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I just have a question for my American friends: have all of you been polled yet? Have the phone calls (and advertisements) been continuous, or have you been able to take a break occasionally?
TTFN - Kent
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I'm nearly 53 years old and have never been polled (politically) in my entire life. Not once.
As for the advertisements... plenty of local (Northern Illinois) candidates are running ads  on TV, newspaper, radio, etc... but none of the presidential candidates are because...
...wait for it....
...I live in Illinois which will invariably be a Clinton win (due to the overwhelming Democratic Chicago "machine") so there is no need to run ads for POTUS here.
Any non-Clinton vote in Illinois is merely a protest vote. 
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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Mike Mullikin wrote: I live in Illinois...
...and dream of Tonga[^].
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I have not been polled. I have received 8 calls in the last 4 weeks from Private numbers, but I don't answer calls like that and they left no voice mails. I figured they were from telemarketers, but now I wonder...
There are ads on TV, but not really any from Trump - it is probably not worth spending a lot of money on that here in San Diego...
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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There are reports that mainstream media are suppressing ads for Trump. There are also reports that mainstream medias polls are highly inaccurate because they a) poll a significantly higher number of known democrats, and b) their sample sets include fewer than 500 respondents. Social media polls are as much as 60% in favor of Trump - exactly the opposite of mainstream media.
Who should you believe?
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Most mainstream media are all showing Trump stuff on first page; no need for him to spend money on advertisement.
I'd rather be phishing!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Who should you believe?
That everyone who is even remotely involved in politics is an @rsehole, maybe?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Since I'm registered as Libertarian none of the polling companies will bother to call me (registered party affiliation is public record). Yes, we do have other political parties in the US, and no, none of them have had any impact on a presidential race since Perot in 1992. Libertarian and Greens are the largest minor parties, but both have so many nutters (to borrow from the Brits) no one pays much attention to them.
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You might want to talk to your boss. I've been polled twice in the last 24 hours. Or was that not the sort of polling you meant.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Usually pollster's (especially political ones) use call centers. The call center flunkies usually don't pick up until they know they don't have an answering machine or the call hasn't been forwarded to voice mail. That takes time. If I answer my phone and don't hear a response within 2 seconds after saying "hello", I hang up the phone. I still get annoyed by the phone call, but I'm not hanging on the line answering a lot of inane questions.
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Took the boy and my nephew to a water park yesterday, while they went down the slides and such, I just kind of people watched. I swear it was a freakin' ugly tatoo contest, with multiple winners. I can't imagine how much alcohol I'd have to consume to get one of those. Apparently people believe being a bit uglier will solve their problems or something? Or more likely, I'm just missing the point.
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jeron1 wrote: Or more likely, I'm just missing the point.
No, you sound surprisingly normal. I think some men consider it manly to have tattoos, but I have no idea what motivates women to do it; especially the scribble just below the waist at the back.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: especially the scribble just below the waist at the back.
it's to give you something to decipher while you . . .
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... or just to take your mind off ...
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The sad ones are when the lady has her own name tattooed there, so you can't forget... 
They aren't called "tramp stamps" for nothing, I'm afraid.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I seen one that had her name in binary, yes I decoded it to be sure.
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Dude, you must have been bored 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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But I just had to know what it said 
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Were you able to scan it using your phone?
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nope had to copy every 1 and 0 by hand, good thing her name wasn't that long.
It was actually a Twitter Profile Background image For a InfoSec person.
So I had plenty of time to work it out.
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It could have been a bar code that translated to "USDA Prime"
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Did you ever check the ventilation holes on the first few generations of Western Digital MyBook external disks? They are morse code.
Or: My first cellular (GSM) phone was a Nokia, back in the days when Nokia was top of the line (or more or less The Entire Line, in some markets). When an SMS text message arrived, it sounded as brief series of beeps. I got this idea that they could have made it sound like 'SMS' in morse code, dug out my old Scouting for Boys book and looked up the morse alphabet. Guess what the Nokia beeps would be if interpreted as morse code...
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It was coincidence.
The 0s and 1s were "Timing Instructions" for you 
Or just a kinesthetic way to call her name.
Finally: are you sure her name was "Tramp"? LOL
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: below the waist at the back.
Thats what we call 'Schlampenstempel'.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Haha, good one. I only knew the expression "Arschgeweih".
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