The Web Braces For Inauguration Traffic 212
1sockchuck writes "Web sites and social networks are scaling up for huge traffic during today's Inauguration. Photo sharing sites are expecting a surge in volume around the noontime swearing-in, while Twitter has doubled its capacity. Some net watchers say peak volume may not match the record levels seen on Election Night 2008 (as reported by Akamai's Net Usage Index). As noted yesterday, DC-area wireless networks are the most likely bottleneck for messaging and photo sharing. "
I'm on the Mall right now (Score:5, Funny)
It's pretty freaking cold! Lots of energy and excitement here in the crowd.
There are so many people here, it's hard to believe that this crowd is overshadowing the Million Man March as far as numbers of people goes.
I took a leak earlier. It was so cold, the urine stream was sublimating to steam before it hit the bottom.
I can't wait to see Obama on the dais!
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Some dudes just started a fight about 20 feet from me. Looks like security has calmed it down.
I shouldn't have drank all that coffee... Not feeling all that great.
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Please, tell us more about strangers having a fight (how unusual!) and your steaming urine.
I know you're excited and all, but you're sort of embarrassing yourself.
Re:I'm on the Mall right now (Score:4, Funny)
look out for the snakes!! on the dais!!
check out the big brain on barack!
in France they call the inauguration "la royale with cheese"
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It is just the swearing in of another president....can't we just look at the digested version on the nights news?
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Good God, what is the big fucking deal with all the inauguration here?
Some of us are pretty excited about the progression of race relations in the US.
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You really see this in the election?
I don't, I think he got voted in in spite of his race, that it was more of a backlash or sentiment against Bush.
And as I mentioned in another thread...during the election, we were called racist if we even considered his race as a reason to vote or not vote for him. Now it is ok to try to make this a big spectacle because of his race?
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I don't, I think he got voted in in spite of his race, that it was more of a backlash or sentiment against Bush.
That may very well be, but it would have been completely impossible 40 years ago.
we were called racist if we even considered his race as a reason to vote or not vote for him
Well, it is.
Now it is ok to try to make this a big spectacle because of his race?
Yes, because you can disagree with a guy and still be happy that America has grown up enough to elect a minority to the Presidency. You shouldn't have voted for him "because he's black", but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be happy that a black man can be president. I don't see the conflict in logic.
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We don't have such categories like "half-caste" in the US. Blacks here are almost universally mixed-blood... and significantly so. Race is a not a scientific classification system, so don't try to over-think it. In the US, a mixed guy who is clearly dark skinned is going to be considered "black".
You can say things like "take the white out of him", but it's meaningless. It's a hypothetical statement that is impossible to prove.
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KKK is out, GNAA is in ?-)
Burn, karma, burn !
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Somehow I doubt that it will be
Huh? Could a black guy have been elected in the 60s? No. Can a black guy be elected now? Yes. That, my friend, is a demonstrable improvement.
No, he'll fall on his face like every other president.
Probably... expectations are way to high for this guy.
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Huh? Could a black guy have been elected in the 60s? No. Can a black guy be elected now? Yes. That, my friend, is a demonstrable improvement.
Um, I don't really count him as black though. Esp after a few of the percentages of how black he is got out. I count him as slightly tanned at most.
My big issue is all the look at us because we elected a black guy crap. I'm sorry, but we aren't any where we need to be if this guy or a woman of any color or background sparks this much news and most of the news is about
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You consider it to be an improvement of civil rights that a black man got elected? I don't.
How in the world is it not an improvement?
I certainly hope you're not one of those apologists who voted for him because he was black in some sort of misguided effort to "improve" racial equity.
Nope, but I can't deny that it might have been a factor if McCain's campaign didn't go so negative. IMHO, the candidates were very similar in most ways that were important to me.
I find the thought of someone being elected because of his race to be absolutely reprehensible, and antithetical to our society.
I would think, then, that you would be ecstatic that it has been shown that America will now elect someone who they wouldn't have before, simply because of his race. This is progress.
At any rate, can we finally abandon Affirmative Action? Now that a black man is president, I think we've proven it is quite unnecessary, and detrimental.
