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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Quilt Festival...Kaffe of course!
51 comments:
- Nat Palaskas said...
Beautiful Cathy and very very colourful. I love how you made used of the big prints this way. The smaller prints are also well featured too. I love it - Hugs Natima
- October 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Quilts on Bastings said...
That is a stunning quilt Cathy - I love the Kaffe Fasset prints - geat quilting too. Enjoy the Blogger's Quilt Festival.
- October 10, 2009 at 7:33 PM
- Barbara Sindlinger said...
what a great quilt and use of the fabrics. It really shows them off.
- October 10, 2009 at 8:03 PM
- Janet said...
I've been enjoying some great quilts with the festival. I love this one because it really is about the fabrics. Your quilting is great to see up close.
- October 10, 2009 at 8:25 PM
- One Flew Over said...
I can see why it is a favourite! I just ADORE those green cabbages...I seriously need to get some for my stash. A wonderful quilt!
- October 10, 2009 at 8:45 PM
- Anne at Film and Thread said...
I love how you showcased the fabrics and especially love how beautiful your quilting looks and that you did it yourself on a regular machine!
- October 10, 2009 at 8:57 PM
- Margaret Solomon Gunn said...
I love the fabrics in this one!
- October 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Cardygirl said...
Elegantly beautiful way of showcasing stunning fabrics!
- October 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM
- myBearpaw said...
I love these Kaffe Fassett fabrics! I have been using them a lot lately. This is a beautiful quilt.
- October 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Carol at Serendipity said...
What a beautiful quilt. I, too, love Kaffe and his friends. This quilt festival is very inspiring.
- October 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- Jenny said...
Wow, you do the most beautiful things with this fabric! Just a divine quilt
- October 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Jocelyn said...
Oh my what beautiful vivid colors! Lovely quilt.
- October 10, 2009 at 10:37 PM
- Andi said...
So much colour and movement.
Not that I expect anything less!!
Andi :-)
- October 10, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Nedra said...
You know how I love those Kaffes!
- October 10, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Dee said...
Cathy...your quilts are like pieces of kaleidoscopic heaven come down! LOL I love them and the quilting is perfect! Thanks for sharing this one...the binding is way cool!
Blessings and books returned on time to you!
- October 10, 2009 at 11:40 PM
- Ariane said...
I love it!! It's so colorful. I just love the fabrics together.
- October 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM
- YankeeQuilter said...
Beautiful...polka dot binding is a new favorite!
- October 11, 2009 at 12:36 AM
- Zonnah said...
It is beautiful!
- October 11, 2009 at 1:48 AM
- Amanda Jean said...
so much goodness in this quilt! i've wanted to make a quilt like this for awhile now...it's amazing!
- October 11, 2009 at 2:48 AM
- West Michigan Quilter said...
What a beautiful quilt. I can see why it's your favorite. Thanks for the info on how you put it together. Makes me want to try to make a quilt like this. Thanks for sharing.
- October 11, 2009 at 4:01 AM
- Rafael's Mum said...
I love this quilt, and you got me into the icecream quilt too... it is not even finished and I love it allready (am collecting fabric..). Love this strippy one though with the fantastic rich colours and doesn't the cabbage on the back work well!! lovely !
- October 11, 2009 at 5:14 AM
- imquilternity said...
Of course...Kaffe! I would expect nothing else from you, my dear. Your quilt is absolutely stunning! Beautiful fabrics and gorgeous quilting. Your quilts are always wonderful!
- October 11, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Kit Lang said...
I LOVE those fabrics - and what a great, simple way to show them off. Beautiful!
- October 11, 2009 at 7:57 AM
- qusic said...
great choice of Westminsters, you made them, which are quite challenging at times into a beautiful and lively quilt- I especially love what you insert between rows of big blooms and of course this binding :)
- October 11, 2009 at 8:42 AM
- cathleen said...
Oh, Cathy, this is so gorgeous. You did a great job of blending all those lovely bold fabrics together. I can see why it's your favorite!
- October 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Love it, I just bought the new book of Kaffe, the quilts are so happy
- October 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- PatchworkRose said...
Just love those colours Cathy
So Rich and vibrant and happy. So Inspirational. :-)
- October 11, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Julia said...
Beautiful Cathy and very colourful....you did great with the quilting on a small machine..
Julia ♥
- October 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM
FABulous, Cathy!!! It's a real beauty. : )
- October 11, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- Red Pepper Quilts - Rita Hodge said...
I love this quilt oh so much. Not only because the design is so simple and effective, but also because the fabrics are gorgeous!!! I think I have all of these fabrics in my Kaffe stash (yes it has its own cupboard) and I might just have to make a quilt just like it! Not sure if my quilting skills are as good as yours though!
- October 11, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Theresa said...
I've always loved this cabbage print - it certainly makes your quilt sing. And your swirly quilting is gorgeous. Lovely lovely.
- October 11, 2009 at 9:32 PM
- ranette said...
Wonderful quilt Cathy! I love the way you've showcased all of the yummy fabric....did I spy some Flea Market Fancy in that quilt...lol.
- October 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM
- Rebecca said...
Love the fabric used in your quilt thanks for sharing it with use.
Hugs Bec
- October 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- Arabella said...
What a lovely way to showcase those amazing fabrics! Beautiful quilt!
- October 12, 2009 at 4:07 AM
- wishes, true and kind said...
Fabulous choice for the quilt festival, Cathy. I adore this quilt! Thanks for the close-up of the August Roses fabric. Still one of my favorites!
- October 12, 2009 at 7:08 AM
- Sequana said...
Wonderful colors! But then, color is what Kaffee and Brandon are all about, isn't it? I've just discovered the Mabley fabrics - anxious to get some. This is a knockout way to use them.
- October 12, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Ann Ferguson said...
Oh, Wow! So gorgeous, so simple, so sumptuous, so ...!Thanks so much! Ann.
- October 12, 2009 at 6:56 PM
- Színek és álmok said...
Very busy beautiful coloured wonderful substances nice together statement .
I like it colours .
Greeting and loving embrace Marika Hungary
- October 13, 2009 at 4:43 AM
- Hi! My name is erica. Would you be my friend? said...
Such a great way to use those large scale fabrics! It does seem so sad to cut them up sometimes!
- October 13, 2009 at 10:37 AM
- Miri said...
Great quilt...love the how the thin stripes set off the wider ones!
