometimes--those days are fewer and farther between, Thank God. The stress was horrible.
Only bad thing about Catholic schools, from my experience, is that they are at least ten years behind the times (I'm probably older than most on this site.) not into tech and have rigid thoughts re: sex roles. A woman taking tech classes? That was rare. I took one computer class (only female) and that was it--teacher couldn't explain anything to make it understandable for someone just starting. (Talked on and on and on, assumed that everyone knew what all the jargon meant--made me crazy!) Had the same experience in college, so I gave up on it. Then, when I graduated, the economy tanked!
Now, as the economy in my state is tanking again, I'm teaching myself about computers and giving freelance writing a shot. There's nothing the fuck else to do.
And if anyone is interested in a net neutrality article that is concise and to the point, here's a writing sample.
There were the Democratic-Republicans and the National Republicans. The D-R's evolved into the democratic party, and the N-R's, the repubican. But, along the way, their ideology changed/reversed. Civil War, Industrial Revolution, Bull Moose party, Pullman Strike and so on.
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Bet he gets a book deal!
Someone gets carpal tunnel, no Worker's Comp!
Good documentation
I was almost beginning to wonder if it was just me!
the Greens, the Libertarians, and the Socialists. Yes, the Socialists have done a hell of a lot--just look throughout History, especially Labor History, better yet, read "The Jungle". It demonstrates a complete failure of the free market. Third parties are really working to protect voters rights, while the democrats make speeches and then push it all under the rug and a majority of the republicans who deny a problem exists!
Way I understand it, is that neither has been adequately addressed, despite all of the work that has been done (Ed Felton, Bev Harris, bradblog, the HBO documentary, RFK Jr, and countless others) that specifically states what the problems are w/the technology that is used. Instead, Diebold is whining "Trust us.", while collecting megabucks and going on their merry way.
Sorry, no. In light of the fact that his wife was the "psychologist of choice" for the deaf community, there was absolutely nothing stopping his wife from taking a sign-language course, so payment for an interpreter would not be necessary. (In fact, it was her responsibility, if she was being paid via a government agency, i.e., vocational rehabilitation, for example.) If his wife did NOT, she should NOT have been seeing deaf clients. I used to be a social worker and my caseload briefly included deaf clients (first two weeks on the job). We would sit at a computer terminal, do Q&A's necessary for an intake, then I would print out a copy for the file. Then cases were transferred to a person who knew sign language. (Something in important in the "long story short" was omitted.) I can tell you that there is something missing that from the "long story short".
I used to date you! Summer of '05! LOL!!!
Good advice to apply to what I'm writing!
And he stayed on long enough to pick up paychecks and bennies.
No offense intended, but that is a CROCK.
Also, other people with different disabilies are effectively disenfranchised, as their need for accomodations while voting is not being addressed. Second, many, if not most people with disabilities who vote, don't care whether or not they vote in privacy. (Their concern is "what will an elected official actually do for people with disabilities", other than give speeches.)
NO lawsuit! First Amendment and New York Times v. US--no prior restraint, which resulted in the removal of an injunction against the New York Times for publishing the first in a series re: the Pentagon Papers! Diebold is trying to pull the same kind of crap AND they don't have a leg to stand on.
Especially the link re: availabilty!
No, the PARTIES and the LOBBYISTS ran who they THOUGHT was the best salesman to give the best pitch to voters to get elected, but, do the opposite after "winning". If this was a true democracy, a "none of the above" option would be in place, as there are more people in this country who don't vote than their are who do. Now I wonder if something along the lines of a parliamentary system is needed.
Only difference be that the vote of "no confidence" would be by the people and only the people, at any time for any reason. People don't like legistlation, signing statements, executive orders, appointments, cronies having too many questionable ties to an imprisoned lobbyist? Time for an election as to whether or not there is confidence in the government. One way to remind politicians that they work for the people, and the people don't owe them a vote, campaign contribution, or anything! Come on, who pays a politicians salary and benefits and perks? Who really "works" for who?
Even though I'm not a programmer, that sounds like there is screwed up programming, IMO.
RFK Jr.
Now I am getting extremely curious about the code(s) that could be in a server used to tabulate the results. Also, what about the security of the servers and the software that is used. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least 2 people locally who could interpret a source code. (I'm not a programmer.)
