Afghan candidates given go-ahead

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U.S. Sees More Militant Attacks Ahead of
Afghan Vote

U.S. Sees More Militant Attacks Ahead of
Afghan Vote 06/01/2004 10:44 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 1 2004 3:09PM GMT

What the Candidates are Running

What the Candidates are Running 11/06/2003 01:27 PM

Veteran job candidates

Veteran job candidates 01/07/2003 02:47 PM
CNET Jan 7 2003 1:02AM ET

Iran reinstates more candidates

Iran reinstates more candidates 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
The conservative Guardian Council revises its ban on a further 100 people wanting to stand for election.

Simplebackup 1.3.0 RC2 (Release
Candidates)

Simplebackup 1.3.0 RC2 (Release
Candidates) 06/30/2004 07:24 PM
Software to build simple backups of directories.

Simplebackup 1.2.0 RC2 (Release
Candidates)

Simplebackup 1.2.0 RC2 (Release
Candidates) 05/14/2004 10:35 AM
Software to build simple backups of directories.

Firefox 1.0.3 Final Candidates

Firefox 1.0.3 Final Candidates 04/05/2005 11:37 AM

For Candidates, Raucous Is Out, Civil Is
In

For Candidates, Raucous Is Out, Civil Is
In 01/23/2004 02:26 PM
Candidates who falter between Iowa and New Hampshire have little time to correct course and must do so under the full glare of the media spotlight.

Candidates Vie for Wis., Iowa, Minnesota
(AP)

Candidates Vie for Wis., Iowa, Minnesota
(AP) 09/25/2004 01:59 PM
AP - In 2000, political pundits summed up the race in three words: Florida, Florida, Florida. Here's three words to consider this fall: Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.

Web servers of presidential candidates

Web servers of presidential candidates 11/07/2003 07:45 AM
Penguins for President? .. Vote Democrat Linux!

linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7239&mode=thread&order=0
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Southwest Key Area for Candidates (AP)

Southwest Key Area for Candidates (AP) 05/22/2004 08:07 PM
AP - Hispanics and transplanted white voters are swelling the populations of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado, offering hope to both John Kerry and President Bush in the hot, new campaign battleground.

Satirists Skewer U.S. Candidates

Satirists Skewer U.S. Candidates 08/21/2004 03:06 PM
Wired News Aug 21 2004 6:14PM GMT

Infineon shortlists two CEO candidates

Infineon shortlists two CEO candidates 04/22/2004 05:16 AM
Reports sales, income gains, too

MP candidates on the "Canadian DMCA"

MP candidates on the "Canadian DMCA" 06/24/2004 09:39 AM
With the Canadian election coming up in four days, Ray called up all the candidates in his riding and asked them what they thought of the Canadian version of the DMCA:

What I believe needs to happen is the creation of a new "industry model", one that understands that all music, programs, books, etc, will be distributed over the internet. What this means is that a huge infrastructure of advertisors, retailers, wholesalers, etc, are going to wither away and have to find new ways of making a living. Instead, modern technology will allow consumers and artists to interact directly. Until industry realizes that this is the new "rules of the game", they will be in the situation of King Canut trying to order the tide to not come in. Part of this realization will be the understanding that consumers simply will not pay the same price for a book, music, etc, that they download and print themselves off the internet that they would have to pay if they went to a physical store and made a purchase. And why should they? They have removed almost all the "middle-men" who previously had to do work to get it into their hands.

Link (Thanks, Ray!)

Icann Weighs Candidates for .NET Job

Icann Weighs Candidates for .NET Job 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
"VeriSign's contract to run the dot-net domain expires at the end of June, and we have spoken with the director of the non-profit German organisation looking to take over"

Simplebackup 1.3.0 RC3 (Release
Candidates)

Simplebackup 1.3.0 RC3 (Release
Candidates) 07/04/2004 08:55 AM
Software to build simple backups of directories.

Tiki 1.8 RC3 (Release candidates)

Tiki 1.8 RC3 (Release candidates) 12/25/2003 10:19 AM
A powerful CMS/groupware/Wiki.

Candidates Barrel Through Iowa on Day
Before Caucuses

Candidates Barrel Through Iowa on Day
Before Caucuses 01/18/2004 06:03 PM
Most candidates were in Iowa for the final full day of campaigning, but Howard Dean met with former President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Ga.