- October 13, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Katie B said...
Gorgeous, Cathy! I can see why this one is your favorite. You did a great job of showcasing those stunning prints.
- October 14, 2009 at 3:52 AM
- Karen from Sew Many Ways... said...
Cathy, I love all your quilts, but the fabrics in this one are just beautiful. The quilting is fantastic too. Great pick for the festival!
ps I saw the post about your sewing room too. Wow, I am so jealous of your fabric cupboard...it's like fabric heaven!
- October 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- Nanette Merrill said...
Oh my gosh I love these fabrics and the textures them make together.
- October 15, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- Allie said...
Beautiful...it looks so happy!
- October 15, 2009 at 3:50 PM
- taylorsoutback said...
Love your colors and such nice quilting!
I fell in love with Melbourne when we visited with Doreen Speckman in '94. The local quilt guilds were incredible hostesses to our group - an experience I will always treasure.
- October 16, 2009 at 3:35 PM
- Jocelyn said...
Beautiful fabrics and colors! Love it.
- October 17, 2009 at 2:06 AM
- HOPE said...
This simple design is STUNNING with the fabrics you chose! I loved looking over your blog...
So glad I found you. I'm a selftaught Quilter still learning.
- October 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Lynn E said...
Although I am not a big fan of large prints, your quilt has shown me options that I have never thought of. Great quilt
- October 26, 2009 at 3:34 AM
- Marit said...
Love your colorful quilt! I have made my own version of this wallpaper pattern in soft pastels, some time ago. It is so fun to see how different it looks in different color ways! You quilted it so beautifully! That is a huge inspiration!!!
- October 28, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Casey said...
This is really gorgeous. Fantastic work.
- November 30, 2009 at 5:12 AM
- wishes, true and kind said...
I love that quilt, and you put it together just beautifully! I love that brown with blue dot print, too!
- May 26, 2010 at 11:13 PM


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In both cases, the experience has become more about selecting a piece of content than simply watching TV. The result? More ends up feeling like a lot less.
That's the central problem plaguing both set top boxes like Roku and Apple TV and content services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. Instead of letting you lean back and soak up content, these new challengers require decisions–a careful cost-benefit analysis of thousands of different options. If the traditional TV experience is about letting viewers surf channels, today's on-demand video is like giving them a speedboat and forcing them choose a destination before they can even get in the water.
It's the fundamental reason smart TV and streaming video user interfaces pale in comparison to regular TV for so much of our daily viewing. And it's a shame. The channels we've always known are the perfect interface for TV. For some reason, we seem hell-bent on abandoning them.
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Channel surfing sounds like a '90s relic, something we did when we were a nation of mindless couch potatoes, not yet graced with on-demand content and our sophisticated second screens. Here's the thing, though: We're still couch potatoes! According to the U.S. labor department, Americans on average watch nearly three hours of TV a day. Nielsen pegs it even higher, at 42 hours a week, with only three of those hours happening on laptops or mobile devices.
It's hard to find data that breaks down what we're watching, but I'll bet only a fraction is spent digesting hour-long cable dramas. That daily figure isn't so high because we're tuning in to must-see TV—rather, it's the opposite. We get home and we flip on the set. We change into comfortable clothes, drink a glass of wine, make dinner, surf the web a little bit from a couch. In between all those things we click around from channel to channel to find something to fill the air. It doesn't have to be riveting. Often times, it's better if it's not. What regular TV really offers is low-stakes, ambient entertainment.
That's something that's utterly missing from Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Roku, and Apple TV. Consider, for example, a strange paradox of the streaming video age: You'll totally watch an hour of Ghostbusters on TNT, but you'd never in a million years start it up from the top on Netflix, even though it's always right there, just a dozen clicks away.
That example gets to the heart of what makes channel surfing so great. It's a zero-commitment affair. It's a fundamentally passive way to consume media, whereas today's streaming video libraries demand agency on the part of the viewer. Netflix is great when you want to watch something, but it's terrible when you want to watch anything.
Set Top Boxes Take Too Many Clicks
Consider how much friction there is in using today's streaming services, purely on a nuts-and-bolts level. With regular TV, you press one button and something's on your screen. Mash on the remote again and there's another show in front of you. Channel surfing is beautifully elegant in terms of input and output: a pure one-to-one relationship between tactile action and visual stimulus.
Compare that to Apple TV. One click on the slippery little remote to wake it up; several more to navigate the grid-based UI to the "channel" of your choice. Even with the fistful of live TV apps now available on the device, the experience has none of the fluidity of real TV.
Say you want to see what's on Watch ESPN. You have to click its icon, then navigate a sub-menu of ESPN's various channels. It doesn't show you what's on any of them. You just have to click into ESPN, see what's on, click back, then click ESPN 2, and so forth. It's maddening.
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When compared to the rest of our media diet, though, the bigger problems with streaming services such as Netflix quickly come into focus. As we've heard again and again, the dominant model for organizing digital content throughout the last half-decade has been the stream. It's everywhere–any site or service that presents content in the familiar, endlessly scrolling chronological list. Blogs are streams. Facebook's a stream. Twitter's a stream on steroids.
You know what else is a stream? Live TV! It comes with the very same qualities that exist in and enliven all the examples above. It's immediate. It's constant. It's always-on, always-there, always-new. You don't have to do a damn thing except show up.
While synonymous with the age of streaming video, Netflix is less like a stream and more like a colossal vending machine. It offers a plentitude of carefully wrapped choices, each requiring careful consideration. Infinite choice is exhausting. Ask anyone who's spent 30 minutes trying to pick a movie, only to give up and see what's on TV.
Nate Giraitis, Associate Director, Insights & Strategy at Smart Design, points out that Netflix is very much defined by its origins. In its earliest incarnation, Netflix wasn't competing with TV; it was competing with Blockbuster. "Netflix was a video rental store," he explains. "And its original website was a rental shelf." That's what gave birth to Netflix's UI, and countless streaming video services have followed its example. As he puts it, with Netflix "you're not watching. You're shopping."
There are signs that Netflix is trying to do better. It recently tweaked its UI so that the next episode of a TV series starts automatically after you finish one, simulating the always-something-on-next effect of regular TV. Felix Salmon recently argued that Netflix's new super-specific, algorithmically suggested microgenres are an effort to make itself more TV-like, an attempt to serve up something from its vast archive of second-tier content that you'll consent to watch, even if you're not enthralled by it.
