Oh, damn! I had no idea Roger Ebert had been so ill. Still, sounds like he's on an upswing.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2007 3:40:44 pm PDT #4236 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 3:45:07 pm PDT #4237 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wow. Kudos to McGill: [link]
Topic!Cindy - Apr 24, 2007 3:49:48 pm PDT #4238 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh, damn! I had no idea Roger Ebert had been so ill. Still, sounds like he's on an upswing.
Me neither. That article made my allergies act up. Good for him.
Wow. Kudos to McGill: [link]
Seriously, brenda.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 3:53:45 pm PDT #4239 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
McGill's done some seriously amazing work on the medical front.
Of course, they've got some things to make up for too. (See: CIA brainwashing experiments.)
Jesse - Apr 24, 2007 3:55:41 pm PDT #4240 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love this quote from Roger Ebert:
I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what? I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks. I still have my brain and my typing fingers.
Good for him.
Good for McGill as well!
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2007 4:00:41 pm PDT #4241 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bah. I am suffering from scandal-fatigue big-time. Can anyone tell me what this means? I just don't have the energy to dig into this at the moment....
"Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished. Can anyone suggest a good explanations for this seemingly dubious election-eve transfer?"
So what - DNS rerouted all requests for the Ohio Secretary of State's website to RNC servers? (requiring the RNC servers to spoof the OSoS servers) or the Ohio Secretary of State's website directed some/all of its traffic (e.g. database requests) to those RNC servers?
The obvious implication is that this was part of a Republican plan to steal the election in Ohio - but how? This is just the higher-level reporting, right? - would nefarious stuff have to be going on at a lower level too?
My brain hurts</D. P. Gumby>
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2007 4:01:31 pm PDT #4242 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers
I read about it on Lainey Gossip, and she's a terrible old bitch who got allergic herself.
Power to him.
Was just poking around at Lillian pictures when I should have been sleeping. Curse those eyes. Curse them.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2007 4:03:15 pm PDT #4243 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh yeah, it was all over the news this morning about Ebert. Good for him.
sarameg - Apr 24, 2007 4:07:00 pm PDT #4244 of 10001
Ebert makes me laugh, over a horrid disease. He's great. Didn't the show used to be on PBS? Maybe not, but I remember watching it with my dad.
80!
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2007 4:08:04 pm PDT #4245 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, things don't sound as bad as I first thought:
Nothing "changed" or was "transferred". [link] [state.oh.us] is a special web site in operation for elections. Otherwise, it points to [link] [state.oh.us] as it does now. It appears that the State of Ohio contracted with SmartTech for hosting, processing, and dissemination of the election results via the special elections web site, when it is in operation.
That probably won't be a good enough answer for people, though. Regardless, it appears that SmartTech has obvious ties to the Republican Party, and hosts many sites for various Republican political interests. The Secretary of State of Ohio is a partisan political position. This doesn't mean there aren't questions that can be raised or points to be debated.