John Sinteur on Remember the photoshopped missile photos from Iran?different does the background make?
The background, none at all. But here's the interesting question: in the future, can you trust a picture from the US Army? How do you know the next picture isn't doctored as well?
Mudak on Remember the photoshopped missile photos from Iran? Maybe it's me, but what different does the background make? Specifically, I don't understand:
1. Why the Army felt it necessary to give the photo the flag background, or
2. Why it's a controversy that it was done
That said, I wonder if this could legally be considered flag desecration, since the legal definition of a flag includes reasonable and recognizable facsimiles of the flag, and, therefore, by cropping the image of the flag, it was tantamount to taking a knife to the real thing.
Mudak on Minnesota Senate Recount: Challenged ballots: You be the judge Whatever else is true, Minnesota law would count this as a vote for Franken, even if they did it wrong.
One very important thing we shouldn't overlook is that the Republican Party tried all sorts of dirty tricks to convince potential Democratic voters either not to vote or to vote incorrectly, so it may not be purely voter stupidity. In Philadelphia, they were passing out brochures that said that, due to anticipated high turnout, Republicans should vote on Tuesday and Democrats should vote on Wednesday. *shrug*
John on Minnesota Senate Recount: Challenged ballots: You be the judge Well, three ways to look at this one I think:
1. It is pretty clear where the intention was since the machine's optical registration box was circled next to just one candidate.
2. This is a failure of the user interface. I read a similar discussion about web forms that are too strict about how user entered data is formatted. This form's interface, requiring the voter to fill in a small oval to cast their vote us clearly too strict.
3. This is being used as a mechanism to disqualify voters who are either too stupid to follow instructions, or too lazy to read them.
I'd say count the vote, and fix the user interface to be simpler and more tolerant of human impreciseness!
Roland Hesz on Yugo, 1953-2008 Yes, that's what I read too, so far Neelie Kroes holds out on it. I hope she can thwart the "oh, fuck capitalism, we are LOOSING!" movement.
Roland Hesz on Converting Dead Mormons into Homosexuals It is hilarious. What the Mormons declare is "Hey, God is Powerless!" and the Jews and Catholics who reacted with such a panic they did send the clear message "God is Powerless!".
How hilarious.
John Sinteur on Yugo, 1953-2008 you may want to time-stamp that comment, that zero may change to EUR 50b any second now.
News: 1, 2, 3.
Roland Hesz on Yugo, 1953-2008 So far the EU is sending 0EUR to help car manufacturers. It is still debated whether it's needed or not, however Germany stated that they will help Opel. But Germany is not the EU.
That's the current status of the car bailout in Europe.
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