CON SPIR AH SEE!!!!!
polycounter lvl 18
It's election day here in the U.S., and I just wanted to be the first to say it. No, I don't have any particular reason to do so, I just wanted to be the first. Mark my words, either the democrats or republicans (whoever loses) will be screaming it in a couple of days.
Make sure to get out and vote today, people!
Make sure to get out and vote today, people!
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i cant vote cause i am a convicted felon.
"In Virginia, election officials contacted the
FBI over complaints about voter intimidation. Jean Jensen, secretary of the Board of Elections, said her office received reports of phone calls apparently encouraging voters to stay home on Election Day. Other calls directed voters to the wrong polling place.
In Kentucky, a poll worker was arrested after allegedly choking a voter and throwing him out of the polling place. The two had argued over a ballot issue. " -AP
i cant vote cause i am a convicted felon.
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but at least you get the chicks !:D
Just stick with paper damnit! Less room for error!
Or better yet, have someone OTHER than 80yr-old grannies in charge of the voting computers!....
Or better yet, have someone OTHER than 80yr-old grannies in charge of the voting computers!....
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that would be like changing the fabric of the universe itself
(arsh, if its a boring one, make something cool up)
Student Arrested For Terroristic Threatening Says Incident A Misunderstanding
A J.M. Tate High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told Pensacola News Journal Thursday that the "writings" that got him arrested are being taken out of context.
Escambia County police say Samuel Sharit, 17, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Investigators say they discovered materials at Sharit's home that outline possible acts of violence aimed at students, teachers, and police.
Sharit told Pensacola News Journal that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class.
"My story is based on fiction," said Sharit, who faces a first-degree felony terrorist charge. "It's a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies."
Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Flordia," said Escambia County Police detective Steven Campbell.
Sharit disputes that he was threatening anyone.
"It didn't mention anyone who lives in Escambia County, or anybody i even know exsists, it didn't mention (J.M. Tate High School), didn't mention no principal or cops, nothing,"
said Sharit. "Half the people at high school know me. They know I'm not that stupid, thats crazy."
On Thursday, a judge raised Sharit's bond from one to five thousand dollars after prosecutors requested it, citing the seriousness of the charge.
Sharit is being held at the Escambia County Detention Center.
...........and so yeah thanks to those Columbine shitheads your not allowed to write a story about zombies, if it has a school in it. i had to learn the hard way
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2989614
had me for a second though!
thanks to art school.
.. but i am an incredible bullshitter.....
thanks to art school.
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Quoted for truth.
also I voted
"Just stick with paper damnit! Less room for error!"
hah. ahaahaha. AAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.
heh.
These things have been in use over here for a while now, and nobody seems to have problems with it. Not that they all use it to vote for the least retarded party, but that's humanity for you.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/18/diebold_voting_machi.html
click desired option on screen, vote gets written to magnetic card, card gets dropped in box. BINGO.
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You mean there's a separate magnetic card for every vote that is cast, and then you count the magnetic cards? Diebold Election Systems don't work that way. The votes are all stored locally in the machine, all on the same flash memory card. The machines just spit out the totals, without any objective way to verify the results. They use proprietary software, so the way in which the votes are counted is considered a "trade secret."
I don't like the counting of my vote to be shrouded in secrecy, and I definitely don't like my election being in the hands of a PRIVATE corporation... especially when the CEO of that private corporation made huge campaign contributions to a specific Presidential candidate and then later promised to "deliver" (in his own words) votes to that candidate.
This was a non partisan effort. There not saying its a conspiracy just saying diebold is incompetent.
edit... forgot one thing..
The lady that spearheaded the research found all the voting software and downloaded it from a public FTP site at diebold. They were in hot water and closed the site after a federal review hammered em.
The code was analyzed and TONS of bugs were found!
downloaded it from a public FTP site at diebold.
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That's the part that concerns me more than the bugs. Not that a dedicated hacker can't break the code eventually, but why would they EVER offer up the code and make it easier
I'm a big supporter of having an electronic system, but I'm afraid that it will never be a good fit for this society. Someone will try to hack it or the companies that make the equipment are incompetent.
CON SPIR AH SEE!!!!!
(conspiracy)
Eventually common citizens begin giving weight to the bogus conspiracy claim. After some time, this undermines the credit of the government (or police, or other organization, or whomever.) So, that organization ends up taking a hit in support, trust, or whatever due to a fabricated claim.
Often times I'd be willing to guess that the claims are politically motivated. Other times, they are just paranoid delusions. I'd group most of the original ones here on Polycount that never gain traction with the public as delusions.
