The important and imperfect WikiLeaks knows how to do video:
It’s called What Does it Cost to Change the World?.
Spotted via From Nader and Gravel to Assange: There Are Some Parodies Money Can’t Buy.
I got interviewed for this article on Microsoft seeks patent for spy tech for Skype
‘Legal Intercept’ would allow it to silently record VoIP communications, and said a few things.
Read all about it at The Washington Monthly, 20,000 Leagues Under the State.
Could it really be true that 99% of statistics are made up? Maybe so.
Gimenez squeaked through.
There are 1,221,592 registered voters in Miami-Dade County. Only 199,862 — 16.36% — voted today. Numbers like that make believers in a small-R republican form of government shake their heads.
Gimenez won by 4,375 votes, about 51% of the votes cast. A clear win but no landslide.
Look at it another way, that’s about 0.358 % — about one third of a percent — of the registered voters in the County.
Numbers like that make political activists think their work has meaning.
Turnout was so low at my local precinct here in Coral Gables, that when I went to vote around 4pm and put my ballot in the drum, it fell straight to the bottom and hit with a resounding hollow CLUNK.
“Not much turnout today?” I asked the poll worker.
“Hardly anyone,” she replied.
I live in prime Gimenez territory, since this is part of the district he represented on the Commission. Slightly worrying that. Maybe they all voted early — I hear it was busy at the library on Saturday.
I had to go to the DMV to renew my 18-years-old pre-Real-ID drivers license. In theory if you have an appointment you should breeze right through, while droves of people without appointments — I counted well over 200 — wait and wait. But when I got there they inexplicably gave me a ticket for the non-appointment line. After 45 minutes, I asked why, given that I had an appointment, it was taking so long, and someone explained that I had the wrong ticket, and directed me to someone else who then gave me an “A” ticket instead of a “B” ticket. Some 15 minutes later, I was at the head of the line.
And that is the point at which the entire DMV computer system decided to take a vacation. Apparently this happens with some regularity. Somehow, however, I doubt that Governor Voldermort is going to invest in better computers for the DMV.
All in all, it took me three hours door-to-door, and it felt like eight.
On the way out, I passed two different storefronts in the (ugly and depressing) Mall of the Americas that were being used as voting locations for today’s Miami-Dade Mayor election. I sent my first ever phone Tweet, complete with a photo of all the exciting lunch-time voting action! The scene was pretty much identical in both storefronts, by the way.
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