Operation: Puppet power
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Since when does the White House care about puppets? Ever since the guys from &quot;South Park&quot; started pulling the strings. Trey Parker and Matt Stone&#39;s movie &quot;Team America: World Police&quot; features
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What do people power and alternative power have in common?
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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I love these NeoCon vote supression rules.  They're *sooooo* cute!  I have some more:   - If you've ever traveled outside of the US you can't vote.   - If you have a graduate degree you can't vote.   - If you make less than 6 figures you can't vote   - If you can spell Nuclear and pronounce it correctly then you can't vote.   - If you haven't accept Jesus as savior then you can't vote.   - If you've never ordered anything from Bass Pro Shops then you can't vote.  This is fun... if you can think of anymore please add a comment!
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Sweeping powers yes, electrical power no The National Security Agency (NSA), America's ultrasecret electronic spy agency, may be on the verge of a disastrous power overload at its Maryland headquarters.â¦
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"Team America," a political satire about a special American police force that goes around the world saving everyone from terrorism, stars dozens of 22-inch puppets.
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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Electrial problems. Unexpected stops. And a suicide bomber's strike. Inside Cheney's troubled Asia trip.
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Pakistan Times Special Correspondent. TAANK (South Waziristan): Amid a Cabinet directive on Wednesday to amplify efforts for instant release of the two Chinese engineers, caged by al-Qaeda
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A puppet dressed in a kimono is brought  to life on stage in graceful, dream-like moves as three  puppeteers in full view of the audience maneuver her head, arms  and legs.
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TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE. Director: Trey Parker (1:54). R: Graphic crude and sexual humor, violent images, strong language - all involving puppets.
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La vicenda riguarda l'iter procedurale del fascicolo 9520
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The clever, cruel and deadly methods insurgents are using to counteract the U.S.-led surge  -  and the reasons their maneuvers are working
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Operation targets power base of Calabrian underworld organisation.
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New masters of the universe--or creators of too much leverage?
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During the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s Central Committee plenary meeting this month we can expect to witness a power struggle between President Hu Jintao ( è¡é¦æ¿¤ ) and Central
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The next big use for iRobot's bots: patrolling international borders.