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In the California Special Election we have a real choice. I urge everyone who can, to vote, even if you aren't sure about the issues. It may be the best thing to do "none of the above" and vote "no" on every measure. The reason is that despite the complexity of the issues, the whole game of the process is one of deceit and it needs to be stopped, repudiated. The best way is to vote against every proposition. Why this may be the safest strategy is because the measures are never what they seem and the most simple idea most people get about them is probably wrong in the fine print. The drafting of these measures is controlled by lawyers and special interests and they are bound to be tainted with hidden agenda. I wish it were harder to get iniatives on the ballot in California.
The above doesn't address the content of the measures, whether they have merit. Of the eight propositions 73-80, the only two I personally have any inclination to support are 79 and 80. I favor 79 because it trumps the leveraging by the drug companies the beat the state to the punch to control drug prices in a voluntary system that the drug companies can opt out of. The money spent on this is sickening. Prop. 80 has the flaw of great complexity, it reregulates energy prices nominally, but is so complex that even some of the people who know energy economics can't figure it out. There is no question in my mind that the propositions supported by the Governor and the GOP are efforts to leverage control of the state government away from the people. In this sense this election is very significant as it may forsee the end-game of the New World Order in the guize of Conservative Republicans to destroy separation of powers and Constitutional traditions in America. I hope the votors in California repudiate this.
TopI have been experimenting with XML and the XST style sheet and processing language as a means to maintain my web pages. I wanted to get around the drugery of maintaining linkage between pages, which you must do by hand in HTML. I suceeded in getting a prototype to work on Red Hat 9 under Mozilla. Simple links to-from rendered XML pages worked with the DTD and XST pages they use. When I moved this to Mac OS X, the linking failed.
The real promise of XML is that a task like liking the pages of the music notes can be made automatic by using the content to determine where changed material is linked. Unlike in HTML the links can be bidirectional or even multidirectional. The XST document can branch to different rendeings of the XML document tree depending on a number of items it can get from the environment. The downside is that some systems and browsers may not fully support this functionality.
TopI solved the problem with the links. It turns out that the browser eats a line-feed character and appends this to the URL if the open and close tags are not together on the same line. It is disappointing that this might matter, but a fix is simply to jam the lines together. I should be able to get to all the XML files with one link from here.
XML file for index to these files