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This post / thread certainly meets the sexist criteria. Owned by Remi #?

Faster... probably. But I don't recall a time when a local polling site was unable to count votes in time to submit them. More accurate.... that depends on how careful the folks who tally the votes are. Paper / pencil voting systems are not subject to "chad" problems Good electronic voting systems generate a paper record of the vote for auditing. No real savings on paper or ink That leaves faster. And a hell of a lot more expensive. And easier to break than paper and pencil. The car vs. horse drawn carriage comparrison is not fair. There are times, even today, that a horse is still more efficient for a given task than a car is. A lot of people want to apply technology to every situation simply because it's "newer". This is the same mindframe that sees every problem as a nail because the only tool they happen to have on them is a hammer. Owned by Remi #?

Someone other than pencil and paper manufacturers make a profit. Owned by Remi #?

Yeah, I get that all the time. Nothing's attached.... Owned by Remi #?

Wear "Go Fast" patches. They prevent injury. Owned by Remi #?

I got curious and searched myself: http://www.bodyflight.net/2006_torinno_olympics_.html Owned by Remi #?

I'm pretty sure it was linked somewhere on this site. Try a search... Owned by Remi #?

Recession? Owned by Remi #?

That's good.... Owned by Remi #?

I'm pretty sure I've found the raw data

Oh cool... I found your linked web site when I first starting looking for feeds and I thought it was great... I didn't get it until this post that you wrote that script. Owned by Remi #?

No winds aloft that I could find... did I miss something? Owned by Remi #?

Thanks a ton, Gary. If I don't find a source, what I'll end up doing is screen scraping the whole thing daily and then creating my own feed from that (assuming that's not against the law ) If I end up creating a feed I'll publish a link to it so that anyone else who wants to use it can. Owned by Remi #?

These are someone's instructions for using a proxy to watch a video in GB. You'd just want to use the lists to find a proxy in the USA. Owned by Remi #?

Some are free (those are sometimes hard to access) and some you can use for a minimal fee. What do you use for browsing the web? Owned by Remi #?

Have you tried using a US based proxy service? Owned by Remi #?

That's METARs, not winds aloft, but thanks again. Owned by Remi #?

I did read the FAQ. That's why I posted here asking if anyone knew of a feed. I'm trying to avoid a screen scrape if possible. They're (programmatically) ugly and unreliable. I really appreciate you guys trying to help, but I'm simply not looking for a website that displays the data, I'm was hoping that someone might know of a feed or direct access to the data. It would be much cleaner and less subject to errors than a scrape. The data is for machine consumption, not human. Owned by Remi #?

