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Yeah...it all makes sense now...

See, a good Slashdot article..conspiracy, bashing MS, and a shot at the Republicans...

:-)

-->Hopefully that'll suck up a few minutes of time of some campaign worker

It will suck up the .003 seconds of computer time that it takes to strip your info off the email header, send out a form letter, and put you in a database so you can be harassed by American politicians until the end of time.

I will probably read the swiss stuff and think about it

In a way swiss law are open source : at least the voting document always come with the exact text of the law you're going to vote for.
Same can't be said about amercan politicians

That's the point. They are sending pop-ups for their opponents, stupid!

So here in California, the Republicans already have lots of practice annoying Internet users. Let's hope they keep it up!

Well, let's wait a while... if it makes them unpopular, they'll stop it for sure. They can't afford losing their supporters. I guess they're just experimenting on a new idea, just like sending spam is. I personally never received their spam yet, but some people actually welcomed it. Unsure about the pop-up ads though.

Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats (Clinton) fed Saddam nor bin Laden in order to appease them. Whatever their reasons were, appeasement was not one of them. So your counterargument is wrong and without merit.

that government hijacks the backlash to attack a preferred enemy instead

Aznar did not do that. With what little was known then, ETA may well have been behind the attack. He promised a thorough investigation. Contrast that with Putin's reaction to explosions in Moscow subway: "We know, it is the Chechens," -- he said -- "There is nothing to investigate." He got 72% of the vote soon afterwards...

Spanish folks take back their government to ensure security.

The reaction of Spanish electorate to the carefully timed attack in Madrid has reminded the world, how dangerous the "government by referendum" is. Without the "checks and balances" of some sort, a democracy is just as prone to the irrational greed, stupidity, cowardice, and other human flaws as, say, a monarchy.

The first well known example of this is Socrate's conviction in the democratic Athens...

In November, American folks will do the same.

I just hope, Al'Qaeda will not succeed in bombing US right before the elections, the way they succeeded in Madrid...

Wow! What energy! I can just see your saliva hitting your monitor...

I don't "hate" democracy -- I merely suggested, it needs "the checks and balances," as, for example, the US model provided since US' very inception.

And I never called Americans "folks" (not that there is anything wrong with it, IMO) -- your vision must be impaired -- pull whatever it is out and relax. "Mad as hell" has been out of fashion for well over a month now :-)

And when you cool down a little (assuming it happens within a few days), please, describe a single terrorist event, that did not really happen, but was "manufactured by BushCo". Put up, or shut up?

WTC/Pentagon planebombing happened 9 months after Bush took office, after 8 years of Clinton's presidency. From what we already know about this attack, preparing it took much longer than 9 month.

You accused "BushCo" of manufacturing the attacks. I asked for evidence, and this is all you can come up with? The "mountain of evidence" is in your mind only, once you try to convey it, it turns into a mole-hill. One can hardly get more partisan than you, that's for sure...

Pop-up and pop-under ads of any variety haven't been around long ... ???

They've been around TOO long. More specifically, they have been around, period.

Wonder if the internet usage policy will classify Dubya with his silly grin as "distasteful, objectionable content" :-)

According to some porn filters [dansdata.com], yes, pictures of GWB are vile pornography. =)

And now, just to rub it in, they're going to pop up their campaign ads at me. Brilliant.

..living in a vassal state?

Next you`ll be griping about taxation without representation.

If you don`t like how the government in Brussels treats you, get out.

...taxation without representation.

What, you mean like Washington D.C.?

Yes, entirely like that. If the people of D.C. want greater voting rights, let them fight and take them, not whine to be given them.

If the people of Europe want to control their own destiny, let them establish, maintain, and pay a military force that will allow that.

What I`m unwilling to do is maintain an army and allow someone else to dictate its use.

Oh bloody hell

That's mostly a British expression, but of course it would have spread over most of the inhabitable planet (and Canada) back in the days of the British Empire, so I can see your problem... :)

Many ad companies already do use location targetted ads - I often see Sainsbury's, Switch etc ads on US sites. Of course this isn't 100% foolproof, but it did even work with my old (pre-RIPE) IP.

I suspect the system used to select adds is quite primitive, and I'm simply too strange a case to get tailored adds.

A proper formal investigation may well determine that it is not in America's best interests for ANY politician to make new laws in any period less that 72 hours AFTER taking Viagra.

WARNING: As long as you are feeling drowsy or dizzy, do not drive, use machines, pass laws, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are dizzy or are not alert.

The intro to this article mentions Opera and Mozilla - forget it, there's much better out there. I've tried every browser out there, and for nearly 6 months now I've used MyIE2. It "takes over" IE2 and runs as a seperate program - not only does it do pop-up blocking, it also does _content_ blocking. My eyes are open, the internet (and slashdot) no longer has ads - try it, try it, try it (if you're stuck in Windows).

Vote for Bush, vote for the DMCA.

Nader ran against the DMCA in 2000, I can't see why he'd change his mind in 2004.

Kucinich, too, ran against the DMCA. Pity nobody cared.

. . . DMCA . . . DMCA . . . DMCA . . . DMCA . . .

The only thing worse than the two-party system is all the one-issue voters.

After all, only a conspiracy theorist would point to Skull and Bones. ;-)

Douglas Adams, writing in "So long, and thanks for all the fish", chapter 36:

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No", said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd", said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did", said Ford. "It is."