Blair losing voters' trust - poll

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Blair braced for voters' verdict

Blair braced for voters' verdict 07/15/2004 05:32 PM
The polls close in two key by-elections a day after Tony Blair's government was criticised in the Butler report.

HoustonChronicle.com - Embattled DeLay
is losing support, poll finds

HoustonChronicle.com - Embattled DeLay
is losing support, poll finds 04/03/2005 06:15 PM
come home to roost .. houschron .. Wow

chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3115205
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Poll: 55% Trust Apple Updates

Poll: 55% Trust Apple Updates 03/19/2003 10:23 PM
Over half of Macworld Online readers (55 per cent) have total faith in Apple's updates and install them straight away. (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

Blair prepares to name poll day

Blair prepares to name poll day 04/04/2005 09:05 PM
Tony Blair is expected to name 5 May as election day on Tuesday and ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament.

Poll: Blair should not step down

Poll: Blair should not step down 07/20/2004 09:47 AM
On the British prime minister's 10th anniversary as Labour leader, his public sees him as competent enough to stay -- for now.

Blair to spell out EU poll plan

Blair to spell out EU poll plan 04/19/2004 07:08 PM
Tony Blair is set to explain for the first time his dramatic U-turn on holding a referendum on the new EU constitution.

Blair prepares to name poll date

Blair prepares to name poll date 03/22/2005 04:38 PM
Tony Blair is set to name the election date on 4 or 5 April when the Commons returns after Easter, the BBC learns.

Blair set for Euro poll grilling

Blair set for Euro poll grilling 06/15/2004 03:53 AM
Tony Blair is set to face tough questions about Labour's poor election showing at his monthly media conference.

Blair predicts a tough poll fight

Blair predicts a tough poll fight 01/05/2005 06:42 AM
Tony Blair says the next election will be a "tough, tough fight" adding he does not know when it will be.

Poll Gives Blair Edge for Historic Third
Term

Poll Gives Blair Edge for Historic Third
Term 07/24/2004 07:35 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 24 2004 10:35PM GMT

Coincidentally, new poll shows record
low number of people trust Bush

Coincidentally, new poll shows record
low number of people trust Bush 02/13/2004 07:16 AM
"Most Think Truth Was Stretched to Justify Iraq War" .. Majority of Americans Doubt Bush's WMD Claims 2/13 .. Kerry Over Bush 52-43 .. that's right .. reports .. WaPo

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Losing a PC is worse, than losing an
heirloom for most!

Losing a PC is worse, than losing an
heirloom for most! 09/13/2004 08:56 AM
KeralaNext.com Sep 13 2004 1:24PM GMT

Losing a limb doesn't mean losing your
job (USATODAY.com)

Losing a limb doesn't mean losing your
job (USATODAY.com) 05/05/2004 06:49 AM
USATODAY.com - Army Capt. David Rozelle loosens his belt buckle, the one his commander gave him on the eve of the Iraq war, to reveal a 16-word inscription: "Brave Rifles! Veterans!You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel."

UK voters' panel: The manifestos

UK voters' panel: The manifestos 04/11/2005 06:22 AM
Our readers' panel of UK voters outline what they expect to see in the political parties' manifestos.

The antiwar voters' dilemma

The antiwar voters' dilemma 04/23/2004 12:19 PM

Assembly 'must connect with voters'

Assembly 'must connect with voters' 06/26/2004 04:36 AM
The 600th anniversary of the first Welsh Parliament is marked with a warning that its successor must "engage" the people.

Campaigns track voters' personal data.

Campaigns track voters' personal data. 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Campaigns track voters' personal data. Ever wonder why you get mail and calls from particular political groups, and not others? Turns out the political parties are developing far richer datasets on individuals than the government is. Aristotle International, Inc. (mentioned in the article) is the giant in the field, but there's much smaller ones all over the place (Weave, for instance, helps with environmental activism, and Local Victory is an example on the right). On the one hand, with limited resources, campaigns would say they must do this. On the other hand (as the article points out) it may partially explain why fewer and fewer seem to participate in the electoral process.

Wanted: Young Voters' Cellphone Numbers

Wanted: Young Voters' Cellphone Numbers 05/27/2004 01:47 AM
VOTER registration campaigns are turning to a new weapon to combat low turnout among younger voters this November: the cellphone.

