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:: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 ::

Problems With Algorithms

A certain web search engine uses algorithms to put ads on their site from a certain major books seller. Well in one case if you put in a search for 'sexual orientation' one of the books that is returned is on preventing homosexuality.
:: RobN 10:23 AM [+] ::
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TTFN!

I'm moving over to LiberalTimes.com

For the latest head that way! Onward ho!
:: RobN 2:23 PM [+] ::
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The Lousy T-shirt

I just read a great site called The Lousy T-shirt it's political commentary with swearing! hehe. He was all over the AFA's bullsheeznizzie gay marriage poll which was solely marketed to extremem christians.
:: RobN 4:00 PM [+] ::
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SOURCE: Click Here
An astute observer has caught the AFA red-handed falsifying the results of their poll to be more to their liking...

Thanks to one of our readers for pointing this out. Earlier, Achilles posted about the American "Family" Association's marriage poll and several posters wondered why anyone would trust the AFA to fairly conduct such a poll. It turns out they were right to be cynical and mistrusting of this upstanding and moral organization.
An astute observer noticed that unlike votes in places other than Florida and where Diebold machines are used, the number of votes for the answer, "I favor legalization of homosexual marriage" went down rather than up as the AFA cooked the books. In the first screen shot at 10:57 AM, the percentage is 16.10 (21075 votes); in the second taken at 11:22, it is 14.05 (17985 votes). One person commented in the comments area of the posting at 11:33 that it was down to 13%.

The AFA claims that it was just removing multiple votes from "someone on the pro-homosexual side of the issue" because of course, that many votes couldn't possibly come from actual people, now could they? I trust they've gone and validated that nobody's run a script against the votes opposing gay marriage too, right? Note that the poll requires you to enter your name, email address and zip code; surely these had to be unique for the votes to be accepted the first time. If it were anybody other than the AFA, I might be willing to grant them the benefit of the doubt and believe their story, but this is the AFA. They're known liars who'll do and say anything, no matter how morally reprehensible to get their way.

In any case, the fact that they have admitted that they've manually adjusted the numbers invalidates the poll. Its results, no matter what they are, cannot now be trusted. The AFA has doctored the results of this poll and admitted to it. Will they be telling that to Congress when they present their findings?

---Nick

:: RobN 4:25 PM [+] ::
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Anti-gay Chrisitan Org Has Marriage "poll"

This group is planning to present this poll to congress as though it's a reliable scientic poll. Yeah right, cause anybody reading their site undoubtedly hates gays.

Throw a wrench in their plans to tell a big l lie:

http://www.marriagepoll.com

Go vote! Screw them for trying to do something so lacking in ethics.
:: RobN 4:07 PM [+] ::
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Louisiana: The unwashed arm pit of the United States


:: RobN 10:03 AM [+] ::
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Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King

I got to see an advanced screening of LOTR:ROTK last night. It's a good film, but doesn't move nearly as fast as the previous two films did. I remember at the end of the last two films being surprised three hours had passed. This film is different though. It seems to have at least five endings. I half expected that when "The End" appears for them to fade back in with "just kidding" scrawled across the scene.

I'm not going to give anything away about the film... but, I did enjoy the kiss between Frodo and Sam, it really confirmed something I suspected.


:: RobN 10:39 AM [+] ::
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7 Year Old Punished For Saying Gay

While Describing His Mothers Lesbian Relationship!


Source: The Lafayette Advertiser

::SNIPPET::
[a] second-grader at Ernest Gallet Elementary School was sent to the principal’s office Nov. 11 and forced to attend a “behavioral clinic” a week later, where he repeatedly had to write “I will never use the word ‘gay’ in school again,” the ACLU said in its complaint to the district. ::End SNIPPET::


:: RobN 4:00 PM [+] ::
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