January 25, 2005 10:03 AM
in the forest
Yesterday, I took the car, and drove on the 199 Highway. Of course, I took some photos.
Actually I wanted to go to RedWood. I knew I had to turn on the left sometime when there is a bridge, but did not know exactly when. So of course, I took the wrong road, and turn on the left sooner than I should have :)
So I drove about one hour alone on this road, in the wood.
But after some time, the road was full of snow, and I decided to stop as soon as possible where I could turn back the car.
I found a place where there was less snow, parked the car, and decided to walk a little.
In the snow I saw that a car had aldready been there, but did not continue on this road.
Then it was time to come back to the car ...
It's not always easy to drive in the snow ...
But I was able to come back (sleeping alone in this wood, far from any house, would have been a little frightening and probably cold).
So this was a good week end. Next time I'll try to take the right road :)
Actually I wanted to go to RedWood. I knew I had to turn on the left sometime when there is a bridge, but did not know exactly when. So of course, I took the wrong road, and turn on the left sooner than I should have :)
So I drove about one hour alone on this road, in the wood.
But after some time, the road was full of snow, and I decided to stop as soon as possible where I could turn back the car.
I found a place where there was less snow, parked the car, and decided to walk a little.
In the snow I saw that a car had aldready been there, but did not continue on this road.
Then it was time to come back to the car ...
It's not always easy to drive in the snow ...
But I was able to come back (sleeping alone in this wood, far from any house, would have been a little frightening and probably cold).
So this was a good week end. Next time I'll try to take the right road :)
January 17, 2005 7:57 AM
Crater Lake
On Saturday we have been to Crater Lake, a big lake in a big crater. This was quite impressing. To go there we took a long road in the wood. All you have around you is a lot of trees.
January 08, 2005 10:41 PM
Snow in Grants Pass
Today there is some snow in Grants Pass. I took a few photos (click here if you want to download them all as one file).
January 05, 2005 6:33 AM
some facts about e-voting in the usa
An interesting read on this page from coastalpoast (an interesting website):
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice- presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.
19. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!) -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.
Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? or was it Diebold...?
Is there anything to do against this now ?
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice- presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie at http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov.)
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.
19. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!) -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.
Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? or was it Diebold...?
Is there anything to do against this now ?
January 04, 2005 6:46 AM
first post this year !
Happy new year !
Now I'm in Grants Pass for my internship. I took a few photos on the road yesterday morning (I'll take more soon).
I arrived on thursday afternoon in San Fransisco then came by road to Grants Pass the next day. It's a lot different from France here, but I like, and people are very sympathetic :)
Now I'm in Grants Pass for my internship. I took a few photos on the road yesterday morning (I'll take more soon).
I arrived on thursday afternoon in San Fransisco then came by road to Grants Pass the next day. It's a lot different from France here, but I like, and people are very sympathetic :)