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[alexr_rwx]

Weird moment: looking at some stuff I wrote a few weeks ago, I had a very vivid sense of sitting in the place where I wrote it, which was the lounge by the lobby in the music building at UGA.

Does this happen for anybody else? Or maybe other people don't do work in as many different places? ...

[Poll #861530]

Also: public service announcement that you should go vote! Tomorrow is election day, but you already knew! Save the world! Unless of course Diebold (major GOP supporter and likely the manufacturer of your electronic voting machine) decides that they don't like your views and chooses to disenfranchise you! I expect that my absentee ballot will likely not get counted, as Florida elections have already been reported Quite Shady! Also! Why did they bother with touchscreens that can get "miscalibrated" when they could have installed Plain Ol' Buttons Like On ATMs? !

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Now see here, my good man,

[sault.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes I have a sense of being in a place when I am reading (or writing), but it is often not associated with what I am reading/writing. The set of places with which this happens is small: the corner of Sixth Street and McMillan (West Campus); Broadway and 4th Street (Columbus, GA); Ethel and McMillan (no surprise there).

You should watch this utterly disheartening video chronicling election fraud in the United States! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851 It will depress the hizzle out of you!

Re: Now see here, my good man,

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Sweet, Creamy Rings of Saturn -- I flipped around that video a little bit, and I saw Howard Dean and Bev Harris messing with The Vote Tabulating Software... using Microsoft Access.

Your vote is stored in an Access database.

See! Satisfaction guaranteed!

[sault.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Howard Dean portion was quite amusing; the pleased look on his face as she demonstrates the wonderful features of Microsoft Office the Diebold GEMS system was kind of sad, too.

Re: Now see here, my good man,

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

yes, it's fairly well accepted that anyone with access to the machine running the GEMS tabulating software can alter the outcome of the election.

does this change if you replace the access "database" with a mysql "database"? not really.

Re: Now see here, my good man,

[schizobovine.livejournal.com]

Well, at least with mysql it would scale up to 2 million votes before it crashed and just started counting votes for The Terminator.

Re: Now see here, my good man,

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

hmm, i see what you're saying. basically, the backing store for any vote tabulating system should allow for the total recall of all the votes cast.