as a democrat from Dade County Florida, who was out of state for the
elections, and did not vote (possibly thereby being 2% of the population
responsible for the current administration, and if we count my mom who did
not vote because I was out of town ...hmmm..... I wonder if my boss is a
republican... I bet he is....)
I am NOT in favor of the methodology of elections being changed at all while
baby Bro Bush is it the reigns.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] ms-linux again?
> Ed:
> Isn't this the same Microsoft that I read about a week or two back? The
> one that is proposing to convert the US election process to an
> internet-based system in place of the current hodge podge of paper
> ballots, electromechanical machines, punch cards and scanners currently
> used at a cost of only a few kGDP's*? (OK, to be fair, they've got two
> partners working with them.) The idea is to let a couple of script
> kiddies emulate the Florida election officials, but much more
> efficiently and on a much broader scale. I, for one, look forward to all
> of the talking heads on TV news explaining the difference between blue
> and black screens of death. Feel free to add your own fantasy. (It's
> Friday, folks.)
>
> * kilo Gross National Products
>
> Regards,
> cmg
>
> Ed Tharp wrote:
> >
> > an intersting article from
> > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41454,00.html
> > wired news
> >
> > But sources close to the company insist that Microsoft had indeed been
the
> > victim of a denial of service attack on Thursday.
> >
> > It also appears that Microsoft has now handed over the management of its
DNS
> > routing systems to Akamai, and may be running Linux on at least one of
its
> > servers.
>
>