I was looking something up from a thread discussing skydiving in the Olympics and I stumbled across this gem. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2U4YWQzYTg4MGRiMTkzYWU3YjIxYWIwN2EyZDYzYTI= The president may not be aware that under Olympic procedures, the host nation may stage as “demonstration sports” some events not usually represented in the Games. These items are typically sports characteristic of the host country’s folkways and culture. From a contact in China’s Olympic Committee, I have been able to obtain a list of demonstration sports the Chinese may stage for the entertainment of their distinguished visitors. Because the Games schedule is not yet finalized, I can’t guarantee that all the events listed below will appear on the program. I can, however, assure the president that all of them have been practiced in the People’s Republic, and most are still played today.] Tibetan Snow Shooting. In their bid for a future Winter Olympics, the Communists will demonstrate their skills at picking off Tibetan refugees attempting to cross snow-covered Himalayan passes into Nepal. (This event may be scrapped because of a dispute with the Olympic authorities over the use of telescopic sights and snow goggles.) Synchronized Slimming. Competitors here have to devise an agricultural policy so irrational that 30 million peasants starve to death simultaneously. Traditionally the winning contestant has his portrait hung in a prominent position overlooking Tiananmen Square, but for Olympic purposes a medal award will be substituted. Organ Extraction. A test of speed and skill in wielding surgical instruments. A succession of convicted criminals, or members of obstreperous religious sects, are strapped to operating tables and their organs are removed without anesthetic, to be sold to intermediaries for transplant into wealthy foreigners. Points are awarded based on the total market value of the removed organs. Indignathon. Competitors have to bluster continuously for six hours, maintaining an attitude of sustained righteous indignation about the Opium Wars, the burning of the Summer Palace, the Siege of Peking, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, and other wrongs inflicted on the long-suffering and ever-righteous Chinese people by cruel, dastardly foreigners. (Some other traditional events — the 10,000 meters Self-Pity, the Triple Emotional Blackmail — have been folded into this one for Olympic purposes.) Buddha Tossing. Infant children declared by the Dalai Lama to be incarnate Buddhas must be seized and tossed into a barbed-wire enclosure, where they will spend the rest of their lives eating rice gruel and sewing export-quality gunny sacks. Extra points for family members of the living Buddha rounded up and incarcerated. (Half points for those dead on delivery to the enclosure.) Korean herding. Competitors operating in groups of four must surround parties of North Korean refugees and hustle them back across the Korean border to the warm embrace of the Dear Leader. Chest thumping. In this rather advanced event, competitors attempt to intimidate each other by shooting down satellites, threatening to nuke major cities, asserting ancient claims to other people’s countries, and setting up missile installations aimed at long-independent provinces. Student Crushing. Yet another attempt to introduce motorized sports into the Summer Olympics. Competitors driving tanks are let loose among crowds of student protestors with the aim of crushing as many students as possible beneath the tank tracks. Toy Painting. In a test of manual speed and dexterity, competitors try to load as much lead-based paint as possible onto small children’s toys. Currency Manipulating. In this financial-trading sport, competitors struggle to keep their currency undervalued and nonconvertible against pressures from foreign bankers and trading partners. The competitor who, beginning from a fixed stock of currency, amasses the largest amount of foreign reserves, gets the gold. Fingernail Pulling. Developed by the Communists’ superbly trained security police, competitors in the fingernail-pulling event race against the clock, equipped only with pliers, to remove as many fingernails as possible from Falun Gong practitioners in a fixed time period. Land Seizing. A modern Chinese team sport in which teams must drive peasants off their land to make way for commercial or industrial development. Points are lost for dead peasants and residential structures left intact after the designated period. Electric Hurdles. Middle-aged women who have been seen practicing meditation are driven over a 110-meter hurdles course with the aid of electric cattle prods, the hurdles wrapped with electrified barbed wire. 400-Fetus Relay. Teams of competitors administer forced abortions to women who have violated the one-child policy. A complicated scoring system awards points to each termination based on age and sex of fetus. Internet Blocking. In this completely new event appropriate to the computer age, hackers must try to block access to all websites containing a long list of key words and phrases: “democracy,” “liberty,” “rule of law,” “East Turkestan,” “Dalai Lama,” “Taiwan independence,” and so on. Petfood Doping. A popular sport that has emerged quite recently from China’s crowded factories, petfood doping involves trying to kill off as many domestic pets as possible with a single can of contaminated pet food. (The variant form, practiced in south and southwest China, in which the winner of the event is determined by aggregate body weight of dead pets, is not favored by the Olympic monitoring committee.) Owned by Remi #?

Plus, doesn't the IOC classify skydiving as a "motorized sport" making it ineligible? Owned by Remi #?

Thanks again. I guess I didn't express my needs very well. I want physical, programmatic access to the data, I don't want to go look at it. I suppose I could screen scrape it from NOAA but I was hoping for something a little cleaner. The folks who designed that web page are accessing that data directly from NOAA or someplace. I need to do the same thing. The link within your link refers back to a web page that displays the raw data, but not the actual raw data. I need to get under the hood, so to speak. Owned by Remi #?

It's not a matter of how "strict" they are. It's not required. Edit to add: The rules and guidelines are a secret. No one can share them with the public, so shhh.... http://www.uspa.org/publications/manuals.htm Owned by Remi #?

Thanks, but not quite what I mean. In order to provide that information, they are accessing raw data directly from somewhere... I assume NOAA. I want direct access to the raw data. Owned by Remi #?

Does anyone know if there are any out there? If not an RSS feed, then access to raw data? Owned by Remi #?

On their website: Formation Skydiving : Formation Skydiving Competition Rules 2008 PDF File (109 KB) Formation Skydiving 4-Way Open Pool 2008 PDF File (701 Kb) Formation Skydiving 4-Way Random Pool 2008 PDF File (152 Kb) Formation Skydiving 8-Way Open Pool 2008 PDF File (711 Kb) Formation Skydiving 8-Way Random Pool 2008 PDF File (156 Kb) Vertical Formation Skydiving Competition Rules 2008 PDF File (105 KB) Vertical Formation Skydiving Dive Pool 2008 PDF File (368 KB) Summary of Formation Skydiving Rule Changes for 2008 PDF File (73 KB) Owned by Remi #?