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[tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>]

"Definition: [n]  a small country (especially in Central America) that
is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign
companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)"

Hi, Anatoly:  I want to thank you for commenting, even though this is an
off-topic thread.  I, too, will leave this where it lay, and move on. 
But, couldn't keep myself from posting this one thought.

Dan Burk, as Registrar for The State (we call Nevada, The State,
borrowed from the Cold War movies made by Hollywood), continues to
embarrass its citizens with outlandish statements as witnessed below. 
Your connection to his isolated comments with the imagery of a banana
state is striking in its insight.  Dan knows exactly what he and the
others on the Elections Advisory Commission are attempting to do. 
Elimination of voters' right to vote is a long-sought goal, one that he
and the others apparently relish, and have looked forward to for years,
as the documentation demonstrates.

As this absurd effort moves towards the light of day, we'll see Dan, The
State's Attorney General, the Governor, and others on the Elections
Advisory Commission head for the hills to avoid being indicted for
attempting overthrow of our government, and the infamous labels attached
to such.  "Self-humiliation" is much too kind a term to use with Burk.  

Now, I shall return to what I should be doing, and work on the project
launch.
Happy Holidays,
Tom 





On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 11:34, Anatoly Volynets wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:22, Burk, Dan wrote:
> > > Where on earth do you get this stuff.
> > > There is a line between being a constructive critic and a fear monger 
> > > and
> > > you have really passed it.
> > > Get a life.  The elections companies are not going to allow open source
> > > coding for their systems.
> 
> I did not signed up to this list to participate in discussion about voting
> issues and will try to avoid these further, but above remark about
> "election companies" is astonishing. I just fail to understand the level
> of self-humiliation, Mr. Burk reached. What? You give up your right to
> vote to election companies? I can read, you did not say this directly, but
> who is interested, what any company wants when it comes to a fundamental
> right of the people of the United States of America? Or I am mistaken and
> we live in a banana republic and have to bow to some companies when we
> discuss election procedures and want to be sure our rights are kept? It is
> astonishing.
> 
> > > Isn't it enough that you and your fellow
> > > travelers got us to be the first state to require VVRs for every 
> > > machine?
> > > Now it has to be open source coding or the elections are wholly 
> > > corrupted
> > > too?  Gimme a Break!
> > >
> 
> I would give you, Mr. Burk, a break to go and learn so that you will not
> look so purely illiterate on some sensitive issues, namely: net/computer
> related security, open source vs. proprietary software development, open
> source and society in their interrelations, monopoly vs. free market
> economy. I would also suggest some reading for your free time: 1984 by
> Orwell and other books of the anti-utopia genre.
> 
> Thank you for you close attention to this matter,
> 
> Anatoly Volynets
> http://www.total-knowledge.com
> http://www.culturedialogue.org