I don't think you know what Affirmative Action is. You seem to think that it is quotas. I agree that quotas a
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Um, I don't really count him as black though.
You are in an extreme minority on this point. I agree that it is ridiculous to say someone is "black" when they are clearly at least half "white", but most Americans seem to consider him black.
We'd be there if he could win or lose without stating crap about race anywhere when running.
I said it shows progress, not that we are done yet. True, the ultimate indication that we are a healed country is when we no longer talk about race. Still, the ability to elect a black (or even half-black) President is a huge improvement from preventing people like him from even voting.
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Uh, his father was from Africa and was most certainly NOT an Africanner or other imperialist leftover, you don't get much more African-American than that! Why do people insist on somehow lessening the mans historic achievement through petty hair splitting? The fact is a generation ago his father couldn't even eat at the same establishments as his mother and hi
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Considering the fact that 90% of black people voted for him because he's black...
Gore got 92% of the black vote - same as Obama. Kerry got 88%. Blacks vote Democratic.
Making a big deal of him being the first black president is still pointing out race which is the whole point in the first place...don't recognize race.
I hope that our society gets to that point, but we're not there yet. We're still celebrating our progress to that end.
Recognize that he should be the right person for the job, and he's not!
You may be right, but the electorate disagrees with you.
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I'm not ignoring turnout - even with increased turnout, Obama did not get a higher percentage of black votes than Gore.
While I won't deny the existence of black racism, you can't deny the effect of a disenfranchised class that suddenly found themselves represented. Indeed, their turnout was about 67% and overall turnout was 62%... not exactly a huge gap, but a big jump in black turnout compared to past elections.
As for the t-shirts... what's your point? We've come full-circle. I said it was worth celebratin
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Personally, I find the fact that you racists are so fired up to be very, very reassuring.
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Re:I'm on the Mall right now (Score:4, Funny)
It is just the swearing in of another president....can't we just look at the digested version on the nights news?
Um...yes? You can?
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Good God, what is the big fucking deal with all the inauguration here? I mean, sure, it is important in that it is the orderly transition of power in the US, but, really people, why are some treating this as the second coming of Christ?
It is just the swearing in of another president....can't we just look at the digested version on the nights news?
Nah, my wife thinks it's the swearing in of the anti-Christ. Of course he has his followers and with the expanded powers that Bush allowed he has little to slow or
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Twitter might go down, so he's using slashdot AS TWITTER! I hope it was a big joke he was just waiting for someone to point out.
Otherwise I'm kinda annoyed.
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-1, needs more emo (Score:2)
Did you eat toast this morning? Was it burnt? Did your cat ignore you like he always does? Nobody loving you? Is your nails painted black like the sun?
Come on man, this is the internet. You are getting peoples hopes up with this happy talk.
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From now on, could you describe what's going on in some other terms so that those of us who are not present can understand what's actually going on more clearly? Perhaps try transferring the information obtained by observing your surroundings into a target subject which could be easily understood by us, such as perhaps cars or computers.
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Considering they MMM fell WAY short of a Million people...that's not saying much.
Re:I'm on the Mall right now (Score:4, Funny)
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I can't believe that a First Post that includes references to Frosty Piss got modded informative!
Must be a Bud drinker.
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And where else does the cause of said fatality get to become Senator and have the investigation swept under the rug?
So your definition of being swept under the rug is being talked about openly and incessantly for four decades? God help poor Teddy if this were out in the open, then.
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In & out (Score:3, Funny)
As Obama is sworn in, I will swear out loud because I will lose teh intarwebs...
Historical Moment (Score:5, Insightful)
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. This past election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years.
It will be interesting in Obama's freshman year to see the challenges that confront him, how he'll deal with them, and how the public will react. I think more than anything, Barack will have trouble living up to the image of a 'Cristo Negro de Esquipulas', as many look at him as a messiah of sorts for the nation. That aside, we have a unique moment in history in which we will be asked what it was like when the first African American president was inaugurated, to which we'll reply that it was both exciting and uncertain. Exciting because it seems that we have grown from our bigoted and biased past, but uncertain, not because he's black, but because of the economic and foreign calamities and troubles that have been layed before us.
