TECHNOLOGY: Voting machines as compared to slot machines

Monday, January 26, 2009

CRYPTO-GRAM
January 15, 2009
by Bruce Schneier  Chief Security Technology Officer, BT

http://www.schneier.com

A free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on security: computer and otherwise.

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Comparing the security of electronic slot machines and electronic voting machines:

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.gif or http://tinyurl.com/f4an8

Other important differences:

1) Slot machines are used every day, 24 hours a day. Electronic voting machines are used, at most, twice a year — often less frequently.

2) Slot machines involve money. Electronic voting machines involve something much more abstract.

3) Slot machine accuracy is a non-partisan issue. For some reason I can’t fathom, electronic voting machine accuracy is seen as a political issue.

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Just be the one to count the votes and you control this psuedo democracy that we live in.

What a koke!

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POLITICAL: Why is the gooferment in the skrule business to start with?

Sunday, January 25, 2009

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090113/NEWS01/901130315/1006/NEWS01

Officials ordered to stop prayer at schools

ACLU wins injunction against Santa Rosa School District.

Carmen Paige • cpaige@pnj.com • January 13, 2009

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A federal judge has ordered the Santa Rosa County School District to stop promoting religion and prayer in the classroom and at school events.

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This begs the question: “What is the Santa Rosa County School District?” and “Why are they running a school in the first place?”

Then, there would be no First Amendment problem.

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GUNS: Point ‘n’ click

Sunday, January 25, 2009

http://www.libertystickers.com/

POINTANDCLICK

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The site’s owner has generously allowed me to share this with you.

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CORRUPTION: Barney Frank directing bailout funds

Saturday, January 24, 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258284337504295.html

JANUARY 22, 2009, 2:45 P.M. ET
Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout Decisions
Barney Frank Goes to Bat for Lender, and It Gets an Infusion
By DAMIAN PALETTA and DAVID ENRICH

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Troubled OneUnited Bank in Boston didn’t look much like a candidate for aid from the Treasury Department’s bank bailout fund last fall.

The Treasury had said it would give money only to healthy banks, to jump-start lending. But OneUnited had seen most of its capital evaporate. Moreover, it was under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses, including owning a Porsche for its executives’ use.

Nonetheless, in December OneUnited got a $12 million injection from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. One apparent factor: the intercession of Rep. Barney Frank, the powerful head of the House Financial Services Committee.

Mr. Frank, by his own account, wrote into the TARP bill a provision specifically aimed at helping this particular home-state bank. And later, he acknowledges, he spoke to regulators urging that OneUnited be considered for a cash injection.

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Maybe they will give you are ride in the “taxpayer’s” Porsche!

How do we have Barney Frank still in politics?

Gay prostitute. Community Reinvestment Act. Banking system abuse. Now this.

I don’t understand?

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POLITICAL: What are “states” and why do they have pension funds?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

State Pension Funds’ $865 Billion Loss Means New Hires Get Less


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=worldwide&sid=aw9HrY21Ynno

     

As a budding libertarian, you might ask “why do states have pensions?”. Us old libertarians ask: “What the hell is a state?” A fiction. A figment of the imagination. A collective delusion that enslaves us. A meme whose time has past?


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INTERESTING: Creative Commons Licensing comes to music.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

http://creativecommons.org/

CASH Music: Exploring Creative Commons Licensing in the Music Industry
Cameron Parkins, January 21st, 2009

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CASH Music, the CC license using music label/creative community we have discussed numerous times before, just launched a wonderful new Creative Commons Portal for understanding how CC licenses can be utilized by record labels and artists.

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Creative Commons Licensing comes to music.

The end of the RIAA?

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GUNS: Buy guns and ammo now?

Friday, January 23, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy39.html

Buy, Buy, Buy
by Michael Gaddy

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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.   ~ Noah Webster

While we stumble along economically with bailouts, buyouts, and poor sales in almost all sectors, two products in America are seeing dramatic increases in sales: guns and ammo. People who never owned a gun before are buying; people are buying multiples of military style weapons and ammo is being bought by the case instead of by the box.

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Forewarned is forearmed. The encrouchments continue. Watched Mel Gibson’s “the patriot” again last night. Seems so obvious. Why can we only learn the lessons of history after something bad happens to us. Look at the TSA and ask “how the hell did this happen?”. I’d suggest it was when the FAA disarmed the pilots. But you might have other opinions.

The RIGHT to Keep and Bear Arms — RKBA — should have been the First Amendment! Ask any tyrant or dictator.

It’s really the litmus test for a politician. Ask that one question and you can tell if they are a socialist or not.

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RANT: FEDEX users USPS?

Friday, January 23, 2009

From the FedEx website tracking my VistaPrint cards

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All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location

To display the shipment travel activity in local time of the scan, please select “Local Scan Time” time zone option.

Date/Time Activity Location Details

Jan 22, 2009 3:17 AM Departed FedEx location EDISON, NJ

Jan 22, 2009 12:00 AM Package data transmitted to USPS KENDALL PARK, NJ

Jan 21, 2009 11:59 AM Arrived at FedEx location EDISON, NJ

Jan 21, 2009 2:11 AM Departed FedEx location MARTINSBURG, WV

Jan 21, 2009 2:42 AM Arrived at FedEx location MARTINSBURG, WV

Jan 16, 2009 11:07 PM Departed FedEx location BELLEVILLE, MI

Jan 16, 2009 9:04 PM Arrived at FedEx location BELLEVILLE, MI

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Why not just mail it from MI?

Gooferment and FedEx.

Argh!

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RANT: possibility some GITMO prisoners might be set free in America

Friday, January 23, 2009

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17841_Page2.html

Why the Gitmo policies may not change
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 1/23/09 4:28 AM EST

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5. The orders downplay the possibility that some prisoners might be set free in America.

Obama ordered that when Guantanamo closes, any remaining inmates “be returned to their home country, released, transferred to a third country, or transferred to another United States detention facility in a manner consistent with law and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.” But Obama’s wordsmiths seem to have deliberately trimmed out any explicit mention of the explosive possibility of freeing prisoners on American soil.

While Obama’s aides seem to prefer trying prisoners in civil courts or freeing them abroad, there are no obvious charges to be filed against some of the detainees. Once Guantanamo closes, letting them loose in the U.S. may be the only option if other countries won’t take them.

Craig said he was “hopeful” that other governments will take many of the detainees, but some nations may not step up until the U.S. does. “One question a lot of countries keep asking is, ‘How many are you going to take?” Waxman said. “There may be some countries that want to earn some credit [with the] new administration…but I don’t expect this problem to go away.”

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I’m speechless!

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JOBFINDING: Sr. HR Director, a Compensation Specialist, and a Training Supervisor

Friday, January 23, 2009

In the spirit of Sergeant Schultz as played by John Banner “I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!” “I know nothing, nothing! Nuthing at all.” I really have nothing to add!

My Facebook friend RG is looking for a Sr. HR Director, a Compensation Specialist, and a Training Supervisor.

Convince me why I should let you use my good graces to annoy my friend and fellow alum.

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