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But for Netflix and its ilk to begin eating into those three hours of nightly TV time, it needs proper channels. Think: A dozen programmed line-ups and an interface to match, so that with one click you can be in the middle of something random from Netflix's catalog–something that's perfectly suited for the ambient entertainment we crave. If that's too radical, just think of it as Pandora-mode. It doesn't have to replace Netflix's library entirely. But it should be offered as a complement to it.
The same goes for Roku TV. The company's newest product—a flatscreen built from the ground up around Roku–offers 1,200 "channels," from real stations like PBS and ESPN, to services like Pandora and Netflix and lesser-known entities like Crackle and "The Daily Burn." There's one big problem. They're not really channels at all. Instead, they're just apps by another name. Make them into real, instantaneous video streams, and then you've got something.
There might be some dumb reason we can't have this. Perhaps there's a clause in licensing agreements that forbids Netflix from packaging this sort of programming; maybe most viewers don't yet have the bandwidth necessary for these services to simulate some sort of channel surfing experience.
Nevertheless, if Netflix truly wants to make itself an indispensable eight-bucks-a-month expense–or if Roku wants to build the standalone TV that can finally break cable's hegemony–giving couch potatoes some true channels to dip into is the way to do it. I could be wrong, but I suspect there are a lot of people like me out there. I never have time for Ghostbusters, but I always have time for the last 30 minutes of it.


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November 11. It's hard to explain demurrage currency, because it works by creating an economic system fundamentally different from the one we're used to. I'm going to call these two systems fire economies and water economies. (Coincidentally, there is already an acronym FIRE for "finance, insurance, and real estate", the main elements of the speculative bubble economy that replaced the manufacturing economy in America after domestic oil peaked in the early 1970's.)
In a "fire" economy, money makes money, the same way that fire catches more things on fire. A very small fire is hard to keep going, but a large fire is hard to put out, and it tends to grow and consume everything in its path. There's a saying: turning ten dollars into twenty dollars is very difficult, but turning ten million into twenty million is inevitable. This is not a natural law but a human law, created by human rules. The two big ones are interest and rent. Both depend on deeper rules that money and land can be "owned" by someone who is not using them, and on top of that, they allow the "owners" to leverage their wealth/power into more wealth/power, by charging fees to non-"owning" users. The result is a giant river of money flowing from the have-nots to the haves, so that wealth and poverty, power and weakness, are in positive feedback loops. Because the only negative feedback is collapse, collapse is inevitable, and often violent.
In a "water" economy, wealth and poverty have negative feedback, and masses of money are like waves in the ocean -- the higher they get, the more they are pulled down by gravity, and the lower the troughs get, the more they are filled in. There are waves, even big waves, but they move around, and individual water molecules are constantly moving up and down. It's easy to make money because it's easy to lose money. In fact, in a system without perpetual growth, the only way to have upward mobility is to have equal downward mobility.
We can build a water economy simply by setting up rules that make concentrations of money shrink over time. If this is the normal behavior of the system, and if everyone knows it, then people who find themselves with extra money will not hoard it, but spend it buying goods and services from people with less money, and then those people will spend it instead of hoarding it, and the wave will keep moving. And because negative feedback is built in, the system has equilibrium, and economic collapse is not necessary.
So how do we keep concentrations of wealth shrinking? The way it's been done historically is by setting up money itself to have built-in depreciation. This Charles Eisenstein chapter, The Currency of Cooperation, covers some examples. Another is the Brakteaten system. And several readers have argued that the same thing could be done with inflation, although I think their point was, "Inflation does the same thing as demurrage, inflation ruins economies, therefore demurrage is bad."
To use inflation to create a water economy, the rate of inflation would have to always be higher than the highest interest rate (and also the highest rate that wealth could "grow" through other mechanisms like rent). Now you might say, in that case, nobody would lend money. That's exactly the point! Lending would exist only as a charity, not as a means to profit. If you wanted to buy something big, you would do it by saving instead of borrowing. And if you wanted to profit, you would have to be a skilled participant in profitable activity instead of a broad-scale speculator.
The problem is, if you're trying to do this with inflation, and if it's still legal to charge interest, then the private institutions that want easy profits through lending will get in a race with the public institutions that set the inflation rate. The whole thing will be unstable, unless you make a law setting a maximum interest rate. But if you're going to put a legal cap on interest, and make sure inflation is always high enough so that nobody wants to loan money anyway, then it's best to just cap interest at zero and forbid it completely.
Then the government could just constantly print money into existence, creating whatever it spent out of thin air, instead of collecting taxes. The exact rate would be negotiated through the political system to keep the balance between public and private interests, but suppose that the government created ten percent of the total money supply every year. Then the money supply would grow by a factor of ten roughly every 25 years, and you could just knock a zero off and keep going. It's not unstable because money is imaginary. The inflationary "tax" would be a flat rate, so fiscal conservatives would love it, and it would redistribute wealth, so socialists would love it. It would function like demurrage, but it would be logistically easier than requiring everyone to turn their money in every year.
November 13. Lately I've been leaning away from expecting a catastrophic collapse, but strangely, the thing that makes me lean back toward it is not energy depletion or financial collapse or climate change. It's the American health care system, because I cannot see any way to fix it without a catastrophe. I can think of two alternatives: One would be full-on socialized medicine, where the government owns everything, gives it to us free, pays for it with taxes, and keeps costs moderate. That's politically impossible. The other way, which I prefer, is to somehow reduce costs so much that medical care is cheaper than food. Don't laugh -- in the last ten years I've spent close to $20,000 on food, a few hundred on clothing, and not a penny on doctors or prescriptions, and our ancestors until very recently put much more work into food than medical treatment. Just as we do with food and clothing, we would have cheap but adequate stuff for poor people, and more expensive stuff for rich people, and everybody would pay for it out of pocket.
What stands in the way of both of these systems is the insurance industry. Insurance is a good way to spread the costs of very rare events, like your house burning down. When you apply it to common needs, especially needs met by for-profit industries, then it enables exploding costs. Now that doctors and hospitals are mostly paid by insurance companies, who are mostly paid by employers, consumers are so detached from the details that the market can't keep costs down, and because it's all run by corporations, there is no ethical mechanism to keep costs down.
