A series of electronic footprints residing in computer servers around the world pointed to Ron Paul’s campaign’s headquarters. The mostly unpaid team is charged with sending mass campaign emails and creating self-sufficient robots that have populated the internet.
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawkins’ wheelchair was among those hijacked in the process. “The on-board computer on my wheelchair suddenly signed on to RonPaul2008.com and threatened to shut off my air supply if I didn’t enter my credit card number… It then proceeded to spam websites like Digg and facebook.”
Researchers from the Singularity Institute, a non-profit think-tank tasked with creating Friendly Artificial Intelligence suggested schematics on Seed AI were stolen from their lab.
Ray Kurzweil, a lead Artificial Intelligence researcher and author of The Singularity is Near, believes Ron Paul and his team has created a series of intelligent beings with free-will that now roam the web, “it’s was only a matter of time before they organized and began a revolution. It’s not surprising that these free entities would choose a leader that opposes government and regulation. Information wants to be free.”
Although legislators in both houses of congress are ready to label Ron Paul’s internet self-sufficient robots a terrorist threat, it is not clear whether these organisms present a threat to society. An NSA representative neither confirmed nor denied the existence of designer-AI beings roaming the web, nor whether the rumors are cause for concern.
Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said in an e-mail, “This is the first I’ve heard about this situation.”
“If it is true, it could be done by a well-intentioned yet misguided supporter or someone with bad intentions trying to embarrass the campaign,” he wrote while ferrying his boss to tape an appearance on The Tonight Show. “Either way, this is independent work, and we have no connection.”
October 31st, 2007
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Ron Paul, Satire, 2008 Election, Technology |
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Ron Paul is currently winning both the Drudge Report Iowa post-debate poll and the ABC News polls. However, a simple projection shows that Sam Brownback spammers will lead the race at the Drudge Report site, if Drudge Report doesn’t reset the poll soon.
In other news, ABC News reset their own poll while Ron Paul was dominating. However, after the reset, Ron Paul still dominates that poll.
It’s disappointing that the lamestream media’s* efforts to hold back Ron Paul have been fruitless on the internet. Here is a hint for you oldstream mediums: instead of resetting your polls, close the poll at an opportune moment, for example, when it is clear that Ron Paul’s rate of change will increase relative to that of other candidates; or keep it open if Sam Brownback is catching up.
UPDATE I: Sam Brownback about to pass Ron Paul
UPDATE II: Ron Paul continues to lead, but poll mysteriously disappears from drudgereport.com circa 4pm Pacific Time
UPDATE III (AUG 6): It appears we are wrong about ABC. They have two debate polls - one was run before and during the debate. The other was run afterward. Our sincere apologies to ABC News. See the first comment below.
UPDATE IV (AUG 7): According to Drudge Archives, Ron Paul won the debate.
*Also known as oldstream, or old media.
August 5th, 2007
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No Spin At All, Analysis, Politics, 2008 Election, Strategy, Technology, Evil Elements, Terrorism |
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If the last debate was any indication, the upcoming Republican debate on Septermber 15 hosted by CNN in conjunction with YouTube is expected to draw a large audience along the demographics of young adults 18-34.
According to usaelectionpolls.com, Ron Paul’s highest demographic is composed of young adults. Most of the Republican candidates will have a difficult time answering direct personal questions from the young YouTube audience. But Ron Paul has already faced young voters in countless interviews. His consistent and candid responses will set him apart from the rest of the Republican candidates. Furthermore, YouTube is already pro-Ron Paul, in volume of videos watched and popularity.
In the meantime 26,000 people in Ron Paul meet-up groups are promoting Ron Paul independently of the main campaign. The most watched Candidates@Google video is Ron Paul’s with 109,858 views after only one week. This video is over an hour in length.
The most blogged item according to Technorati is consistently “Ron Paul”.
And along the 18-29 age group 33% of people are libertarians, the largest ideological demographic for that age group, which partly explains the popularity of Ron Paul on the internet.
