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POPSObama Spokesman, Ohio Voter Registrations Tactics "OK" He argued that neither Obama's staff nor McCain's workers had broken Ohio law by registering there. But the state's law allows people who plan to live in Ohio permanently to register to vote no sooner than 30 days after moving there. Temporary residents aren't supposed to register, even if they live there for more than 30 days. Palestra.net, a student journalist-run affiliate of Fox News, which is owned by The Post's parent firm, News Corp., found that Obama campaign worker Jacob Smith, a Florida native, moved in with a host family in Howard, Ohio, on Sept. 28 or Sept. 29 - and registered and voted on Oct. 1. Baker said he wouldn't comment on individual cases. McCain's campaign didn't respond to a request for comment. But Don Schutte, Smith's host, said he was "kind of dismayed" after learning his guest had registered as a resident of his home.
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POPSRepublicans Play the Sexism Card "It's that damn liberal press" was the first excuse that the McCain campaign gave for the discoveries that the press and bloggers easily made after the campaign was caught failing to vet Sarah Palin. Now the new excuse targets the Obama campaign. Criticism of Palin makes one sexist. Specific criticisms don't have to be answered. They can all be dismissed by playing the sexism card. The translation: make all the criticisms go away because we can't answer them.
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POPSIncrease calcium to lose weight! When I ate cottage cheese for breakfast - trying to up my protein level consumption - I inadvertently lost weight. Now I know why! PS> Apparently Richard Nixon would eat cottage cheese when HE needed to lose weight my friend shares with me in the comment section! I guess it all makes sense now.
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POPSFoxit Reader 2.3 pdf Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Incredibly small: The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.55 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size. Breezing-fast: When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. Annotation tool: Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document. Text converter: You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file. High security and privacy: Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission.
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POPSIs the ESA driving away game companies with dues hike? Over the past few weeks, companies have jumped from the Electronic Software Association's ship. Everything from president Mike Gallagher to the continual reinvention of the annual trade show E3 to increased costs have been blamed. Regardless, Activision, Vivendi, Lucas Arts, NC Soft, Atlus, and Foundation 9 have left the videogame industry's advocacy group. Kotaku's Leigh Alexander seems to have dug up the cause and effect. When the Electronic Entertainment Expo was moved from LA to Santa Monica, it incurred $5 million fine for breaking its contract with the LA Convention Center. Shortly afterward, membership dues were quadrupled.
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POPSDisagreement Hierarchy DH4. Counterargument. At level 4 we reach the first form of convincing disagreement:counterargument. Counterargument is contradiction plus reasoning and/or evidence. When aimed squarely at the original argument, it can be convincing. But unfortunately it's common for counterarguments to be aimed at something slightly different. More often than not, two people arguing passionately about something are actually arguing about two different things. Sometimes they even agree with one another, but are so caught up in their squabble they don't realize it. DH5. Refutation. The most convincing form of disagreement is refutation. It's also the rarest, because it's the most work. Indeed, the disagreement hierarchy forms a kind of pyramid, in the sense that the higher you go the fewer instances you find. DH6. Refuting the Central Point. The force of a refutation depends on what you refute. The most powerful form of disagreement is to refute someone's central point.
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POPSComplexity, Artificial Life and self-organising systems <<<But be warned - this site is conceptually demanding, those 'truths' you know are but shadows. Once infected by our alien thought virus, you will never be quite 'normal' again... You will begin to mutate, morphing up to a higher level, our level, beings whose abilities cross universes, transcend cultures, break free. Finally understanding the true beauty of sharing. Or you may sink down into insanity... Dare YOU take that risk ?>>> Been a good friend to clippers this massive site, but always worth bringing to attention!
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POPSU2 Bono's bullshit: still clowning around with the rich and powerful. 1. up to the conscience and the morals of Bono to lawfully arrange his personal tax affairs as he sees fit. 2. open to Bono to use his public profile to put his personal political views to the public But, what is at the same time hypocritical, laughable and unacceptable is for Bono to have the gall to avoid taxes and at the same time chastise others (governments, individuals, corporations and supra-national bodies) for meanness in the area of aid and to hector others for loans to basket-case countries to be written off. Unless, that is, he does like Bill Gates and forms his own charitable foundation from his wealth.
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POPSSunbelt Software: Google search results delivering massive malware attacks Crackers rigging web pages to gain high search rankings, enabling them to be posted near the top of the search thread. Best defense is to ensure you are surfing the web from a non-privileged account and to have a hardened browser (Firefox with the 'No Script' add-on, for instance). For IE, need to consider disabling iFrames.
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POPS400 Sickened By Bromide Poisoning Vaccinations maybe? Pesticides? Secret experiments on humans? Population control? I'm not a conspiracy theorist (*LOL*), so perhaps it's *just* poisonous toys from China or something. Strange. Bromide compounds, especially potassium bromide, were frequently used as sedatives in the 19th and early 20th century. ------------ It has been rumoured (in particular, by British troops during world War II, who believed it was regularly added to their tea) that bromide can reduce incidence of erections for males ------------ Bromide is also used in hot tubs and spas as a germicidal agent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromide
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POPSCensorship on Indybay.org Censorship on the internet is becoming a huge problem. Have you ever written something and had Google's spell checker tell you that you have to many words that may have objectionable content and it will only check the first 200 words.
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POPSAngry reception greets patent for synthetic life Sounds like we could be creating a whole order of new problems with this stuff. See previous clip 'The revolution will not be Blogged either'. http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/955FE756-3DA7-4A2D-B4A9-A36B5FAB4678/ . TO CLIPMARKS - Is there an easier way to make this kind of internal reference in a comment?
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POPSIntroduction to "communities of practice" Not sure what to make of this concept, but it's interesting. Link should be www.ewenger.com/theory. Author's comment: Theoretically, my work focuses on social learning systems.I am trying to understand the connection between knowledge, community, learning, and identity. The basic idea is that human knowing is fundamentally a social act. This simple observation has profound implications for the way we think of and attempt to support learning.
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