Here (sorry-pdf) is a card with instruction on what to do if you have problem or are turned away while trying to vote.

I doubt that I’d have a problem. From the amount of political physical spam-mail I get (I think the NRA sold my name to the Republicans and the ACLU sold my name to the Democrats - thus I have generic signed photographs of both Clinton and Bush) I’m probably whitelisted for full access.

This is pretty obvious - if you have only one choice in high speed internet, how can competition happen? Remember that much of the telephone physical infrastructure was paid for by the us government. Why should it become the exclusive right of one telecom? In the case of cable, they should only have to share it if they received free access or something in exchange for providing public communication services.
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(Washington, D.C.) - The Bush Administration’s Internet policy has resulted in high prices that are retarding the spread of high-speed Internet service and widening the digital divide, a report released today by the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union concluded.

“Allowing cable and telephone companies to squeeze out competition is a double-barreled failure,” said Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America. “Americans pay ten to twenty times as much as consumers in Korea and Japan for broadband, and the U.S. has fallen from third to thirteenth in the world in the percentage of citizens with broadband service. Meanwhile, the percentage of households
that have the Internet at home has stagnated at about 60 percent.”

http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/ddnewbook.pdf

What’s the difference between .COM and .ORG?

” From: Donald Povia [dpovia@georgewbush.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:26 PM
To: Thomas Roberts; ‘Jon Seaton’; Ryan Krabill; Jennifer Williams
Subject: i think

She and I would look good together…

Don Povia
Washington State Field Representative
Bush-Cheney ‘04, Inc.
dpovia@georgewbush.com
Office: 866.660.BUSH
Direct: 425.688.0148
Cell: 425.736.9186
Fax: 425.688.0170
www.georgewbush.com

—–Original Message—–
From: Ryan Krabill [mailto:rkrabill@georgewbush.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:34 PM
To: Donald Povia [dpovia@georgewbush.com]; Thomas Roberts [troberts@georgewbush.com]; Jon Seaton [jseaton@georgewbush.org]; Jennifer Williams [jwilliams@georgewbush.com]
Subject: Spam Alert: RE: i think

Just stay away from Jenna or things could get ugly.

RJK
”

A bunch of political staffers are about to find out.

http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/.

Your website sucks. It’s really difficult to find anything. It looks ugly. It’s crowded.

And the authentication system - it sucks. I get one chance to try my password and if that doesn’t work, I have to close all instances of my browser to try again.

To refresh my password, I have to send an email which resets my account to a new random password. So - an email address spoof lets me disable somebody’s account until they reset it.

C’mon guys, you can do better then this.

Have you seen Peter Packet yet?

From the University of Washington’s CSE Colloquium - it’s a Windows Media presentation of Behind the scenes at Google.

I accepted the product manager position at 11:00 today. Whenever my current group lets me leave (3-6 weeks I’m guessing) I’ll be a Senior Product Development Manager - Security Products. Whatever that means.

Democracy, n.:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic… negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
— U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), since withdrawn.

An eighty-year-old woman is rocking away the afternoon on her porch when she sees an old, tarnished lamp sitting near the steps. She picks it up, rubs it gently, and lo and behold a genie appears! The genie tells the woman the he will grant her any three wishes her heart desires.

After a bit of thought, she says, “I wish I were young and beautiful!” And POOF! In a cloud of smoke she becomes a young, beautiful, voluptuous woman.

After a little more thought, she says, “I would like to be rich for the rest of my life.” And POOF! When the smoke clears, there are stacks and stacks of money lying on the porch.

The genie then says, “Now, madam, what is your final wish?”
“Well,” says the woman, “I would like for you to transform my faithful old cat, whom I have loved dearly for fifteen years, into a young handsome prince!”
And with another billow of smoke the cat is changed into a tall, handsome, young man, with dark hair, dressed in a dashing uniform.
As they gaze at each other in adoration, the prince leans over to the woman and whispers into her ear, “Now, aren’t you sorry you had me fixed?”

Either my standards have dropped significantly or Zinger’s writing is approaching professional quality.

So, what gives? Up until this year Dr. Webdonkey’s news submissions showed a flagrant disregard of any attempts at editing and his grammatical style erred on the side of the unpublishable.

Recently, though, Zingro puts Herr Palahniuk to shame in style, composition, and voice.

Dude, keep it up.