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To: Dave B who wrote (62480)	12/6/2000 11:27:20 AM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Gore argued earlier before the Supreme Court of Florida that the will of the voter is critical and must, must be honored. Same principle here. There was a screw up on the ballot envelopes. The "will of the voter" was not affected by the attempt to fix the error, no matter how badly handled by the beaurocrats. Al can't have his cake and eat it too. Is it the "stated will of the voter" or isn't it? No fraud, no duress here. Al has a loser here.

To: Dave B who wrote (62480)	12/6/2000 11:54:07 AM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Pomp... "Apparently this is not the slam dunk for Gore that I thought it was going to be." You, along with Scumbria and mishedlo. Right from the beginning the cry of fraud were being shouted. "The election officials tampered...", "The election officials changed the ballots...", etc., etc. All fabrications. That's why, with the exception of you Pomp, all the other mental-midgets are just doing a jaw-bone exercise.

To: Dave B who wrote (62480)	12/6/2000 5:06:40 PM
From: SBHX	Respond to of 93625

OTOTOTOTOTOTOTOT Dave, Seminole and Martin counties ... Apparently this is not the slam dunk for Gore that I thought it was going to be. Speaking of fair play alone, Gore claims that the democrats were not allowed to fix the ballot applications and that the democrats' ballot applications were "thrown in the garbage". If true, regardless of legal aspects, that would be a reprehensible thing the GOP did. But... is it? Gore is prone to hyperbole, he last said that the more expensive and accurate optical readers were more accurate and expensive and only available to the rich precincts while the poor precincts had to make do with the mechanical counters which are prone to errors. That statement alone is enough to start class warfare. If I was poor and lived in a poor area and I thought I was getting the flaky mechanical counters, while the rich bstrds in the next precinct were wallowing in the shiny optical counters, heck I'd get mad and raise hell outside the Talahasee legislature too. But...I believe there were two things wrong : a. there was no statistical correlation between median income or party leaning of precincts and likelihood of getting optical or mechanical readers. b. there was no significant difference between accuracy of optical reader or mechanical reader. Hey, exageration of facts never hurt in most job interviews, and most of us can do that without flinching too much, but this is different. Either someone is feeding wrong facts to Gore, or somewhere between his data input sensory ports through his storage and central processing areas to his audio output port, the wrong facts are coming out, either that's because of data being garbled internally, or he needs to do a surface scan of his storage area, or a intel style bug in his microcode, it's hard to know for sure, but something is responsible. The scary thing is : I think he really believes what he says, and that in his heart of hearts he knows for sure he invented the internet. SbH

To: Dave B who wrote (62480)	12/8/2000 12:12:59 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Pentium 4 price cuts on the way By John Spooner Staff Writer December 8, 2000, 8:25 a.m. PT URL: news.cnet.com video Intel is planning a weekend surprise for holiday shoppers: A price cut on its newly minted Pentium 4 chip. "Intel: The alpha-wolf is wounded" Don Luskin, CEO, MetaMarkets.com The chipmaker, which issued an earnings warning Thursday, plans to reduce prices by up to 11 percent on desktop chips including the Pentium 4, Intel's fastest processor, sources said. Intel released the Pentium 4, a microprocessor that will form the bedrock of the company's business for the next few years, on Nov. 20. Questions about the chip's performance have lingered from the beginning. While the Pentium 4 has scored well on multimedia applications, benchmark testers and analysts have said that chips from rival Advanced Micro Devices outpaced initial Pentium 4 chips on business applications. The new chip's potential won't kick in, observers say, until more software tuned to the Pentium 4 comes out. The largest reduction is planned for Intel's 1.4-GHz Pentium 4. The entry-level Pentium 4 chip will be reduced from its introductory price of $644 to $575, sources said. The 11 percent price cut will likely be reflected in slightly lower prices on PC makers' entry-level Pentium 4 systems. Intel's fourth quarter earnings warning pointed to large order cancellations by some customers, due to flagging PC demand. However, this latest price cut does not appear to be related to Intel's financial troubles. Instead, the cuts likely stem from Intel's desire to quickly move Pentium 4 chips into the mainstream. The chipmaker notified PC makers of the cuts about 30 days ago, according to the sources. The cuts are expected to go into effect this weekend. Pricing on Intel's fastest 1.5-GHz Pentium 4 will remain at $819, while the 1-GHz Pentium III will continue to sell for $465. Desktop Pentium III chips also cut Intel will also cut prices on several desktop Pentium III chips, the sources said. Prices on some slower clock speed desktop Pentium IIIs are being reduced more quickly than Intel initially announced. The move likely reflects a situation where the chips have fallen out of the sweet spot of the mainstream PC market and are therefore no longer in high demand. Price cuts on those chips will range between about 6 percent and 10 percent. Intel's Pentium III 750 MHz, for example, will be reduced from $193 to $173, sources said, whereas Intel had previously planned to wait until January to trim the price tag. Intel will also reduce prices on certain desktop Celeron chips as it prepares to introduce faster Celerons early next year. Intel will cut the price of its 766-MHz Celeron from $170 to $155, sources said. An 800-MHz Celeron with a 100-MHz front side bus is expected in January. Intel is expected to hold off reducing the price of the 1.5-GHz Pentium 4 until late January. At that time, the chipmaker is expected to reduce the price of the chip to about $644. The 1.4-GHz Pentium 4 is also expected to see another price cut in January. Its new price will be about $510, sources said. Rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is also expected to reduce prices in January, when it plans to introduce new processors, including an 800-MHz Duron chip, sources said. Prices listed reflect Intel's 1000 unit prices or the lowest prices the company quotes to PC makers. Prices on individual processors sold via retail may be higher.