“So?”

ZED

2?

Diebold II: Diebolder.

fife

Ramones!!!

Eureka!

If I diebolder, does it count?

Diebold harder

oh to have the Ramones back …

Hmmm, this post was dugg 1 hr 39 min ago…

No offense to Clinton and Obama, but I’m glad they’ve left my state. :)

It was like being in a relationship with someone really needy. I’m happy to move on. :)

the zed is dead

Just wanted to keep you on your toes. *g

I tried to comment on it awhile back… They pulled it as I tried to submit it…!

They sure help wash away the Russert’s and Tweeties..

“It was like being in a relationship with someone really needy. I’m happy to move on. :)”

that’s how I feel about the zed…

Gang, this has been fun. No better place to watch election returns. Past my bedtime – g’nite!

It’s BACK… and it was preemie of a DIGG :>) the mods at work again!!

hell yes!

nahant, my admiration for your staunch defense of the zed knows no bounds

still working on my zedoxology…

’twas zed for everlasting,
now and evershall be,
zed without end
amen, amen

somehow i think the work isn’t done..

good one, RZ – congrats on your liberation!

good night, tejanarusa – sleep well

Thanks Kirk I hate loosing old friends… have you met DEZ yet? He has started to show up at the biginning of some threads..

Nice try tho, Doc! Do you deal with any Vets in your line of work?

a sadly outmoded and discredited notion

My nominee for today’s least self-aware title:

Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream

(someone at HuPo was asleep at the switch)

lol, but is the scream in horror or elation?

I can only imagne The Scream.

I admit, it made me laugh.

dang, hit submit instead of link.

The Scream.

Didn’t The Clash do a version of Blitzkrieg Bop too?

yup

Regardless, Hillary still failed today.

Telnaes has a new video…

I think I met DEZ at one of my trans’ friends house parties.

_ _ _

CTuttle, I’m not currently working with vets…though my psych training was VA based the first couple ‘o years, ad I really enjoyed working with vets.

I’ve been trying to figure out if the SF VA wants “outside” shrinks on a contract basis (playing with civil disobedience would not a happy Fed employer make), but I haven’t been able to reach anyone who knew where to point me for an answer…

With the VA having such a backlog in basic diagnosis, I’d love to be able to help out one day a week or so with diagnostic screening…my fellowship was in trauma psych, and I’d like to be able to help out…..

In other news, the collie has tummy trouble, and I just had to do some “cleanup work” on his furry hindquarters before going to bed. :p

ES, thanks for yet another great tune – and glad you shared the laugh….

Off to bed myself.

Sleep well, pups….

g’ nite Kirk..)

PS: Renee – what a bummer…. :(

You should take a gander at my latest post… Click on my name!

Toles has an appropriate toon on the Dem fiasco!

Aloha, Doc!

Speaking of the Ramones…
Richie Ramones Loses Digital Lawsuit

And in umbuntuland Hardy Heron is set to fly in 24hrs.

Heck, I just dloaded the prior release 4 nights ago.
Oh well, another few hundred megabytes never killed anybody.

Bummer.

Appreciate it. Today’s been a whole load of “low level annoying”. Our microwave picked today to give up the ghost. It’s incredibly old, and we knew it was on borrowed time, but still, we could have done without that.

At least work is going a little better. Leaving me too mentally tired to blog much of the time, but at least I feel more on top of things while I’m there.

‘Night everybody.

Kirk
I Know the former head Chaplin at the Palo Alto hospital and I will see If I can get in touch with him. He has retired and has moved to New Hampshire to run a B&B and a sort of halfway house for VETs and is very committed to their cause. Reach me through facebook so we can swap emails.
Oh by the way I truly respect any one who works for the causes of our veterans…

did you dl the alpha or the rc?

either way you can just update via update-manager

g’ nite Renee

I knew I liked you.
Before I even knew who they were, when I heard this tune I knew I had a theme song;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMD7Ezp3gWc

The 8.04 server beta.
I didn’t install, but was going to next week. I’ll just scrap it wait for tomorrow.

