In all seriousness.
What do you think the democrats are going to do now? Are our politcal choices going to remember what got them elected/re-elected? The crappy way that civil rights have been abused, the mess in Iraq, the administration that thinks that the executive branch as all sorts of rights NOT given it in the Consitution?
Time will tell.
I hope someone heard the people of this country.
Most of us who seek privacy are fine receiving it with accountability. I have no problem being held accountable for my actions. If I pay for a private domain registration it is because I do not want the whole dnag world accessing my personal information.
First and foremost is the fact that I am a law abiding citizen. I get annoyed when a government site visits/scans my site after a post that mentions/includes certain keywords. Sometimes they leave their calling card and I see the visit in my logs. This is NOT what this is about. This is about my neighboor down the street getting pissed because they found something I wrote and did not like it. This is about privacy in a very non private world. Blogging is a journal of thoughts. In this case mine. I choose to share my thoughts but with an expected limitation on your knowledge of who I really am. Specifically things like where I live and how to contact me.
This really never was a problem until – well never mind – It is now
Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way. Nothing new. Just a big DUH factor hitting me square on the screen 🙂
The Big Red Truck comes from a joke. Google it if ya care
I know the few readers here have noticed a change in this site and it’s attitudes.
There really has been a reason one that came to my attention a few months back. One that has driven me up the proverbial tree.
Drumsnwhistles posted on the point today.
I seriously am thinking of not posting here anymore.
Freedom of expression without fear of retribution does not exist here.
From Techdirt:
At what point do we wake up from this e-voting story nightmare and have someone reassure us it was only a dream? Every day, there’s yet another story about how badly screwed up these machines are. Today, we’ve got atreat, as it’s not actually about Diebold, but their competitor, Sequoia Voting Systems. It turns out that on the back of some of their machines used in California, there’s a little yellow button. If you push it, you can vote multiple times by switching themachine to “manual” mode. In true geek fashion, Sequoia has responded with (I kid you not) their own version of “that’s not a bug, that’s a feature!” They claim it’s “deliberate back-up feature to prevent the Edge from having a single point of failure.” Hey,preventing single points of failure are great, but when they introduce a totally different point of failure, that’s not so good. But, according to the company, this is the type of “flexibility” they’ve always provided. I didn’t realize that “flexibility” was something desired in an e-voting system. Generally, you’d think people would prefer them to be pretty rigid, but to work right — and not allow multiple votes. Sequoia claims that use of this feature emits a loud beeping noise, and they’ll train poll workers to listen for that — but that doesn’t seem like the most reliable methods. We’ve heard so many stories of confused and technology illiterate voting officials that it’s hard to believe they’ll remember this or know what to do if it happens. The company says it will address the issue after next week’s election — but that any district using them can choose to simply turn off this “feature.” So, if you’re voting in California and you have an AVC Edge e-voting machine from Sequoia, and you have a bit of moral flexibility, apparently you can support your favorite candidate just that much more.
Early voting in five states showed that voters’ choice are being flipped to the opposite candidate on all four major e-voting machines — Diebold TSx, Sequoia Edge, ES&S iVotronic, and Hart InterCivic eSlate.
Three counties in Texas report vote-flipping on the Diebold and ES&S machines. Three counties in Florida report vote-flipping on the ES&S and Sequoia machines. One county in Illinois, on the Sequioa Edge, and one county in Arkansas, on the ES&S iVotronic. In some cases, when the voter selects one candidate, the machine shows an opponent is selected instead. more at VoteTrustUSA
Scary eh? Hours mulling over voter information, research so I can make the right decision . .. and emmm who knows if it will count my choice right? I do not know if my polling place has one of these machines – in hours I will know.
Voter beware – VOTE VOTE VOTE and hope it counts it the right way. Now if I could only find the little yellow button 🙂
(serious note: I really would never cheat when it comes to voting it was just a joke)