The only way out of this mess is to tear down the medical insurance industry, and even Obama won't touch that. In fact, the consensus among Democrats is to expand the insurance industry by requiring everyone to pay into it. That would be the most regressive tax in history, a government-enforced poll tax paid to a private industry, and we're supposed to think of it as a benevolent left wing reform.
Two great books on the medical system are Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich and The Health of Nations by Leonard Sagan. Those links go to reviews, and here's a place to read Medical Nemesis online.
Eventually the beast will get so bloated that no combination of public and private payments can afford to feed it. But I can't imagine how it could collapse gently. How do we get from a system where a short hospital stay costs a year's wages, to one where it costs a week's wages, without hospitals standing vacant while people with broken legs have them splinted by amateurs?
Dougald comments:
It's time to build parallel infrastructures which will be there when the ones we're told to rely on fail us... Is there any reason why a whole lot of amateurs couldn't learn how to do a decent job of setting a broken leg? A guy I met who'd worked with Illich told me about a conference of dentists, at which they'd challenged those present to work out how much of their knowledge they would be able to pass on to non-dentists, if the entire profession was going to disappear. They came to the conclusion that most of their useful knowledge could be taught in about three days. I wonder how much medical knowledge could be open-sourced in that way?
There is another set of obstacles to developing a parallel health infrastructure, though: the legal monopoly of the medical profession. But not every doctor is at ease with their priestly status. If some kind of parallel infrastructure could be created, I guess it would be with the help of those doctors who can see the craziness of the current system.
November 18. Remember how, in 2000 and 2004, many liberals said they would move to Canada or Europe if Bush won? And now that Obama has won, someone raised a funny question: where can McCain voters go? There is no place in the world that's to the right of America on both social and economic issues, not a total hellhole, and not ruled by Muslims. I suppose they could move to Alaska and secede.
But the more interesting point is that it's mostly Americans who think this way. It reminds me of the Lou Reed line: "I do believe, if you don't like things you leave, for some place you've never gone before." And also the Leonard Cohen line: "You, who must leave everything that you cannot control. It begins with your family but soon it comes round to your soul."
Of course, sometimes leaving is the right move. But in America we have a whole culture based on leaving. For hundreds of years, people all over the world who were inclined toward leaving have been coming here. And now that the world is full, and our economy is collapsing, the wealthiest habitual migrants will move on, while the rest of us will be stuck here, and we'll finally learn to make a good life where we are.
November 21. Antiwar politicians locked out of Obama administration: "It's astonishing that not one of the 23 senators or 133 House members who voted against the war is in the mix." We have to be careful how we think about this. Because of our biological history, we tend to think of the president as our father, or as the leader of a small tribe. Really he's like the driver of a giant train with massive inertia and not a lot of options for where it can go. I supported Obama because he's the best "driver" I have ever seen, but the fact remains that the "train" is loaded with slaves and nuclear warheads, and it's crushing baby pandas and headed for a cliff.
Another way to say it: having studied Obama closely over the last year, I trust him to do the best job that's politically possible. Now, by watching what he does, we find out what is and is not politically possible. He's like a scientific testing device, pointing to invisible forces. The observation that he backed Joe Lieberman keeping his powerful Reichssicherheits Committee chairmanship, tells us that the forces behind Lieberman are deep and powerful. The observation that politicians who opposed a disastrous and unpopular war are still blacklisted, tells us that the American military murder-suicide plunge is barely slowing down. I expect several million more deaths before the trend reverses.
On the other hand, the observation that Henry Waxman bumped John Dingell from the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship, tells us that we have some room for progress on environmental and energy issues.
November 26. Awesome David Graeber essay, Hope in Common:
Hopelessness isn't natural. It needs to be produced... the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures. At root is a veritable obsession on the part of the rulers of the world with ensuring that social movements cannot be seen to grow, to flourish, to propose alternatives, that those who challenge existing power arrangements can never, under any circumstances, be perceived to win... Economically, this apparatus is pure dead weight; all the guns, surveillance cameras, and propaganda engines are extraordinarily expensive and really produce nothing, and as a result, it's dragging the entire capitalist system down with it.
December 1. Tim Boucher's latest article, Carnival Culture: The Publick House, is a depressing survey of traditional customs of hospitality, generosity, and community that we have lost in the modern age. As always, I blame Descartes: He did more than anyone to popularize quantitative thinking, and if we have to justify our choices in terms of number and measure, it's easy to justify extreme selfishness and very difficult to justify being nice to anyone or anything. I wonder if the horrors of the industrial age are just symptoms of humans being beginners in quantitative thinking, and when we get better at it, we will be able to see the benefits of altruism by looking at numbers.
December 3. Photo gallery of an etymological atlas, which replaces names with their original literal meanings, and makes this world look like Tolkien! You can buy them here: Atlas of True Names.
December 4-6. A reader comments:
How nice it must be to not have a real job at your age and just sit around all day and live off others. You're obviously an intelligent fellow (smart enough to let others do the work and you reap the rewards) but be honest, do you ever feel guilty, do you feel good about living on someone's else couch in a house that they have to slave to pay rent for while you play on the internet all day?
Nobody ever asks this kind of question to Stephen King or J.K. Rowling, even though they also sit around writing all day instead of having "real" jobs, and they consume a lot more resources and more of the labor of others than I do. Of course, the difference is that they operate in the money economy, while I operate in the gift economy. They treat their writing as a zero-sum commodity, and charge money for it, while I treat my writing as a sharable commons, which I can "give away" free without ever losing it. Likewise, when I stay with people, their housing is a sharable commons which they can give without losing anything -- and they feel like they're gaining something, or they wouldn't invite me back.
But from the perspective of Dominator or Prisoner consciousness, any activity seems respectable if money changes hands, even if it's exploitative, and any activity where money doesn't change hands seems like stealing, even if everyone benefits. People often say that money is "neutral", but I disagree. No tool has ever been neutral, and money is a dead thing that takes the place of love: If you love doing something, you will do it without being paid money, and if you are paid money, you will do something without loving it.
Now, I don't think that anyone should feel guilty for participating in the money economy. We should feel grief! I collect and spend several thousand dollars a year myself, because the money economy rules the present age and there is not much room to get outside it. But almost any step we take outside it will help. If I ever own a house, I'll let friends and family stay free, because one of the best ways out of our "slave to pay" trap is for us to move in together and collectively pay less for housing. Then the owning classes will have less power over us, we will consume fewer resources because there will be fewer houses to heat, and with fewer of us going to jobs, we won't need as many cars. And we will have a lot more free time to find productive activities that we enjoy, and to build them into a better society that will grow through the cracks.