Thanks for this, ES. One of my favorite memories was hanging out with the Ramones one bleak winter night in Pocatello, Idaho, in 1981. It was their second trip to the state; their first (in 1979) was memorialized in “Danny Says,” and a friend of mine witnessed it. It was at the Skyway Tavern in Idaho Falls where it was indeed 20 fucking below and the crowd was even worse, completely froze them out (they were more accustomed to standard buttrock). I met them two years later in Poky where they played at the ISU student union before about 75 people. My eardrums still hurt. And because I was writing about them, I got to go backstage and hang out. They seemed happy to have someone to talk with (their dope was outrageously good, of course), except Joey, who didn’t wanna talk to anyone. I think, if I gather the details from End of the Century correctly, that the KKK had just taken his baby away.

Blast from the past. *whew*

Poor David :(

ah, cool. i haven’t tried their server edition but am intrigued by their studio edition.

I totally love compiz and will never use a pager again.

The demo you put up the other night was sweet.
I need to clear off a drive, though.

Does bootcamp play nice with linux?

Pocatello, Idaho, in 1981

Great story, David! One of the few bands of that era I never caught live.

I was planting trees and camping out as a migrant worker in the deep backwoods winter snow of Virginia and North Carolina in winter ‘81.

Tiger here, and only a test install of 10.5.
Still hating Leopard. Cosmetic junk IMO, and I’m breathlessly awaiting 10.6.
You recall that the Boot Camp beta expired, so 10.4 is out.

Dang, raining like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock around here.
La Nina sucks!
I’m headed fer the fart sack. Gnight.

Hi guys. Don’t have YouTube yet, but I have the Ramones digitized.

Goodnight, Bustednuckles.

You’re right – this is a wierd Spring. I’ve seen snow flurries at least four times this month.

LOL!
Always a breath of fresh air, Busted. Glad you stopped in!

I quit following mac stuff on the run up to leopard.

lol, g’night!

I’d give anything if Apple would issue a cosmetically-stripped OS release. The heft in the last 2 versions is weighing down performance and forcing a lot of folks to dump their machines. Or wait forever to do stuff.
Less pretty, less shitty.

Two gigabyte memory sticks are $20 or so. They’re probably a better place to store music and videos now.

Here ya go :D

Been slowly cleaning up space to build it.

Liked your piece on Condi yesterday.

And tw3k – :P

So Apple’s desktop is entirely their own, eh? For some reason, I thought it was built on top of GNOME.

Can you build a useful system out of that stuff, or is there still something missing?

lol :) yeah not the same thing as a nice lite install.

I have to say that is one thing I really like about the debian install system. You can easily get a usable install on a one meg usb stick or go for full blown bloat.

You can make Fedora work in 2GB, as long as you don’t want to store much data. They still tie too much stuff together with the administration software, though.

I’m not against a little bloat for a public release. But I care less about transparent Menu bars and pull-out Dock items on trays. A lot of wasted processor time to make kids tell their parents that they want a Mac ’cause its eye-candy.

Yup, the Mac GUI is proprietary. OSX uses all sorts OpenSource projects tho.

Maybe your thinking of Safari that was a fork of KHTML from KDE.

Which stuff, tho? Darwin?

Eureka, hi! Just got back to reality here. Did Hillary win in Penn? I’ll go check the news if you all are bored with this.

nope they stole it all from Xerox /S

Nevermind. 55/45 I see at CNN.

Everybody stole it from Xerox. Apple just stole it first.

*keeping quiet over here :-)*

She won todays horse race, yes.

Yes, Darwin.

Yeah, I’m with ya on that even tho i’ve always been a sucker for the eye candy. Compiz is awesome visually and in terms of usablilty and the graphics card does all the work there.

how true how true.. I knew the asshole who brought jobs to the smalltalk lab at PARC and the rest is history…. Xerox toner heads in rottenchester screwed the pooch on that whole thing… dam I would be rich if they hadn’t :>(

…the graphics card does all the work there.

Right! I’m down with that. Don’t eat my logic board time to make things float and twinkle.

Sure! It is a nice bsd like system. You’ll just be using X for a gui instead of the Mac Finder.

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Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Anyone got a recent number on Pennsylvania that includes the final numbers from Philly…I would prefer a NON-CNN source?

I had ta sleep before work so I missed the denoument…anyone heard how bad the lines and the computers were workin’ in metropolitan Philadelphia?

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION WE GOTTA ENDURE ANOTHER 2 WEEKS OF CLINTONISM!!!