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Or at least that's what all the minorities are hoping. I think when reality finally bites, and they all realize that Obama can't and won't give them all a new car, and pay their mortgage, they might suddenly realize that perhaps he isn't really the messiah.
What they should be looking at is the fact that the affirmative action programs, welfare, and everything else that has been thrown at minorites in the US for
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and a good chunk of them didn't even come into work today.
I'll be watching it. Hell, I've gone in late to work because I was up late watching the super bowl... surely you'd agree that this is a bigger deal than the super bowl?
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I certainly don't begrudge anyone wanting to watch it, no. But the level of religious fervor that this has taken on is just ludicrous. We're not talking about people just wanting to watch it; we're talking about people wanting to celebrate it, venerate it, throw up their hand and praise Jesus for it, offer it sacrifices, etc. I've had no less than 3 people come up today and ask me how to watch it on the internet, another person who wanted to know how much I would charge to turn it into a DVD. There are no l
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Our IT department opened up the firewalls to streaming today.
I think it's great - it's good to see people so happy about a President again. He deserves it more than any religious figure, that's for sure.
I agree that expectations are too high, though. A President can only do so much. He is but a man.
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and a good chunk of them didn't even come into work today.
I'll be watching it. Hell, I've gone in late to work because I was up late watching the super bowl... surely you'd agree that this is a bigger deal than the super bowl?
Only if the Packers aren't playing.
Re:Historical Moment (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah he's not going to live up to the widespread expectations. I fully realize that these are going to be hard times whoever we have in the presidency and he can only make some course corrections at best in conjunction with congress. He is going to have to compromise his ideals to get things done and he'll fuck up a bunch of times. Maybe it is just business as usual and we're going to realize what idealistic naive losers we've been and never trust a politician again. The jaded contingent wheeling out the Jesus analogies isn't helping do much of anything besides return it to business as usual faster though.
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I don't necessarily see it as a messiah perception, but more as one of offering hope. It was the same thing when Kennedy was elected. There was a feeling, however valid, that his election marked the beginning of the world changing in a positive way. And when times are tough, people need a positive outlook on the world and their place in that world in order to not get scared and despondent.
When people buy lottery tickets, the
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"It is indeed an historical moment. Yet again another peaceful revolution right on schedule."
Yes because Obamarama is going to kiss it all better. Everything will be fine again in a few hours; the economy, healthcare, whatever! It's all going to be sorted by teatime.
Some revolution! Meet the new boss...
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Why is it that when my cousin or friends are interracial they're not "black enough", but when Obama's mom is a straight up Kansas girl, he's the "First African American President."
My continually bringing this 'fact' up we keep pointing out some imaginary racial boundary. Obama is our 44th president. I certainly hope everyone out there voted for him because of his credentials not because of some melanin mutation. (Or lack there of).
Re:Historical Moment (Score:5, Informative)
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. This past election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad.
This is media-generated crap. 56.8% of the voting-age population voted in 2008, up from 55.3% in 2004, but below 1960, 64, and 68 at 63.1%, 61.9%, and 60.8% respectively. While the media would like you to believe that people turned out in unprecedented numbers solely to support Obama, that's not the case.
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in my area, the number of NEW voters skyrocketed. However, many republicans that voted in the last election did not vote in this one. So while the numbers don't look impressive, they are. A whole new group got excited in voting. Maybe in the next election, if the Republicans can get a candidate that doesn't start every damn sentence with either "my friends" or "when I was a POW" the republicans will vote too, causing huge spikes.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year - with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot.Figures are up for blacks, women and young people. Rural and city. South and North.
From Fox News. [foxnews.com]
Nearly half [gmu.edu] of newly-registered voters in Ohio are aged 18-29.
From fivethirtyeight [fivethirtyeight.com]
And you said:
56.8% of the voting-age population voted in 2008, up from 55.3% in 2004, but below 1960, 64, and 68 at 63.1%, 61.9%, and 60.8% respectively.
