I just realized I didn’t have a link to this yet on IgorExchange, so I’ve added a link from the support page (http://www.igorexchange.com/support).

Nice work.
Adam

Thank you very much. Actually, it’s been out for quite some time now. I should probably plug it more aggressively.

Payam

Nice job on the manual. Thanks for putting this out there.

You’re going WAY beyond what the data mean. I only read one line in Harper’s about how the German study noted that men who participate in those activities are evaluated as more “normal” than men who do not. This is neither a reflection of the German people or Americans. It might be a fault in the test itself.

Whatever perversions may have besotted the Germans in the past, they are not the ones fighting bogus wars around the world anymore.

Again, the hilarious point here is that Mosley is trying to say that the Aryan aspect of the proceedings should not be confused with Nazi. He is so distressed over this that he is arguing it in court.

So…. Now it’s not? Marquise de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch who this word is named after said: sadism and masochism can include fantasies, sexual urges or behavior that cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, to the point that they can be considered part of a mental disorder. I think Mr. Mosely getting caught with 5 hookers and being the laughing stock of the world is pretty socially and occupationally disrupting. This would not be funny if it was relating to a drug or alcohol addiction. But because he is wealthy and incredibly narcissistic it’s not deviant behavior in his eyes, it‘s recreation, he’s truely clueless. And although he wants to distance himself from his antecedents I believe he is acting out what he has seen and heard as a young boy since age 6. Oh I have no doubt he was Nazi role playing.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not uptight or afraid of anomalous sexual practices. Many Americans and Europeans are pretty uninhibited and pride in our sexual freedom.
But beating mercilessly your sexual partner until their bleeding, whimpering and wreathing in pain is crazy and sick. There is nothing erotic about that to a Normal person despite what the modern German psychologists say.

Some people will consent to anything for money, if he was a man with any kind of human emotion he wouldn’t take it farther than that other person could handle.

What I find hilarious in Mosley’s saga is that he is quite proud of his lifestyle. He just doesn’t want the white supremacist, or Aryan, theme of his shenanigans to be called Nazi, as if one characterization is less depraved than the other.

What a pleasure to (re)discover the basis of igor programming in this tutorial ! You make me more comfortable with writing igor function, and I’m waiting for the next episode ! Thank you for all !!!

Sincerely yours

Guillaume

But, if you guys find a path to power, you can rest assured that I will be following it.

If that’s a correct reading, then yes, you are joined in this frustration by tens of millions of Americans - in fact, a majority. But if, as you now reveal, you know that voting machines are eminently hackable and you know that an attack on Iran is in the works, then how can you in good conscience sit by and say that it’s silly to try to stop an attack on Iran and silly to raise the fact that elections are stolen? How can you, knowing as you say that all of these injustices are going on, then justify your initial attack upon me for raising these issues as an example of fear mongering, fanaticism and egomania?

People who complain about the fact that the Bush White House has been able to get away with what they’ve been doing - such as you say that you are - should not go around attacking those such as myself who are trying to rally people to actually stand up and be counted and resist this. In fact, you should be joining with people like me and quit thinking that you’re doing something effective by sitting in your room, launching invective towards those people who are actually doing something. The fact that you cannot think beyond the box of electoral politics as they exist and the two party system as it exists, and rule out of order the idea that the people could actually act as an independent political force in this scenario speaks to the poverty of your imagination rather than any “fanaticism” on my part.

Electronic voting machines are eminently hackable. I am aware of the Princeton study and the recent study out of UCSB that Debra Bowen neglected anyway. The claims of every manufacturer (especially Diebold) that a paper trail is onerous are completely false. Slot machines in Vegas produce a paper trail for every spin of every machine. Hence, it is possible to have reliable systems. Thus, the problem is exactly one of the sort John Dean described: process. What is the process by which we prevent the state of California from certifying inadequate machines? I am truly flabbergasted by the fact that Debra Bowen was not taken to court for certifying electronic voting machines in California. And, that’s the point. It doesn’t matter if the machines are hackable. If there is no process by which a fair solution can be enforced, then all is lost. This article out of today’s NY Times demonstrates the importance of this point: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/us/politics/13voting.html?ref=us How on earth did we get here? How do we get out?