Voters' roll printed on Oc Demandstream
8090 CX

Voters' roll printed on Oc Demandstream
8090 CX 12/08/2003 11:17 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Dec 8 2003 10:14PM ET

Italy's premier Berlusconi SMS-spams
voters' mobile phones

Italy's premier Berlusconi SMS-spams
voters' mobile phones 06/12/2004 01:45 AM
Italy's Berlusconi government spammed the cellphones of millions of citizens with text-messages about voting procedures for tomorrow's EU and local elections. Some call it an unprecedented invasion of mobile privacy for political control. Others argue it's a smart way for the administration to ensure Italy's voting public gets out the vote. Either way, unsolicited text messages don't grow on trees -- the stunt cost around $7M US, and critics want to know who paid for it.

The message, received on cell phones on Thursday and Friday, carried the sender line of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Premier Silvio Berlusconi's office. The message detailed when the polls will be open and what documents citizens need to vote.

"Finally we have recourse to a tool like the text message that is now in everyday use to bring the state closer still to its citizens," said Technology Minister Lucio Stanca. But the political opposition branded the strategy as a political tactic. The government "is trying every subterfuge to recover votes. It's alarming that privacy is violated in such a sensational way," said opposition lawmaker Francesco Martone.

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Shark Tank: Hey, if you can't trust IT,
who CAN you trust?

Shark Tank: Hey, if you can't trust IT,
who CAN you trust? 03/14/2005 05:10 PM
CEO decides that his company is getting too much spam, so word comes down to this pilot fish in IT: Find a better spam filter and get it working pronto.

Shark Tank: Hey, if we can't trust them,
who CAN we trust?

Shark Tank: Hey, if we can't trust them,
who CAN we trust? 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Spurred on by new laws and regulations, this company is overhauling its IT security -- and the security department wants to strip support programmers of their access to the production system.

Neowin Poll updated, Results for Doom 3
& HL2 Poll

Neowin Poll updated, Results for Doom 3
& HL2 Poll 01/18/2004 08:11 AM

Losing It

Losing It 05/19/2004 04:38 AM

I think I may be losing it.  I wrote two posts today but trashed them both because I didn't want to bother with the backlash.  Fear is something I have a good handle on, but not the lazyness.  In one of the two posts, I pissed liberally on good people like Dave, Joi, Tim O'Reilly and companies like Microsoft, Google, Six Apart, and O'Reilly.  The other post was about why I may be a racist.  Saucy topics indeed, but my lazyness got the better of me.  I hope I get better soon.

Losing the War

Losing the War 12/28/2004 05:28 PM
Losing the War, an insightful memoir by writer and journalist Lee Sandlin. Note: It's not about Iraq. Or is it? "A year later, in the second winter of the invasion, as the army inched forward on a final, desperate push into Stalingrad, a daring joke began making the rounds in Germany, a mock dispatch from Stalingrad HQ: 'Today our troops captured a two-room apartment with kitchen, toilet, and bathroom. They have succeeded in retaining two-thirds of it despite fierce counterattacks by the enemy.' Few of the tellers realized just how accurate this description was. Jo hn Keegan, in his book The Second World War, quotes a German officer's description of the fighting in the city: 'We have fought for fifteen days for a single house with mortars, grenades, machine-guns and bayonets. Already by the third day fifty-four German corpses are strewn in the cellars, on the landings, and the staircases. The front is a corridor between burnt-out rooms; it is the thin ceiling between two floors.' This was where Hitler's vision of the world finally foundered. After striding like a colossus over a continent, the German army was in the end unable to force its way up a flight of stairs."

The Art of Losing a Fight

The Art of Losing a Fight 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
via zanphura (Alternatively titled, So You're Not Strictly Speaking, Um, The Winner.) You've tried. You've thrown your back into it. You tasted victory if only for the briefest of moments and despite your failure the smell of success lingers like a coy ghost. But it's over. You join the hallowed halls of the non-victors where history is yours to read, not write. Cong ...

