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| 2004-03-06 |
| Why don’t you participate in this little opinion poll by Germany’s left-left-wing SPIEGEL ONLINE? Visit Davids Medienkritik for instructions in English. This is Chicago style, so vote early, vote often. |
| Posted by:Mr. Davis |
| #18 Danke viel mals,MW. BTW, was bedeuten Gasse Katze? |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-6 7:34:59 PM |
| #17 "Weiß nicht" = "Don't know." BTW, you guys are a riot. |
| Posted by: MW 2004-3-6 4:43:33 PM |
| #16 Latest results http://www1.spiegel.de/active/vote/fcgi/vote.fcgi?voteid=2224&choice=1&aktion=setcookie |
| Posted by: dataman1 2004-3-6 4:37:29 PM |
| #15 Southside Alderman---LMAO! What a great handle! Rantburgers are incorrigible! Who can take a lefty hate-Bush site and turn it into a source of innocent merriment? The synergistic entropy increasers at Rantburg, of course. Ah, my beating widdow heat fills with pride.... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-3-6 1:42:33 PM |
| #14 Sorry, Shipman, the choices were Koehler, Schwan, and Weiss nicht. I think "weiss nicht" translates to "none of the above." I like your idea of the write in tho, but that presents a tough choice between Rummy and TGA. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-6 12:31:47 PM |
| #13 Who ought to be the next President of Germany Is there a write in section... either TGA or Don Rumsfield. I expect the population might be happier with Rumsfield. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-6 12:12:33 PM |
| #12 Think someone at Spiegel will figure out that there is more interest in the US presidential campaign than the German one? At 6PM, Berlin time,March 6 there was a total of 20,111 votes regarding Bush and only 4,721 responses to the question "Who ought to be the next President of Germany". |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-6 12:09:37 PM |
| #11 As a Louisiana citizen these tactics are abhorrent to me. Please don't use them on the Australian MSN poll at: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/vote/vote982.asp (Per LGF) |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-3-6 11:52:30 AM |
| #10 Seriously cool guys! Proof once again that the right is way smarter than the left. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-3-6 9:26:47 AM |
| #9 The numbers are a bit skewed because Little Green Footballs linked to this poll and got a worldwide audience involved. I wonder how quickly the poll will disappear when Germany wakes up in the morning and sees the results. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-3-6 9:15:26 AM |
| #8 Thanks, folks. I routinely block cookies when visiting any site. Experimenting, I found out my vote(s) wasn't (weren't) being tabulated. I have IE, so I got around that by going to TOOLS then INTERNET OPTIONS. When the folder came up I clicked on the PRIVACY tab. Then clicked on EDIT. This bought up a window titled MANAGED WEB SITES: Scrolled down 'til "spiegel.de" was found under DOMAIN. Highlighted it and clicked on REMOVE. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-6 2:13:03 AM |
| #7 IE users can delete the cookie (but all others get zapped, as well - such as your posting ID, stored in an RB cookie) by using Tools / Internet Options / center-section: Delete Cookies button. Not that I'm advocating stuffing the ballot box... |
| Posted by: South-side Alderman.com 2004-3-6 1:34:26 AM |
| #6 At 06.03.2004, 07:26 Euro time, the vote is 54.78% for "great job" out of 18,060 votes cast. About 22% (most of 'em French I guess) voted a '6', the worst. Keep them votes coming! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-3-6 1:27:38 AM |
| #5 check out the numbers now! |
| Posted by: RMcLeod 2004-3-6 1:22:34 AM |
| #4 Regards multiple votes: Never mind, folks. They're being a tad more devious / intelligent than that. You'd have to use a tool capable of editing the contents of Index.dat to remove the cookie - do not attempt to do so manually. If you have Norton Internet Suite (I'm using v2003), you can do it via the Web Tools - Advanced Cleanup function. The cookie under spiegel.de is the the key - it must be deleted between votes. Sorry. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. Heh. |
| Posted by: South-side Alderman .com 2004-3-6 1:20:49 AM |
| #3 Multiple votes will fail - unless you delete the cookie file, spiegel.txt, between attempts. (You can use file find if you don't know where it's located on your machine...) |
| Posted by: South-side Alderman .com 2004-3-6 1:08:59 AM |
| #2 Interesting - the results are exactly what you'd expect, in general terms that is, given the current political atmosphere: the results are polarized into an inverse Bell curve. What is actually surprising is that the number of 1 votes is more than double the number of 6 votes. Excellent! Obvious! Cool! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-6 12:50:27 AM |
| #1 Abstimmen = to ballot, to vote Ergebnis = Results |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-6 12:37:45 AM |