OT-

From Americablog:

But China’s stock market bubble has burst, leaving 150 million share investors waking up to their worst hangover ever. The combined effect of a vertigo-inducing rise in inflation, new regulations and a slowdown in the US economy has brought share prices down as quickly as they went up. Indeed, after further falls this week, Chinese shares are worth just half what they were last October, when the market peaked

Via Kevin Hayden:

State:92.5% in, 203K lead, 9.8%

w3rd. bloody vm swap hell.

heh, denoument.

I suspect that even the 3D stuff is relatively light on the CPU if you have an accelerated video chip. I’ve noticed a trend lately to do some 2D stuff in OpenGL just to get the accel performance. Not sure if that’s sensible, mind you, but folks seem to like the idea.

that is one aspect i don’t like about the linux-on-desktop thing. becomes so bloated so fast.

Apple has been chatting up the idea of consigning render tasks exclusively to display cards for quite a while.
Well, get on with it!

Didn’t realize there was a topic. Thanks for this, though. This is bad news. If our economy goes in the tank but others stay strong, it should mean we can get better more quickly. That doesn’t appear to be the case with China, at least.

Excellent. I’m looking to try the WUBI version, which runs as an application under XP. Actually, I’m conning some of our sys admins into trying it first — they do in minutes what takes me days.

This machine is very low-end but with OpenGL is also very usable.

They have an environment where they can do that. You’d think they’d be there by now. Linux and the BSDs can make pretty good use of the hardware when the manufacturers share the specs. That’s not happening as much as it should, though.

Thanks, Newt… I had some errands to do… I just missed BK I see…!

Heh, Ya’ll are geeking me out…! 8-P

Here’s the Secretary of State’s results with almost 99% counted.
Penn Sec of State Primary Results

That has it 54.3% Clinton to 45.7% Obama which is an 8.6% differential. There were a few left over precincts left in Philly and Chester County, but probably won’t change things very much. The link will give you county by county results, if that’s what you’re interested ib Citizen Norske!

heh, I’m glad you pointed wubi out to me. I normally skip over any that say Windows ;)

Yes, and that 2GB is without the desktop per se. You still have a lot of bloatware along for the ride, though.

Are you running Gnome, or KDE?

Diebold-Murdoch-Blackwater-Halliburton = axis of evil… probably need to throw Massey Coal in their somewhere too

Murdoch wants the Newsday too, that would be his third NYC paper…!

CodePink and Democrats.com present a Town Hall With David Swanson in Oakland
Submitted by dswanson on Thu, 2008-04-10 19:58. Impeachment | Peace and War
“Are Peace and Impeachment Possible?”
April 24, 7-9 p.m., Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland
Reserve tickets: Grand Lake 510-452-3556 . $10 at door; $8 advance (Black Oak Books, Pendragon Books) Sliding scale:unemployed, students, retirees.

My left arm for a Justice Department with a functioning Anti-Trust Division!

That’d be nice… here’s the linky…

Hot damn. It was a single-digit spread after all.

Just compiz! It’s the only way I can keep my desktop clean ;)

It looks like a great way for Windows folks to get involved with Linux without cutting off the limb they are sitting on.

Thanks. Just updated my site. Looks like a bit better than expected finish by Clinton, but certainly not earth-shattering.

try ubuntu on a usb stick :)

I like it. Can all the windows be made transparent, or is it still just the few that implement that feature already?

I agree. My Father, 70 yr.old, switched to linux no problem.

That’s using linux?

They can all be set, individually set or set from last time focused.

yeah :D

So your individual ‘bookmarks’ are floating and you ‘focus’ in on them when you want to read’em?

Yep! A lot of the precincts down in and around Philly had late counting, perhaps due to the screw up in machines earlier in the day and large turnouts.

NBC News has allocated so far a 75-65 delegate split for Clinton out of Pennsylvania; with 18 delegates from areas with closely split precincts not allocated yet. Those will likely go 50-50, though. So we’re talking about a net gain of about 10 delegates for Hillary…just about enough to make up for the delegate loss in Texas.

According to NBC’s count Obama now leads by 156 pledged delegates: 1,482-1,326.

Their superdelegate total is Clinton 262, Obama 237. Obama now leads by 131 overall: 1,719-1,588.

Clinton made up about 7.5% of the difference between her and Obama. That small gain will likely be utterly lost, along with any psychological momentum, after North Carolina and Indiana vote.