Casemeau comments:
I think posts like today are perhaps the most helpful posts for your readers. The main barriers to getting outside the norms are not tangible (like, "where will I get food if I quit my job?") but are intangible. I've been living in a van down by the river for years now, and I quickly forget how hard it was to unlearn and overcome the negativity which was coming from within myself. Those are the most difficult obstacles to freedom. Finding food is a breeze.
I also want to say, concepts like "paying back" and "balancing out" do not apply to a gift economy. Of course, there are some individuals who go through life consistently taking more than they give. How much slack we give them, and when we cut them off, depends on how much we continue to enjoy giving to them, how much we can afford to give, and how much our whole society and landbase can afford to support them. It's an emotional and ecological question, not an accounting question. To paraphrase Fredy Perlman: Trade is something we do with our enemies.
But even that doesn't go far enough, because it's still inside the frame that says it's more desirable to receive than to give. When we have to be told "It's better to give than receive," that means that the opposite belief is embedded in our culture: Whenever something is given, we imagine that the receiver is being helped and feeling good, while the giver is being hurt or drained. But really we often feel more pleasure and satisfaction from giving than from getting.
This is only tangentially related to the issue of money economies vs gift economies. What it's really about is whether we have a psychology of scarcity or abundance. And that is not necessarily related to whether resources are scarce or abundant. It could even be inversely related: Many forager-hunter tribes have had a psychology of abundance while living barely above survival, and America of the last 60 years has had more material wealth than any society in history, while having a scarcity psychology, where no matter how much people have, they never feel like they have enough and they're always afraid of being ripped off.
In American culture, it's actually humiliating to give more than you get. We admire the charitable works of Bill Gates and Andrew Carnegie because we know that on the whole they're still way ahead. If you give more than you get overall, you're a loser, a sucker! And it's only been possible for so many people to not be suckers because the whole economy has been "growing" by taking more than it gives, through loans from other countries and through ecological destruction. And now, as economic growth stops and reverses, almost everyone will have the opportunity to learn to enjoy giving more than they're getting, by restoring nature and helping people who are worse off.
December 13 -- a plot twist! The original email's author, Bret, writes:
I wasn't criticizing you nor defending the domination system, but rather trying to make sense of my own guilt for living the way you do. You and I lead very similar lives. I understand how you felt attacked and I sort of wanted it to feel that way so I could see how you would respond, because obviously people who live the kind of lives we do are going to come under heavy attack by a lot of people who think we are simply freeloaders as opposed to someone making a conscious effort to become more free.
December 10. Been thinking about last week's Archdruid post, Taking Evolution Seriously:
...evolution has no levels, it just has adaptations. There is no straight line of progress along which living things can be ranked. Instead, evolutionary lineages splay outward like the branches of an unruly shrub. Sometimes those branches take unexpected turns, but these evolutionary breakthroughs can no more be ranked in an ascending hierarchy than organisms can. They move outward into new niches, rather than upward to some imagined goal.
Therefore, it doesn't make sense to say "that the approaching crisis is part of our transition to a new evolutionary level." Industrial civilization is not "more evolved" than agrarian or forager-hunter society -- it's just better adapted to fossil fuels. And as fossil fuels run out, different kinds of human society will become dominant, but Greer argues that these adaptations will not lead to utopia, any more than industrial society did.
Basically he's throwing down a challenge: Using "evolution" to mean adaptation, can we still make an argument that human societies of the future will evolve to be much better than societies of the present and past?
Yes, because we are adapting on more than one level. There's no reason to think we're going anywhere merely by adapting to changing food/energy sources. But we are also adapting to our own expanding body of experience from trying different kinds of cultures and societies.
Now, you could say, hominids have been around for millions of years, so if we were going to find utopia we would have done it already. Or if you're a primitivist, you would say we already did. But to repeat a point I made in Beyond Civilized and Primitive, we're not the same hominids that our ancestors were 50,000 or even 10,000 years ago. Specifically, we developed enormous intellect that gave us godlike powers much more quickly than we could develop godlike wisdom and foresight.
We have barely begun to adapt to these powers. As gods, we're still infants. Eventually our wisdom and foresight may catch up, and we can build stable, enduring, non-repressive and ecologically beneficial societies -- but only if our power stops growing! That's not something we want to do, but if we're lucky, we'll be forced to do it.
December 15. Activist Moving Homeless People Into Foreclosed Houses in Miami. And here's the guy's home page, Take Back the Land. I expected this, but not this soon.
December 22-23. Brian asks:
Why is it so important to get out of debt? What do you think are the possible repercussions for me to stop making my car payment, getting another credit card, taking out the available in cash and buying nitro-pak/gun/boots? Maybe the goons come out hunting down debtors? Highly unlikely.
Don't assume an action can't harm you just because you can't imagine how it could harm you. Certainly the owners can't put all debtors in prison, but they could have other ways of making your life much more difficult. To willfully take on debt with no intention of paying it back is to initiate a zero-sum conflict with forces that are much more powerful than you are, and even if that's morally defensible, it's tactically reckless.
If you already have debt, your best move depends on how easily you can pay it off through frugality and honest wage labor. If that's a realistic choice, then it's a great opportunity to scrutinize your lifestyle, to practice self-discipline, and to learn skills that you will need to thrive in the depression. But if you owe so much money, or interest is compounding so fast, or income is so scarce, that you see yourself struggling for decades and still being in debt, then your best move will be something more drastic. And as the economy collapses, more and more people will be in that position.
December 24. Last night on the radio I heard the funniest song ever, and just tracked it down: The Abominable "O Holy Night"
December 28. Teiji writes:
I'm from Honolulu, and last night our whole island experienced one of the longest blackouts in recent history, 12+ hours. Just for fun, I took my motorcycle out for a ride around town, and instead of chaos and traffic jams, things were orderly. Without police or traffic lights, lanes of traffic would stop to let the other direction go, then those lanes would stop after a while to let the first direction go, and so on back and forth. Only a few of the biggest intersections had cops directing traffic, and I wonder if they were even necessary. I heard on the radio that one pedestrian took it on himself to direct traffic, until the cops told him he wasn't allowed to do that. My theory is that without control and authority, people still know what to do and can manage themselves.