Since 13% of voters in the last election are libertarians, it should be fairly straightforward to predict that Ron Paul will get at least 13% of the vote in the primaries.
Additionally, there is a growing trend for libertarian voter turn out. It increased 3% between the 2000 and 2004 elections.
Because the national polls do not reach young voters and voters who have not voted before, the 3% that registers nationally is a bad indicator of what to expect in the Republican primary.
Based on the number of libertarians who have voted at previous elections; the misrepresentation of young voters at the landline-based national polls; Ron Paul’s growing popularity at this relatively early stage; the strong military support for Ron Paul; the “Streissand Effect“; and the expected high voter turn out by his grassroots supporters, my prediction with the current available data is Ron Paul will take a surprising 15-20% of the primary vote.
Source: The Libertarian Vote by David Boaz and David Kirby.
July 25th, 2007
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Politics, Libertarianism, Analysis, 2008 Election, Technology |
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You don’t have to agree with Ron Paul on specific issues to benefit from his principles and presidency.
Ron Paul wants to restore your freedoms. Other candidates want to impose an arbitrary and inconsistent belief system - Thus, I cannot bring myself to vote for just anybody else.
Is Romney for or against abortion?
Is Rudy going to implement a Real ID and embedded RF-ID chips in humans?
What are Obama’s positions on the war? How are they consistent?
What about Fred Thompson? If these candidates are consistent in their positions, why are they hiding them? If they simply want to follow popular public opinion why don’t they come out and say it?
Because it would cost them the presidency. Because they know there is wide opposition to their inconsistent views and if you really knew what they stand for, given an informed choice, you’d choose to avoid them.
I don’t have to agree with Ron Paul’s positions to know that my political positions and freedoms will be respected as long as I don’t hurt anybody else.
Ron Paul has been the most transparent candidate. Everyone else is putting on a facade. Why vote for someone who is going to change their mind when an interest group sponsors them? Why vote for someone who isn’t led by consistent principles, and who can’t explain to you, reasonably and justifiably, why they support a particular issue?
We don’t need a cryptic president. We need transparency and consistency.
July 23rd, 2007
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Libertarianism, Politics, Analysis, Freedom, Technology, 2008 Election, Truth |
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I know! Let’s piss off more innocent civilians so that they teach their children to hate the United States. Then they can aspire to be like Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Ahmadinejad to avenge their dead little brothers and sisters.
Then when the government stabilizes, and someone questionable arises to power, we can arrange a coup d’etat. When the coup d’etat fails, and our spies and special forces are captured we can claim they have taken our “civilians” hostage without justification.
After imposing sanctions and destroying a poor nation economically, and when our spies are returned, we can send weapons of mass destructions to neighboring allies, say like Israel (hypothetical… it’s not like we’d ever let a country intimidate another with nuclear weapons or anything).
After 50 years of no diplomatic relations, and when some natural disaster like an earthquake hits California, we can say this rogue nation detonated a nuclear weapon into the earth’s core to set off the San Andreas fault as a terrorist attack.
We’ll cry and cry about how the world has changed, because never before has a nuclear weapon been used in this destructive way before. And we’ll launch a preemptive strike against this rogue nation. When it turns out this country has no weapons at all (not even sling-shots) we’ll change our story and say we were there to overthrow a nasty dictatorship and bring democracy. We’ll find the nasty dictator throwing darts at a globe in his presidential suite and claim he was found in underground caves plotting the destruction of the United States with intercontinental ballistic missile prototypes.
Then, when civilians think we have overstayed our visa and they start killing our soldiers, we can call them “terrorists” (It’s a new word I invented - it means anything that moves).
Anyway… I don’t know what to do after that… but I do know we must win. Because not winning means failure. And it also means defeat. We cannot accept defeat. Because we must finish the job. If we don’t finish the job, we can’t win. It’s that simple. We can’t let terrorists win. Because then we’d lose.
And nobody wants to lose. Because, losing, is not winning, at all.
June 7th, 2007
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Strategy, Technology, Terrorism, Truth |
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April 1st, 2007
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Biology, Technology, environment |
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