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    Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation

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    Image of Andrew Pollack Andrew Pollack
    10/22/09

    In reply to Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation
    These guys make ATMs. ATMs do not miscount. They do not fail to log transactions. They do not do these things pretty much ever.

    Interestingly, if I recall, their President is one of the key fundraisers for the Republican party.

    Interesting. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Andrew Pollack was starred Andrew Pollack was unstarred
    Image of RT100 RT100
    10/22/09

    @Andrew Pollack: oh stop trying to put some dumb partisan spin on it. I don't care who they support, I support democracy, and having everybody's vote count #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    Image of Andrew Pollack Andrew Pollack
    10/22/09

    @_rt¹⁰⁰: Me too - My point is that we have a company run by an extremely partisan hands-on style manager, with 30 or more years experience leading the world in production of highly accurate and reliable banking machines, who can't seem to make a tamper proof and reliable voting device and who claims making a machine that prints a receipt would be "too hard".

    I don't care which side he's on, I smell a rat. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Andrew Pollack was starred Andrew Pollack was unstarred
    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/22/09

    In reply to Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation
    Hah! This is Diebold Election Systems renamed. What a terrible company. One of many things that makes me ashamed of my government. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    10/22/09

    @Sticks Calhoun: If I recall correctly, Diebold upper management changed their name and kicked the voting machine group out of the company, for besmirching their name and reputation. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    Image of 11thRS 11thRS
    10/23/09

    @jepzilla: That's correct. One of the worst moves that company ever made was getting into the electronic voting machine business and doing it poorly.

    My dad worked for them for 38 years and at one time (hold your applause Tenacious D fans) worked on the "tube technology" for drive up teller windows.

    I'll always remember the day he brought home some photos of a new project the company was working on. They wanted to take ATM machine technology and integrate them with gas pumps, that way you could drive up, insert your card, pump your gas and drive away. I recall my dad saying something how the company won't get into this because it is not what we do well.

    The road to profitability is paved with coulda, woulda, shoulda's. Some of those are good, some are bad. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    Image of Stevox Stevox
    10/22/09

    In reply to Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation
    How f*ucking hard is it to add numbers?! Security should have been the *only* thing requiring serious attention. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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    Image of Wburg Wburg
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    Guess what? External antennas. I'm sure we'll have a way to passively bring signal into the car, they're doing it in airplanes now. You might even get better reception out of this.
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    Image of mayberry mayberry
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    Wow, Batman's a billionaire and that's the car he chooses to pick up Robin's bunk bed at Ikea?
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    ripfire promoted this comment mayberry was starred mayberry was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/13/09

    @mayberry: Rich people don't become rich by spending, ya know...
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    10/13/09

    @mayberry: I doubt Batman would want to get a separate bed for Robin...

    "Yea old chum, I just don't have any room in the truck for the trip to Ikea, guess we'll have to share that big bed in my parents' boudoir for a while... it gets so cold in there..."
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    things like this, along with air bags and anti-lock brakes and other stupid, government mandated add-ons to new cars are one of the major reasons that i'll do my best to stick with cars made last century.

    nevermind that the OTHER reason is i can't afford a car made THIS century - i wouldn't even if i could.
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    Image of Malfunktion v2 Malfunktion v2
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    This a horrible idea that obviously wasn't very well thought out. Did anyone happen to think of the passengers, or people who have already bought a $200 GPS. What the hell happens to OnStar now?
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    Image of Martian138 Martian138
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    Will all of you A-Holes, that spawned all of these imported A-Holes that came and ruined my beautiful state, please come and drag them back?
    We are out of water, there are no show biz jobs and your parents have already figured out you are gay or on drugs. Go home. Film school is closed.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/13/09

    @Martian138: Are you Native American?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @Martian138: Dances with Curmudgeons.
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    Image of roflwaffles is attempting hipster irony roflwaffles is attempting hipster irony
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    More like commiefornia.
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    Image of RT100 RT100
    10/13/09

    @roflwaffles is terribly unfunny: ...with a republican governor. oh wait you forgot about Facts (c)
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    chauncy that billups promoted this comment RT100 was starred RT100 was unstarred
    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    10/13/09

    @_rt¹⁰⁰: Ahhnold:republican::Barney frank:raging heterosexual.
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    Image of sharkync sharkync
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    Turn your AC on FULL blast and lower all the fucking windows.

    Blow me
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    Image of JoeKhurr JoeKhurr
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    Ah, California. Never will you let us down on fucktard decisions regarding government regulations.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    My iPhone has shitty reception in the car. Does that mean that my car is a Californian Cool Car?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: It's a Honda Insight. It's a California Hella Cool Car.
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    Image of BlueToast BlueToast
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Northern California, eh? At least you didn't use "Cali" *shudders*
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/13/09

    @BlueToast: That's where me and the Dorkmobile are going to wind up.

    And I love my Honda Insight. It has all of the nerdiness of Toyota Prius with none of the smugness.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @BlueToast: No I live in Brooklyn, not Cali.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: And as small as it is, you won't eat through brakes as quickly as all of the poor fools that decided to get full-sized cars on those crazy hilly streets.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/13/09

    @BlueToast:

    i can admit without shame that i use the phrase "norcal" on a fairly regular basis.
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    Image of BlueToast BlueToast
    10/13/09

    @nutbastard: I live in North Hollywood, and they've been trying to promote the term "NoHo". It makes me angry and sad at the same time.
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    Image of Ayeco Ayeco
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    So wait, where does the energy that doesn't get absorbed by a black car go? Also, where does the energy that reflects off the windows go?
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    Image of Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus
    10/13/09

    @Ayeco: Its sold to green companies who bought it with the trees they planted to offset the carbon belching emissions coming from the factory that was put in the area they cleared the trees for so they had the space available to lay down the concrete foundation. Does that help?
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    It's the law of unintended consequences, part whatever. I bet Pelosi throws an absolute fit when she's in her home state and can't get a signal while she's being driven around.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    In reply to California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
    It's a chilly Monday evening in January, and Sam Davidson is commuting home after a long day of work. Suddenly, Sam hits a sheet of black ice, and careens into a ditch, and is hurled upside down into a thick snow drift. Sam wriggles out his phone in a panic to call for help.

    No signal.

    Though this scenario is obviously not going to happen in Cawl-e-fornya, but this nanny tech is not going to protect anyone. People will just find a way to use their phones anyway, or simply not buy a car equipped with it.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Hmm.. OK. good point.

    ...You're saying we should all get OnStar, right?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Lucky for Sam Davidson, John Davidson, the celebrated actor and alien life form is his cousin, and is able to rescue Sam by transforming him into a green sludge, sucking him out of the car with a crazy straw, and transporting him to the nearest emergency room in his mouth.

    But yeah, for the average Joe, I could see how this could be a problem.
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