On Friday 05 November 2010 07:46:24 Alexander Hilton wrote: > any chance they could do that for the commons? > > or would there be a false correlation between senile and just stupid? > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Owen Blacker <[email protected]> wrote: > > In case any of you haven't seen this, it's a great use of TheyWorkForYou > > in a way I'd never thought of: http://www.tomscott.com/lords/ > > > > It stems from the intensely strange story that Charles Stross blogged > > yesterday: > > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/conspiracy-theories.h > > tml "Did somebody just try to buy the British government?". Effectively, > > Tom Scott used TWFY as a corpus on which to do lexical analysis of Lords > > speeches. > >
(It was my comment...) Here's another interesting use of TWFY (and PublicWhip): http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/03/roshonara-choudhry-police-interview Q What other sites, remember any particular internet sites you looked at? A When I was doing research about MPs, I looked at one called theyworkforyou.co.uk [theyworkforyou.com] and I think another one was called publicwhips [the publicwhip.org.uk]. ... Q So, have you carried out any research to ... about Stephen Timms. A Yeah, on ... I looked up, I found, I Googled him, I found out he had a website, I found a page about him on theyworkforyou.com ... if you follow that link it shows information about how he voted on different things related to the Iraq war and the build up towards it. I found out that ... he very strongly agreed with the invasion of Iraq and they said very strongly because they worked out all his votes for everything related to that and it came up to something like 99.9% support or something like that. Q How does that make you feel? A That made me feel angry because the whole Iraq war is just based on lies and he just voted strongly for everything as though he had no mercy. As though he felt no doubts that what he was doing was right, even though it was such an arrogant thing to do and I just felt like if he could treat the Iraqi people so mercilessly, then why should I show him any mercy? The first TWFY-enabled assassination attempt. It had to happen eventually. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining about them
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