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An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt » 2003 » October

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Archive for October, 2003

October 16th, 2003

(What the hell?) US soldiers bulldoze farmers’ crops

Pointer to article: “Americans accused of brutal ‘punishment’ tactics against villagers, while British are condemned as too soft”

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October 16th, 2003

Davis’ veto record…

Analysis of Davis’ veto record, year by year… conclusion: dramatically lower this year.

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October 16th, 2003

All the President’s votes?

Pointer to U.K. Independent article on electronic voting machine issues. “A quiet revolution is taking place in US politics. By the time it’s over, the integrity of elections will be in the unchallenged, unscrutinised control of a few large - and pro-Republican - corporations. Andrew Gumbel wonders if democracy in America can survive”

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October 16th, 2003

Political Interference with Scientific Committees by Bush Administration

From a letter to Dave Farber: “Four colleagues of mine, all members of the National Research Council’s Committee on Human factors, have written an article to be published in the Bulletin of the Human factors and Ergonomics Society, critical of the way that the current government is interfering with the selection of scientific experts on study panels.”

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October 16th, 2003

A classic right-winger whine by David Horowitz

Deconstruction of a stereotypically whiny rant by David Horowitz on Salon.com.

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October 16th, 2003

White House suppressing dissent…

Pointer to Salon.com article on Bush Administration’s suppression of political dissent by exiling protestors away from the media spotlight and the President himself.

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October 16th, 2003

Why this blog?

The author talks about why he blogs.

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October 16th, 2003

Salon.com review of Joseph Stiglitz’s “The Roaring Nineties”

Commentary on Salon.com review of Joseph Stiglitz’s “The Roaring Nineties”: more evidence that the Clinton administration was no paradise.

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October 15th, 2003

Pension Crisis Swamps Cities and Counties

Discussion of Cal Tax article on public employee retirement benefit increases and their impact on local government budgets. -Thomas]

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October 15th, 2003

Upgraded the blog software…

The author comments about the process of upgrading from b2 v0.6.1 to Wordpress 0.72 - smooth!

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October 15th, 2003

Flawed (non)verification process in Riverside County

Pointer to Salon.com article on Riverside County, CA e-voting machine “verification” process.

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October 11th, 2003

Earth not slowing down fast enough to suit Motorola?

[Interesting little geekish buglet item from Dave Farber’s “Interesting People” list… shows how you can never be to careful when thinking about anomalous situations as a computer programmer. -Thomas]
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:33:45 -0700
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: The Earth’s not slowing down fast enough to suit Motorola
Motorola reports that several GPS receivers in its […]

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October 11th, 2003

We’re back…

O.K., so I diddled around and didn’t get my blog back online for a few weeks after the previous server got “hacked” by some semi-competent twit that couldn’t manage to install a rootkit without stomping all over everything. But, I’m back. :)

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