I agree! But control and authority have ways of infecting human systems, both through government and through private power, and both from the inside and the outside. What would happen if the blackout lasted a month?
My current host told me that a few years ago, a ice storm hit the county, and the power was off for weeks. Most people left. They had no skill or confidence in living without electricity, and no animals to take care of, so they got in their cars and drove to places where they could be comfortable. I never completely put this together until he said it, but if America has concentration camps, that's how they'll fill them. We won't have to be forced at gunpoint -- we'll pound on the gates and beg to be let in, if they're called "Evacuee Facilities" and they promise us food and warmth.


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November 5, 2007
Joe DiMaggio On His 1938 Holdout
He believed he should earn $40,000 for 1938, but the club offered only $25,000. DiMaggio held out and did not report to spring training.
Under the rules of the time -- you know, the "good old days" -- whichever team first signed a player had full control over him for his entire career. Free agency did not exist. The player could either sign whatever contract was offered or he could retire.
Once the season began, DiMaggio accepted the $25,000 and returned to the team. Ripped as greedy in the sports pages (naturally), Yankee fans booed him for most of the season. ... Some things never change.
Click here to read DiMaggio's explanation of his holdout -- and his thoughts on baseball and money, in general.
Bonus link! Here's a letter to the editor of the New York Times I wrote about the same subject in February 1995!
11 comments:
- Ron said...
I have no idea if this is of any value since I just looked it up and haven't really thought it through, but here goes:
According the the Consumer Price Index, one 1937 dollar is worth $14.06 in 2006, so Joe's $15k translates to about $351,500. The $40k he asked for would be worth $562,400 now. Paltry sums in this day and age.
By comparison, ESPN lists A-Rod's annual salary as $27,708,525, which would be about $1,970,734 in 1937 dollars.
Rookie Dustin Pedroia is listed as making $380,000.
Like I said, I'm not sure what that means. Player salaries have grown faster than the rate of inflation, which isn't a surprise.
A more meaningful comparison might be the gate receipts in 1937 vs. now. But you have to add in the value of TV, radio, merchandise, etc, so it makes complete sense to me that their salaries have grown so much, since overall revenue has grown substantially too.
I guess my conclusion is that people need to shut up about salaries and stop being nostalgic for a time that never existed.
- November 5, 2007 at 10:52 AM
- laura k said...
I guess my conclusion is that people need to shut up about salaries and stop being nostalgic for a time that never existed.
Lordy lordy, I could not agree more.
I'll also add that until we know what the owners net - what they really net, including media deals, merchandising, the whole shebang - I don't think players' salaries should be made public. Make it all public, or make none of it public.
(No need to tell me it will never happen. I do live on planet earth.)
- November 5, 2007 at 1:05 PM
- laura k said...
Good letter, too.
- November 5, 2007 at 1:07 PM
- Danno said...
I don't think players' salaries should be made public. Make it all public, or make none of it public.
True that... does anyone know how/when/why players' salaries became any of the fans' business? I sure as hell don't want anyone outside of my boss and my family knowing how little I earn.
It's also strange that C. Gehringer beat out DiMaggio for the MVP... because of .025 of average? DiMaggio cracked 46 dongs to Gehringer's 14. Fast forward to 2003: Bill Mueller wins the batting title and fails to crack the top ten in MVP voting. Who wins the '03 MVP? A-Rod, with .028 less batting average and 47 hr's to Mueller's 19.
I know Gehringer hit a Nomar-esque .371 in 1938, but still - the difference between A-Rod and Billy Mueller is closer than Gehringer and DiMaggio, and Mueller finished 12th overall in the voting. I guess my only take on it is that homeruns just weren't thought of as highly as they are today? And I guess fielding has to be taken into consideration. What do you think redsock?
P.S. Excellent blog.
- November 5, 2007 at 4:44 PM
- Colin said...
Kiss Pettite goodbye!
Sweet Schadenfreude. :D
- November 5, 2007 at 6:18 PM
- 9casey said...
Dan said...
It's also strange that C. Gehringer beat out DiMaggio for the MVP... because of .025 of average?
Dan, If they went on stats alone Ted Williams should have won the MVP every year he played up to 1951 and a couple year after that ....his stats are ridiculous
- November 5, 2007 at 8:17 PM
- Sean O said...
Per firebrand:
"Fox 25 News has just announced that Curt Schilling has resigned with the Red Sox for one year at a base salary of $8 million with $5 million in incentives."
Welcome back Curt!
- November 5, 2007 at 8:22 PM
- mfeige said...
The herald is reporting that Schill and Sox are close to a deal.
- November 5, 2007 at 8:38 PM
- Ron said...
I saw thing thing about Pettitte, but it apparently doesn't mean he's gone - just had to make a decision based on his contract within a short period. So he opted out and can still negotiate with them.
In other news, ESPN just reported that Schilling is close to a 1 year, incentive laden deal with the Sox.
- November 5, 2007 at 8:59 PM
- Colin said...
I understand he's not completely out of the picture, but provided he seals the deal, schadenfreude could commence.
- November 6, 2007 at 6:50 AM
- Ron said...
schadenfreude could commence.
True that, Pettitte is publicly saying "Yankees or retirement." I'm putting a vote in for retirement. Pettitte reads this blog, right? Retire Andy. kthx.
- November 6, 2007 at 8:11 AM


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I recently learned of Dangerous Journeys. Quickly glancing over the rulebook, I see that its similar to D&D but seems more granular (at least in certain areas).
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CAAF affirms in Holsey
On Thursday, CAAF affirmed the findings and sentence in Holsey, No. 12-0957/AR, by summary disposition.
Holsey was orally argued on 22 January (Zack's oral argument preview here). CAAF held that even if the military judge abused his discretion by rejecting the accused's guilty plea to unauthorized absence, the error was harmless. CAAF explained:
Even if the military judge had accepted Appellant's guilty plea to unauthorized absence, the Government charged, was prepared to move forward on, and did in fact prove the greater offense of desertion. Furthermore, Appellant's attempt to plead guilty to unauthorized absence, his cooperation with the Government in returning to his unit, and his acceptance of responsibility were all matters in mitigation before the military judge for sentencing purposes.


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Macau, China, August 27, 2011 - Thailand vs Japan press conference
Thailand captain Wilavan Apinyapong: "Today we tried our best to get every point. We had many errors and mistakes in every set. We have gained experience from this tournament and we will work hard and improve as a team."