So I'm to understand that for the three elections in the 60's, the voter turnout went down by 1.2 and then 1.1 points, and for the 2008 election voter turnout went up by 1.5 points. Notice the difference in turnout for 04-08 is the largest of the numbers you cite.
Voter turnout for the 1960, `64, and `68 election are the highest in recent memory. [infoplease.com] As long as we're picking elections arbitrarily why didn't you go with 1980, `84, and `88, when the turnout w
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You're being rather disingenuous, aren't you. You seem to imply that the 1.5% difference between the 2004 and 2008 election was massive, while the difference between the 2000 and 2004 election was 4%, from 1992 to 1996 was -6% and from 1988 to 1992 was 5%. 1.5% is significantly lower than 4%, 5% or 6%, yet I don't recall hearing about the massive numbers that turned out to support Bush. Voter turnout was within 2% of this election in 2004, 1992, and 1972. As much as the media would like to portray massi
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You're being rather disingenuous, aren't you.
No more disingenuous than you.
1.5% is significantly lower than 4%, 5% or 6%, yet I don't recall hearing about the massive numbers that turned out to support Bush.
Really? Because I do:
The huge voter turnout of some 120 million--the largest as a share of the electorate since 1968--adds to the mandate because it means the country was fully engaged in this national debate. [opinionjournal.com]
More Americans voted for Mr. Bush for president than have voted for any other presidential candidate in American history, more even than the 54.5 million who voted for Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide. [nysun.com]
But I've -- very rarely, I can't think of a time that an incumbent president, particularly one in trouble, has succeeded while expanding turnout; 120 million ballots were cast in this election. And the president did a remarkable job of bringing more Republicans, people who have never voted before in the Republican side, to the polls. [cnn.com]
And back to your argument:
Voter turnout was within 2% of this election in 2004, 1992, and 1972. As much as the media would like to portray massive voter turnout and a Obama landslide, the facts don't support it.
I've never argued that this election was a "landslide", but to say that Obama didn't bring record numbers to the polls would be flat out lying. To use rhetoric from the WSJ, "the huge voter turnout of some [130 million] -- the largest as a share of the electorate since 1968", can only be attributed to Obama.
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I'll take Federal Election Commission data over liberal bullshit drivel from the politico any day, http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html [infoplease.com].
That is an overwhelming victory?
No, it's not. The 58.8% to 40.6% victory of Reagan over Mondale in 1984 was an overwhelming victory, with Reagan winning 49 of the 50 states (525 to 13 electoral votes). Perhaps if the liberal media blowhards didn't favor Obama 3 to 1 [washingtonpost.com], the margin would have been significantly less than 7%.
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Re:Historical Moment (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't worry though, the popularity of Barack Obama tattoos [cnn.com] clearly shows that all of this new found political interest is having a positive effect. I mean why give money to charity or spend your time helping your common man when you can "be a part of history" and indulge your desire to declare that you're with the in crowd?
I voted for Obama, I think he's the better man for the job, but this cult of personality has gotten people happy for all of the wrong reasons, and I honestly hope that in the next 4 years we judge the man on his actions, not on this, as you state, messiah image we have for him.
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has gotten people happy
For the first time in about 7 years. Obama's important for what he might do, but he's more important because he's giving people a change of heart.
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No kidding. I'd love a Clinton 2.0, even if that mean the Republicans are constantly making up shit and investigations that lead nowhere.
I find it funny that Republicans are trying to reduce expectations down to 'Clinton'. Cause, you know, most Democrats really didn't have a problem with Clinton. Heck, Hillary Clinton, an actual Clinton 2.0, would have won the primary if she'd planned better.
The right seems to think that everyone hated Clinton. No, that was just you guys, who constantly invented imaginary
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I never said that there was anything wrong with Clinton, although there certainly was in many ways though not nearly as many as Bush, all I said was that "Change" it isn't, unless everyone has short memories.
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Like cruise missile strikes against an aspirin factory?
Like bombing a country into the ground to draw attention away from a political scandal at home?
Like having Osama Bin Laden in custody?
Like the recession that started at the end of his presidency?
Like the changes in housing policy that have blown up in our face over the last few years?