I’ve heard a little “Byrd” that a revered Senator from West Virginia may come out for Obama this week. He was upset at Hillary’s “Iran” comments – which are a little personal to him. He’s gonna suggest Hillary read the NIE on Iran, as she should have done with the NIE on Iraq.

I think it was Secreatary Simon who left the Regan Administration at Treasury and started leveraged huge buyout. This big connection easy money sold of unionized assests and raked in capital. Sherman anti trust is defeated politically. Little biz is swalloed by big biz.
Fascism is alive and well…but in Paruguay the conservatives were given the boot after a long cruel rule. Maybe Bush not like it there.

I just looked up at the (non-transparent) clock widget and realized it’s midnight. Gotta go.

BTW, if you’re not on dial-up, check out my Earth Day post. Nothing profound, but the picture’s a good one, I think. Took it while I was in New Mexico recently. If you’re on dial-up, it will take a couple of minutes to load. Click on the picture to see it full size, of course.

tw3k – I’m going to be looking at compiz tomorrow. Thanks for the links, everyone. Goodnight.

well, in relation to #116 focus would be the window the mouse is over.

Aloha, Cujo!

cool, g’night!

nite cujo

I saw the magnifier… just hover over the page and click, I presume?

ah, in the browser? yes.

what browsers support Linux…?

Well, I shall bid ya’ll another fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!

Firefox and a bunch of other geko browsers. konqueror and opera. Epiphany can use geko or WebKit.

nite tuttle
tw3k will have your answer tomorrow, i guess :-)

night!

Thanks. Byrd’s a classy guy. Good for him.

Sure is! Be great if he did make that point.

His lack of a sanctuary makes him much more dangerous.

Given his history and what he’s been pilloried for, it would be a startling move.

Really? I thought Bryd was outspoken enough on the war to be a valued voice against escalation.

Oh, yes. He’s an original and effective dissenter.
But he has a background that many Democrats still hate him for, and the Goopers hate him in part because he renounced it.
An endorsement of Obama would be quite something.

Below, I computed the exact percentage difference, and as you can see, it is less that 8.5 percent, provided you go out to the sixth decimal place. That means that when it’s rounded to the nearest whole percent, as journalists are wont to do, the difference was only 8%, which is almost an Obama victory.

(1234547-1041136)/(1234547+1041136) = .08499030840411428129

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Citizen cunnamonape and the crazy early mornin’ Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Over at TPM they have the recent numbers from the Secretary of State in Pennsylvania that nails it at +8.25% for Mrs. McClinton…now we hafta wait for North Carolina and Indiana before we ken say “bon voyage” to Mrs. McClinton’s assult on wind mills. I think less than 10% difference will put her delegate advantage at 4-6.

Indiana scares me, though…more racist than Pennsylvania.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THIS THING IS OVER, SHE JEST DOESN’T KNOW IT YET!!

Be nice if he would side step an endorsement and speak to the escalation issue.

Indiana scares me, though…more racist than Pennsylvania.

The only state in the country ever to have a KKK governor.

Good evening Norske.
There have been a few folks here to weigh in on the racist (or lack thereof) tendencies of Indiana and its voters. I don’t know the slightest thing about it either way. Please enlighten.
And thanks for the numbers.

But he has a background that many Democrats still hate him for, and the Goopers hate him in part because he renounced it.

The would be very much in keeping with what I’ve seen from him the last couple of decades, or so.

Time for me to crash.

G’nite all.

nite!

power of redemption
nite wigwam

Here’s the unofficial semi-close to final numbers from the Penn Secretary State’s Office

With 99.1% of the Precincts reporting

Democratic Primary

Candidate Votes Percent
CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM) 1,234,547 54.3%
OBAMA, BARACK (DEM) 1,041,136 45.8%

2,275,863 votes

Republican Primary

Candidate Votes Percent
HUCKABEE, MIKE (REP) 88,213 11.4%
MCCAIN, JOHN (REP) 564,448 72.7%
PAUL, RON (REP) 123,491 15.9%

776,152 votes

Democratic Voters outnumbered Republican 3:1. People still voting for Paul and Huckabee (over 25% “protest votes” in the Republican party?)

Admittedly there was likely a drop off in Republican party interest, but even if half of either Mr. Obama or Madam Clintons support became Benedict Arnold’s and ran insanely to McCain in November…the Democrat would win handily with the other half joining his/her supporters.