Losing a Niche

Losing a Niche 06/17/2005 07:16 PM

Popular Science magazine gives us the following five things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with RSS:

1. “Package Deliveries
2. Library Books
   “ Avoid late fees and fruitless trips to the library with ELF (libraryelf.com), which generates a feed to inform you when books you've requested are available at your local branch (including a link to operating hours) and when your checked-out books are almost due.”
3. Local Weather
4. TV Listings
5. Yourself” [via del.icio.us/merlinmann/ 43folders]

I love the ELF and even subscribe to the service myself, but how does it make your privacy-loving, patron-protecting, librarian self feel that a company in Canada is providing this service that gets highlighted in PopSci instead of you?

Losing the evangelicals?

Losing the evangelicals? 05/18/2004 02:50 PM

Losing place

Losing place 11/18/2003 02:30 AM
Thoughtful essay by Paul Goldberger (the New Yorker's architecture critic) in Metropolis magazine about how cellphones are uprooting and altering how we connect to the world around us:But the cell phone has changed our sense of place more than faxes and computers and e-mail because of its ability to intrude into every moment in every possible place. When you walk along the street and talk on a cell phone, you are not on the street sharing the communal experience of urban life. You are in some other place--someplace at the other end of your phone conversation. You are there, but you are not there. It reminds me of the title of Lillian Ross's memoir of her life with William Shawn, Here But Not Here. Now that is increasingly true of almost every person on almost every street in almost every city. You are either on the phone or carrying one,...

Why We Are Losing The War on Terrorism

Why We Are Losing The War on Terrorism 05/03/2004 10:45 AM
CACI, a private military company that provides security and intelligence workers to the US military (including interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison), is conducting a probe of their employee in Iraq.  I had a look at CACIs site and was a little disturbed by what I found (they have pulled many of their listings for employment last night -- so I can't link).  The only qualifications for a senior counter-terrorist intelligence analyst, one that the US military pays well over one hundred thousand $$ for (my estimate based on experience in military contacting), is a high school diploma and a security clearance.Is a security clearance the most important qualification for being an analyst??? This isn't an isolated instance, my review of the field shows that problems like this are rampant (low pay, limited qualifications, etc.).

Fighting terrorism is 90% intelligence and 10% action (a total reversal of traditional ratios).  If this is the best our government can do, we are in for a world of hurt.

We desperately need adult supervision and high quality minds in the intelligence business!  I am growing more convince that the security clearance process, the government hiring/promotion process, and information silos are overwhelming our ability to get even a marginally adequate level of intelligence needed to fight terrorism.  Wow, this is depressing.

My confident belief (100%):  we will continue to lose the war on terrorism until we fix our intelligence system.

NASA losing the thread?

NASA losing the thread? 09/24/2004 05:16 AM
USA Today Sep 24 2004 9:11AM GMT

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 5/4

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 5/4 05/04/2004 02:33 AM
from the NYT (reg/req) .. Today

nytimes.com/2004/05/03/science/03RESE.html?hp
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3G Phones Are Losing Weight

3G Phones Are Losing Weight 09/09/2004 09:48 PM
The Feature Sep 10 2004 1:41AM GMT

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences

U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the
Sciences 05/02/2004 11:55 PM
Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's.

Big Four Auditors Losing Clients

Big Four Auditors Losing Clients 02/18/2004 09:29 AM
The big names carry less prestige in the wake of scandal.

The Art Of Losing Friends
(washingtonpost.com)

The Art Of Losing Friends
(washingtonpost.com) 09/25/2004 03:59 AM

Is Pepsi Losing Fizz?

Is Pepsi Losing Fizz? 07/16/2004 01:48 PM
Second-quarter earnings reveal snacks under attack.

US Losing its Scientific Dominance

US Losing its Scientific Dominance 05/03/2004 08:10 AM

How to win hearts and minds by losing.

How to win hearts and minds by losing. 07/16/2004 01:34 PM
Failure is not an option, it's mandatory. "For more than three decades, the Republican Party has relied on the "culture war" to rescue their chances every four years, from Richard Nixon's campaign against the liberal news media to George H. W. Bush's campaign against the liberal flag-burners. In this culture war, the real divide is between "regular people" and an endlessly scheming "liberal elite." This strategy allows them to depict themselves as friends of the common people even as they gut workplace safety rules and lay plans to turn Social Security over to Wall Street. Most important, it has allowed Republicans to speak the language of populism."

An opinion about how the surety of losing wins votes for the Republican party.
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