Japan captain Erika Araki: "Thailand displayed very good defense so we are happy to get the win against them. In the upcoming Asian Championship we will do out best and maintain the standard that we showed in the World Grand Prix Finals."
Thailand coach Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai: "Thank you all the organizers, sponsors and media for organizing this event. We had a very warm welcome from our fans. We are very happy to be here in the final round. It was a very good experience. Congratulations once again to Japan. Today it was a very good match for our players to learn. I hope the two teams will meet again in the Asian Championship."
Japan coach Masayoshi Manabe: "I am very happy to play against Thailand today. Although the Thailand players do not have an advantage in height, they performed well both in attack and defense. I look forward to the chance to play against good opponents like Thailand again in the Asian Championship."


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Rocks large and small surround the Apollo 17 lunar rover and one of the mission's astronauts as they perch at the rim of a small but steep crater in December 1972. Scientists are still studying the rocks and soil brought back to Earth by all six Apollo lunar landing missions, learning important lessons about our satellite world. [NASA]
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Back to the Moon(rocks)
The last Apollo mission returned to Earth in December of 1972, bringing back a treasure trove of rocks, pebbles, and dirt for scientific study. Yet almost four decades later, much of that bounty — along with that of the other Apollo missions — remains locked away. It's stored in climate-controlled rooms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, waiting for new ideas and new technologies that will help unlock some of their secrets.
KUHLMAN: It is good that we've got samples to look at with the new analytical techniques, there's no question about that.
Kim Kuhlman is a researcher at the Planetary Science Institute. She develops new techniques for studying samples from the Moon and other bodies.
KUHLMAN: There are just so many new analytical instruments. It's the nanotechnology that has really come to the fore.
In all, the Apollo astronauts brought back 2200 bits of the Moon, which added up to about 840 pounds. Scientists analyzed many of those samples soon after the Apollo crews brought them to Earth. And that early work revealed important details about the Moon's composition and history.
But scientists decided to hold many of the samples in reserve. That would allow them to take a better look as new tools were developed. Today, NASA sends out hundreds of samples for new analysis every year — usually no more than a few grams at a time. Yet these tiny bits of the Moon continue to yield big discoveries about our satellite world. More about that tomorrow.
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I was always wondering, what is the difference between 饭,菜, 食 and 餐 . Basically all mean food. But I know those are sometimes used in a diffetent curcimstances.
What is then the most common word for food 菜 or 食 ?
我吃过四川菜。Also here I have a sentence I've wrote and I am wondering, can I use anything else but 菜?


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On the beach front side of our new hotel, we have a large wall 13.4 meters wide where we are going to be putting up a banner. The contest is to blend our existing logos (one each for the hotel, cafe, surf cam) into a design filled on the borders with plants, flowers and other beach graphics.
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Picture of the front of the hotel.
Recent: (shows door finished and flowers)
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Signature plate at the cafe:
Imagery showing the grounds of the hotel.. maybe for border inspiration..
We are trying to appeal more towards families / present a classy lookwith this design. Here is a template file that should make it easier to get started.
The hotel.jpg image explains the irregular shape of the banner. The stairs are shown in light grey on the template. We do no need any design in that area. I tried to lay this out in illustrator and it was too big, so I scaled the artboard down (10:1) from 1344 cm to 134 cm by 19 cm tall.
- Refer to the template file provided for general logo placements and staircase location.
- FONTS: Only the Surf Inn Hermosa (dungeon) and Cafe Hermosa fonts are chosen. Outside of that, all other type is free for any font of your choosing.
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Sen. John Thrasher: Internet cafes may be legal
Senator's statement comes day after gambling scheme mastermind sentenced
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Leading, local state Sen. John Thrasher said the current crop of new Internet cafes may be legal, and he's the legislator who led last year's crackdown on Internet cafes on grounds they are illegal gambling.
His observations comes one day after Kelly Mathis, a prominent Jacksonville attorney, was sentenced to six years in prison for being the mastermind in what state investigators say was a multimillion dollar racketeering and money laundering scheme.
Mathis was the lawyer for Allied Veterans of the World, which operated a string of cafes that were closed down because investigators said most of the money was not going to charity and the Internet games were illegal gambling.
They were raided 11 months ago.
Thrasher's statement on the new Internet cafes being legal came as welcome news to the owner of one site on the Westside. He said that's all they've been asking for.
But for attorney Mathis, his attorney believes he was singled out for his role for no legitimate reason and plans on using the fact that the cafes are reopened as part of the appeal.
Despite being sentenced Wednesday, Mathis is at home while the case is being appealed.
His attorney, Mitch Stone, said there are a number of reason why the defense is appealing. One has to do with other Internet cafes operating at the advice of other attorneys, and he said those attorneys were never cited. Stone was not allowed to use that in court.
"By denying us that ability, the court made it seem like Kelly Mathis was alone on an island, saying it was legal while everybody was saying it's not legal," Stone said. "Truth and, in fact, we have identified lawyers from the state of Florida, lawyers from law enforcement offices and government officials, all who agree with Kelly Mathis' analysis."
About 60 new cafes have opened in Jacksonville. Thrasher said they may be in the clear. He said he spoke with Sheriff John Rutherford in Tallahassee and the sheriff told him his staff has been investigating.
"He has looked at some of these place that have reopened," Thrasher said. "I think he believes at least when they looked at them that they are not violating the gambling statue that we past last year when these things were shut down, that they are operating on the guise of skill not chance. And he is going to continue to look at them."
The owner of Pete's Retreat, the first Internet cafe to reopen, said that's what he's been wanting to find out.
"I think it's amazing," Pete Miller said. "It is something we have been hoping for since we opened in July. I give them a lot of credit. We were not aware of the fact that they did that. That is what we have been asking for. We want them to see that we have tried to comply with the law."
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Stock recommendation to Buy: Repligen Corporation (RGEN)
Repligen Corporation (RGEN) stock price traded with surging change along with the volume 0.13 million shares on Friday trading session. Shares are trading price at $34.55 with move of 1.89%. The company's 3-months average volume stands at 0.44 million. When we divide the last trade volume by the 3-month average volume, we found out a relative volume of 0.30. Current trade price levels places RGEN's stock about -26.19% away from the 52-week high and closed 21.33% away from the 52-week low. The total dollar value of all 42.76 million outstanding shares is 1.48 billion.