Will the US attack Iran? I don’t know. There seems to be out and out rebellion in the military right now. Again, two articles out of today’s NY Times demonstrate the point: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/washington/13general.html?ref=us
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/us/14army.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
I completely agree that the people running the White House and Pentagon are morons of the caliber that would initiate an attack on Iran. The problem, however, is the fact that the majority of the country is not feeling outrage over what has already happened over the past four years. The problem is that not enough people are aware of the articles cited above, http://www.911commission.gov, http://www.wmd.gov or any of the documentation of Bush’s incompetence by his own cabinet members (Powell, O’Neil, Paulson, Greenspan)!

So, who cares if we attack Iran? If we cannot hold any of these people accountable for the crimes they have already committed, then it’s just silly to worry about Iran because they will get away with that, too. Again, it boils down to process, just as Dean said. Absent Democratic power, the GOP corrupted the process utterly and made sure that the minority of the Congress (majority of the country) had no power. Absent Democratic spine, the corrupted processes persist. Dean was right in saying that the Democrats are squandering the opportunity to restore fairness into the Congressional processes. And, that’s the problem. You can talk about the impending disaster of Iran all you want, but if there is no process by which we can prevent it, why should we worry?

Ultimately, that’s my utter frustration with the left. The left offers no serious remedies. It is not serious about wielding power. It is not serious about restoring process to governance. As Dean said, it is not serious about the boring notions of processes whose corruption led to Hitler’s rise to power. The right, as Dean said, understand this far too well.

When I was shocked to learn that Angelides was behind Arnold in the last election, I voted for Camejo, proudly. The problem in the US is that the left has no power because it has no desire to wield it. Point the way to power, and I will follow. I need no further convincing of the crimes of the GOP, or speculation of the evils they plan. They have already destroyed the country. At this point, it’s all a matter of taking the country back. And, I’m sorry, wearing orange will have no effect.

But, perhaps, there is hope that the GOP base is eroding:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs13oct13,1,9234.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Payam

PS I’m honored that you responded. I don’t intend to censor legitimate responses. I am, after all, a liberal. PNM

I have written about this in my essay online “No Paper Trail Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election” (posted originally at Project Censored in August 2005) and further in Chapter Two of my book, Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney. Let me cite just one item from the very extensive list of items since you appear to think that the notion of stolen elections is just fear mongering:

“6) Bush far exceeded the 85% of registered Florida Republicans’ votes he got in 2000, receiving in 2004 more than 100% of the registered Republican votes in 24 out of the 67 Florida counties, more than 200% of registered Republicans in 10 counties, over 300% of registered Republicans in 4 counties, more than 400% in 2 counties, and over 700% in one county. Bush’s share of crossover votes by registered Democrats in Florida, however, did not actually increase over 2000 and he lost ground among registered Independents, dropping 15 points. Floridians were just so enthused about Bush and Cheney that they somehow managed to overrule basic math.”

If you go to my article you will find in the footnotes the full citations for these statements. Please, if you disagree with me and anyone else, stick to the facts and evidence and we’ll see where things come out and leave the calumny aside.

Now, if only these lifetimes reflected not just the time when his popularity would be zero, but that the number of days he has left to live.

“Ever wonder why Congress is not holding Bush-Cheney accountable, not using their constitutional power to exercise their authority and impeach the most impeachable executives in our nation’s history? Rep. John Olver (D-MA) has provided a rationale to his constituents that demonstrates how much worse off the country may be then we know.

“Rep. Olver is no radical in Congress, indeed he is in the leadership of the Democratic Party serving as Senior Whip for the Democratic Caucus. He has served in Congress for 17 years and prior to that served 24 years in the state legislature of Massachusetts. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT. His website demonstrates that he is a “meat and potatoes” congressman who seems to spend most of his time bringing economic development dollars to his home district. See http://www.house.gov/olver/

“Congressman Olver, who represents the 1st District (the Stockbridge area) of Massachusetts, was presented with resolutions for impeachment passed by 13 towns in his congressional district by 2/3 margins. In response he vehemently refused to support impeachment because he expressed the opinion that if the Congress impeached the president would attack Iran by air, declare a national emergency institute martial law and cancel the 2008 elections.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA. The video is from a fundraiser for Democracy Rising (www.DemocracyRising.US) held at Bus Boys and Poets in Washington, DC last night.”

Kevin Zeese

Director, Democracy Rising

Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention. I just uploaded the corrected pdf file to the server.

Payam

The line says:
ExtractedRow[p] = theMatrix[i][p]

It should say
ExtractedRow = theMatrix[i][p]

or
ExtractedRow[0,(numpnts(extractedRow)-1)] = theMatrix[i][p]

Respectfully,
Harald Herchen, Ph.D.