Now, technically paranoid delusions of government manipulation are not really conspiracies by their own merit (the delusions, that is). But if someone with a political agenda pushes them, and continues to spread these unsubstantiated fears and conjectures for political or social purposes, then that should be considered a true conspiracy. So, like I said before...
CON SPIR AH SEE!!!!!
Things could get really interesting in the next few months.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/rumsfeld.ap/index.html
About fucking time!
Rummy is stepping down!? Oh sweet irony, maybe the future won't suck... I do feel sorry for Ol' Rumsfeld he was more or less used and abused by the president and stuck by him more out of a sense of loyalty to the US, and self preservation, than to the president. If you listen to some of his press briefings he comes off as pretty arogant but he also doesn't agree with the president but is more restrained and subtle. It is a smart move on Rummys part, gettin' while the gettin's good, because the lynch mobs are heading for the torches, after they get done hanging the drapes. It's sad it took things this long to change course but I'm glad it has happened.
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That's not 100% accurate. First of all, Rumsfeld didn't just decide to step down, he was pressured into doing so by Bush and his advisors (i.e. Karl Rove et al) for political reasons. Second, right now isn't when the getting is good; two years ago was when the getting was good.
Also, don't think that Rumsfeld is just some poor sap that was dragged along by the President. Iraq was his pet project: Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz all started cooking up this idea (to invade Iraq) back in 1998 (when they were all part of the infamous thinktank "Project for a New American Century"), way before Bush was even considering running. Bush just adopted their ideology to base his presidency on, he didn't come up with it himself.
That's the part that concerns me more than the bugs. Not that a dedicated hacker can't break the code eventually, but why would they EVER offer up the code and make it easier
I'm a big supporter of having an electronic system, but I'm afraid that it will never be a good fit for this society. Someone will try to hack it or the companies that make the equipment are incompetent.
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Security through obscurity isn't. Hackers will break the system by checking it for "invisible" faults while the legal experts cannot review the security of the system. Keeping the code hidden slows the black hats down a bit and completely stops any legal security reviews. Diebold uses a proprietary third-party OS that can and will have flaws they aren't even aware of and on top of that deliver a piece of software that has not seen any kind of positive independent review. Since voting is a public matter ALL code running on a voting machine must be a public matter. That means the entire code running on the hardware must be published and Diebold must guarantee that that code is exactly what is running on these machines. The opportunity and incentive for abuse is just too great to be acceptable. Diebold must be kept in check and should be held in contempt ever since that statement from their CEO which a person in his position SHOULD NEVER MAKE. The whole system MUST be reviewed by multiple groups of independent reviewers.
The Republicans wanted to lose. A Democratic congress won't be able to do much without a two-thirds majority, we'll have two more years of gridlock, Dems will get the blame, and the GOP will sweep in '08 for a fresh start. -HA!
How about this conspiracy theory?
The Republicans wanted to lose. A Democratic congress won't be able to do much without a two-thirds majority, we'll have two more years of gridlock, Dems will get the blame, and the GOP will sweep in '08 for a fresh start. -HA!
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How about this conspiracy theory?
The Republicans wanted to lose. A Democratic congress won't be able to do much without a two-thirds majority, we'll have two more years of gridlock, Dems will get the blame, and the GOP will sweep in '08 for a fresh start. -HA!
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They joked about that on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report last night.
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Jon Stewart: So, how are the Democrats reacting to their victory?
Correspondent: Well Jon, they're terrified. They're affraid they played right into Karl Rove's hand. In this campaign, they didn't put forth a single coherent position, they have no vision for the future, and the only democrat to get any TV time used it to call US troops "retarded." And yet, somehow, they delivered a crushing defeat to the ruling party. Something's not right Jon... it's a trap!
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How about this conspiracy theory?
The Republicans wanted to lose. A Democratic congress won't be able to do much without a two-thirds majority, we'll have two more years of gridlock, Dems will get the blame, and the GOP will sweep in '08 for a fresh start. -HA!
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I wouldn't worry about it too much because the Dem excuse for grid lock can be;
"look we could do more if we had more of our own people here, the gridlock is coming from the remaining regime. We need to fully clean house if we want to get anything done. We tried to work with them but they are just bitter old cranks that are holding out. The Repub's won't let us get anything done!!!"
So the Dem's could actually do nothing as part of their plan to oust the rest of the Repub's. I'm happy that stem Cell research will finally move forward and that the one industry that was going to carry America has had one hell of a religious right road block removed. It's too bad other countries already picked up the ball and ran with it =/
There are so many people that use "In God We Trust" on currency as an argument to illustrate what the founders intended. Despite the fact that this isn't even an argument but an opinion, I explain to them that currency didn't carry this until the 20th century but by that time they've moved on to some other regurgitated litany. It's a shame so many people are force-fed horseshit.
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