I have a question for you all, would you trust technology over your sweet old grandmother? By trust I mean honesty, is technology honest with you?

The reason I ask this question is because the Colorado State Secretary Mike Coffman thinks that his state should do away with electronic voting and go back to paper ballots. Now the only people I have known to volunteer to count ballots are sweet old people. Where I live I can honestly tell you I would believe and trust 90% of the people that are over 65 years of age. If your 64 or under I wont trust you ….

I myself agree with Colorado’s State Secretary, I think electronic voting is one of the scariest things. I love technology, and I love how technology helps us out everyday, but electronic voting has been proven time and time again that it is not an HONEST way of voting. It has been documented that most voting machines can and will be hacked. We all only get one vote so I myself as a voter want my one vote to go the person I voted for. Its not the technology of the voting machines that scares me, its the people that create and drive that technology.

I honestly think it will be easier for the end user, or end voter to still use a paper ballot, and you get the assurance that no one else touches it before it gets put into that ballot box.

I want to know what you all think about this matter, do you TRUST electronic voting?

Hola everyone!

It’s been awhile since I sat down and chatted with you all. But I have been tinkering away in the wizard’s lair trying to come up with a vaccine for all of these disgusting RIAA/MPAA employees, but to their luck they are some form of hybrid disease. So we have to stay vigilant in our quest to smite these foul creatures.

Enough with the wizard talk. Do you own an iPod, Zen, Zune or any device that you have to rip from a CD so you can play your purchased CD on that device? I know there are not that many people that own these crazy futuristic devices, but if you’re like me you like to stay ahead of the times. If your answer is “Yes”, then the RIAA thinks you are a thief. So I guess I should not come out and tell you about my laser disc copying cluster I have in the basement. Even if you make a copy of your purchased CD then they think you are stealing. So backing up your music is a definitely a no, no.

“After years of battling in court and close to 30,000 lawsuits, making a copy of a CD you bought for your own personal usage is still a concept that the recording industry is apparently uncomfortable with. During the Jammie Thomas trial this fall, the head of litigation from Sony BMG testified that she believed that ripping your own CDs is stealing.

When asked by the RIAA’s lead counsel whether it was wrong for consumers to make copies of CDs they have purchased, Jennifer Pariser replied in the negative. “When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song,” said Pariser. Making “a copy” of a song you own is just “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’,” according to Pariser. ” Via ars technica

All of this leaves me to believe that once again the RIAA is scum. It makes sense to come after the end user, the small guy. It’s not like they are going after the companies that are making these things possible, like manufacturers of CDRW/DVDRW drives. The small guy does not have the type of money to fend these bloodsuckers off, but the large manufacturing companies do. That question has always been lying back in my head, why don’t we hear about any lawsuits anymore about the RIAA going after the source of what they call
“destruction of their media”. It started with CDR technology and the actual media. Why don’t they go after Microsoft, Apple, and many others for creating ripping tools built in to their software?

Maybe they have in the past, but I could not dig it up. But now all we hear is the RIAA attacking the little people. We can’t really use that excuse for Grokster, and Napster, but the majority of these attacks are against the end user, never against big business.

But once again the RIAA tries to take us all down a peg. But soon we will overcome!