Welcome to the liveblog by the US Pirate Party covering the 2nd Presidential Debate. Covering the debate and giving feedback, and facts from the Pirate Perspective is Former US party chairman Andrew Norton (K`Tetch) Massachusetts State leader, and US party Vice-chair James O’Keefe (jokeefe) The Liveblog will open 30 minutes before the debate starts. Welcome […]
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Politics&P2P Turns 5
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 5 years since I finally decided, ‘yes, I should really start writing things down‘. So 5 years, and 269 posts later, here we are. To commemorate this, I decided that it’s finally been long enough and I should fix some of the issues with the site. Most of […]
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Tennessee’s Primary Idea Shows the Right Direction
A highly publicized bill in Tennessee has drawn a lot of comment nationwide over its attempt to eliminate primary elections for Senate seats. Instead the party caucuses State Legislature would pick the candidates. Understandably, it’s drawn the ire of people claiming it’s ‘anti-democratic’, and has, for now, been shelved. However, it’s not the worst idea of them. […]
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Iowa, Ohio and Texas Take Stand Against Transparent Elections
If you’ve ever heard something like ‘America is the greatest democratic country in the world’ take heed. While many believe that to be the case, the State Governors of both Iowa and Texas are afraid to put that to the test. They’ve threatened independent election inspectors with Jail. That’s right, the supposed shining beacon of […]
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Breitbart – Targeting the Innumerate
This caught my eye today. I subscribe to the Breitbart email list, not so much because I believe the politics, but because it’s often amusing to see the ways a masterful lack of intellect can be played. It really is a class lesson in manipulation, and fear-mongering. One of their more recent actions has been […]
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Browser Benchmarks: Firefox10 Vs. Chrome16 (WIN7)
Source Technovore Following on from my earlier tests of browsers in Vista, I now present the Windows7 results. In case you were expecting things to fall the same way, you’d be surprised. The underpinnings of windows7 are different from those of Vista, and so browsers which are written to run at their best in one, may […]
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