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July 29, 2003
Erghhhh
My connection to the net at home as been spotty and it's bad because I've been spoiled with very good connectivity for the past 2-3 years. I was thinking about getting Vonage Voice over IP service but I can't do that with this kind of net connection.
Slashdot has an article a post about hardly anyone caring about the problems with electronic voting. Recently there has been news about researchers being able to stuff ballots on some of the new electronic voting machines.
I don't think many people care because of a couple of reasons. One, the mainstream media hasn't picked up the coverage. Saddam's dead sons, Bob Hope, and a bunch of other news stories have clobbered it. Two, people are really reduced to the lowest common denominator in general. *Why* should people care about corporate corruption, electronic voting fraud, the RIAA, or idiotic legislation? The reason why is because people don't feel like they have any power and quite frankly I think that most people are more content to bitch about something and say "Gee, that sucks" rather than talk about issues that require THEIR action.
Ok I'll step off the podium because I admit, I'm guilty of not doing enough on my end either.
Posted by beamz at July 29, 2003 10:25 PM
Comments
Bush was elected by the supreme court, wasn't he? ;)
Posted by: kpaul at July 30, 2003 6:53 PM
I don't know that it's laziness, so much as overwhelmed by the odds.
Posted by: aldahlia at August 4, 2003 10:19 PM