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For months, a group of election activists has complained about Secretary of State Scott Gessler's oversight of touch-screen voting machines used throughout Colorado that critics say are vulnerable to tampering and malfunctions.
Gessler argues strongly that the voting machines are reliable, but critics say that in a close presidential election in swing state Colorado, and in places like Arapahoe County — where touch-screen machines are still the principal means of casting an in-person ballot — a mishap with the devices could tilt the race. Colorado's touch-screen machines, they say, could become the "hanging chads" of 2012.
"The secretary of state has not enforced his own voting security laws and regulations for touch-screen machines since he was elected," said Paul Hultin, an attorney representing a group of voters who brought a 2006 lawsuit challenging the machines' reliability.
All counties have at least a few of the machines, which can be adapted to assist disabled voters to cast ballots, but only Arapahoe— a swing county — and Adams and Weld counties use the machines as the principal method for casting an in-person vote.
While most Coloradans now cast their ballots by mail, clerks in these three counties estimate that, together, more than 100,000 people will use the touch-screen machines to vote.
Security issues
"There's a deep commitment to making sure the equipment is properly certified," said Gessler, a Republican elected in 2010. "The bottom line is our office and the clerks and the recorders do a very, very thorough job of testing and certifying the equipment. I know of no evidence in Colorado where any of these machines have ever been tampered with.
"If there is specific evidence of tampering that is brought to me, and if there is an issue where we've got a hole, I will fix that immediately."
Hultin says Gessler's office is not complying with Colorado election rules governing how the machines are to be monitored and kept secure. That includes:
• Not conducting annual reviews of the voting machines in at least two counties until after repeated inquiries by Hultin, and then conducting one-day reviews only.
• Not reviewing the software incident reports of the machines' manufacturers to determine if the machines are functioning properly. (Gessler said his office was trying to reach out to manufacturers before the election on the software incident reports.)
• Not conducting random inspections of county records that include chain-of-custody logs and maintenance records.
The rules were put in place after the 2006 lawsuit and apply to what are called DRE, or direct record electronic, voting machines. These are primarily touch-screen machines that in most cases also print a paper readout meant as a physical record of a voter's ballot.
Many counties nationwide moved to use the high-tech machines after problems in the 2000 election, notorious for the "hanging chads" of punch card ballots used in Florida. But amid criticism over the touch-screen machines, many counties dropped the touch-screen machines and moved to other methods, such as the paper ballots used by Denver.
Hultin points to a Sept. 24 e-mail to his office from Maurice Knaizer, the deputy attorney general representing Gessler, in which Knaizer responds to inquiries about whether counties' machines have been reviewed. Gessler's office "has not strictly complied" with rules requiring the reviews.
Experts disagree
However, in a subsequent e-mail Knaizer said Gessler's office "disagrees with the allegations that it has neglected its substantive responsibilities under the rules" and that there was no "admission that the office failed to insure the integrity of electronic voting."
National critics of touch-screen machines echo Hultin's concerns about the devices. Pamela Smith, president of the Verified Voting Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Southern California, says that one of the problems with the touch-screen machines is it would be difficult to tell if they had been manipulated, hence the need for security protocols.
Critics point out that while there have been no documented instances of hacking into a touch-screen machine during an election, there have been instances of malfunctions, such as a machine in North Carolina that lost nearly 4,500 votes in 2004.
Yet Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University argues the touch-screen machines are the best voting systems available, while paper ballots, which many voting activists favor, are the worst. Shamos said that there are no documented instances of hacking into the touch-screen machines or are there documented attempts to do so.
"Never has any rogue code been found," Shamos said.
That's because the layers of security that surround the machines are so numerous and difficult to surmount, he said, and would-be manipulators would have to access many machines to tilt an election. Meanwhile, he said, there are cases every year in which paper ballots are found to have been stolen or thrown away.
"Nothing's perfect, and the problem is the activists essentially insist upon a perfect standard," Shamos said.
Arapahoe County Clerk Nancy Doty, a Republican, also thinks the concerns about the touch-screen machines are exaggerated. Doty expects the county to use about 650 machines on election day and predicts that some 56,000 voters in her county will have used the devices to cast ballot.
"I am very confident that these voting machines are recording the votes accurately," Doty said.
She said the machines are tested before the election and audited afterward. Voters like using the machines, Doty said, and they save taxpayers money by avoiding the printing of thousands more ballots.
Weld County officials estimated 17,000 voters there would use the touch-screen devices during the election.
Adams County Clerk Karen Long, a Democrat, estimated somewhere between 45,000 and 50,000 voters in her county could use the machines during the election. Like Doty, she had faith in the machines.
"I'm not going to put something out that isn't working correctly," Long said. "I wouldn't do that to my voters."
Gessler said he has a high level of comfort with how the machines will perform, based on his experience as secretary of state but also as a former elections law attorney.
"They're big counties, they're sophisticated counties," he said. "Historically, they've done a very good job."
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If you have ever deleted a file or folder by accident, you'll be thankful for the Recycle Bin acting as a safety net.
However, what happens if you delete this folder, then discover you need the file after all?
Conventional wisdom says there is little you can do, but with the use of tools like Recover My Files, it's possible to restore partial, if not whole, files.
Bring your files back from the dead
Windows being a rather lazy OS doesn't actually delete a file when you ask it to; it simply gets rid of the identifier that marks its position on your laptop's hard drive. So the next time you save to disk that portion of the disk is allowed to be used.
Recover My Files works by looking for these deleted headers and retrieving them. If a portion of the file you're after has been overwritten, you won't be able to retrieve it all, but the program will detect whatever is left.
User friendly
The interface is simple to use with four main tasks that can be performed. Being a wizard-driven program it's easy to get to grips with.
There are two different ways to carry out a search, either Complete or Fast.
Our test machine is an ageing Pentium M laptop with a 40GB hard drive that could carry out a Fast search in a little over five minutes, but it's a rather intensive tool to use so is best done when you're not running other programs in the background.
Search external drives too
Results were impressive, with some 30,000 files retrieved. Not all of these are needed, so it's possible to search the findings to find the ones you need. You can choose to set a search for a specific file if you know the name.
Also, when it comes to searching for specific files, you can narrow down your choice to individual drives and even look for defined groups, such as email attachments or images.
With files increasingly stored on external devices, the software will also look for lost files on your USB memory key or memory card, which we think is a versatile addition to the software.