Someone reported that in Penn, where Republican registrants have outnumbered Democrats since Reagan, the numbers are now 2:1 Democratic. “You don’t need a weatherman to know the way the wind blows”.

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Citizen newtonusr:

My impressions and opinions of Indiana come from some limited experience in the mid ’60’s travelin’ thru and anecdotal stuff from friends and aquiantences (some in the military). Of course there IS the political history of the state from 1877 (the end of reconstriction)…Indiana’s political history doesn’t include a lotta radicals. Even in the most volatile periods like the anti-slavery dayz, the reconstruction period and the Depression there weren’t a lotta what we could call left-populists in this state. Lotsa poor white farmers left high and dry when the rest a the country was movin’ forward.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, GET READY THERE’S A CHANGE A’COMIN’!!!

Obama currently leading Clinton, in several polls in both Indiana and North Carolina. By 10% in Indiana and by nearly 20% in NC. She lost about 10% in Pennsylvania since her “win” in Texas and in Ohio. Can she actually win a State where she’s behind?

She’s in for a big surprise here in Indiana. We have her and Bayh surrounded. Indiana doesn’t have the type of establishment organization that Pennsylvania has, and what there is left of it is defecting to Obama. She’ll have to get real ugly to win here.

coyote ugly?

I know some folks who live in Lafayette, and that is my entire exposure to Indianans. The example they set does not speak kindly about their state (they like to use the “N” word a lot, and they seem to have never read a newspaper in their lives), so I leave them out of the equation.

I’m not fan of their Senators (particularly the Democrat), but I’ve never gotten a racist hit from either.

But I would hazard a guess that if Senator Obama is already very close or leading there, that Team Clinton will not be able to overcome it without the trashiest of tactics. I would, however, not put it past them.

The most interesting observation of the day for me:
Clinton has now won New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, each by 10% margins. The stability of this margin in these contiguous states, voting months apart, is a curious and interesting phenomenon.

Also, as usual, huge turnouts in the Democratic party shifted the party registrations in some counties from majority Republican to majority Democrat.

The big question: How will those states vote in November?
Will it make any difference if the Democratic nominee is Clinton or Obama?

Bob in HI

Both my folks were born and raised in Indiana but moved to other states once out of college. They are not racist. That said, I really have no feel for Indiana IRT racism.

The dread 10% margin :/

Just to grab on to part of your comment:
Is it possible that the voter suppression tactics of the last 2 national elections have morphed into massive voter registration schemes?
What will registrations look like once the primaries are over?

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Citizen bobschacht:

“The big question: how will those states vote in November.
Will it make any difference if the Democratic nominee is Clinton or Obama?”

Great question, as usual…puts this whole shit flingin’ contest in perspective. I have asked several times for the “numbers people” here at FDL to look at the new registration figures in each of the primaries and determine what it says about the new voters, their motivations and likelyhood of voting in November. I would also like to see a believable analysis of the Republican crossovers in Ohio and Pennsylvania for their motivations and likelyhood of votin’. I have a feelin’, not backed up by any data, that Obama’s Republican crossover supporters are the so-called “moderate” Republicans who have felt disenfranchised over the last 16 years or at least over the last 7 years. Conversely, I have a hunch that a good bunch of the Republican cross-over for McClinton is in an effort to get the weaker nominee for the fascists.

In any case, I’d like ta read a good, transparent analysis of the numbers from someone competent to do so…how about you there, Brother Bob, are ya interested?

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THERE’S A CHANGE A’COMIN’!!!

“In any case, I’d like ta read a good, transparent analysis of the numbers from someone competent to do so…how about you there, Brother Bob, are ya interested?”

Oh, yeah, I’m interested, but I don’t have the time, and may not have the competence!

Try floating your question over on MyDD. They’re interested in that sort of thing.

Bob in HI

I saw an interesting article in Business Week about cyber threats to the government. One of the major vulnerabilities is the use of Access databases… Imagine that. Access databases are extremely easy to attack, infect, and take over…

mmm… and that’s what runs most electronic voting machines…

fancy that.

practicing blockquotes. nothing to see here, move along. (hehe)

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan) was concerned by the ruling that even if Whitman knew she was giving false information, she would have immunity unless she intended to harm the victims.

“This interpretation means that government officials in the future can deceive the public and harm thousands of people with impunity,” said Nadler, who grilled Whitman at a congressional hearing last year

LINK

Thank you Peterr for your guidance.