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By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/11/01 7:19:17 AM
# Replies: 17
Found in Today's Yahoo News...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unisys Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. are teaming up to create new voting technology in the wake of the ballot-counting fiasco in the U.S. presidential election, Unisys said on Thursday.
Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys said its system will replace outdated systems that produce irregularities such as those reported in Florida in the November election.
The system will integrate election processes from voter registration to counting results, Unisys said.
Response #1
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 1/12/01 5:26:37 AM
Why would something as this NOT surprise ANYONE?
Yeah, I want Microsoft and Unisys tabulating MY vote.
I'd rather risk it to a blind-deaf, 90 year old alcoholic, with frost bitten fingers counting voting ballots before I'd trust them!
Then again, I always had trust issues.
Hey, where Ralf been recently?
Response #2
By: sooz
Date: 1/14/01 6:47:28 AM
Yeah, where IS Ralf?
Response #3
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 1/15/01 10:48:27 AM
Not only have his pants disappeared, it seems he has followed suit.
(Get it?)
Response #4
By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/15/01 3:08:06 PM
Doh!
Well the log shows he's been checkin' in. Maybe he's got carpal tunnel syndrome and is unable to type.
Response #5
By: Ralf
Date: 1/16/01 7:00:20 AM
[delurk]
Nah, I'm just in one of my reclusive modes. Nevermind me.
Y'all have fun and let me watch.
[relurk]
Response #6
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 1/17/01 6:04:16 AM
(In Rod Serling-esque monolog)
A post...not of sound but of mind.
Posted my a man claiming to be Ralf, but without a mention of his trademark sarcasm or pants.
Was it indeed Ralf? Or have you just crossed over into...
The Trouser Zone!
Response #7
By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/17/01 8:28:24 PM
Reminds me... I seem to have lost a pair of pants this past weekend.
Yes, I *was* drinking Friday night, and maybe saturday night too. No, I don't think I drank to the point of a blackout... or at least if I did I sure don't remember it...
But nevertheless when I was doing laundry on Sunday, I discovered that I was missing a pair of pants. Now this is a relatively small apartment. There's not a whole lotta places to look. This was a relatively normal pair of Dockers... okay, they may have been faux Dockers... but they were Nice Pants(tm). And now they're just... gone.
Response #8
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 1/17/01 9:19:52 PM
Hmm, missing pants...drinking.
Could there be a relationship?
Hmm, you didn't get laid in this process did you?
Response #9
By: Roxanne
Date: 1/18/01 4:28:07 PM
Maybe the Mother Ship called them home?
Response #10
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/19/01 3:32:19 PM
Fang, your pants were 'tabulated' by Microsoft and Unisys. They went to the same place where the data lost from JPEG compression goes. (I was trying to work in a Unisys/GIF data-loss compression joke, but, well, GIF isn't lossy.)
Response #11
By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/20/01 8:09:48 AM
It's a stretch, but I like it.
Response #12
By: Da Sissop
Date: 1/27/01 10:01:12 AM
Pants update: I FOUND them!
They were simply misfiled, hanging out with the shirts.
Response #13
By: sooz
Date: 1/27/01 6:39:42 PM
I contemplating something extreme: I may buy a new pair of pants.
Response #14
By: sooz
Date: 1/28/01 11:40:37 AM
Update: I still haven't purchased them, but I have looked around online.
Response #15
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 1/28/01 4:40:26 PM
What if you always go to the brick-and-mortar store so the guy will have to measure your inseam? What will you THEN in the world of e-commerce?
Response #16
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 1/28/01 7:49:30 PM
Why is there such an underlying pants theme on this board?
Response #17
By: sooz
Date: 1/28/01 9:46:42 PM
Girls don't do much of that inseam-measuring stuff. Maybe it has to do with not having a penis to hang down and mess up the fit. Or maybe I just have a penis fixation today.
(Waiting for Gowan to say "Today??")