I adore Bill Clinton as a leader and a politician, but don't sweeten his 8 years like it was Willy Wonka's rivers of chocolate. If h
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What magnitude? He won about over 51% of the popular vote..roughly. So, not everyone voted for him. I think his victory was more of a backlash against Bush more than anything else...
"That aside, we have a unique moment in history in which we will be asked what it was like when the first African American president was inaugurated.."
I'm getting really tired of this angle frankly. I mea
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What does your religious posting have to do with the FREAKING SUBJECT AT HAND?
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clinching of the U.S. Presidency
Clinching? I thought he was elected? What is this clinching? Is this constitutional? I demand an investigation and special prosecutor!
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Understanding empire building does not require that you build one or keep it going. To dismantle an empire, you must understand how it was built. I didn't say that very well in my original post. I figured it would get modded as flamebait, but better to have said it up front than simply claim I thought it 2 years from now.
2 million people? (Score:2, Informative)
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A bigger question, really (Score:2)
I'm positive there are those "countdown until the end of the Bush Era" javascripts, java apps, billboards, phone apps, whatever. What happens when those counters hit zero? How many easter eggs you think are buried in those countdown programs?
Will this be like a mini-Y2K where planes fall from the sky because their bush-countdown clock used an unsigned int and crashed?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Re:2 million people? (Score:4, Funny)
See how many of them have shoes in their hands.
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I don't think people think Obama is the messiah, that is a bit much. I think most people think he will be a better president than Bush though, but Obama is a politician, and you know he has quite a job ahead of him. Let him have his day though, it is a day of celebration, not to specu
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Or expecting an assassination.
Note humorless to mods: Not meant to be a troll.
Hope he does a good job! (Score:2)
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I can't help but to -- hope.
There seems to be a lot of that going around. When will people realize that hope doesn't get things done?
The only hope I have is that he doesn't screw this up so bad that racism takes a turn for the worse. IMHO, he's just another guy. I follow the ideals that racism has two faces. One of repression and one of recognition. Lifting him up on a pedestal just because he's part black will only make a failure hurt worse. If he screws up in any way, it will forever be known as the biggest failure in the worl
Someday in the future (Score:2)
We should move the whole election / inauguration business so that our* president gets sworn in during summer and at a time when people aren't at work. Seriously, he will be sworn in at 9am pacific time on a Tuesday. If it was me, we'd all vote for president in May and swear the person in at 6pm eastern (9pm pacific) in mid-June.
Any reason for this being in January besides aligning with the new year?
* apologies to those not in the united states.
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Here is a quick explanation.
http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/election-day-first-tuesday-november.html [infoplease.com]
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Obviously any attempt to move the date would also move the election. If anything, I'd say the 3 month gap between election and inauguration is proving to long.
This whole two year long election season has proven one thing to me--the system is showing its age and needs to be revised to meet the needs of our quick-fix, one-hour photo, instant-oatmeal society. Make the primary season shorter, remove the gap between the conventions and the general election, move the general election to the spring and give a mo
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You do realizethat officail tallies of the election count and various court challeneges take well into Decemember every year? You might be able to shave two weeks off the time but that is about it. Heck this year the votes of Michigan and another state didn't certify their final tallies till mid decemember. In your instant model mistakes will happen with out some correction time.
good point (Score:2)
Never thought about the recounts and stuff. I guess there has to be a minimum lag between election and inauguration.
What information does the inauguration add? (Score:3, Interesting)
Ok, there will be pictures and videos that don't exist now but beyond that, what information does the actual inauguration add?
Does someone expect it to fail? Do you expect a magnicide? Someone to reveal breaking information about a miscount? What?
Do you think he'll do something unexpected? Dance? Sing?
Whatever people are going to say then, they can say right now. It's not an information adding event as the end of an election, or the result of an olympic competition.
Maybe I'm wrong and the president waits to inauguration day to really reveal his evil plans.
"MUWWAAHAHAAaaa. Gotcha! Not only I won't stop the war but I'm gonna invade 1d20* more countries! Yeah Baby!"
*: Indeed, the worst part would be discovering you're being presided by a D20 fanboy.