And, the motherboards were changed in Maryland.
Yeah, right, EVERY motherboard goes/is defective and needs to be replaced!
And, Diebold sent a reply to Rolling Stone re: the article, and not once was Maryland mentioned.
Solution: Release ALL souce codes. Diebold, Sequoia, et al, have to prove that ALL of their software is properly written, instead of whining "trade secrets" and answer ANY and ALL questions.
I've worked for an agency that receives government money and here is the amount of paperwork necessary to get payment: one copy for the file (which goes to adminsitration), one for billing, one for the state, one for the feds, one for an additional funder (if applicable), one for the vendor. And no one knows about the replacement of motherboards?
If I vote, I would vote third party or write-in a candidate who has no chance in hell of winning. Democrats want my vote, they have to prove they deserve it. (And, there are a hell of a lot of people--not just in my district--who aren't voting due to the lousy candidates running.)
Final thought: think its possible third party votes and write-ins are "flipped/tabulated incorrectly"? I sure do.
BTW, not your comment, all of these damn articles re: election/vote theft.
May the better crook win!
First: Diebold changed motherboards in Maryland in 2005, and denies any votes were lost.
Second:
Interesting choice of words.Third, about those "responsible" for decision making re: national security:
Q--Now, if fighting supposed terrorism, is so damn important, why the hell even bother w/Chavex?
Q--How do Bush, Cheney and their cronies make their money?
A--OIL
I have many reasons for disliking M$! I'll let it go at that for now.
teachers at private schools get paid less, but generally they're happier working there than in the public system.
My high school English teacher used to teach in the public school system and quit due to all the bs that he had to put up with. (What I did learn/develop a clear and concise writng style, thanks to him.) And this was years ago, and I do know its worse for the teachers in public schools now.
A good friend's wife is a teacher in the public school system, ironically the same school that I would have attended, had I attended public schools. (I grew up in a rough part of town and my family was not affluent.)
It's similar to being a social worker. (I used to be one until budgets were cut.) The students/clients have all the rights and the teacher/worker has none. So much time is wasted on administrative bullshit/paperwork, and justifying whatever you have to do, no matter what the circumstances. You are constantly required to do more with less, which makes both jobs damn near impossible, and increases the rate of burnout. And, in both fields, there are the constantly increasing requirements for CEU's--hell, when you are not working, you're taking a totally useless class or studying, just so you have the damn credential that is suddenly required. Plus, the pay sucks. And you have to pay good people who know their jobs decently, or they will say, "See ya!"
My late sister and brother-in-law were also teachers in the public school system. Both quit and went into other fields.
Back to my friend's wife--I don't know how she hangs on. If it was me, I would have walked and thrown away a pension years ago. (Especially after what I heard.) Fact of the matter is that there are many teachers out there who are really dedicated--same with social workers, who battle the stereotype of bureaucrats as they are overburdened with paperwork, and are lucky if they can spend 10 minutes per client. In light of the latter, I am glad that I am out. But, I do miss it sometimes--those days are fewer and farther between, Thank God. The stress was horrible.
Only bad thing about Catholic schools, from my experience, is that they are at least ten years behind the times (I'm probably older than most on this site.) not into tech and have rigid thoughts re: sex roles. A woman taking tech classes? That was rare. I took one computer class (only female) and that was it--teacher couldn't explain anything to make it understandable for someone just starting. (Talked on and on and on, assumed that everyone knew what all the jargon meant--made me crazy!) Had the same experience in college, so I gave up on it. Then, when I graduated, the economy tanked!
Now, as the economy in my state is tanking again, I'm teaching myself about computers and giving freelance writing a shot. There's nothing the fuck else to do.
And if anyone is interested in a net neutrality article that is concise and to the point, here's a writing sample.
OTOH, is anyone suprised?
In 2004, exit polls showed Kerry ahead, and projected him as the winner!
There were the Democratic-Republicans and the National Republicans. The D-R's evolved into the democratic party, and the N-R's, the repubican. But, along the way, their ideology changed/reversed. Civil War, Industrial Revolution, Bull Moose party, Pullman Strike and so on.