Sites match voters, candidates

Sites match voters, candidates 01/27/2004 08:41 PM
Political information sites offer tools that resemble those on dating sites, where the uncommitted voter can answer questions to a match engine that spits out an ideal candidate.

mozCellML 0.1rc5 (Release Candidates)

mozCellML 0.1rc5 (Release Candidates) 12/31/2004 02:04 AM
A Mozilla-based CellML editor.

One town, two candidates, three bank
robberies

One town, two candidates, three bank
robberies 08/04/2004 04:45 PM

Candidates Rap Bush As N.H. Primary
Looms (AP)

Candidates Rap Bush As N.H. Primary
Looms (AP) 01/23/2004 09:54 PM
AP - John Kerry accused the Bush administration on Friday of shortchanging veterans, targeting Republicans while Democratic presidential rivals hoped his campaign momentum would soon subside.

Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release
Candidates Out

Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release
Candidates Out 06/09/2004 02:06 PM

Iran Hardliners Bar Liberal Candidates
(AP)

Iran Hardliners Bar Liberal Candidates
(AP) 01/11/2004 06:00 PM
AP - Hardliners have thrown Iran's legislative elections into crisis by disqualifying hundreds of liberal candidates, including more than 80 sitting lawmakers who are allied with the reformist president.

Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates

Help Test mod_perl 2 Release Candidates 12/26/2004 11:15 AM
Slashdot Dec 26 2004 3:53PM GMT

Should we pay attention to the
Democratic Presidential candidates on TV
(or anywhere)?

Should we pay attention to the
Democratic Presidential candidates on TV
(or anywhere)? 01/22/2004 02:13 AM

Flip on the television these days and instead of an entertaining comedy one will often find news coverage of the Democratic Presidential primaries.  Should we pay attention to the speeches and commentary?  Perhaps the Web Age has relieved us of the need to sit and watch these men in real time.

Let's look at http://www.deanforamerica.com/, for example.  A quick read of the "on the issues" section is more informative than 100 hours of TV coverage.  Here are some things that I noticed...

His "job creation plan" (under "economy") proposes to make sure that broadband Internet access is "available" in rural areas.  Given that it is already possible to get two-way high-speed satellite Internet at a reasonable cost ($70/month, a touch more than the $50/month that urbanites pay for cable modems) anywhere in the Lower 48 and has been for several years, this presumably means that Dean wants to subsidize politically powerful people who live in underpopulated farm states.  So basically Dean wants to shovel more money from people who live in cities to people who live on farms... just like every other American politician.  Dean doesn't propose to invest in anything new, e.g., a wireless Internet infrastructure.

Dean has an extensive section on K-12 education.  Whenever a federal politician talks about what he is going to do for America's schools you can be sure that he is lying.  The federal government pays only about 7% of the cost of K-12 education in this country and therefore has almost no control over what happens in our classrooms.  Pity the poor teacher in her classroom.  She has to answer to the vice-principals and principal of her school.  She has to answer to the superintendent of her city or county.  She has to answer to a skyscraper full of bureaucrats in her state's central education administration.  And then all of them have to answer to the federal U.S. Department of Education, all of whose employees answer in turn to their Secretary who answers in his or her turn to the President.  There are more layers of management above a K-12 teacher than above an assembly-line worker at GM or Toyota, which makes sense until you reflect that it takes $billions in capital investment to build a car whereas plenty of brilliant people were educated at their parents' kitchen table.  Honest politicians generally start from the position that the federal Department of Education should be abolished.  Then they show up in Washington and find that this isn't political acceptable so they try to curb its growth.  The dishonest ones make a lot of promises about what they are personally going to do, sitting at their desk in the White House, for a kid in a classroom in Peoria, whose school is almost entirely funded by local taxpayers.

On foreign policy Howard Dean complains that the Bush Administration has "disengaged" from meddling in the 55-year-old war between the Arab nations and Israel.  His proposed solution?  "The Israeli government will have to work to improve the living conditions of the Palestinian people".  This is a tough goal given that the Palestinians have a 5% annual population growth rate; the Israelis would have to somehow generate more than 5% annual GDP growth among the Palestinians, many of whom are illiterate (a 5% annual GDP growth rate is something that we Americans are unable to achieve for ourselves, despite the fact that we have almost unlimited capital and a well-educated citizenry).  The U.S. meanwhile will "have to take responsibility with its international partners for helping the Palestinians establish a middle-class democratic society in which women fully participate in economic and political decision-making."  (See http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20 01793273_honorkilling17.html for a story on women's status within present-day Palestinian society.)