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Now you've done it! Just couldn't keep your mouth shut for one and a half more hours could you? No matter, your little prognostication will not affect the outcome [salon.com].
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...Do you think he'll do something unexpected? Dance? Sing?
....Maybe I'm wrong and the president waits to inauguration day to really reveal his evil plans....
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Is a musical number where he reveals his evil plans through song and dance too much to ask?
Live Streaming through Moonlight (Score:3, Informative)
Miguel de Icaza posted a note this morning saying that after working with MS last night they now have a Moonlight add-on for 32/64-bit and PowerPC Firefox to stream the inauguration live from the official pic2009.org site. The install was quick, although the stream seems to stop and stutter frequently.
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So now instead of installing just Silverlight... you also need mono? ...or is this a standalone bin that can be run and deleted after?
Twitter is already down (Score:2)
Twitter is already down and it is not even 11AM EST yet.
Granted twitter goes down ALL the time so that is not saying much.
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Think of the moving crew (Score:2)
The hard job today belongs to the moving crew. Bush just left the White House for the last time (whew!). As soon as the limos roll out the White House gates, the moving vans roll in. During the next two hours, all of Bush's stuff is packed, and the moving vans roll out. There's some quick carpet replacement and paint touch-up. The Oval Office gets some minor redecoration. Some art moves out, different art moves in. Then Obama's stuff is moved in and unpacked. By 5 PM, it's all supposed to be done.
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> During the next two hours, all of Bush's stuff is packed...
Bush has already moved out most of his stuff. It's not like he was expecting to stay.
> Then Obama's stuff is moved in and unpacked.
He's not renting an apartment. The White House is fully furnished. Obama gets to pick the furnishings for the private quarters from the White House collection (I'm sure he has already done this).
c-span fucked (Score:2)
I'm trying to find a site to stream the video from on Firefox in Linux.
Somebody recommended Cnet.com, but I don't see any live video there. I thought C-SPAN would be a good bet since their streams are usually terrific (and playable with MPlayer, etc) but their site is too swamped right now to bring up anything but a blue page.
White House web site changeover (Score:2)
Watch the White House site [whitehouse.gov] for the changeover at noon EST.
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12:00:00 Bush web site still up.
12:01:00 Bush web site still up.
12:01:09 Site down
12:03:00 Vice President web site has switched to Biden, but content not loading.
12:04:11 White House web site still not responding.
12:05:00 White House web site has switched to Obama. Site now using cookies.
The new site runs on ASP.NET. And it uses Webtrends tracking. There's a link to "http://statse.webtrendslive.com".
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The Obama White House site has a single-pixel GIF web bug:
<img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcs0l9nq800000ctek411lue6_2c8b/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&WT.js=No&DCS.dcscfg=1&WT.tv=8.6.0"/>
This seems to be the tracking method for non-Javascript users. For Javascript clients, it creates a WebTrends() object from Javascript.
Supposedly, Government sites aren't supposed to link to or draw assets from non-Government sites.
Contract Worker (Score:2)
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never did get video to work, CNN Radio FTW (Score:2)
It was sad to see that every major video outlet fell on its face with this thing. I had to listen to CNN Radio because every video feed I could find was stuttering unlistenably, at best (most were just dead).
The closest to usable was Hulu, but they were still craptacular and unwatchable. How can they even pretend they could replace television?
At least with 9/11 I had Slashdot. No luck today though.
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I tried it, but it never even loaded for me. Though I found out later that the local traffic here (university) was incredibly high so that probably had a lot to do with it.
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Twitter (Score:2)
"Twitter has doubled its capacity"
Why haven't they done it before now?
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But why do USAsians keep saying "African American"? The guy is black, okay?
He's both. You'd be silly to use "African American" to describe someone unless you know their background. Someone could be from the Caribbean, or they could be simply African - you just don't know until you at least talk to them.
But once you know about someone, it is polite to describe them in the same way that they self-identify. If that is "African-American", then so be it. If it is "Italian-American", that's fine, too. Few will be offended if you describe someone you know nothing about as "black".
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That picture that you linked is not Obama, unless he's cleverly disguised with a mustache and glasses.
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In the immortal words of John Prine...
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