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Re: So long, and thanks for all the fish

pthread — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:12:02 -0000

See you in a few weeks! :)

I'm sure after that early test Biden spoke about, you'll be back! :P

Re: YAAAAY!!!

pthread — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:32:33 -0000

Pay extra for it? With my blackberry on AT&T I tether for free. I'm not sure why they are saying you have to pay on the blackberry.

Also, you can already tether on the iphone, just jailbreak it.

Re: Question of the day

pthread — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:51:35 -0000

No. It's the end of an era.

Re: President-Elect Obama

pthread — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:31:22 -0000

While I am thrilled with the Presidential races in various states turning out so well, it's unfortunate that Prop 8 looks like it may pass. :/

Re: Election Day notes

pthread — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:46:49 -0000

Sorry. Don't mean to be so dismissive. But think about what you are saying. First off, I'm not aware of any evidence that ACORN was facilitating people voting multiple times. ACORN was incredibly forthcoming about this, and brought most of the obvious frauds to light themselves.

Also, the situation you describe wouldn't (shouldn't) happen in a state like Maryland, that requires either a valid Social Security number or Driver's license to be associated with your registration.

Second, consider how difficult it would be to sway an election dong this. You clearly can't go to the same polling place over and over as different people. You'd have to rotate through all the polling places in the area. That takes time. The effectiveness of a single person might be to vote 12 times that day at best. *At Best* I was doing monitoring today, and it was hard to average more than one polling place an hour, and I wasn't waiting in line.

So you'd need many many people in order to sway an election. And many many people don't keep secrets well. So I think the chances of this working out are slim.

The real worry is purging voters, as it's easier to do that under the guise of legitimate purges, and you can do it by the 10s of thousands at a time.

Re: Election Day notes

pthread — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:35:10 -0000

Great. Now try swaying an election by doing that. Good luck.

Re: Hold on to that feelin'...

pthread — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:50:53 -0000

I caught it on Kos. Kos has a rather interesting post on this, pointing out that the numbers are basically flipped from what they normally are. For the last five elections, Republicans have won nearly 3/4s of the votes there.

Re: Hold on to that feelin'...

pthread — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:35:01 -0000

And Obama wins Dixville Notch big! Wahoo!

Re: Hold on to that feelin'...

pthread — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:30:20 -0000

Damn it. I'm all fired up waiting for this town of 20 to vote in NH! That and hyped up on all this red-bull I've been drinking to get this project done. :)

This reminds me of the primaries when this tiny town voted. I can't believe how long ago that was.

Re: Hold on to that feelin'...

pthread — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:18:57 -0000

Dude. It's 12:18AM. Fire up the fucking live-blog! Let's do this!

Re: DEADLINE EXTENDED!

pthread — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:15:56 -0000

I think one of the tiebreakers should be how many hits fivethirtyeight.com gets tonight.

Re: http://theoneblog.brendanloy.com/2008/11/usc-vs-texas-in-fiesta-bowl.html

pthread — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:43:42 -0000

Heh. Battle of the goofy mascots!

Re: http://theoneblog.brendanloy.com/2008/11/usc-vs-texas-in-fiesta-bowl.html

pthread — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:58:52 -0000

One of the ESPN bowl-predictors has been, for several weeks now, predicting a Maryland-Notre Dame bowl game.

This will be punishment for all your nasty words about the ACC!

Re: Electoral College Contest: check your picks!

pthread — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:15:55 -0000

You are lucky being out west, you may get some satisfaction much earlier in the evening!

I'll be doing elections monitoring here in Maryland, and I'm hoping that by the time I get home from the polls they have called the election for Obama already. :)

Re: Don't believe the "race is tightening" hype: the polls clearly show that McCain is still in very, very rough shape

pthread — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:47:13 -0000

I've found I'm best served by holding politicians at their word when they state what they *want* to do. I've never been comfortable with defending a politician with a cry of, "but he wouldn't really do that!" People who are willing to bend in a campaign are generally just as willing to bend when their stance is in opposition to what's popular politically (see someone like John Kerry for an example).

And no, it's not hard to believe the repulsion is not a cover for support of Obama. The McCain campaign has been repulsive, especially when you consider the high hopes that many people (myself included) had for his campaign.

Many of us feel stupid now for assuming that this would be the campaign of our lifetimes with honest debate and lofty rhetoric. And while one can't pretend Obama has run a squeeky clean campaign, there's no comparing the two. We aren't hearing about McCain's many dubious associations, because the Obama campaign refuses to make them an issue.

Re: http://theoneblog.brendanloy.com/2008/10/phillies-win.html

pthread — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:21:16 -0000

And you feel this should affect your voting?

How about you decide which candidate's policies you identify with, and vote that way?

Re: Breaking news

pthread — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:59:40 -0000

Yes, that's a little more noisy than "targeted covert operations across Syria's border."

Re: Go west, young man

pthread — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:51:11 -0000

What a great idea. Too often people don't take (or have) the time for trips like these.

How the heck do you get to all 50 states except Louisiana??! It seems like that's an easy one to mark off pretty early. Some of those states like Idaho and South Dakota though... how the hell do you get out there? :P

Have you got some audio-books to keep you company along the way? They make long drives so easy. If you don't have any, I highly recommend stopping at a book store on the way out of town to pick some up.

Anyway, good luck with your move! Movers can be bastards, hope they treat you well.

Re: Breaking news

pthread — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:43:52 -0000

I have to imagine this has been going on for a while, at least with Special Forces. Perhaps a helicopter is a little much, but I don't have too much of a problem with some carefully targeted covert operations across Syria's border.

Re: http://theoneblog.brendanloy.com/2008/10/college-football-week-9-open-thread.html

pthread — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:21:37 -0000

Maryland finally creeps into the rankings!

Re: The latest GOP talking point, that McCain is roughly where Gore was in the polls at this point, is false.

pthread — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:29:45 -0000

Yeah, I've been *really* confused by all this talk.

Re: Phillies win Game 1 of World Series in Tampa, 4-3

pthread — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:38:38 -0000

I could care less about baseball, but being from Philly I'm glad that idiot from ESPN who went on about how this would obviously be a sweep has to eat his words now.

Ahh sports, if nothing else it's a reason for us to needlessly mock each other.

Re: http://theoneblog.brendanloy.com/2008/10/enter-my-electoral-college-contest.html

pthread — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:01:52 -0000

Nah, it makes it more fun. It's not like there is money at stake here.

I've drawn what I think is a relatively conservative view of an Obama win, given the information we have here. The upside is if Obama exceeds my expectations, I get a bigger win than if I had won this contest! :)

If he doesn't meet them, I'll be pretty unhappy anyway, this contest will be the least of my worries.

Re: What's so awful about "spreading the wealth"?

pthread — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:14:36 -0000

Lol, I love the idea that rich people will stop getting rich because their taxes are a little higher. There's this amorphous threat that's so nicely laid out here that they will:

a.) not show up anymore (i.e. stop working to produce wealth) - ridiculous on its face. Boo-hoo. Instead of getting a ferrari and a porsche, I can only get a ferrari, so forget about it. This is laughable. I'm not here to say that you can't tax people to the rate that it is damaging, but if we're honest with ourselves, we're nowhere near that rate. Which leads us to...

b.) The Rich Will Move Oversears - To where? Let's get a little more specific here. Europe? HA! Right, they are going to move to Europe because of tax rates? Right... So where? A third-world country? I'll believe that when I see it.

We're not discussing a huge tax increase. We're discussing rich people paying what they did in the 90s. I didn't see them fleeing or not producing then.

Re: Matt Drudge is so... subtle

pthread — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:17:44 -0000

well said.