Under Energy/Clean Air, Dean says "To reduce oil consumption and global warming emissions, Governor Dean believes we should increase the average fuel economy standard to approximately 40 miles per gallon for all automobiles, including SUVs and minivans."  This might have some effect on the environment circa 2020 but it doesn't do anything to discourage people from driving their 2004 model year monster SUVs.  An economist would chuck all of Dean's complex proposals in favor of a $10/barrel tax on oil, a $20/barrel tax on imported oil, and some sort of tax on pollution.

It would appear that a thoughtful voter could easily write off Howard Dean as a non-entity after spending 30 minutes at his Web site.  And perhaps this process can be repeated for the other candidates.  Are there any Dean supporters who would care to use the comments section to note brilliant ideas from the Howard Dean campaign that I've overlooked?  And would one have been more likely to discover these ideas watching Dean on TV rather than looking at his Web site?

Fifth Set of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3
Release Candidates

Fifth Set of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3
Release Candidates 04/07/2005 10:36 AM

list of third-party candidates on the
ballot

list of third-party candidates on the
ballot 09/16/2004 07:01 PM
scroll down to your state name, and then choose a candidate to throw your vote away on

Medicare Costs Are New Focus for
Candidates

Medicare Costs Are New Focus for
Candidates 09/11/2004 12:55 PM
Democrats are vowing to roll back a sharp increase in premiums announced this month and the Bush campaign is seeking to blame lawmakers for the rise.

Veep candidates get into it over
who’s soft on what,

Veep candidates get into it over
who’s soft on what, 09/07/2004 09:26 PM
Edwards takes .. discussion

nytimes.com/2004/09/07/politics/campaign/07mates.html
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Sun adds JES to open source candidates

Sun adds JES to open source candidates 07/16/2004 11:54 AM
Sun Microsystems Inc. said this week that it is thinking about offering some of its Java Enterprise System (JES) under an open source license, although no final decisions have been made.

Five Accepted as Candidates for 2012
Olympics

Five Accepted as Candidates for 2012
Olympics 05/18/2004 07:17 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 18 2004 12:02PM GMT

Candidates Face Sprawling Electoral Map

Candidates Face Sprawling Electoral Map 05/12/2004 04:05 PM
The presidential campaign is a struggle to master one of the largest and most complex electoral playing fields in nearly 20 years.

More Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Release
Candidates

More Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Release
Candidates 04/09/2005 09:58 AM

Democratic presidential candidates
prefer PCs

Democratic presidential candidates
prefer PCs 11/05/2003 12:09 PM
Democratic presidential candidates were asked one very important question last night at the Rock the Vote debate in Boston: Mac or PC? Of those that answered the audience question, Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said PC, Former U.S...

Candidates Risk 'Glum' Label for
Criticism (AP)

Candidates Risk 'Glum' Label for
Criticism (AP) 06/04/2004 02:47 AM
AP - As John Kerry and Ralph Nader compete for votes in their common cause of beating President Bush, they risk coming across not just as agents of change, but as Glum and Glummer.

Wyo. House Candidates Collect Cash
Online

Wyo. House Candidates Collect Cash
Online 05/03/2004 12:22 PM
San Jose Mercury News May 3 2004 5:13PM GMT

Track Campaign Donations to Illinois
Candidates

Track Campaign Donations to Illinois
Candidates 09/12/2004 12:52 PM
The Illinois Sunshine Database (Illinois Sunshine Database?) offers information about over 150,000 recent contributions to Illinois political candidates. It's updated through June 30, 2004 and is available at http://www.ilcampaign.org. (Look...

Gap widens between candidates on Iraq,
parks (USATODAY.com)

Gap widens between candidates on Iraq,
parks (USATODAY.com) 08/10/2004 07:11 AM
USATODAY.com - John Kerry hiked Monday on the Grand Canyon's breathtaking South Rim, and then charged President Bush with short-changing the national park system. But Kerry's intended focus on the natural environment was overshadowed by a barbed exchange with Bush over Iraq.
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